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- <text id=91TT2606>
- <title>
- Nov. 25, 1991: World Notes:Austria
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 25, 1991 10 Ways to Cure The Health Care Mess
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 63
- World Notes
- AUSTRIA
- Notch One for Nativism
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Jorg Haider will not say he is antiforeigner, but rather that
- he is "native-friendly." Semantics aside, what Haider stands for
- is abundantly clear to the Viennese, who last week gave his
- far-right Freedom Party 22.6% of the vote in provincial
- elections. So popular was Haider's proposal for an immediate
- halt to immigration into Austria--there are currently about
- 500,000 foreigners living in a population of 7.8 million--that
- his party displaced the conservative People's Party as the No.
- 2 power in the state.
- </p>
- <p> For Haider, the results in Vienna marked the third strong
- showing of his party at the polls in as many months. It has been
- a remarkable comeback for someone who was driven from office as
- governor of the province of Carinthia only last June. Reason:
- Haider lauded Nazi Germany's "employment policy." The statement
- was widely interpreted as an endorsement of slave labor and
- concentration camps. Haider's antiforeigner campaign has struck
- a chord with Austrians dissatisfied with a government they
- consider directionless.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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