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Switzerland, fighting to remain neutral, mulls U.N. membership.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
GENEVA, Switzerland _ Madeline Kung's decision about how to vote in a referendum that Switzerland is holding Sunday on joining the United Nations shows just how adept the Swiss are at avoiding controversy.
The Geneva office worker said she would mark her responses to other questions on the ballot, but leave the one about U.N. membership blank. Her reason is obvious: "I am remaining neutral."
Kung is just another in a long and steadfast line of Swiss who over the centuries have chosen to stay clear of life's frays, big and small. As European powers marched across the continent seeking domination, they have historically skipped this landlocked mountain state _ and not just because Switzerland's terrain presented a challenge to their armies.
The country for hundreds of years has sought to stay clear of conflict and to be rigorously _ if not sometimes controversially _ neutral.
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