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 a report to Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, Mr. Sher wrote that “if Mr. Waldheim were in this country, O.S.I. would seek approval to institute deportation proceedings on the basis of such activities.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 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 brother officers, however, closed in a group around Count Waldheim, as if to shield him from attack.
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
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