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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestine Liberation Organization, was received in Vienna by Chancellor Bruno Kreisky with a welcome almost befitting a head of state. Israel recalled its ambassador from Vienna, and Begin left no doubt that he felt Kreisky was a Jewish traitor. The Austrian Chancellor said that he and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who also joined the talks, had "gained the impression" that the P.L.O. "no longer insisted on the destruction of Israel." Arafat, however, gave no sign that the P.L.O. was backing down on the Middle East peace accords, which he had earlier denounced as "a war pact engineered...
...some of the several thousand Nazi criminals in hiding abroad might escape justice. There has been international pressure on the Bundestag, particularly from Jews around the world, to abolish the statute of limitation, but television played its part as well. After the U.S. series Holocaust was shown on West German TV, a poll showed a striking increase in the number of people approving a change...
...attack; in Chevy Chase, Md. A trustbuster with the U.S. Department of Justice from 1938 to 1946, Borkin also pursued his commitment to social justice with such books as The Corrupt Judge (1962) and last year's The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, an expose of the German chemical company that provided Hitler's troops with poison...
DIED. Paul Dessau, 84, East German composer of operas and incidental music best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht (Mother Courage, The Caucasian Chalk Circle); in East Berlin. Following a career as a violinist and conductor of the Staädtische Oper in Berlin, Dessau fled the Nazis in 1939 for America, where he began writing the dissonant scores that so effectively complemented Brecht's scripts. An old-line Communist, Dessau returned to East Germany after...
...maker of rail cars and trolleys. But because of the high price of its equipment, it is being beaten out by foreign competitors San Diego is buying trolleys for its 16-mile line to the Mexican border, on which construction will begin later this year, from a West German supplier...