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Aurigeno, Switzerland...
...good enough for the Mirror's front page. Carraro hustles hard for his art and the $25,000 or so a year it brings him. During one brief period this winter he broke off the chase for Koo at the Queen's retreat at Sandringham and flew to Switzerland, where Koo was rumored to be skiing. Then it was back to London, and off on a fast rumble to Sandringham again, in the sort of automotive projectile that is essential for royal-chasing, a Golf GTI that Carraro says will go more than 100 m.p.h. Diana was supposed...
...smudge paid expenses and kept Carraro in motion. After a day at home he flew back to Switzerland to stalk Charles and Diana on their ski trip. But for Carraro and several dozen other English Continental photographers, the assignment paid off only in vast Alps of aggro (British slang for aggravation). The Princess of Wales by now had reached her choking point. She refused to play her role as royal photo model. After a week of confusion and rancor, the London tabs had little to show for their efforts except a few murmurs from Prince Charles ("Please darling, please darling...
...fully aware of the importance of this equipment. We did not know Favag, so we reported the order to U.S. Customs, to the Commerce Department and to the FBI." After months of investigation by U.S. agencies, the sale was approved by the Commerce Department; the Micraligns were snipped to Switzerland in August...
...Micraligns were definitely not installed in Eler's Geneva offices. The company has no offices. Like hundreds of firms taking advantage of Switzerland's secretive banking and tax laws, Eler was represented in Geneva by a local lawyer, who has since cut her ties with the company. Eler is, in fact, run from Paris by Joe Lousky, a businessman specializing in import-export arrangements. Says Lousky of the Micralign deal: "This is a highly complicated affair. I have absolutely no way of knowing where those machines are right now." TIME has learned that the Micraligns were shipped...