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Internal Embarrassment. Only last week, nearly a month after the Swissair crash and the bombing of another jet operated by Austrian Airlines, mail and passenger service into Israel aboard 16 airlines returned to normal. For an embarrassing two-day period, even Israel's internal airline Arkia refused to handle mail for security reasons...
...shorten obligatory military service from nine to six months and clearly profited from a recent lowering of the voting age from 20 to 19. In addition, Willy Brandt's election as the Social Democratic Chancellor of neighboring West Germany helped Kreisky's party to overcome residual Austrian fears of the red Bürgerschreck ("Burgher's Terror") stemming from the 1930s, when Socialists and conservatives battled on the streets of Vienna...
...Auden generation" -a group of young poets that included Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and C. Day Lewis. He was young then, as he followed the revolutions in Spain and China, and his reputation and influence grew rapidly. Today, as he shuttles annually from homosexual domesticity in the Austrian village of Kirschteten to an East Village apartment on New York's St. Marks place, he is older, and his views of history and his opinions of his earlier poems have changed...
Withering Condemnation. Working together, Austrian, Swiss and German police slowly assembled clues. In the Swiss case, that was particularly difficult; the Swissair plane crashed with such pulverizing force that no piece of wreckage measured more than a yard in length. Nevertheless, investigators determined that each bomb had exploded when the plane reached about 12,000 ft., indicating that altimeters had been used as fuses. Checks of shops in Frankfurt turned up a pair of Arabs who had bought altimeters and tested them in the nearby Taunus Mountains. They were picked up for questioning, and alarms went out for two others...
...occurred just 30 miles from Val d'Isère, the home town of Skier Jean-Claude Killy, where 42 people were killed last month when a massive slab of snow thundered into a youth hostel. Still another series of avalanches last week caused nine deaths in the Austrian Tyrol, and three more died in Italy's Apennine Range about 100 miles southeast of Rome...