Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedication festivities that included the first annual track alumni reunion, gathered over 400 alumni from as far away as Switzerland and Los Angeles. Thorndike said yesterday...
Although the franc rallied last week, it continued its headlong flight abroad. Mitterrand claimed that 500 billion francs ($100 billion) have been illegally exported to Switzerland. Though the claim was exaggerated, more and more apprehensive citizens were getting their money out of the country or hoarding gold-the Frenchman's historical hedge against political uncertainty. Most popular were the one-kilo ingots (currently worth $5,738), which fit nicely under mattresses, and the small $62 Napoleon d'Or and minuscule $46 demi-Napoleon coins, which can be conveniently secreted-and transported -in the traditional sock. In the past...
...ceded to Panama under the treaties. Panamanians are even now enlarging the country's international financial center, an outpost of 81 banks from all over that are lured by the country's easy tax and currency-convertibility laws. The dream: to make Panama a kind of Latin Switzerland...
...week before Christmas. Customers keep flocking in to inspect the shiny new toys, and sales keep booming. In recent months the U.S. has sold 18 F-4 Phantom jets to South Korea for $164 million, a guided-missile frigate to Australia ($183 million) and antitank missiles to Sweden and Switzerland ($155 million). While Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was pressing at Camp David for up to 120 of America's F-5E Tiger fighter-bombers totaling close to half a billion dollars, Israel was seeking two dozen of the faster and more sophisticated F-15 Eagles, which carry a price...
...Shortly before Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Paris on a good-will visit in 1976, Rybachenko was caught receiving secret documents that described a French Defense Ministry computer system. Rybachenko was expelled. Then there was the gift by Colonel Vassili Denisenko, the Soviet military attaché in Switzerland, to an under cover KGB spy of 13 years...