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Article: WALDHEIM DENIES HE'S WAR CRIMINAL.(Main)

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October 31, 1986
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Austrian President Kurt Waldheim has changed his story about not being in Kozara, Yugoslavia, during a deadly 1942 Nazi massacre but this "does not in any way" make him a war criminal, a spokesman said Thursday.

Responding to a story in the Washington Post on the former U.N. secretary-general's reversal of a previous denial he was in Kozara, Waldheim's spokesman, Gerold Christian, called charges against Waldheim ridiculous.

The Post quoted Christian Thursday as saying that Waldheim, after "additional research," had determined he served as a supply officer in the World War II Nazi operation in the mountains of ...

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