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.
; For Haider, the results in Vienna marked the third strong showing of his party...
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