Word: switzerland
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Then, unexpectedly, came an event that Margie Brauer calls the "turning point in our lives." A Dutch-born businessman who lived in Switzerland read about the couple's difficulties. He had always been grateful to the U.S. for the part its Army played in helping liberate the Netherlands in World War II. Acting through an intermediary in February, the businessman (who insists on anonymity) gave the Brauers 100,000 Swiss francs -- about $60,000. Ernie, an Army veteran who fought in Holland during the war, said simply, "Thank God." Margie was more expansive. "I had accepted the fact that things...
With his wife and three children, including a son who had been imprisoned for unrelated dissident activities, Koryagin boarded a jet last week and flew to Switzerland. The physician, who was released from detention only last February, said on reaching Zurich that he agreed to leave his homeland because he feared being subjected to more "Bolshevik terror." What about Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost? Said Koryagin: "Practically nothing has changed. We were still seen as political criminals. The 'opening up' is only words...
Protests turned violent in Switzerland, where police used tear gas to break up an illegal march, and in the Netherlands as police swinging batons dispersed club-wielding protesters outside an aluminum plant...
Muller, who has directed TIME's reporting under McManus and frequently sat in editing for him, first worked for the magazine as a stringer, when he was an undergraduate at Stanford University. Reared in Switzerland until age 6, when he and his family moved to San Francisco, Muller joined TIME in 1971 as a correspondent in Canada. He next served in Brussels as European economic correspondent and in Paris as bureau chief before coming to New York as a writer in 1981. He became senior editor of the World section and, last year, chief of correspondents and an assistant managing...
WASHINGTON--Independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh is lacking key information from Switzerland and Israel as he tries to piece together the remainder of the Iran-Contra puzzle...