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...York City resident Rudolphine Schlinger says she too has proof her husband William had Swiss bank accounts. The wealthy furrier had made deposits before and during the war from his home in Versoix, Switzerland. But he died in 1985 without having retrieved the funds. Then a December 1996 article in the newspaper Jewish Week listed his account at Swiss Bank Corp. At a hearing last week in New York City attended by a representative from the bank, the 89-year-old widow appealed directly for restitution. "To you, sir, I ask, rather I demand, that you tell me what happened...
...financial rewards that contemporary society ungrudgingly offers players of sports, games and music in comparison with the recompense given workers in sustaining occupations like farming, construction, teaching and transportation. In making play incredibly more profitable than work, hasn't society got its values upside down? Oduro Asante Versoix, Switzerland Via E-mail...
...filled with the life I love," wrote the Aga Khan in his autobiography three years ago, "that time for me has fled on too swift a wing." Last week swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. In a quiet lakeside villa at Versoix, Switzerland, his huge bulk wasted to a mere 132 Ibs., His Highness Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III and spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Moslems throughout the East, the Middle East and Africa, died...
Died. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, the Aga Khan III, 79, leader of some 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect; of a heart attack; at his villa in Versoix, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...RADUNZ Versoix, Switzerland Sir: . . . Adlai Stevenson...