Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your sandbags ready," snapped Walid Jumblatt, the volatile leader of Lebanon's Druze community, as he emerged from the elegant lakeside Beau Rivage Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland. His message was all too clear. After nine days, the latest negotiations to bring about a reconciliation of Lebanon's religious factions had ended in failure, and a return to warfare seemed inevitable...
...gunpoint as he left his apartment in West Beirut last Friday morning. Also gone, along with the Marine peace-keeping force, were the Reagan Administration's dreams of helping President Amin Gemayel rebuild his country. The leaders of Lebanon's Muslim and Christian factions met in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a round of reconciliation talks last week, but the only power broker on the premises was Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam. In fact, the Lebanese representatives wryly referred to Khaddam as "the high commissioner," an allusion to the French official who ran Lebanon under a League of Nations...
...meeting of the various Lebanese factions is scheduled to take up that issue this week in Lausanne, Switzerland. As a prelude to the conference, the rump government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel last week did the expected by formally canceling its May 17 security agreement with Israel. But Gemayel's Druze and Muslim opponents in Lebanon will be asking for far more than that in Lausanne. They intend to demand a fundamental restructuring of the Christian-dominated power-sharing arrangement on which Lebanese politics have been based since...
...quantity here was France's Perrine Pelen, who won the silver and, earlier, a bronze behind Armstrong and Cooper in the G.S. Four years ago, Pelen took a bronze in the G.S. at Lake Placid. But talking about 1980 only emphasizes that four years ago, Michela Figini of Switzerland, who won the gold in the downhill last week, was 13 years old. For Americans, nothing showed the passage of time more than the news that the stalwart Cindy Nelson, 28, competing in her third Olympics with a brace on her damaged right leg, had not even entered the punishing...
...everyone was delighted for Armstrong, Johnson kicked up as much frosty disdain as admiration. It began a month ago, during the running of the Lauberhorn race at Wengen, Switzerland, over a shortened course and in conditions so poor that the grand old Austrian avalanche Franz Klammer tried unsuccessfully to get the race canceled. There Johnson became the first American to win a World Cup downhill. After the race, the popular and easygoing Klammer called Johnson "a little Nasenbohrer"-nose picker-who had sneaked into first place by a fluke. At Sarajevo, while Johnson skied superb training runs during the week...