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...chilling resonance in West Germany, where small neo-Nazi groups have seized the race issue and made it their own. Turkish immigrants regularly receive threatening letters telling them to leave Germany or be hounded out. An outfit calling itself the Prince Eugen Battle Group (named for a brutal Austrian field marshal who led a major assault against the Turks in the late 17th century) has set its sights on Turkish teachers in West Berlin schools. "Can't you understand we [Germans] don't want anything to do with you," says one of their milder letters. "Pack your things...
...Placid in the giant slalom, is something of a hero, and that no one can be found who does not expect him to win a gold medal. That would be nice, in the local view, but if Krizaj succeeds, he will not get a hotel of his own, as Austrian ski heroes do. This is Bosnia, after all, and Krizaj is a miserable Slovenian...
...cyanide pill, but it did him little harm. Neither did the authorities who convicted him of murder but could not execute him because he was a minor. Sentenced to 20 years, he died of tuberculosis in prison in 1918. By then, the war that started with a punitive Austrian attack on Serbia had bled all of Europe white. But Princip's deed did finally achieve its purpose. In the redrawing of maps that followed the war, the Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved into fragments; both Serbia and Bosnia were included in the new state of Yugoslavia...
...have found themselves a downhiller. Last week at Wengen, Switzerland, Bill Johnson scored the first World Cup victory ever by an American man in a downhill, despite screeching off course on one ski almost into the woods (talk about slam, dash and amazing recoveries). Austrian Franz Klammer was annoyed. If the Americans are going to start winning downhills, truly nothing is sacred any more...
...dozen years ago, the late Olympic blunderbuss Avery Brundage took such umbrage at the profit motives of skiers like Austrian Karl Schranz that he contemplated downgrading the Games' skiing events to mere world championships...