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...Prime Minister. But after his Progressive Citizens Party lost last February's election, outgoing Premier Walter Kieber decided that he would like to retain his portfolio as Liechtenstein's chief officer of foreign affairs. The offer was declined by his successor, Hans Brunhart, head of the Fatherland Union Party, but Kieber nonetheless refused to step down. The impasse virtually paralyzed Liechtenstein's government for two months. Last week the head of state, Prince Franz Josef II, 71, stepped in to render judgment: both Kieber and Brunhart could share the job. Now Liechtenstein, where only Switzerland maintains...
...whose goal is to take over the government. At least 9,000 Montoneros have been killed or detained by police. But an estimated 12,000 remain at large, and their leaders-Mario Firmenich, Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Horacio Mendizabál-have close contacts with the Palestinians. The Montonero slogan: FATHERLAND OR DEATH...
...example, never could have believed, as Kirchner did, that "an artist's drawings will never be superfluous since they have that which is the essence of art--beauty beyond purpose or morality." Drawings such as Grosz's Christ with a Gas Mask (1928), or The Gratitude of the Fatherland (1920) are both purposeful and moralistic. Grosz even used the codified morality of Christian iconography and symbolism to dramatize his message, as in Christ with a Gas Mask. More often the religious connotations of his art are more subtle--The Gratitude of the Fatherland, with its large central figure, seated above...
...ruling his country, Ceausescu credits himself with keeping both Western imperialism and Soviet expansionism at bay. Summing up the lessons of Vlad's reign, one Rumanian historian notes, "The country can only prosper under authoritarian rule." More turgidly, another Communist analyst contends that Vlad exemplifies "love for the fatherland, undaunted support for the high ideals of the people [which] represent a material force capable of curbing the surge of even the mightiest power...
...Nazi schatze, y'know I fight for fatherland...