Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 11:13:59 AM CET
Nowhere to run for Haider
THE Chancellor of Austria, Wolfgang Schussel, lost his temper yesterday, removed a machinegun from a wooden alpine shed and sprayed bullets at a handful of caged prisoners, including the populist Jorg Haider.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 11:12:04 AM CET
Austria's Far-Right Party Fades
The far-right surge that catapulted Austria's Freedom Party into the governing coalition in 1999 and prompted consternation across the European Union appears to be over, according to opinion polls ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 11:10:13 AM CET
Austrians vote in snap election
Polls have opened in Austria's early general election that could see the ultra-nationalist Freedom Party thrust from power.
Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's conservative People's Party could see its strongest gains in decades but still wind up in opposition if the controversial Joerg Haider's party.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 11:08:33 AM CET
Austria Expects Close Election as Far Right Yields to Center
The national elections on Sunday figure to be among the closest in Austria's history, with the nation's traditional center-left and center-right parties, only fractions of a percent apart in recent polls, battling for the largest plurality and the right to name the next chancellor.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 11:06:57 AM CET
Austrians Vote for New Parliament
Austrians are voting for a new parliament Sunday in an election that is expected to give no single party a majority, forcing a scramble to form a coalition government.
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Topic: Wahl2 - on November 24, 2002 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Austrians begin voting, outcome wide open
Austrians begin voting, outcome wide open Sunday. Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's conservative People's Party, which broke off an alliance with Haider in September, could see its strongest gains in decades but still wind up in opposition if Haider's party does not do well enough to form a coalition.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:59:45 AM CET
'Millions' have tried ecstasy
Between three million and 3.5 million adults in the EU have probably tried ecstasy at least once, says a European drug monitoring body. Up to half a million have taken it once a week or more at some time in their lives, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:58:09 AM CET
Joan Jett's open letter to Rolling Stone
I tried to find some cleverly worded way to express my disgust with your "Women in Rock" issue, but what i have to say is really quite simple: You guys are completely retarded.
By RS standards, Rock is no longer a style of music but a trendy costume to be whipped up by expensive stylists and slapped onto the latest pop tart barbie doll. Give a girl some tight pants and a spiky bracelet and POOF! She ROCKS!
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:51:31 AM CET
Stockbroker using Uncle Sam's medical marijuana for 20 years
A breeze billows the pungent smoke from the marijuana cigarette around his face, and Irvin Rosenfeld immediately feels better. A stock broker, Rosenfeld deals with millions of dollars while smoking up to 12 joints daily - marijuana he gets from the federal government to treat a rare bone ailment. "It has made my life much easier to live and kept my condition in check," Rosenfeld said Wednesday, 20 years to the day he received his first marijuana shipment from the government under a program which today has only six other members.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:45:02 AM CET
Austrian voters expected to desert far-right party led by Haider
AUSTRIAN voters, weary of the antics of the far-rightist Jörg Haider, look set to hand his party a stinging defeat in elections tomorrow.
The snap election, called after Mr Haider triggered a coalition crisis, offers voters a broad choice in the midst of hard economic times. They can vote to stick with the centre-right alliance that has just stumbled, return to the "grand coalition" of the main parties of the past or experiment with German-style "red-green" politics.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:43:10 AM CET
Muscleman Schwarzenegger joins Austrian polls campaign
Filmstar Arnold Schwarzenegger joined Austria's election campaign at the 11th hour on Saturday, backing conservative Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel the day before a knife-edge general election. The "Terminator" movie star appeared in an advertisement in the most popular daily Krone on Saturday and is expected to make other appearances, according to officials from Schuessel's People's Party (OeVP), who declined to give details.
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Topic: - on November 24, 2002 at 10:41:00 AM CET
Austrian election knife edge
AUSTRIA'S right and left wings were running neck and neck in opinion polls, two days ahead of a general election Sunday in which the smaller far-right and Green parties' scores will decide the next government.
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