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Stone, who has taken pictures in such war zones as Ethiopia and Panama, sensed that in some quarters, respect for Saddam may be wearing thin, not only because of losses in the gulf war but also because of the toll of the earlier eight-year conflict with Iran. A taxi driver whose two brothers died in that war told Stone that he hated Saddam, but quickly added, "This conversation did not take place...
Almost every taxi cab in Harvard Square sports a "Ken Reeves #1" bumper sticker...
Almost every taxi cab in Harvard Square sports a "Ken Reeves #1" bumper sticker...
...hail of rocks and epithets hurled at him by fellow blacks. Before an uneasy calm was restored, 163 people were arrested, 66 civilians and 168 police officers injured, 25 patrol cars damaged and three stores looted. Among the injured was Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, who was attacked in his taxi by a large crowd of black youths. He was beaten and stripped to his underpants. It was the city's worst racial violence & since the outbreak that followed Martin Luther King's assassination...
Traces of that attitude linger. During the parliamentary debate, Deputy Leonid Sukhov, a taxi driver from the Ukraine, warned that free movement of citizens in and out would open the Soviet borders to AIDS. Officers of the KGB border guards mounted an exhibit of guns and drugs seized by customs agents as a warning of what could be expected if the frontiers are opened. Nonetheless, the law stoutly declares that "each citizen of the U.S.S.R. has the right to exit and enter the Soviet Union" and that this right "cannot be arbitrarily denied." Full implementation was put off supposedly...