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Russian Roulette. Ford, however, may have occasion to dust off that accusation and hurl it at Congress before too long. Despite the need for fast action, liberal Democrats in the House last week ensured a prolonged fight over a tax bill. Their leaders were ready to speed through both chambers a $21.3 billion tax reduction-$5.3 billion more than the amount requested by Ford and more heavily weighted in favor of lower-income groups. But the young Democrats insisted on adding an amendment to repeal the oil-depletion allowance that would save the oil industry some $2.5 billion this year...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and control 40% of the world's proven oil reserves. The primary target would be Saudi Arabia, which has 56.5% of this oil. According to the plan, the Saudis would be overwhelmed by a U.S. air-sea strike force prepared to hurl four divisions of troops at the Ghawar wellhead and the loading jetties of the U.S.-built oil facility at Dhahran...
...allegory. The novice smugglers evade a sense of their own villainy through sophistry or indifference. Converse rationalizes that in a world capable of producing the horrors of war, "people are just naturally going to want to get high." Hicks concentrates on the exploit's challenge and itches to hurl his own aggressiveness into the void he imagines around him. Marge, already hooked on pills, accepts the heroin's arrival as fated...
...gift to everyone who persists in misunderstanding such Peckinpah films as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs simply as paeans to brutality and orgies of tasteless violence. Alfredo Garcia could almost be dedicated to those benighted types. It is as if Peckinpah, sick of the accusations, decided to hurl them back and really make a film about violence...
...served him well as a political credo. He deplored categorizing people "as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road." The people he despised were those who "go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center...