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...evening when the sleek blue Alfa Romeo pulled up before the large two-story house at 20 Via Sud-africa in a prosperous section of Rome...
While the car idled in the street, the chauffeur operated a remote-control device, opening the metal gates that sealed off the driveway. Suddenly, three men sprang from a blue Fiat 128 parked across the street, spraying the Alfa Romeo sedan with bullets. The driver yelled at his passenger to get down; the armored car's heavy metal plating and triple-thick bulletproof glass held true...
...weekend. By 4 o'clock last Friday, the streets near the South African air force headquarters were crowded with black commuters waiting for rides out of the city and white shoppers doing last minute errands on their way home. Suddenly, at 4:28 p.m., a blue Alfa Romeo parked in front of the Nedbank Square shopping arcade exploded, ripping through the building like a can opener and flattening parking meters and lampposts. The blast, thought to be the worst incident of urban terrorism in South African history, killed at least 17 people and injured almost 200 others. Said...
Seafirst revealed that its portfolio contains $800 million in problem, or nonperforming, loans that have not been written off, a figure that is some $200 million more than analysts had thought. The trouble spots include a $40 million credit to Mexico's bankrupt Grupo Industrial Alfa, the largest private firm in Latin America. The so-called nonperforming loans amount to nearly 8% of Seafirst's $10 billion in total assets; the banking industry average is about 3%. What is more, the loans exceed by 7% the sum of the bank's shareholders' equity and loss reserves...
...fine and 30 days in prison. Loren, 47, stayed out of the country to evade the jail sentence (she paid the fine), but last week she finally returned to do her time-tempered by a measure of Italian eleganza. Loren was chauffeured by police in a white Alfa Romeo to Casa Circondariale, a pink-walled women's prison near her native Naples. Carrying a bouquet that could have concealed a good-size hacksaw, Sophia was cheered by fellow inmates as she was escorted to a 10-ft.-sq. cell. Skeptics attributed Loren's homecoming to her planned starring...