Envoy to Skip Waldheim Oath
The United States will be represented at next Tuesday’s inauguration of Kurt Waldheim as president of Austria by the No. 2 official at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, the State Department said today.
A spokesman said the Embassy had been invited to attend the installation of Waldheim, who has been linked by Jewish groups with war crimes while serving with the German army in World War II. But he said Ambassador Ronald Lauder had longstanding plans to be out of the country July 4-9 and Charge d’Affaires Felix Bloch will attend in his stead.
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