Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Special U.S. Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh probes the intricacies of the Iran- contra affair, he is receiving invaluable help from Switzerland. Among the potentially incriminating documents he is studying are thousands of pages of Swiss bank records relating to Geneva accounts once controlled by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and other alleged conspirators. The relative speed and alacrity with which Switzerland turned over the records may have surprised many Americans, who have always considered the Swiss bank account to be synonymous with anonymity and protection. Is money held in the vaults of Zurich and Geneva no longer safe from the prying eyes...
...They wanted to save the world," says Glenn's younger sister Jessie. "In the process, this cult split up our family." The elder Closes moved to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), where Glenn's father, a physician, ran a clinic. The children were left in various boarding schools in Switzerland and Connecticut...
...only are there many future pro stars on the team, but among the team's ranks are five players--including Fusco, who played for a season in Switzerland--who have already skated for pay. Reflecting the international trend towards the elimination of an "amateur" distinction, any skater may now participate in the Olympics...
Harvard has three representatives on the Olympic Team--Bourbeau, MacDonald and 1984-'85 Captain Scott Fusco, who played professional hockey in Switzerland last year. Fusco is one of two '88 Olympians (the other is Cory Millen) who played in the '84 games, and he is enjoying his second time around more than the first. Besides, he says, the team is better...
M.I.T.'s Tonegawa might never have received his Nobel Prize if it were not for U.S. immigration laws. After his visa expired in 1971, Tonegawa, who had recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of California at San Diego, was forced to leave the U.S. He ended up at Switzerland's Basel Institute for Immunology, where he managed to solve a puzzle that had baffled biologists for a century...