Word: switzerland
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...among American Jews about Mandela's praise for the Palestine Liberation Organization. He has met with Yasser Arafat three times since his release from prison in February. Much of that concern had been put to rest -- or at least diplomatically laid aside -- after a June 10 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, at which Mandela assured a contingent of American Jewish leaders that he supported Israel's right to exist within secure borders. There was no such comfort for Cuban Americans in Miami, where Mandela is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. They are threatening to stage demonstrations against Mandela's expressions...
...laden trucks cross the border from West Germany and West Berlin to dump their loads. Last year they delivered 5.5 million tons of household and construction rubbish -- plus an additional 65,000 tons of garbage that contained dangerous substances. Smaller amounts of trash came from the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland...
Ceremonial swords at their side, 2,500 men marched into the central square of Appenzell. "You are accountable only to your conscience and to God," said Beat Graf, the administrator of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, a half-canton in northeastern Switzerland. A forest of arms shot skyward and, by two-thirds, the men summarily rejected a proposal to grant women the right to vote in local elections...
...broom at home, his wife cannot recall when. He does jog three miles daily and is a lifetime private in the Israeli army's education corps, although he has never shot a gun. Most of his travel is work-related, but he escapes annually for a month in Switzerland, a country he loves because "even the trees aren't Jewish." Hartman is still a basketball fanatic, and he rarely misses the American games broadcast on Israeli TV. A bad back precludes even a casual lay-up, but Hartman doubts he would test reality even if he could. "My fantasies suffice...
...team's trip to Europe over Christmas break this year, Whyte displayed another element of her game that earned her the nickname, "Das Hammer." The team traveled to Switzerland to play in a tournament against teams from Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Unlike women's college hockey in the U.S., this tournament allowed full body checking, a skill that Whyte has been forced to keep under wraps in the Ivies...