Swiss Identity

Holocaust survivors meet claims deadline

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 Hillary Kessler-Goden, spokeswoman for the New York-based Claims Conference, said the organisation had received 220,000 applications by the December 31 2001 deadline. Of this number, 58,000 have already received payments. The Claims Conference estimates that once unfounded applications have been weeded out around 180,000 people will receive compensation. These claims will be met in the…

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Switzerland offers a second Christmas

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 Postal vans carrying unwanted or surplus Christmas gifts from all over Switzerland are arriving at the Swiss Red Cross supply depot in Bern, where over 150 volunteers will unpack and sort them for distribution in Switzerland, Bulgaria, Belarus and Rumania as part of the “Twice Christmas” charity campaign. The campaign organisers, the Swiss Red Cross,…

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Swiss pair win at last

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 The Swiss boyfriend-girlfriend team won the dead rubber’s deciding doubles match, beating Paola Suarez and Mariano Zabaleta 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (10-4). In the women’s singles, Suarez had earlier defeated Vavrinec 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 before Federer levelled the match for Switzerland with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Zabaleta in the men’s singles. Too late Thursday’s…

Beltrametti faces the future

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 After calling a media conference at the national paraplegic centre in Nottwil, the 22-year-old athlete said the last three and a half weeks had been extremely difficult but that he was now looking forward to building as independent a life as possible. “In the last few weeks I’ve been swinging from the lowest low to…

New player appears on newspaper market

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 The Mittelland-Zeitung has a circulation of almost 200,000 copies. As of January 3 the local and regional newspapers, Aargauer Zeitung, Oltner Tagblatt, Solothurner Zeitung and Zofinger Tagblatt, are jointly publishing their pages with international and national news, as well as the business and arts sections. However, the publishers said the four titles would remain independent…

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Hösli & Ricardo: Blau

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Ciderman: The rabbits dream

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Congaking: Tatsachen und Meinungen

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Plane passengers anxious as Swiss authorities ease knife ban

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 A security official at Geneva airport detected a knife in a passenger’s bag, but then handed it back to him and allowed him to board the Crossair aircraft, headed for London City Airport on January 2. Shocked passengers complained to airport and airline staff. One passenger was a London broker who lost dozens of colleagues…

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Dolphin death toll rises in Connyland

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 Fourteen-year-old Gecko is the third dolphin to die at Connyland recreation park in the last 18 months. In July 2000, a dolphin died within days of birth after suffering from a heart malformation. One month later, another female produced a stillborn baby. A former Connyland trainer, Graziella Bianca, announced Gecko’s death by fax and email…

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