1.   It was their boldest financial maneuver to gain moral high ground in the dispute over wartime dealings with Nazi Germany.

2.   Any government contribution, Cotti stressed, would depend on preliminary findings of in depth investigations into Swiss banks wartime dealings, expected this summer.

3.   As part of the investigations into wartime financial dealings with the Nazis, the government last year ordered banks not to destroy archive material.

4.   British Foreign Minister Malcolm Rifkind on Wednesday welcomed a move by the Swiss government to order an investigation into Swiss wartime dealings with the Nazis.

5.   British Foreign Minister Malcolm Rifkind Wednesday welcomed a move by the Swiss government to order a full investigation into questions over Swiss wartime dealings with the Nazis.

6.   Liberian warlord Charles Taylor financed his war, and his successful presidential campaign, with proceeds from wartime dealings in diamonds, timber, and rubber.

7.   Switzerland has been under mounting pressure for more than two years for a full accounting of its wartime dealings with the Nazis.

8.   Swiss embarrassed over wartime dealings.