Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...International Olympic Committee does not meet in Athens, but in Lausanne, Switzerland. Why not let the Olympics become a Swiss event...
Pierre Pradervand Le Mont Pélerin, Switzerland...
...religious groups" in the U.S. that were "teaming up on an anti-Olympic basis." Furthermore, said the Soviet press, the Reagan Administration was "trying to use the Games for its selfish political ends." Late last week the International Olympic Committee called a special meeting, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 24, to discuss the Soviet complaints...
East Germans have had it drummed into them that they are citizens of the German Democratic Republic, a nation as distinct from West Germany as are two other German-speaking nations, Austria and Switzerland. But after 40 years of division the yearning to transcend the ideological boundaries that divide East and West Germany is still strong. Ulrich Plenzdorf, an East German novelist and playwright whose works sell on both sides of the Wall, argues that "no matter how many adjectives the system may use to describe itself, the 'German' remains." When a West German border guard once asked...
...nearly $6 billion may have been lavished on such items as procurement of military hardware and the movement of troops. Adding to the confusion is the fact that Argentines may have quietly shifted up to $20 billion, including sums borrowed from foreign lenders, into bank accounts in the U.S., Switzerland and elsewhere...