Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIVORCED. Christina Onassis, 29, Greek shipping empress; and Sergei Kauzov, 40, her third husband and sometime Soviet her third husband and sometime Soviet shipping functionary; on the grounds of irreconcilable differences; after 21 months of marriage; in Switzerland. "They did not part in anger," one Swiss lawyer reported; a multimillion-dollar settlement reportedly helped soften the blow for Kauzov...
...mother, of course. So Britain's Prince Andrew, 20, kept Mum dutiful company as Queen Elizabeth II sheltered against the weather at the Badminton Horse Trials. But it's nice to make new friends. With the Queen and Prince Philip off on a state visit to Switzerland, Andrew hosted a dinner in his Buckingham Palace apartment for a single guest: Carolyn Seaward, 19, a Devonshire lass who as Miss United Kingdom is best known for her measurements (35-24-35). "Absolutely wonderful," gushed Carolyn après he. "We just relaxed and listened to music and chatted...
Alexander Keen Lenzerheide, Switzerland...
ANOTHER EXAMPLE--the nation state. It is disappearing, Toffler argues in the 16 pages he allots to the subject, to be replaced by transnational organizations and a "planetary consciousness." As proof, Toffler cites the hot flames of--nationalism. In Corsica, in Scotland, in Wales, Cornwall, Essex, Belgium, Switzerland, the Sudetenland, the South Tyrol, Austria, the Basques and Catalan, Quebec, Western Australia, the South Island of New Zealand, even Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, patriots are going their separatist ways, he says. Some, perhaps those who reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this...
...Carlos might have enlisted is Dieter Koenig, a.k.a. Bruno Schilling. Like the real-life Venezuelan terrorist, German-born Bruno is a ferrety connoisseur of chaos: And, like Carlos, Schilling is a vain, insatiable womanizer who has honed boudoir and Beretta skills in North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain...