19 JANUARY 1985, page 10

Trieste's Motorway

Richard Bassett 'There are some who, searching for the 1 atmosphere of the Habsburg Empire, feel irresistibly drawn towards Vienna, only later to be disappointed by the grey-......

Ungovernable Lebanon

Gerda Cohen Xjahariya beach: hot beige grit and mi- ca, licked by the boring Mediterra- nean. Lebanon is a livid haze up the road. One can drive there in ten minutes, hear the......