Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest in his music companies and half of the proceeds from the sale of their Holmby Hills, Calif., home. -Died. Walter Audisio, 64, World War II Italian Communist partisan leader who claimed credit for gunning down Benito Mussolini in April 1945 as the Fascist dictator attempted to escape into Switzerland with his mistress Claretta Petacci along a country road in northern Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...time was not to be entirely their own. "The authorities," Rademaekers says, "had organized a togetherness program stretching over two weeks." Reluctantly, G.D.R. officials gave in to the correspondents' request to split up: Rademaekers traveled east to the Polish border, while Nelan went as far south as "Saxon Switzerland" near the Czech border...
...city's streets, and there were reports of isolated skirmishes in the countryside involving government troops and diehard Allende supporters. Nonetheless, the junta appeared to be in firm command of the country. Apparently convinced that it was in office to stay, at least 16 nations-including France, Spain, Switzerland and neighboring Argentina-recognized the new government. (The Soviet Union and East Germany, in contrast, broke relations with their onetime close ally.) Even though the Nixon Administration was unmistakably delighted at Allende's downfall, the U.S. took no diplomatic action. In part, the cautionary stance may have been...
Died. Albert Nicholas, 73, one of the last and best Creole-style clarinetists from the early days of New Orleans jazz; following surgery; in Basel, Switzerland. Nicholas grew up alongside such greats as Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, in whose band he later played. In the 1950s, Nicholas followed other American musicians to Europe and settled in jazz-hungry Paris, playing and touring with the Dutch Swing College Band...
...Swiss Federation of Protestant Churches took issue with the blacklist, which included 17 Swiss firms. Commenting on the churches' criticism at a meeting of the federation, Philip Potter got in a wry last word. "I rejoice that we have started a real ecumenical conversation in Switzerland," he said. "Even though the World Council has its headquarters in Geneva, that is something that has been missing all these years...