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...just why Chun Se Yong changed his mind about suicide is a mystery to those who knew him. Friends and colleagues describe him as an intense, articulate young man, well-versed in the rhetoric of his cause. Raised by his grandmother after his taxi-driver father and his mother divorced several years ago, Chun was sensitive to the social injustices he saw around...
...rebellion flared. With the unrest now almost fully suppressed, dreams of a new regime in Iraq have given way to the old hopelessness and fear. Saddam promises democracy and greater freedom of expression, but the Iraqi people expect only despotism. Asked about anti- Saddam demonstrations in March, a Baghdad taxi driver replies, "You cannot ask such questions in this country. If I talk to you, the police will come and . . ." The young man slices his finger across his throat...
...Boston taxi driver was shot by his passenger Thursday night after dropping him off in Central Square, according to police reports...
...Zintl, whose job has been to coordinate the flow of all briefings and pool reports, found the enemy, and it was Arabic street signs in Riyadh. Amid a profusion of expressways, he drove around for two hours. "The next time I got lost," he noted ruefully, "I flagged a taxi and paid the driver to lead me out of the maze...
Last week an Iraqi official provided a glimpse into the kind of political difficulties Saddam may now face. Sharing a taxi into Baghdad with a foreign journalist, he openly speculated on what Iraq would be like without Saddam. That is an offense for which he could have been summarily shot. Sadly, the official took such a risk only to predict that Saddam's successor could well be simply another Saddam...