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...free a doctor working for the aid organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who had been kidnapped by Chechen rebels; the government later tried to recoup the money from MSF. "Ransoms are certainly being paid," Antonia Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, said in an e-mail on Friday. "Of course governments do not want to make this public because it violates international standards and signals to bandits and pirates that crime pays...
...announced by his family, it was accompanied by a stylish and anecdotal 3½-page tribute that recalled his coverage of the Korean War; how he'd become the first American television reporter based in Moscow during the Cold War; and his assignments in Rome, Tokyo and Vienna before his pioneering work as a full-time economics correspondent...
...Trapp Groupies. If you're still wondering how to solve a problem like Maria, Gutsy Women Travel is an offering an eight-day tour, starting in Salzburg on June 29, called Allure of Austria: Salzburg & Vienna. Visit Salzburg where the Sound of Music was filmed, learn to cook apple strudel and how to dance a proper Viennese waltz, and have dinner in a Viennese palace followed by a Mozart and Strauss concert. If you book with a friend (use the promo code GWTBAF200) by April 15, you'll each save $200 off the regular price of $1,899 per person...
Alliances die when they win. Take away the enemy, and you take away the glue that holds a coalition together. The European alliance against Napoleon was all but dead seven years after they had danced the last waltz at the Congress of Vienna. The entente that followed the defeat of Wilhelmine Germany collapsed five years after the armistice. The Soviet-American alliance against Hitler was practically finished...
...parallel surge in drug-related organized crime has popped up as a unfortunate and unintended consequence. Antonio Maria Costa, Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, addresses this nasty side effect in a paper slated for delivery at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna on March 11th. Costa urges countries to "look at drug control as a series of inter-related factors where each intervention has an impact on others," emphasizing the need to incorporate innovative and inclusive crime prevention methods in all efforts to reduce the drug problem rather than tackling each measure individually...