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...children. They then burned the town to the ground. During the Battle of the Bulge, a Waffen SS battle group from the first division gunned down 71 American prisoners of war captured at Malmédy, Belgium, 40 miles northwest of Bitburg. Afterward, boisterous SS men used the bodies for target practice. Men from this division are also buried at Kolmeshöhe. It is not clear whether any of the men involved in the atrocities are buried there...
...twelfth largest U.S. oil company. The Pickens group is now seeking to acquire a majority of the company's stock by offering to purchase it at $54 a share. But Unocal has countered with a new variation of what Wall Street calls the poison-pill defense, in which a target company assumes a heavy debt burden to make itself unpalatable to corporate raiders. In this instance, Unocal said that if Pickens succeeded in buying 50.1% or more of its shares, the company would offer to buy the rest of the stock for $72 a share--a premium of 33% over...
...stern lead, banks in the U.S. and Western Europe halted talks with Brazil about rescheduling payments on its $102 billion debt. One of the main reasons for the IMF's action was that Brazil's annual inflation rate has been running higher than 230%, far above the 120% target level set by the government in its loan agreement with the fund...
...amazing that the U.S., the most open society in the world, has so far been the safest. But most experts on terrorism agree that America will be the next target. From this point on, caution and a keen sense of awareness should be used. To succumb to fear and panic is not the answer. The terrorists' assumption that taking Americans as hostages humiliates us is sad and ludicrous. The U.S. will never be brought to its knees by terrorists, nor can we be shamed by those who adhere to religious and political fanaticism. Clay E. Ewing Goliad, Texas...
Determining whether a car is a well-forged clone can take hours. "It is really an art," says Dennie Huggins, field-operations chief for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, which has tracked cloned cars in all 50 states and reports that counterfeiters usually target high-status rides like the BMW X5 and General Motors' Cadillac Escalade and Hummer. And since not all state vehicle databases are linked, thieves can retitle cars with the same VINs in multiple states without setting off alarm bells. All of which makes buying a used car an even dicier proposition. --By Brian Bennett