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...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...
...criticism is partly self-fulfilling. "The westerners tell us, 'You're dumb. You can't do anything right,' " says Jorg Richter, a psychologist in east Berlin. "That makes people emotionally ill." The sense of psychic distress is so widespread that politicians often use the language of clinical psychology to discuss Germany's problems. Zukunftsangst is fear of the future. Wendekrankheit -- turnabout sickness -- describes the general malaise that has accompanied the sharp dislocations associated with unification...
Cover: Sculpture by Hans Jorg Limbach; Photographed by Roberto Brosan
...primates during their golden years. While subject to experiments, the chimps live alone in huts, but when their brief working lives are over, they are gathered into colonies of eight or ten in in-door-outdoor block houses that give them room to romp. Says foundation official Jorg Eichberg: "They lead a very normal life...
This spirit of tolerance for Nazism has spread to other European countries as well. In Austria, where Hitler was born, Jorg Haider, the leader of the Liberal Party, earned the label "Hitler's kid" for some of his positions. Thanks to this, Haider--who holds land confiscated from Jews before the war--garnered 10 percent of the electoral votes during the recent elections...