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...made one bad slip on the January day he fled Venezuela one jump ahead of the howling mobs. He forgot to take along a suitcase he had packed for the getaway. Beneath the socks, shirts and underwear were bundles of papers-stock certificates, bank-deposit slips, property deeds, and memoranda of commissions squeezed over the years from companies doing business with his government...
Shortly after the dictator's assassination, it reports, the Trujillos deposited $35 million in the Bank of Nova Scotia under the name of three cover-up Canadian corporations: later, when the new Dominican government tried to recover the money from Canada, it was transferred to a Geneva bank. More millions poured directly into Switzerland through a network of front companies spread across the Continent. At least seven such fronts were set up in tiny, tax-haven Liechtenstein, and their funds were deposited in Swiss banks. When Swiss bankers were asked by the Dominican government not to accept Trujillo funds...
...Another version of this scheme was publicized last week in the New York Times's letters column. The proposal, jointly forwarded by Harvard University's chief seismologist and by a Harvard government student, had some weird aspects. It would require the U.S. and Russia to deposit $5 billion apiece with the World Bank, as a sort of good faith deposit against discovery of an illegal underground blast within their boundaries. The evidence would come from many unmanned seismic recorders in sealed boxes scattered throughout the two countries. On every Wednesday (why this must...
...encyclopedia of churchly selfcriticism, which ten preparatory commissions and two secretariats, set up by the Pope in June 1960, boiled down to a working agenda of 129 proposed subjects. Last month attending prelates received drafts of decrees on the first seven topics scheduled for discussion: the deposit of faith, Scripture and tradition, marriage, the moral order, communications media, church unity, religious liberty...
...island of Santo Stefano is the kind of loaded microcosm an experienced reader can smell a mile off. So, it happens, can everyone else. Santo Stefano's main source of wealth is a rich guano deposit that envelops it in an aroma visitors find intolerable but that the natives are used to. "It smells like money to them," Ben muses...