Word: waldheim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only two days earlier, Kohl himself had gratuitously disturbed the skeletons of the past when he hosted a cordial lunch in Munich for Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. That made him the first Western leader to meet Waldheim outside Austria, breaking the diplomatic isolation imposed on the Austrian President for his suspected knowledge of and involvement in wartime deportations to Nazi labor camps. Kohl brooked no criticism. "It's up to me as Chancellor to decide whom I'll meet in Munich," he growled. "I don't need any advice...
...Waldheim aside, Bonn's behavior upsets its allies not because it is necessarily wrong. Turkey's attacks on Kurdish rebels are deeply troubling to all its NATO allies, and Germany certainly has a right to object and even to withhold arms. What has changed is Germany's style. The old, far more modest West Germany would have worked quietly behind the scenes to obtain allied consensus on arms transfers or to persuade Turkey to behave less brutally. Not now, and perhaps never again. "Germany is reflecting its power," says Rollo. "It is confident enough...
Attempts to strong-arm a community into rejecting a leader or an ideology are usually counterproductive. They make people feel isolated and defensive, which only makes them more willing to embrace a Kurt Waldheim or a Leonard Jeffries...
...founder, Eugene Schueller, was an anti- Semitic fascist who hired Correze and other ultra-rightists. But that generation no longer runs L'Oreal. Correze, 80 and ailing, is unlikely to visit the U.S. even if he is never placed on the same watch list that bars Austria's Kurt Waldheim...
...Kurt Waldheim...