Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beats and trumpet calls from the capitals of the world had turned into a virtual symphony. NATO was convening in Brussels while the Warsaw Pact was gathering in Warsaw; Naples played host to a meeting of European Community foreign ministers, and Islamabad welcomed officials from the Islamic Conference states. Austria was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the end of postwar occupation, a glittering occasion that brought East and West together and provided the setting for the Muskie-Gromyko meeting. And this week, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev planned...
...blunt spokesman for this position. In his address at the Austrian celebrations, with Gromyko sitting just a few feet from him, Muskie clearly alluded to the Afghanistan invasion as he said that "the principles of neutrality, of independence and territorial integrity so respected in the case of Austria are today being violated . . . An act of aggression anywhere threatens security everywhere...
Carter hailed the German decision as "courageous," and U.S. officials hope it will sway the committees of several European nations. Austria, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, all are voting this week. Saturday is the deadline for a final go, no-go decision. Bonn's move might lead to reversal of go decisions by some others. Maybe even France. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is said to have promised Schmidt that the French would not go to Moscow if the Germans stayed away. Giscard, indeed, could even be trying to play a complex double game: winning Soviet...
Muskie and Gromyko will both be in Vienna to participate in ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the treaty ending the postwar occupation of Austria. Though their meeting is expected to be little more than a polite chat, it has symbolic importance. Not since superpower relations were severely chilled by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has there been any high-level contact between Washington and Moscow. If their brief talks go well, the two men may agree to see each other again, perhaps as soon as next month, for more comprehensive discussions that just might reopen a substantive U.S.-Soviet...
...Hasidim in Brooklyn, who touched the lives of all observant American Jews by requiring enforcement of the most rigorous standards for the preparation of kosher food; in New York City. Born in what is now the Soviet Ukraine, Grunwald was grand rabbi of Tzehlem, a town in northern Austria, when in 1938 he led his congregation to the U.S. to escape Nazi persecution; later he aided the postwar resettlement of many Hasidic Jews, whose men wear broad-brimmed black hats, grow their sideburns into long curls and never shave, heeding the biblical injunction: "Ye shall not round the corners...