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...sinewy man with a shaved head and a black LIVE TO DRIVE biker shirt guides his 18-wheeler across the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor, Ont., to Detroit. He pulls into the U.S. customs yard, braking next to a National Guard tent festooned with last year's Christmas lights. It's July 1, one of the hottest days of the year, and the stagnant air at the foot of the bridge--the busiest commercial border crossing in North America--is thick with the smell of diesel...
...Swiss in the autumn of 2000 who tipped off Peru that Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres, the former head of Peruvian intelligence, had stashed away about $114 million in five Swiss accounts. Judicial authorities in Zurich blocked the accounts after the banks themselves reported their suspicions. The Swiss ambassador in Lima then informed the Peruvian government and urged it to open an international criminal investigation, with which Switzerland cooperated. In addition, it was fierce international pressure that led the Swiss to disclose information about thousands of dormant accounts belonging to victims of the Nazis?and to pay $1.25 billion...
...Israel--his declared enemy. In the mid-'70s, Abu Nidal was sentenced to death by the P.L.O. for plotting to kill Arafat. Between 1978 and 1983, he was responsible for the assassination of six of the P.L.O.'s most moderate diplomats. In 1982 the attempted assassination of Israel's ambassador to Britain was attributed to his group--giving the Israelis a convenient pretext to invade Lebanon, in which Arafat had set up headquarters, and kick the P.L.O...
...even go conventional. Why? Many reasons, but perhaps the most important was, paradoxically, the nukes themselves. India made clear that it would not be the first to use nuclear weapons. Pakistan, however, did not follow suit. "We ... do not subscribe to a no-first-use doctrine," declared Pakistan's ambassador...
...Swedish legation in Budapest, was arrested by the advancing Soviet army in 1945 and never heard from again. After the war, Anger led the effort to determine Wallenberg's fate, visiting Moscow in 1989 to make a personal appeal for information to Mikhail Gorbachev. Anger served as Sweden's ambassador to both Australia and Canada and was made an honorary Israeli citizen...