Cluster: Swiss Identity

Between idyll and reality

This content was published on Mar 7, 2000 A photographic exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum in Berne takes a look at the two faces of one of Switzerland’s most picturesque regions. “Between Idyll and Reality” contrasts the rural tranquillity of the Emmental in Canton Berne with the often harsh conditions of everyday life. Curator Markus Schürf says the intention is to show…

An exhibition that’s well worth the trip

This content was published on Mar 6, 2000 The Museum of Design in Zurich currently has an exhibition of art inspired by the drug LSD. Entitled “Can You Pass the Acid Test” it features posters designed in the 1960s by San Francisco-based artists. As the saying goes, if you can remember the 1960s, you can’t have been around at the time. In other…

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Incendiary device found near centre where world leaders met

This content was published on Mar 5, 2000 Police in canton Graubünden have found what appears to be an incendiary device hidden close to the conference centre in Davos, which houses the annual summit of the World Economic Forum. This year’s event was attended by world business and political leaders, including President Clinton. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office confirmed a report in the weekly…

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Swiss 20-year-old is surprise downhill winner

This content was published on Mar 5, 2000 Switzerland’s Corinne Imlig has achieved a surprise downhill win in front of home fans in the resort of Lenzerheide. It was the 20-year-old’s sixth World Cup race. Imlig started 33rd and has never been placed higher than 20th in a downhill. But she gave a glimpse of what was to come when she posted the…

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Founder of Terre des Hommes dies

This content was published on Mar 5, 2000 Edmond Kaiser, the founder of the Swiss humanitarian organisation, Terre des Hommes, has died in India at the age of 86. A spokesman for Sentinelles, another children’s charity set up by Kaiser, said he died on Saturday following an illness. He gave no further details. Kaiser was born to a Jewish family in Paris in…

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Ogi urges Swiss men to do more for sick and elderly

This content was published on Mar 4, 2000 The Swiss president, Adolf Ogi, has urged men to do more to care for the sick and the infirm. His appeal came in speech broadcast on radio and television today to mark the National Day of the Sick. It reflects the theme of this year’s campaign: “Is caring for the sick really a concern to…

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Swiss delegation returns from Chechen “Hell”

This content was published on Mar 4, 2000 The head of the Swiss Disaster Relief Corps, Charles Raedersdorf, has just returned from a visit to Russia’s breakaway republic of Chechnya. He said the capital, Grozny, was “like Hell” (picture shows Russian soldier patrolling city). Raedersdorf told reporters that the situation in Grozny defied imagination. He is the first representative of a foreign government…

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Swiss capital’s Aare river brings home a piece of local history

This content was published on Mar 3, 2000 The chance discovery of a sculpture in Berne’s Aare river has set archaeologists’ pulses racing. The work was quickly identified as a Swiss military commander, but the identity of the sculptor remains a mystery. Volunteers were cleaning up the banks of the Aare after a heavy storm, when a member of the local fishing club…

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Geneva prosecutor disappointed by Pinochet ruling

This content was published on Mar 2, 2000 Canton Geneva’s chief prosecutor, Bernard Bertossa, says he is “extremely disappointed” about the British government’s decision to free the former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet. The Swiss authorities, meanwhile, are checking whether they can lodge an appeal. Switzerland was one of four countries that had requested the general’s extradition in connection with disappearances or human rights…

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Zurich collector returns Pompeii Fresco

This content was published on Mar 2, 2000 A Zurich art collector has returned a fresco missing from Pompeii since 1947 to the authorities in the Italian city of Naples. The fresco, a peacock against a yellow background, was located three years ago by an Italian curator who noticed a reference to it in a Swiss art catalogue. It is believed to date…

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