Word: switzerland
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Early Surrender. Dulles did change history when he returned to Bern in 1942 as OSS chief in Switzerland. A contact known pseudonymously as George Wood, in the German Foreign Office, sent him more than 2,000 documents from Berlin. Dulles kept in touch with the ring of German officers who tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. He learned of the V-l and V-2 secret-weapons development at the Peenemunde research center in time for Allied bombing raids to set the program back for crucial months...
...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...