Word: karle
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...page document plunged Austria's fragile coalition government into crisis. Amid renewed calls for the President's resignation, the pro-Waldheim People's Party reportedly met with Chancellor Franz Vranitzky's Socialists to discuss how to get Waldheim to step down. Karl Gruber, a former Foreign Minister and longtime Waldheim friend, ignited a fire storm of criticism by charging that the six-member historians' panel was filled with Waldheim's "enemies." He said one member was a Socialist "and the others are of Jewish descent." Vranitzky immediately sent apologetic telegrams to the commission, and a People's Party official called...
...above all else "a man of his village," notes Karl Frehsner, head coach of the Swiss men's team. And the village oompah band, for which Zurbriggen once played trumpet, quite rightly keeps him on its list of musicians. "That's what I really enjoy," he says. "Any music, except this modern rock stuff because there's no melody to it." He has a quick, shrewd intelligence -- "the mind of a businessman," states Frehsner approvingly -- and he is not at all fearful of the world. But he is rooted so solidly in Saas-Almagell that he is not thrown...
Underscoring her sixth straight European championship with seven perfect sixes, Witt is poised to go out on top at 22. East Germany's system of athletics may be the acclaimed model of scientific selection, but Witt ended up the sweetheart of Karl-Marx-Stadt for the purest reasons: her kindergarten happened to be next door to the skating hall, and her parents were softhearted. In Valley Girl German (Rhine Valley), she explains, "I bugged them until they finally gave in and registered me for skating classes. They never thought it would...
Decidedly not an American, Witt is proud of her distinction as the "worker's hero" and thinks of herself as a "diplomat in warm-ups." Talking in Karl-Marx-Stadt with journalists, including TIME's James Graff, she says, "When I do well, coming from a socialist country like the G.D.R., other countries have grounds to respect us. It is the working people who provide the basis for me to pursue skating at all. In a way, by skating and appearing on television, I'm saying a little danke schon to the public." Her "you're welcome" comes...
...Austrian Karl Schranz, the last great all-around skier before Zurbriggen, never won Olympic gold. Schranz was booted from the 1972 Games for the way he permitted "use of his name and pictures in commercial advertisements." He made a reported $30,000 that year. Others had similar contracts, but Olympics Chieftain Avery (known sardonically as "Slavery") Brundage wanted to use him as an example to fight growing commercialism in skiing. It didn't work. Skiers today are the most heavily sponsored of all Winter Olympians. Zurbriggen, a sporting-goods store on skis, wears seven of his products in action, from...