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...arrested and accused of being "a spy for the Zionist regime." For several days it appeared that he would be brought to trial on espionage charges. But late in the week he was turned over to the Swiss embassy, which represents American interests in Iran, and put aboard a Swissair jetliner bound for Zurich. On arrival, Seib read a statement in which he thanked the Swiss for helping to secure his release. In response to the spying charges, he declared, "I am a journalist, and that is all that I am. I was simply doing...
Alliluyeva, now 60, arrived on a Swissair flight from Moscow to Chicago, where she disembarked without fanfare and headed for a friend's house near Spring Green, Wis. Her entry presented no problem, since she had retained the American citizenship she was granted...
...August 1983 the company tried to smuggle the contested documents out of the U.S. in two steamer trunks aboard a Swissair jet, but customs officers intercepted them at New York's Kennedy Airport after apparently being alerted by a mole in Rich's organization. At one point, in order to avoid court fines, Rich and Green hastily changed the name of their U.S. subsidiary from Marc Rich International to Clarendon and arranged a secret sale of the company to a shareholder in their Swiss firm...
...furious Judge Sand threatened to freeze $55 million worth of the company's assets in the U.S. Rich then promised to deliver the contested documents. But only three days later, U.S. Customs officers, apparently acting on a tip from a mole inside the Marc Rich subsidiary, stopped a Swissair jet just as it was taxiing to take off from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport for Zurich. Aboard the plane were two steamer trunks full of Rich's documents...
...Swissair is convinced that it can continue its moneymaking ways by going after the carriage trade of air travel. Says Executive Vice President Hellmuth Scherrer: "Slashing fares, which is a precondition for attracting mass traffic, would be absolutely fatal for us. The key to our survival is cultivating customers that have the highest quality expectations." Scherrer believes that there will be enough of those flyers to keep his first-class sections full...