Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the administration awaited appointment ofan independent counsel to investigate theonce-secret arms sale to Iran and the funneling ofprofits through a Swiss bank account to Nicaraguanforces, Senate leaders appeared headed forcreation of a single "supercommittee" to conductits own probe...
...transfer of United States government moneyto a Swiss bank account instead of the U.S.Treasury and its appropriation to Central Americawithout Congressional approval constitute a veryserious legal matter," Vagts said...
...Switzerland's Bank Leu International. The brokerage did not know it, but the account was the main conduit used by Levine for making his own insider moves. Merrill Lynch passed on the information about Bank Leu to U.S. authorities in June 1985; it took almost a year before Swiss authorities agreed to divulge the name behind the account number...
Where else could a reader find in one place that the most popular numbers on a roulette wheel are 17 and 29, that until the mid-19th century, many Swiss believed washing the feet weakened the eyes, or that the absentminded Voltaire once began a letter "My dear Hortense" and ended it "Farewell, my dear Adele"? Where else is it written that 22 of the 633 men aboard Lord Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar were Americans, that the Syrian general Nicator fainted at the sound of a flute, that the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa volcano was the loudest sound...
...group of army officers known as the Reform the Armed Forces Movement. The group was formed in March 1985 to counter the corruption within the military that had flourished under Marcos, who last week learned that his plans to move from Hawaii to Switzerland had been blocked by the Swiss government. Senior military sources disclosed that armed forces commanders, including Ramos, had given the President a letter proposing that she delegate all authority concerning national security to the Defense Minister and asking for her answer by Jan. 6. In addition, the commanders, whose political goals differ from those...