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DENISE LANGFORD MORRIS
JUDGE
OAKLAND COUNTY
CIRCUIT COURT

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abashedly he wants to be the next
Austrian chancellor, continues to
gamer support among young neo-
Nazis and old Communist
leaders.
Blaming foreigners for the rise
in the country's crime rates and
stating that he wants an imme-
diate end to immigration, Mr.
Haider stated that his party was
ready "to take responsibility for
all of Austria in 1998."
In Belgium, extreme-right par-
ties also made important gains
in local elections when some 7
million Belgians elected new
municipal councils.
Far-right parties made con-
siderable gains both in the
Flemish and the French-speak-
ing parts of the country, with
Antwerp and Brussels being
particularly hit by what the daily
newspaper La Libre Belgique
called the "extreme-right con-
tagion."
One out of three votes in
Antwerp went to the extreme
right.
In Antwerp, the right-wing
Flemish Bloc, led by a former
journalist Filip Dewinter, won 18
seats, an increase of eight from
1988, making it the dominant
party on the 55-seat council.
The Flemish Socialist Party led
by Mayor Bob Cools emerged
with only 13 seats.
Brussels, seat of several Euro-
pean Union institutions and of
NATO, was also hit by the ex-
treme-rightist wave, with the
racist National Front winning
more than 40 local seats in the
city's 19 communal districts.
Some observers interpret the
far-right votes as an expression
of protest against the traditional
political parties.

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Vienna (JTA) — Right-wing par-
ties scored dramatic victories in
elections held in both Austria and
Belgium.
In Austria, the right-wing
Freedom Party won 22.8 percent
of the vote, increasing its num-
ber of seats in the country's 183-
seat legislature to 42 from the 33
seats it won in 1990.
The European Jewish Con-
gress criticized the results in Aus-
tria, saying the country had
apparently not learned from the
mistakes of its Nazi past.
"These results show that Aus-
tria has not learned its lesson
from the past in teaching its
younger generations to engage in
the paths of tolerance and in the
values of democracy," the group
said in a statement.
While the ruling Social De-
mocrats led by Chancellor
FranzVranitzky appeared poised
to form another coalition
government. The party's loss of
14 seats in the legislature
prompted Mr. Vranitzky to term
the elections results "a very bitter,
clear and large defeat" for his
PartY.
The Freedom Party is led by
Jorg Haider, a slick politician who
recently led an unsuccessful cam-
paign to keep Austria out of the
European. Union and another one
to declare his country closed to
foreigners.
Prior to his current electoral
success, which makes the Free-
dom Party the strongest far-right
party in Western Europe, Mr.
Haider was forced to resign as
governor of the Austrian province
of Carinthia in 1988, after he ex-
pressed support for the Third
Reich's labor policies.
Mr. Haider, who says un-

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Montreal (JTA) — Although the
separatist Parti Quebecois led by
Jacques Parizeau emerged vic-
torious in the widely watched
provincial elections here, the Jew-
ish community expressed little
worry that the vote would lead to
Quebec's secession from the rest
of Canada.
When the PQ first won a Que-
bec provincial election in 1976,
panic over a possible secession
abounded, prompting a mass ex-
odus of Jews from the capital of
Quebec.
Many Jews here feel that the
separatist movement promotes a
nationalist agenda that would

work against the interest of the
Jews.
As a result of that exodus,
Toronto surpassed Montreal as
the nation's major Jewish popu-
lation center.
But the election prompted lit-
tle, if any, such concern, primar-
ily because of the optimism
among English-speaking Que-
beckers that any future referen-
dum on separation from Canada
would fail.
Premier-elect Parizeau is ex-
pected to hold such a referendum
within the next year.
The PQ previously governed
the province from 1976 to 1985,

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