Austria looks for soccer distraction (AP)

 
Austria always knew it would spend the middle of 2008 in the international spotlight. The country just expected it to be for a different reason. One month before Austria co-hosts the European Championship with Switzerland, the country is in the headlines around the world because of the nightmarish events that allegedly took place for a generation in the basement of a house in Amstetten, 75 miles... [link]

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