Word: waldheim
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...whom the world trusts." That is the campaign slogan being used by Kurt Waldheim, who became an international figure during ten years as United Nations Secretary-General, in his current campaign to become President of Austria. Last week the motto became an ironic taunt to Waldheim, who had been favored to win the May 4 election. Documents and photographs, apparently leaked by opponents, provided compelling evidence that Waldheim was a member of two Nazi organizations and served in a German army command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps. Waldheim, 67, compounded his dilemma with a vague...
...Waldheim's army service record was obtained by the World Jewish Congress, which had been critical of anti-Israel resolutions passed at the U.N. during his tenure as Secretary-General. The incriminating records had been on file since the end of World War II, but apparently were overlooked. Eli Rosenbaum, the W.J.C. general counsel, saw their contents last month and shared the information with the New York Times, which printed the allegations last week...
...army service file, about 40 pages long, listed all organizations to which Waldheim belonged. It showed that in 1938 he joined the Nazi student union in Vienna and the Sturmabteilung (SA), a paramilitary organization better known as the Brownshirts. The file and photographs also placed Waldheim from 1942 to '44 in Yugoslavia and Greece, where he served on the staff of General Alexander Lohr, who was executed in 1947 for war crimes...
...distraught Soviets summoned building guards and demanded an explanation. What had happened to their countryman and boss, Arkady Shevchenko? He was a ranking Soviet diplomat, a former top adviser to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and, for the past five years Under Secretary-General of the U.N., one of Kurt Waldheim's senior deputies. The two Soviets were told that the office had in fact been sealed at Shevchenko's own request the night before. More alarmed than ever, Shevchenko's assistants hurried to their real headquarters, the Soviet mission on East 67th Street in Manhattan...
Five days later the world learned what the Soviets had immediately suspected. SOVIET CITIZEN, WALDHEIM AIDE, DEFECTS AT U.N., read the headline over the front-page story in the New York Times. Shevchenko was his country's highest-ranking diplomatic defector since World War II. At 47 he was already a 22-year veteran of the Soviet foreign service, and he had risen quickly in its ranks. Far more important than his highly visible assignment in New York was the one that occupied him from late 1970 until early 1973 when, as an adviser to Gromyko, he was able...