Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts to crack down on insider trading, Fedders engineered an unprecedented agreement with Swiss authorities that made it harder for inside traders to hide behind Swiss banking secrecy laws. He also launched the probe that resulted in the indictment of a Wall Street Journal reporter for passing tips to investors before publishing them in his column. Fedders withdrew from that case after one of the targets of the investigation retained counsel from his old law firm. While some associates found Fedders overbearing, the consensus at the agency and on Wall Street was that he was a tough, thoroughgoing official...
...required two days of tense discussions, with the outcome in doubt until the very end. The mere announcement that Shultz and Gromyko would meet in Geneva Jan. 7 and 8 initially raised high hopes around the world. But by the time the U.S. and Soviet delegations arrived in the Swiss city, the negotiating climate seemed not much warmer than the temperature, which dropped so low (14 degrees F) that Gromyko said jokingly that he would "rather be in Siberia." Both sides came in talking so tough that U.S. journalists in the immense press corps (see box) were speculating about...
...Mehrabad Airport, it seemed all too clear that a policy of retaliation had serious limitations. There was little that the U.S. could have done to prevent such a random act of terrorism. Indeed, in the absence of diplomatic relations with Iran, Washington could only depend on the help of Swiss and British intermediaries...
...pushed open the door and flung the body of their first victim onto the runway. The hijackers had ordered all Kuwaitis and Americans to move to the forward section soon after the plane landed. During the ensuing confusion they apparently selected one American and summarily executed him. Assisted by Swiss diplomats, who made visits to the Tehran morgue, U.S. officials confirmed later in the week that they were "99% certain" that the murdered man was Charles Hegna, 50, an AID officer from Sterling...
DIED. Fernando Corena, 67, Swiss-born buffo opera star who sang 726 performances with New York City's Metropolitan Opera from 1954 to 1978, specializing in such roles as Falstaff and Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville and winning the delighted chuckles of audiences and critics, one of whom dubbed him "the greatest scene stealer in the history of opera"; of a heart attack; in Lugano, Switzerland...