Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Kingswood School, and the Bloomfield Township Public Library invite you to a public symposium on Thursday, March 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) **toy, 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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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