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Notable gifts from foreign governments included: a $5 million donation from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to the Law School for Islamic legal studies, $3.5 million from an organization connected with the South Korean government to establish a chair in Korean literature and a $20 million gift from a Swiss countess to the School of Public Health...
...shipment of missile-related graphite cylinders to Pakistan; the Germans to interdict a shipment of Scud-missile production equipment being transferred to Syria; Italian authorities to block the delivery of excavation equipment en route to Libya for possible use in construction of an underground chemical- weapons plant; and the Swiss to stop the sale of equipment ordered by a nuclear-related Pakistani company...
Most Curious Display of Commercialism: The Swiss Alpine ski team's uniforms, which were patterned with holes to look like Swiss cheese...
...wrong for us to begrudge Mr. Ames his Swiss bank accounts and Arlington digs? Should we instead pin a medal on his chest and send him on his way? Certainly...
...degree F -- seemed only to stimulate flag-waving, cowbell-clanking Norwegians. Before the race they bounced up and down to keep warm -- and to keep time with the weirdly appropriate golden oldies blasting from loudspeakers. One tune, Achy Breaky Heart, seemed a dirge for the brilliant career of Swiss veteran Franz Heinzer, whose bindings snapped as he leaped out of the downhill's starting gate. Heinzer whacked the snow with his poles in fury and three days later announced his retirement...