Word: zurich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country started with little things. A gold ring. A novel. A chair. Before long, a chain reaction of seemingly disconnected events, an assortment of powerful personalities and a series of Swiss blunders culminated in a moral crusade to track down stolen wealth hidden away inside the vaults of Zurich and restore it to the victims of the Holocaust. The proximate cause was money, but the soul-searing intent of the men and women who set the hunt in motion was to peel back the veil time had cast over the evils of Nazism and expose the truth...
...during the war, announced Monday that it will contribute "generously" to the fund. The firm's chairman called it an important gesture to remove tensions between Switzerland and the US. "It's more than likely that other companies will follow suit soon," Mark van Huisseling, business editor with a Zurich weekly, told TIME Daily. "Several other Swiss businesses producing war materiel operated in the region along the German border...
...accounts and finally used a hidden camera to videotape him as he photographed documents under his desk. On Nov. 16, the day before his 46th birthday, Nicholson was at Dulles International Airport in Washington, planning to board a flight for New York and from there a connection to Zurich. Waiting on the tarmac, disguised as ground crew, were two FBI agents, members of the bureau's supersecretive counterintelligence squad. As Nicholson headed for the open door of his plane, they blocked his path and told him he was under arrest. At that moment, three more squad members slid out from...
...longer vague but had taken on physical form--piles of papers littering brokers' desks, each representing a hastily scribbled order to sell stock; rows of numbers flashing on computer screens, bringing news of alarming price breaks in all the early-opening markets: Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Zurich...Then trading began in New York, and the unimaginable happened...
...after five decades and under immense international pressure, the Swiss stone wall is beginning to crack. Last week in Zurich, Edgar Bronfman Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress, based in New York City, produced a list--secret until recently--of long-ago account holders, and turned it over to a committee set up jointly last May by the Swiss Bankers Association and a coalition of Jewish organizations. The document contains the names, home cities and deposits--totaling $13.5 million--of some 500 account holders as recorded by Swiss Bank Corp.'s New York City office on June...