Word: austria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dubious honor for the last remaining superpower, but the U.S. can now claim to be the bargain basement of the world. Signs of this distinction are everywhere this summer -- atop the Empire State Building, for instance, where Klaus Graumann, 27, a molecular biologist from Austria, is snapping pictures with his just acquired Olympus camera, wearing jeans, a polo shirt and running shoes also bought during his visit. "We say, 'O.K., we've seen the museums. Let's get a sandwich and go to the department store,' " notes Graumann...
...three years since this obscure Moscow lawyer careened into the national spotlight, his career has combined the shrewd manipulation of an instinctive demagogue with the abandon of a swinging Sybarite. Zhirinovsky has slugged fellow lawmakers in the halls of parliament, hobnobbed with ex-Nazi storm troopers in Austria and posed, au naturel, for photographers while cavorting in a steam bath in Serbia. He has been kicked out of or denied access to nearly half a dozen European countries. He has threatened to restore Russia's imperial borders, annex Alaska, invade Turkey, repartition Poland, give Germany "another Chernobyl," turn Kazakhstan into...
...swam across the Danube River into the Soviet Zone of Austria. There he was met by Soviet agents who placed him in a holding cell for two weeks before escorting him to the former East Germany...
...Once we got inland, Jerry turned out to be mostly fanatical Hitler Youth and conscripts from Italy, Poland and Austria. The one who shot me was so young he'd never needed to shave. You couldn't think about getting killed: either you got them, or they...
...basis of extensive reporting in France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Turkey, much of it involving privileged access to investigators as well as to police and court files, TIME has compiled this report on four major murder cases. Complete with mysterious blue baseball caps, safe houses and none-too- bright hit men, these cases, Western authorities believe, point to Tehran's role in hunting down its opponents abroad...