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DATE: MONDAY, February 11, 1991                   TAG: 9102110148
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: VIENNA, AUSTRIA                                LENGTH: Short

AUSTRIAN KILLS SELF IN APPARENT WAR PROTEST

A 68-year-old Austrian woman shot and killed herself in front of the U.S. Embassy Sunday in what police called a protest against the war.

The woman, a Viennese pensioner identified only as Herta R., shot herself with a pistol on the sidewalk opposite the embassy and died later in Vienna's General Hospital, said a police spokesman. He demanded anonymity in line with police rules.

He said police had found a note clenched in the woman's hand, citing the Gulf War as the suicide motive.

- Associated Press 


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