Word: habsburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardest hit (with a ten-year term) was Dr. Ferenc Matheovicz, 50, onetime leader of the outlawed Democratic People's Party, who has already spent seven years in prison for his democratic political beliefs. The charge this time smacked of the absurd: Matheovicz was planning to restore the Habsburg dynasty, with himself as Premier. There was a more likely explanation, however. Matheovicz has long been a follower of Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who still lives in self-confinement at the U.S. legation in Budapest, despite long-standing rumors that the regime would let him go free. Last...
Even the birds do their bit for the classless society. On de luxe partridge and pheasant shoots on the old Habsburg preserves in northern Czechoslovakia, hunters stay in luxurious castles: black tie for dinner is de rigueur. In the mornings, hundreds of peasants fan out through the brush to drive the birds into range. Daily bags run as high as 140 birds per gun. Cost of a "royal weekend," as Red tourist folders unashamedly...
...Also unsettled is the question of the Habsburg fortune in Austria, which amounts to some $30 million, mostly in estates. The lands are now held in trusteeship by the Austrian Republic...
...years ago, Otto suddenly announced his willingness to abide by the provisions of the Habsburg Law and sought to re-enter Austria. But Austria's coalition government, balanced between the 81 parliamentary seats held by the conservative People's Party and the 76 seats held by the Socialists, refused to act on the petition in the face of vehement Socialist protests that Ot to's political ideas were "fantastic" and that his declaration of loyalty was inadequate. Otto's attorney took the case to the Administrative Court, which fortnight ago upheld the legality of his declaration...
...Parliament, the Socialists joined with the eight-man delegation of the splinter right-wing Liberal Party and forced a resolution demanding that the government prepare a bill that could return ultimate judgment on all Habsburg Law cases to Parliament. The Liberals lent their support to the Socialists, however, only on the condition that the bill not be retroactive and that Otto would not be barred from returning home...