Volume 41, Number 12 · June 23, 1994
Journey to the Post-Communist East
By Timothy Garton Ash
Vienna, March 11—Driving into town from the airport, I pass a café called the Espresso Ilidza. On the radio, a reporter discusses the arrangements in Austrian schools for teaching in Croatian. Then comes the weather forecast: for Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, and Northern Italy. I read the diminutive Neue Kronen Zeitung, clipped to its Zeitungshalter (newspaper stick) like a little flag. In a fighting interview, Frau Klestil, the jilted wife of Kurt Waldheim's successor as president, tells us she is determined to remain Austria's first lady. The operetta continues. I am back in Central Europe.
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