Word: switzerland
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...Constitution let you have the second half of the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, without the first part, the intended use of those arms in the exercises and, when necessary, the campaigns of a citizens' militia to which the gun owner belongs -- as in Switzerland today? That is still very much a subject for legal debate...
McKusick also directs the Human Genome Organization (known informally as "Victor's HuGO"), a group formed last September in Montreux, Switzerland, by 42 scientists representing 17 nations. "The U.N. of gene mapping," as McKusick describes it, plans to open three data-collection and -distribution sites, one each in Japan, North America and Europe...
What is known about this nimble entrepreneur is that he is a rich man, with a fortune of perhaps $100 million. He claims to own companies in Switzerland, Greece, the Middle East and Thailand, as well as ten or 15 firms in England. "There's many people behind me," he says expansively. "If I phone now for $40 million, tomorrow I see the $40 million in my pocket. From friends -- Saudi, gulf, Iraqi. That's all like a consortium. I am a front man." He is also a man gifted in the ways of global dealmaking, Swiss bank accounts...
...instance, Wolf contacted Richard Glazer, a Treblinka survivor now living in Switzerland, about the Demjanjuk case. Glazer admitted that Israeli authorities had pressured him "to keep his mouth shut" during the Demjanjuk trial. The OSI interviewed Glazer in 1979--well before any Israeli pressure--but has inexplicably refused to release notes from that crucial interview...
...always wanted to go to Switzerland. Ever since I saw The Sound of Music I have dreamed of the Alps, the quaint little villages, the blue sky and the mountains. But I never had the chance...