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...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...
...civil (very civil) war between one side of a man's soul and the other -- are in no way affected by the coming down of the Berlin Wall. Besides, in the very first paragraph of the new book, we see the Gulf War being followed in a posh Zurich hotel -- the very definition of a safe "neutral" zone -- and are reminded that espionage nature abhors a vacuum: if the cold war is over, a hot one must be cooked up in its place...
Last time anyone checked, he was playing ball in Switzerland. (Stop that! The Geneva-Zurich rivalry can get pretty intense...