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...Peking government as early as 1950. But after two ballots, it became apparent that their vote against Waldheim could frustrate all efforts to come up with a common choice. With fresh instructions from Peking, Ambassador Huang Hua abstained on the next ballot. This was enough to put the Austrian over the top with eleven yes votes and only one undisclosed no-which did not come from a veto-wielding power. Next day the General Assembly confirmed Waldheim by acclamation...
...about acquiring the credentials, starting with studies at the Vienna Consular Academy and at Vienna University. During World War II, he fought with the German army on the Russian front until he was wounded in 1942 and sent home, where he completed his law degree. He joined the Austrian foreign service in 1946 and served in a succession of diplomatic posts, including Ambassador to the U.N. from 1965 onward and Foreign Minister from 1968 to 1970. Last April Waldheim ran a gentlemanly campaign for President as candidate of the conservative People's Party, losing with a respectable...
...Kurt Waldheim, 52, former Austrian Foreign Minister and Conservative candidate for the Austrian presidency. A hard-working professional diplomat, he is Washington's second choice, but neither the Russians nor the Chinese are likely to be enthusiastic about...
...Austrian-born Friedrich Jahn is Europe's answer to Howard Johnson, or maybe Colonel Sanders. Through his chicken-lickin' Wienerwald restaurants, which have spread across Europe and into the U.S., he works to satisfy a hungry middle class. The chain grossed $115 million last year and should do at least 10% better this year. Last month Jahn opened new outposts in Vienna and Nuremberg; he plans others in Scandinavia, Britain and South Africa. "I wouldn't be surprised," he says, "if one day there is a Wienerwald in Nigeria or Kenya...
...does cast doubts over the island's future. Can Taiwan maintain its prosperity if international business loses confidence in it, or if the Chinese Communists really apply pressure? Last week the Taiwan government announced three new multimillion-dollar investments from abroad -an American fiber plant, an Austrian steel mill and a Hong Kong housing project-but overall foreign investments have already dropped from a record $139 million last year to an estimated $100 million for this year...