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...success of Animal Farm at last brought Orwell some financial relief; he could afford to cut back on his journalism and devote more time to his next novel. He took a house on Jura, a windy, remote island off the western coast of Scotland. There, growing more ill each day, he completed Nineteen Eighty-Four...
Since then, to Washington's dismay, the West German government has caused confusion in Western ranks by hinting that it is interested in the revival of a compromise plan that U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli Kvitsinsky worked out during a stroll in the Jura Mountains above Geneva last summer. The walk-in-the-woods proposal, as it came to be called, was disavowed by Washington and Moscow. But West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher seemed to resurrect it last month when he told a reporter during a visit to Bulgaria that "the closer...
Even such advances cannot solve the social problems that have resulted from the watch industry's decline. To a large extent, watchmaking has remained a cottage industry, with production divided among more than 1,000 firms scattered throughout the foothills of the French-speaking Jura region. Unemployment among the workers has inevitably affected Switzerland's normally strike-free labor relations. In January, 189 workers at a U.S.-owned Bulova plant in Neuchátel went on strike to oppose plans for consolidating production in Bienne, 20 miles down the road...
...where uneasy equilibrium has been upset by a violent upsurge of Croatian nationalism, may be the only European nation whose existence as a single, unified state seems directly imperiled. But others have been rattled, to a greater or lesser degree, by a variety of unhappy minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain's Basques, and myriad ethnic groups of Italy-the German-and French-speaking pockets in the north and the Sicilians and Sardinians in the arid mezzogiorno (southland...
...obscure life to avoid what French tax collectors call "signs of exterior wealth." He drove a bourgeois Peugeot 504 and kept his bank account low. In the end, however, exterior wealth was his undoing. The widening investigation turned up the fact that he owned a vineyard in the Jura mountains and a villa by the Mediterranean in addition to a $50,000 Lyon apartment (which alone might have been explained away by simple graft). Now, Tonnot, a Lyon University law graduate, faces a ten-year jail sentence and $50,000 fine: "I'm done for," he sobbed when...