The World - News from Jan. 28, 1985
Edgar F. Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, said he has been invited by the Soviet government to visit Moscow. It would be the first such visit by a head of the international federation of Jewish organizations. “I believe I will be going to the Soviet Union toward the end of March,” Bronfman said in Vienna, where the congress’ governing board is meeting. He added that Austrian Chancellor Fred Sinowatz apologized to the congress over Defense Minister Friedhelm Frischenschlager’s welcoming ailing Nazi war criminal Walter Reder, a former SS major, back to Austria after 30 years of confinement in an Italian jail.
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