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...court's decision stemmed from a libel suit against the Investigator, a magazine published by muckraking Columnist Jack Anderson. In three articles published in 1981, the Investigator charged that the ultraconservative Liberty Lobby and its founder, Willis Carto, were neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and racist. Carto and his organization sued Anderson and the magazine, claiming that they had used patently unreliable sources...
Ukrainians are renowned for being fiercely nationalistic. During the past three centuries, the Russian empire, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia have ruled all or part of Ukraine with an iron fist. In 1933, a famine, killing an estimated seven million Ukrainian villagers, took place under Stalin's control...
...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 World War II. Despite evidence that he had obscured major episodes of his military career, Waldheim, 67, defeated his Socialist opponent, former Health and Environment Minister Kurt Steyrer, 53.9% to 46.1%. Said Waldheim after his victory: "I am very...
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...
...last week. A former Yugoslav intelligence officer claimed that after the war he passed along the names of 30 alleged Austrian war criminals to the Soviets as possible agents. Waldheim's name, he said, was on that list. In Washington, debate continued over whether to place Waldheim on a Nazi war- crimes watch list that bars those named from entering the U.S. As head of state, Waldheim will almost certainly be allowed to visit under diplomatic immunity. But, says a Justice Department spokesman, "his hair will probably get grayer waiting for an invitation...