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...PAYOFF...
...Medellin. Thirty minutes later, skimming over the treetops of the Colombian jungle, the clattering swarm descended on a ranch outside the Magdalena River town of Puerto Triunfo. Thirty members of Colombia's elite National Police antinarcotics unit jumped from the copters and began searching the grounds. Their eventual payoff: discovery of three complexes containing eight cocaine laboratories. After the raiders methodically burned chemical dumps and bunkhouses, a five-man explosives team blew up brick buildings, generators and 15,000-gal. chemical holding tanks...
Bass's really big payoff will come if he decides to sell the thrift. One source close to the deal says that a profitable American Savings might fetch Bass a tidy $1 billion or more. Bass could conceivably still lose money on the deal if his thrift were to suffer losses, but that is almost an impossibility because it has been cleansed of its failing assets. Since FSLIC shoulders almost all the risk, the better Bass does, the less the deal will cost the Government. "We hope he makes a lot of money," says Bank Board member Roger Martin...
Icahn will extract a rich payoff. Texaco agreed to pay a special shareholder dividend of $2 billion, nearly $340 million of which will go to the raider. The money will come from the oil firm's $7 billion in proceeds from assets it has sold off since last June, partly at Icahn's urging...
...Come Sunday but loses it in her gleeful giggling about wife beating in T'aint Nobody's Bizness if I Do. While Carrie Smith displays a howitzer voice in I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man, she overdecorates the end of Am I Blue and dissipates the emotional payoff. All three, given their ample proportions, should have questioned the white feathered dresses for the finale that make them look like ostriches with glandular problems...