Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking of Fusco, three seniors on last year's NCAA runner-up squad are now playing in Europe--Fusco in Switzerland, Rob Ohno in West Germany and Tim Smith in Austria...
...quit his job suddenly last Sept. 22, and was charged the next day by the FBI with selling U.S. intelligence to Soviet KGB agents in Austria. But by then, he had disappeared...
When Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated last week as Austria's sixth President since 1945, the protests were few and symbolic. In the sunlit Great Hall of the Parliament building, some two dozen Socialist Members of Parliament wore black neckties. Many Socialists believe that Waldheim, who served in a German army command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps during World War II, is unfit to be President...
...Socialists treated the controversy gingerly. Only recently did Steyrer begin to allude openly to the damage a Waldheim victory could inflict on the country's reputation. WITH STEYRER, ALL OF AUSTRIA WINS proclaimed one campaign poster. Bruno Kreisky, the Socialist ex-Chancellor, last week appealed to his countrymen not to vote for Waldheim. Asked Kreisky: "Didn't we always have decent Presidents whom we could show in public...
Belatedly, Waldheim has made some conciliatory gestures toward Jews. Addressing People's Party functionaries and the press last month, he spoke for the first time of the enrichment that Austria has derived from "this small but so important Jewish community, which we would not wish to miss." Recognizing that "special grief has come through the Nazis to the Jews of Europe and our Jewish countrymen of Austria," Waldheim called on his fellow citizens "not to tolerate any new anti-Semitism in our country...