Nearly 80 percent of the Austrian people approve of their government’s action to save the hostages in last weekend’s terrorist attack at Vienna Airport, and close down transit facilities for Soviet Jews. This emerged from a spot poll taken by the Wickert Institute of Tuebingen, West Germany. Nine percent said they were against their government’s move and 12 percent did not know.
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