Word: switzerland
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...Suarez's son, Roberto Jr., also wanted in connection with the sting, was arrested in Switzerland for carrying a false passport. He was subsequently extradited to Miami--Suarez maintains that he was kidnaped--to stand trial for cocaine trafficking. In response, the elder Suarez published an open letter to President Reagan in the La Paz daily El Diario, offering to turn himself in on two conditions: his son be released and the U.S. pay off Bolivia's entire foreign debt. The issue became academic when a Miami federal jury acquitted Roberto...
...Boston institution's misstep came to light when the bank pleaded guilty to a felony charge--failing to report huge cash shipments to nine foreign banks, primarily three in Switzerland. The Internal Revenue Service requires U.S. banks to file a report any time they make a cash transaction of $10,000 with an individual, company or foreign institution. Federal prosecutors say that during the past four years, First National received $529 million, mainly in small bills (weight: at least 20 tons), and sent out $690 million in bills generally of $100 or more...
Many dissenting U.S. women Catholics, however, feel the Pope is out of touch. Joan Leonard, who teaches theology at Emory University in Atlanta, recalls meeting John Paul at a philosophy congress in Switzerland. "We were wearing slacks, and he was having difficulty with that, I could tell," she says. "He tried to ask us about it in a very light, offhand way, saying something like, 'Do all sisters in the United States wear slacks?' I told him that we sometimes did, at least when it was appropriate, on campuses. He didn't seem pleased by my answer. I remember that...
...recent poll that asked the French where they would prefer to live in the year 2000, older respondents put the U.S. second, after Switzerland, and those under 22 listed the U.S. first. Indeed, where some French youths once looked romantically toward Peking or Havana, they now dream of the jobs and joys of California...
Rufus E. Jones '87 thinks a good hockey game can be as useful to U.S. Soviet relations as high level arms talks in chilly Switzerland...