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FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1990
Waldheim Was Not
Teen Nazi, Says Friend
Washington (JTA) — The
World Jewish Congress, in
pursuit of what it calls "the
moral case" against
Austrian President Kurt
Waldheim, has alleged
Waldheim held strong Nazi
convictions during his teen-
age years.
WJC's new information
about Waldheim is based on
information that Waldheim,
in applying for a scholarship
from the Austrian Chamber
of Commerce to help pay for
his studies at the Consular
Academy, said he had four
Aryan grandparents.
In addition, the academy's
director wrote in a letter to
the Chamber of Commerce
that Waldheim "has been a
convinced Nazi for years
(but) has not been able to be
politically active since 1936,
as he was doing military
service."
The letter by the acad-
emy's director was found by
a U.S. graduate student stu-
dying in Vienna, said Elan
Steinberg, executive director
of the WJC.
If Waldheim had "feigned
being a Nazi, that would be
one thing," Steinberg said.
But Waldheim has main-
tained that he was "strident-
ly anti-Nazi in college," said
Steinberg.
However, a prominent
British Jew maintains that
Waldheim was a friend of
Jews and anti-racist.
Lord George Weidenfeld, a
publisher of Waldheim's
memoirs, said, in a state-
ment released by the
Austrian Embassy, that he
and Waldheim had been
classmates at the Consular
Academy, and that Waldheim
"voiced definitely anti-racist
views and had many Jewish
friends" there.
Steinberg concedes there is
no possibility of any legal ac-
tion against Waldheim,
beyond the April 1987 U.S.
decision to place him on the
"watch list" of persons
barred from U.S. soil be-
cause of probable in-
volvement in Nazi crimes.
Austria, which has not
tried alleged Nazis for
decades, has said it will not
try Waldheim for any possi-
ble war crimes.
An Austrian Embassy offi-
cial said Waldheim came
from a Christian socialist
and conservative Catholic
background, which did not
strongly back the Nazi
cause.
"One really cannot say
that Waldheim was a Nazi
or that he held Nazi convic-
tions," the official said. He
added that the academy di-
rector who assisted
Waldheim "wanted to do
him good" and that such
recommendations were
written to help those
students who were not
"outright Nazis" gain schol-
arships.
Editor Elected
To AJPA Post
Newark, N.J. (JTA) —
Gary Rosenblatt, editor of
The Jewish News, was elect-
ed a vice-president of the
American Jewish Press
Association at its recent an-
nual meeting.
Other vice-presidents are
Cynthia Dettelbach of the
Cleveland Jewish News and
Richard Waloff of the Jewish
Exponent of Philadelphia.
Marc Klein, editor and
publisher of the Northern
California Jewish Bulletin,
was elected to a second year
as AJPA president.
Other officers are Jack
Levine of the Jewish Media
Group of southern Florida,
treasurer; Phyllis Singer of
the American Israelite in
Cincinnati, recording secre-
tary; and Rabbi Hillel Gold-
berg of the Intermountain
Jewish News in Denver, cor-
responding secretary.
Members of the new exec-
utive committee include
Vida Goldgar of the Atlanta
Jewish Times, a sister paper
of The Jewish News.
New Computer
Helps Soviets
Jerusalem (JTA) — New
immigrants from the Soviet
Union will soon be able to
pick up their monthly living
allowance checks at any
commercial bank in Israel
instead of lining up outside
the Jewish Agency's Bank
Igud.
The new arrangement will
take effect some time this
month, according to an
agreement signed between
the Jewish Agency, the
Treasury and the Absorption
Ministry.
The Absorption Ministry's
new computer, which will
keep track of new arrivals by
way of their assigned bank
code numbers, will put an
end to the sight of immi-
grants spending the night in
sleeping bags outside Bank
Igud's few branches, which
are scattered around the
country.