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...after five decades and under immense international pressure, the Swiss stone wall is beginning to crack. Last week in Zurich, Edgar Bronfman Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress, based in New York City, produced a list--secret until recently--of long-ago account holders, and turned it over to a committee set up jointly last May by the Swiss Bankers Association and a coalition of Jewish organizations. The document contains the names, home cities and deposits--totaling $13.5 million--of some 500 account holders as recorded by Swiss Bank Corp.'s New York City office on June...
...Toronto, where he met with Alarcon in a hotel room to sign the deal. Tarnoff and Halperin were afraid the Cuban Americans might try to scuttle the talks. Indeed, a decision memo had to be sent to Clinton three times before he finally agreed to keep the negotiations secret from the core group. When the agreement was announced, however, angry Cuban Americans poured into the streets of Miami, and the core group retaliated by having Clinton oust Halperin as Cuba point man. The core group then hovered over every inch of policy. A Clinton speech in October 1995 announcing minor...
...Cabinet Room and grilled the Joint Chiefs Chairman, General John Shalikashvili, on whether the U.S. should punish Cuba with a cruise-missile attack or air strikes. The general argued against any military action, and Clinton eventually abandoned the idea. But five days after that, the White House sent a secret note warning Havana that the U.S. would react militarily if more planes were shot down. The following week a belligerent U.S. Congress passed the conservative Helms-Burton bill, imposing even more draconian sanctions than the 34-year-old U.S. embargo. Foreign-policy aides opposed the bill, which punishes foreign companies...
...problem too because these crimes are fast becoming the most egregious on Wall Street. The hot stock market is attracting con artists like ants to a picnic. In the bull market of the 1980s, big-shot investment bankers swapped secret merger information for suitcases stuffed with cash. Giuliani sent a couple of bankers to jail in his day. But many others walked. The result? Stocks still routinely shoot higher ahead of big merger news--a sure sign that the insider-trading problem is anything but licked...
Kramer's approach is not systematic, and the subjects of her six chapters are very specific: a restaurant in a bohemian district of West Berlin, an East German poet who spied on his friends for the secret police, the struggle over what kind of Holocaust memorial--if any--should be built in Berlin. Perhaps the most poignant and telling of the stories is the one about a young man whom Kramer calls Peter Schmidt, a drifting East German who tried to escape when the Wall still existed, was caught and imprisoned but was eventually sold to the West (the East...