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...hopeful sign. "I have never been pleased about the estrangements between the people of the U.S. and the people of Iran," Clinton said. "They are a very great people, and I hope that the estrangements can be bridged." According to the Washington Post, Clinton followed up later through Swiss intermediaries with a letter to the Iranian government proposing direct talks. Khatami chose to reply on television, which may be safer for him than dallying secretly with evil Washington...
...that "shakes the foundations of trust." It seemed particularly insulting that Morgenthau's office had behaved as though the present Austrian government, whose conduct in the restitution of art stolen by Nazis after the Anschluss has been impeccable, would stoop to the sort of cover-up deployed by Swiss bankers over their stocks of stolen Jewish gold...
...Helen joined Jessica Walter on the Amy Prentiss sleuth series; a year later, she was a regular on Swiss Family Robinson. And the roles kept rolling in. "We made a deal," Gordon Hunt recalls. "She could work as long as she had a B average. With most kids, if they get a B, you promise them a vacation. With Helen, if she got a B, she got to work. Work was her playtime. I could see there was a really mature soul in there." Casting directors noticed the same thing: Helen had not a sexual but an emotional, intellectual precocity...
Morris tries, almost successfully, to balance the amount of commentary and observation--political and social--with a fair amount of cute little anecdotes about her spur-of-the-moment picnics on the Swiss hillsides or her random run-ins with Margaret Thatcher on a busy street...
FORTUNE Business Report delivers the goods--and goodies--from the day's market action. Tonight: the dark and mysterious "Swiss interest," a bailout alert, and Coke--gasp!--loses...