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Library invite you to
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9 and Friday, March
10, 2000
LANGUAGE CHANGE: POETRY,
POLITICS, AND COMMON USAGE
March 9, 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Blooinfield Township Public Library
1099 Lone Pine Road (SE corner of Telegraph)
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VICTOR KLEMERER'S EXPERIENCE OF THE
TOTALITARIAN MANIPULATION OF
LANGUAGE IN NAZI GERMANY
RODERICK WATT
LANGUAGE CHANGE: POETRY, POLITICS,
AND COMMON USAGE IS MADE
POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM THE
MICHIGAN, HUMANITIES COUNCIL, AN
Senior lecturer in German at the University of
Glasgow. Watt has annotated the major work of
German-Jewish philologist Victor Klemperer, LTI,
which describes the Nazis' manipulation of language.
Tactical Retreat
Haider's resignation may mask plan
to become Austria's leader.
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change the European Union's isolation
of Austria, adding, "Our position is
unchanged."
The United States said it would
closely monitor developments.
Haider's resignation "doesn't change
our concerns. The Freedom Party is
still part of the government," said State
Department spokesman James Rubin.
"We will react swiftly and firmly to
any statements or actions suggesting
sympathy with Nazi-era policies, or
that express racism, xenophobia or
antisemitism," he said.
Buda est
oerg Haider's unexpected resig-
nation as head of Austria's far-
right Freedom Party is widely
seen as a strategic ploy that may
ultimately win him more political power
— including the nation's leadership.
"It is important not to overesti-
mate" the move, said Marta Halpert,
director of the Anti-Defamation
League's Vienna-based Central Europe
office. "It is a tactical move
designed to take a little pressure
off the government. The question
is whether it will be acknowl-
edged.
"Haider's influence remains,"
she said. "The party is not head-
less."
The entry of the Freedom Party
into government Feb. 4 polarized
Austria. It triggered domestic and
foreign protests, including diplo-
matic isolation by Austria's 14
European Union partners and
other countries, including Israel.
The Freedom Party won 27
percent of the vote in Austria's
elections last October, becoming
the country's second largest party Austrian leader of the right-wing Freedom
Party Joerg Haider announces his resignation
and the strongest far-right force
as leader of the party during a press confer-
in Europe.
ence in Vienna Feb. 28.
The party ran on an anti-
immigrant, law-and-order plat-
Haider announced his resignation as
form. Haider, the son of Nazi sympa-
leader of the Freedom Party, known as
thizers, won notoriety in past years by
the FPO, during a closed-door meet-
praising aspects of Hider's Nazi Reich.
ing of the party leadership, Feb. 28.
He has repeatedly apologized for the
Explaining the move, he said he
remarks.
wanted to concentrate on his job as
Haider's resignation did not impress
governor of Austria's southern state of
foreign leaders.
Carinthia.
Israel, which withdrew its ambas-
He turned the party leadership over
sador to Vienna even before the new
to close aide Susanne Riess-Passer,
government was sworn in, said it
who serves as vice chancellor in the
would not return its envoy.
center-right coalition led by
The prime minister of Portugal,
Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel.
whose country holds the rotating E.U.
Haider, who himself is not a mem-
presidency, was also far from impressed
ber
of the Austrian cabinet, told a news
by the resignation.
conference Monday night that the
"The problem is not Joerg Haider,
"double commitment" of being party
but what his party represents,"
leader and governor was "too much for
Anotonio Guterres said Tuesday.
anyone." But he also said he had no
A spokesman for the German
intention of disappearing permanently.
Foreign Ministry was skeptical that
"I want to make clear that I am not
the resignation would be enough to