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Sabry Khalil Banna, a.k.a. Abu Nidal, is the meanest guerrilla leader of them all. Sentenced to death by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid- 1970s for trying to assassinate P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, Abu Nidal has long been ostracized by his peers for arranging the murders of moderate Palestinians and staging such atrocities as the 1985 airport massacres in Rome and Vienna. For several weeks, however, Arafat has reportedly been contemplating a rapprochement with Abu Nidal in the name of Palestinian unity. "Politics is politics," said an Arafat aide in Tunis last week, confirming that a reconciliation was still...
...Even the meanest people, those who kick dogs, throw bottles at cats and step on robins' eggs, get teary-eyed and putty-legged when they see a panda rolling around on its ample posterior, twisting its puffy body into a seemingly impossible position, or eating an apple -- nothing more exotic than an apple! -- with its handlike paw. "I can't think of any animal that compares," says William Conway, director of the New York Zoological Society. "People love penguins, but the interest in pandas is extraordinary. There appears to be an innate response of, 'Oh, isn't it cute...
...Crack it up, crack it up," the drug dealers murmur from the leafy parks of the suburbs to New York City's meanest streets. The pushers are highly visible and undiscriminating. Three weeks ago, New York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato and Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, both in disguise, had no trouble purchasing vials of crack from peddlers in the city's Washington Heights section. Many New York law-enforcement authorities believe that a substantial increase in crime this year might be attributed to the crack epidemic. In May of this year cocaine arrests were...
...ways impossible to predict. Wolff does not always seem certain whether he is offering a straight thriller or an anatomy of the creeping dry rot of urban corruption. But the atmosphere is entertainingly breezy and sleazy, with a wisecracking, side-of-the-mouth narrator and some of the tightest, meanest dialogue this side of Elmore Leonard. A hired hitman recalls one of his jobs: "I got orders about the Moron. I wasn't even mad at him. I done it. I got orders; he got dead." At the very least, Providence will give readers a more enjoyable time than...
Robins' case suffered a devastating blow last year from Judge Miles Lord of the U.S. district court in Minneapolis. Denouncing Robins for "monstrous mischief" and "corporate irresponsibility at its meanest," the judge ordered a search of the company's files. After combing through documents at Robins' Richmond headquarters, court-appointed officials said they found strong evidence that the company had covered up its knowledge of the Dalkon Shield's dangers. To make matters worse for Robins, Roger Tuttle, a former attorney for the company, testified that he had destroyed internal documents relating to the Dalkon Shield on orders from...