Word: austria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus ended a Wanderjahr in which Wolf fled through central Europe to the Soviet Union shortly before unification, then trekked backward because his continued sanctuary in Moscow seemed risky in the aftermath of the failed August coup. In Austria, his last stop before turning himself in, Wolf appeared to be teasing Bonn with impunity for three weeks. He applied for political asylum, counting on the international legal practice prohibiting extradition of individuals to countries where they are wanted for political crimes...
...Austria's avowed desire to have the unwanted guest leave -- and the refusal of Sweden and possibly other countries to which the fugitive spook applied for asylum -- limited his options. Returning to the Soviet Union was an unappealing choice; after all, the presence there of former East German leader Erich Honecker continues to be a sore spot in Moscow's relations with Bonn. According to the German Foreign Ministry, Honecker himself is considering returning to Germany...
...long time ago, a young man bundled himself up in a weatherproof leather coat, shouldered a crude wooden backpack, grabbed a knife, a bow and an ax, and headed into the Tyrolean Alps, which run between Austria and Italy. Up high in the mountains, at about 3,200 m (10,500 ft.), something happened -- an accident, a violent blow -- that took his life and left him to be swallowed by the Similaun Glacier. There he lay, locked in a crevasse, buried, frozen, forgotten...
Wolf fled to the Soviet Union shortly before German unification last October. In the aftermath of the failed Soviet coup, he apparently feared that the reformers now in power in Moscow would hand him over to Germany. Though Austria is expected to deny Wolf's appeal, it cannot deport him to his homeland; international law protects him against extradition for political crimes. So where will he go? The Soviet Union, which has already antagonized Germany by harboring former East German leader Erich Honecker, is unlikely to want him back. Wolf says his own choice would be Germany. But coming...
...Serbian nationalism went on to ignite the First World War, the E.C. last week seemed to feel much as Bismarck had. At an emergency session in the Hague, the Community's foreign ministers rejected the idea of committing a "buffer" military force. The rejection prompted three other countries -- Canada, Austria and Australia -- to call on the U.N. to step in. When France and Germany joined the appeal, it seemed Europe was about to shirk a responsibility -- one that, in the end, might devolve on American leadership...