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...that the only loot brought back from the quick war: most of the rebels had transistor radios slung across their backs, and music blared. Others carried small tape recorders. A few had weapons - Belgian or Portuguese automatic rifles...
...discuss the project with all concerned." Out of the meeting, attended by seven of the original 15 bandits, came a startling claim: the so-called crime of the century had been financed by ODESSA, the secret international organization of ex-Nazis who were eager to channel their war loot into venture capital. The reputed leader of ODESSA was Otto Skorzeny, famous as the Waffen SS officer in charge of the 1943 raid on an Apennine ski resort that freed the deposed Mussolini from his captors. Skorzeny died of cancer...
...knew about them. She and the teaching nun shared an expensively decorated apartment near the hospital. They frequently dined out together in the best restaurants; at other times, merchants recalled, they had expensive cuts of meat, fresh seafood and vintage wines delivered to their apartment. Sister Godfrida had to loot her patients' funds, police surmised, as much to finance her epicurean tastes as to pay for her drug habit...
...concept. It thinks ads will turn the public off movies in general and crowd out their own trailers for upcoming films. But theater owners, who have been hurt by rising costs, say the ads will hold down ticket prices. They stand to get up to three-quarters of the loot, and they say they will happily accept commercials-if the public does not protest. "No audience reaction would be favorable audience reaction," says Larry Gleason, executive vice president of the Mann chain, which has 300 houses in 26 states. It sounds like an invitation, doesn...
...country, arson is often a means of feeding drug habits. Unable to afford the tools to remove valuable brass plumbing, sinks, bathtubs and refrigerators in abandoned buildings, junkies pour inflammable liquid around the rooms, set a blaze and wait for firemen to chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas of New York are being...