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Even before the polls closed, a downcast politician at the Vienna headquarters of Austria's conservative People's Party was able to forecast the results. "The ball rolls," he said resignedly, "and it rolls to the left." When all of the nearly 5,000,000 ballots were counted last week, the Socialist Party of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, 60, had won a majority of the vote-the first for any party since the founding of the Austrian Republic...
...Austria's Socialists, who had ruled as a minority government since coming to power 18 months ago, garnered 50.04% of the total vote; with 93 of the 183 seats in the lower house, they now enjoy a slim majority in both chambers of Parliament. The People's Party received 43.11% and 80 seats. The misnamed Liberal Party (in which the ghosts of German nationalism walk) stayed at 5.45% and ten seats. The swing to the left stopped short of the Communist Party, which took only 1.36% of the vote and once again fell short-as it has since...
...absolute majority was a double triumph for the burly, redheaded Kreisky-as Austria's first Chancellor of Jewish extraction and as a Socialist despite his descent from a prosperous industrialist family. His middle-of-the-road government has pressed for legal reforms, stressed the principle of full employment and, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, given Austria the highest sustained growth rate (7.1% in 1970) of any developed country except Japan. That record has helped convince middleclass, small-farmer and white-collar groups that Kreisky's Socialists are not necessarily uncultured...
...midnight penman, John Kenneth Galbraith, who last struck in 1963 (with his pseudonymous The McLandress Dimension)! Prescott's editor at Doubleday, which also happens to be Galbraith's publisher, replies: "Why don't you ask him?" Last week, unfortunately, Galbraith was unreachable in Austria; his secretary said that he was "driving slowly" from an economists' meeting in the Tyrol toward his summer home in Gstaad...
...nervousness if not desperation in the diplomatic counteroffensive that the Nationalists are mounting in the face of Peking's recent successes. Sixty-three countries still recognize Taipei as the legal government of China, but Peking has added ten in the past eight months-including Austria last week-to bring its total to 55. Last month Taipei's new Ambassador to the U.S., James Shen, presenting his credentials at the White House, pointedly remarked that "new winds of appeasement are blowing over a part of the free world...