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  1. 1918- . Austrian politician and diplomat,
  2. president from 1986. He was secretary general
  3. of the United Nations 1972-81, having been
  4. Austria's representative there 1964-68 and
  5. 1970-71. He was elected president of Austria
  6. despite revelations that during World War II
  7. he had been an intelligence officer in an
  8. army unit responsible for transporting Jews
  9. to death camps.
  10.