Cluster: Swiss Identity

Safe-sex campaign targets modern-day Don Juan

This content was published on Jun 17, 2000 Instead the campaign, dubbed the “Don Juan” project, urges heterosexual men to take responsibility for their own actions, by making sure they, and not their sexual partners, are the ones to insist on wearing condoms. It means breaking down the deeply-ingrained attitudes of many men towards wearing condoms. Planning the project started in 1997, but…

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Ullrich grabs gold jersey in Tour de Suisse

This content was published on Jun 17, 2000 The German finished the stage in third place, behind Latvia’s Raivis Belohvosciks and the Italian, Dario Frigo. It was enough to snatch the leader’s gold jersey from France’s Pascal Hervé, who finished lower down in the field. It is the fifth time in as many days that a different rider has donned the leader’s jersey.…

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Hervé leads in Tour de Suisse after winning fourth stage

This content was published on Jun 16, 2000 The 35-year-old Hervé completed the 156km stage from Fribourg to the mountain resort of Verbier, in three hours, 46 minutes and 51 seconds. He jumped into the lead some eight kilometres from the finish, eventually finishing 39 seconds ahead of Switzerland’s Oscar Camerzind, who takes third place overall. The Swiss rider, Laurent Dufaux, was fourth.…

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Swiss meeting pledges to improve disaster relief

This content was published on Jun 16, 2000 The Swiss foreign minister, Joseph Deiss, described the two-day meeting as a real step forward. “Consensus has been obtained for a whole region of 52 countries centred on Europe. We have made progress in identifying the problems and defining the policies need to deal with them.” As conference host, Switzerland said it would sponsor a…

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The week in Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 16, 2000 The timing of the cabinet announcement came as a surprise to many: the government said it wanted to sell off its majority stake in the leading telecommunications operator, Swisscom. It also gave the green light for the Post Office to open a bank. The cabinet said the move was necessary to keep both companies competitive…

Celestini moves to France

This content was published on Jun 16, 2000 Troyes paid Lausanne SFr2.2 million for Celestini’s move. The attacking midfielder has signed on for three years with the club, which ended 14th in the French league this season. Celestini is the second key player to leave Lausanne since the end of the season, following the departure of the Swede, Stefan Rehn. Lausanne Sports were…

Motorway service station becomes work of art

This content was published on Jun 16, 2000 The façade of the Pratteln service station near Basel has been redesigned by Jorge Pardo, a Los Angeles-based artist who won an international competition to create a work of art out of a shopping bridge across a motorway at a busy gateway to Switzerland. Built in 1978 in a style typical of the time, the…

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Police seize bank documents in Liechtenstein

This content was published on Jun 16, 2000 In a communiqué, police said that an investigation had shown that foreign and domestic companies with links to people suspected of money laundering, had accounts at the LGT. It said that since the companies were “strongly suspected” of being guilty of money laundering, police had seized documents and electronic data concerning the accounts. The communiqué…

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Zberg loses overall lead in Tour de Suisse

This content was published on Jun 15, 2000 Zberg was relegated to fifth place overall, after finishing 12th in the 182km stage. But an impressive performance by newcomer, Marcel Strauss, ensured that Switzerland was represented in the top ten. Strauss took second place, coming in just three seconds behind Italy’s Vladimir Belli, who finished in four hours, 23 minutes and six seconds. The…

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Court frees fraud convict just weeks into prison term

This content was published on Jun 15, 2000 The court in canton Berne freed Peter Krüger after he’d served just six weeks of his term. No reason was given for the early release, but he was required to pay a security deposit of SFr800,000, and forbidden to leave the country. Krüger was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison…

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