Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heads an international body charged with tracking missing Holocaust assets, says a new list to be released in October will name not only foreign depositors but Swiss nationals who may have acted as agents for Holocaust victims or even Nazis. "I think there could be a large amount of plunder that was deposited by Nazis in Switzerland," Volcker said. In The New York Times' ad, about 2,000 names from Aalberts to Zwick were spread across nearly two pages of small type. Most are listed with full names, along with the city and country of residence, though some listings...
...stricken Spektr module in an effort to tap the pod's solar panels and restore power to the rest of the station. Should this fail and Mir's systems collapse completely, the crew could abandon ship in a Soyuz spacecraft docked outside, though they've already had to plunder a bit of the escape pod's precious thruster fuel to keep the station stable...
Write what it smells like; go into the past; follow your nose. This is what you will do as writers. You will plunder the past to explain the present and make the present more intense. Think of stream of consciousness as a detour off the path of the narrative. Go where it takes you, and when you get back, the main road will have changed...
...first time the U.S. has sought to account for all the gold bars the Nazis looted from occupied countries, the Jewish assets seized, the jewelry, gold dental fillings and wedding rings wrenched from concentration-camp victims. As early as 1943, when Washington launched Project Safehaven to locate the Nazi plunder and find out where it was going, the U.S. knew most of it was entering Switzerland. That year, spymaster Dulles warned the Swiss government that much of the 100 tons of gold bullion the Reichsbank was selling for Swiss francs was stolen. Eventually, Safehaven agents concluded that some $6 billion...
...Nazi plunder of Jewish property, possessions and capital was horrible but almost "understandable" [WORLD, Oct. 28]. Victors have got the spoils for millenniums, but Switzerland's masquerade as a neutral safe haven to lure and then steal $3 billion to $7 billion in victims' assets was unprecedented, vile treachery. The Swiss banks should feel humiliated that more than 50 years have passed without their addressing the disposition of Jewish wealth. WILLIAM P. SAUNDERS Bloomfield, Michigan Via E-mail...