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...They emphasize that Sadat has effectively given up any hope of reaching an agreement on the Palestinians with the Begin government, and has now pinned his hopes on a probable Labor Party victory in Israel's June 30 elections. During a four-day visit to Egypt last week, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky passed along his belief that Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres would be prepared to reach an early agreement on autonomy, perhaps even by the end of the year. Although Sadat's proposed government in exile would not play a role until after the transitional period called...
...Austrian-born Rudofsky, 75, has always been at his acerbic best when challenging modern ideas of what is civilized in fields such as clothing, street design, architecture, even staircases. A former visiting professor of art at Yale who has organized exhibits for the U.S. Government abroad, he is now scholar-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City. There his latest "salute to the unknown art of living" is a wryly provocative exhibition designed to prove that bathing, eating, sleeping, sitting and a few other domestic matters were managed better in older cultures...
Even in the normally supercharged atmosphere of petro politics, last week's meeting in Vienna of foreign, finance and oil ministers from the 13-member OPEC cartel was highly unusual. The Austrian capital is OPEC's administrative headquarters, but no meeting of oil ministers had been held there since December 1975, when pro-Palestinian terrorists kidnaped some of the delegates and held them hostage. Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the principal target of the 1975 raid, was taking no chances on a repeat performance. First he sent his private plane to Vienna...
Popescu's two-hour, 300-mile hedgehop from the Rumanian town of Arad to Feldbach, an Austrian village ten miles inside the Austro-Hungarian frontier, in a single-engine Antonov2 biplane was almost flight-plan perfect. He loaded his passengers on a craft designed for no more than 14 people, then flew 150 ft. above ground across Rumania and Hungary into Austria. After dodging high-tension wires, mountaintops, watchtowers, even barbed-wire fences, he made a bumpy landing in a rain-soaked cornfield, where Farmer Herbert Kaspar, 50, was working. Reported Kaspar: "For a while there was no sound...
...week's end Popescu and his clan were awaiting word from the Austrian government on whether their request for political asylum would be granted...