Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Isaacson's judgments are generally sound, but like other Nixon and Kissinger biographers he is driven to take sides between the two men. He compares Kissinger with Metternich and Nixon with the wily diplomat's slow-witted superior, Austrian Emperor Francis I, but it was Nixon who persuaded Kissinger to encourage West Germany's overtures to East Germany and who initiated the opening to China. Clearly the two men had similar conceptual strengths and personal weaknesses...
...fighting at the raw level of their rivals, are likewise guilty of barbarism -- and of inflating horror stories about the Serbs to win sympathy and support. But the Serb militiamen appear to be the worst offenders. "It is in the Serbian interest to terrorize civilians," says Andreas Khol, an Austrian politician ) who frequently visits Yugoslavia. "It is part and parcel of the plan for a Greater Serbia." Detention camps are just a way station before permanent expulsion...
...only two days earlier, Kohl himself had gratuitously disturbed the skeletons of the past when he hosted a cordial lunch in Munich for Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. That made him the first Western leader to meet Waldheim outside Austria, breaking the diplomatic isolation imposed on the Austrian President for his suspected knowledge of and involvement in wartime deportations to Nazi labor camps. Kohl brooked no criticism. "It's up to me as Chancellor to decide whom I'll meet in Munich," he growled. "I don't need any advice...
...Mozart year" is over. And with it, the excesses that first defined the short-lived Austrian composer and then submerged his memory in a torrent of commercial hype and cocktail-party chatter...
...tough economic times, the huge appetite for cheap "Saturday-night- sp ecials" -- or both? Last week Colt's Manufacturing Co., a leading maker of commercial and military firearms, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. A $10 million line of credit proffered by the Connecticut Development Authority and an Austrian bank, Creditanstalt, should give the company, the seventh largest gun producer in the U.S., time to reload and reorganize...