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...answered the policeman's questions as incorrectly as possible; only spies speak Russian well. I was careful, however, to hide any trace of an English accent so as not to be classed as an American and, hence, dangerous alien. I showed him my expired Nebraska driver's license, Omaha Public Library card, Harvard I.D., and my Cool Cash 24-hour teller card to prove my identity. He grunted knowingly upon receiving each one, convinced by the power of the color pictures and strange language that I was a Finn and in Leningrad only to drink. ("Drunk Finns" make the pilgrimage...
...occurred again between landlord and tenant. The "refrigerator case" originated when a woman leased an apartment from a new landlord two weeks before moving in, bought a refrigerator and stocked it with groceries to have ready when she moved in. The woman arrived two weeks later and found no trace of food or refrigerator. The landlord, it turned out, was a heroin addict who had eaten all the groceries and then sold the fridge to finance his habit. The woman won the case easily, and moved in the next...
...have been in trouble with the authorities before. One presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace of wonder. "Nobody thought it would have the effect it had." Wojciech Gruszecki, 44, who has been advising Poland's private farmers, has a doctorate in chemical engineering. Says he: "At a certain age, every citizen should give something to his society and his nation." That age came early...
...other country. "Opponents of detente," he charged, "are making a noise for all the world to hear about a 'Soviet threat' either to Pakistan or to the countries of the Persian Gulf, or God knows to whomever else. They know very well that there is no trace of such a threat...
...ACADEMICS mount a tall hill And trace the car's path, holding still. His first stop is New York City, Home of the guaranteed loan. He makes a brief stop on Charlotte St. Delivers one "free enterprise zone." Then off to the schools of Kentucky, With a gift they lost decades ago--A teachable theory of creation, For Darwin was wrong, as we know. A side-trip to Detroit, just briefly--long enough to leave two gifts: A loosening of emission standards And for K-Car sales a lift. Then on to the national forests--The real environmental dangers...