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CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL...
Whether prosecutors will succeed in proving links to Tehran officials is less certain, however. A police officer has testified that a top aide of Chancellor Helmut Kohl ordered a key report to be removed from the evidence file. The exact contents of the report are unclear, but the testimony has deepened suspicions that Iran has been pressuring the German government to limit the Mykonos case to keep intelligence matters out. However, German intelligence chief Bernd Schmidbauer, the country's main liaison with Iran, has repeatedly denied that Tehran has exerted any undue influence or that the missing report contains crucial...
...mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, lost two fingers and a thumb when a letter bomb exploded as he opened it at his home. Zilk was the most prominent victim of a wave of 10 letter bombings that has injured five people in Austria since Dec. 3. Police arrested two right-wing extremists they believe are responsible for the attacks. All the bombs were accompanied by notes signed Count Rudiger von Starhemberg, a reference to the Viennese hero who directed the city's resistance to Ottoman armies...
Business leaders and conservative politicians contend overhaul is overdue in a system that has made labor too costly and laborers too lazy. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sharply criticized his countrymen for undermining the work ethic that forged the postwar economic miracle. "We cannot organize our country like one big recreation park," he said. Although Europeans still treasure their blanket of social protection, "they now see its tendency to crush the economy," says French economics professor Jacques Bichot...
...daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked, "What for you is complete happiness on earth?" The sensual, said Swiss writer Hans A. Pestalozzi: "Sex with a woman one loves under the smoldering heat of the sun." The mundane, said theater critic Georg Hensel: "Sole fried in butter." And former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt declared definitively, "There's no such thing...