Word: haider
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...since the Anschluss has Austria seen a resurgence of Nazi ideas so close to the mainstream. The far-right Freedom party, whose leader, Joerg Haider, has expressed views sympathetic to the Third Reich, became the second largest party in Austria after Sunday?s election, finishing only 6 percent behind the ruling Social Democrats and ahead of its coalition partner, the conservative People?s party. The mystery is how an extremist party has managed to break into the mainstream at a time of prosperity and relative social calm. "Austrians are not angry, they?re bored," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter...
...coalition, despite the vow by People?s party leader Wolfgang Schuessel to go into opposition if he finished third. After all, it was only the failure of his squabbling opponents to reach a coalition deal that allowed another Austrian demagogue to win Germany?s 1933 election. And like Hitler, Haider combines an odd assortment of conservative and left-wing economics with a paranoid fear of foreigners, a put-upon sense that his country has been wronged and an exhortation for it to rise to its formal imperial glory. Now where?s that Von Trapp family when you need them...
...babies," and in English, "One, two, three, four. We don't want war" as the foreign cameras come by. There is a tense quiet, though, as 57 orange-and-white taxis drive by, each bearing the small coffin of a dead child labeled with his or her name: Haider Hatami, 25 days; Mohammed, one month. The little bodies have been stored in hospital morgues, some for weeks, against Muslim law, stockpiled for these set-piece processions. The government brings in the protesters, pulling volunteers out of restaurants to join. But the marchers are expressing genuine anger, and most...
Srishti Gupta '97 and Vikas S. Sohal '97 were named the organization's new presidents. Sharon Sudarshan '97 was elected treasurer; Kartik Muralidharan '98 academic and political chair; Haider A. Shirzi '98 secretary; and Soshila A. Jacob '96 social and cultural chair. Vipin Goyal '98 will serve as publicity chair, and Mallar Bhattacharya as liaison. Vivek H. Maru '97 will lead the inter-ethnic committee...
...Jorg Haider's right-wing Freedom Party wins 12% of the vote in provincial elections in Lower Austria...