Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surface at Wells Fargo three weeks ago, a group of bank employees raided his Pacific Palisades home and kidnaped his four-year-old son. They returned the child, the story went, only after Smith promised to take his family and flee the country. Smith said he first went to Switzerland and then returned last week to a secret location...
...Idyllic Davos, Switzerland, hardly looks like a place for a somber meeting of Europe's business leaders. Although it was the setting for Thomas Mann's moody masterpiece The Magic Mountain, Davos is better known as one of Europe's most fashionable ski resorts. Yet every year top executives trek off to Davos for the European Management Forum, perhaps the world's most high-powered business convention. Last week 450 Europeans, including Heinz Duerr, president of the West German electrical firm AEG-Telefunken, Corp.; Gordon Stevens, a director of Unilever Ltd.; and John Raisman, Deputy Chairman...
With little public notice, a judge in Switzerland, responding to claims lodged by Swiss lawyers representing Iran's central bank, ordered the Shah's villa in the ski resort of St. Moritz to be held under a writ of attachment barring its sale or alteration. The Shah had paid some $2 million for it in 1968. Iranian officials claimed that they have gained similar court sanctions against 13 other assets of the Shah's family in Switzerland, including a $440,000 Geneva apartment owned by Princess Ashraf, the Shah's sister...
...work was carried out in Switzerland by Karl Illmensee of the University of Geneva and Peter Hoppe of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., both veteran researchers in cell biology. Their breakthrough was not in conception -since the procedures for cloning are familiar. It lay rather in the surgeon-like skill and persistence with which they used microscopic instruments to transplant nuclei from cell to cell...
DIED. A.J. Cronin, 84, Scottish physician turned author whose bestselling novels include Hatter's Castle (1931), The Citadel (1937) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1941); of acute bronchitis; near Montreux, Switzerland...