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...again joined Il Cavaliere's center-right electoral coalition and was said to be slated for a prominent cabinet post. That prospect prompted some European officials to consider hitting Italy with the same kind of E.U. sanctions that were clamped on Austria after Jörg Haider's far-right party joined the government in February...
...Rabin did before him, Arafat must discover a new way of dealing with the Israelis. Otherwise, he will never persuade them to give the Palestinians what they want. Many Palestinians believe their fortunes will improve only when Arafat's domination of their affairs ends. "Democracy is needed," says Haider Abdel Shafi, who headed the Palestinian team at the Madrid Peace Conference. "Arafat will never admit that he made a mistake. He will simply blame Israeli aggression...
...AUSTRIA No Meltdown - Yet Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's coalition government weathered its worst crisis since taking office when 15% of voters signed a petition calling for the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in neighboring Czech Republic. The petition, which was organized by Jörg Haider's Freedom Party, demanded that Prague close the plant or risk an Austrian veto on its application to join the E.U. Although the Freedom Party's pro-E.U. partners opposed the vote, they agreed to renew discussions with Prague on the safety of the Temelin plant across Austria's eastern...
...when crazy Communist Gennadi Zyuganov was way up in the polls in Russia? Everyone was worried about that. So Boris Yeltsin starts the year by stepping down and handing power to Vladimir Putin. In Yugoslavia, Milosevic's bloody reign ends with a bloodless election. In Austria, that scary Jorg Haider gives up leadership of the ironically named Freedom Party. We didn't even drop any bombs on Iraq this year...
...Jorg Haider...