Word: unless
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...notorious Baader-Meinhof gang who are serving life sentences for the 1972 bombing murders of four U.S. servicemen, be given safe passage to a country of their choice, either Libya or South Yemen. In letters to West German newspapers, TV and radio stations, Schleyer's kidnapers threatened that unless their demands were met he would be shot and a major government figure would be seized as a new hostage...
...natives may have to do without their favorite unless a dispute over syndication rights to the strip is resolved. Local rights to The Phantom have long been owned by the nation's sole daily newspaper, the Post-Courier, which publishes The Phantom in English, not pidgin. This summer, after the fast-growing Wantok moved to a new and larger plant, the Australian-owned Post-Courier decided to assert its exclusive right to the comic strip, and the local distributor pulled The Phantom from Wan-tok. Says Father Frank Mihalic, editor of Wantok: "I don't see any conflict...
...efforts of the other players, and Crimson coaches are hoping that this won't be the case with the current edition of the Harvard defense. Sure, Joe Restic has welcomed the Ivy League's best defensive line back into the fold along with a potent pack of linebackers, but "unless the defensive backs can handle the one-on-one coverage, we can't do what we want with these other people. We can't use the blitz; we can't put pressure on the opposition," Restic said yesterday...
...they intended to seek gains of 20% to 100% beginning this autumn. For Callaghan, the unions' actions threatened a political crisis as well as an economic one: Liberal Party leaders warned that they would withdraw their crucial 13 votes in the House of Commons from the Labor government unless it effectively restrains wages. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and union leaders suggested the twelve-month rule as a compromise, since it would at least defer big wage increases until next year, when inflation is expected to ease...
Will the military government proceed with its plan to hold national elections on Oct. 18? "By jingo, yes," declares Zia, "unless the heavens fall." Despite Bhutto's incarceration, his Pakistan People's Party announced last week that it would contest the elections; it called on party members to turn their grief "over the arrest of Party Chairman Bhutto into an enthusiastic campaign." The army still talks as if it expects to go back to the barracks by the end of October. But if the election results are inconclusive, the soldiers may yet decide to delay their departure...