Word: austria
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...more than ever." That battle cry helped Kurt Waldheim become President of Austria two years ago, despite an international uproar over his service with German army units that committed atrocities during World War II. But the slogan echoed with bitter irony last week as calls for his resignation mounted in the wake of a report by a panel of historians who concluded that Waldheim, 69, was well aware of war crimes but did nothing to stop them and then concealed his knowledge...
...many schoolrooms across Austria, portraits of the President vanished from the walls. Civil servants in Vienna hung a 100-ft.-long banner from a government office building demanding that Waldheim step down. In the capital's St. Stephen's Square, some 3,500 demonstrators gathered around a 10-ft.-high wooden horse wearing a storm trooper's cap, which has become an anti-Waldheim symbol...
...first time, both parties in Austria's shaky coalition government seemed to harbor serious doubts about the President. Fritz Rucker, vice chairman of the pro-Waldheim People's Party in Salzburg, quit to protest what he called "false slavish loyalty" toward Waldheim. Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, who heads the Socialists, threatened to resign unless the furor over Waldheim died down...
Past Olympic Results Year Site Finish Coach 1984 Sarajevo, Yugoslavia Seventh Lou Vairo 1980 Lake Placid, NY First Herb Brooks 1976 Innsbruck, Austria Fourth Bob Johnson 1972 Sapporo, Japan Second Murray Williamson 1968 Grenoble, France Sixth Murray Williamson 1964 Innsbruck, Austria Fifth Eddie Jeremiah 1960 Squaw Valley, CA First Jack Riley 1956 Cortina, Italy Second John Mariucci 1952 Oslo, Norway Second Connie Pleban 1948 St. Moritz, Switz Fourth John Garrison 1936 Garmish, Germany Third Albert Prettyman 1932 Lake Placid, NY Second Alfred Winsor 1928 Not Represented 1924 Chamonix, France Second William Haddock 1920 Antwerp, Belgium (Unofficial) Second Ray Schooley
Agreeing to a ten- month timetable for withdrawal of his troops, Gorbachev says the next round of Geneva talks may be the last. The tanks could begin clanking homeward by May 15. -- In Austria, Waldheim resists new pressure to step down. -- A former top aide to Panamanian Strongman Noriega tells of corruption on a grand scale. -- Growing militance among West Bank settlers...