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Zhirinovsky had simple -- but often implausible -- answers for every challenging question. His publicized meeting with an Austrian Nazi, he said, was a "setup." His claim that Russian troops would someday wash their boots in the Indian Ocean meant only that chaos in Muslim countries would require Russian peacekeeping within 20 years. He glibly promised that within months of taking office, he would end homelessness, unemployment and crime...
Another vote last week ensures that at least one extra limousine will be needed at future summits: a resounding 66.4% of Austrian voters said yes to E.U. membership. The outcome, which had been in doubt, was a personal victory for Foreign Minister Alois Mock, who campaigned tirelessly for approval despite fragile health. Euro-enthusiastic Finns should give thumbs up Oct. 16. But Sweden's pro-E.U. forces remain outnumbered, and in Norway, the last to vote, on Nov. 28, opposition is at 52% and rising. Scandinavian Euro-boosters were hurt by last week's parliamentary results in Denmark, where...
FOLLOWING KRISTALLNACHT IN 1939, when Nazi mobs in Berlin destroyed synagogues and shops owned by Jews, a small window to freedom briefly opened for German, Austrian and Polish children. Over the course of eight months, nearly 10,000 Jewish youngsters under 18 were evacuated to Britain to stay with foster families until it was safe to return. Most never saw their parents or homeland again. While the Kindertransport saved them, the separation from everything they had cared for would be a kind of death...
...most innovative step is for U.S. unions to seek aid from their labor brethren overseas when facing companies with international operations. Balked at organizing a Polyfelt plant in Evergreen, Alabama, the ACTWU appealed for help to Austrian unions -- some of whose leaders sat on the Supervisory Board of Polyfelt's parent company, OMV. The European unionists got the company to order its U.S. managers to tone down antiunion activities, and the ACTWU won a contract at the Alabama plant last month...
...were those who thought he had died needlessly. No one had been killed in a Formula One race for 12 years, yet at San Marino alone there were five accidents and two deaths. The day before Senna missed a turn and drove his Williams-Renault into a concrete wall, Austrian rookie Roland Ratzenberger had perished in a similar accident during qualifying trials...