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There was only a single report filed with an overseas dateline on all three newscasts combined. It was Jim Maceda's story on NBC about Switzerland--yet he filed it from London. "For more than 70 years its secret bank accounts have defined Switzerland as much as its neutrality or its clocks," Maceda recounted, illustrating his financial journalism with Hollywood fiction, using clips from The Thomas Crown Affair and The Bourne Identity. Now, following Austria and Liechtenstein, the Swiss government has relented and will allow the secrecy of its numbered accounts to be breached "on a case by case basis." Tax prosecutors in the United States want to look at 50,000 accounts belonging mostly to wealthy Americans at UBS. Not to have backed down "would have backlisted Swiss banks risking tens of thousands of jobs."
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