LIECHTENSTEIN: Keeping Up with Kuwait

Women's suffrage? Not a soul in the postage-stamp principality of Liechtenstein (pop. 22,000) would dare admit to being against it. All three newspapers supported it. Every automobile in sight had a sticker reading I'M FOR IT. Dozens of reporters searched for days without finding a single man who would speak out in opposition. Yet last week, when Liechtenstein's conservative, German-speaking male voters went to the polls, only 1,817 said ja, while 1,897 voted nein.

Occupying only 62 square miles in the mountains between Austria and Switzerland, Liechtenstein has few but varied claims to fame. It is ruled by a prince...

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