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...banking activity-reinforced with maximum fines of $20,000 or jail sentences for revealing details of a customer's account. Tax-shy foreigners also know that under Swiss law, tax evasion is considered a civil rather than a criminal offense, which means that Swiss bankers are expressly forbidden to cooperate with investigators from abroad. (A new bilateral treaty with the U.S. on cooperation in tracking down criminals has not altered this aspect of Swiss...
...Soviet censors. They called it an "anti-Soviet caricature-irrelevant, immature and politically illiterate," and said it could not be displayed. Very well, said Glazunov, cancel the show. Unblushing, the head of the Soviet Artists Union wrote the next day in Pravda that "for us, there are no forbidden themes and genres...
Since Franco's death, Madrid has sprouted two combative new dailies, El Pais and Diario 16, and a host of snappy magazines like Interviu and Opinion. Theatergoers have been able to see hitherto forbidden plays by Federico Garcia Lorca and Bertolt Brecht. Moviegoers have flocked to such films as Songs for After a War, a documentary on the Franco era, Carlos Saura's Cousin Angelica, a thoughtful flashback to civil war divisions, and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...
...most serious charges were leveled against Richard C. Groover, Edward A. Arnold and Robert N. Meyer Jr.-all traders in soybeans, the protein-rich legumes that have brought great wealth to farmers and speculators. The three traders were accused of the long-forbidden practice of "bucketing." A bucketing broker takes a customer's order to buy or sell soybeans or other commodities but, instead of making the transaction on the open market, the trader arranges a private rigged deal that can bring him an illegal profit. If proved guilty, Groover, the alleged ringleader, could face up to 128 years...
...different ideologies may be at play, but these grievances express a common discontent with officially proclaimed wisdom about public health. Though he himself is suffering from cancer (and refuses to take Laetrile), Dr. Franz Ingelfinger, the witty editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, has said it well: "Forbidden fruits are mighty tasty, and especially to those who hope that a bite will be life-giving...