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...himself. His mother Constanze, whose ambitious nature may be partly explained by the fact that her husband's death left her impoverished, came to resent her son's lackadaisical nature. "Although he gets help on all sides," she wrote to Franz's older brother Karl, an Austrian government official, "he does almost nothing unless he is forced...
...morally") to follow the Führer unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder of 50,000 Austrian Jews and spent 20 years at Berlin's Spandau prison...
...formed on a Viennese television culture short. "I was in the middle of rebuild ing my house, in the midst of the mess with a TV going in the corner, and I happened to hear a cellist playing the Brahms violin sonata," recalls Buchbinder, 27. Elated, the young Austrian pianist contacted Marcus and obtained a photostatic copy of the score. Three weeks ago he sent it to Starker, and arrangements with Ravinia were made...
...schedule, and with only a single tragic incident-four Austrian soldiers of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force were killed when their Land Rover exploded a mine-Syria and Israel last week completed the separation of forces specified by their cease-fire agreement. Syria recovered not only all the territory it lost in the October fighting, but also Quneitra, the Golan Heights provincial capital that Israel has held since '67. The recovery of the ruined city-a symbol of Damascus' determination to win back all the land it lost to Israel in the Six-Day War-touched...
...NIXON'S CONTRIBUTION TO DÉTENTE. Frankly, it bores me very much to hear Nixon say he ended the era of confrontation and started an era of détente. That's an insult to Eisenhower, who deserves much of the credit for the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, and to Kennedy, who brought about the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Besides, Nixon didn't even begin the present round of détente; Willy Brandt did with his Ostpolitik...