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...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...
...Federation to the World Wildlife Fund International are seeking the 500,000 signatures needed for a national referendum on atomic energy. A new opinion poll found that 71% of those surveyed would bar new nuclear units, while about half favored closing Italy's three existing facilities. The government of Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi opposes the referendum. Says Party Spokesman Claudio Martelli: "Italy is surrounded by countries, like France, with dozens of nuclear plants in operation, many of them very close to our borders. What practical alternatives do we have for maintaining a high level of competition...
...personally addressed half a million of his 7 million compatriots, the former Health Minister with eight years of parliamentary service was invariably eclipsed by Waldheim's high profile. And his earnest concentration on such issues as old-age pensions, health and unemployment failed to ignite any but his own Socialist supporters. In addition, the so-called Good Doctor scrupulously refrained from challenging his opponent's suspect record...
Both candidates will now be concentrating on wooing those voters who cast ballots for candidates disqualified after the first round. More than half the followers of Freda Meissner-Blau, an environmentalist and former Socialist, are expected to place their support behind Steyrer, while those in the camp of Otto Scrinzi, a former SS officer, seem more likely to vote conservative. Ultimately, however, the issue may come down to a contest between those who believe that Waldheim's secret past will be universally forgiven and those...
...realized that a regime dominated by the loudest and fiercest anti-Communists--but hated for its death squads and reactionary economic policies--was not America's best bet. The U.S. rightly decided to back instead a left-of-center politician, Jose Napoleon Duarte, who may seem like a dangerous socialist to conservatives but who is in fact a committed democrat with a popular following...