Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a win there, the next stop is Lucerne, Switzerland for the World Championships...
...Jews--the Zionist leaders failed to warn the victims and attempted to suppress Vrba's report. In return for this service, Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the deportation process, allowed about 1600 people, largely wealthy Jews, relatives of the Zionist leaders or prominent Zionists, to flee to Switzerland. The result of this agreement was the death of nearly half a million Hungarian and Slovakian Jews. The deportations stopped only after Vrba succeeded, on his own, in having the report read by important Allied officials and published in Swiss newspapers...
Serious Challenge. The specter of a leftist government has already spurred some wealthy Frenchmen to move their money abroad. For example, one top attorney admits that he drives regularly into Switzerland to deposit his own and his clients' funds in secret bank accounts there. Mitterrand nonetheless may be succeeding in his tranquilizing campaign. The right-wing Paris journal Minute warned last week: "Mitterrand has already won a great battle: he no longer frightens...
...monasticism. Schutz also wanted to help refugees from Nazism and thus chose the hamlet of Taizé, near France's German-occupied zone. There he and a few colleagues spent two years hiding Jews and others fleeing persecution. Before the Germans occupied Taizé, Schutz escaped to Switzerland but returned after the war to open his Evangelical Reformed Community...
...Karim Aga Khan, 37, Harvard-educated spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, who regard him as a 49th-generation direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed, and the Begum Aga Khan, 33, formerly Sarah Croker Poole, a British model: their third child, second_son; in Chambésy, Switzerland. Name: Hussain...