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Dodging Amsterdam's closely watched Schiphol Airport, couriers detour to Zurich, Frankfurt, Rome and other cities and then carry the dope to Holland overland. Penny-wise smugglers have even used Aeroflot's discount flights across Asia, though Soviet police crackdowns in Moscow are making that route more dangerous. Tactics change daily. "You know if we see a Chinese get off a flight from Bangkok, we're going to nail him," says one Paris-based U.S. narc. To avoid that, the triads are recruiting middle-class Caucasians as "mules" for $1,000 a trip plus plane fare...
...Marcia S. Lowrie Zurich...
...billions of pounds of paper threaten to crush an entire civilization! See actual money collapse, then rise from its ashes! See an entire nation tremble before the Gnomes of Zurich! See panic nearly break out! Yes, the British government was back again last week with still another episode of the Saga of the Plunging Pound, and for theatrics alone it was one of the best performances ever. At one point in the drama, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey headed for the Orient on other business, then changed his mind and rushed back from the airport to his desk. Prime...
Died. Leopold Ruzicka, 89, Swiss chemist whose research into the makeup of hydrocarbons won him the 1939 Nobel Prize; in Zurich. Ruzicka was the first to synthesize the male hormone, testosterone, and he identified the various chemical compounds that produce the distinctive flavor of the raspberry. The artificially fruit-flavored foods that abound today are a result of his findings...
...home, he is also convinced, however, that it can no longer be upheld in either Rhodesia or Namibia. By agreeing to a transition to majority rule in those territories, he believes South Africa can gain enough time for itself to build lasting ties with its black neighbors. At Zurich two weeks ago, Vorster hinted to Kissinger that he was prepared to step up the pressure on Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Accordingly, Vorster last week treated Smith to a Dutch uncle talk that one diplomat described as "tough to the point of brutality." Evidently, he warned Smith that Pretoria...