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Helena Kalin Zurich...
Agca's contention that the Bulgarians conspired with him remains unproven. But intriguing details keep emerging that support Agca's account of his activities before the shooting. In a meeting on March 3, 1981, at the Hotel Rŭtli in Zurich, Musa Serdar Çelebi, a right-wing Turkish activist with rinks to Çelenk and Bulgaria, also offered Agca $1.5 million to kill the Pope. Çelebi reportedly was acting as middleman for Çelenk, and may have been either simply renewing his fellow Turk's offer or actually paying Agca the money. Some time...
...Some of Zurich's legendary financial gnomes apparently like to roam before they go home. At day's end they head for the nightclub and red-light district of Niederdorf-Bellevue, where the figures are more comely than those they have been wrestling with at the office. While prostitution is not illegal in Zurich, strictures on streetwalking are tight. It is banned in residential areas and near schools, hospitals and churches. In Niederdorf-Bellevue, the city's 700 registered prostitutes are free to solicit on the street only from...
That custom may soon be amended if the ladies in question have their way. A committee of 40 of the solicitors has asked Zurich's city council for a longer workday. The committee would like the streetwalking period to begin earlier, at 5 p.m., allowing the women three hours of voluntary overtime in which to solicit their "guests" on the street. Included in the committee's 24-page petition is a survey conducted under what must have been unusual circumstances. Polling 100 of their clients, the scarlet ladies discovered that after a day of trading pounds, francs...
...time would allow them to quit work earlier and avoid the danger of late-night muggings. Earlier hours would also improve their domestic lives. Most are mothers and they would have more time to spend with their children. Profits would also improve. The going rate for a trick in Zurich is $50, a price that has not kept pace with inflation. Says Josephine in exasperation: "I would like to know another profession that has worked for the same wages for 14 years." The city council has agreed to consider the prostitutes' petition. If it is denied, promises Josephine...