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...Suarez's son, Roberto Jr., also wanted in connection with the sting, was arrested in Switzerland for carrying a false passport. He was subsequently extradited to Miami--Suarez maintains that he was kidnaped--to stand trial for cocaine trafficking. In response, the elder Suarez published an open letter to President Reagan in the La Paz daily El Diario, offering to turn himself in on two conditions: his son be released and the U.S. pay off Bolivia's entire foreign debt. The issue became academic when a Miami federal jury acquitted Roberto...
Many dissenting U.S. women Catholics, however, feel the Pope is out of touch. Joan Leonard, who teaches theology at Emory University in Atlanta, recalls meeting John Paul at a philosophy congress in Switzerland. "We were wearing slacks, and he was having difficulty with that, I could tell," she says. "He tried to ask us about it in a very light, offhand way, saying something like, 'Do all sisters in the United States wear slacks?' I told him that we sometimes did, at least when it was appropriate, on campuses. He didn't seem pleased by my answer. I remember that...
...recent poll that asked the French where they would prefer to live in the year 2000, older respondents put the U.S. second, after Switzerland, and those under 22 listed the U.S. first. Indeed, where some French youths once looked romantically toward Peking or Havana, they now dream of the jobs and joys of California...
Rufus E. Jones '87 thinks a good hockey game can be as useful to U.S. Soviet relations as high level arms talks in chilly Switzerland...
...GENEVA. Switzerland--Secretary of State George P. Shultz announced yesterday night that an agreement has been reached with the Soviet Union to begin negotiations on nuclear missiles and space weapons...