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...September 1939. But serious work halted in June 1942 when Heisenberg told Albert Speer, Hitler's war-production czar, that an atom bomb could not be produced fast enough to affect the outcome of the war. From then on, Heisenberg apparently wanted his old scientific friends in Scandinavia, Switzerland and the U.S. to know that Germany was working on power reactors, not bombs...
...UNWRITTEN RULE, THE VACANCY IN SWITZERland's seven-member Federal Council, or Cabinet, could be filled only by a Social Democrat from a French-speaking canton. Member of parliament Christiane Brunner, 46, not only met those criteria but also represented a major labor constituency in the metal and watchmaking industries. No matter. Brunner's bid to become the second woman ever to hold Cabinet rank was scuttled by the overwhelmingly male parliament, apparently because of sexual politics...
Last time anyone checked, he was playing ball in Switzerland. (Stop that! The Geneva-Zurich rivalry can get pretty intense...
Mobutu's personal fortune, built on a network of private businesses, the pilfering of public resources and skimming the foreign aid that has flowed into his country, has been estimated at $5 billion. He has bank accounts in Switzerland and other countries, an apartment on Avenue Foch in Paris, a palatial villa at Cap-Martin on the French Riviera and other residences in Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Senegal. When pressed, he swears on his "honor as a Christian and a chief" that his available funds amount to "no more than $10 million." He does concede, however, that this absurdly...
Bysshe (Christopher Shea) and Byron (Jonathan Rigby) meet for the first time in the summer of 1816. Emigres to Switzerland, they seek an escape from "the turgid cesspool" of England. Still a young idealist, Bysshe is slightly in awe of the older, cynical Lord Byron, already world-weary at the age of 28. Bysshe believes he can transform the world with words. But his growing disillusionment with this possibility torments...