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After the bloody Ankara airport assault, ASALA threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S., France, Britain, Canada, Switzerland and Sweden if Armenian prisoners were not released within seven days. Other extremists would like to see Turkish lands formerly inhabited by Armenians joined to the Soviet Armenian Republic. Such unrealistic demands, made in the name of a lost cause, seem likely to lead to nothing but more violence and vengeance in the future...
...trotted into position its biggest guns. Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, briefed Republicans in the House. Secretary of State George Shultz and National Security Adviser William Clark lobbied individual Congressmen, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger trekked to the Hill to buttonhole members. From Switzerland, retired General Ed Rowny, chief U.S. negotiator at the recently begun Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva, telephoned key Congressmen. And the President chipped in. In an address to the Knights of Columbus in Hartford, Conn., Reagan attacked an immediate freeze; on his return to Washington, he placed last...
...Match building and retains its façades, cost about $45 million to furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham, a well-loved 77-year-old structure that is being totally rebuilt. Its presidential suite will...
...unprecedented step of appointing three international financial experts to examine the dealings between the Vatican Bank and the Banco Ambrosiano. They were Joseph Brennan, 71, chairman of the executive committee of New York City's Emigrant Savings Bank; Phillippe de Week, former president of the Union Bank of Switzerland; and Carlo Cerutti, vice president of the Italian national telecommunications holding company. The appointment of the committee is the Vatican equivalent of naming a special prosecutor in the case, and it marked the first time that the Roman Catholic Church had ever opened up the books of the Holy...
...known in Rome as "God's banker" because of his close ties to the Vatican Bank. But in financial circles, his reputation was a little less heavenly. A year ago, he was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $11.7 million for exporting $26.4 million to Switzerland in violation of Italian currency laws; he appealed the conviction. Moreover, his name had been connected with the P2 Lodge, a clandestine Masonic group that was suspected of plotting to undermine the Italian government...