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...That was what was explained to us, and we then had a very deep confidence in what they were explaining. And I believed that just because of habit. One detail reported in the press: a Muslim girl who was pregnant by rape got shelter in a hospital in Switzerland. An abortion was not possible, and when the child was born, it happened to be Negro. No Serb was a Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic: I AM JUST AN ORDINARY MAN | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

...Americans to become involved in what is still a regional conflict (except as part of nato). European leaders are again proving that they were born with a wishbone instead of a backbone. Every second, minute or day the war continues is a crime against humanity. Joel Savitz Leysin, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1995 | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

...gambler, though he won and lost with bad grace. He once publicly cajoled a man to pay a lost wager of $1,000. When the man wrote the check, Vesco further shamed him by auctioning the draft to the crowd for $200. He bought houses in Costa Rica and Switzerland, a yacht and a Boeing 707, which he outfitted with an office, bedrooms and a discotheque. To the annoyance of his neighbors, he built a heliport on his home property in suburban New Jersey. He liked to try to get away with things. He once bought his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROBERT VESCO: THE PREDATOR'S FALL | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

Salt Lake City willhost the 2002 Winter Olympics. While boosters watched on a giant screen back home, delegates from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPICS . . . DEEP POWDER! | 6/16/1995 | See Source »

...theater had supposedly been built on an Indian burial ground, and an Indian chief was reputed to haunt theater number 6, but before I could begin a proper investigation, I received a call from Switzerland telling me that I had the job. Despite the fact that I'd already joined the union of movie theater employees and was well on my way to winning employee of the month, I said goodbye to Gina and Whoopi and flew to Geneva. And while my two weeks at the cinema may not have been Paradiso, it wan't a half-bad Purgatorio, with...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Cinema Purgatorio | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

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