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...Even though Switzerland has a reputation as a bastion of democracy, it seemed not entirely surprising that the country should have laws restricting Jesuits. After all, Geneva was once the home of Protestant Reformer John Calvin's stern theocracy, and the Jesuits (TIME, April 23) became a sort of spiritual Marine Corps to spearhead the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation...
...slim majority of voters, most of them Catholics, who only recently have edged out Protestants as the country's largest religious group. Before the referendum, anti-Jesuit campaigners marched through Zurich streets calling Jesuits "lackeys of fascism." Others voiced an outdated fear that Jesuits would seek to make Switzerland a Catholic state. Actually, the Jesuits have been working quietly in Switzerland for years with tacit government approval. The repeal of the old laws will mainly mean an opportunity to operate their own parishes, to teach in universities or perhaps open an experimental religious community...
...Psychological Intelligence Schemes for Expediting Surrender). Pointsman persuades the higher-ups to investigate the intricacies of Slothrop's sexuality, and the scene then shifts to testing grounds in southern France. Slothrop, after a time, manages to escape, and the remainder of the novel follows his odyssey from France through Switzerland into a by-now post-war Germany...
...election campaign. Vesco, 37, is also the chief target of one of the largest security-fraud suits ever brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Investigations of his activities have forced him to move his operations outside the regulatory reach of one country after another, from Switzerland, through France to the Bahamas. Now Vesco is trying to gain a beachhead for his operations in tiny Costa Rica and, as usual, his efforts are making waves...
Throughout his tour at Covent Garden, Solti was taking on polish-largely due to his first wife Hedi whom he had met during the war in Switzerland. Hedi was formal, proper, acutely aware of class structure; once they were situated in London, she began seeing to it that Solti mingled with the right titles. Friends recall the day that Solti was to have tea in a lordly London home...