Word: kurt
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...essence, it was Cambodia's unwilling role as a pawn in the Indochinese wars that led to what U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim calls "a national tragedy that may have no parallel in history." In the mid-1960s the country's peaceful mode of life, under the benevolently authoritarian rule of Prince Sihanouk, was suddenly imperiled by the Viet Nam conflict. At the time, Cambodia was an overwhelmingly agricultural country that exported rice. Though it could hardly have been termed prosperous?per capita income was only $110 a year?its people lived relatively well by Asian standards. Unfortunately, the Cambodian...
...room tickets that would go on sale six hours later. Sellout crowds packed the center's 2,300-seat opera house and 2,700-seat concert hall. Sprinkled among them, on one night or another, were such dignitaries as President Carter, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and Henry Kissinger...
...other world capitals, South Africa's possible possession of the bomb was at least a distant menace to international security. At the U.N., which imposed an embargo on arms shipments to South Africa two years ago, the General Assembly called on Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to conduct an investigation. In Washington, the House subcommittee on Africa ordered an inquiry. With both Pakistan and Israel also suspected of having or developing a nuclear capacity, the cause of nonproliferation was hardly being served by the prospect that the club was getting less exclusive...
What happened to Cesiunas since his escape may give other potential defectors second thoughts. Agents of the Soviet secret police are believed to have swooped down on the athlete last month as he stood outside a school in a suburb of Dortmund where he was studying German. According to Kurt Rebmann, West Germany's chief federal public prosecutor, who released news of Cesiunas' disappearance last week, "There are definite indications that he was abducted by the Soviet secret service and forced to leave the country against his will." If he has been repatriated by force, the canoeist faces...
...Kurt Vonnegut's perennial semi-autobiographical protagonist returns this time as Walter F. Starbuck, and he is a Harvard man. He is so much a Harvard man, in fact, that were Vonnegut less obvious in writing his titles this book might well be called Kilgore Trout Goes to Harvard. Vonnegut's hero still peacefully accepts life's highs and lows, but Harvard has changed him: the lows seem a little lower, the highs a little higher, and the accepting a little harder...