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When the raid ended six hours later, the German center lay in ruins. The British killed 120 German soldiers, captured 95 others and nine Norwegian quislings, destroyed oil tanks, ammunition stores, a factory, a radio station, five merchant ships, two armed trawlers, an armed tug, four planes, a lone Nazi tank. British losses; eleven planes, "superficial" damage to warships, "extremely light" casualties...
...Acting President, Don Anonimo will have full opportunity to exercise his ability as a compromiser and political pacifier. Don Tinto's Popular Front Government, of which he is now the head, has been the victim of a tug of war between the Radicals and Socialists. Radical leaders are jockeying for the pole position in the next (1944) Presidential campaign. The Communists are lying ominously low. Chile's Rightists, Nazi sympathizers and the Army are waiting sharp-eyed for any crack in the Front...
...Williams had been alive last week he would have been proud of this year's Gophers. At Ann Arbor, before the largest crowd (85,753) that ever crammed into the Michigan Stadium, Minnesota met its old rival in a titanic tug of war for the Little Brown Jug for which they have tugged since 1903, when Dr. Williams' upstarts held Yost's famed point-a-minute Michigan team to a 6-to-6 tie. The water jug Michigan used that day was held as hostage by delirious Minnesota students, has since served as their traditional trophy...
...Bunnies could not advance, the Deacons weren't able to do any better. Their offensive power lagged and the Leverett defense tightened as the game settled down to a tug-of-war contest, both teams see-sawing back and forth as the afternoon were on. As the final whistle blew, no further score had been made and the Deacons walked off the field with a 6 to 0 conquest...
Minister Tanner's prattling further complicated the tug of war in Finland between pro-Nazi conservative groups, and anti-Nazi Social Democrats, of whom Väinö Tanner is leader...