Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Premier Giulio Andreotti made a deliberate effort to show that the government was operating as usual. He conducted meetings on the economy and distributed a promised economic policy report. This week he will receive Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis in Rome, then travel to a Common Market summit meeting in Copenhagen. Said a Cabinet official: "The greatest danger of the kidnaping is that the normal activity of the government might be diverted. To forget the economy would be to play into the hands of the terrorists...
...compelling slogan, Mogens Glistrup, Denmark's premier tax-dodge artist and maverick politician, not only made himself a millionaire but also built the country's second largest party, which now holds 26 of the 179 seats in parliament. Last week, after a 3½-year trial, a Copenhagen court found him guilty on a host of charges involving fraud and tax evasion and directed him to pay $880,000 in fines and back taxes. Glistrup's chief crime: swindling the state out of more than $1 million by exploiting tax loopholes in a scheme so labyrinthine that...
...Army Corps of Engineers is restoring the beach. There is talk of building a model of Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens on Watson Island, which is connected to the Beach and the mainland by one of four causeways. Another proposal is to renew South Beach, at a cost of $500 million. The area now attracts winos and beach bums to its sleazy hotels and littered alleys. Despite everything, Miami Beach still has the assets of pleasant climate and huge convention facilities, while businessmen have appealed for $100 million in Government guarantees and outright loans to refurbish and expand...
...spent most of the '50s working as a research fellow in various labs, starting at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1951, and working at different times in Copenhagen, Denmark and Cambridge, England. After 1958 Tosteson quickly worked his way up through the ranks of academic medicine, becoming a professor and chairman of the departments of physiology and pharmacology at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1961. While at Duke he became involved in national research groups and physicians' organizations, and served as chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges...
...name to Aerbel and now lives in Herzliya, was a member of an Israeli "hit team" that in 1973 killed an Arab waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, in the mistaken belief that he was a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the Munich massacre of eleven Olympic athletes. A native of Copenhagen who maintained Danish and Israeli citizenship, Ert tried to win his release by telling his flabbergasted Norwegian interrogators that he was a Mossad agent. To prove it, he mentioned that he "owned the ship" that had secretly carried uranium for Israel. (Ert has since denied saying this.) Ert also gave...