Word: liechtensteiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cure for the gold plague will not be easy to find. It is even difficult to tell just who is buying. Some orders are placed with agents of agents or through post office box corporations in Liechtenstein...
...ships still slaughtering whales, none is more loathed by conservationists than the infamous Sierra. Flying the Cyprus flag and owned by a shadowy Liechtenstein-based company, possibly with Japanese interests, the pirate whaler ignores all whaling agreements, hunts indiscriminately and makes its kills in a particularly cruel way: instead of the explosive-tipped harpoons used by most whalers, it employs the unarmed type. These do less damage to whale meat but only prolong the agony of the great mammals, often attracting other whales who, in trying to help their beleaguered brethren, are themselves caught. Last week, in a dramatic reversal...
...true that more foreigners are acquiring land than ever before, but the numbers are still very small. In Texas, Prince Franz Joseph, the 72-year-old monarch of the 40,000-acre Principality of Liechtenstein, bought 16,000 acres of ranch land. Across the country, other rich aliens are doing the same. Germans and Italians are the heaviest investors, followed by the British, French, Belgians, Canadians and Dutch. Neither the Arabs nor the Japanese seem to be in the market. Most of the buyers are good neighbors who often lease the land back to Americans and pour in development money...
...longstanding tradition, the post of Foreign Minister in the tiny European principality of Liechtenstein (pop. 25,000) is deemed the most prestigious job in government. It is normally held by the leader of the majority party, who also performs the largely ceremonial duties of Prime Minister. But after his Progressive Citizens Party lost last February's election, outgoing Premier Walter Kieber decided that he would like to retain his portfolio as Liechtenstein's chief officer of foreign affairs. The offer was declined by his successor, Hans Brunhart, head of the Fatherland Union Party, but Kieber nonetheless refused...
...central business district, the copper-toned Superdome looks like a happily defected UFO, or-more to Orleanians' tastes-a gargantuan cheese souffle. Inside, despite a decidedly sublunary decor, the building is a mechanical marvel, capable of seating in air-conditioned comfort the entire populations of Andorra, Liechtenstein and Monaco, with room left over for a couple of football teams, four trade exhibitions, a dog show and a few hundred ushers, guards and food vendors. Or, as Orleanians never fail to point out, it could swallow Houston's Astrodome with hardly a burp...