European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Russell new York not for a Long time was bullied by new York Lan cabs. Leap ing into one of those yellow rattlers i would feel an overpowering urge to rest tired legs on a jump scat and a fierce Black lettered sign would snap at me. Keep feet off jump , having just Arm wrestled some 200 Pound brute for the last available taxi i town during a Rainy Rush hour i would feel the need to unwind with a smoking would come the printed , yes. Outrageous surely. Surely it Wai outrageous that this machine which was about to extract an unreasonable sum of Money from my Wallet for a ludicrously Hon journey should nevertheless insist on treating me As if i were a miser Able draftee in the prussian army. Yet i lacked the courage to assert the Helsinki human rights convention against its autocratic authority. Or possibly 1 was too Busy digging into Wallet for the fare in obedience to the command that said have fare ready at what would the taxi do if the fare were not ready at destination nothing grave. I was certain of that for most of the taxi were so asthmatic and rheumatoid that they could scarcely run a cobbled sock a couple of bolls. Still they had a presence that was menacing. I always Hammy fare ready at destination. Once when i was late for a plane jumped into a cab while carrying a Duck a i Orange and a bottle of Champagne plan Ning to Dine on my Way to Kennedy Airport. The salivary glands had scarcely started to pump when a sign in a tone More appropriate to the wicked Witch of the West than an ancient and spa ined taxi roared no eating or drinking in this cab i had fare ready at destination. Fortuna Tely there was no sign that said wipe Bill free of Duck grease before in those Days i lacked the new yorker gift of lip. The taxicabs snarled at me and i did not snarl Back but gradually i became hardened Tough assertive. I began having signs of my own printed first said no Rock music played in this some Drivers obeyed it other defied it. If they defied it i put my feet on he jump scat and were enough successes to a scour saturday september 13, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 11 col. Ross stauber. Irta it. Cot. R f. Everett Usan Knurr Froc Tob us a Frank Cdr Al com Cira Tatlyan Sanatar Makby �. Epstein to Nawira oar a an minor Law unofficial Oum Cihon Lor us. Armad Forcari of Truit Tea Sun and Sarton to Puhm to Corto Oclon i i a am a Forca information program of tha a Parlman or a Ufema. Camann to stare am sir Len Ara not Macau arts Ida official to of m Nuj. Gova Nunan Danart Manl to Dazma or Xvi us. Euro Aan command Tea act Maranca of Culan in bin naw Haoar Conta Nln Camma Rcw Dubue Autoro Don not cont Elluta an Andona Manl of Tea Dapar Lenl of Walenia Inonu liw Ilia Mai tar Dapar Mants. 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Though Why it should have in a time when inflation had rendered the $20 Bill almost As commonplace As the Quarter was a mys Tery. One night i hailed a taxi which had not the least idea How to get to my destination. This required me to lean Over the Driver s scat in Defiance of the cab s orders sit Back to avoid injury Yelling right right again left Here left again right right. And so Forth. At one intersection i had to yell icel three times. The Driver asked if i thought him a fool. One left was All he needed he said. Why did i treat him like an idiot Why did everyone treat him like an idiot he was near tears. I apologized. He Lold me his life Story. He hated taxis wanted to move to the Riviera with a girl. Both of them would Model jeans. You think i am making this up if so you do not know the taxicabs of new York especially at night. He touched me so that i wanted to com fort him and Over tipped hating myself afterwards. That s when i started distributing a new sign. It said no another night i cramped myself into the front scat of a tiny cab whose master was writing a novel. He too hated taxicabs and dreamed of being a musician. As we raced Down the gloomy corridor of ninth Avenue at Midnight i Asi cd what his novel was about. About a frustrated musician who has to drive a taxicab for a living and becomes a psychopathic killer he said. I had fare ready at destination which was the very next red Light and walked a mile Home composing a new sign. It said no psychotic violence in this cab but am still uneasy about trying it out. To the editor � extra data on registering car recently i re registered my car on a form 1598 Usa eur form. I had previously completed two separate a 1593s for the registration of two operational cars my husband and i owned. While filling out these forms i noticed that several items had to be submitted manually specifically item 10 place of birth and a portion of item 22 of birth each time an a form was submitted. It made me wonder Why this Type of personal information was not programmed As other variable Type information such As Grade rank organization etc., was. I questioned this. I sent a note to the Usa eur vehicle registration Section along with the completed a 1598 and my j3 registration payment. A few Days later i received a Call from them. A Man or. Daily informed me that the routine for printing the information on the a form 1596 was currently being updated to include the printing of the Fob. This change would take approximately a year. As far Ashe Dob item was concerned he said we do not need this information. We Only collect it in Case the German police need it for any person committing a serious criminal offence. Wedon t consider an important piece of information and does not have to be provided by the the instructions for completing a form 1598 do not reflect this and people such As myself will continue to provide it assuming it will cause a delay in the processing of car registration. It is so much easier to give the same information Over and Over again than to information should be required Only once with the subsequent requirements being updated with information already on army has data processing systems which have Access to information from other systems that should be Able to provide this Type of information. As Large As Usa eur Isyou would think they would have such a system. Berle Polit Worms Germany editor s note col. Norman Kinder chief plans and policy Dit Islon usar the necessity for providing Date and put of birth on Pov registration applications a form 1598 is based upon existing agreement Between the registry of motor vehicles and German police information requested Many times each Day in connection with the conduct of investigation by these agencies. There is a major project under Way within be Regist Rylo rewrite All of be computer programs which Are a part of be vehicle registration system. Since the information on Dale and place of birth is collected for a valid purpose the appropriate programs will be modified o ensure hat his informal of is stored and printed by the computer in the future. However until the re wrist of the compute system is completed it will be necessary for the customer o nil in that information on a form 1598." huge fish kill found � Ems blamed for Security leaks in Hispaniola area Santo Domingo dominican re Public a authorities have Wain cd residents of this Caribbean nation not to eat seafood. An enormous stain of dead fish of Al sizes and kinds was seen floating All along the North coast said agriculture minister Junio Lora. He said iwo people died and at least 30 got said the fish were Drifting on the current toward Haiti which shares the is land of Hispaniola with the dominican re were attempting to determine the cause of the massive fish kill. There was speculation it might be caused by red tide a sudden increase in a Type of algae or by the dumping of chemical poisons at land or at sea. Pension coverage rate remains constant Washington a half of the workers employed by private business and Industry about 30 million people we recovered by private pension plans in 1979, the labor department department said that represented Little change Over 1972, when 49 percent were covered. The figures came from a special Survey conducted by the census Bureau in May of last year under contract with the depart ments of labor and health and human other findings nearly 4 of every 5 employees represented by a Union were covered by a plan. Men were More Likely to be covered Bya private plan than women. Coverage ranged from 27 percent among those under 25 years of age to 65 percent of those in the 50-54 age bracket. For several years now i have been Reading How the army needs to upgrade its cos an the general Quality of its enlisted personnel. It seems that every time there is a problem in the army the enlisted Man gets the blame. The curious thing is that i have never heard an comments placing blame where it counts at the top. Whatever happened to the notion that a commander is responsible for All his men do or fail to do whether the doctrine is valid or not is subject for another discussion by itself. The Point Here is that when things go wrong in the army the tendency is to Point to enlisted failure to implement rather than to official failure to make rational appropriate decisions and Case in Point is the recent rash of official comments on army readiness. Now for As Long As i can remember readiness conditions were considered classified. Yet commanders often feel it their prerogative to violate the very prohibitions Thev impose on their subordinates. 1 have seen enlisted people fired for leaving a confidential document on their desks document that never should have been classified in the first place and yet same High ranking officials Are Able to speak openly to the press about subjects so sensitive that no enlisted Man would even be privy to let alone allowed to speak about openly. The newspapers have been filled lately with comments on readiness troop deployments strategic plans order of Battle morale and discipline All subjects we routinely classify in our correspondence yet openly divulge to the press. And we worry about How Many category four enlisted men there Are what about the category four officers who Are making russian spies obsolete by doing their work for them the world is being run by fools and i am the worst for subjugating myself to them. Michael Clayto Munich Germany o tired of Moscow s Utopia bit what it s doing to enhance the life of it citizens. Each time i listen in i hear the same old stuff about How Good things arc i that great land. Never once have i heard anything about the problems being experienced in the soviet Union. Every time something is said about an other country that is not a member of the Warsaw pact or Friend of the soviet Union it s negative. The soviet Union once sounded like a i receive a stars and stripes every Day. I know every country in and on this Earth has its problems but it seems Only the . Has the guts and initiative to print Tell and show it. Every now and then i listen to radio Moscow North America to hear what is going on in the great soviet Union and pen pal i am 40 Start of with to two Motl Prown up cmdr i and i would uht to correspond with Amer Kwint to flatly Chilor Nitt by
