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Awad's case began on Aug. 30, 1982, when he walked into the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland. He claimed he was a prosperous Baghdad-based businessman whom Rashid had coerced, by blackmailing Awad's business, to blow up Geneva's Noga Hilton. The story sounded farfetched, but when Swiss police went to the Noga Hilton, they found a bomb-rigged suitcase in Awad's room. As Awad volunteered more detail about Rashid's modus operandi, U.S. officials began to detect a link between the bomb in Awad's suitcase and the one that had blown a hole...
Hughes Hallett, who is widely respected for her pedagogical skill and will soon be lecturing in Switzerland, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates, said she supports the idea of such an integrated course but is disheartened that she was not notified when it was first proposed...
Opting not to wait for Harvard's decision on whether to tenure him, a popular chemistry professor has decided to leave the University for an appointment in Switzerland...
More sophisticated buyers cultivate contacts with a small community of international brokers, mostly Germans and Americans, who work out of Switzerland. These brokers have sanitized their operations so thoroughly that they never actually meet the seller. According to participants in the trade, couriers deliver the seller's metals and the buyer's cash to one of the Swiss banks specializing in the metals trade. There the metals are tested by an independent laboratory for atomic count and purity. If the metals are certified, the bankers hand them over to the buyer and deposit the cash in the seller's numbered...
Hayek, 66, was born in Beirut of a Lebanese mother and an American father. The family moved to Switzerland when he was seven. With a degree in mathematics and $3,400 in borrowed money, Hayek started a one-man consulting firm in 1957 that developed a reputation for finding waste and mismanagement in everything from the Swiss army to the state radio. Today Hayek Engineering is a $1 billion business whose clients range from U.S. Steel and Dow Chemical to Krupp, Siemens and the Chinese government...