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...fierceness of the race has forced smaller companies to look for a safe niche or special identity. DHL Worldwide concentrates on international business, boasting such feats as next-day delivery from Tokyo to Zurich. The California-based company has built a network of 600 offices that serve 146 countries. Emery, which puts a special emphasis on heavyweight cargo, has carted everything from pianos to a small submarine...
Koecher was arrested with his wife Hana, 40, who is also a Czech turned American, four hours before the couple were to board a flight bound for Zurich. Although federal prosecutors say that Hana worked between 1974 and 1983 as a transatlantic courier for Czechoslovak intelligence, she was taken into custody last week only as a witness to her husband's alleged crimes. She was not charged, a Justice Department official suggested, because the FBI bungled her arrest. If convicted, Karl Koecher could be sentenced to life in prison...
...counterterrorist operation began when Swiss police stopped Hussein Hanih Atat, 21, a Lebanese national, at Zurich International Airport as he was making a connection from Beirut to Rome. Officials found several explosive arming devices in his suitcase. Atat was also carrying 5 Ibs. of highly volatile plastic material in a cloth belt under his shirt. An accomplice escaped detection and took a taxi to Zurich's railway station, where police later found a suitcase containing another 5 Ibs. of explosives. The accomplice is thought to have made his way to Rome...
That was the assessment of TIME's European Board of Economists, which held its twice-yearly meeting last week in the Italian resort town of Cernobbio, outside Milan. Said Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and Executive Vice President of Credit Suisse: "Europe's substantial pickup seems to believe recent theories about the inevitable stagnation of the old Continent in contrast with the youthful vigor of the U.S. and Japan. We still seem to possess talents for aggressiveness and innovation in world markets...
...ruled for decades in defiance of the United Nations. In Bonn and London, Botha agreed to remove his troops from the area on condition that five West European nations take over at their own expense and, at the same time, that Cuba withdraw its forces from neighboring Angola. In Zurich, Botha guaranteed "safe passage" for Sam Nujoma, head of the nationalist South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), to discuss independence in the Namibian capital of Windhoek...