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...fight for the Austrian presidency came down to a contest between Austria and the world. Four months ago, Socialist Kurt Steyrer enjoyed a narrow lead over Conservative Kurt Waldheim, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Then the World Jewish Congress revealed that Waldheim had concealed his service as a German army lieutenant in the Balkans between 1942 and 1945. Waldheim admitted that he had not left the army in 1941, as he had previously implied, but professed ignorance of any systematic extermination of Yugoslav partisans or the removal of Greek Jews to death camps. Last week...
Though Chirac's program was passed by 292 votes to 285, its success is by no means assured. Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, with whom Chirac shares power, has already indicated that he will oppose any attempt to denationalize companies taken over before...
...espouse. Fourth, we must understand that terrorism is not an isolated phenomenon. It is part of the Soviet Union's program of global domination, a program that includes among its interim objectives the achievement of military superiority, the promotion of one-sided doctrines of noninterference, the domination of the Socialist International and the nonaligned movement, and the waging of systematic disinformation...
...terrorist group, says the State Department, and Libya has probably provided financial assistance, at least. Gaddafi has backed not just radical Palestinian organizations but outfits as distant as Colombia's M-19 guerrillas, which engineered the bloody takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice last November; the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front on the French Pacific-island territory of New Caledonia; and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. Last month, when Gaddafi played host to the ambitiously titled Congress of the World Center for Struggle Against Imperialism and Zionism, his guests included representatives of the Irish Republican Army, the Basque separatist...
...called the W.J.C.'s actions an "extraordinary infamy," adding that in the election, Austrians "won't allow the Jews abroad to order us about and tell us who should be our President." Indeed, Waldheim's popular standing has improved since the disclosures. A recent poll shows him leading his Socialist opponent...