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Article: WALDHEIM MEETS WITH POPE WHILE 100 PROTEST AT VATICAN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 26, 1987
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VATICAN CITY - While more than 100 demonstrators shouted
cries of "shame, shame" and waved protest signs, Pope John Paul II
received President Kurt Waldheim of Austria for a 2 1/2-hour state
visit that could damage Catholic-Jewish relations.
The two men met alone for 35 minutes in the pope's library,
where, Waldheim later told reporters, the allegations regarding his
activities during World War II were discussed "but in a marginal
way" and "on the sidelines."
Neither mentioned the controversy in the official speeches
they exchanged. John Paul's three-page speech ignored Waldheim's
wartime past altogether and made a point of stressing the former UN
secretary general's career ...