Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into positions of leadership. Then as now, the European uprisings fanned the flames of nationalism and raised what came to be known as "the German question" -- the possibility that all Germans would unite in one state. In 1848 the widely despised symbol of the old order was the aged Austrian Chancellor, Klemens von Metternich. His flight from Vienna touched off the kind of rejoicing that greeted the opening of the Berlin Wall this November...
Czechoslovak army units yesterday began pulling down barbed wire fencing along a 20-mile stretch of its border with Austria. After the first stretch of the fence was cut away and rolled up, officials from both countries met on the open border near the Austrian town of Wullowitz to shake hands...
Government spokesperson Marcel Jansen said the Interior Ministry was asked yesterday to start immediate removal of "technical equipment" along parts of the Czechoslovak-Austrian border. Such equipment includes concrete pylons linked with barbed wire and some electronic wire to detect trespassers...
Janfaza also signed on with a European hockey program after graduation--he played first in an Austrian league and is now six hours south of Lugano and MacDonald, scoring goals on a team in France. Of the six seniors who played regularly for the 1988-89 championship Crimson, five signed with foreign programs last spring...
...example, a leak to ABC News undermined the summer espionage investigation of former Austrian ambassador Felix Bloch. Television audiences could watch investigators following an entourage of the press following Bloch...