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...story skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, registered as the 650 Fifth Avenue Company, was owned by Assa Corporation, a New York shell company, which listed its owner as Assa Company Ltd., a Jersey, Channel Islands entity. In most cases that's as far as investigators get - but here authorities were eventually able to determine that Assa was in fact entirely owned by the state-owned Bank Melli, which is banned in the U.S. for supporting Tehran's nuclear program. (See the best business deals...
...department's action against the Alavi Foundation in U.S. District Court in Manhattan expands a forfeiture proceeding which began last December against the Assa Corp., a part-owner of a 36-story high-rise on Fifth Avenue. But in what may be a first, the government also seeks to seize additional properties in New York, Maryland, Texas, Virginia and California, some of which house mosques, Islamic centers and schools. (See pictures of America's Islamic community...
Carl-Henric Svanberg made his name and fortune from locks. As CEO of Sweden's Assa Abloy in the 1990s, he turned a local security company into the world's biggest lockmaker - acquiring over 100 new firms and restructuring them in a way that boosted Assa Abloy's stock twentyfold. When he left earlier this year, he took with him a personal fortune of $60 million. You might expect Svanberg, now 50, to ease into early retirement. But last month he took over as president and CEO of Ericsson, the sprawling Swedish telecom-equipment maker that's all locked...
...order for them to start saying START. The CIA is keeping its view secret. Nor is there a consensus at Rostow's ACDA, which has a problem of its own-Congress is planning to drop "Disarmament" from its title, so a way must be found to pronounce ACA ("Assa" does not seem right) or have it revert to being simply a set of initials. All of which should be resolved before future high-level arms talks with the Soviets are STARTed...
Clifton Fadiman should have given some credit for the growth of Televenglish [March 11] to Ed Murrow's Person to Person program. Most of the "persons" on his shows never fail to begin a statement without "Assa maddera fack...