Word: waldheim
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...Kurt Waldheim's past just will not go away. The Washington Post reported that % the Austrian President had admitted participating as a supply officer in the 1942 German army operation in the Kozara area of Yugoslavia that left thousands of partisans dead. The Post quoted Gerold Christian, a Waldheim spokesman, as saying that an earlier statement in which the Austrian leader denied he was in the province "was incorrect." In a separate article, the newspaper reported that in 1947 and 1948 Yugoslav and Soviet operatives had tried to blackmail Waldheim into becoming a Communist agent by threatening to accuse...
When Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated last week as Austria's sixth President since 1945, the protests were few and symbolic. In the sunlit Great Hall of the Parliament building, some two dozen Socialist Members of Parliament wore black neckties. Many Socialists believe that Waldheim, who served in a German army command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps during World War II, is unfit to be President...
Absent from the ceremony were the Israeli, Yugoslav and U.S. ambassadors. Israel withdrew its ambassador when Waldheim was elected. U.S. Ambassador Ronald Lauder was attending his mother's birthday party in Paris...
During his inaugural speech Waldheim decried the "horror of the Holocaust," but such regrets could not silence groups of American and Austrian protesters...
...Waldheim's victory is unlikely to restore his credibility abroad. Indeed, new allegations about the President-elect's shadowy war record continued to pile up 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...