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...easy it is to submit to blackmail when you give away the rights of other people! I nominate Bruno Kreisky for Poltroon of the Year...
Last week, with a single decision, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky had smudged his country's reputation and thrown it into an international whirl of protest. Until international attention was diverted by large scale fighting between Israel and Arab forces from Egypt and Syria, Kreisky's crisis had provided daily headlines around the world, focusing interest on the difficult question of how the rights of Jews and others can be protected against the schemes of terrorists. Kreisky's dramatic gesture came after three Russian Jews, on a train nearing Vienna and the Jewish Agency's layover facilities...
Though born a Jew in Vienna 62 years ago, throughout most of his life urbane Bruno Kreisky has sought to sunder all links to Judaism. At an early age he declared himself an agnostic. His wife is a Protestant, and he had his two children baptized as Protestants. He bristles when he is referred to as a Jew, preferring to be called "of Jewish origin...
...were almost certainly members of the extremist Black September movement. At the airport, the terrorists demanded that Austrian officials produce a passenger plane to carry the remaining Jewish hostages - two men and a woman - to an unspecified destination in the Arab world. But Austrian officials, after consulting with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, closed the airport and stubbornly refused to let the kidnapers and their hostages leave...
...West Germany, the father of Ostpolitik, Chancellor Willy Brandt, expressed his "solidarity" with Sakharov and other dissidents "endangered because of their convictions." In ordinarily neutral Austria, Chancellor Bruno Kreisky called for a "democratic counterweight" to protect Russian libertarians like Sakharov. From Russia came a spirited defense of Sakharov by Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has been the target of Soviet vituperation since he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970. Last week he nominated Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for peace...