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...bronchial cancer; in Madrid. Skorzeny led the September 1943 glider-borne rescue of Benito Mussolini from the mountain-top hotel where he had been imprisoned by the pro-Allied Badoglio government. The exploit earned him the Iron Cross and der Fuhrer's gratitude, which he repaid by helping to thwart the July 1944 plot against Hitler, rallying SS units and halting a wave of executions so that Gestapo torturers could extract from conspirators the extent of the plot. As German armies pressed the Ardennes offensive during Christmas week 1944, Skorzeny directed the infiltration of hundreds of English-speaking Germans...
...city's short-term debt into long-term bonds. The banking community insisted that Big Mac should exercise tight control over the city's short-term borrowing and receive all city sales tax revenue so as to make sure that the bonds it issued would be repaid. City officials balked at such a surrender of their fiscal authority. The question is whether Big Mac will be established in time to prevent the city from defaulting on $792 million in notes that fall due this week. True to the politics of bluff and brinkmanship that characterize New York...
...business penalties for United Brands could far exceed any legal ones. At least two shareholders have already filed suit asking that the bribe money be repaid to the company by its board or by Black's estate. Publicity about the bribes could easily lead Honduras to expropriate the company's plantations, which supply about 16% of the bananas that United Brands sells...
...outcome of the crucial showdown repaid a debt which has been bothering the Pennsylvania club for almost a year now, ever since the Crimson nine swept a critical doubleheader in Philadelphia to eliminate the Quakers from the 1974 title chase. The key last year was a spectacular pitching duel which saw Harvard's Milt Holt upset Muhlstock, 2-1, but yesterday's battle saw a new ending to the script...
...added that the bill would not help understaffed areas because it would create a "revolving door" of doctors who left their areas as soon as they repaid their debt...