Word: switzerland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Britain, festivities scheduled by the 800-member Sherlock Holmes Society include a re-enactment of the famous duel between Holmes and his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, at the top of Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls. Holmes enthusiasts in Australia and Japan will hold dinners and writing forums. In the U.S., plans include a horse race honoring Silver Blaze, the title . character in a popular Holmes mystery, and a dinner featuring all the foods mentioned in A Study in Scarlet...
...sense, he was. The CIA's fingerprints have been found all over Iranscam. U.S. arms reached Iran in CIA-chartered cargo planes. Part of the payments for the weapons went into a CIA account in Switzerland. The CIA first directed the covert arming of the contras in Nicaragua; when this was outlawed by Congress in June 1984, the agency monitored the secret resupply of munitions to Ronald Reagan's favorite "freedom fighters...
...seems to have disappeared. Furmark went to his old friend Casey to ask what happened; Casey insisted to him that Lake Resources was not a CIA account. It appears, in fact, to be the account of a company that was incorporated in Panama (though all its directors live in Switzerland) in May 1985 and officially liquidated on Nov. 10 this year. Suzanne Hesti, listed as president, refuses to say what kind of business the company conducted...
...determined the markup on the arms, and who set up the Swiss contra ! account? The Israelis contend they neither set the price for the weapons nor managed the accounts. According to Israeli sources, an Iranian straw company in Switzerland deposited its payment for the arms in an escrow account just before the shipment was made. After the delivery, the Iranians reimbursed the Israelis through a Swiss bank for the book value of the cargo, plus generous insurance and freight charges. The Israelis, in turn, used part of these funds to pay the U.S., depositing its payment into a Swiss account...
...Defense Minister and a small group of army officers known as the Reform the Armed Forces Movement. The group was formed in March 1985 to counter the corruption within the military that had flourished under Marcos, who last week learned that his plans to move from Hawaii to Switzerland had been blocked by the Swiss government. Senior military sources disclosed that armed forces commanders, including Ramos, had given the President a letter proposing that she delegate all authority concerning national security to the Defense Minister and asking for her answer by Jan. 6. In addition, the commanders, whose political goals...