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Afghan sources and Asian diplomats in Kabul, quoting Afghan military officials and travelers just returned from the combat area, said that fighting Tuesday blocked the Salang Highway about 90 miles north of Kabul...
...Russians' land link with Kabul is a single road snaking north through the 11,000-ft.-high Salang Pass. A mile-long tunnel there could be dynamited by rebels, and it has been under military guard since April. At the border the Amu Darya River must be crossed by a ferry, though negotiations are under way for the Soviets to build a bridge...
Still, by playing a diplomatic ping-pong game with Moscow and Washington, Daoud managed to build an economic infrastructure for his country. Soviet engineers cut the world's highest road tunnel through the Hindu Kush escarpment at Salang Pass; Americans erected a vaulting jet airport at Kandahar, the country's second city; together, they have pushed miles of highway across the high, harsh plateau. Along the Helmand River, eight U.S.-financed hydroelectric dams began rising...