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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gained friends by being evenhanded to East and West and openhearted to anyone in trouble. When Hungarians fled the Russian repression of 1956, they were sheltered in Austria. When the "Prague Spring" ended in 1968, exiled Czechs came to Austria. Lately the troubled journeyers have been Soviet Jews en route to Israel, who used Vienna as a way station...
...AMERICAN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: "The U.S. has shown every genuine desire to solve problems that threat en world peace. It cannot go against its policy here. If the U.S. and the world and we, for that matter, reject blackmail - the U.S. regards oil diplomacy, for ex ample, as blackmail - I do not think the U.S. and the world should tolerate Israeli blackmail in terms of Israel's military stance and the possibility...
...lazy and unwashed ("Africa starts at Naples" is a prejudicial commonplace). Since the epidemic began, Neapolitans have been treated with all the warmth and feeling usually accorded lepers. In San Remo recently, a Neapolitan family was turned away from a hotel when 100 other guests threatened to check out en masse. Most mortifying of all, the Genoa soccer team forfeited an Italian championship match rather than play in infected Naples...
Last week the terrorists tried again - and this time succeeded. When a passenger train en route from Moscow to Vienna via Warsaw stopped at the Czechoslovak city of Bratislava, two Arabs climbed aboard. They were carrying suitcases that turned out to be loaded with submachine guns and grenades...
...cases, the grannies encounter outright luxury. Coffe tells of an 82-year-old woman placed - supposedly for two weeks - with a banker's family near Aix-en-Provence. "Not only was she met by a chauffeur-driven car and served by maids," says Coffe, "but when I phoned to find out how she was doing, she said she had taken her first plane ride and was planning to winter in Morocco with the family...