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...referendum grew out of a scandal seven years ago involving foreign deposits. An officer at a Crédit Suisse branch in Chiasso, near the Italian border, was convicted of illegally diverting more than $800 million in customer funds into speculative investments. Most of the money had come from Italians seeking a haven from inflation and high tax rates...
...poured from the woods and launched an early morning attack on the sleeping village. Forty-seven people were massacred. The raiders set fire to the local agricultural cooperatives, the coffee storage office, the territorial and police militia posts, and cars and trucks used to build roads. After sacking a branch of the National Development Bank, they destroyed it, reportedly using American RP7 grenade launchers...
After a year of study and refinement in the Executive Branch, the Strategic Defense Initiative now implicitly accepts the impracticality of a leakproof umbrella. Instead it adopts the somewhat more modest "interim" goal of "enhancing," rather than replacing, deterrence based on offensive weapons. The idea is that Soviet plans for an attack would be further complicated by even an imperfect American defense...
...source of the allegations is Daniel Charboneau, 52, a former Roman Catholic priest who arrived in Seoul in 1978 as a Bechtel employee and now teaches English at U.S. Army camps in South Korea. Charboneau says that he regularly cashed Bechtel checks at the local Bank of America branch and then handed the money to the company's Korean-American consultant, Yoon Sik Cho, 61. From Cho the money may have gone directly to South Korean officials, but the evidence remains circumstantial. Last week Charboneau, whose perusal of business records led him to suspect Cho of using the funds...
...strengthened in his natural tendency to tell them no more than the law requires. Says one official who worked closely with Casey during that period: "Casey gets mad, and he also tries to get even. The attacks from the Hill just compounded an existing disdain for the legislative branch of Government...