Word: austria
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...video compression, and Cellnet, a cellular-phone firm that will team up with British Telecom to work on Murdoch's electronic superhighway. At the same time, Murdoch is joining forces with German TV broadcaster PRO 7 to provide and manage satellite channels reaching 100 million potential viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, starting next January...
Next on the Wiesenthal hit list is Alois Brunner, a lieutenant of Adolf Eichmann's, the executor of Hitler's "final solution." Brunner, now about 80, is thought responsible for the deportation of 128,000 Jews from Austria, France, Greece and Slovakia to the death camps. He has long been believed to be hiding behind the alias Georg Fischer in Syria. The Israeli intelligence service reportedly once sent him a package bomb that cost him four fingers. Unconfirmed reports of his death have surfaced recently...
...only can Germany send unwanted arrivals back to those states, but the "safe" countries will now be much more careful about letting migrants cross their borders lest they be stuck with them. Hungary, for example, turned back 1.3 million people from farther east over the past year because Austria and Germany will not accept them. Austria, in turn, has tried to stop Bosnians from using it as a route into Germany. Measures adopted in Vienna this year make it much harder for anyone entering Austria to live and work there, and this month new regulations go into effect that strictly...
Bonding sounds ominous, if it means posting big bucks to be forfeited (as with a bail bond) in case of calamity. But it would be hard to argue against voluntary hiking-and-climbing insurance, perhaps offered at modest extra cost along with park entrance fees. In Austria insurance comes with membership in the Alpine Club, which costs little and also gives unlimited opportunity to climb with experts...
...copy-cat syndrome," Johnson said. "After that guy from Austria started to call people 'Korean Bitch,' other people started to piggyback...