Waldheim
Americannoun
noun
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Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in 1978, and is widely credited for leading the African nation to independence under his mandate as the head of U.N. peacekeeping forces there in the late 1980s.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
In 1987, after investigators concluded that Austrian president Kurt Waldheim had committed war crimes as a high-ranking Nazi official during World War II, Mr. Sher recommended that Waldheim be banned from entering the United States.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021
Unlike his predecessor, Kurt Waldheim, who was regarded as a “workaholic” and who spent long hours in his office, Pérez de Cuéllar liked to get away from it all.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020
Transferring to the United Nations in 1975, he was appointed by Waldheim as the secretary-general’s special representative in Cyprus.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
His simulated indignation would have deceived a much keener observer than honest Count Waldheim, and it produced the effect he had intended.
From Too Rich A Romance by Streckfuss, Adolph
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