Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Referring to your article "A Severe Case of Angst in Europe" [Oct. 4]. I should like to state that the events in neighboring Czechoslovakia and particularly the presence of Warsaw Pact troops in that country have understandably received utmost attention by the Austrian government. But I would like to make it absolutely clear that at no instance and from no quarter whatsoever any threats have been uttered against Austria which would have justified fears as to an eventual violation of Austrian neutrality. The measures taken by the Austrian government during the present crisis were primarily designed to maintain order...
...Damnation. The latest to pro mote a soft line on contraception are the hierarchies of Austria, Britain and Canada which released statements last week. The Austrian episcopate dutifully commended rhythm or sexual abstinence as the "most proper means" of family planning. Nonetheless, the bish ops added that Catholics who "for ethical reasons" reject the pontifical guide lines "need not necessarily feel that they have separated themselves from God's love." Conscientious objectors to Humanae Vitae may continue to receive Communion without confessing that they practice contraception. The only conditions are that they keep their decision to themselves, refrain "from...
...vantage point. In Prague itself, Peter Forbath, who has been reporting on the crisis from the beginning, was joined by Friedel Ungeheuer, who hardly had time to unpack after his previous assignment: the Nigerian civil war. London Bureau Chief Jim Bell, an old Eastern Europe hand, toured the tight Austrian-Czech frontier to interview scores of refugees, and Stringers Bob Kroon, Eva Stichova and Christian Schwinner all pitched in at the Vienna bureau. As tension mounted in nearby Rumania, Correspondent Bob Ball reported from Bucharest...
Ursula Nadasdy, the other cover researcher, was born in Budapest. She was only 13 when the Russians invaded Hungary in 1956 and her family tried to escape. The first time, they were caught only 500 yards from the Austrian border and jailed for three days. As soon as they were freed, the Nadasdys tried again. They slithered across a heavily patrolled highway on their bellies and managed to join friends and relatives in Vienna in time for Christmas. "When the revolution began," Ursula remembers, "Hungarians stopped complaining about the hardships of daily life. There really was a taste of freedom...
...ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century's most fateful year was 1914, when the West plunged into what Winston Churchill called "another Thirty Years' War." That semipermanent conflict spanned such events as the Russian Revolution (1917), the Wall Street crash...