Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of blocking talks between East and West Germany [WORLD, Sept. 17], the Soviets should realize that Germany is the flash point between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries. Were Germany reunified as a neutral country and barred, like Japan, from building offensive forces, it would join Sweden, Austria and Yugoslavia as a buffer between the two groups. Both superpowers could then reduce their missiles and occupying armies...
...consequences of this sportive invasion are both visible and dispiriting. The main route up the Matterhorn has been worn as smooth as a dance floor by climbers and is currently closed to all but advanced mountaineers. Austria's Grossglockner, a formidable peak once noted for its splendid isolation, is attacked daily by up to 200 excursionists, most of them aided by ropes and guides. So many would-be conquerors cluster around the trail that the Austrian government has built wooden platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists...
...Austrian woman, the difficult birth of their daughter, their brief vacations while the crash of Europe rumbles in the background, his worry as shaky news-service jobs wash out from under him. His account of trying to get CBS to pay attention to the imminent annexation of Austria, while a New York executive insisted that he set up a series of children's choir broadcasts, is a classic tale of the man in the field confounded by home-office buffoonery...
...expenses," but that notation was blacked out and changed to "consulting fees." The recipients: Meese, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Michael Deaver and Administration Personnel Director E. Pendleton James, who got $10,000 each; Interior Secretary William Clark, who got $9,942; and Helene von Damm, Ambassador to Austria, who received...
...excitement was caused by Prime Minister P.W. Botha's 16-day trip to Western Eu rope, the most ambitious journey under taken by a South African leader in almost 40 years. The purpose of the trip, which is taking Botha to Portugal, Switzerland, Britain, West Germany, Belgium, France, Austria and perhaps Italy: to move South Africa a bit further from the limbo to which its apartheid policies have condemned it for the past generation...