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Such perseverance is the theme of Cloud's account of Hout Seng, TIME's driver in Phnom Penh during the war. After an arduous escape from Cambodia, Seng and some of his family were confined in refugee camps in Thailand. With TIME's help, they were eventually able to settle in Washington, where Seng's son Neang, 28, is a photographer. He accompanied Cloud on his recent journey...
...placid taxi driver called Life, that identity means confinement to a segregated township. There, boredom and despair are as palpable as the omnipresent automobile carcasses and piles of beer cans. Jaiprakash Bhula is an educated Indian haberdasher, contemptuous of racial decrees. His question gnaws at South African policy: If whites really believed they were better, "would it be necessary to create laws guaranteeing social, monetary, and political superiority...
Throughout, Stengel maintains a tone of cool detachment, but his epilogue contains a mordant irony: De la Rey and Bhula carry on, but on the morning of May 21, 1989, Life is stabbed to death, presumably by black men who believe the driver was "too conciliatory to the authorities." The burial occurs on a work day. "Under the state's emergency regulations, funerals like Life's cannot be held on weekends. Only a handful of people made it to the burial...
...first job as a gas-station mechanic in Bloomfield, N.J. But those early skills may prove handy now. A good overhaul by an experienced repairman is just what General Motors needs. Last week GM's board departed from a 34-year company tradition of putting financial men in the driver's seat when it chose Robert Stempel, 56, to take over as chairman after Roger Smith retires in August...
...service to Bishop from Reno at the beginning of the strike. But that lifeline was severed last week, when Greyhound canceled the daily run for economic reasons. "If you've got 60 passengers for Sacramento and only a couple for the route to Bishop, but only one bus and driver, you're going to send them where the most revenue is," says Robert Atlee, one of two ticket agents in Bishop. Without Greyhound, blood supplies will have to be rushed in by California and Nevada state highway patrols...