gunning for the guerillas person. investigatory commission. Austria: 12th Army Command in Salonika. reprisal for acts of sabotage.
that Waldheim proved that with the right qualifications, you can make a career in As the trigger happy Philippines army goes - the death rate is now thought to be equal to what it was before Marcos went - information is now surfacing on the extent to which US firms were involved in Marcos dictatorship. According to International Business Week it is estimated that of the top 1000 US companies in the Philippines, 700 have links, ownership, or contracts with Ferdinand Marcos in A case in point is the United Brands Company, which set up a banana business in 1969 with the help of Antonio O Floirendo, a close associate of Marcos, who has now fled the country. He apparently used his connections to lease cheap land on a penal colony in Mindanao from the justice ministry, where 700 prisoners produced bananas for him, literally for nothing. His company became the United Brand Companies sole supplier. Also under investigation is the British based Cable and Wireless whose Manilla operation has been taken over by Aquino's Former brown shirt Kurt Waldheim is now favourite to win the 8 June presidential elections, despite revelations about his nazi past, on the election slogan 'An Austrian the whole world trusts'. The Socialist Party, which has held a parliamentary majority for 40 years, is quietly dropping a campaign to unmask him which seems to have won him more support than it lost him.
Waldheim, whatever the dispute about his direct involvement in Nazi atrocities, was a 'career Nazi'. He was a member of the Nazi student organisation and the SA (brown-shirts). By 1943 he had surfaced in a leading role in one of the Nazi's bloodiest campaigns, the Balkans. He was attached as an interpreter and a high officer to the His office, Army Group E, dealt with counterintelligence. It was closely implicated in deporting and killing up to 40,000 Greek Jews and in a brutal anti-partisan war. He was decorated by the Nazi puppet Croatian state for 'services under hostile fire' at the end of a joint campaign involving the German army and the SS. Out of this campaign 825 documented cases have arisen in which Serbian hostages were shot, and 880 cases in which Croatian hostages were shot, as The left wing magazine Die Linke comments diplomacy as easily as in war service to the Nazis.