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
Serving as U.N. undersecretary-general for special political affairs, he emerged as the dark horse candidate in December 1981 after a six-week election deadlock between U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim and Tanzanian Foreign Minister Salim Ahmed Salim.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
This interview with Waldheim was the first step in the carrying out of his scheme; the first, and by no means the easiest,--he dreaded it.
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
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