Word: austria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starbucks No. 3--The aforementioned Church St. site. Uncovered brick walls give it a neighborhood feel. Pouting intellectual in corner, young women mumbling about knitting in Austria, yuppies in the window. Good cover for an invasion...
...idea to get money back from Switzerland's bankers, who bragged about their neutrality even while taking gold stolen, like Linder's ring, from the Jews, came to the California resident last July as he visited Austria on a lecture tour. In Vienna he read about how much looted Nazi wealth remained in Swiss banks and how others were trying to retrieve funds deposited for safekeeping there...
...work and used his stature to force recognition of Jewish rights as he sees them. Bronfman championed the campaign to make the former Soviet Union permit Russian Jews to emigrate, and he almost single-handedly ended the career of Kurt Waldheim, once U.N. Secretary-General, then President of Austria, for alleged war crimes. "Part of my life and part of the things that I want out of life," he says, "is to be a Jewish leader...
...pressure of the upcoming handover has led some nations that had never been involved, like Italy and Austria, to step forward. "This is not anti-China," says a diplomat. "This is an expression of commonly held ideas and principles about human rights...
...School stemmed from his pioneering work in Vienna with an autistic child he called Patsy. In fact, the girl had been treated by his first wife, Gina Alstadt, at a time when Bettelheim was running his family's lumber business. Similarly, Bettelheim boasted of having been a member of Austria's anti-Nazi resistance. Pollak quotes Alstadt as saying, "Bruno was not interested in politics...