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...recent months Elena has played an increasingly active role in meetings with foreign leaders. When the First Couple visited Belgrade last December, Yugoslav journalists noted that Elena figured prominently in official discussions. The Rumanian press highlighted her role in the talks...
Waldheim's victory is unlikely to restore his credibility abroad. Indeed, new allegations about the President-elect's shadowy war record continued to pile up last week. A former Yugoslav intelligence officer claimed that after the war he passed along the names of 30 alleged Austrian war criminals to the Soviets as possible agents. Waldheim's name, he said, was on that list. In Washington, debate continued over whether to place Waldheim on a Nazi war- crimes watch list that bars those named from entering the U.S. As head of state, Waldheim will almost certainly be allowed to visit under...
...Nations. Then the World Jewish Congress revealed that Waldheim had concealed his service as a German army lieutenant in the Balkans between 1942 and 1945. Waldheim admitted that he had not left the army in 1941, as he had previously implied, but professed ignorance of any systematic extermination of Yugoslav partisans or the removal of Greek Jews to death camps. Last week, at the National Archives in Washington, an army journal was unearthed in which Waldheim had actually noted orders from the German High Command to eliminate partisans. Yet the more international outrage mounted, the more Austrians defiantly rallied behind...
...Waldheim returned to active service. He was sent to Salonika, Greece, as a staff officer and translator under Lohr, the German general responsible for Greece, as well as for Serbia and Croatia. During the period Waldheim served on his staff, Lohr is said to have directed the repression of Yugoslav partisans and the deportation of 40,830 Greek Jews to death camps...
Shultz's success in shaping policy is much greater than his prowess in articulating it publicly. Lately he has permitted himself some public flashes of the temper he shows in private, pounding a table angrily in December when a Yugoslav official offered some excuses for terrorism. But for the most part his public utterances are studiedly bland and numbingly repetitious. In Shultzspeak, the invariable progress report on any problem is that "we're working at it." Even his wife Helena has complained, "George, you sound so dull...