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...direction of the city of Suez. The drivers were U.N. noncommissioned officers. About ten miles north of Suez, a truck with cartons of food and cigarettes had arrived at U.N. observation post Kilo-a collection of whitewashed shacks on the edge of the canal. There we talked with Vienna-born Joseph Nekhan, 27, a first lieutenant in an Austrian tank battalion who had been seconded to the U.N. Emergency Force. Below him, Egyptian soldiers in beige work clothes carried cartons from the trucks to a makeshift wharf. Israeli officers spot-checked the boxes for contraband by occasionally ripping open...
...decision in which the government actually "suggested" to the kidnapers that it would alter its policy in exchange for the lives of the hostages. It was made because Austria, as one government official explained it, "was gradually becoming a battleground" in the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict. Jerusalem's Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek protested in a telegram to Kreisky: "Anyone who applies different standards to Jews than those he applies to others stands accused of antiSemitism, whatever his origin." But the Chancellor, a nonpracticing Jew, denied that his action was discriminatory. He pointed out the Schönau facility...
...Vienna-born Bluhdorn, now 45 and a bit thinner and grayer than when he was the wunderkind of conglomerates several years ago, expects that The Godfather will lift G. & W. earnings close to their alltime record set in 1968. The company is likely to report sales of around $1.6 billion and net operating profits of slightly under $68 million, up $ 13 million from last year...
...Vienna-born Historian Walter Maass is especially intriguing on the Dollfuss assassination, partly because he lived through it all as a young adult. Maass finds it hard to capture the personality of his diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.) "Milli-Metternich." But he shows effectively how Dollfuss forced his "Christian corporate state" too suddenly into a totalitarian mold, basing his power on a single official party while socialists plotted on the left and Austrian Nazis on the right. Maass also demonstrates the appalling lack of official reaction when the government learned of the plot to overthrow it in July 1934. Austria...
Grunberger, a Vienna-born historian raised and educated in England, is author of two previous books on Nazism: Germany 1918-1945 and Hitler's SS. In The 12-Year Reich, he employs a variety of sources to assemble a riveting portrait of the skillful Nazi corruption of an already rotting society. Grunberger even examines the peculiarities of Nazi speech and humor. Of all the jokes that a few dared whisper about Hitler, perhaps the most revelatory of him, and of the Germans, has the Führer in a fishing boat with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mussolini...