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...Berliner Ensemble, the repertory theater founded by Bertolt Brecht. In the corner of the room, images flicker on the television screen. The pictures are of villas and hunting dachas and the commentator is talking about hundreds of millions of deutsche marks smuggled out of the country and into Swiss bank accounts...
Prosecutor: Let Ceausescu tell us something about his Swiss bank accounts...
...city of Sibiu, was expected to be executed. A brother, Marin Ceausescu, 74, was found hanged in the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, where he had headed the trade delegation and was widely believed to have been the conduit through whom Nicolae allegedly transferred millions of dollars into Swiss bank accounts. The provisional government notified Switzerland that it would request the assistance of the courts there to try to recover the funds...
...only difference between this scenario and the real world is the country invaded. The Swiss are Western. They share the same socio-political values as us. Their cities are beautiful, often visited by Americans. They wear Western clothing, they speak Western languages, their literature is similar. They drive Western cars--not camels, and they look the same as us. We feel an affinity for them...
...self-righteous protesters outside the yard, think how horrified you would be if one Swiss woman was raped by an Iraqi soldier. The rape of many Kuwaiti women by Iraqi soldiers doesn't seem to bother...