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...reforms, which were proposed by a multiracial parliamentary committee, and should be passed by Parliament before the end of June, were greeted by many blacks with great relief. When Hubert Rietbauer, a 39-year-old Austrian-born mining technician, and Lettie Baloyi, the black woman he has lived with for eight years, appeared in a Transvaal regional court last Friday charged with sex law violations, the hearing lasted no more than a minute. Suddenly, after an ordeal that had spanned five court appearances and three days in jail, the couple was acquitted. "This is a great day," Rietbauer said...
...last week, Helmut Lang, the Austrian-born ready-to-wear designer and reigning minimalist of the '90s, resigned from his own company, which is owned by the Prada Group. The move ended a feud with Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli over how to reverse losses at Lang's line. In the mid-'90s, Lang's sales were as high as $100 million. When he sold a 51% stake in his namesake brand in 1999, Lang touted Bertelli as a guy who "understands the culture of a high-end product," and said, "His line is very, very well managed." Bertelli, who later...
Attorney General John Ashcroft or Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge too could catch the presidential bug. There's always the chance that a Draft Arnold movement could emerge, leading to the speedy passage of a constitutional amendment that would allow the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, to make...
DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, gentlemanly, Austrian-born Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist; of heart failure; in Los Altos Hills, Calif. In 1957, with $3,500 and seven colleagues, he came up with a way to mass-produce silicon transistors, a discovery that opened the door to developing desktop computers and cell phones and spawned companies like Intel. In 1972, he co-founded Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a venture-capital firm that helped establish more than 300 companies, including Compaq and Sun Microsystems...
...leaders, remembering an Austrian-born populist who climbed to power in 1933, believed they could not just stand by and say nothing. "We are aware of possible reactions and feelings among Austrian people, but...we think it is our duty to react in this way," said Frederic Desagneux, a spokesman for French President Jacques Chirac. The swift reaction was also a reminder that Austria is not alone in flirting with the right. In Germany, far-right parties hold seats in four of 16 states. And in Switzerland, Belgium and France there are nascent but energetic extremist movements knocking...