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This year it looked as if Proporz might be upset. The conservative presidential candidate, suave ex-Chancellor Dr. Alfons Gorbach, 66, was a nationally known politician as well as a World War I hero with a prosthetic limb to prove it. The Socialists' lackluster Franz Jonas, 65, mayor of Vienna and a onetime Linotype operator, was not only unknown outside Vienna but had neither a university degree nor a "Herr Doktor" to his name. This inspired one comic to chortle: "Austria has a choice between a Holzbein [wooden leg] and a Holzkopf [wooden head...
...campaign was in the standard contemporary style that Europeans still refer to as Modern American, with TV commercials, and a computer for election night. Gorbach demonstrated clear campaign superiority by 1) hiring a helicopter in order to shake hands over a 10,000-mile circuit, and 2) using Polaroid lensmen to snap him with individual voters. To no avail. Austrians prefer their own way of making a President, and Jonas won with 2,324,474 votes, or 50.69% of the total...
...group of vociferous People's Party reformers argued for less of the traditional cooperation with the Socialists, but the meager victory of the People's Party -81 seats to 76 for the Socialists-was hardly a mandate for sweeping change. Still, conservative Chancellor Alfons Gorbach shared the reformers' feeling that the extra strength entitled his party to at least one more ministry. The one in mind: the Foreign Ministry, where Socialist Bruno Kreisky was the prime target of the People's Party reformers. The conservatives argued that a Socialist could not possibly put his heart into...
...acknowledges that, unlike traditional neutrals Sweden and Switzerland, with whom Austria filed a joint membership application, Austria is in a "special situation," thrust into involuntary neutrality as a Soviet condition in its 1955 peace treaty. U.S. officials appreciate Gorbach's argument that, while Austria is neutral, it is not neutralist; its sympathies are with the West. Moreover, argues Gorbach, 55% of Austria's trade is with Common Market countries. But Washington feels that neutrals should not share in the economic advantages of the Market unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their national sovereignty in economic...
...Gorbach got a word of advice from one U.S. official: he might receive a better hearing from the Market nations if Austria applied separately, instead of in conjunction with the so-called "voluntary" neutrals, Sweden and Switzerland...