Word: franz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franz Kottira Salzburg, Austria...
Traded Invectives. The Schmidt-Kohl campaign was one of the hardest fought political battles in West Germany's postwar history, and what Kohl called an "Olympics of insult" went right down to the wire. Continuing his sniping against Kohl's political ally Franz Josef Strauss, boss of the Christian Social Union and Kohl's declared choice as Vice Chancellor, Schmidt scourged the bully Bavarian conservative as a "political arsonist." Strauss returned the fire by lambasting Schmidt as "a politician with a predator's grin," and Kohl hooted that Schmidt had "lost control 50 of himself...
Died. Helene Berg, 92, widow of the Austrian composer Alban Berg (Wozzeck); in Vienna. Reputedly the natural daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph, Helene was devoted to her husband until his death in 1935 and then became a fierce guardian of his works. She felt she was in communion with his spirit and refused to release the nearly finished third act of his last opera, Lulu, which is usually pieced together from dialogue and Berg's music for performances. It will be presented by the Metropolitan Opera for the first time this winter...
...next few weeks to make final arrangements for access to U.S. documents concerning the Lockheed scandals. This rekindled interest in the allegations that Lockheed bribes had gone to the right-of-center Christian Social Union, the Bavarian ally of the Christian Democrats, and its longtime leader, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
Robert N. Franz...