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1976 United Nations Secretary-General selection
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A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1976 at the end of Kurt Waldheim's first term. After a single symbolic veto from China to show its support for a Secretary-General from the Third World, Waldheim easily defeated Luis Echeverría Álvarez in the balloting. The Security Council re-selected Kurt Waldheim as Secretary General for another five-year term beginning 1 January 1977.
Image: Kurt Waldheim UN
Image: Kurt Waldheim UN
Image: Oscar Vega y Luis Echeverria Alvarez (cropped 2)
Image: Oscar Vega y Luis Echeverria Alvarez (cropped 2)
Kurt Waldheim
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Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia, and participation in Nazi atrocities, as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II, raised international controversy.
Waldheim in 1981
Waldheim in 1981
Waldheim c. 1971
Waldheim c. 1971
Waldheim with family c. 1971
Waldheim with family c. 1971
Waldheim (2nd from left), with Italian Army Corps General Ercole Roncaglia (on his right), Wehrmacht Colonel Macholz (on his left) and SS General Artu
Waldheim (2nd from left), with Italian Army Corps General Ercole Roncaglia (on his right), Wehrmacht Colonel Macholz (on his left) and SS General Artur Phleps (with briefcase) at Podgorica airfield in Montenegro during Case Black, 22 May 1943. This photograph caused much controversy when it was published while Waldheim was running in the 1986 Austrian presidential election.