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The law was adopted in 1934 to thwart Nazi spies hunting German assets that had fled and were hidden abroad. Later Geneva was regarded as the financing center for both extremes in the Algerian war-the French O.A.S. and the Algerian F.L.N. Today some U.S. officials believe that the banks...
People of the Book tells not one but two parallel stories. The first follows the public acts and private thoughts of the two great Protestant leaders of the Thirty Years War, the brilliant commander King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his equally brilliant chief minister, Axel Oxenstierna. The second story...
Paste Jewels. Stacton embellishes this attractive plan with his vivid sense of scene and detail. He freights it with learning and lively language. He floods it with his unique virtues-and the book drowns. Gustavus and Oxenstierna are the most real figures, but they are not really seen in action...
The patrols of "Minutemen"--from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.--were begun in early November to save trees lining Memorial Drive near the Lars Anderson Bridge from destruction by the Metropolitan District Commission. The MDC, which will build three underpasses along the Drive, plans to move some of the trees...
Caution & Adventure. Skandinaviska bailed out many of Kreuger's companies in a rescue operation that won it the lasting respect-and the banking business-of such large Swedish corporations as automaking Volvo and the ball-bearing giant SKF. Says Lars-Erik Thunholm, 50, one of the bank's...