Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those profits attract investment funds from a variety of sources. Switzerland is so fretful about an influx of tainted narcotics money that the government has announced a special drive to screen numbered bank accounts for illegal uses. While there is no financial "octopus" for drug money in Switzerland, there are ways in which capital flows into narcotics. Money invested in clandestine companies registered in the name of a "manufacturer's representative" or "legal representative" often finds its way into the drug underworld...
...perennial threat to the stability of many European states is the demand of certain minorities, such as Spain's Basques or the Bretons of France, for regional autonomy. The most recent country to be struck by a wave of minority discontent is, of all places, peaceful little Switzerland. Investigating a suspicious fire at an army ammunition depot near Delémont on the French border recently, authorities found the letters FLJ-"Front de Libération Jurassien daubed on in fresh paint. The front is the more militant of two organizations representing dissident Swiss in the Jura region...
...French-speaking Jurassians*, who are mostly Roman Catholic, have long been embroiled in a battle for ethnic survival with the German-speaking Protestants who dominate Switzerland's richest, most populous canton. In recent years, demands for autonomy have revived and the Jurassians have formed aggressive organizations...
...Originally part of the Swiss Bishopric of Basel, the Jura region was annexed by the French at the turn of the 19th century but was given back to Switzerland by the Congress of Vienna...
...that of a young sculptor named Gaudier-Brzeska who might well have rivaled Brancusi in his contribution to modernism. One of the saddest casualties was a German who never fought, the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck. "Who stayed behind after these murders?" he wrote in January of 1918, after moving to Switzerland to escape military service...