Word: zeitung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much the Trujillos squeezed out of the Dominican Republic in 31 years of misrule will probably never be known. But a respected, independent Swiss newspaper, Basel's National-Zeitung, has made an informed-and startling-estimate. It comes to $800 million, half in cash, half in stocks and bonds, the bulk of it said to be salted away in a neat little empire of numbered Swiss bank accounts and disguised European holding companies. The sum is about equal to one year's gross national product in the Dominican Republic...
Silent Partners. The National-Zeitung got its story from a former Trujillo official, who, having helped the Trujillos get the money out. was mad at not being cut in. The paper sat on the story for three weeks while it checked out the documents he produced to back up his story. Then the National-Zeitung published its fascinating account of how the Trujillos got their money out of the country in the months following the dictator's death...
...unnerving slide was an outburst of resentful complaints at Wall Street's ability to panic stockholders everywhere. Protested Belgium's leading financial paper, L'Echo de la Bourse: "Nothing in our industrial situation justified an adjustment of such importance." Zurich's Neue Zürcher Zeitung wished that Swiss stock markets "would show some sense of emancipation" from Wall Street. But with the international financial community becoming ever more intertwined, one man's aches are surely going to continue to be another's pains...
...high-level officials. All have at their fingertips the greatest daily outpouring of source material on earth-U.S. newspapers-and few hesitate to borrow heavily, with or without attribution. "If there is a real problem," says erudite Werner Imhoof of Switzerland's Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "it's that you are overwhelmed by news...
...point, small (5 ft. 4 in.), shapely Coloratura Carroll appeared in some of the wispiest costumes ever seen on a Hannover stage. Her performance was consistently convincing, and her singing-even in the treacherous passages of rhythmically charged speech that stud the opera-was superb. Wrote the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung: "She came, sang, acted and conquered...