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...Nazi; he's just a good old xenophobic, right-wing demagogue. Ignoring European Union warnings against allowing Jorg Haider's Freedom party into government, Austrian politicians moved Tuesday toward concluding a coalition agreement between the anti-immigrant party and the mainstream conservative People's party. Haider's previous statements sympathetic to the Third Reich's employment policies and his reference to the Waffen SS as "men of character and conviction" have had European politicians threatening diplomatic isolation if the Freedom party is allowed into government...
...when the country elected Kurt Waldheim president despite foreign condemnation of his wartime record. "Austrians don't like being told what to do," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "Their response is to hunker down and stick to their guns - European opposition has actually increased Haider's popularity in Austria...
...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...