Word: chancellor
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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...
Natural Target. Austrians, who despite initial dismay eventually rallied to the support of their socialist Chancellor, protested that his action was not a response to terrorism. Rather, they claimed, it was an administrative decision in which the government actually "suggested" to the kidnapers that it would alter its policy in exchange for the lives of the hostages. It was made because Austria, as one government official explained it, "was gradually becoming a battleground" in the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict. Jerusalem's Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek protested in a telegram to Kreisky: "Anyone who applies different standards to Jews...
Privately, Austrian leaders now realize that Kreisky's decision, however rationalized in terms of Austria's own self-interest, was appallingly inept. Because of this belated recognition, the Chancellor has not taken any steps to interrupt the flow of Soviet Jews to Austria-at least...
...fedayeen, hunched in the captured VW with a grenade on the dashboard and the terrified hostages cowering behind them, finally wore down the Austrians. After several hours of negotiations, Chancellor Kreisky authorized a light plane to fly the two fedayeen to Yugoslavia. The plane subsequently flew to Dubrovnik and on to Sicily, Sardinia and Malta while the terrorists tried desperately to gain permission to land in Libya or Algeria...
...charming dancer-wife Anna and his four children (ages four to eleven)-for what? That least seductive of modern quests: politics. A barely tolerable necessity if one is running for office, electioneering in Grass's case was pure altruism. He was doing it on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt...