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...appears the U.S. and U.S.S.R. won't be sending troops to the embattled Middle East. In their stead, a U.N. contingent of Austrian, Finnish and Swedish troops now stationed in Cyprus will be traveling to the ceasefire lines established last week...
...Austrian who did most of his research at the University of Munich, Karl von Frisch established after decades of observation that bees communicate with each other through a complicated, highly articulate language of dance. He found, for instance, that a bee returning from a source of honey near the hive will perform a "round" dance, but if the source is more than about 160 ft. away, he will "waggle" instead. When the scout bee steps forward during the waggling dance, it points the way to the source. Having written the classic book on the subject, The Dancing Bees, Von Frisch...
...philosophy that would help man find, in the sense of his own being and in his unselfish love of others, an approach to God. Marcel's best-known books were Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935) and The Mystery of Being (1951). -Died. Ludwig von Mises, 92, Austrian-born economist best known for his ardent championship of the autonomy of the marketplace and his suspicion of government intervention in the economy; in New York...
...politician in race-and-religion-conscious Central Europe, Kreisky could hardly avoid being regarded as a Jew. During his successful campaign for Chancellor three years ago, the rightist People's Party printed anti-Kreisky posters urging the electorate to vote for a "genuine Austrian." Experts like University of Wisconsin Historian George L. Mosse, who contend that Austria remains "unreconstructedly anti-Semitic," wonder if Kreisky acceded to the terrorists' demands partly to prove how genuinely Austrian...
...handling of the terrorists, however, is one hurdle he has not cleared. The unexpected criticism he has drawn from Austrian intellectuals and from abroad has made him unusually defensive. "No one can criticize my decision," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron. "No one but I was in the situation and no one else had to live with the consequences. To permit the hostages to leave the country would have meant certain death, and I was willing to do everything to get them released...