Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel's center, Helprin writes with riotous energy and $ sustained brilliance about boyhood, youth and war. There is a strange, dreamlike adventure in the Alps, when Alessandro at age nine or 10 is caught up in a mountain rescue, then in a preadolescent erotic tangle with an Austrian princess. Later there is a splendid silliness in which he taunts a couple of mounted carabinieri while riding his horse, and outraces them in a mad gallop across half of Rome. He joins the navy and finds himself shooting at a much larger Austrian force across the barrier of a river that...
NAZI VIDEOS. A big hit with young German and Austrian skinheads, these underground video games polish such management skills as how to run a death camp more efficiently...
...crime was one of the most spectacular -- and most tangled -- in postwar Austrian history. It riveted the attention of the public for 14 years. Last week, after a trial that lasted 13 months, the saga of the ill-fated freighter Lucona finally came to an end when Udo Proksch was convicted of murder and fraud and was sentenced to 20 years in prison...
...Baghdad's military airport. Early that year he met a handsome 30-year-old expatriate from Jerusalem named Mohammed Rashid. Awad knew Rashid was with the fedayeen -- freedom fighters -- but that was not unusual among Palestinians. Awad would go on picnics with Rashid and his wife Fatima, an attractive, Austrian-born woman with freckles, long blond hair and a healthy interest in firearms. Her real name, according to Western files, was Christine Pinter...
...claimed that under the old regime he regularly provided information to the infamous Ministry of State Security, popularly known as Stasi. The magazine reproduced a Stasi file card indicating that an informant lived at De Maiziere's Berlin address. His code name: Czerny, the surname of a 19th century Austrian composer...