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...Belgian government is investigating the possibility that its secret resistance members might have been responsible for a wave of terrorist raids on supermarkets near Brussels in which 27 people were killed between 1983 and 1985. As the accusations echoed across the Continent, France and Greece announced that their clandestine volunteer groups had been disbanded...
...military expenditures in Belgium go towards providing these services to the Americans who are there. No wonder the Belgian government is not too excited about sharing the burden of these costs...
...still the most wide-ranging bank in the world. It has more overseas offices -- 2,200 -- in more countries -- 89 -- than any other. It has more customer accounts -- 20 million worldwide -- including some 1 million in Asia and more than 8 million in Europe. Fully 10% of all Belgian households bank at Citicorp, as do 5% of those in West Germany and 3% in Britain. Its 300-branch consumer bank in Dusseldorf primarily serves factory workers. The firm's New York City-based Private Bank caters to wealthy individuals, offering such services as art-investment advice and estate planning. Citi...
...Helmuth Werner worked in the very heart of NATO headquarters in Brussels, dealing with the codes and secret signals that masked the classified information of the Western alliance. No one questioned his reliability. Two weeks ago, however, his cover was blown. Acting on a tip from West German intelligence, Belgian police searched Werner's home in a Brussels suburb and found transmitting devices and false- bottomed suitcases, as well as top-secret NATO documents. Werner is suspected of having been a spy since 1969, relaying the workings of NATO and Bonn to his masters in East Berlin...
Ordinarily, the freeing of hostages is cause for celebration. But when a Frenchwoman, her Belgian companion and their young daughter were released last week after being held for 2 1/2 years by Abu Nidal's Fatah-Revolutionary Council, a Libyan-backed militant organization, there were as many questions as cheers...