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Kurt Waldheim's past just will not go away. The Washington Post reported that % the Austrian President had admitted participating as a supply officer in the 1942 German army operation in the Kozara area of Yugoslavia that left thousands of partisans dead. The Post quoted Gerold Christian, a Waldheim spokesman, as saying that an earlier statement in which the Austrian leader denied he was in the province "was incorrect." In a separate article, the newspaper reported that in 1947 and 1948 Yugoslav and Soviet operatives had tried to blackmail Waldheim into becoming a Communist agent by threatening to accuse...
Travelling to Sarajevo, Yugoslavia for the Olympic Games was a "good experience" for Wylie, although he did not actually compete. "1988 is definitely my goal," Wylie says about the Winter Olympic Games to be held two years from now in Calgary, Canada. "Skating is a type of family thing. It's kind of like an entry way--that's how close you get when you're on an Olympic team, although skating is really a sport for individuals...
Students from places like Yugoslavia, Iceland, and Taiwan, met other undergraduates from 15 different countries, and talked about life at Harvard at the club's first meeting yesterday...
...Yasser Arafat, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and some 50 heads of state. The occasion was the eighth Summit Conference of the Nonaligned, a group now made up of 101 nations that was formed 25 years ago by leaders of the postwar independence movement: Nehru of India, Tito of Yugoslavia, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nkrumah of Ghana and Nasser of Egypt. Its members claim to be neutrals in the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but its triennial meeting last week in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, was mainly the occasion for spirited America bashing...
...remarkable extent, the history of Hungary since 1956 is the story of one man. Born in a rural town that is now part of Yugoslavia, Kadar was the illegitimate child of a peasant woman. As a youth, he made his way to Budapest and was trained as a typewriter mechanic. When the city erupted in 1930 in bloody workers' riots protesting unemployment, Kadar took part in the fighting. The next year he joined the Federation of Young Communist Workers. In 1942, with Hungary under Nazi occupation, Kadar was jailed. In 1949, after the Communists had come to power, he became...