Word: hanse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The hotel ballroom near Chicago's O'Hare Airport is crammed with rows of banquet tables covered with paper chessboards. In silent confrontation, 700 miniature armies face one another across half as many checkered playing fields. The National Open, a major annual chess tournament, is about to begin. A short...
- Waldheim, meanwhile, showed no sign of quitting. Bolstered by polls showing that most Austrians want him to stay in office, Waldheim privately threatened to dissolve the government -- one of his few real powers -- unless it rejected the document. The Socialists refused the demand, but Vice Chancellor Alois Mock, leader of...
In a magazine interview published yesterday, Hans Rudolf Kurz, the Swiss chairman of the historians' commission, said he thought Waldheim would do Austria a service by resigning.
The President's fate may now rest with a seven-member commission that has been poring over Waldheim's war record since September. Chaired by Hans Rudolf Kurz, a Swiss military historian, the panel has met for a week each month to sift 30 pounds of documents in the red...
The 120,000 pages of files are the work of the War Crimes Commission, a 17- nation panel formed in 1943 to compile lists of suspected war criminals. By the time the records were handed over to the U.N. in 1948, the group had collected information on 36,800 people...