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...check the driver's identity papers. Suddenly a squad of armed customs agents bursts from a nearby hut. The driver guns the engine and slams through the barricade. The agents open fire. The truck swerves to a stop. Four men leap out and escape into the gathering dusk. The agents, led by a 39-year-old Pathan tribesman named Jehangir Khan, are only perfunctory in their pursuit. They are more interested in the truck's cargo: 421 kilos of heroin, worth $250 million uncut and up to $1 billion on the streets of Western Europe...
...highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk--times neither night nor day--the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. preface to Blue Highways...
Indeed, even as the votes were being counted, election tension erupted in violence. In Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, two people were fatally stabbed and more than 70 others were wounded before a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed...
...else, the protectionist's happy dream: The prospering American family gathers at its bright windows to peer outside. There, in the dusk, the streets are clogged with trade-crazed foreigners, Brazilians burdened down with shoes, Koreans with shirts, Japanese revving their Hondas, bearing a million videotape recorders on their heads. The foreigners wail and gnash their teeth as they hurl their inventories against the impenetrable American trade barriers. The American economy waves smugly to the rest of the world, then settles in to savor a bit of roast beef and full employment...
...ranking police officer commanded that under no circumstances should the van be allowed out of the monument grounds. As FBI Special Agent Kenneth Schiffer Jr. later noted, "He could have headed for the White House." At 2:25 p.m., Mayer allowed the hostages inside the monument to leave. As dusk settled, he seemed prepared to spend the night. Suddenly, just after 7:20, the van lurched away from the monument, sheering off a flagpole next to the obelisk. A volley of shots from police marksmen rang out; the truck swerved and tipped over...