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Until Solidarity's legal status was restored in 1989 it flourished underground, supplied, nurtured and advised largely by the network established under the auspices of Reagan and John Paul II. Tons of equipment -- fax machines (the first in Poland), printing presses, transmitters, telephones, shortwave radios, video cameras, photocopiers, telex machines, computers, word processors -- were smuggled into Poland via channels established by priests and American agents and representatives of the AFL-CIO and European labor movements. Money for the banned union came from CIA funds, the National Endowment for Democracy, secret accounts in the Vatican and Western trade unions...
Four identically-dressed hijackers, each clad in a natty brown tweed jacket and tie and machine gun, control an entire train under the streets of New York. But the film's humor lies in the parallel it draws between the terror of being underground in the dark tunnels of the NYC subway system and the crowded madness of the everyday life above the streets...
...have to stretch too far to accurately portray a disheveled subway dispatcher--this is vintage Matthau: New York accent, stained shirts, mussed hair and bulbous nose dipping its way into everyone's business. As we follow Matthau's attempts to thwart the hijackers, the absolutely tangled insanity of this underground city, the subway, comes...
Amid complaints of rising crime, Zurich officials last week shut down Needle Park for good. Some users clustered around the central train station, others headed off in search of methadone. With sales suddenly back underground, addicts complained that the price of heroin had doubled overnight to $214 a gram. Healthworkers said efforts to prevent AIDS would be much more difficult...
Within minutes, more than 15 marked and unmarked police vehicles from the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), the Cambridge Police Department and the Boston Metropolitan Police Department converged on the hotel, sirens blaring. Harvard and Cambridge police officers searched the hotel, the garage and another underground garage nearby, but were unable to locate the suspect...