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...story. She says she was 11 years old when her father raped her for the first time. But it was only after she had turned 18 that, according to colleagues, she disappeared from her job at a highway rest stop and never returned. A former colleague told the Austrian Kurier newspaper that the parents showed up at their daughter's former workplace a few days later appearing very worried...
...neighbors, none of whom noticed anything unusual, are now asking lots of questions. "I was railing against the neighbors in the Kampusch case," a businessman who lives across the street told the Kurier. "Now I am in the same situation." So, perhaps, is all of Austria. "It won't be possible after this case to just go back to the usual course of things," wrote the Vienna daily Der Standard in an editorial today. "A whole country has to ask itself what it was that has gone so fundamentally wrong...
...were murdered was arrested in Vienna last week in a sting involving the FBI and the CIA, Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said Wednesday. When authorities arrested him, the man, identified only as a 67-year-old Austrian living in the U.S., yelled threats at Al Fayed, the Kurier daily reported. Gollia said the man had contacted Al Fayed, the owner of London's Harrods department store, and offered to meet him in a hotel in Vienna for the exchange. Al Fayed sent Harrods' security chief, John Mcnamara, to meet the suspect and alerted...
...They admired him, they respected him and they forgave him almost everything, except that he had grown old." Such was the assessment of Vienna's daily Kurier last week when one of the senior statesmen of the Western world announced his retirement after 13 years in office. Added the conservative newspaper, which had been a sharp critic of the Chancellor: "Kreisky has lost the elections. But Austria has lost Kreisky...
...labor law was accidentally discovered by Brigitte Winkler, 28, a reporter for the Vienna daily Kurier and the sister of a former choirboy. She charged that the choir's paid performances were illegal, and her articles triggered a search by city officials for an exemption from the law for the choir...