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...businessman named Heinz Deiter Rosenkranz, is now married to a woman named Hannah, whose West German identity card Edith evidently used in opening the account, using the diminutive Hanne. Edith forged the specimen signature to do so. In addition, Swiss authorities found that Edith's "Helga R. Hughes" passport was actually a Swiss passport that had been issued to her in the fall of 1968, after she had reported her old one missing...
...originally planned to publish the Hughes book in March. Much of the information the police worked with had been gathered by LIFE, which was to excerpt the autobiography in three issues this month.* They also had an interest all their own, since Helga had employed a forged Swiss passport in opening the Zurich account. On the other side of the Atlantic, there was also official interest: New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, the U.S. Postal Service and the Justice Department had launched investigations into what was beginning to appear to be a very complicated piece of fraud...
...account was opened last April at the Swiss Credit Bank in the name of "H.R. Hughes" by a slim, attractive blonde woman, 42 years old, 5½ ft. tall, weighing 100 lbs., who spoke English and very bad German. She carried a Swiss passport issued in 1969 by the Swiss consul in Barcelona, Spain. It identified her as "Helga R. Hughes." To open the account, the woman signed "H.R. Hughes" on a signature card. A bank officer compared the writing with her passport signature. The two seemed to match, and the woman deposited 1,000 French francs ($180) to open...
...April the new rules will also apply to travel between Poland and Czechoslovakia. Other Eastern European countries are rapidly falling into line. Hungary announced two weeks ago that its citizens will be issued a special passport, good for travel within the bloc and valid for five years. East Germany and Rumania plan to waive visas for each other's citizens in time for a summer rush to Rumania's Black Sea resorts, and Poland and Bulgaria are negotiating a similar agreement...
...travel cheaply. Travel in Laos cannot be done by land. Almost all of the countryside is under the control of the Pathet Lao or in question, and thus not safe to travel in for anyone with as questionable attributes as white skin, no knowledge of Lao, and a passport issued by the United States or one of its allies...