Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy, and Dzher-man Gvishiani, son-in-law of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and a ranking member of the state committee for science and technology. The ostensible reason for the get-together was to discuss the creation of an East-West Institute, perhaps to be located in the Austrian capital, that would serve as a site for meetings between statesmen and scholars from all over...
Died. Lise Meitner, 89, Austrian-born nuclear physicist, whose basic research was vital to the development of the atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. In 1938, after three decades of pioneering work in radioactivity with Chemist Otto Hahn at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Lise, a Jew, was forced to flee to Sweden-just when she and Hahn were on the verge of achieving nuclear fission. When Hahn sent her the details of his experiments with uranium some months later, she completed the immensely complex mathematical calculations proving that he had indeed split the atom and, in the process, released...
...sake of accuracy, I should like to add that Austria's status of permanent neutrality is not based on the State Treaty of 1955 as you mention in your article. Our neutrality has its foundation in a constitutional act of the Austrian Parliament which was passed in October...
...KURT KREJCI Press Attaché Austrian Embassy Washington...
Even though it unmistakably evoked the old, unpleasant atmosphere of the cold war, such frank talk perhaps helped to clarify the new political realities in Europe. Certainly the edgy West Germans were measurably relieved by Rusk's reassurances. The situation in Central Europe cooled enough for the Austrians, who had been troubled by the Soviet troop build-up in neighboring Czechoslovakia, to go ahead with plans to demobilize 11,000 Austrian army draftees whose training period had been extended as a result of the Soviet-made crisis...