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Mass demonstrations were staged throughout Israel and many Western countries by protesting Jews. Arabs, however, were euphoric, and Egypt even sent a Cabinet minister to Vienna to congratulate Kreisky. For Europeans, it had almost come down to a choice between Arab and Jew, and either way, Europe was serving as an arena for the conflict. That hardly made it any choice at all, since most Europeans no doubt rightly felt that they were unjustly ensnarled in a blood feud. But Washington officially came down on the side of Israel. President Nixon consoled Kreisky for having to face "a painful decision...
...exchange for the lives of the hostages. It was made because Austria, as one government official explained it, "was gradually becoming a battleground" in the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict. Jerusalem's Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek protested in a telegram to Kreisky: "Anyone who applies different standards to Jews than those he applies to others stands accused of antiSemitism, whatever his origin." But the Chancellor, a nonpracticing Jew, denied that his action was discriminatory. He pointed out the Schönau facility was allowed to exist as a special favor to Israel so that Soviet Jewish emigrants could...
Once, when told that a Jew had been elected lord mayor of Dublin, so the sto ry goes, baseball's unique Yogi Berra replied: "Only in America could such a thing happen." Well, something equally wondrous did happen in America last week: a black was named chairman of the Southern Governors' Conference...
...release of the hostages, Kreisky, a Jew, also made an incredible concession: the government agreed to close down Schönau Castle and no longer let Israel use Austria as a way station for emigrating Soviet Jews. If he holds to his word, the two fedayeen responsible for the Israeli-Arab conflict's first train-jacking had scored an astounding coup indeed...
...personification of Doubt in Nazi Germany, a character, also called Hermann Ott, in Grass's book. Melancholia and the achievement of political "stasis in progress" are two of the themes which dignify the image of the snail into high symbolism. What better emblem could a writer offer for the Jew reluctantly leaving his homeland in the Germany of the thirties than that of the humble snail, bearing his house on his back? You get the idea...