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When executives discuss a corporate merger, they become as circumspect as Swiss bankers. So it went with the merger between Allied and Signal, announced last week. Edward Hennessy Jr., Allied's chairman, along with Forrest Shumway and Michael Dingman, Signal's chairman and president, met March 5 at Marriott's Camelback Inn, a plush Scottsdale, Ariz., resort with two 18-hole golf courses, two swimming pools and ten tennis courts. Hennessy and Dingman registered under the last name of Dingman's secretary. Although the executives are fond of sports, they seldom left their rooms. When discussing the firms, they called...
Although a Swiss mathematical physicist turned down a rare joint tenure position with the Physics Department earlier this year, professors said that the appointment of Taubes is unrelated to their ongoing attempt to lure a combined specialist...
...theory, but it is not working. In fact, many pedigreed imports remain as pricey as ever. For example, an Irish-made Waterford crystal decanter typically costs $159 in the U.S., the same price as two years ago when the Irish pound was worth about 25% more. The 18-karat, Swiss-made gold Rolex Presidential watch actually went up in U.S. list price during the past three years, from $7,950 to $8,850, even though the Swiss franc has fallen in value about...
...assumed in Washington that some of the missing Americans are being held by pro-Iranian Lebanese Shi'ite groups that hope to swap their prisoners for 19 militant Islamic fundamentalists imprisoned in Kuwait. With that in mind, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz recently sent a message through the Swiss government warning Iran that Washington would not be slow to retaliate should an American captive be killed...
Ironically, the Swiss findings appear to cast some doubt on the Italian case. According to Agca, Celik should have had access to 3 million deutsche marks (then worth about $1.3 million) allegedly paid to the conspirators on behalf of the government of Bulgaria a week in advance of the abortive assassination attempt. Says Giuseppe Consolo, an attorney for Bulgarian Sergei Antonov, one of the accused conspirators: "It seems very strange that Oral Celik is engaged in small-scale smuggling in Switzerland when he is supposed to have been hired by the Bulgarians to kill the Pope and has 3 million...