Word: zurich
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DIED. MEHDI BAZARGAN, 87, former Prime Minister of Iran; in Zurich. Originally an engineering professor, the soft-spoken Bazargan was imprisoned for his human-rights activism during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, making Bazargan a natural choice for Prime Minister of the provisional government formed after the Shah fled in 1979. But Bazargan's relationship with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a bitter power struggle, culminating in his resignation just nine months later...
...ends with a single book. Inevitably, the photographs that come from it are at the center of "Robert Frank: Moving Out," a retrospective of his work that opened last week at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and that over the next 18 months will move to Yokohama, Zurich, Amsterdam, New York City and Los Angeles. But with this show it is possible to see the pictures as part of the bumpy course of Frank's larger career. It's a trip as harrowing in its way, as moving and mysterious, as any of the ones he made across...
...arms and fuel has created a lucrative black market that now lines the pockets of military and government officials on both sides of the Haitian/Dominican border. Under the expanded embargo, there will simply be more goods to smuggle in and more money to replace that which was frozen in Zurich...
Others are more sanguine. General Motors president Jack Smith, who had lunch with Hayek in Biel in December, calls the Swatchmobile "interesting" and says of Hayek: "He's for real." Roland Leutenegger, an analyst at the Zurich-based Bank Julius Maer, argues that Mercedes' automaking know-how and Hayek's marketing genius will make a winning combination. "The right partners have found each other," he says. For Hayek, predictably, the future of the Swatchmobile is assured. "I'm not a dreamer. I've proved all my life that I'm a down-to-earth guy. We can make this...
...believed an ex-patient of Jung's named Sabina Spielrein had also been Jung's mistress; Jung in turn surmised that Freud had become involved with his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays. Both antagonists in this standoff held bombshells that could blow each other's reputation from Vienna to Zurich and back; both backed off, divided up the spoils of their joint investigations and retreated into opposing tents of theory...