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...first taxi ride to the Archivo General, for instance, brought me some insight into the problem. I had seen the name Salinas all over the walls and posters of the city, and I wondered why he seemed to be receiving such widespread support. When I asked my cab driver, who went by the name Sr. Rodolfo, if Carlos Salinas de Gotari was the official candidate of the PRI, he informed me that well, yes, he was the candidate of the PRI, but more than that, he would be the next President of Mexico...
Elsewhere, sporadic violence punctuated the event. Mobs attacked bus drivers and taxi owners who refused to stay off the road: dozens of buses were stoned and fire bombed. One fire-bomb victim died in Natal province, where police reported eleven deaths during the three days...
...world's news last week taking place within taxi-hailing distance of Red Square? One might have thought so from the TV networks' saturation coverage of the Moscow summit. The main event, of course, was the face-to-face meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev. The most fascinating sideshow: Raisa and Nancy playing a catty game of one-upmanship. But there was more -- much more. Religion in the Soviet Union was suddenly a hot topic for TV reporters, as were Soviet rock music and the effect of glasnost on the Soviet press. There were tours of the Moscow...
...Fresno, California, native says when he stepped out of the taxi and met his roommates, he was more than an a little apprehensive. "I didn't know what I was getting myself into," he says of his two roommates, one a child of a wealthy alumnus and the other a prep school graduate...
...became hostages by chance after missing a Beirut airport bus and deciding to take a taxi. When a Mercedes pulled alongside and ordered them to stop, they expected a robbery. Instead they were forced into the back of the gunmen's car. What followed was three years of intimidation and psychological torture...