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Wiederkehr was named for Johann Wiederkehr, who settled in Altus, Ark., in the 1880s because the Ozark Mountain country reminded him of his native Switzerland. Johann planted native Concords and Delawares, but in 1958 his grandson Alcuin, now 43, began experimenting with vinifera and last year sold 10,000 gal. of such wines as Cabernet Sauvignon and Gewurztraminer, some of them in his own Alpine-style restaurant...
...steel industry alone has filed 14 complaints of alleged dumping?that is, selling below cost?against foreign competitors in the U.S. In all, $1.4 billion worth of imported steel is involved. Additional cases are likely to cover microwave ovens, Citizens Band radios, motorcycles and perhaps even granola from Switzerland. This counterattack is being launched with the explicit encouragement of President Carter, who seems to see an antidumping crusade as a way to protect U.S. jobs against cheap imports without violating principles of free trade. In mid-October the President promised to act vigorously on any dumping complaints that the steel...
...Jimmie Durham (a Cherokee). As a result of constant pleas and demands to the United Nations, the U.N. Non-Governmental Organization Subcommittee on Racism and Decolonization sponsored a conference on "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations of the Americans." This conference was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, September 20-23. More than 200 Native Americans from both North and South America attended (except Brazil and Paraguay, whose governments would not allow indigenous representatives to attend). Unity between two continents and over 400 indigenous nations! Delegates to the conference testified and documented all aspects of discrimination against Natives...
Delegates of smaller states will undoubtedly insist that Belgrade '77 take up particular causes dear to their hearts. Switzerland, for example, pressed the case for disarmament; Yugoslavia is expected to complain about the plight of a Slovene minority in Austria; Portugal raised the problem of its migrant "guest workers" in industrialized northern Europe. "Indeed, there are many more issues involved here than human rights, and many more countries present than the two superpowers," the lone delegate from the tiny duchy of Luxembourg remarked proudly. "Here there are a lot more of us than of them...
Geneva's first kidnaping in 25 years terrified the city's moneyed expatriates. Some of them are Italians who have taken refuge in Switzerland to avoid the pandemic of kidnappings that has plagued Italy. Fearful of an outbreak of Italian-style kidnappings in Switzerland, many wealthy residents of Geneva stayed home and hired bodyguards...