Word: gers
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Speaking before television cameras in Vienna's ornate Hofburg Palace, Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschläger was at pains to select his words carefully. His aim: to render a balanced judgment for his 7 million countrymen about accusations that Presidential Candidate Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General, had knowingly falsified his World War II record and was involved in Nazi atrocities...
Kirchschläger, who was once a judge, had closeted himself for ten days with more than 500 pages of documents from the U.N., the Yugoslav government and the World Jewish Congress that detailed Waldheim's activities as a lieutenant in the German army from 1942 to 1945. The first published reports about Waldheim's military service had shattered his pretense that he had been mustered out of the army after being wounded in 1941. Faced with evidence to the contrary, he has since admitted returning to active service as an army interpreter in Greece and Yugoslavia. Nonetheless, he maintains that...
...though he's probably more famous for having been married to both Heather Locklear and Pamela Anderson. Tommyland, written with journalist Anthony Bozza, is not all killer--in fact there's quite a bit of filler--but the good stuff is as good as the gold in Goldschläger. Lee's account of the four months he spent in solitary confinement--spousal abuse was the charge--conveys genuine suffering. He drums on the bars and talks to the cockroaches and drinks gross prison moonshine. You also have to appreciate the ingenuity of a guy who replaces the windshield detergent...
...polling stronger than Schröder's weakened Social Democrats, is withering in its criticism. "Zapatero made a grave mistake when he immediately announced he would pull Spain's troops out of Iraq, sending a single message to Osama bin Laden: Terror pays," says Friedbert Pflüger, a member of the German Bundestag and foreign policy expert for the Christian Democrats. "With Aznar we had a heavyweight in Europe. Without him we have lost an interesting voice and committed opponent of terrorism in Europe." The PP considers Zapatero callow but calculating. "The majority of countries in Europe want...
...them like crazy they won't do it anymore." Today, Payre lives in and does business out of Belgium. In Germany, the Taxpayers' Federation regularly generates headlines by publishing a "black book" of wasteful practices. "We've pretty much reached the limit," rages Michael Jäger, who helps run the federation's Bavarian chapter. Among recent examples in Jäger's backyard: an artificial lake near Munich airport that's costing almost €20 million to build instead of the budgeted €11 million; a €76,500 traffic light in Garmisch Partenkirchen that only worked...