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Holland can no longer focus its full attention on its domestic problems for it must at all times be keenly aware of its position in the international community. There are any number of models which it may follow--neutrality like Switzerland; diplomatic union with the Benelux; distasteful, though practical, subservience to the industrial giant neighbor, West Germany. But Holland is currently drifting like a ship without a keel, the captain so concerned with what is in the hold that he may soon find himself and his cargo on the rocks. If the Netherland's political history is not very...
Nova is not content merely to wag its finger. Having identified the problems, the program suggests solutions-and sounds a tocsin. In Switzerland, a country with one-tenth the fire-casualty rate of the U.S., the show notes, chimney sweeps are required to clean and inspect every building regularly. "Many say that Americans would not tolerate the rules and regulations and residential inspections of the Swiss," viewers are advised. "Americans, it seems, would rather burn.'' -By Philip Faflick
World financiers believe that a renewed reliance on gold would ultimately carry too painful a burden, disrupting the economies of the U.S. and Europe and possibly sending a number of Third World countries into bankruptcy. Said Ernst Schneider, a general manager of Switzerland's Credit Suisse bank: "I don't believe the world could take the discipline today...
...fiercely for oil- and gas-exploration leases on parcels of land no larger than 8,000 acres. The Denver-based Eagle Exploration Co. has bigger ambitions than that. It has won the drilling rights for the entire territory of Liechtenstein, the tiny principality that nestles in the Alps between Switzerland and Austria...
...Europe holed up with Friend Bebe Rebozo, 68, and Assistant Nick Ruwe at a Paris hotel. But there were side trips to Versailles and Rheims and a two-day stay in the Bordeaux wine country at the château of Friend Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild. Next: Lausanne, Switzerland, and then on to Vienna, Flensburg, West Germany, and Denmark with an entourage of 30 friends and aides...