Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turin's La Stampa last month enraged him. "It seems," ran the mock-fan-magazine prose, "that he has an ulcer, it seems that he is a homosexual, that he sleeps on a mattress of tobacco leaves, that he has a harem of 48 wives in Switzerland." Libya immediately demanded that the article's coauthors be dismissed from La Stampa, one of Italy's most respected dailies...
ERNST FREIMANN Zug, Switzerland...
...talks-which were dubbed "Kilometer 3152" by one Tel Aviv newspaper, based on its calculation of the distance between Switzerland and Israel -began last week. The man in charge was the tenacious, even-handed Finnish commander of the U.N. Emergency Force (UNEF) in the Middle East, Lieut. General Ensio Siilasvuo, who had also presided over the talks at Kilometer 101. Israel's chief representative was Major General Mordechai Gur, his country's military attaché in Washington, while the Egyptian side was led by Brigadier General Taha El Magdoub, Cairo's assistant chief of military operations...
...major German corporations to establish boards composed of equal numbers of workers' and stockholders' representatives, with an impartial chairman acceptable to both sides. At present only the coal and steel industries have to give labor that much say, but the idea is moving beyond German borders. In Switzerland three trade unions have petitioned the country's Parliament to call a national referendum on labor's right to sit on supervisory boards, and Sweden has launched a three-year experiment to test worker representation on boards of companies with 100 or more employees...
...have been nominated for National Book Awards, only to be ultimately passed over. Now the self-described "pleasant outsider" has landed one of the country's most distinguished prizes: the National Medal for Literature, awarded for a living American writer's total literary contribution. At his Montreux, Switzerland, home, a modest Nabokov could only say: "I think it was a very good idea to give the prize...