Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baroque splendor of his 18th century offices, Kurt Waldheim entertains few visitors. The Austrian President spends his days huddling with aides -- dubbed the "bunker boys" by sharp-tongued colleagues -- or performing ceremonial functions. He lingers at receptions, hoping that people will talk to him and, more important, be seen talking to him. Asked whether Waldheim would be welcome at the royal court in Stockholm, Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson diplomatically replied, "The problem does not arise. His Majesty's program is booked solid for years, and your question is therefore purely academic...
Waldheim's plight, though, is a painfully public matter. Since he was elected President 18 months ago, he has become a pariah abroad and an embarrassment to some Austrians at home. The controversy over Waldheim's World War II record continues to dominate headlines and the Viennese cocktail circuit. Even many Austrians now call for his resignation. Though he drew 54% of the vote, a poll taken in December for the monthly magazine Wiener found that 50% of those surveyed wanted him to quit. The pressure for Waldheim to leave is expected to increase next month, when an international panel...
...plead Waldheim's case, Vienna last week dispatched Fritz Molden, a filmmaker and World War II resistance hero, on a tour of the U.S. and Britain. Molden, who helped hire Waldheim for the Austrian Foreign Ministry after the war but insists that he is not a close friend, said he undertook the mission for Austria's sake. Accompanied by Ralph Scheide, a Waldheim aide and co- author of the white paper, Molden called the Austrian President the victim of a smear campaign. "If you pour two gallons of manure over somebody, he will smell," Molden said, "and then...
...rest with a seven-member commission that has been poring over Waldheim's war record since September. Chaired by Hans Rudolf Kurz, a Swiss military historian, the panel has met for a week each month to sift 30 pounds of documents in the red silk-lined chambers of the Austrian State Archives. Scheduled to release its report on Feb. 2, the commission seems certain to go beyond the narrow question of whether Waldheim committed war crimes and to explore such issues as how much Waldheim knew and whether he acted to save lives...
...pawky Second Piano Concerto or the overplayed Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn, why not Rimsky-Korsakov's dashing Piano Concerto or Carl Nielsen's melancholic Violin Concerto? Instead of another Brahms' First Symphony, how about Joachim Raff's spooky "Lenore" Symphony, once greatly admired in the 19th century, or Austrian Composer Franz Schmidt's brooding Fourth Symphony, written...