Word: switzerland
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...Belgium 57% 63% Portugal 57% 64% Italy 44% 52% Switzerland...
...Mario Dotti, 30, handsome Italian psychiatrist whom she met on a Roman holiday last July; she for the second time (her 14-year marriage to Actor Mel Ferrer ended in divorce two months ago), he for the first; in a quiet civil ceremony held near her home in Merges, Switzerland...
...remaining aloof from the passions and wars of other Arab lands, Lebanon, alone of Israel's neighbors, has escaped losing territory to Israel. It has pursued the role of a Middle Eastern Switzerland, providing its 2,700,000 people with the highest living standard of any Arab country. Beirut is a cosmopolitan city of thriving banks and glittering beaches, excellent restaurants and gaudy nightclubs. Internally, Lebanon has maintained a delicate equilibrium since it gained independence from French mandate rule in 1943, by an unwritten "national covenant" apportioning political power between the Christian and Moslem halves of its population...
...statement, which will be sent to Pope Paul for his consideration, was signed by some of the most respected theological minds of Roman Catholicism. They included Switzerland's Hans Kung, the Dominicans' Edward Schillebeeckx of Holland and Yves Congar of France, German Jesuit Karl Rahner and American Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie. "In genuine, complete and unambiguous loyalty to the church," began the statement, which was drafted by Kung and German Jesuit Johannes Neumann, "the undersigned theologians feel compelled to point out publicly that the freedom of theologians in the service of the church, regained by the Second...
That difficulty is understandable. Switzerland owes its famous banking prowess to the soundness of its currency, the secrecy of its financial men and the neutrality of its politicians. Numbered accounts were introduced in the 1930s to thwart Nazi Germany from hunting down assets hidden abroad by its citizens, mostly German Jews. As a rule, only one or two top bank officers know the identity of holders of such accounts. Under Swiss law, those who do know have a "duty to observe silence of professional secrecy." Otherwise they face a fine of up to $5,000 and six months in jail...