Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which reminds me of the month, three summers ago, when my parents, grandmother, brother and I vacationed in Austria and Switzerland. We spent the last week on a mountain called the Rigi Seebodenalp, near Lucerne...
...object to the term pariah in your story on the Pope's meeting with Kurt Waldheim. According to the dictionary, a pariah is an outcast. To use this word to describe President Waldheim, Austria's head of state, was offensive...
...Waldheim's first official trip outside Austria since his election in June 1986. His European neighbors had shunned him, and the U.S. has barred | visits by the former United Nations Secretary-General because of allegations that he was an accomplice to Nazi war crimes and knew of the 1944 deportation of 40,000 Greek Jews to death camps. Waldheim has denied the charges. Papal aides insisted that Austria had pressed hard for the visit. Said Vatican Spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls: "Because ((Waldheim)) represents Austria, he has the right to be received...
...announcing the visit, the Vatican said the meeting had been requested by the Austrian government and routinely granted. The Holy See noted its long- standing good relations with Austria and pointed to the Pope's record of condemning Nazi crimes. Many Jewish groups in the U.S. and Europe, however, felt differently. Some compared the meeting to one between the Pope and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat in 1982 and warned that the latest visit would set back Jewish-Roman Catholic relations...
...unremarkable without its world-class aesthetic aspirations. More than 200 architects from 15 countries entered IBA's invitational design competitions, and the winners constitute a sort of international Who's Who. West Berlin has or will soon have new IBA buildings by O.M. Ungers (West Germany), Hans Hollein (Austria), Rob Krier (Luxembourg), Mario Botta (Switzerland), Aldo Rossi (Italy), Oriol Bohigas (Spain), Rem Koolhaas (the Netherlands), James Stirling (Britain), Arata Isozaki (Japan) and, from the U.S., Charles Moore, Robert A.M. Stern, Stanley Tigerman, Peter Eisenman and John Hejduk. A museum show tied to IBA, "750 Years of Architecture and Urban Design...