Kurt Waldheim

**FILE** This May 22, 1943 file photo released by the World Jewish Congress shows former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, center, at an airstrip in Podgorica, Yugoslavia. Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Austrian president despite an international scandal about his secretive World War II military service for the Nazis, died Thursday, June 14, 2007, Austrian media reported. He was 88. (AP PHOTO/World Jewish Congress)

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