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...mines are be coming as much of an embarrassment as a hindrance to trespassers. Stray cats or even a speedy thaw sets them off in the night, and in last year's torrential floods a great many mines sown on hillsides along the boundary-marking Pinka and Raab rivers worked loose and washed over to the Austrian bank. On April 1, a 60-year-old Austrian farmer digging for sand on the banks of the Pinka hit a mine, which blasted off both his hands. Three weeks ago, Claudia Kracher, 2½, was playing in a pile of sand...
Died. Leopold Figl, 62, Chancellor of Austria from 1945 to 1953, who spent six years in Nazi concentration camps, later founded the conservative People's Party and led a coalition regime until Julius Raab succeeded him, whereupon he became Foreign Minister, and in 1955 with Raab negotiated the end of Allied occupation; of cancer; in Vienna (see THE WORLD...
Died. Adolf Scharf, 74, President of Austria since 1957, a Viennese Socialist who, as vice chancellor during the postwar years, shares credit with the late Chancellor Julius Raab for Austria's economic recovery and the 1955 departure of Russian occupation troops, later, as President, quelled a series of rebellions within his Socialist party, thus keeping alive the government's 19-year-old Socialist-Conservative coalition; of liver cancer; in Vienna...
Died. Julius Raab, 72, Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961, chief architect of its postwar independence, a lumbering, folksy engineer-turned-politician who in 1955 talked the Soviets into withdrawing troops from their zone of the partitioned country in return for a promise of neutrality, thereafter cut income taxes, stabilized the schilling, turned thriving Austria into a highly persuasive advertisement for capitalism; of a lung embolism; in Vienna...
...Raab picked and groomed his own successor-jovial, Tyrol-born Alfons Gorbach. 62, a longtime People's Party leader in the province of Styria. Contented Austrians hope that their new Chancellor will keep things pretty much the comfortable way Julius Raab left them...