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Meili was a 28-year-old night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich when, in January 1997, he happened upon the ledgers next to the shredding machine. His disclosure that Switzerland's largest bank was destroying Nazi-era records, even as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts, turned the taciturn Protestant into an international celebrity--and a local pariah. The Zurich district attorney pressed charges against him--later dropped--for violating bank-secrecy laws. He was fired from his job and inundated with death threats and anti-Semitic hate mail...
...video camera, Italian microanalyst Giovanni Riggi cut a 1/2-in. by 3-in. strip of linen from the shroud, well away from its central image and any charred or patched areas. He divided the strip into three postage stamp-size samples and distributed them to representatives of laboratories in Zurich, Oxford and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Each then performed at least three radiocarbon measurements on its sample...
...worries about her privacy [CLINTON'S CRISIS, March 2]. She did not seem to care much about the privacy of others. About privacy in general: When will Americans learn and accept that each person--even the President of the U.S.--has a right to privacy? ROSEMARIE SILVIA VOLKLE Zurich...
Barring another, more serious meltdown, analysts consider it unlikely that the tumult in Asia will trigger a major market correction in the U.S. But that doesn't mean it won't have a lasting impact. David Hale of Zurich Kemper Investments predicts a surge of up to 25% in Asian imports made cheap by devaluation and a contraction in U.S. exports of as much as 15%. The result could be that the U.S. trade deficit, now $191 billion, would balloon to as much $300 billion next year and fan a protectionist outcry...
...Newspaper's report draws together three threads of scholarship to document the fakes: the latest edition of The New Complete Works of Van Gogh; the work of German art historian Roland Dorn and Zurich based dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt; and a detailed study of Van Gogh's drawings by Dutch scholar Liesbeth Heenk...