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...face long prison terms if found guilty on all counts. But the two may first have to be extradited in order to stand trial. Rich and Green fled New York City about three months ago and are believed to be living near the Alpine town of Zug, Switzerland, the headquarters of their commodities firm, Marc Rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marc Rich's Road to Riches | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...trading department. He made a killing during the 1973 Arab oil embargo, but the company declined to pay the seven-figure commission he demanded and he left in a huff. With partner Pincus ("Pinky") Green, a fellow Wunderkind trader from Philbro, he established his own firm with headquarters in Zug, an Alpine town 14 miles south of the financial center of Zurich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elusive Target | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...they are shying away. The firm has changed its name in the U.S. to Clarendon Ltd. and has taken down the Marc Rich signs around its Fifth Avenue offices. Rich himself has moved out of his Park Avenue apartment, and is believed to be working out of the Zug offices. Two weeks ago, Clarendon sent out notices telling its customers it would conduct business as usual during the freeze, but since then Judge Sand has prohibited those reassurances on pain of further contempt citations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elusive Target | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

Caveman has been assembled with the :are that would normally be lavished on a Big Mac during the lunchtime rush. The dialogue (in a pre-Tarzan patois) rarely gets more sophisticated than "Aieee! Kuda! Ma pooka ma bobo aloonda zug-zug fech macha!"* But Ringo is splendid leading his tribe in man's first jam session, and the rest of the cast is fully up to the demands of the script. Kudos to Richard Moll as an Abominable Snowman who shambles around like Groucho Marx in sopping-wet fake fur, and to an animated Tyrannosaurus rex who deserves next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Alley-Oof! | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...George Zug, curator of amphibians and reptiles at Washington's Smithsonian Institution, speculated that there might even be a population of several such creatures in Loch Ness, which is 24 miles long, and 700 feet deep over much of its length. But scientists from the British Museum (Natural History) found the pictures too fuzzy for accurate interpretation. Others questioned the controls under which they were made and took Nature to task for printing the article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nessie's Return | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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