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...honor his guarantee, Wyman said, the firm would sell $300 million in assets, though any spinoffs would not take the company out of broadcasting, records or publishing. Wyman also claimed that trimming corporate fat could save $20 million annually. Said he: "There is no place (in CBS) where the Swiss watch is functioning so perfectly that there is no room for improvement...
...take a month to get a phone installed in England, and no one would ever call a broker on the weekend. "In Switzerland if you ask, 'Why?', they tell you, 'Because that's the way it is,' " says New York Art Dealer Bettina Sulzer Milliken, 36, daughter of a Swiss industrialist, who with her American husband runs a gallery in SoHo. "In America the answer is 'Because that's the way we like...
Then came a seemingly offhand bombshell. Said Berri: "We are prepared to hand the kidnaped persons over to a Western embassy, Swiss or French, whichever they (U.S. officials) choose." Alternatively, he said, Amal might "send the airplane with all the hostages to Damascus." Berri attached one giant condition: Syrian President Assad, or whoever else took custody of the Americans, would have to pledge not to set them free until all Lebanese prisoners in Atlit had been released by Israel. In Washington, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan was awakened at about 3:30 a.m. by a call from...
Switzerland convened an emergency Cabinet meeting on Thursday and, according to a Foreign Ministry source, "informed Berri that we would be happy to take the American hostages in our Beirut embassy but on our conditions, not his." The Swiss conditions: the hostages would be flown immediately from Beirut to Switzerland, and Bern could then set them free "at the time of our choosing...
...seven, the Governor of Vermont remembers, she wore little American and Swiss flags in her lapels so that the new neighbors in Queens, N.Y., would know, in 1940, that the Swiss Jewish family was not German. Her widowed mother had brought "Mady" and her brother to the U.S. out of fear that the Germans might violate Swiss neutrality. They lived with cousins, first in New York, then in Massachusetts, and became citizens in 1947. Nine years later Kunin graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts, having worked as a waitress to pay her way. After earning a master...