ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) -- What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.
According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.
Friday, March 02, 2007
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Yet more men trying to get into Abp Haas's seminary?!
Ta for the email - as you surmised, I've been snowed under - am finishing the Book of Margery Kempe for my 3rd years now - will email properly once am in less of a tizzy!
Boeciana
(currently unable to log in because either blogger's acting up or I'm so confused by life that I've forgotten all my passwords. Or both)
Glad to hear you haven;t totally vanished off the face of the earth! ;)
... and centuries of carefully guarded neutrality were suddenly a mere shiver in the night breeze ...
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