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...Chief Purser Nobuhisa Miyashita, 37, busy serving champagne to passengers, was wounded. As the jet streaked south and east over The Netherlands, West Germany, Switzerland and Italy, the high-pitched, Arabic-accented voice of El Kassar (a pseudonym) came on the air again and again, sometimes describing the terrorists as belonging to the Japanese Red Army, sometimes as Palestinian commandos. (In Beirut, spokesmen for the Palestinian guerrilla organization Al-Fatah denied that its members were involved...
...Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain living costs threaten to soar as high as 12% or even 15% this year. Switzerland is bracing for 8.4% inflation this year, and West Germany will be happy to get away with 8%. To help stem a flood of inflation-feeding foreign currency into Germany, the government last week revalued the Deutsche Mark upward by 5½% against other Common Market monies, jeopardizing the prospects for European monetary union...
Though the price rises have squeezed people living on pensions or subsisting in marginal jobs, European incomes generally are still rising faster than living costs. Consequently, several European governments are talking a stern fight against inflation, but their actions have usually shown more caution than vigor. In Switzerland, for example, a so-called price czar empowered to order rollbacks has acted just once since his appointment in January...
...probably would not have written the novel had I not been in jail," says Erdman. In 1970, he and other officials of the United California Bank in Basel, Switzerland, found themselves in one of the city's 17th century dungeons. The bank had collapsed after losing more than $30 million speculating in cocoa futures, and the books had been doctored to hide the losses...
There is no habeas corpus law in Switzerland. Erdman was held for ten months without being charged with any crime before he was able to raise a bail set at nearly 1,000,000 Swiss francs. The Swiss have also attached his property and bank accounts. After he was sent to jail, he had to fall back on some formidable intellectual assets. In addition to having a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel, he has studied philosophy with Karl Jaspers and is a scholar of ancient Greek...