The World - News from Feb. 22, 1988
More than 2,000 people demonstrated in Vienna, calling for Austria’s President Kurt Waldheim to resign and ridiculing his contention that the country would slide into chaos if he stepped down. In London, Manfred Messerschmidt, the West German member of a panel that probed Waldheim’s wartime past, also called for his resignation. And in Yugoslavia, the prominent biweekly news magazine Duga was temporarily banned after it printed a cartoon depicting Waldheim with a Nazi swastika over his mouth. Pressure on the 69-year-old president has been building since the panel of historians concluded two weeks ago that Waldheim eased the way for Nazi atrocities as a Germany army officer in the Balkans during World War II.
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