Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much foreclose the future as point the way to it. Swiss Philosopher Denis de Rougement looks for a gradual emergence of new "communities of mutual interests" that transcend established frontiers. One such community might be the region bounded by Lyons and Grenoble in France and Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland-four cities already united by proximity, language (French) and common commercial interests. Says De Rougement: "Europeans are discovering that this is what brings them together, not borders...
...Lithuania. Yugoslavia, where uneasy equilibrium has been upset by a violent upsurge of Croatian nationalism, may be the only European nation whose existence as a single, unified state seems directly imperiled. But others have been rattled, to a greater or lesser degree, by a variety of unhappy minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain's Basques, and myriad ethnic groups of Italy-the German-and French-speaking pockets in the north and the Sicilians and Sardinians in the arid mezzogiorno (southland...
...Europeans to look down their noses at it because we, for the time being, have more successfully solved some problems of crime and environment. This is simply because American problems are on a much, much larger scale." Echoing Tocqueville, Revel and countless other fascinated tourists to the New World, Switzerland's Georges-Henri Martin, editor of La Tribune de Geneve, notes: "America is still our model, for better or worse. What happens there, we find, comes here later...
Died. Joseph Szigeti, 80, Hungarian-born violin maestro, who made his debut in 1904, his first recording in 1908; in Lucerne, Switzerland. A restrained, elegant performer in the classical tradition, he was also an early proponent of 20th century Composers Sergei Prokofiev and Fellow Hungarian Béla Bart...
...continent where military coups seem almost as common as peaceable elections, tiny Uruguay has been unique. Often described as the "Switzerland of South America," Uruguay, alone among Latin countries, could boast that not in this century had a democratically elected government been taken over by the military. Not, that is, until last week...