Word: austria
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...revolutions of 1848 failed. The leaders of the uprisings fell out among themselves, and the forces of conservatism managed to regain control. Autocrats in Austria and Prussia revoked constitutions they had granted under popular pressure, and Bonaparte's flamboyant nephew, Louis Napoleon, became dictator of France...
...freezing of $60.1 million in bank accounts in five countries that contained the personal income of Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, a leader of the Medellin cartel. Using financial records and computer disks captured by the Colombian government, U.S. agents traced Rodriguez money to accounts in the U.S., Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria and Britain...
Henry Grunwald, U.S. Ambassador to Austria (and former editor-in-chief of Time Inc.), who expressed his personal views, acknowledged that there would be "a great temptation for the Soviets and others to have a little repression on the way to free markets," a process he called "perestroika without glasnost." But Grunwald doubted even that would have the desired result. He pointed out that while some Asian economies -- Taiwan's and South Korea's, for example -- flourished under authoritarian regimes, much of Latin America's had not. Said he: "There must be a degree of democracy and freedom for people...
Czechoslovak army units yesterday began pulling down barbed wire fencing along a 20-mile stretch of its border with Austria. After the first stretch of the fence was cut away and rolled up, officials from both countries met on the open border near the Austrian town of Wullowitz to shake hands...
...think that at the end of this whole process, there will be a neutral, nuclear-free zone in Central Europe as already exists to the north in Finland and Sweden and to the south in Austria and Switzerland...