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Sandra Buergin Diel, Switzerland...
...time is right in Switzerland for a woman to join the Federal Council, but not Uchtenhagen. She was the victim not of male resistance but of her party's politics and her chilly personality. The silent majority of Swiss women and men are patient and will wait for another woman...
Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen took a record three individual golds and a team bronze in cross-country for Finland. East and West Germans held forth generally in their luges and bobs. With $10,000, Americans made a hot last-minute purchase, picking up Switzerland's third-fastest four-man bobsled. After a brisk paint job at a Volkswagen shop, then a tippy practice run, four happy men led by Jeff Jost rode U.S.A. I to fifth place, behind G.D.R. I, G.D.R. II, Swiss I and Swiss II, and ahead of both Russian "cigarskis." While...
...just an inconvenient storm. Forty people were killed in avalanches in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Throughout Alpine Europe, roads were closed, villages cut off, skiers stranded. Austrian Franz Klammer, American Bill Johnson and that whole body of men who like to race down mountains had to break two dates with Mount Bjelašnica, where the winds topped 120 m.p.h. and the safety nets blew away. Over at Jahorina, the women downhillers were also delayed...
...plan to go public generates potential fortunes-and problems Diana Parsons was skiing in Switzerland with her family when a stranger called from London with the news. The British farmwife, 44, could be a multimillionaire, thanks to a distant relative named Dundas who had bought some stocks three generations ago. As a shareholder in a company that is a part owner of Reuters Ltd., the London-based news agency, Parsons could gain some $4 million. All over Britain, would-be millionaires are racing to lay claim to part of the estimated $1.5 billion that Reuters may be worth...