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Secrecy in Switzerland is a big business, encased in laws that carry stiff penalties for violations like breaking the shroud of anonymity around numbered bank accounts. Sometimes, though, Swiss secrecy gets in the way of enforcement of other countries' laws. In one current case, the aftermath has been both bizarre and tragic; it includes the jailing of a former executive of a giant drug company, the suicide of his wife and a threat to have two high officials of the European Economic Community (Common Market) arrested if they set foot in Switzerland...
Grueling Plunge. Despite the vehemence of Ford's statement, the Administration faces a stiff fight to get the Cambodian aid measure passed. Still, the President did pick up some support from seven Representatives and a Senator who returned last week from a whirlwind three-day fact-finding tour of Indochina. Several of the legislators looked more favorably on Ford's request than they had before the trip...
Cancellation Threat. Shipowners are nervously wondering what to do about the 373 uncompleted but already surplus supertankers they have on order at yards in Sweden, Japan, West Germany and Britain. Large-scale cancellations have been forestalled so far by stiff penalty clauses. But Shozo Doi, vice president of Japan's Sumitomo Shipbuilding Co., gloomily predicts that "about 50% of the tankers on order will become subject to cancellation talks or negotiations to convert to other types...
...again after six years, two mistrials, and an overthrown verdict. Those were only three examples of an entire racial consciousness of dragnet arrests, trumped-up charges, manufactured or flimsy evidence, dubious identifications, legal technicalities, forced plea bargains, lack of decent or concerned counsel, delayed trials, vengeful prosecutions, excessive bail, stiff sentencing, and violating of civil rights and liberties. Amnesty was the only demand that really mattered...
...Anderson won eight of 11 bouts to had the open team to a fifth place finish in the 12-team tournament, and Mac Simmons and John Hirschfield both did well, winning five of 11 apiece against exceptionally stiff competition...