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...before the May 4 presidential election, Kirchschläger's cautious assessment did little to clarify matters for the 20% of Austrian voters who, according to private polls, are still undecided about the Waldheim affair. Both Waldheim, the standard-bearer of the conservative People's Party, and Socialist Candidate Kurt Steyrer, a onetime Health Minister, insist that the former U.N. chiefs wartime record should not be an election issue. In fact, the controversy has rallied support for Waldheim. Before the March disclosures that he had misrepresented his wartime service, most polls showed him trailing Steyrer by a narrow margin. After...
...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 happy to have received such overwhelming proof of trust from a majority of Austrians...
...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...
...Socialists treated the controversy gingerly. Only recently did Steyrer begin to allude openly to the damage a Waldheim victory could inflict on the country's reputation. WITH STEYRER, ALL OF AUSTRIA WINS proclaimed one campaign poster. Bruno Kreisky, the Socialist ex-Chancellor, last week appealed to his countrymen not to vote for Waldheim. Asked Kreisky: "Didn't we always have decent Presidents whom we could show in public...
...candidate nods appreciatively and smiles. He expects victory, and that allows him to relax a little. In the first round of balloting on May 4, Waldheim, with 49.7%, fell short of an absolute majority by only 16,500 votes. His Socialist opponent, former Health and Environment Minister Kurt Steyrer, received 43.7%. Two minor candidates who got the remaining votes are not participating in the runoff...