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...slightly. To rein in rising prices, governments have resorted to traditional tactics, in particular sharply slowing the growth of their money supplies. The result is, however, an international war of high interest rates that threatens to deepen and prolong the economic malaise. Says Hans Mast, executive vice president of Switzerland's Credit Suisse: "There is no mistaking that the world is moving into perhaps its most difficult phase since World War II, and governments cannot do very much about it. After three decades of Keynesianism, old instruments of policy do not work any more...
...price of crude. A sometime Los Angeles cop and his wife are killed when it looks as if they are about to go public with the secret. The search for their killers-and the precious equations they were killed for-leads Detective George C. Scott to Germany and Switzerland and to involvement not only with remnants of the Third Reich but with modern terrorists as well, among them Marthe Keller, who is assigned to seduce and then betray Scott...
Behram D. Irani Zumikon, Switzerland...
...vote demonstrated that the years of repressive rule had not dulled democratic impulses in a country that was once known as "the Switzerland of South America." The armed forces had seized power in stages during the early '70s after emerging as a law-and-order counterforce to the Tupamaros, the violent young leftist radicals, similar to Italy's Red Brigades, who scourged the country with guerrilla terror. The military's apparent mistake in fashioning the rejected constitution was the sweeping power it gave itself. Under the vague pretext of national security, it was to have a part...
...allegations involve an elaborate plot to falsify the tax categories of petroleum products. One of the alleged masterminds was the multimillionaire oil company owner Bruno Musselli, 55, who has reportedly fled to Switzerland. Petroleum taxes in Italy are graduated; the tax on gasoline, for instance, is 30 times higher than that on heating oil. By forging the identifying document of a shipment -or, in some cases, switching the oil-refiners and distributors could pocket the illegal tax benefits. Then, said investigators, they would bribe Guardia officers, politicians, inspectors and truckers to keep quiet...