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Article: Haider hosts youths from terror attacks; Children lost parents September 11.(WORLD)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2002
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Byline: Patti McCracken, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
VIENNA, Austria - Austrian politician Joerg Haider, who has outraged liberals and conservatives alike with a visit to Saddam Hussein and favorable remarks about Nazis, is burnishing his image by hosting a group of New York City children who lost parents in the World Trade Center attacks.
About 100 children, most of them sons and daughters of New York City policemen and firefighters, are winding up a two-week tour through the southern province of Carinthia, where Mr. Haider is governor, and the northern Italian border state of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia.
The governments of the two states teamed up to ...