Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swiss tourist brochure...
...platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists a year come to yell, some of them at the same time: their goal is to hear the echo of their voices rebound from the mountain amphitheater. As one distraught Swiss expert puts it, "We are making this place the Disneyland of Europe...
...citizens of Liechtenstein (pop. 26,500) were assured that the regal line would be unbroken. In a quiet ceremony marked by a church service and the signing of documents, Franz Josef handed over the regency to his popular-and fervently modern-eldest son, Prince Hans Adam, 39. The Swiss-educated Hans, who for years has managed the family fortune, including an extensive art collection and real estate holdings, believes royalty still has a vital role. "The President of the United States is received and heard everywhere even if he has only been in office for a week, or even before...
...continent's southern tip, the Chilean government urged private industry to become involved in defense contracting. One firm that responded was Explosives Industrials Cardoen, a small company that was then producing explosives for use in mining. After developing an armored personnel carrier based on the 24.5-ton Swiss-made Mowag, Cardoen started building a 500-lb. cluster bomb. Before reaching the ground, it releases up to 300 bomblets that can cover an area the size of ten football fields...
...Fourteen months later they remarried in Botswana, with two rhinos and a hippo among the witnesses; but a second divorce soon followed. He married, divorced and married again. His fourth wife Sally was with him last week when he was stricken at their modest villa in the Swiss village of Céligny, where, dressed in red, the Welsh national color, he was also buried. The services included the familiar words of Dylan Thomas and the strains of a Welsh rugby song...