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...side street into the marketplace walks Kurt Waldheim, 67, the tall, gaunt former United Nations Secretary-General, now in the last stages of his quest for Austria's presidency. For his fellow citizens, he has inadvertently become a symbol of the wartime generation that was caught up in Nazi Germany's military machine. The storm over his war record is proving as painful a reminder for most Austrians today as the sight of rubble once was on the country's streets...
...Austria, as the country's presidential campaign winds to an end, even the furor over Conservative Candidate Kurt Waldheim's wartime Nazi links has been overshadowed by the question of atomic power. Socialist Kurt Streyer, who faces Waldheim in a runoff June 8, stresses his commitment in new posters that proclaim, NO SECOND CHERNOBYL. Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General, says he will use his diplomatic experience to get an international agreement on early and complete warning in case of atomic power accidents...
SASC has frequently compared South Africa with Nazi Germany, Lichtman says...
FIRST, SASC tends to overstate its case for divestment. Although the Botha regime is a target ripe for caricature, SASC's frequent comparisons between South Africa and Nazi Germany are ridiculous. Until South Africa begins to round up entire Black families and villages and cart them off to gas chambers and ovens--and gets the crazy idea of trying to do the same in the rest of the world--such analogies are absurd and can only confuse those not yet among the ranks of the committed...
Packed trains from the beleaguered Ukrainian capital streamed into Moscow during the week. Many Kiev passengers were arriving to join families for Friday celebrations of Victory Day, a national holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, but many others were fleeing radiation from Chernobyl. Spokesmen at Moscow's Kievsky Station said extra trains had to be added to handle the crush. Said a Kiev passenger who arrived with two young children and identified herself only as Svetlana: "We started to believe that it might be dangerous for our children at home. They can stay with their grandmother until we know...