Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swimming Coach Joe Bernal has seven experienced swimmers joining his squad: backstroker Roland Wagner, the Swiss national champion; Olympic qualifier Scott Hoy from Australia; sprinters Keith Kaplan of Mattapan, N.J., and Bob Morrison of Portland, Ind.; Paul Ryder, an all-around swimmer from Servana Park, Md.; distance swimmer Mike Caverly of Lacadia, Ca.; and Robert Perkins, a backstroker from Middlebrook...
Drug companies offer anxious Americans a host of tranquilizers, but none is more popular than Valium, the country's fourth-best-selling prescription drug. Until its patent expired last February, Hoffmann-La Roche, a Swiss firm, , enjoyed a monopoly in manufacturing Valium. Last week that profitable preserve was spoiled when three pharmaceutical companies received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing the medicine under its generic name, diazepam...
...effect that it is going to be an introductory meeting, only an agenda for the future, things to that effect. Well, we believe that to travel all the way to Geneva just to get acquainted, just to look at the beauties of Lake Geneva, the beauty of Swiss mountains, that is not adequate to the leaders of two such great nations. It is an expensive luxury. We will do all in our power to make the summit meeting instrumental in improving relations between the Soviet Union...
...agreement on the limitation and reduction of (offensive) nuclear weapons either . . . Thus, if the present U.S. position on space weapons is its last word, the Geneva negotiations will lose all sense." (The reference was not to the forthcoming summit but to arms- limitation talks already under way in the Swiss city.) But Gorbachev was significantly more flexible on the issue of defensive research than his negotiators have been...
...office of the Federal President, on suspicion of spying for East Germany. Officials said that Hoke had first met an East German agent named Franz Becker in 1968 and had recently been spotted making contact with him in Copenhagen. A few days after Hoke was picked up, Swiss authorities in Lucerne arrested an East German couple, Johann and Ingeborg Hubner, who were believed to be linked to Hoke...