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...disapproval with a draft constitution that would in effect continue his own rule for another 15 years. To make matters worse, the army operations in Baluchistan were reportedly supervised by Chief of Staff General Tikka Khan, the former martial-law administrator of East Pakistan who earned notoriety as the "butcher of Bengal...
...about 4%, according to the official government index, but there was also a booming black market in food and other consumer items, an outgrowth of government price controls. The black market prices -what Greeks refer to as "the hat" -are the difference between what the government says the local butcher can charge for a piece of veal, and what the shopper actually...
Police had first suspected Corona, a Mexican-born farm-labor contractor, when his name appeared on market receipts that were discovered in two of the crude graves that yielded up hacked and bludgeoned bodies near Yuba City, Calif. Two butcher knives, a machete, a pistol, a Levi's jacket and a pair of shorts were all found with bloodstains in various places used by Corona. A key piece of evidence, said the prosecution, was a ledger in his garage with the names of seven of the victims in it. But none of the blood was ever linked...
...Yesss, that's true," Mrs. Ellis replies a little tentatively. The two are sitting behind me chance seat mates on a Greyhound hound for Detroit from Chicago She speaks with good sharp mid western is and I think maybe she was from Nebraska before she became a butcher's wife in Chicago. She's a widow now and sounds like everyone's grandmother: prim, alert, congenitally sympathetic...
...example, Burnett, handily managing her first major film role, gets the sort of scene that actresses kill for: while Pete is upstairs playing with the dying Robbie, Tillie walks into the backyard and curses God ("You bastard, you bloody butcher") in a burst of fury and grief. But no sooner has she finished than her voice is heard again in narration on the sound track saying "Later, I could hardly believe that was me." It is as if studio executives, nervous about blasphemy by the country's TV sweet heart, wanted to smooth things over al most before they...