Ex-UN chief Waldheim no more
Afp, Vienna
Kurt Waldheim, the former UN secretary general and president of Austria whose reputation was tarnished by revelations over his Nazi past, died Thursday at the age of 88, his family said. The former statesman suffered a heart attack in May and had been ailing ever since. He left a Vienna hospital last week and died surrounded by his family, they told the APA news agency. Waldheim was UN chief from 1972 until 1982 and then president of Austria from 1986 to 1992, when he was at the centre of an international storm over his wartime links to a Nazi militia.
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