Word: switzerland
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...Asian dollar market" originated with Johan D. van Oenen, former boss of Southeast Asian operations for the California-based Bank of America. His plans found favor with Singapore officials, who saw a chance for their island nation to play the sort of international banking role in the Orient that Switzerland plays in Europe. In 1968, the Singapore government repealed all exchange restrictions and interest-withholding taxes on deposits from foreigners, and promised to keep the identity of the depositors secret. Such secrecy is important to the Overseas Chinese, the merchant class of Southeast Asia. They feel-quite justifiably-that they...
...northern Italy from March 1944 until April 1945; in Forli, Italy. Mischi added an intriguing footnote to history by reporting that Mussolini, on April 22, 1945, just six days before he was captured and shot, phoned him from Milan to order: "At all costs keep the road to Switzerland open...
...kidnapings and the killing are a climax to the troubles that have been plaguing Uruguay, which once was the paradise of Latin America. While its neighbors suffered from coups and economic chaos, Uruguay remained a sort of Latin Switzerland. It had an unbroken record of freely elected Presidents, and no dictator has ever been able to shoulder his way to power. It also established the most complete and extravagant welfare system of any country in the Americas. Uruguay's wealth, however, was based almost exclusively on continued world demand for meat and wool. When that demand slackened...
...just as in the U.S., many European women simply do not want to be liberated. In Switzerland, some women are even prepared to fight against it. Next February Swiss men will vote on whether to give women the right to vote. Some Swiss women have banded together into an organization whose sole goal is to keep the ballot away from women. "We can't risk destroying the man's role in the world," says the president of the League of Swiss Women Against Suffrage. "We must give him a task to perform and allow him to be chivalrous...
Fact No. 1: In a recent Gallup poll of statesmen and diplomats in 40 nations, Switzerland was chosen as the "best-governed nation in the world" #151;followed by Britain and Sweden, with the U.S. sixth...