Word: switzerland
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Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 33, Imam of 20 million Ismaili Moslems in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and the Begum Aga Khan, 30, the former Sarah Croker Poole, a onetime British fashion model: their first child, a girl; in Geneva, Switzerland. Name: Zahra...
JEAN SEBERG Geneva, Switzerland...
...five governments involved in the negotiating?the U.S., Britain, West Germany, Switzerland and Israel?also added to the confusion. The West Germans once again contemplated trading unilaterally for the release of two citizens by freeing three Arabs imprisoned by Bonn. British Foreign Minister Alec Douglas-Home, anxious to speed up deliberations, interrupted Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban's private visit to England to press for a promise to release more Arab prisoners. The Israelis agreed, among other things, to give up the two Algerian intelligence agents they had been holding. For its part, the U.S., which had dispatched Sixth Fleet...
...Pope's order leaves only the plumed, halberd-bearing Swiss Guards, a favorite of picture-snapping tourists, to patrol the venerable streets of the Vatican. Even the Guards, all Swiss Catholics and veterans of Switzerland's army, are a pale shadow of what they used to be. Founded in 1505 by Julius II, "the fighting Pope," 147 of the 189 Guards once died defending Pope Clement VII against 10,000 of Charles V's mercenaries. Because of recruiting problems, their numbers have dwindled to 59, and their functions have become largely ceremonial. In case of any real...
...capitals of the nations whose citizens were being held prisoners in the desert, stunned governments started the long job of getting them home. Early Monday, Switzerland made the first diplomatic move by offering to free the three Arab hijack convicts it was holding in return for the release of the passengers and crew of the Swissair jet. But the offer was hastily withdrawn later the same day after it was privately criticized by Secretary of State William Rogers. At a Labor Day meeting with representatives of Switzerland, West Germany, Israel and Britain, Rogers stressed that one-plane deals with...