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...them to do a favor for a client, and I don't bring clients in with me." The flare of anger indicates how deeply the criticism stings. He refutes the innuendo: "Some time ago a foreign company offered me $1 million, to be deposited in a Swiss bank the minute the company chairman walked through the door of a certain important finance minister. It would have required one phone call -- the minister was a close personal friend. I turned it down." He also scoffs at critics who say the clients are buying the name. "Nobody continues paying you for your...
...Port- au-Prince had shared its stark assessment with the Haitian leader: without resorting to "repression and violence," his regime could not survive. After meeting with officials from nearby Jamaica, the President-for-Life agreed to depart on Wednesday but quickly had to renege. Reason: the Greek, Spanish and Swiss governments had all rebuffed the Duvalier family's requests for asylum. Two African countries, Gabon and Morocco, also said Duvalier would not be welcome...
...limestone wall of the new atrium lobby at the Equitable Life Assurance Society's New York City headquarters. Finished in a month of work and ready for a gala formal unveiling next week, the 68-ft. by 32-ft. painting has Lichtenstein's trademark comic-book dot matrix and Swiss-cheese motif. Working for a major corporation for the first time "did not present any problems," says the iconoclastic artist. "Anyone who commissions a work of art has to get the money from somewhere. This was no different...
Though inconclusive, the French tests prompted the U.S. subsidiary of Sandoz, Ltd., the Swiss-based manufacturer of cyclosporine, to announce that it would soon begin tests of the drug in American AIDS patients. Said Max Link, who heads the subsidiary: "Only well-controlled, long-term investigations will answer the question of whether Sandimmun could play a role in the treatment of AIDS...
Enter the gray marketers. They buy their products in Europe, Asia and elsewhere instead of getting them from authorized U.S. distributors. K mart last year spent about $100 million on gray-market imports, including Swiss- made Accutron watches that it sells for less than $100, or about half the manufacturer's suggested price. Says Robert Stevenson, K mart vice president: "There is no reason to pay unreasonable prices to the manufacturer's U.S. distributor when you can obtain exactly the same products at lower cost overseas." Importers have even invaded the market for heavy machinery. Caterpillar excavators imported from France...