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...third doubles, Cyndy Austrian and Kathy Mulvehal dropped a tough 6-4, 7-5 match. But in one of the biggest matches of the day, if not the season, the first doubles pair of Kristin Bland and Jamie Henikoff pulled off a come-from-behind, third-set victory over Shannon Crockett and Chrissy Kirkmire to give the hosts a 2-1 lead...
Harvard Co-Captain Cyndy Austrian dropped a tight first set, 7-5, but the senior cruised to a 6-2 win in the second set. Austrian was in total control in the third set, leading 3-0 before her opponent, Barett Hanna had to retire because of blisters...
...gray walls and imitation-marble columns gave the courtroom a properly sober atmosphere. At precisely 2 p.m. last Wednesday, five black-robed judges walked slowly to the podium and brought the proceedings to order. The prosecutor's opening statement set forth an explosive agenda: the alleged complicity of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in Nazi war crimes during World War II. "I do not represent that his is the hand that holds the smoking pistol," said the attorney. "War crimes were committed by those men whom Waldheim served. But there will be no doubt, I submit, in your minds that Waldheim...
Evidence of Waldheim's wartime activities came to light in 1986, when he was running for the Austrian presidency. Newly discovered records showed that during World War II the former U.N. Secretary-General had served on the command staff of a German army group whose units murdered Yugoslav civilians and arranged the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps. Waldheim has admitted to his army service but denies that he knew about or participated in any war crimes. In February a commission of international historians, after studying the evidence, found no proof that Waldheim was guilty of war crimes...
...former Lord High Chancellor of Britain. "It is substituting trial by media for trial by courts." Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned Nazi hunter, also opposes the mock trial. "As soon as the international historians' commission had published its findings," he says, "the case should have become an affair for the Austrian voters only...