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Both in meetings with European Community nations and in NATO huddles Washington has carefully coordinated its approach on human rights with its European allies. In essence, the consensus has been to play it forte but not dangerously fortissimo. Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands are solidly behind the issue, as is France...
DIED. Hans Habe, 66, Hungarian-born author (A Thousand Shall Fall) and journalist who once enraged Adolf Hitler by disclosing that his real name was Schicklgruber; of a glandular ailment; in Locarno, Switzerland. Habe fought in both the French and U.S. armies in World War II and during the Allied occupation was named overseer of German newspaper publications. Called "a born novelist" by Thomas Mann, Habe wrote a score of widely translated books and, by his own count, some 10,000 articles...
...course, providing a framework. Menuhim recalls the unique home shielding him from the distortion that menaces any child prodigy: "I am one of those privileged people whose early years shine in retrospect as a time of unblemished happiness." There is the extraordinary upbringing: residences in San Francisco Paris and Switzerland, exposure to Europe's musical elite between the wars on endless train rides and the acquisition (without formal education) of competence in half-a-dozen languages and an unfettered intellectual curiosity...
DIED. William Herbert Sheldon, 78, psychologist who developed a theory of "somatotypes" correlating varieties of human physique with behavior; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. After studying with Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland, Sheldon returned to the U.S., where he interviewed several thousand subjects for the theory he popularized. People with a frail physique and introverted behavior he called ectomorphs; those muscular in build with a predisposition for physical activity were mesomorphs; and those fleshy in shape and outgoing in personality were endomorphs. Sheldon also did research in the relation between these body types and organic disease...
DIED. E.F. Schumacher, 66, German-born economist and author of the underground bestseller Small Is Beautiful; of a heart attack; while en route by train from Lausanne to Zurich, Switzerland. Schumacher, who immigrated to England before World War II, served as economic adviser to Britain's National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970. In his 1973 book, Schumacher maintained that continuous growth was not necessarily desirable; that small, energy-saving units of production could often best serve human needs...