Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exploration leases on parcels of land no larger than 8,000 acres. The Denver-based Eagle Exploration Co. has bigger ambitions than that. It has won the drilling rights for the entire territory of Liechtenstein, the tiny principality that nestles in the Alps between Switzerland and Austria...
...Cruel Sea), may have developed his unerring tempo from that medium. His labyrinthine plots, however, are uniquely Amblerian. Hero Halliday, who is forced into acting as intermediary between the Ruler, the Pike and NATO intelligence, finally meets the sheik in a house above an abandoned silver mine in Austria. Though the mine is supposed to be a potential treatment center for respiratory diseases, Halliday discovers that the potentate has far more sinister intentions. What follows thereafter is a frenetic and wholly plausible chase, with enough twists and alarms to fuel two more novels...
...withdrawal. The U.S., for its part, issued a statement saying that the new South African action "must be understood in its full context" of the struggle against SWAPO and emphasized the "urgent" need for a Namibia solution. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim cut short a vacation in his native Austria and hastily returned to New York to prepare for a Security Council meeting, as demanded by Angola, on the incursion. By week's end, heated exchanges had taken place in the Council, and one U.S. Administration official expressed concern that "lacerating South Africa at the U.N. will just make...
...Godfather films. They fell in love and lived together until Cazale died of bone cancer two years later, at 42. By the time they worked together in Michael Cimino's Deer Hunter, Cazale was fighting for the strength to say his lines. Streep had contracted to film Holocaust in Austria, where, as Cazale was dying in the U.S., she played a woman whose husband was imprisoned in a concentration camp. It was a grim experience, but, says Actor Fritz Weaver, who worked with her, "there was not one moment of self-pity. She has tremendous professional devotion." Back...
DIED. Karl Böhm, 86, august Austrian conductor celebrated for his lucid, authoritative interpretations, especially of Mozart, Wagner and his friend Richard Strauss; of a stroke; in Salzburg, Austria. Despite the international scope of his appearances and recordings, Bohm remained most closely associated with three great native institutions: the Vienna State Opera (at which he served two stints as director), the Salzburg Music Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic. A stickler for detail who shunned showmanship for clarity and fidelity to the score, he once said: "I bring to conducting my own enthusiasm for the music-and then there...