Empress Elizabeth Austria
Crime - US Department of State
Snakehead Empress Who Made Millions Trafficking in Misery: Sister Ping, the Most Ruthless People-Smuggler in Europe, Is Behind Bars -- But Her Violent, Lucrative Trade in Human Cargo Thrives ... By Elizabeth Amon, The National Law Journal, July 15, 2002 ... [Read More]
Key Officers - All
APIA (E) Address: U.S. Embassy, 5th Floor, ACB House, Matafele, Apia, Samoa; APO/FPO: American Embassy, PSC 467 BOX 1, APO AP 96531-1034; Phone: (685) 21-631; Fax: (685) 22-030; Workweek: Monday to Friday, 0800 - 1630 OfficerNameAMB Charles J. Swindells (Resident in Welllington)DCM/CHG Timothy W. HarleyMGT Ronna Pazdral (Wellington) [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: USTR Zoellick Praises China's Support for Globalization
The disruptions of the time spawned violence and, in some instances, anarchism and terrorism. Some individuals and societies tried to destroy the symbols of their fears. There was an attempt on the life of Yuan Shi-kai in 1912, and successful assassinations of President McKinley in the United States, President Carnot and Jean Jaures in France, Premiers Canovas and Canalejas of Spain, Empress Elizabeth of Austria, King Humbert of Italy, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo. This last assassination ushered in the supreme cataclysm of globalization, a new phenomenon reflecting the new age -- our first global war. As this World War raged, a struggling China even sent 100,000 of its sons to labor on what was called a Western Front in Europe. ... [Read More]
USIA Electronic Journal 2/97 - Laqueur
As the 19th century ended, it seemed no one was safe fromterrorist attack. In 1894 an Italian anarchist assassinatedFrench President Sadi Carnot. In 1897 anarchists fatally stabbedEmpress Elizabeth of Austria and killed Antonio Canovas, theSpanish prime minister. In 1900 Umberto I, the Italian king,fell in yet another anarchist attack; in 1901 an Americananarchist killed William McKinley, president of the UnitedStates. Terrorism became the leading preoccupation ofpoliticians, police chiefs, journalists, and writers fromDostoevsky to Henry James. If in the year 1900 the leaders ofthe main industrial powers had assembled, most of them would haveinsisted on giving terrorism top priority on their agenda, asPresident Clinton did at the Group of Seven meeting after theJune bombing of the U.S. military compound in Dhahran, SaudiArabia. ... [Read More]
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