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...Swiss, usually slow to anger, were furious. This was the second time that their cherished neutrality had been violated because of a remote conflict; one year ago, Arab terrorists shot up an El Al plane at Zurich airport. The Federal Council, Switzerland's Cabinet, took the unusual measure of demanding visas from future Arab visitors...
...molehill," in this case, was a towering wall of snow that had torn loose from Switzerland's 11,532-ft. Gelmihorn just before dawn one day last week and roared into a group of buildings near the village of Reckingen. Some 50 sleeping occupants were buried in a 40-ft. mound of snow. The canton's rescue squad rushed to the scene with snow-sounding poles and dogs, but its efforts were hampered by a howling blizzard. The eventual toll: 30 dead, 18 injured, most of them officers of a Swiss army unit that had been practice-shooting...
Freakish Weather. It was Switzerland's worst single avalanche disaster since 1749, and one of the latest in a series of giant slides that have already made many of Europe's towering mountain ranges more perilous this winter than at any time since World War II. More than 100 persons have been killed by falling snow in France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria...
Loyal Bedouins. Whether the commando group was responsible or not, its claim was certain to anger both Switzerland and Austria-whose aircraft were involved-and other neutral nations, which now are presumably no longer immune to commando attacks on their Israel-bound airliners. The action was also certain to heighten passions in the troubled Middle East. Tel Aviv, sensitive to attacks on its communication lines, was likely to react violently to the sabotage of airliners enroute to Israel...
...thoughts. From Rome their honeymoon odyssey took them to the U.S., where they caught Liza Minnelli's act in New York, viewed the space center at Huntsville, Ala., and attended the Heart Ball in Palm Beach. Result: more batteries of cameras. Upcoming on their trip: Norway, Lebanon and Switzerland...