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    portal Kurt Josef Waldheim (German: [ˈkʰʊɐ̯t ˈvalthaɪm] ; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the...
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    those seeking to help free Soviet Jewry; to expose Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past; and to help victims of the Holocaust and their heirs to...
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    suit ending in 1989. In 1986, Wiesenthal was involved in the case of Kurt Waldheim, whose service in the Wehrmacht and probable knowledge of the Holocaust...
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    1993). "Waldheim and His Protectors". New York Times, sec. 7, p. 9. Retrieved July 7, 2022. "United Nations Secretary General Page on Kurt Waldheim". un...
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    be selected Secretary-General: Carlos Ortiz de Rozas of Argentina, Kurt Waldheim of Austria, and Max Jakobson of Finland. However, all of the frontrunners...
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    A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1981. Kurt Waldheim ran for an unprecedented third full term as Secretary-General, losing to...
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    selection, when China cast a record 16 vetoes against a third term for Kurt Waldheim. The selection process is opaque and is often compared to a papal conclave...
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    Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg (German: [ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the...
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    Elisabeth "Sissy" Waldheim (née Ritschel; 13 April 1922 – 28 February 2017) was an Austrian political figure and the wife of Kurt Waldheim, the UN Secretary-General...
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  • colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003) 1918 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel and politician; 9th President of Austria (d. 2007)...
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    were held in Austria on 4 May 1986 with a second round on 8 June 1986. Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, endorsed by the Austrian...
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    conservative Austrian People's Party to run for president, he succeeded Kurt Waldheim on 8 July 1992. However, in the course of his two terms of office, Klestil's...
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    following year and becoming the first European to hold this office since Kurt Waldheim in 1981. Guterres was born in parish of Santos-o-Velho, in the municipality...
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    three-years term in office, Sinowatz resigned as Chancellor after Kurt Waldheim's victory in the 1986 presidential election. Born in Neufeld an der Leitha...
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    November 1961 31 December 1971 First non-European to hold office 4 Kurt Waldheim  Austria 1 January 1972 31 December 1981 5 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar  Peru...
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    coalition" (one of these two and a smaller party) ruled the country. Kurt Waldheim, the former secretary-general of the United Nations, was elected President...
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    of Kurt Waldheim's first term. After a single symbolic veto from China to show its support for a Secretary-General from the Third World, Waldheim easily...
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  • American film director Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007), Austrian politician, UN Secretary General 1972–1981, convicted Nazi war criminal Kurt Warburton, English mixed...
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  • veto against President of Austria Kurt Waldheim In 1981, China supported an African candidate and vetoed Waldheim 16 times until he finally suspended...
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    Ronald Reagan, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Louis...
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    languages, including a spoken greeting in English by U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and a greeting by Sagan's six-year-old son, Nick; other human sounds...
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    earlier. In December 1981, Pérez de Cuéllar was selected to succeed Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General of the United Nations; he was unanimously re-elected...
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    Thant's term. After every candidate was vetoed in the second round, Kurt Waldheim accidentally won in the third round when the United States, United Kingdom...
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    of South Korean nationals in key posts. Previous UN chiefs such as Kurt Waldheim (Austria), Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru), and Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
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  • grandson of the above Elisabeth Waldheim (1922–2017), Kurt Waldheim's widow and a former first lady of Austria Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007), President of Austria...
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    Vergangenheitsbewältigung (struggle to come to terms with the past) was the Waldheim affair. Kurt Waldheim, a candidate in the 1986 Austrian presidential election and...
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    Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The first audio section contains a spoken greeting in English from then-Secretary-General of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim. The...
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    In 1986, the election of a former Wehrmacht intelligence officer, Kurt Waldheim, as federal president put Austria on the verge of international isolation...
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  • international level was the election of Kurt Waldheim to the Presidency of Austria in 1986. It came to light that Waldheim had been a member of the National...
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  • of war-torn Cambodia. The event was organised by Paul McCartney and Kurt Waldheim. The album starts with four songs from the Who (culled from a 3-hour...
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