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...page document plunged Austria's fragile coalition government into crisis. Amid renewed calls for the President's resignation, the pro-Waldheim People's Party reportedly met with Chancellor Franz Vranitzky's Socialists to discuss how to get Waldheim to step down. Karl Gruber, a former Foreign Minister and longtime Waldheim friend, ignited a fire storm of criticism by charging that the six-member historians' panel was filled with Waldheim's "enemies." He said one member was a Socialist "and the others are of Jewish descent." Vranitzky immediately sent apologetic telegrams to the commission, and a People's Party official called...
...tricks again. The same forms of political harassment and unnecessary investigations that characterized the bureau's activities in the sixties have re-appeared. This month a New York group of lawyers known as the Center for Constitutional Rights obtained FBI files under the Freedom of Information Act--files that document an exhaustive six-year surveillance of hundreds of organizations. All of these political groups had expressed opposition to the Reagan administration's Central American policies. None of them were ever found to be involved in anything illegal...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese told it last week, just "ten words" are the source of the "cascade of misinformation, false headlines, half-truths, innuendo and misunderstanding" about whether he ignored an associate's proposal to bribe Israeli officials. The words, he said, are part of a long document sent to him in 1985 by his former California attorney, E. Robert Wallach, concerning a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. In a statement to the press, Meese declared that he cannot recall having read the words at the time. But they do not, he said, mention any "bribes or payoffs" to guarantee that...
Legal experts could only speculate on the telegram's authenticity and whether it proved that Waldheim had committed war crimes. Declared an official of the U.S. Administration, which last year barred Waldheim from entering the country: "This document, if it is genuine, is more than prima facie evidence of Waldheim's guilt. Besides, where did he think they were being sent, to summer camp...
...commission has received little help from Plenca, who refused to share the document with the panel. Plenca questions the panel's methods, declaring, "They spent two hours a day for two days in the archives in Belgrade. How can that be compared to my investigations of 40 years?" True enough. But unless impartial experts are permitted to examine the telegram and other evidence thoroughly, his charges against Waldheim will remain clouded...