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...Started in 1971 and led by Christoph Blocher, 63, the head of Swiss chemicals company EMS-Chemie Holding AG, the SVP has always been staunchly opposed to opening Switzerland's borders to asylum seekers and immigrants. Pre-election opinion polls indicate that this issue preoccupies a large number of Swiss, many of whom also believe that closer European integration will open up the country to more foreigners. The SVP is making the most of the electoral opportunity. "More and more people believe that we can make a positive difference in their lives," says Aliki Panayides, the SVP's deputy secretary...
...from clear whether Switzerland will succumb. , Last June, in one of the most important referendums in years, a majority rejected adoption of a value-added tax, a reform that would have brought the Swiss fiscal system closer to that of its European neighbors. Says Christoph Blocher, Zurich industrialist and member of the federal parliament who is leading a campaign against E.C. membership: "If Switzerland joined, it would have a lot to lose: sovereignty, independence, democratic rights, neutrality and security, and it would suffer lower wages and higher taxes...
...Hiver (capacity: 20,000) to hear him. Standing beneath a giant Scoreboard, Billy exhorted them, in short, hard-hitting sentences, to "repent, receive Jesus Christ through faith, and surrender and commit everything to Jesus Christ." After each sentence, he waited while U.S.-educated French Baptist Minister Jacques Blocher translated his words into French at the same speed and with the same intonation and gestures...
Dunkards, On the big Adam Blocher farm near Delphi, Ind. met 4,000 Dunkards, or Old Order German Baptist Brethren, in the 195th general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal...