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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...
...runoff election in June 1986, Waldheim won with 53.6 percent of the vote...
...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...