Word: luxembourg
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Given the closer collaboration between Swiss and U.S. officials, more American criminals are likely to switch to such havens as Luxembourg, Austria, Panama and Hong Kong. Says Richard Stricof, a tax expert with Manhattan's Seidman & Seidman accounting firm: "If I were doing something that I didn't want federal authorities to know about, I would pick a place that was inconspicuous. Switzerland...
British trade officials are not alone in provoking the wrath of U.S. authorities. In May 1985, according to the French newsmagazine L'Express, five cases of industrial materials were shipped via Air France from Paris to Luxembourg, where the crates were to be placed aboard an Aeroflot plane bound for Moscow. French customs agents had not bothered to check out the cases, but Luxembourg officials demanded they be opened. Inside they found equipment for the manufacture of so-called bubble memory chips, a U.S.-made state-of-the-art semiconductor ideally suited for storing guidance information in missiles. A French...
Twenty lucky students have just won an all-expenses paid trip to Luxembourg; included in this special offer is the chance to schmooze with some of the world's leading diplomats and businessmen...
...addition to these 20, 10 of the organizers of the tour and a handful of faculty and administrators will also go on the luxury two-week vacation, which will be hosted by Luxembourg's one and only prime minister, Jacques Santer...
...Luxembourg, the Harvard contingent will meet with about 400 scholars, statesmen and businessmen from across Europe and the United States, said Alexander Shustorovich '88 who organized the Harvard end of the conference...