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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (16449)	4/18/2000 12:47:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

I guess His Holiness is brokering a meeting between Jorg Haider and Umberto Bossi..... Nazism stalks Europe again By SALMAN RUSHDIE Friday 4 February 2000 theage.com.au Excerpt: And the long-running Austrian "grand coalition", that backslapping, jobs-for-the-boys establishment fix, has disillusioned the voters enough to make them turn towards Haider. The European papers are full of tales of fat-cat corruption these days, and the revelations are a gift to a populist demagogue of the Haider type. When the heirs of the late Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who was convicted of corruption, shrug their shoulders and call the stories of slush funds for Craxi, Germany's Helmut Kohl and France's Francois Mitterrand an irrelevance, they make things much worse. The more Europe looks like a "grand coalition" of arrogant leaders for whom ends easily justify means, the more ammunition the Haiders have. Haider has said he will not himself enter the Government - so much easier to run things through proxies and stooges, one is so much less, well, exposed. According to the political theorist Karl-Markus Gauss, Haider has pulled off a more European trick. Like Jean-Marie Le Pen in France or Umberto Bossi in Italy, he has won the support of the wealthy, successful bourgeoisie. What these people hate about immigrants, Gauss believes, is not their race but their poverty. [...]