Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clubs, mining firms, entire villages, warehouses, interests in foreign companies, vast tracks of real estate, and import and export facilities. Whatever may be done about those, probably beyond Khomeini's reach is the array of the Shah's and his family's palatial retreats in London, Switzerland, New York City and France, not to say an island in the Seychelles and choice acreage in Beverly Hills...
...different matter. Judges are beginning to use their power to penalize foot-dragging on legitimate discovery demands, and to protect parties from unreasonable ones. In a recent case, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. stalled the State of Ohio in its attempts to get at some records in Switzerland. A federal judge ordered the company to pay Ohio $60,000 in legal costs. Another judge, citing "flagrant bad faith," simply threw out the antitrust claim of New York City's Metropolitan Hockey Club Inc. (later Golden Blades) after it failed to respond to hundreds of interrogatories from the defendant...
Bread and Chocolate. The flavor is bittersweet, but there is much nourishing comedy in this poignant story of an Italian immigrant seeking his fortune in chilly Switzerland. A caustic criticism of two national temperaments...
DIED. Salvador de Madariaga, 92, erudite, witty, prolific man of letters, interpreter of Spanish culture and diplomat; in Locarno, Switzerland. When King Alfonso XIII abdicated in 1931, Madariaga became the Spanish Republic's first Ambassador to the U.S. and its delegate to the League of Nations. After the Spanish Civil War, he became an energetic opponent of Franco, living in England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies...
...played a cruel joke on Hanfy, had him "taken for a ride" in a German fighter plane with orders to parachute out over Spain, a sure suicide mission. The pilot turned back eventually and brought Hanfy home, but the terrified Hanfy had had enough. He fled with Egon to Switzerland and then to the United States, where he waited out the war before returning to Germany to live in relative obscurity until his death...