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Vranitzky said he would consider resigning if the conflict over Waldheim continued to occupy time the government should devote to other matters. The Socialist chancellor leads a coalition with the conservative People's Party, which supported Waldheim's election campaign...
...petition drive for Waldheim's resignation has obtained more than 2000 signatures, including those of most leading intellectuals, according to an employee of the news magazine Profil. The magazine printed the first 1496 signatures on three pages in yesterday's issue...
About 5000 opponents of Waldheim demonstrated in downtown Vienna on Sunday, and about half of them marched to his office in the Hofburg palace, calling on him to step down...
...Waldheim reiterated his stand yesterday, arguing that resignation would undo a decision fundamental to Austria's democracy...
...Thus it is no longer a matter of the man Kurt Waldheim. In view of the slanders, I have often asked myself in the last two years whether I should carry on," he said. "It is a fundamental principle of our democracy that an election result cannot be subsequently corrected. A head of state must not retreat in the face of slanders, hateful demonstrations and wholesale condemnations...