Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take a month to get a phone installed in England, and no one would ever call a broker on the weekend. "In Switzerland if you ask, 'Why?', they tell you, 'Because that's the way it is,' " says New York Art Dealer Bettina Sulzer Milliken, 36, daughter of a Swiss industrialist, who with her American husband runs a gallery in SoHo. "In America the answer is 'Because that's the way we like...
Then came a seemingly offhand bombshell. Said Berri: "We are prepared to hand the kidnaped persons over to a Western embassy, Swiss or French, whichever they (U.S. officials) choose." Alternatively, he said, Amal might "send the airplane with all the hostages to Damascus." Berri attached one giant condition: Syrian President Assad, or whoever else took custody of the Americans, would have to pledge not to set them free until all Lebanese prisoners in Atlit had been released by Israel. In Washington, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan was awakened at about 3:30 a.m. by a call from...
Switzerland convened an emergency Cabinet meeting on Thursday and, according to a Foreign Ministry source, "informed Berri that we would be happy to take the American hostages in our Beirut embassy but on our conditions, not his." The Swiss conditions: the hostages would be flown immediately from Beirut to Switzerland, and Bern could then set them free "at the time of our choosing...
...engineer husband Geza were living on a coffee and fruit farm in Nova Europa, 175 miles north of Sao Paulo, when they were introduced at a social function to Wolfgang Gerhard. Gerhard, an Austrian living in Brazil, asked the Stammers if they could take in a Swiss friend of his named Peter Hochbichlet. The friend, Gerhard said, would be able to help out around the farm. Agreeing to put up Peter, or "Pedro," in a separate house on their property, the family found him to be as good as Gerhard's word: the man paid the Stammers a nominal rent...
...husband Geza owned a small farm in southern Sao Paulo state, claimed that Mengele had lived with the couple for 13 years. According to her statement, in 1961 the Stammers were introduced by Wolfgang Gerhard to a man who called himself Peter Hochbichlet and who said he was Swiss. They gave him a job helping to administer their farm, and the man moved in with them. A year later, the woman said, Hochbichlet confessed that he was really Mengele. Even so, he continued to live with the couple until they sold their farm in 1974. In February 1979, she claimed...