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...Austrians" during the war. The Austrians responded by resoundingly electing him under the defiant slogan "now more than ever." But the defiance faded after early 1987, when he was barred entry to the United States and became an international pariah. After six years as a lonely captive of the Hofburg, valiantly protesting his innocence but rarely invited anywhere, he had declined to run for a second term in 1992. He would live a wealthy but constrained existence for another 15 years, until his death on Thursday...
...That's absurd," the President shot back, describing it as "an absurd statement." His top aides, sitting in the fourth row of the news conference at the ornate Hofburg Palace in Vienna, responded with visible shock, clearly hoping he would elaborate. He waited until two questions later, when he was asked again about failing "so badly to convince Europeans, to win their heads and hearts and minds." This time, the President was more expansive, and softer spoken. "Look, people didn't agree with my decision on Iraq, and I understand that," he said. "For Europe, September the 11th...
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...
...surprises are not welcome in the programmed society of the U.S.S.R. Brezhnev, sicker than ever, angrily turned down the idea. It took Carter two years more to get back to Ford's agreement. Before he rushed off to tell the world of his SALT II achievement in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, he kissed Brezhnev on both cheeks, the way they do down in Georgia--Soviet Georgia--a kiss seen round the world...
...Schröder, this juxtaposition of old and new is the Albertina's unique selling point. "You move from one world to another. From a beautiful late-18th century palace to a thoroughly modern 21st century museum," he says. After a 1992 fire destroyed the Redoutensaal in the nearby Hofburg Palace, the Albertina's management realized they needed a safe place to store the museum's irreplaceable collection. As a result, a 3,000-sq-m state-of-the-art storage area reclaimed from underneath the bastion - a part of the old city fortifications on which the palace stands - will...