Word: haider
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good reason to sing: the elated mayor was celebrating his re-election and emergence as Chicago's most dominant political figure since the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Washington took 53.5% of the vote last week to trounce his archenemy, former Alderman Edward Vrdolyak (42.2%), and Republican Donald Haider (4.3%). Cook County Assessor Thomas C. Hynes withdrew from the race 36 hours before the polls opened...
This spirit of tolerance for Nazism has spread to other European countries as well. In Austria, where Hitler was born, Jorg Haider, the leader of the Liberal Party, earned the label "Hitler's kid" for some of his positions. Thanks to this, Haider--who holds land confiscated from Jews before the war--garnered 10 percent of the electoral votes during the recent elections...
...surprising number showed disenchantment with mainstream politics. Voters gave the ruling Socialists 80 seats in parliament, or ten fewer than they held before the election. The conservative ^ People's Party lost four seats and wound up with 77. The phenomenom of the campaign was Freedom Party Leader Jorg Haider, 36, who stressed Austria's ethnic and cultural ties with Germany and denounced corruption and privilege. Haider's right-wing party, which numbers ex-Nazi sympathizers among its members, raised its parliamentary seat total from twelve...
...unacceptable shift," snapped Socialist Chancellor Franz Vranitzky. He was referring to an abrupt rightward lurch by his conservative coalition partner, Austria's Freedom Party, which had just elected Jorg Haider, 36, as party chairman. With that, Vranitzky called for snap elections in November...
...tiny Freedom Party has long counted ex-Nazis among its ranks. Last week, however, party liberals found themselves outnumbered and outgunned by an ultraconservative, xenophobic "national" wing that is nostalgic about the Nazi era. Vranitzky apparently found early elections less risky than a partnership with Haider...