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...military advisers in Afghanistan attest to Moscow's interest in the country, Kabul is not Prague or Budapest, where tanks can be rolled in quickly to enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine. Afghanistan does have one main highway, but it merely connects the four main cities like a huge beltway. The country is bisected by the towering Hindu Kush Mountains, and there are few feeder roads. One result: there are still only loose connections between the dominant Pathans and the Uzbek, Hazara, Turkoman, Baluchi and nomadic tribes that make Afghanistan, as James A. Michener once described it, "one of the world...
...morning I was on a plane back to Washington, D.C., a city which, unlike Atlanta, remains undimmed by human tears. Washington, D.C., for respite, to seek mercy and mortality there. A city that is acoustically dead, where I brought tales of life beyond the Chevy Chase Circle and the Beltway. Acoustically dead, but I didn't care, because the shrill tones of Atlanta, oh Atlanta, had left me emotionally deaf...
...home. Among friends, Ehrlichman displays a penchant for puns and a dry sense of humor. Last year he told the audience at a Women's National Press Club dinner that he works in the White House because it was the only way he could get off the Washington Beltway. Despite all this, Ehrlichman can be tough, even intemperate, when it comes to what he sees as disturbing trends in America. Last spring, in a meeting with leaders of the student Moratorium, he listened politely until the talk turned to violence. "Lawbreakers will be arrested," he said; when students raised...
...Pook's Hill, Washington's new four-lane Capital Beltway, which circles the metropolitan area, intersects the six-lane Route 355 and the four-lane Route 240; and the designers have ingeniously arranged it so that all three superhighways come together at once in a magnificent swirl of concrete spaghetti. Tourists tend to think their frustration is their own fault; it is all but inconceivable to the average mind that on such an elaborate interlacement of roads, eastbound traffic on the beltway cannot go north on Route 355; westbound beltway traffic cannot go south on Route 355; southbound...
Local residents have discovered that the only way to turn off the beltway onto Route 355 is by heading in the opposite direction and making a U-turn into the oncoming traffic. Not only is this uncommonly hazardous, but during rush hours it chokes off one traffic lane with cars waiting (drivers fuming) to make the turn...