Word: switzerland
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...receive U.S. aid, human rights seem to be alive and well in only 23, barely one-quarter of the total. The 23 states: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Israel (except the occupied territories), Italy, Japan, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland), Venezuela and West Germany...
...Russian Social Fund, created in 1974 in Switzerland by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, is dedicated to helping the families of political prisoners. I am the managing director of the fund. Alexander turned over to it all his income from the publication...
...Charleston, W. Va., to Volkswagen. Though A.M.C. will now have to buy parts from Volkswagen, the sale will raise much-needed cash. How much, Chapin will not say, but it appears that A.M.C. will be able to redeem some $20.5 million in notes held by the Union Bank of Switzerland that come...
Died. Carl Zuckmayer, 80, German playwright and satirist who wrote the screenplay for The Blue Angel, the 1929 film that made Marlene Dietrich a star; in Visp, Switzerland. Son of a Rhenish cork manufacturer, Zuckmayer won a pocketful of medals in World War I, then turned to writing. His immensely popular comedy about Prussian militarism, The Captain of Koepenick (1931), in which a shoemaker is able to take command of a town simply because he dons an army captain's uniform, earned Nazi wrath. After fleeing Hitler in 1933, Zuckmayer eventually settled on a farm in Vermont and wrote...
When it comes to internal politics, the United Auto Workers is the Switzerland of the labor world-no coups, no bareknuckled infighting, just a neat, orderly succession from one leadership to the next. This relatively halcyon condition dates from the late 1940s, when Walter Reuther, the progressive ideologue who headed the union for 24 years, built a durable power base. After Reuther's death in an airplane crash in 1970, two men vied for his mantle: Leonard Woodcock, the intellectual chief of the union's General Motors division, and Reuther's apparent favorite, Chrysler Department Head Douglas...