Word: waffen
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...Jorg Haider's Freedom party out of government. President Thomas Klestil Thursday agreed to swear in a coalition government Friday comprising the mainstream conservative People's party and the anti-immigrant populist party led by a man whose previous statements sympathetic to Third Reich policies and to the notorious Waffen SS have caused Israel, the U.S. and European countries to threaten to isolate Austria. "President Klestil admitted yesterday that his hands were tied," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "His only alternative would be to call a general election, in which the Freedom party would do even better...
...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...