Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Person returns to Switzerland for the last time to seek out the memory of his dead wife in places they had been together. On the first visit, Person's father dies and releases him into a feeling of his own freedom. On the second, a business trip to see the famous writer R., Person meets his wife-to-be, Armande, an outdoorsey, faintly bitchy, feelingless woman. The third visit brings him back to the aging, corpulent R., only a few days before Person strangles his wife in his sleep, dreaming that he is saving her from fire. And then...
...Amin Dada's expulsion order. Several thousand more are resettling in Canada, India and some 27 other countries. The assets they have left behind, with little hope of full compensation, are estimated to be worth more than a billion dollars. Despite rumors of wealth secreted in Britain and Switzerland, many of the refugees have arrived, as one British social worker observed, "with only what they can stand...
Lethal Chemicals. Nonetheless, fearful Hannêche authorities refused to renew Vebeka's license, so Vebeka went out looking for new dumping grounds. "I had to do something," says Van den Bogert. "Several big transports were on their way: twelve tons from West Germany, 18 tons from Switzerland, 20 tons from Sweden." So he joined with another Belgian firm and made new arrangements. In Hasselt, for example, he left 50 tons of lethal chemicals in a shed just 100 yards from the Albert Canal, which supplies Antwerp with its drinking water...
...violates the law forbidding charter lines to sell tickets to individuals. In addition, the U.S. must negotiate with foreign governments for landing rights covering the new class of service, called Travel Group Charters (TGC). Negotiations with some nations should be relatively smooth and simple. But some governments, including France, Switzerland and The Netherlands, are wary of subjecting their national airlines to further low-priced competition, particularly on the North Atlantic route...
...Solamandre does have a chance to be something better, but ends up being worse. While the theme remains the doomed future of a "true individual" in monotonous and mediocre Switzerland, the plot is much more ingenious. Two out-of-work writers are commissioned to do an historical fiction for TV based upon the facts of a bizarre shooting of a retired army man. The army man claimed that his niece did it out of anger. She claimed he did it out of his gun. The writers investigate the story: both, in one way or another, fall in love with...