Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International toboggan championship from the slopes of St. Moritz, Switzerland...
...Common Market. Britain, which saw EFTA as a second-best alignment until it could ally with the Common Market, has twice the wealth, trade and population of the other six combined. Those far-flung nations range from socialist Norway, Sweden and Denmark through dictatorial Portugal to neutralist Austria and Switzerland. Unlike the Common Market nations, they have no hopes for ultimate political union, no plans to reduce farm tariffs, no intention of establishing a common external tariff...
Divorced. Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 43, heir to a $45 million West German coal and steel fortune; by Fiona Campbell-Walter, 32, onetime London fashion model; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Lugano, Switzerland...
...explosion, Robles can now get on with the important business of negotiating a new treaty and getting Panama's economy back in shape. In 1963 Panama had its best year in history; last year, after the riots, was far from good. Some $30 million in capital fled to Switzerland and Nassau, so far has not returned. Zone residents, who once spent $1,600,000 a month in Panama City, are beginning to spend again, but many remain hesitant to shop in town. New foreign investment virtu ally was halted for months following the disorders. The unemployment rate...
France's right to convert its dollars is, of course, incontrovertible. The French keep relatively less gold on hand than many other countries; they aim to keep it at 76% of reserves, but that is now down to 73% . Britain, Switzerland and Belgium keep 90% of their reserves in gold, only 10% in dollars and other currencies. On the other hand, the U.S. has persuaded West Germany to hold only 55% in gold and Japan only 15% -leading French officials to sniff that "dollars are for defeated countries." Last week's decision to cash in that extra...