Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three short months the pretty, blue-eyed servant girl had found friends, a good job, and happiness under Austrian freedom. But last week 19-year-old Smilja Srca was ordered by the Austrian government to return to Yugoslavia. Leaving her mistress a thank-you note in a language the lady could not read, Smilja told the family children goodbye, crept out into the Alpine night and put a bullet through her head. She survived, but the bullet destroyed the optic nerve connections of both eyes, and she will never see again...
Over the postwar years a dozen nationalities have streamed into Austria, seeking asylum, filling refugee camps, and-despite large-scale international aid-burdening the Austrian economy. After the influx of nearly 200,000 Hungarians, Austria in self-defense decided to limit the flow. Reading between the lines of the Geneva Refugee Convention. Austria decided to distinguish economic refugees from political refugees. Since "economic"' refugees are those in quest of a better life -not (in the language of the Convention) fleeing persecution-Austria concluded that they could be deported...
...monastery thousands of red-robed lamas crouched on their haunches in a graveled courtyard while the 14-year-old Dalai Lama preached to them on the Tantric texts in a clear, boyish voice, but with the composure and assurance of an adult. A Tibetan-speaking Westerner was there, an Austrian named Heinrich Harrer, who had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in India and painfully made his way to asylum in Lhasa. The debate that followed between the abbot and the Dalai Lama was a genuine contest of wits, says Harrer, in which the God-King was "never...
...armed with a telescope with which he could examine the busy life of his city without ever being permitted to join in it. Each spring he traveled in solemn procession through ranks of bowing, weeping people to the summer palace; each autumn he solemnly returned to the Potala. The Austrian Harrer tutored him in Western science and technology, found in the Dalai Lama an insatiable urge for learning, a fascination with modern matters such as the construction of jet planes, but a total acceptance of his own godhead. Once, remarking on his previous incarnation as the 13th Dalai Lama...
Born in Trieste, De Henriquez got his passion from childhood musings over the battle souvenirs of his Portuguese ancestors, who for 900 years had fought in many European armies (two were Austrian field marshals). Too young for World War I, De Henriquez fascinatedly watched the bombardment of Trieste from his roof while others cowered in cellars, at war's end begged and bought heaps of surplus materiel...