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DATE: THURSDAY, July 26, 1990                   TAG: 9007260533
SECTION: NATL                    PAGE: A/10   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: SALZBURG, AUSTRIA                                LENGTH: Short

CZECH, WEST GERMAN AT WALDHEIM EVENT

The presidents of Czechoslovakia and West Germany today broke a virtual international boycott of President Kurt Waldheim, who has been widely shunned for his past as a Nazi officer.

But President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia delivered remarks indirectly critical of his Austrian counterpart. Speaking at a ceremony hosted by Waldheim that opened the Salzburg Festival of music and drama, Havel spoke of the dangers of lying about the past.

Jewish activists protested today's meeting between Waldheim, Havel and President Richard von Weizsaecker of West Germany.

-Associated Press 


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