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Brandt's supporters argue that he has broadened the Socialist International's appeal. Says Austrian Prime Minister Bruno Kreisky: "It is a question of whether it is better to be pure or to have greater numbers." Perhaps, but by drawing more strident leftists into the fold, Brandt may ultimately weaken the movement's influence. As French President François Mitterrand's failure to send a high-powered delegation to Portugal showed, Socialist parties in power tend to have little time for the empty rhetoric of those that...
...knows for sure why the Lipizzaners were hit so hard by a disease that is usually not life-threatening. Dr. Erwin Rothensteiner, a veterinarian with the Austrian government, suggests that the stud-farm horses may have inadequate defenses against the virus because they have been isolated and inbred over the years...
DIED. Lisette Model, 76, tough-minded, Austrian-born U.S. photographer whose best-known work was of unlovely, often grotesquely fat people whom she caught at moments of great vitality, conferring on them an intense confrontational power; of heart and lung disease; in New York City. Her early photos of Parisians and Niçois, which she brought with her to the U.S. in 1938, impressed American critics and were soon included in a Museum of Modern Art show, the first of many. "I am attracted to enormous forms," she once said of her work. "If I go to an aquarium...
Each fall, the Neighbors decide the year's slate of special courses for its members, ranging from Austrian banking to French conversation...
...will take the team to Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna and Copenhagen. During their travels the team will compete in a three-day tournament in Salzburg, as well as play in four other games and participate in a basketball clinic, organized by the American embassy in Vienna, for prospective young Austrian b-ballers...