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...Swiss bankers just ain?t what they used to be. The federal police office of Switzerland has frozen any and all funds belonging to Slobodan Milosevic and four of his high-ranking Serb cohorts. All it took was a request from the Hague international war-crimes tribunal and the Swiss, long the favored financial refuge of the rich and shady, were ready to play ball. One thing: Despite claims by NATO officials that Slobo has been socking it away in not only Switzerland but Greece, Russia, Cyprus and Lebanon, the Swiss haven?t found any money yet. Which...
...form, Harris is the class of the current field of thriller writers, ladling out authentic-sounding information on such arcana as weapons ("Yes, I'll have that Harpy, please, and a straight serrated Spyderco with a four-inch blade, and that drop-point skinner at the back") and Swiss bank accounts ("Article 47 of the Bundesgesetz uber Banken und Sparkassen"), plus sharp thumbnail portraits of the major players and malefactors and incessant plot surprises...
...reason was stupidity. Just look at all the adjacent stupidities--like hitting that K.L.A. camp thinking it was a Serb military base even though Western media had done stories about how the Kosovars had taken it over. Or hitting the Belgrade hospital, or that prison, or almost bombing a Swiss diplomatic reception...
DIED. PAUL SACHER, 93, Swiss pharmaceutical tycoon and conductor; in Basel, Switzerland. By the time Sacher married Maja Stehlin--the heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche drug empire--in 1934, he had already founded a musical institute and a chamber orchestra. Even as he commissioned many new works, Sacher oversaw the growth of Hoffmann-La Roche, manufacturer of Valium, for nearly 60 years...
...hard to sort out how much of the millions of dollars raised overseas is spent for weapons and how much for humanitarian aid. K.L.A. fund raisers in the U.S. insist that the money they contribute to Homeland Calling is used for medical supplies and food. But last year the Swiss government froze one Homeland Calling bank account because Salihu refused to promise its funds would not be used to buy arms...