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Show Thursday, November 22, THE HERALD, Prwo, Utah, Page F4 1990 lbinnie Austria lokely to there, AusVIENNA, Austria 'APj tria, a neutral bridge between East and West during four decades of aid War, U in an ideal position to be trie middleman in a new age of itfr?reter of both Eastern needs for itaelf as a Western de- Krejd, general secretary conservative Federafjai erf .id Austria could Ir.djrtnalisU, u.e its historical experience to fur.ti'r. aa a 'IranwniMion belt" the two halve of Europe. Austria once was an empire Hungary, Czechoslwa-aw- l parts of Yu'jftlavia, Italy, Now it U a MTall rtyMiC of 7.6 million at th crav r'4-- l between East and West, with itror.? ues to both. Mariy Austrian have relatives in the East, or parent who grew up ert of betn democra-cy- and Prague, be said, London and Brussels will nevertheless be more foreign to them than Vienna. Budapest . a spokesman for the regional government, was quoted by the Austrian newspaper Die Press as saying there was a growing feeling of '"belonging together" with Austria because of the common history. Jan ........ . - J. . Vit, Czech former Hungarian premier, A Andras Hegedus, said recently his country should seek its future in some form of alliance with other n nations of the old Empire. Vienna has long been a center trade and is likely to for East-Weremain so. Poor facilities for cmmunka-tion- s and travel in Eastern Europe make it difficult to conduct btisi-neefficiently. Telephone, rail and road connections often are unrelia United States, Soviet Union, France and Britain. That neutrality, and Austria's position on the divide, made it a logical Austro-Hungaria- East-We- st meeting place for the two sides. Vienna has been the site of East-Wearms talks since 1973, a two-yemeeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe was held in the Austrian capital and some U.N. agencies have their headquarters here. st st ar ss i raMemain) ble. IBM plans a computer information network connecting universities in the East, but Vienna is the hub. A major question in Austria is whether it needs to continue a neutral policy now that NATO and the Warsaw Pact no longer menace each other. Austria became neutral by tadt agreement after the withdrawal in 1365 of the occupying powers the "Frankfurt, The Socialists are the senior partners in a coalition government with the conservative People's Party. Fischer se"i Aui&na as the mediator with Western Europe for nations of th former Soviet bloc. "However attractive the EC is for Po-lar- , estab-li-she- d It has a strong economy and for memberapplied in July European ship in the Community. Membership in the EC is a logical consequence of our geographic wtuation ... and the already existing strong economic ties between Austria and the EC," said Heinz Fischer, a Socialist Party legislator and speaker of ParU rncnt. Krejci, a member (if the conservative Peple's Party, said Austria "belongs to this Western Cfxnmuni-ty.- " political and economic cvperatjon. It seerris predestined to act as and Western requirements velopment. their country has t-- Easfi-Wes- S An official policy of neutrality could create problems with Austria's application for EC member-shi- p. Some EC officials have said neutrality might affect common stands on security. Fischer, the Parliament speaker, cautions against writing off neucontrality just because flict appears to be over. "One cant treat permanent neutrality like a share that one immediately considers selling when the prices rise, he said. 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