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Ironically, the drug executive, 47-year-old Stanley Adams, was doing what he thought was right, and the EEC officials - Willy Schlieder, the EEC's director general for competition, and Albert Borschette, an EEC commissioner - were only doing their jobs. Their saga began two years ago when Schlieder and Borschette opened an investigation into pricing policies of Adams' employer, Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., the giant Basle-based pharmaceutical company. The EEC was curious as to why there were wide country-to-country variances in prices for livestock vitamins and two popular Roche tranquilizers, Librium and Valium. Officials suspected...
...harsh Napoleonic code. He was released on $9,750 bail (paid by the EEC) two weeks ago, but while he was in prison in January, his depressed wife committed suicide; the Swiss would not let Adams out of jail for her burial. Roche lawyers also said they regard Schlieder, widely respected in boardrooms throughout Europe, and Borschette as accomplices in the "spying" case...
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