Cluster: Swiss Identity

Festival brings music to streets of Neuchatel

This content was published on Aug 16, 2000 The lakeside canton’s capital is an ideal setting for street musicians, boasting a large pedestrian zone running up from the lake towards the imposing castle on the hill. With café terraces and market squares along the way, it’s the perfect territory for buskers. Grillon got the idea at the end of the 1980s, after a…

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Swiss face key football test without star players

This content was published on Aug 16, 2000 Trossero has been deprived of some of his star names for the match in St Gallen – a game he will use to size up his squad before the crucial World Cup qualifying campaign begins against Russia in Zurich in two weeks’ time. Missing from the squad are two strikers, Stéphane Chapuisat and Kubilay Türkyilmaz,…

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Second trial underway in Pyramid scheme case

This content was published on Aug 16, 2000 The trial comes a day after seven local leaders of the organisation received suspended jail sentences for their part in the scam. A verdict in the second trial is not expected until August 29. On Tuesday, the court handed down suspended jail terms of between five and 14 months on six Swiss and one Italian.…

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Zülle to leave Banesto?

This content was published on Aug 16, 2000 The French sports daily, “L’équipe”, said Zülle’s current team, Banesto of Spain, was unhappy with his performance during the Tour de France, and had decided to abandon him. Zülle withdrew from the Tour in the final week. After finishing in second place in 1999, he was struggling to keep up during this year’s event, and…

Mixed showing for Swiss players ahead of US Open

This content was published on Aug 16, 2000 Playing in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Kratochvil (ATP 113) had a smooth victory over the American, Philipp King (ATP 320), in the first round of that ATP tournament. The same could not be said of Roger Federer (ATP 40). He fell in two sets (6-4, 7-5) to Australia’s James Sekulov (ATP 191). Ivo Heuberger (ATP 203)…

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Festival organ marks completion of Lucerne culture centre

This content was published on Aug 16, 2000 Its function will be both as part of a large symphonic orchestra and as a solo instrument in the main auditorium of Lucerne’s Culture and Congress Centre. Its inauguration is seen as the final jewel in the crown of the highly acclaimed building, completed two years ago. Built by Goll AG of Lucerne, the organ…

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US court grapples with jurisdiction question in Swissair disaster case

This content was published on Aug 16, 2000 A judge in Philadelphia has to decide whether the courts in the US can address the claims of European families. The stakes are high, as US courts are typically more generous in awarding damages than European courts. All 229 people on board died when the aircraft crashed near Halifax off the coast of Canada on…

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Austrian film legend turns 105

This content was published on Aug 16, 2000 Liane Haid is more than a film legend; she is as old as the medium itself and retired in 1942. Today, she doesn’t get out much, and her eyesight and hearing is not as good as it once was, but her son, musician Pierre Spycher-Haid, says she’s doing well at home in Wabern. . Haid…

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Geneva judge holds talks in US in Russian embezzlement probe

This content was published on Aug 15, 2000 In New York, Kasper-Ansermet is talking to the Federal Attorneys charged with responding to his request for legal assistance, as well as officials from the state of New York’s banking supervisory commission. “I sent an official request for information to the US authorities in January and I am still waiting for a reply,” Laurent Kasper-Ansermet…

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Zurich police pull off major heroin bust

This content was published on Aug 15, 2000 In a statement on Tuesday, police said they had seized 31,3 kilogrammes of heroin. The bust took place on Saturday, after a search of two vehicles yielded 32 packets of heroin, each weighing half a kilogramme. Two men were arrested. Police then raided an apartment in Volketswil, belonging to the parents of one of the…

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