Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking arrangements with Yamani were finalized this past week in Geneva when William Hogan, K-School professor of Political Economy, travelled to Switzerland on his way to Tokyo, especially to meet with the Saudi minister...
...year since Mills finished researching and writing his book. The rise of new governments committed to combatting drug traffickers -- in Bolivia particularly -- has bolstered U.S. efforts. Reagan Administration officials point out that the U.S. has sponsored crop-eradication programs in 14 countries, reached a banking agreement with Switzerland that facilitates the monitoring of suspicious accounts, and negotiated an extradition treaty for use against drug traffickers in Colombia. Pakistan's opium crop, although large, has been reduced from 600 tons a year in 1981. The reduction may not seem big, but in the glacial world of foreign policy, things tend...
Offering practical advice to several audiencemembers who said they still intended to travel toEurope, panelists cited Tel Aviv and Heathrow asthe safest airports and Athens and Frankfurt asthe least safe. They said Switzerland and theNetherlands were among the safest countries tovisit while Spain is to be avoided
...Behind every great fortune there is a crime," wrote Honore de Balzac, and Swiss bankers seem to be concluding that the French novelist was right. Less than one month after freezing the bank accounts of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Switzerland last week took similar action against Haiti's deposed dictator, Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier...
...Jersey and $50 million in Texas real estate. The Central Bank of the Philippines has sued to recover the crates of gold and $1.5 million in freshly minted pesos that Marcos took with him to Hawaii in February. In what is potentially the most lucrative development of all, Switzerland three weeks ago took the unprecedented step of putting a temporary freeze on bank accounts in which some Philippine officials believe Marcos stashed as much as $3 billion...