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Kurt Waldheim dies aged 88 in Vienna (1st Lead)
Jun 14, 2007, 13:07 GMT
Vienna - Kurt Waldheim, former Austrian president and UN secretary-general, died aged 88 in Vienna Thursday from cardovascular failure, the Austrian press agency said, quoting family sources.
Waldheim, whose election isolated Austrian internationally owing to his adamant refusal to discuss his past in the Nazi Wehrmacht, served as Austrian president from 1986 to 1992.
Before that, Waldheim served as UN secretary general for two terms.
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