The World - News from May 18, 1986
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Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal said that the head of the World Jewish Congress, Israel Singer, unintentionally provoked a wave of Austrian anti-Semitism by suggesting that Austrians would invite trouble by electing former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim as president. “If one promises everybody holding an Austrian passport that he will face problems abroad . . . that has caused that wave,” Wiesenthal said.
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