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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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    exposure of the Nazi past of former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, arguably the most "sensational" uncovering of a Nazi in postwar history...
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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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    the 1981 selection, cast a record 16 vetoes against a third term for Kurt Waldheim. No secretary-general since 1981 has attempted to secure a third term...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    following year and becoming the first European to hold this office since Kurt Waldheim in 1981. Guterres was born in Parede and raised in Lisbon, Portugal...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    American film director Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007), Austrian politician, UN Secretary General 1972–1981, convicted Nazi war criminal Kurt Warburton, English...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • former Nazis regained prestige and held high posts in the new republics. Kurt Waldheim, an Austrian Nazi, even held the highest post as Secretary-General of...
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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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    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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    and fragile cargo of animate life. United Nations secretary-general Kurt Waldheim observed Earth Day with similar ceremonies on the March equinox in 1972...
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    was signed on January 1, 1979, by United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. A follow-up to the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the...
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  • Alexandrovich Fischer von Waldheim (1839–1920), Russian botanist, grandson of the above Elisabeth Waldheim (1922–2017), Kurt Waldheim's widow and a former first...
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  • Austria made the headlines because the country's president at that time, Kurt Waldheim, appeared to have been involved in deportations and actions against...
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  • past of former United Nations Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. He wrote initially for the news weekly Wochenpresse. In 1984 he was...
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    greetings from people such as the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Kurt Waldheim) and the President of the United States (Jimmy Carter) and a medley...
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  • formation of the United Nations. Former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim felt that this new world order was a projection of the American dream...
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