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Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 33, Imam of 20 million Ismaili Moslems in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and the Begum Aga Khan, 30, the former Sarah Croker Poole, a onetime British fashion model: their first child, a girl; in Geneva, Switzerland. Name: Zahra...
Died. Erich Maria Remarque, 72, German-born novelist whose antiwar masterwork, All Quiet on the Western Front, sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 45 languages after its publication in 1929; in Locarno, Switzerland. A classic of pacifism, All Quiet focused on the tragic destiny of the defeated German soldier of World War I. The best of his later novels (Arch of Triumph, The Road Back, The Night in Lisbon) dealt with war-wasted human remnants moving across a charred European landscape. Remarque, whose second wife was Screen Actress Paulette Goddard, once said that "hatred is not a good...
...closing will doubtless influence the Swiss Senate, which begins debate this week on a bill to tighten the country's banking regulations. "The scandal can only help make the changes in the law more severe," says R.C. Harpham, First National City Bank's vice president in Switzerland...
...five governments involved in the negotiating?the U.S., Britain, West Germany, Switzerland and Israel?also added to the confusion. The West Germans once again contemplated trading unilaterally for the release of two citizens by freeing three Arabs imprisoned by Bonn. British Foreign Minister Alec Douglas-Home, anxious to speed up deliberations, interrupted Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban's private visit to England to press for a promise to release more Arab prisoners. The Israelis agreed, among other things, to give up the two Algerian intelligence agents they had been holding. For its part, the U.S., which had dispatched Sixth Fleet...
...Pope's order leaves only the plumed, halberd-bearing Swiss Guards, a favorite of picture-snapping tourists, to patrol the venerable streets of the Vatican. Even the Guards, all Swiss Catholics and veterans of Switzerland's army, are a pale shadow of what they used to be. Founded in 1505 by Julius II, "the fighting Pope," 147 of the 189 Guards once died defending Pope Clement VII against 10,000 of Charles V's mercenaries. Because of recruiting problems, their numbers have dwindled to 59, and their functions have become largely ceremonial. In case of any real...