Word: austria
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...book--that ordinary Germans, and not just Nazis, were responsible for the Holocaust--has sparked a furious debate in Germany and around the world since it was published last March. The work has spent seven weeks as the best-selling book in Germany, and has topped sales charts in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium as well...
KURT WALDHEIM, 78; VIENNA, AUSTRIA; Former U.N. Secretary-General...
...necessary to survive the day, the system, the war--no more, no less." He concedes that hiding his war record was a mistake but blames American Jews for his placement on the U.S. "watch list" of war criminals. He retired in 1992, following a six-year term as Austria's President--during which he was shunned by world leaders. An active grandfather of three, Waldheim now enjoys cycling, sailing and cross-country skiing, and international affairs remains an abiding interest. Recently, he openly criticized U.S. opposition to the re-election of U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
Britain 16% 19,410 France -0.6 7,872 Spain 7.7 7,473 Italy -10 7,062 Mexico -0.1 4,715 Germany -0.2 3,504 Australia 42 3,346 Israel 28 2,621 Costa Rica 30 2,302 Japan -0.8 2,212 Austria -27 1,489 Russia -15 1,290 China...
Hansen's characters are the seven members of the ship's band (their names and histories taken from the author's imagination, not from the crew list). They are a diverse lot, talented and quirky flotsam from England, France, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Russia and perhaps Germany (though none, strangely, from Scandinavia). We get the life stories of several in brooding, inward, coming-of-age chapters. These are effective, though they show signs of emptying the author's notebooks of a lifetime of cherished oddities, including the story that in the 1730s, Russia's Czarina Anna Ivanovna caused...