Word: austria
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...European Union reached agreements with Austria, Sweden and Finland on terms for membership beginning in 1995. Talks with Norway continue. Each of the four countries must now hold a national referendum on E.U. membership...
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Jorg Haider's right-wing Freedom Party wins 12% of the vote in provincial elections in Lower Austria...
...mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, lost two fingers and a thumb when a letter bomb exploded as he opened it at his home. Zilk was the most prominent victim of a wave of 10 letter bombings that has injured five people in Austria since Dec. 3. Police arrested two right-wing extremists they believe are responsible for the attacks. All the bombs were accompanied by notes signed Count Rudiger von Starhemberg, a reference to the Viennese hero who directed the city's resistance to Ottoman armies...