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...customary on election day, Austrian voters donned their Sunday finest before going to the polls to choose a new President. The formality seemed to reflect a widespread somberness as they cast their ballots in the final round of a five-month presidential campaign that had evolved into a painful referendum on the country's past. The race was overshadowed by allegations that Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General (1972-1982) and candidate of the conservative People's Party, had lied about his knowledge of Nazi atrocities committed while he served as an officer in the German army during...
...special runoff came five weeks after Waldheim narrowly failed to win a majority of the popular vote against Steyrer and two other candidates. In the final weeks of the campaign, Austrian anger about the international storm over Waldheim's murky military past created a wave of sympathy for him that played a critical role in his victory. Waldheim had long claimed that he had been discharged from the Wehrmacht after being wounded on the Eastern Front in 1941. In March the New York City-based World Jewish Congress disclosed that Waldheim had served in the Balkans from...
Thus far, no evidence has surfaced to link Waldheim to specific war crimes. Still, the debate over Waldheim's Nazi past struck a responsive chord among the Austrian people, and many of his countrymen rallied behind him. "My husband was drafted at age 17," said a Vienna woman. "If he were more prominent, he too might be wrongly accused of war crimes...
...State Department confirmed that the couple had appeared at the U.S. embassy in Vienna this past March 21. They had stopped in the Austrian capital on their way to Budapest, where they were to begin work on a film about Genghis Khan. So their story goes, they fled to the embassy in a taxi with another cab full of North Korean agents in hot pursuit. Shin claimed last week that he was so trusted by North Korean officials that they had deposited $2.3 million in a Vienna bank account...
...doubles play, the Stanford duo of Patty Fendick and Leigh Anne Eldredge defeated Vigna and Smith, 6-1, 7-5. Cari Hagey and Stephanie Savides edged Boss and Berkman, 6-4, 7-6 (with a 7-5 tiebreaker), while Kay Tittle and Marianne Werdell knocked Austrian and Buchsbaum...