Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Supreme Commander thought a swift, narrow-front drive straight into Germany was a bad strategic idea. He was certain it would be cut off, counterattacked and defeated. He never even considered deviating from his own strategy: an advance to the Rhine along a front stretching from Holland to the Swiss border. That way the Nazi forces would be defeated west of the Rhine, and the Allies would cross into Germany proper with relative ease...
...persuade the U.N. to release its billions of dollars of frozen assets on the pretext of buying "humanitarian" supplies. So far, with the agreement of the sanctions committee, the Iraqis have managed to get back more than $250 million for humanitarian purchases, most of it from British and Swiss banks...
Awad's case began on Aug. 30, 1982, when he walked into the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland. He claimed he was a prosperous Baghdad-based businessman whom Rashid had coerced, by blackmailing Awad's business, to blow up Geneva's Noga Hilton. The story sounded farfetched, but when Swiss police went to the Noga Hilton, they found a bomb-rigged suitcase in Awad's room. As Awad volunteered more detail about Rashid's modus operandi, U.S. officials began to detect a link between the bomb in Awad's suitcase and the one that had blown a hole...
Chen, who accepted the Swiss job last week andwill leave September 1, said the offer he receivedform the Eidgenossische TechnischeHochschule--which means the Federal Institute ofTechnology--was such "an exceptionally good offer"that "there was no point in waiting" to hearwhether he would receive tenure at Harvard...
...they think it would be best if you make a development loan to a private company that has been set up, instead of buying the materials directly." As collateral for the loan, the company associated with the nuclear facility would deposit the appropriate amount of rare metals with a Swiss bank. Reaching under his coat, the former colonel extracted a sheaf of papers. "Here is a suggested contract. This way, it isn't reported to Moscow as an export sale, which avoids certain bureaucratic problems." Then came the clincher: when the deal was completed, the company that had received...