Cluster: Swiss Identity

Greenpeace uses new ammunition against nuclear waste transports

This content was published on Apr 11, 2000 The environmental organisation, Greenpeace, has pointed the finger at the energy ministry, alleging that it contravenes Swiss law when it allows nuclear waste to be exported for reprocessing to Britain and France. Greenpeace based its argument on a legal study unveiled today. The author of the report, by the law professor, Heribert Rausch, claims that…

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Marthaler produces sombre review of a century

This content was published on Apr 10, 2000 The Basel Theatre has staged an eagerly-awaited first performance of the latest project by the theatre producer Christoph Marthaler. “20th Century Blues” invites the audience to put together in their mind the music of some of the great composers of the 20th century with abstract evocations of the contradictory moods that the period created. The…

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Swiss Holocaust revisionist jailed for one year

This content was published on Apr 10, 2000 Gaston-Armand Amaudruz has been given a one-year jail term by a Lausanne court for repeatedly writing articles which negate the Holocaust and Nazi war crimes. The prosecution had asked for a fifteen month sentence. It is only the second time since the advent of the 1995 Swiss anti-racism law that a sentence of this length…

Culture

Literature house opens with music and dance

This content was published on Apr 10, 2000 The official opening of a «House of Literature» in Basel was celebrated with a programme indicating that there will be much more to it than the printed word. But although guests were entertained by music and dance, all of it was text-oriented. “It will have three basic functions,” said Walter Brack of the Christoph Merian…

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Damages claims brought against doomsday cult leader

This content was published on Apr 10, 2000 Uriella, the Swiss leader of the doomsday cult “Fiat Lux”, is on trial again. A court in canton Appenzell-Ausserrhoden is hearing a claim by a former follower that the cult cheated her out of her entire assets totalling more than SFr600,000. The 59 year-old woman from Zurich, who had been a member of “Fiat Lux”…

Culture

Zurich banishes the winter with traditional bonfire

This content was published on Apr 10, 2000 Zürich has celebrated the end of winter with the city’s traditional Sechseläuten festival. The city guilds’ traditional afternoon parade was followed by fireworks and a huge bonfire with the burning of the Böög (pictured) at the stroke of six. Winter is officially over with the burning of the Böögg, a three metre high snowman stuffed…

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Harsh criticism of decision to resume canyoning at site of disaster

This content was published on Apr 8, 2000 The company responsible for a canyoning excursion that resulted in disaster last July, when 21 people died near the Swiss town of Interlaken, wants to start taking groups down the site of the tragedy again. Adventure World said it would resume trips down the Saxeten gorge on May 1.But a relative of two of the…

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Swiss Red Cross says blood donations safer than ever

This content was published on Apr 7, 2000 The Swiss Red Cross says blood transfusions in Switzerland are safer than ever before. Launching a campaign to attract new donors, officials said no case of tainted blood transfusions had been registered for the past three years. Guy Lévy, the director of the Red Cross’ transfusion centre, said the risk of contracting Aids or hepatitis…

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Week in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 7, 2000 Asylum issues, a vote on a bilateral treaty with the European Union and the trial of a notorious extremist dominated the news headlines this week in Switzerland. The justice minister, Ruth Metzler, visited Kosovo this week for talks on the planned repatriation of refugees from Switzerland. She met families who have already returned under a…

Basel museum traces history of tobacco

This content was published on Apr 7, 2000 Anyone trying to give up the smoking habit is advised to stay well clear of the Culture Museum in Basel. It has mounted an exhibition on the social history of tobacco which gives the visitor as much pleasure as a good cigar. Tobacco was first cultivated as a medicinal plant by the indigenous population of…

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