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LettersImportant changes
are evident in Vienna these days.
When I was there in March, for the
first time in my memory, there was a real sense of political turmoil,
occasioned by
the recent entry into Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel’s
government of the right-wing Freedom Party, and its putative
leader, Mr. Jörg Haider. For the past fifty years, the government, with its
chancellors changing every few years, has been made up of an ongoing cozy
coalition between the two major parties dominant in
the postwar period—the
Social Democratic Party (spoe, known colloquially as “the Reds,”) and the
AUSTRIA PEOPLE’S PARTY (OEVP, “the Blacks”).
Haider and his party have put an end to all that.
People are uneasy.
On the surface, things did not seem to have changed in any
drastic fashion. The city itself, which counts on its easygoing ...
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