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Volume 78, No. 76 University of South Carolina March 28, 1986
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By ;iCHARL JARVIS
St.itl writer
I >>C History Professor Robert
Her/stein usually lectures about
Germany and Italy during World
Wat II, grades exams and
answers students' questions.
Hut a call from the World
Jewish Congress March I changed
Her/stein's schedule.
Ihe Jewish organization asked
Her/stein to prove that former
United Nations Secretary General
and Austrian presidental cank'urf
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wiM.iiv uviii ?? uiuiKiiii a nu/.i
during World War II.
A less weeks ago. while Ins
classes watched films about
Nazis, Her/stein was at the National
Archives in Washington,
D.C ., looking lor anything he
could lind about Waldheim.
All Her/stein knew to look for
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By MELISSA HENDERSON
Staff witter
Singer, songwriter and actor
stresses the need to take chances,
and experiment.
Blind since infancy, Sullivan
"Good Morning America" show a
on "The Tonight Show" with .
"M A S H" and "Mork & Mindy
His song "Soon" will he the title
Richie album to be released in four
golfer and an Olympic silver meda
Sullivan's list of accomplishmen
of the ino\ie "If You Could See V
In light ol all his accolades, he
said lii> main concern was that he d
seen as jnsi a blind person.
Sullivan said in a lecture Wednes
Russell House that it is important I
beyond the blindness and to reali/i
themselves and others as people wii
not handicaps.
Anybody can overcome a disad\
ii into an auvamage, rsuuivan saici,
lie has ever met has some kind oi
nothing exists that can't be turned
posit i\e.
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looking like a man with a mission, sprayed
jssor leads
was the ecoeranhical arrn H??
said he didn't have much to tell t
him where to begin in the rooms t
full of Na/.i documents captured (
by allied troops near the end of I
the war.
"I didn't know I would find l
anything at all," Herzstein said. /
With every piece of informa- t
tion he found, Herzstein said he I
didn' think he would find any
more, uut he did. s
The most convincing pieces of I
evidence were papers with
Waldheim's signature on them I
that proved he knew about and 1
participated in actions against I
Yugoslavian supporters during I
the war.
"Anyone could have found s
it," Herzstein said of the in- t
criminating document. "It's been s
there for the past 18 or 20 years." a
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Since he revealed his informaion
at a news conference held by
he World Jewish Congress Tueslay,
Her /stein's life has been a
xirrage of calls. He said The New
York Times, The Washington
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enow more.
Her/stein has been at USC
,ince 1972, the year Waldheim
jeeanie secretary general.
Her/stein said he will continue
lis investigation of Waldheim,
>ut he has duties at USC. He will J
>c- u yucsi icciurcr at uxtord
Jniversity in May. ^
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ubject, including the Time-Life ^
>ook The Nazis, and about 30
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lessor Robert Her/.stein, dcfc
lg for the World Jewish tion
ess, found information avai
I Kurt Waldheim in time
icnts at the National Ar- vaiu
in Washington this month. Tl
a visit to USC in April has
Waldheim. who was then aim
Secretary General, was nam
ted with an honorary Doc- says
Laws degree by USC Presi- mur
ames Holderman.
1 d h e i m was Secretary war
al of the UN from 1972 to said
Polls taken before Her/s- \\
research was revealed at a ficei
conference in New York ccut
ay showed NValdheim is the war
g candidate in the presiden- he
ininaion whi.'Vi imuIc \>i?K
tional elections May 4. Ir
ic allegations are true, there late
question now," Her/stein tion
Ball
en contacted by the World assij
i Congress this month, Gro
tein said he was unsure he chat
find any information 011 \\
icim. The Jewish organiza- men
/anted him to find out if reco
icim had been involved in rece
portation of Greek Jews to was
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; the war. wife
ead, Her/stein said he H
papers with Waldheim's in
ure that proved he worked prist
intelligence officer for the mac
in army in the Balkans Hilt
1942 to 1944. thong
documents captured by lead
troops near the end of the H
Her/stein proved that doci
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German Army. Waldheim tein
ted for bravery by the Na/i forr
t regime in Croatia for his higf'
in a 1942 battle against \N
lavian partisans. The battle allej
rred to by Yugoslavians as Con
3/.ara Massacres. cam
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iok place in 1942. Official with
Is show that 1,626 partisans is ct
tilled, 9,000 prisoners were H
and 461 more people were Wal
n reprisals. About 20,000 rese
? of Germany and its allies reo
ipated in the action and on- Wal
Germans were killed.
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showed the conflicts his
't battles, but are more like YVoi
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1' scr\ icc vehicles have been park
and in University Terrace spaces v
o some residents.
>ts of students like to pull in here t<
laundry," IJ. I. resident Bryan M
hey * II flash their lights, threaten t
ii you uon i move right away,
it the utility and maintenance peo
ne. The police never seem to give
anyone can stop vehicles I t orn |
, assistant vice president tor law e
ity citi/en that feels something il
ly's doing anything about it can
>ody," he said.
ts link
chief
imes
h e official hist o t y o f
dheim's division calls the bati
"liquidation" of "bandits
sub-humans," he said,
aldheim's name is included
11 "honor roll" in the 714th
ntry Division's history along
a description of the battle,
ostein said.
xause Na/i Germany was
MtCfl (lllli'Ltv THiii'h infnrnvi_
about the Nazi Army is
lable. Officials didn't have
to destroy records before ad:ing
Allied troops arrived,
he Yugoslavian government
released a list of war
linals that includes a LieuteKurt
Waldheim. The list
? the officer committed
der.
I don't know whether he is (a
criminal) or not," Hcrzstcin
'aldheim's commanding ofa
General Lohr, was exed
by the Yugoslavians for
crimes in 1947. Herstein said
has found pictures of
Idheini and Lohr together.
1 his memoirs written in the
1970s, Waldheim didn't menmilitary
service in the
;ans, Herzstein said. He w?s
jned to intelligence in Army
up E and by 1944 was in sole
ge of a unit called "03."
' a 1 d h e i m wrote in his
loirs that he was in Germany
vcring from a wound he
ived at the Russian front and
working on his doctorate
cc while he courted his future
er/.stein said Waldheim was
charge of interrogating
oners. When an attempt was
1c to assassinate AHnlnh
er, Waldheim investigated
loyalty of the German
er's staff.
erzstein said he found
uments of Waldeim's promoto
first lieutenant, but Her/sadded
that Waldheim's perned
duties usually given to a
ler ranking officer.
aldheim has denied the
Rations of the World Jewish
gross and has not stopped his
paign for the presidency, but
/stein said the new evidence
i Waldheim's signature on it
inclusive.
e s a i d h e has ask e d
dhcim to help him in his
arch by filling in where the
ords are sketchy, but
dheim hasn't responded.
1 will find it whether he helps
:ir not." Hrr/Upm U/iili
research and that of the
rlcl Jewish Congress will he
inning, he said.
illegally,
ents Qav
a WM |
ing in fire and handicapped
without being ticketed, aeeoro
pick up a date or to pick up
artin said. "11 the police see
o to\s you off or give you a
pie park their trucks here all
them any hassle about it
>arking illegally, said Danny
nforcemcnt and safety.
legal is happening and that
get on the phone and call
See "Vehicles," page 2