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...thousands of terrorist threats made against the U.S., omnipotently knowing which ones to take seriously? I think the FBI does an exceptional job, considering the hand it is dealt every day. Who knows how many times its agents have saved lives? We owe them thanks, not blame. ENOCH BASNETT Corsicana, Texas
Laborites fumed. Chief among them was former Prime Minister James Callaghan, who called the budget "the meanest the country has had since 1931." Surveying the new excise taxes, David Basnett, general secretary of the General and Municipal Workers Union, snapped: "Workers who live in a cave-if they don't smoke, if they don't drink, and if they drive an electric car-might say they were coming out better." Even business was chary over Thatcher's plan, which will be especially painful in the short term...
...setbacks can be attributed to inexperience, and there are signs that he is learning on the job. He mediated adroitly between blacks and whites to win acceptance of an integrated housing project near downtown Atlanta. "He knew how to make himself a scapegoat for everybody," says Carl Basnett, an attorney who participated in the negotiations...
...students-whom Bernardi refused to identify-may decide not to submit a statement or appear before the faculty, according to Carl M. Basnett, a first-year law student and president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association...
...Basnett said yesterday afternoon that he knew nothing of the students' request, but last night, after speaking with both students, he said, "It's not absolutely certain they will be coming [to the meeting...