Reuters: Vienna Anti-Haider Protesters Clash With Police

[Johannes Schneider]

This is just coming over the wires. Its remarkable, because it seems now
that Haider is in government the police is more aggresive than in the days
before. Since Wednesday Austrian TV has been reporting about the ongoing
protests in front of the chancellery, the presidency and the parliament.
Perhaps comrades in Austria can send more details.
Johannes

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VIENNA (Reuters) - Police baton-charged jeering demonstrators on Friday
outside Vienna's Hofburg palace as President Thomas Klestil swore in a new
government including Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party.

Anti-Haider protesters threw eggs and tomatoes at riot police who responded
by charging briefly into the crowd of more than 2,000 demonstrators who
shouted ``Haider is a fascist.''

No injuries were reported in the incident, which was unusually aggressive by
Austrian standards.

Hundreds of police in riot gear cordoned off the Ballhausplatz, the square
in which both the presidency and the chancellery are situated, and kept the
crowd from approaching the gates to the president's office.

Klestil swore in conservative leader Wolfgang Schuessel in the Hofburg at
1100 GMT as chancellor in a new center-right coalition with the Freedom
Party.

Haider did not join the cabinet himself but his party has the same number of
ministers as Schuessel's People's Party.

Demonstrators from the Greens, women's groups and other organizations also
chanted ``Resistance, resistance'' and ``Down with the Freedom Party.''