Karabakh Smooths Its Lifeline; With War Suspended, Enclave in Azerbaijan Widens Link to Armenia From: The Washington Post | Date: September 19, 1996| Author: David Hoffman | Copyright 1996 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

In the broiling sun, giant bulldozers chew away at the mountains. Heavy trucks, many from Iran, cling precariously to the rock-strewn road, leaving clouds of choking dust in their wake.

This is the ever broadening lifeline between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan that was the subject of a bitter war. The conflict, between Christian Armenia and Muslim Azerbaijan, shook the Soviet Union to its foundations and was a forerunner of other ethnic...