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Greek Government Is Pressed
On Kurt Waldheim's War Record
New York (JTA) — Premier
Andreas Papandreou of Greece
was urged last week to launch
an investigation into allegations
implicating Austrian Presiden-
tial candidate Kurt Waldheim in
the slaughter and deportation of
Greek citizens while the former
UN Secretary General was
based near Salonika as a
Wehrmacht officer.
, In a cable to the Greek
Premier, James Demos, presi-
dent of the Hellenic Freedom
Foundation in the United
States, voiced the concern of
many Greek-Americans that the
matter be handled properly and
urged that the Papndreou
government investigate what
role, if any, Waldheim played
"in the slaughtering of over six
thousand Greek Jews, Cretans
and partisans on Crete" as well
as "in the deportation of Greek
citizens and over 80,000 citizens
were sent to concentration
camps.
In 1980, the Hellenic Freedom
Foundation, which was organiz-
ed in 1979 to promote and
preserve Hellenism, announced
that the UN had in its archives
approximately 40,000 Nazi and
other Axis war criminals files
which had been compiled by the
long defunct War Crimes Com-
mission between 1944 and 1947.
These files were discovered by
Michael Palumbo, a city Univer-
sity of New York historian while
doing research for a book on
World War II atrocities by Mus-
solini in Greece.
In other developments, Edgar
Bronfman, president of the
World Jewish Congress, describ-
ed Kurt Waldheim as "a man
who is a proven liar"and "un-
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Kurt Waldheim
repentant of his past activities"
in a letter to Secretary of State
George Shultz. The letter was
released by the WJC.
The United States Justice
Department has requested and
is currently examining WJC
evidence of Waldheim's past to
determine whether he should be
placed on the "watch list" of
aliens excludable from the
United States because of par-
ticipation in Nazi-sponsored
acts of persecution.
In his letter, Bronfman
refered to the revelations that
Waldheim's Nazi military unit
carried out atrocities against
Yugoslav and Greek civilians.
Meanwhile, Waldheim conced-
ed for the first time in an inter-
view published that he was
aware of atrocities committed
against Yugoslav partisans,
though he remained insistent
that he was not involved in the
atrocities.
Waldheim also said in the in-
terview with The New York
Times that he was unaware of
the deportation of Greek Jews
from Salonika, and also from
Vienna, even though he visited
the Austrian capital during the
war.
"I only heard that there were
measures against Jews, that
they were taken away without
knowing where to — we didn't
know. But I didn't know it was
such a mass affair", he said of
the deportation of Jews from
EEC Ministers
Restrict Libya
Paris (JTA) — The Foreign
Ministers of the 12 member na-
tions of the European Economic
Community (EEC), meeting
here last week, agreed to
measures restricting the move-
ment of Libyan diplomats in
their respective countries but
stressed, though not unan-
imously, that "everything must
be done to avoid further military
action" and an escalation of the
U.S.-Libyan conflict arising
from the American air raids on
Libya.
Only British Foreign Secre-
tary Sir Geoffrey.Howe refused
to concur with the view that
political measures must be
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Vienna, which started in 1939.
Waldheim, the conservative
People's Party candidate in next
month's Austrian elections, said
he was aware of atrocities
against Yugoslav partisans
while he was allegedly an in-
telligence officer preparing daily
battlefield reports in the Bal-
kans.
Despite Waldheim's asser-
tions that he had no knowledge
of the deportation of thousands
of Jews from Salonika, the head
of that Jewish community, Leon
Bamaj or, said in an interview in
television commentary that it
was "a monstrous lie that
Waldheim did not know of the
fate of the Jews of Salonika."
On April 24, 1943, said Bama-
jor a Holocaust survivor, 3,000
Jews had to cross the entire city
to the Aetto from where they
were then deported. "Even the
stones of Salonika knew of the
drama of the Jews," he added.
"Is it possible that Waldheim
did not see the yellow stars on
our chests, the Jewish cemetery
destroyed by the Germans, the
shops displaying Jewish proper-
ty signs, and the Nazis storming
into our homes?
"Even a simple soldier coud
have observed these things,
even a simple German and
Waldheim was much more."
Israel. Rejects
Accusations
By Syria
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel last
week rejected Syrian accusa-
tions that Israeli intelligence,
using Lebanese operatives, had
engineered a series of bomb
blasts and explosions aboard
buses in Syrian towns. Some
150 persons were reported killed
in the bomb attacks.
Israeli intelligence sources
here termed the charges, broad-
cast on the state-controlled
Damascus Radio, a baseless lie
and a transparent attempt by
the government to cover up in-
ternal Syrian problems.
Damascus Radio accused
Israeli agents operating from in-
side Lebanon of responsibility
for the blasts. Official security
sources quoted by the radio said
the explosions took place on in-
tercity buses and that innocent
civilians had been killed.
The Christian Voice of Leb-
anon Radio in Beirut said more
than 150 persons were killed or
wounded in eight explosions,
two at the Mediterranean port
of Tarsus, two in the central city
of Horns, and the rest in other
smaller towns.
A previously unknown group
calling itself the October 17th
Movement telephoned a West-
ern news agency saying it was
responsible for recent bomb at-
tacka in Syria. The anonymous
telephone caller said the group
represented the Syrian opposi-
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