Word: waldheim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly two years questions have swirled around Kurt Waldheim and his World War II service with German army units that committed atrocities in Greece and Yugoslavia. Last week an international panel of historians delivered its report on the Austrian President's conduct as a Wehrmacht lieutenant from 1942 to 1945. While the government-commissioned study found no proof that Waldheim, 69, had committed war crimes, it said he was "excellently informed" about such acts and made no attempt to stop them. Waldheim had concealed his war record, it added, "until that was no longer possible" and even then made "untrustworthy...
...page document plunged Austria's fragile coalition government into crisis. Amid renewed calls for the President's resignation, the pro-Waldheim People's Party reportedly met with Chancellor Franz Vranitzky's Socialists to discuss how to get Waldheim to step down. Karl Gruber, a former Foreign Minister and longtime Waldheim friend, ignited a fire storm of criticism by charging that the six-member historians' panel was filled with Waldheim's "enemies." He said one member was a Socialist "and the others are of Jewish descent." Vranitzky immediately sent apologetic telegrams to the commission, and a People's Party official called...
...magazine interview published yesterday, Hans Rudolf Kurz, the Swiss chairman of the historians' commission, said he thought Waldheim would do Austria a service by resigning...
Alois Mock, deputy chancellor of Austria and head of the People's Party, reiterated his support for Waldheim but Economics Minister Robert Graf, another leading conservative, expressed impatience...
Graf said Waldheim "must take a decision which is very important for our country...