Word: austria
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Europeans have been pursuing other parts of the agreement in recent weeks. Gaz de France, the French government-owned gas company, has reportedly signed up for 7.8 billion cubic meters per year. Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland are also expected to buy large amounts of gas from the pipeline. Contracts worth about $1 billion for the construction of compressor stations have been awarded to West German and French firms. Still to be negotiated are the contracts for 3.25 million metric tons of steel pipe worth more than $2 billion...
...Francisco Opera's glittering new production of Aida, a capacity audience-plus 3,000 more Pavarotti fans, watching a closed-circuit broadcast in a nearby auditorium, as well as live-television viewers in Germany, Austria and Spain-saw and heard him struggle unsuccessfully against the vocally ungrateful requirements of Radames. Not content with being the world's foremost lyric tenor, Pavarotti in recent years has been moving into the heavier spin to repertory, forsaking the Lord Arthur Talbots and Tonios of Bellini and Donizetti for roles that call for weightier, more declamatory singing-Enzo in Ponchielli...
...modern state of Poland was born on Nov. 11, 1918, the day the country regained its liberty after 123 years of partition among Prussia, Russia and Austria. Until World War II the date was traditionally celebrated as Independence Day. After the war, however, the Communists ignored the anniversary, observing instead Nov. 7, the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. In recent years the government has interfered with attempts to commemorate...
ENGAGED. Princess Marie-Astrid, 27, eldest daughter of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; and Karl Christian von Habsburg-Lorraine, 27, Brussels banker, son of Archduke Charles Louis of Austria and grandson of the late Austrian Emperor Karl I; in Luxembourg. Princess Marie-Astrid made headlines last year because she was the last eligible princess to be linked with Britain's Prince Charles before he chose Lady Diana Spencer. Astrid's wedding is planned...
...World; reform of international lending agencies to provide cheaper credit to the Third World; stabilization of oil and commodity prices to benefit the developing countries. The Brandt report also urged that leaders of the industrialized North and the underdeveloped South gather to discuss their "mutuality of interest." Mexico and Austria took charge and began planning the Cancún conference more than a year...