Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...February 1955 electrified the world by seizing Red Rumania's Bern legation and holding it for 42 hours before they surrendered to a small army of Swiss police backed up by tanks (TIME, Feb. 28, 1955). Now, 16 months later, the four were on trial before Switzerland's Federal Tribunal, charged with offenses ranging from espionage to the killing of Rumanian Legation Chauffeur Aurel Setu...
...sleeve, which he hinted at in the debate when he talked of a new Algeria that would be "neither Moslem state nor an Arab state nor a French province." His idea is to create a highly decentralized Algerian state divided into 25 or so "cantons" on the model of Switzerland. Each would have its own local assembly and local administration. This would allow some, like those around Oran and Algiers, to have European majorities. Over the cantons would be a single legislative assembly of elected representatives from each canton. The Premier of the assembly would automatically become Vice Premier...
...University of Milan's "European Conference on the Esthetics of Television," delegates from Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, debated for days about TV ground rules, agreed on nothing but a definition of television's role: "To distract, inform and instruct...
...business of exporting reactors to foreign countries, the U.S. is already substantially ahead. The U.S. has built and sold one research reactor to Switzerland, has contracts to sell four more to Spain, Brazil, Japan and Italy, and is to build a full-fledged commercial reactor for Belgium. Thus the U.S. is far ahead of Russia and Britain in the sale of research reactors, and is the only nation planning to export a commercial reactor...
...agency would request an import license from France or Britain for some hard-to-get strategic item. With this in hand, it would then get an Italian license to export the raw materials to the allied country. But no consignment ever got to Britain or France. Either in Switzerland or in Belgium, where customs officers paid small heed to in-transit goods, the agency transshipped the stuff-from Switzerland by rail to Vienna and the East, from Antwerp by sea to Polish Gdynia...