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...Worcester, Mass., and a Ph.D. at Birbeck College in London. In the 1960s he worked in Washington as a U.S. Foreign Service officer for Asian countries. He went to Switzerland in 1970 to coordinate the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service, an intergovernmental agency based in Geneva; married a Swiss, Ruth Griwa, and stayed...
...roots of what is turning out to be an acrimonious dispute go back to the Red Cross Federation's exclusion of Israel's Red Shield of David society in 1949. The Geneva Convention mandates the red cross (originally an inversion of the Swiss flag), crescent and lion as the only acceptable signs of international neutrality, and thus bars the Israeli organization. While the American Red Cross has pushed forcefully for Israeli inclusion for 50 years, it does not want to drop the cross altogether...
Schreiber said he worried that Swiss House will worsen the parking problems that currently plague the area...
...While Swiss House employees promised the zoning board that they would only need two parking spaces, Schreiber said he suspects they will use more...
...Comtesse said he promises that the Swiss government will be a responsible neighbor...