European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes monday May 12, 1966 Anthony Lewis Waldheim seeks to deny past through secrecy exactly what Kurt Waldheim did As a German intelligence officer in Greece and Yugoslavia Between 1942 and ims whether he had a Purlin atrocities May never be known Tor certain. What is known is that for 40 years he concealed the fact of his military service in the Balkans misleading the world. Thai is enough to know after a leg wound on the russian front in 1941, he wrote in his memoirs he was. Given a medical discharge from the  and sent Home 10 Austria. By the time i was repatriated in 1942, it Hud become impossible to leave the country. 1 was permitted to resume my studies toward a doctorate in Law. Which i obtained two years later he wrote. When he finally admitted in March that he had served in the Balkans he said he had known nothing of the notorious deportation or greek jews to the death Camps. He also told a reporter thai an several visits to Vienna during the War he did not learn about the mass Deporta Tion or austrian jews. I Only heard thai there were measures against  Waldheim said that they were taken away without knowing where to we did t know Bui i did t know it was such a miss  on May a 19s5, the 40lh anniversary of the defeat of nazi Germany the president of the German Federal Republic Richard von Weinacker spoke in the bundestag. What he said then is As Good a comment a any on Kurt Waldheim s behaviour Over the last 40 years and his attitude today. We germans von Weizsacker said must look truth straight in the Eye without embellish men and without distortion. Hardly any country has in its history always remained free from blame for War or violence. The Geno cide of the jews is. However unparalleled in history. The perpetration of this crime was in the hands of a few people. It was concealed from the eyes of the Public but every German was Able to experience what his jewish compatriots had to suffer. Whoever opened his eyes and ears and sought information could not fail to notice that jews were being deported. The nature and scope of the destruction May have exceeded human imagination but in reality there was apart from the crime itself the attempt by too Many people including those of my generation who were Young and were not involved in planning the events and carrying them out not to take note of what was happening. There were Many ways of not burdening one s con science of shunning responsibility looking away keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the holocaust then became known at the end of the War All Loo Many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything. There is no such thing As the guilt or innocence of an William Safire entire nation. Girill is like innocence not collective but personal. There is discovered or concealed individual guilt. There is guilt which people acknowledge or deny. Everyone who directly experienced that Era should today Quick try ask himself about his involvement. Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is Blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection there Cin be no reconciliation without re Mem  i have quoted at length from what i think was one of the great speeches of our Lime. Waldheim has lately indeed tried to associate himself with Van Weizsacker and his Call far remembrance. That from a Man who denied and forgot for 40 years. The von Weizsacker speech had special import last May because it followed by three Days a powerful Symbol of forgetfulness. That was the visit by president Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany to inc a Liburt cemetery with its Graves of the Waffen is. Kohl with perfect consistency has now intervened in the austrian election to supper Waldheim Tor president. He cast his Vole once again for forgetting instead of remembering. That austrians face such a Choice now is Noi altogether surprising for diplomatic reasons East and West have treated Austria As hitlers victim forgetting the fact that Many Ata irian played an eager Rale in nazi savagery. A study two years ago by professor Hilde Weiss of Vienna University concluded that one austrian in four was still ant semitic. 1 f Kurt Waldheim is elected president much of the world will Sec it As a vote for denying the past. A rid some of us will want nothing to do with Waldheim s Austria. Deaver probe ambles Forward at Tortoise s Pace every Little scandal has a rhythm of its own. Monday May 12, at 10 a.m., in room 2322 of the Rayburn House office building James Hinchman Dep. Uty special counsel of the general accounting office will plunk Down that Agency s report on the ethics of Michael Deaver and the Reagan flip Flop on acid rain to John Dingell s Energy and Commerce subcommittee. Television news which considers scandals Mere Tell items until they gain a visual dimension will zoom in on a witness charging that Deaver while still in the while House May have begun representing Canadian interests too soon expert the Dao to Lay out what David Stock Man told the White House counsel was a secret Man Date to accommodate Canadian desires on acid rain Given to the a Caver recommended envoy Drew Lewis. The Gao should also flesh out the River House meeting that Lewis later attended with Canada s newest lobbyist. That will not be the whole Story even of that acid rain chapter of the Saga of Access peddling. At the office of government Ettas the director David Martin who came to office be corrects me angrily months after that moribund outfit gave ethical clearance to Denver s diet Book refused to give the Gao everything it asked for. I have heard that Martin questioned the ethics of Deaver s activities As far Back As last november in 3 memo to the White House causing Fred Fielding the White House counsel much consternation when subsequently visiting his Friend Deaver s posh offices. Fielding was offered a Job and had to Euluse himself from further investigation. Why can l we see the reason for that Early internal fretting Martin stonewalls saying Only if i m Suboc need by Dingell might make full disclosure chair Man Dingell meet or. Martin the american press in recent weeks led on the Story by Martin Tolchin of the new York times and with refreshing Enterprise from United press International Mil follow the leads made Public by the Gao even As that Agency tosses the Ball to the Justice department for criminal investigation. Dismaying by the free press of Canada faced with the most serious allegation of Ca Nadian american governmental corruption in history casts its eyes shyly away but acid rain flip flopping is Only one facet of the Deaver Diamond. Neil Friday chairman Dingell and ranking Republican James Broyhill will bring Deaver accompanied by his attorney Herbert Miller the former chief of the criminal division under Juk and Richard Nixon s criminal lawyer before the committee in executive session. A secret session is fair the purpose is to get facts from the witness on matters beyond Canada and not to Fry him in Public when criminal liability May exist. Presumably one of these areas will be Deaver s remarkable two Way representation of interests in South Korea. He advanced president Reagan s november 1933 trip to Seoul after leaving office be arranged for presi Dent Chun Doo Hwan s right hand Man to meet Reagan in the White House possibly through Bud Mcfarlane then the National Security adviser who claims he does t remember. Then South Korea blossomed with a couple million Fin fees. Here s the two Way Deal in june 1985, Deaver was engaged by Philip Morris specifically to help penetrate the lucrative korean Market where it is now a crime to smoke an american cigarette four months later he was hired by the South korean government. Thus the Blue House in Seoul is both target and client a Nice arrangement that i suspect could generate More than lobbying fees. Meanwhile he has hired the two sharpest operatives in the office of the Trade representative Dorul Cooper who had been representing the . In tobacco talks with South Korea and Lisa Barry. Deaver sublets his offices from a Law firm in Georgetown to which he has subcontracted half of his sugar lobbying the key Deaver Contact in that firm is Jim Lake longtime buddy to the present . Trade representative. You might think at this stage with Senate judiciary calling for an Independent counsel. Justice would be interviewing Lake and taking a hard look at or the most vulnerable shop in town. It has t happened the criminal division chief Stephen Trott expects to be promoted making Way for . Attorney William Weld of Boston and has passed the Deaver investigation to Gerald Mcdowell of Justice s Public integrity who has not seemed eager to Start an investigation his office won t be allowed to finish. Despite the hip deep molasses at Justice the Lempo is quickening