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Though Kreisky remained firm on his insistence that Schönau must close, it began to appear that his promise to the terrorists to ban "group travel" was all but meaningless. "We shall continue to allow the transit of Russian Jews as we have done before," he said, "but we shall keep the time allowed in Austria as short as possible. Under normal circumstances, the stay in Austria will be limited to one night." This represented a clear retreat from his initial position, which he had described as "genuine transit, without stopovers." His new position in effect will allow Russian...
...perceives to be its future life's blood. While officially Golda Meir's government demands that Schönau be kept open, a campaign to find other, more secure channels of emigration is quietly under way. Soviet emigrants might continue to use the Austrian route if the transit period can indeed be cut down. But Israeli authorities find great difficulty in planning for airline space, largely because they do not know how many emigrants will arrive on a given day. Says one Israeli official: "Moscow certainly does not cooperate with us. We never know who is coming...
...nearly every twist of the discussion. And so, among culture critics-his traditional enemies-there has been a growth of very serious interest in Disney. As Peter Blake, editor of Architecture Plus, put it: "Walt Disney did not know that such things as vast urban infrastructures, multilevel mass-transit systems, People Movers, nonpolluting vehicles, pedestrian malls, and so forth were unattainable, and so he just went ahead and built them. In doing it he drew on all kinds of resources that no other city planner had ever before considered seriously, if at all... it seems unlikely that any American school...
...National City Bank are putting together a combination of funds, which might include money from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and credits and interest guarantees from the U.S. Government's Export-Import Bank. By 1977 the pipeline is expected to carry 80 million tons of crude a year, and transit fees are expected to total $150 million annually...
...Transit strikes, blizzards and brownouts can make urban life an ordeal, but nothing hurts a city in quite so many subtle ways as a newspaper strike. St. Louis, bereft of the morning Globe-Democrat and the afternoon Post-Dispatch for five weeks, was painfully counting new losses with each passing...