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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...
Travelers alighting at Kabul airport shortly after the Soviet invasion have been greeted by a menacing spectacle: a line-up of one of the meanest looking, deadliest vehicles in the world's arsenal of armor. The vehicles are BMDs, a combination light tank and armored personnel carrier used by Soviet airborne divisions. The versatile, 8-ton vehicle is armed with a 73 mm gun, three machine guns and an antitank missile launcher, and carries a crew of five. Like all Soviet-armed vehicles-including the similar but slightly larger BMPs that are also being shipped to Afghanistan-the airtight...
...return of the Shah to face trial in Iran is in agreement with Muslim law." Islam holds that "no one is above the law and law is supreme. If a crime is committed by a ruler, an emperor, he is as liable to punishment for it as the meanest and commonest of his subjects." As a precedent, one Cairo expert notes that in 1964 the late King Saud of Saudi Arabia was tried, deposed and banished by an Islamic court for conduct unbecoming a Muslim ruler-namely, drinking, gambling and womanizing...
Frenzy in the meanest streets...
...provide boisterous comic relief. McMurtry, who knows the Hollywood milieu firsthand, reveals a nice sense of place and trade. The celluloid scene has been done before; what McMurtry gives it-as he gave that sour Texas town in his The Last Picture Show-is a sense that even the meanest lives deserve a measure of compassion...