Word: switzerland
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...forever" forswore recourse to "the threat or use of force" internationally. Less sweeping strictures went into West Germany's 1949 Basic Law, the covenant serving united Germany today. Both nations have fervently embraced pacifism. A January opinion poll asked Germans which country ranked as their ideal; 40% chose neutral Switzerland...
...Switzerland was said to be abandoning its traditional neutrality by sending allied forces a rather unusual army division: a flock of 34,500 carrier pigeons. The Swiss do have such a unit, but they heatedly deny it will be dispatched to the gulf. "Our birds could not operate in such an environment," says a spokesman. "They would all fly back to Bern, if they weren't roasted by the desert heat or hostile fire...
Where is Saddam Hussein hiding his wife Sajida and their several children? Conflicting reports have placed the dictator's clan in Switzerland, in Mauritania and in northern Zambia. Each location has some plausibility, the last because Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's President, visited Baghdad in early January and has accepted Iraqi financial help...
Researchers say anyone who used the drug regularly should probably have a thorough medical checkup. The new study, led by Dr. Ulrich Dubach of the Basel University Polyclinic in Switzerland, compared the health records, over a 20- year period, of 623 women, 30 to 49, who took phenacetin daily for at least a year with those of 621 women who used the drug less often or not at all. The researchers found that women who took phenacetin regularly had an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease; they were also more likely to die from urologic or kidney...
...Awad to prove that he was working for Abu Ibrahim by telephoning Baghdad. He reached the bombmaker's wife. He hadn't been able to get a room at the Hilton, he told her; he had run out of money. A few days later, a courier showed up in Switzerland carrying $1,500 in cash and a photo of Awad. It was Abu Saif. A search of his shoulder bag showed that part of a maroon vinyl liner had been cut out: the missing fabric had been used to wrap the bomb found...