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Jacob and his family are Old Order Amish. They belong to a community that lives at the edge of American society, with spiritual values rooted in Pennsylvania-Deutsch soil. Most of the 20,000 Old Order Amish living in Lancaster County are descended from the 200 German-Swiss farmers who immigrated there during the 18th century. The community has paid a price for its separateness: because the Amish forbid marriage outside the Old Order, centuries of inbreeding have afflicted them with certain genetic diseases that strike their young in alarming numbers...
...that was then. For the next two weeks the Swiss superskier, a likely bet to win a hatful of medals, was most noticeable as he smiled bashfully at cameras and gave gentlemanly praise to racers who were beating him. The expectations game was at least as delusive among the women. Wasn't Michela Figini, the fiery Italian-Swiss who is the sport's best woman downhiller, supposed to repeat her Sarajevo victory? And then claw it out for most of the other medals with her teammate and nonfriend the formidable German-Swiss Maria Walliser...
...tall, ruddy-cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain, and smiled: "Thank you, Prior, for we have been praying all day for the weather to improve." The quip brought a laugh from Kohl's companion, French President Francois Mitterrand...
Policemen in the German-Swiss border town of Singen were not particularly alarmed last week when an excited old lady marched in to say that she had sighted a pair of terrorists in a local café. Since a massive man hunt was launched last month for the assassins of Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, West German police stations have been swamped with mistaken reports of sightings of three revolutionaries who are wanted for shooting Buback, his chauffeur and a bodyguard in a deadly spray of machine-gun fire...
...book is the joint product of 36 respected Protestant and Catholic theologians, most of them German and German-Swiss, who were commissioned to write it by Europe's Herder publishing house. The Catechism grew out of conversations at Vatican Council II between the Rev. Lukas Vischer, the top theologian at the World Council of Churches, and his friend Father Johannes Feiner, who was later appointed to the Pope's theological commission. Although Vischer and Feiner edited the book, it lacks official Protestant status, and the Vatican has made no comment...