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Within days, Bloch became the most intensely hounded public official since Oliver North. Justice Department sources whispered that the Austrian-born Bloch was not only a Communist spy but also an Austrian lackey: as deputy chief of the American mission in Vienna, he had argued against barring Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from the U.S. A Viennese newspaper chimed in that Bloch was also a skirt chaser: police in Vienna interviewed a call girl with whom he had had a "friendship" for several years. In New York City Ronald Lauder, a former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and now a Republican candidate...
...official level. The State Department confirmed that Bloch is being investigated for a "compromise of security which has occurred," but at week's end no charges had been filed against him, and he remained on paid leave from the department at an estimated $80,000 annual salary. Austrian officials confirmed that they were investigating a "phony Finn" who had traveled to Vienna several times on a forged passport. U.S. officials have fingered him as Bloch's contact...
...stint as charge, or acting ambassador, Bloch had access to U.S. diplomatic traffic on East European and Soviet issues as well as worldwide regional reports. He was aware of CIA activities, if not the names of actual agents, in one of the world's most active intelligence arenas, the Austrian capital. As one of eleven office directors in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs in Washington, Bloch also had access to the National Intelligence Daily, a highly classified summary...
Mulvehal posted her best singles and doubles records in the junior year, finishing with a 27-7 singles mark and a 27-3 doubles mark with Cyndy Austrian. The Crimson finished that season 20-8, accumulating the most wins ever in a single season...
...from the patterns and relationships of pea plants that a concept of heredity first arose in the mind of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk. In 1865, after studying the flower colors and other characteristics of many generations of pea plants, Mendel formulated the laws of heredity and suggested the existence of packets of genetic information, which became known as genes. Soon afterward, chromosomes were observed in the nuclei of dividing cells, and scientists later discovered a chromosomal difference between the sexes. One chromosome, which they named Y, was found in human males' cells, together with another, called X. Females' cells...