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...names Switzerland. Munich, Stuttgart. Milan and Leipzig--home of the "staggering" Gewandhaus Orchestra--as possible stopping points during his travels. "These are all the places where I can work with good people. Despite my wealth of experience here, I have never actually taken a course in conducting--at this point I would like to learn something about the trade...
...anyone else? He, not to mention his family and friends, are clearly better off with the farm in Vermont and the chalet in Gstaad. So Galbraith must see, and perhaps even relish, the irony of a sentence like the following from his memoirs: "In the next summer months in Switzerland--on the Lake of Lucerte at Sils-Maria, down at Brissago on Lago Maggiore (where Hemingway's lovers came ashore afte rowing up the lake) and at Saas Fee--I read and struggled to write on the causes of poverty...
...anecdotes and academic infighting, it is difficult to understand what drove this man in these admirably egalitarian crusades. That crusade hardly stopped him from living extraordinarily well (the action shifts from the Galbraith "mansion" in Cambridge, to the 235-acre farm in Vermont and to an apartment in Gstaad, Switzerland), but for that he can hardly be faulted. In fact, despite his political battles against the status quo, he seems remarkably pleased with how life has treated him. Certainly, his personal life has been a joy. (It is a man whose marriage is secure indeed who can write, "I have...
...officials doubt that Agca visited their country, although Turkish sources claim Agca and another N.A.P. terrorist were seen near Stuttgart. Stamps in his forged passport indicate that Agca spent time in Spain. He is known to have visited Tunisia. Agca claims to have traveled to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Britain, France, Belgium, West Germany and Denmark. But it was to Austria, which Agca did not mention, that authorities traced the 9-mm Browning pistol used at St. Peter's. The weapon apparently was stolen from a retired gunsmith near Vienna...
...wants to boost the Pentagon's budget from the $171.2 billion allocated by the Carter Administration this year to $226.3 billion in fiscal year 1982. That amount is twice as much as Saudi Arabia earned from crude oil exports last year and twice the gross national product of Switzerland. Moreover by 1986 Reagan wants to increase the defense budget to a staggering $374.3 billion, or more than double this year's level...