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...ready, and the boycott of the recent elections by Israeli Arabs reinforced the message that, from the Palestinian perspective, nothing Israel does will affect their position. By denying any significant difference between Sharon and Barak, as Arafat seemed to do in his rancorous election-eve speech in Davos, Switzerland, the Palestinians are guaranteeing that the current situation of violence and gridlock will continue, at least for the forseeable future...
...Years of lab work on a viable genetically modified (GM) rice variety are still needed, but scientists in Asia will undoubtedly find their rice subjected to the same kind of hostile suspicion and scrutiny that has already led to curbs on the commercialization of these crops in Britain, Germany, Switzerland and Brazil...
Dozoretz's name surfaced at the hearing in a Jan. 10 e-mail from a Marc Rich confidant in Switzerland to Jack Quinn, the former White House counsel who lobbied Clinton on the pardon. The message reports on a conversation with Denise Rich, who was visiting Aspen with Dozoretz, identified as "B" in the e-mail. "Her friend B... got a call from Potus who said he was impressed by [Quinn's] last letter and that he wants to do it and is doing all possible to turn around" the White House counsels, it said. Denise Rich, it went...
Until their pardon last week, Marc Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, faced a truly impressive array of charges. The rogue commodity traders were indicted in 1983 on 51 counts of tax evasion, racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and trading with the enemy. Had they not fled to Switzerland, each might have been sentenced to years in prison. The principal allegation against them concerned a scheme from 1980 and 1981, in which their U.S. company made nearly $100 million by selling oil at several times the government-controlled price then in effect. The indictment claimed that Rich's firm...
...Rich's case was so strong, why did he flee to Switzerland and remain there for 17 years? He claimed that a fair trial in the U.S. was impossible. Rather than go home to face a jury, he spent millions trying to settle his case through shadowy negotiations with U.S. authorities. The pardon will allow Rich and Green to go to the U.S. without facing the threat of immediate arrest. Experts say a civil case against them is highly unlikely...