Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GENEVA. Switzerland--Secretary of State George P. Shultz announced yesterday night that an agreement has been reached with the Soviet Union to begin negotiations on nuclear missiles and space weapons...
Robert Krause Binningen, Switzerland...
...Blindfolded and handcuffed, Pak was driven 80 miles to a house in Slate Hill, N.Y., where his kidnapers tortured him with electric shocks. Two days later, Pak's abductors ordered him to fly to Washington and transfer $500,000 in church funds to a numbered bank account in Switzerland. They threatened to harm Pak's wife and six children, who live in suburban Virginia, if the ransom was not paid...
...neither the guest of honor, French President François Mitterrand, nor the host, Syrian President Hafez Assad. Instead, it was Assad's younger brother Rifaat, 47, one of Syria's three Vice Presidents, making his first appearance after returning from a mysterious six-month exile in Switzerland and France. Rifaat's sudden re-emergence seemed to indicate that he might soon resume his public duties, which include overseeing Syria's state security apparatus, and that he might attain heightened status as his brother's likely successor...
...Metropolitan Opera from 1954 to 1978, specializing in such roles as Falstaff and Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville and winning the delighted chuckles of audiences and critics, one of whom dubbed him "the greatest scene stealer in the history of opera"; of a heart attack; in Lugano, Switzerland...