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...harbor, the battleship Schleswig-Holstein, which had arrived a few days earlier on a "courtesy visit," began emptying its 11-in. guns at the Westerplatte peninsula, where the Poles were authorized to station 88 soldiers. The only real resistance came from the Polish Post Office on Heveliusplatz, where 51 postal workers barricaded the doors. When the Storm Troopers blasted open part of the building, the Poles retreated to the cellar; the Nazis sprayed them with gasoline and set them afire. By nightfall, Danzig had, said its local Nazi leader, "returned to the Great German Reich...
Since shortly after Cicippio's disappearance, his brother Thomas, 65, has kept a running tally on the front lawn of his Norristown home of the number of days Joseph has been in captivity. "I always felt the hostages were kept on the back burner," says the retired postal worker. "I had no way of knowing what was happening...
Ever since January, when an FBI probe of shady trading practices rocked Chicago's commodities pits, members of New York City's markets have wondered when the spotlight would be turned on them. Last week the waiting was over. On Thursday morning U.S. postal inspectors and officials of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates the pits, raided four of New York's five commodities exchanges. The Feds combed through records and served subpoenas on at least a dozen individuals in a search for evidence of suspected criminal and civil violations by an estimated 50 traders...
Meanwhile, the spreading scandal continued to collect victims. Yannis Mantzouranis, former secretary to the Greek Cabinet and a Koskotas confidant, was arrested on allegations that he received $2 million from Koskotas in a Swiss bank account. Also jailed was Panayotis Vournas, general manager of the postal service. He was charged with depositing 7 billion drachmas (nearly $50 million) in the Bank of Crete in an attempt to shore it up shortly before the scandal broke last fall...
...rate loan could be used for homes costing no more than $72,000. "At first I felt a little bitter to realize that we couldn't begin to live as nicely as our parents do," said Doreen, 27, an office clerk. But she and Hamann, a 41-year-old postal worker, now consider themselves lucky. "When you hear about all the young people today who can't afford any kind of home," Doreen Hamann says, "I guess we've got nothing to complain about...