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Thursday, August 31, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Waldheim lied report contends
WASHINGTON — An unpublished British report rejects testimony by Austrian President Kurt Waldheim to the Justice Department and includes a secret CIA file which identifies Waldheim as a Nazi intelligence officer, the World Jewish Congress said yesterday.
The Associated Press
But World Jewish Congress Executive Director Elan Steinberg said he had learned that the report would include a CIA file of April 26, 1945, which contains an interrogation conducted by British military intelligence of a Nazi officer who identified Waldheim as an intelligence officer.
Speculation has arisen in London that some evidence might be suppressed because of possible postwar links between Waldheim and British and U.S. intelligence services.
Steinberg's organization found out about the file by petitioning the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act. But he said that the agency refused to release the document because it was obtained from British intelligence.
The British Defense Ministry announced Tuesday that the report, ordered by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to determine if Waldheim was linked to the execution of six British commandos in World War II, would be released in a few weeks.
the file proves that British and U.S. authorities knew about Wald-
heim's Nazi past when they supported his nomination for U.N. secretary general in the 1970s, Steinberg added.
Among documents made available to the British investigation are papers with Walheim's initials showing he was clearly aware the commandos were handed over to the Gestapo, Steinberg said.
The commission said it could not prove a connection between Waldheim and the British commandos captured in the Balkan in 1944, but suggested he knew they were shot by the Gestapo after they were interrogated by Nazi intelligence officers.
Waldheim was elected president in 1986 and placed on a list of undesirable foreigners by the Justice Department, which found he had "assisted and otherwise participated" in the deportation of Jewish prisoners to death camps and in the execution of Allied prisoners.
An international commission of historians appointed by the Austrian government found Waldheim lied about his activities in World War II. The commission also found that he knew about Nazi atrocities but did nothing to stop them.
He said the World Jewish Congress had gleaned its information about the British report from documents it had supplied at the investigators' request and from people who had seen the completed findings.
Protesters strike down India's railroad system
NEW DELHI, India — Protesters blocked railroad tracks and battled police during nationwide demonstrations yesterday against Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The Associated Press
Officials said 11 people were killed and more than 100,000 arrested.
The nationwide strike shut down commerce and transportation in six states controlled by opposition parties, but had less effect in the 19 states governed by Gandhi's Congress Party, Press Trust of India said.
Several clashes broke out between government supporters and opposition demonstrators, and at least four people died when a bomb was thrown at a bus, police said. Police used batons and tear gas to break up crowds nationwide, news reports said.
Opposition parties had called the strikes to focus attention on alleged government corruption. Gandhi must call new parliamentary elections later this year, and the strike has been perceived as being the start of the opposition's campaign.
At least 80 people were injured and 103,450 were arrested nationwide, police said.
The strike closed shops, businesses and schools and stopped rail and
transport services in the six opposition-government states. In other regions, it evoked only a limited response, although there was a drop in business activity and attendance at schools, colleges and offices.
About 2,700 people, including lawmakers, were arrested for sitting on railroad tracks to block trains in southern Tamil Nadu state, police said.
Press Trust said at least 11 people were killed in clashes involving police and pro and anti-government factions. It said seven deaths were reported from the northeastern state of Tripura, which borders Bangladesh, in fighting between members of
the Congress Party and the Marxist Communist Party.
Four people were killed in the states of Kerala and West Bengal, both governed by the Marxist Communist Party, it said.
"We are very confident of the futures," he said at a news conference.
V. P. Sing, the leader of an opposition coalition trying to unite political groups against Gandhi, said the strike was a success.
Singh's National Front had called the strike and was supported by the Marxist Communist Party, the Communist Party of India and the right-wing Indian People's Party.
World Briefs
MIAMI ELECTS REPUBLICAN: A Havanaborn Republican state senator rode heavy support from Miami's Hispanic community Tuesday and became the first Cuban-American elected to Congress, winning the seat held by the late Claude Pepper for nearly three decades.
With all precincts reporting in the ethnically divisive race, state Sen. Ileana Ros-Lehltin, 37, received 49,638 votes, or 53 percent, to 43,759, or 47 percent, for Brooklyn-born attorney Gerald Richman.
The 48-year-old Democrat, who is Jewish, had been making his first run for elective office.
The race was made necessary by Pepper's death May 30 at 88. Pepper, a Democrat, had held the seat since its inception 27 years ago.
in July while consumer spending climbed at the fastest rate since April, the government said yesterday in a report providing more good news about the country's economic prospects.
The 93,000-plus turnout was nearly 51 percent, far higher than normal for a special election and higher than election officials' 43 percent projection.
The Commerce Department said the rise in incomes, fueled by rapid growth in wages and salaries, was the biggest monthly gain since a 1 percent increase in March.
The department said that consumer spending also posted a 0.7 percent increase last month, the fastest advance since a 1.2 percent rise in April.
The government also made significant revisions to previous months showing that income growth and consumer spending were not as sluggish as previously believed.
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK IMPROVES: U.S. citizens' personal income rose a brisk 0.17 percent
KANSAN CLASSIFIED WORK
COURSE ADDRESSES ETHICS: On the theory that no one knows scandal like someone who has been caught in one, organizers have signed up participants in some historic instances of Washington waywardness to address an ethics seminar.
the delinquency of Watergate to the unseemliness at the department of Housing and Urban Development— will address about 200 career government officials who will pay fees of $345 to $445 to attend the sessions on "Scandals, Scoundrels & Saints."
The Nov. 1 and 2 event is the fifth annual running of the Senior Executives Association's annual course on the straight and narrow. The association represents 2,500 career government executives and managers.
Figures of scandals past and present — from
ART EXHIBITS CANCELLED: An artist boycott has forced the cancellation of two scheduled exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., which in June amid a swirling political controversy abruptly canceled a show that included sexually explicit photos.
Gallery officials said yesterday that contemporary artist Annette Lemieux has withdrawn her one-woman show scheduled for Oct. 28 to Dec. 31 and that an exhibit by six sculptors scheduled for next Feb. 3 to April 8 also has been "indefinitely postponed."
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