VIENNA, Austria -AP- Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, who was barred from the United States for two decades after revelations he belonged to a German army unit that committed World War II atrocities, died Thursday. He was 88.
Although it was never proved that Waldheim personally committed war crimes, he left public life beneath a cloud of disgrace and died with his name still on a watch list prohibiting foreigners considered undesirables from visiting the U.S.
It interests me, how often, the word “undesirable” and the words “United Nations” tend to run together. Still, the question becomes whether not there is something of a bias going on here. Let’s say, for example, that Waldheim instead was being linked to the Stalinists. One wonders what he’d be getting such negative press, today? Somehow,I tend to doubt it.
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