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Article: MANY JEWS ARE FRUSTRATED, DIVIDED BY WALDHEIM CASE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 11, 1987
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Seven months after Kurt Waldheim was elected president of
Austria, the revelations of his Nazi past continue to raise
anxieties among Jews in the United States and overseas about the
revival of anti-Semitism and the blurring of the Holocaust's memory.
The lack of legal proof that Waldheim committed war crimes and
the failure of international pressure to force him out of office
have frustrated Jewish organizations seeking an effective response
to Austria's election of a former Nazi.
Last week, apparently in an effort to keep the Waldheim affair
in the news, the World Jewish Congress offered The Boston Globe a
document it described as a significant new discovery. But it turned
out that ...