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...Though often compared to the 19th century Austrian statesman Klemens Metternich, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger claims to have other idols. "I think Metternich was an extremely skilled diplomat, but not very creative," said Kissinger to the Washington Star. "I hope to have constructed more than he had. He was a skillful manipulator of events that he didn't help shape." And who have been the great men of modern times? "De Gaulle was a great figure," answered the Secretary...
...previously supported terrorism. Suddenly they found the terror pointed in their direction. Breaking into a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), six people, five men and a woman, held captive more than 60 people, including eleven oil ministers. After all-night negotiations with the Austrian government, the terrorists secured an Austrian Airlines DC-9 and took the ministers and some 30 other members of their delegations to Algiers, Tripoli, and back to Algiers again before releasing them. No one aboard the plane was hurt, but three were killed and eight others wounded in the initial assault...
...Carlos aboard the Austrian DC-9 that flew the terrorists and their kidnap victims to Algiers? Backing up the skepticism of French police, some of the hostages said that the gang's leader did not look like pictures of Carlos. But Venezuela's oil minister, Valentín Hernàndez Acosta, insisted that "the head of the commandos was definitely Ilyich Ramírez Sànchez, alias Carlos." Added another OPEC official: "If Carlos is a Latin American of medium height who speaks Spanish, French, English, German and Arabic, and if he is a cool killer...
...other living saints, giving means devoting their lives entirely to the needs of orphans. Austrian Catholic Hermann Gmeiner, 56, saw that need in the wake of World War II, when Europe was crowded with homeless refugee children. He took a leaf from his childhood-an older sister had raised the eight other children after his mother died-and built the first in a series of "S O S villages" that now care for 15,000 orphans round the world. Every village consists of a cluster of houses, each presided over by a foster mother who cares for eight...
...Verdict occurs in Swiss and Austrian hospitals. For one thing, the disease is now under control. Also, the book often dips back into "preverdict" times. There are three long, notable set pieces-a jet-set party in a ski chalet; an account of the boyhood of David Palastanga, Knef's husband, in London's East End; and a chronicle of a nightclub tour a few years ago in which she sang and Palastanga did just about everything else. They are all funny, mercilessly observed scenes, full of irony and incongruity...