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| | German State Votes Sunday, and Rightists Hope to Gain |
 | | Farbig is an apprentice carpenter in this small town in the eastern state of Brandenburg, where voting takes place Sunday in an election heavily marked by the presence of the free-spending, extreme-right Deutsche Volksunion. |
 | | The party, backed by a millionaire Bavarian publisher, Gerhard Frey, is hoping to benefit from disillusionment with the center-left government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, which has proved unable to dent an unemployment rate still running close to 20 percent in the former East German states, about double the national level. |
 | | The state's interior minister, Alwin Ziel, said last week that there were 33 serious far-right attacks in the first half of this year, a rise of 50 percent over 1998. |
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