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Elisabeth Sauter-Frey Zurich...
Norwegian-born Audun Endestad, the newest U.S. citizen, barely made it. Leaving the Nordic ski team in Zurich, on a Monday morning, he paused in New York City en route to Salt Lake City, where he was sworn in thanks to a hurriedly signed special Senate bill in the works for about a year. Next, Endestad flew to San Francisco in quest of a passport, and from there he headed to Sarajevo, where he rushed directly from the airport to the stadium and dressed just in time for Tuesday's overture. Whew...
...anyone should have sent the sexual walls tumbling down, it was Lilian Uchtenhagen, 55. An economist, she had compiled a distinguished record as president of the finance commission in the lower house of Parliament and served on the board of directors of a major Zurich retail chain. As the wife of a prominent Swiss psychiatrist and the mother of three adopted children from Madagascar, Uchtenhagen has a touch of the hausfrau that, it was thought, would make her acceptable to her male colleagues in government. Convinced that Uchtenhagen was well qualified for the job, the Social Democratic Party nominated...
...fact, public opinion polls taken before the vote showed that 64% of citizens thought it was time to have a woman at the highest level of government. Said the Zurich tabloid Blick: "The people wanted Lilian, but the gentlemen in Bern elected a man." Swiss women refer to the day of the vote, Dec. 7, as Black Wednesday...
Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president of Credit Suisse, was encouraged by some of the trends he sees accompanying the economic expansion. He predicted that the drive for greater efficiency and profitability is likely to push firms toward more capital investment and increased emphasis on exports. He expected that the nine major European economies would produce a surplus of $30 billion in their trade of goods and services this year. That compares with a rough balance in 1983. The U.S. last year had a deficit of about $40 billion, and could incur a shortfall...