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...Retired Austrian Diplomat Walther Peinsipp became friendly with Andropov when both were serving as ambassadors in Budapest in 1956. The first time they met, the two immediately became embroiled in an ideological debate. At one point, Andropov turned to Peinsipp and said: "Look, I am a Communist. You represent the opposite world view, but that does not prevent us from understanding each other on a human level. Every person must have convictions, and people without convictions don't count. It would be beautifully simple if all the people in the world had the same convictions, but believe...
...there is good news for the calorie-conscious. For them, Heatter proposes a fruit survival cake and a whole-wheat yogurt date-nut gingerbread from Central Europe. One minor coup is the secret of the nut crescents for which the Austrian embassy in Washington, D.C., is renowned. Other fairly easy to make entries include Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' chocolate cookies, chocolate pepper pretzels, Joe froggers cookies (named for the inhabitants of a Marblehead, Mass., frog pond) and an inviting array of souffles and mousses, notably a sour lime mousse with strawberries. Frozen desserts vary from San Francisco ice-cream...
...Austrian mother he adored. An Alsatian father who drank and brawled when not working his shift at a Ford foundry...
...them into our facilities for medical treatment," fumes Davis. "That's just stupid." Only a handful of players openly opposed the union in the strike's first days, but a few went along grumbling. "Austria is neutral," said New Orleans Place Kicker Toni Fritsch, an Austrian. New Orleans Player Representative Russell Erxleben polled his membership about dropping the wage-scale demand, perhaps a small crack in solidarity. Though negotiators were finally promising to meet over the past weekend, the players were not heartened by the news that the owners were assured of two weeks' TV money...
...thoughts that the Bern siege might have had political implications were laid to rest when Colonel Wysocki was finally identified by authorities. He turned out to be Florian Kruszyk, 42, a onetime member of the Polish state security apparatus who spent ten months in Austrian jails in 1968-69, after he was caught spying on Polish refugees. Thereafter, he served time for robbery. Kruszyk and his three associates, it turned out, had never belonged to Solidarity...