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...Switzerland. Investigating a suspicious fire at an army ammunition depot near Delémont on the French border recently, authorities found the letters FLJ-"Front de Libération Jurassien daubed on in fresh paint. The front is the more militant of two organizations representing dissident Swiss in the Jura region of Bern canton...
...Originally part of the Swiss Bishopric of Basel, the Jura region was annexed by the French at the turn of the 19th century but was given back to Switzerland by the Congress of Vienna...
...went the script for the French army's annual fall war games. The setting was lovely: the meadows and fir-covered hills of the Jura mountains, a few miles from the Swiss border. The assemblage was splendid: Charles de Gaulle in his brigadier general's uniform; Premier Georges Pompidou; General Charles Ailleret, the modern-minded chief of staff of all French forces; General Louis Le Puloch, the traditionalist chief of staff...
Important Patient on lonely Jura Island in the Hebrides. On a fishing outing far from London and the Denning report (see THE WORLD), Lady Astor, 31, beautiful third wife of Lord Astor, suddenly collapsed and was in danger of losing her second child, due in March. On doctor's orders, the former London fashion model, nee Bronwen Pugh, was hurried back to the mainland, rough seas or no, and rushed supine, but smiling, on a stretcher to a Glasgow nursing home...
...Genius." The recipient of these accolades was born to the name of Charles Edouard Jeanneret in the dour Jura mountain village of La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a few miles from the French border. His parents were Protestants, descendants of the heretical Albigenses who took refuge in the town in the 13th and 14th centuries. His father, a stolid leader of the local Alpine Club, was an enameler of watch faces. His mother, who died last year at 100, trained her oldest son, Albert, to be a musician, and told Charles Edouard: "You will be a genius...