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...than at any time since Prohibition took effect in 1920. In restaurants, at country clubs and wedding receptions, and even on the screen, it is increasingly difficult to find anyone with a stiff drink in his hand. Sighs Restaurateur Duke Zeibert, who recently began carrying Moussy nonalcoholic beer from Switzerland at his famed Washington watering hole: "I'm from the old school of Scotch and soda and bourbon and water, but you just don't hear that much anymore. There's been a big turnaround...
...fall Jurg Froelich, who teaches in Switzerland, turned down the joint math-physics tenure offer, citing a desire to remain in his homeland...
...convicted on charges of molesting two 15- year-old boys. The elder Goetz appealed the verdict and later pleaded guilty on a reduced charge of disorderly conduct. To cushion Bernhard and his sister Bernice from the trauma, he sent them to a boarding school in a cathedral town in Switzerland, where Goetz spent his high school years...
Questions were also raised about the involvement in the E.S.M. failure of Marvin Warner, Home State's owner and a U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland during Jimmy Carter's presidency. Warner, a major investor in the Florida firm and an owner of the Birmingham Stallions of the U.S. Football League, liquidated his own holdings in E.S.M. in January. Yet he insists, "I am one of the biggest victims." Last week Warner resigned from his powerful position as chairman of the Ohio Building Authority in the wake of the Home State closing...
...allegedly paid to the conspirators on behalf of the government of Bulgaria a week in advance of the abortive assassination attempt. Says Giuseppe Consolo, an attorney for Bulgarian Sergei Antonov, one of the accused conspirators: "It seems very strange that Oral Celik is engaged in small-scale smuggling in Switzerland when he is supposed to have been hired by the Bulgarians to kill the Pope and has 3 million deutsche marks in his pocket." Some involved with the case believe that the Swiss disclosure of Celik's drug dealings contradicts the theory that Celik is living in a comfortable, secure...