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...than 400,000 of them were murdered by the Nazis in the course of the Holocaust that also claimed 6 million Jewish lives. Even today West Germany's gypsies are openly persecuted. Says Grattan Puxon, general secretary of the Roma World Union, an international gypsy organization based in Bern, Switzerland: "We are the forgotten victims of Fascism...
...driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the man behind the wheel of the getaway car, waiting for the robbers to come pelting out of the bank with their loot. The cop (Bruce Bern) has a never-explained obsession with putting this particular wheelman behind bars. This leads to the burning of much tire rubber, the crunching of much metal, but not much psychological or sociological edification. And not much emotional involvement in the proceedings, since neither man is ever shown to be anything but a grim-faced psychopath, hiding under the fashionable guise of being a "professional...
...this direction have been taken. Virtually every police force in Western Europe cooperated with the West Germans in trying to track down the killers of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall. Shortly after the Moro kidnaping, the Interior Ministers of West Germany, Italy and Switzerland met secretly in Bern to discuss ways of increasing cooperation among their antiterrorist forces...
...hell of a decision. Furious, Ronnie exiled the stubborn boy of 16 to the University of Bern. There David's gift for mimicry and his cassette-recorder ear made him a quick study of foreign tongues. Within a year he had delved into German letters and discovered new modes of expression and thought. "You might say," he claims, "that I rather belatedly developed a second soul...
...country. Slack management is not just a Swiss problem." What makes the case special is that no other country seeks to maintain such a mystique about its "inviolable" banking system. The scandal spotlighted the extent to which Swiss banks are trusted to police themselves. The chief external watchdog, the Bern-based Federal Banking Commission, has only twelve employees assigned to keep tabs on the industry...