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Collectors often show a frank indifference to the origins of their pots and bronzes. Said an official of the antiquities museum in Basel, Switzerland: "It's public knowledge that 90% of the certificates of origin accompanying such works of art are totally unreliable. Most certificates are manipulated. The Italians can raise a ruckus, as in the case of the Metropolitan vase. But if they cannot prove anything, their claims are worthless. Unless the Italian authorities can come up with something like a photograph showing a work of art in an identifiable Etruscan tomb, they don't have...
...Once part of a backward, undeveloped pocket of northeastern France, Strasbourg today has the Continent at its doorstep. Some 230 trains pass through the town daily, and there are 5,000 miles of quality roads in the immediate area, including German autobahns and Swiss autoroutes that put Frankfurt and Basel only two hours away. (Ironically, it is easier for an Alsatian to travel out of France than to his own capital: Paris is 200 miles and a five-hour drive away, on a treacherous, obsolete two-lane highway.) The handsome new Entzheim Airport, with runways big enough to handle international...
...Originally part of the Swiss Bishopric of Basel, the Jura region was annexed by the French at the turn of the 19th century but was given back to Switzerland by the Congress of Vienna...
...month after the latest international monetary crisis, Cabinet officers, legislators and bankers on both sides of the Atlantic are intensely debating a lengthening list of ideas for changing the global financial system. The discussion will heat up this week, first at a meeting in Basel of central bankers from the world's ten leading industrial nations, then at a gathering in Luxembourg of European Common Market ministers. All participants recognize that the makeshift measures that allayed the most recent crisis are not enough. Unless more fundamental changes are begun, there will be a new upheaval -sooner rather than later...
Most of the losses developed from unauthorized speculation in the volatile world cocoa market, which some men associated with the bank reportedly tried to corner. Seven officers of the Basel bank have been arrested on charges of suspected fraud and mismanagement. Among them are Paul Erdman, the vice chairman and the only American in the group, and Alfred Kaltenbach, deputy chairman. Both were officers of the bank before it was bought by United California last year. Until then, it was known as the Salik Bank and had a reputation for involvement in speculative deals...