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Annan's predecessors as U.N. Secretary-General--Kurt Waldheim, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali--were a gray parade of deliberately inoffensive floats. But Annan, in his three years on the job, has shown himself to be a brass band of hope, ideas and energy. His critics fault the slow pace of reform he has brought to the U.N. They argue that even armed with a management degree from M.I.T., he is badly overmatched by the U.N.'s thick bureaucracy. But mostly they chew away at his idealistic, moral world view. The U.N. continues to have its problems...
Austria's poltergeists have been banging around, for example, as they do from time to time, roused by hearing a snatch of the old Nazi music. The evil nostalgia always leads to trouble, as it did with Kurt Waldheim some years ago, and now does with J?rg Haider's Freedom party...
...international outcry has, if anything, led to a circling of the wagons in Austria, as it did when the country elected Kurt Waldheim president despite foreign condemnation of his wartime record. "Austrians don't like being told what to do," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "Their response is to hunker down and stick to their guns - European opposition has actually increased Haider's popularity in Austria...
...personally bankrolled much of the organization's work and used his stature to force recognition of Jewish rights as he sees them. Bronfman championed the campaign to make the former Soviet Union permit Russian Jews to emigrate, and he almost single-handedly ended the career of Kurt Waldheim, once U.N. Secretary-General, then President of Austria, for alleged war crimes. "Part of my life and part of the things that I want out of life," he says, "is to be a Jewish leader...
...suitcase and fleeing the Nazis. When he returned in 1988, he was the ambassador of the United States of America, riding in a limousine with the Stars and Stripes fluttering from its fender. His first assignment was to register his adopted country's displeasure with the Nazi collaborator Kurt Waldheim, who had become his homeland's President...