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Most of the contaminated wine is from the province of Burgenland. The scheme first came to light after health authorities, acting on anonymous tips, began testing wine for the chemical. By April they were sure enough of their results to reveal them, but public awareness of the scandal came only in early July, when the West German government announced that 78,000 gal. of imported Austrian wine contained the chemical...
DEHIND lay the rolling cornfields -^ of Austria's Burgenland province. Ahead was the Hungarian border, where watchtowers still stand and electrified wire keeps passportless citizens from leaving. Waved past the border gate, the bus braked to a stop in front of the customs house that marks the Hungarian town of Hegeyshalom. Out stepped 45 inquisitive Americans-businessmen, civic leaders, journalists-about to start on an eleven-day journey through five Eastern European capitals...
Claudia's death alarmed the Austrian countryside, sent village drummers and police loudspeaker cars through the vineyard-studded hills of southern Burgenland to alert the peasants to the danger. More to the point, a new eight-man Austro-Hungarian border commission called at the house of Claudia's parents to inspect fragments of the exploded mine, and the Hungarians officially admitted their guilt. The Foreign Ministry in Budapest promised to try to improve the situation, possibly (as the Austrians recommended) by damming the rivers temporarily and retrieving some of the lost mines from...
...managed to turn even this fault to good use. Whenever the Russians are too adamant he calls in the boys of the press. He has found that Moscow is sensitive to U.S. and world public opinion; on occupation matters-such as Russia's recent-land-grab attempt in Burgenland-the Reds sometimes bow to hostile press criticism...
Tolbukhin's tanks surged across the plains of western Hungary, captured the rail center of Szombathely, then outflanked the Nazi positions southeast of the shallow lake called the Sea of Vienna to plunge into the Austrian province of Burgenland. On both sides of the Danube and northward in Slovakia, Malinovsky's troops fought toward the Bratislava Gap and Vienna...