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...rightist sentiment is popping up in some unexpected places. In Belgium the anti-immigrant Vlaams Blok party increased its representation from two to 12 seats in November's parliamentary elections. Sweden, long considered the & socialist's dream of the earthly paradise, gave its Social Democrats their worst electoral defeat in 60 years in 1991. The European Community warned at its Maastricht summit in December "that manifestations of racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe...
...moratorium on allowing immigrants' families to join them and suggested denying welfare payments to residents of non-French ancestry; former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has hinted at refusing automatic citizenship to French-born children of immigrants. All three ideas came straight out of Le Pen's platform. Even Socialist President Francois Mitterrand once declared that France had passed "the threshold of tolerance" in absorbing African and Arab immigrants...
...Reich," then had to resign his provincial governorship in the protest that ensued. But he has led his Austrian Freedom Party to a higher share of the vote in 13 straight provincial and national elections, and in November the party won a startling 23% of the ballots in staunchly Socialist Vienna. It just might poll enough in the next national elections in 1994 to force Haider's inclusion in a government coalition...
...though not in the sense he implied, his firmly held principles did lead to his departure from the Kremlin. As a reformer, Gorbachev was a phenomenon, an almost inexplicable product of the communist establishment who rose to its pinnacle. But he was never able to rise above himself, his socialist faith and his dedication to the Union -- always the Union -- of Soviet Socialist Republics. His ability to go only so far, and no further, made it inevitable that he would be the initiator, not the final arbiter, of democratic change in the former Soviet empire. Said the daily Izvestia...
Most dismaying of all to the majority of Soviet people, Gorbachev did not deliver on his promise that perestroika would bring efficiency to the socialist system and prosperity to the country. Instead, as he admitted last week, "the old system fell apart even before the new system began to work." In fact, there was no new system. In September 1990 he announced he favored the so-called 500-Day Plan for a sudden switch to a free-market system. But then he lost his nerve and reneged, opting for a "compromise" between dramatic change and another round of tentative tinkering...