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...extra airtime to terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes in North Korea or arms laundering in Yemen, we gobble up huge scoops of recycled news. Reading the newspapers this year was like settling back with some frozen-in-time Austrian Zeitung whose headline declares governor of Carinthia denies he worships Hitler. Wait, I think that really was in the Austrian papers this year. And in the New York Times, which I occasionally read during boring meetings, I found out that the Dow crawled back to 1997 levels and swept away all those confusing new companies I never...
...with the murder. Prosecutors said he was mentally unstable. AUSTRIA Party Pooper Maverick far-right politician Joerg Haider said that he would remain in politics despite the disastrous performance of his Freedom Party in the country's general elections. Haider threatened to resign as governor of the region of Carinthia - he has often threatened to leave politics - after his party's share of the vote fell from 26.9% to 10.2%. CYPRUS Enemies Reunited The Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash told United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he is ready for talks on reunification. The decision followed Greek Cypriot support...
...from a high of 27% almost three years ago. What happened? The party may have been a victim of its own success. Six months after it sprang to prominence in 1999, Haider relinquished the leadership because of the uproar created by his xenophobic pronouncements. But when he returned to Carinthia, where he is governor, he left behind in Vienna a group of ministers who - together with their coalition partners, the conservative People's Party of Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel - managed to accomplish a few things. They slashed spending, briefly eliminated the deficit, and wrested control of government-owned enterprises...
...Renaissance-style Carinthian capital. Traditionally the nearby lakeside towns of P?rtschach and Velden have been prime holiday destinations for wealthy Austrians and Germans, but few other tourists made it to the region's beautiful lakes, mountains and alpine valleys. In the first three weeks of July the Carinthia tourist office's English-language website had nearly as much traffic as it did in the whole of last year. Before the Ryanair service began, tourism spokeswoman Martina Skrube had a hard time selling local delights to overseas visitors. "Now," she says, "we hope we can really attract British guests...
Survivors among the Sudeten Germans want to see the decrees repealed, and they're backed by Jörg Haider, governor of Austria's Carinthia province and a major force in the far-right Freedom Party, part of Austria's ruling coalition. "The Benes Decrees should no longer exist," Haider said. Erika Steinbach, head of Germany's Association of Displaced Persons, agrees: "Who in the year 2002 cannot distance himself from a political event that contradicts all norms of international law and questions the E.U. suitability of his country? Chancellor Schröder is urgently called upon to link...