The Nation - News from June 12, 1985
Helene von Damm, a one-time Austrian farm girl who serves as U.S. ambassador to her native country, announced her intention to step down at the end of the year in a candid letter to President Reagan in which she said her resignation is in “the interests of our country.” Von Damm, a friend and former secretary of Reagan’s, was at the center of Vienna social gossip early this year by divorcing her third husband and marrying hotel owner Peter Guertler.
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