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THURSDAY. APRIL 27, 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE; MEDFORD, OREGOHV Improved Highways Put Most of Mideast Within Reach of Motorist (EDITOR'S NOTE! Last summer a United Pint Inter national correspondent let out from London in a small ear and drove to Beirut Since then he has driven over much of the Middle East. With the summer vacation season in light again, he suggests tour lets may want to try it.) ' ; " Br DAVID DUGAS ; .uniieu rim iuwiuwivuM si. Beirut - Driving your own car around Europe is a won derful way .to spend a holiday. But why stop there? With less trouble than you might Imagine, you can steer the family car. on to Beirut, the Holy Land or across the desert to Baghdad Jet airliners have taken a lot of . the , tourist business away ' from camel caravans, Mediterranean steamers and the Orient Express. But lm; proved highways have put a sizable chunk of the Arab world within reach of anyone with sturdy car, some-holiday savings, spare time and a yen to see places up close. ,. 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' crossing the English' Channel in one of the regularly sched uled air ferries, I landed at Ostend, Belgium. From there it was smooth going through Belgium, Ger many and Austria to Vienna with super highways almost all the way. . Day s Drive From Vienna it's a day's drive south ito the Yugoslav border at Maribor and on to Zagreb. The capital, Belgrade, is four hours along the Auto put, Yugoslavia's best high way, : l "t . Until last year American tourists were oblige1, to' de tour around Communist Bul garia through northern Greece to get to Turkey. Now that diplomatic relations between the U. S. and the Bulgars have been resumed, American tour ists are welcomed along the shorter route through Sofia and Plovdiv to the Turkish border and Istanbul. . .1 A 20-minute ferry boat ride gets you across the Bosphorus and on your way to Ankara. From the Turkish capital it's a day's drive across the Ana tolian Plain through Konya to Adena near the Turkish south coast. A winding but well-paved road follows the eastern Med- iterranean- coast south through the United Arab Re public's Syrian Region and into Lebanon and Beirut. From this bustling port city it is only, a two-and-a-half hour drive over spectacular mountains to tne ancient Syr ian capital 1 of Damascus. From there it is only a few hours farther south to Jeru salem in the heart of the Holy Land or along the eastern shores of the Dead Sea to the Jordanian capital of Amman. From Jerusalem's old city quarter on the Jordanian side of the divided city, one can pass through Mandelbaum Gate and into Israel, but it s a one-way trip. The car can leave Israel only by ship, the passengers only by ship or plane whose destination is outside the Arab Middle East. From Amman more ambi tious travelers can head still farther south over a newly completed highway to Jor dan's port city of Aqaba on the Gulf of Aqaba which sep arates Egypt's Sinai Peninsu la and Saudi Arabia.. The road passes near, the ancient, rock- carved city of Petra. Visa restrictions and dis tance have kept overland travelers to Iraq down to a bare trickle, but it is possible to drive from Amman to Baghdad overt a well-paved highway in less than 10 hours. Once across the Austrian border, the trip is not all easy going. The main routes through Yugoslavia and Tur key include some long sec tions of rough old roads - or new ones still under con struction. A mechanical break down or accident in a deso late area could wreck a vaca tion ..schedule. But gasoline stations and mechanics are plentiful enough to handle or dinary maintenance. Haiardous Night time traveling can be hazardous. Routes often are poorly marked.: Donkey carts travel main roads without lights. Broken down trucks are left unlighted along so called super highways. Driving; only by day though, the average driver can get from Vienna to Beirut in less than a week. Unexpected things happen along the way. In Yugoslavia there are so few cars that pedestrians clog the streets. Most of the time they have them to themselves. My mod estly proportioned car drew crowds of curious Yugoslavs. I gave a lift to a French man who was ' hitchhiking from Paris to Beirut and a Dane from Copenhagen who was thumbing his way to Cal cutta. . ' In Bulgaria the small farms found in Yugoslavia give way to endless tracts of collective wheat fields that curiously re semble the sprawling farms of the American Midwest. The main highway, much of it paved with stones, is narrow but surprisingly well main tained, Roadside billboards al ternately advertise Toto, the national lottery, and the gov ernment's ' latest production goals, i " ". Turkey offers some of the most spectacular scenery, and some of the dullest. The roads are among the best and worst to be found between Europe and the Middle East. Turkish children exhibit a lively cur iosity about what will happen If they throw a stick or rock under your passing car. This is not an unfriendly sport aimed against foreigners. Tur kish drivers get the same treatment. The Syrians can be very friendly, depending on what day you happen to catch them. Lebanon has the best roads In the Middle East. It also has the most cars and the wildest drivers.. Traffic experts from Rome were called in two years ago,, but they had to give up, which should give you an idea. 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