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...allowed to attend since the Communist government had not let him leave the country in many years. But now Havel is the government -- and he had R.S.V.P.ed, after all. So off to Mozart's birthplace the Czechoslovak President went last week, even if it did mean meeting his Austrian counterpart, Kurt Waldheim, thus breaching the international isolation imposed on the Austrian leader because of his dubious wartime past...
...traditional Central European delusions." More pointedly, Havel declared, "Whoever fears to look his own past in the face must necessarily fear what is to come. Lies cannot save us from lies." Asked afterward whether Havel might have had him in mind, Waldheim was belligerent. "Certainly not," he told Austrian TV. "I did not rewrite my biography...
...East, is hard at work re-establishing them. And Commerzbank has set up prefabricated bank branches on East Berlin street corners. Elsewhere in Eastern Europe, where countries like Hungary and Poland are burdened with billions in foreign debt, bankers from abroad are more cautious about stepping in. German and Austrian banks are expected to increase lending once East bloc economies are further along the path to free markets. But the amounts will be relatively small -- much smaller, ironically, than the billions in loans offered by the West when the East bloc was run by totalitarian regimes. Speaking in Zurich...
...movie to be? Well, for a start, you want it to be based on a script that kicked around Tinseltown for more than a decade. (Here's one, originally written in 1979, name of Total Recall.) Then, in these days of multinational superproductions, you want it to star an Austrian, be directed by a Dutchman, and cost about $60 million. (Total Recall, a Paul Verhoeven film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.) You want it to boast elaborate sets and gadgety special effects. (TR created a Martian colony on a Mexican soundstage.) You want it to blend science fiction, action adventure and suspense...
...mention Wiesenthal's contributions to the capture of Eichmann. (The story of that raid is vividly told in a new memoir by the actual capturer, Eichmann in My Hands, by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein, to be published in May by Warner Books.) Other Wiesenthal targets include former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, a Jewish Socialist, for including four ex- Nazis in his first Cabinet, and Elie Wiesel, for not including a Gypsy on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council...