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...however, a surprising number showed disenchantment with mainstream politics. Voters gave the ruling Socialists 80 seats in parliament, or ten fewer than they held before the election. The conservative ^ People's Party lost four seats and wound up with 77. The phenomenom of the campaign was Freedom Party Leader Jorg Haider, 36, who stressed Austria's ethnic and cultural ties with Germany and denounced corruption and privilege. Haider's right-wing party, which numbers ex-Nazi sympathizers among its members, raised its parliamentary seat total from twelve...
...unacceptable shift," snapped Socialist Chancellor Franz Vranitzky. He was referring to an abrupt rightward lurch by his conservative coalition partner, Austria's Freedom Party, which had just elected Jorg Haider, 36, as party chairman. With that, Vranitzky called for snap elections in November...
...disturbed, the Sea People experience an absolute shower of gold. But absolute shower corrupts absolutely, and soon the islands are threatened by pride and avarice. Only the old man's wisdom can rescue them from themselves ... This familiar tale is saved from banality by the panoramic artwork of Jorg Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull's-eye views of the islands seem three-dimensional, and the huge pictures of ancient machinery and people have a Shakespearean sweep. "He always worked a triple-hinged surprise/ To end the scene and make one rub his eyes." So wrote Poet Vachel Lindsay...
...other American entries similarly failed in the final round. Seattle's Bill Tytus, the best United States entry in the Diamond Sculls lost badly to East German Jorg Bohmer, and the Trinity College varsity crew, undefeated in its first year of competition, fell to A.S.R. Nereus, a fine Netherlands club, by a length...
...Jorg Felmy, a lumpish German who looks like an intelligent potato, plays the new man at the post: a decent but determined adult who knows what he wants, how to get it, and how to say no when he has had enough...