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Article: 'Our' Waldheim. (US and USSR worked for Kurt Waldheim's re-election as UN Secretary General in 1981) (editorial)
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- The Nation
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- February 27, 1988
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'Our' Waldheim
The egregious Attorney General, Edwin Meese 3d, has decided that Kurt Waldheim is a war criminal and unfit for entry into the United States. But Meese's memory is short. In 1981 the Reagan Administration was straining every diplomatic muscle to win Waldheim an unprecedented third five-year term as Secretary General of the United Nations. The affair, barely noticed at the time, was doubly remarkable, for the United States undertook this enterprise in tandem with the Soviet Union. U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and her Soviet colleague, the charming Swarthmore-educated Oleg Troyanovsky, tirelessly stalked the corridors and worked the telephones ...
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