Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Egyptian pilot said that the four U.S. F-14 jet fighters had threatened to fire if he did not cooperate. Abul Abbas, in an interview with Yugoslav Journalist Dobrica Pivnicki last week, hinted that shots were fired. "Suddenly, we heard a series of unusual sounds, and we perceived the flashes of shots," he said. A senior U.S. official firmly countered, "We did not fire a shot." No warning shots, no tracers? "Nothing except some very unmistakable English...
...became clear that the Italian paramilitary forces did not plan to surrender custody of the terrorists, Major General Carl W. Stiner and an Italian colonel got into a sharp debate. The U.S. commandos, said a Washington official, "were pulling back the bolts" on their rifles. Abbas, in his Yugoslav interview, concurred. "American and Italian soldiers were threatening each other with their weapons, ready to shoot," he said...