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Sports fans used used to apple-pie heroes won't forget Dave Cowens, taxi-driver, taking a leave of absence for a large part of the 1976-1977 season because he said he simply wasn't ready to play basketball...
Brandishing his AK-47 assault rifle, a 21-year-old Soviet soldier alighted from a taxi at the gate of the U.S. embassy compound in Kabul one morning last week, and was met by an American official who took him inside. Then, speaking only Russian laced with a smattering of German, he managed to tell surprised embassy officers that he wanted to defect. It was the first such move by any of the estimated 85,000 Soviet military personnel who have occupied the country since last winter's invasion. Before long, the mysterious enlisted man had become the most...
...Willie and Phil--abandoned by Jeannette who has fallen in love with a Russian immigrant taxi driver--eventually get married, have children and live "very ordinary lives." This flimsy, tacked-on ending resolves nothing. What happens to Jeannette? Does she have an ordinary life? Why doesn't Mazursky answer these questions? Does he know...
...workers of Gdansk have taken possession of their own city, in defiance of everything the world knows as Communism. Bakeries, though they continued operating to keep bread on the tables, flew the flag out of solidarity. A taxi driver said that although supplies were low, people supported the strike: "Even when there is no strike, there's little in the shops. They must not let it fail...
...leader," gushed an adoring young worker. Added a Gdansk taxi driver, "He has courage. People here admire him." The authorities too soon realized that Walesa, as head of the Interfactory Strike Committee, which forced the government to the bargaining table, commanded respect. At the negotiating table, First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski unfailingly addressed him as "the Honorable Mr. Chairman...