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Jens Drolshammer, a professor of law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and a visiting scholar, spoke about the necessity of an international under-standing on court proceedings...
Minister and Deputy Head of the Task Force on Switzerland and the Second World War Lukas Beglinger, a participant in cases involving claims against Swiss banks; visiting professor of law Robert Braucher and Johnston Lecturer on Law Peter L. Murray '64-'65 also participated in the panel...
...Wednesday, it must be Cuba... The communist island said it would let the Breitling Orbiter 3 gas and hot air balloon pass over its airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east...
...When administrators of several campus choirs vacated a small office in Thayer, Cooke did some reshuffling. She moved the International Students Council (ISC), which plans an annual business conference in Switzerland, from its spacious Holworthy office to Thayer. Diversity & Distinction magazine then moved into the ISC's former Holworthy haunt...
...mountains have become voracious. Last week avalanches in the Austrian resort towns of Galtur and Valzur killed 38 people. Slides have also struck Chamonix in France and the Valais region in Switzerland. This season more than 70 people have died in Europe, which has seen some of the heaviest snowstorms of the past 40 years. Heavy new snow falling on older snow, strong winds and changing temperatures are conditions favorable to avalanches. In Austria, the snowslides roared through the center of the two towns, crushing houses, cars and people. The avalanches have been so frequent and the weather so horrendous...