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■MHPPfl ■ ■ Austria hails Waldheim; Jewish dissent to continue by Joseph Polakoff TSI’s Washington correspondent WASHINGTON —Austria’s media, supportive of Kurt Wald heim, hailed his election to the pre sidency over his Socialist rival, Kurt Steyrer. as a victory for Aus trian democracy and urged Austri ans to put out of their minds the matter of his Nazi past. Exemplifying a general view, the mass circulation newspaper, Neue Kronen Zeitung, said Austrians should “forget the unpleasant campaign as quickly as possible,” and declared editorially that Aus tria should never again allow for eigners to intrude in the country’s national affairs. But the ascendancy of the 67- year-old former secretary general of the United Nations to the post of Austria’s head of state for six years is not being put into limbo either by Jewish organizations and oth ers who protested his participatory role in Nazi atrocities in World War II that he sought to hide. Waldheim’s election is not “the end of the affair,” said Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, which first ex posed the Austrian's Nazi war record. Noting the observation of Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D-N.Y.) tnat Waldheim's “election amounts to an act of symbolic amnesty for the Holocaust,” Bronfman said, “Whatever the margin of electoral victory, the stream of disclosures about the wartime past and subse quent cover-up by this amoral, unrepentant man represents a fresh assault of the conscience of man kind.” Even though Waldheim will take office, “the world cannot remain silent,” Bronfman said. “The rep resentatives of moral conscience will continue,” he said, “to bring to public attention everything that warrants attention,” for “otherwise the motto ‘never again’—not only as it applies to Jews but to all vic tims of totalitarianism—will be come meaningless as such horrors may well recur.” Gerald Kraft, B’nai B’rith presi dent, said, “Now that he (Wald- Kurt Waldheim heim) has been elected, the Aus trian people have to deal with the consequences.” Abraham Foxman, a Holocaust survivor who is the Anti-Defama tion League’s associate national director, reminded Austrians that Austria produced a half-million “card-carrying members of the Nazi party”—10 percent of the Austri ans compared to seven percent of Germans. “How can one forget the 500.000 Austrians (who) gave an hysterical welcome to Hitler at the ‘Heroes’ Square in Vienna. Never in history have so many Austrians assembled in one place.” Foxman pointed out that of 220,000 Aus trian Jews “before Austria’s enthu siasm for Hitler,” there were 200 left when the war ended—one in a thousand. The world, Foxman said, “wants to hear an end to the lies that Austria was a victim of Hitler.” Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, who was the United States ambassador to the U.N. in the mid-1960s when Wald heim was Austria’s ambassador there, told Waldheim by telephone four days before the election to “do the honorable thing in the interest of your country” and re nounce his candidacy. Waldheim replied he would not do that. Goldberg said to him, “I am not happy that I served for three years with a Nazi.” When Waldheim said f Human rights adviser named JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Shimon Peres has appointed Anette Dulzin to be his adviser on human rights, a voluntary position with an honorarium of one shekel a year. She is the wife of Leon Dulzin, chairman of the World Zionist Organiza tion and Jewish Agency Executives. Mrs. Dulzin was born in France and studied in the United States, where she received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in English literature from New York University. — IT’S CAMP TIME! We have what your camper needs for a successful summer Trunks • Duffel Bags • Sleeping Bags Rainwear • Blankets • Backpacks of all kinds And many other camp items —Free delivery of any camp order of $50 or more— * * ¥ ¥ ¥ Bob’s Army-Navy Outlet 945-0500 N Perimeter Flea Wkt.r 5000 Buford Hwy-Booth 240; Chamblee he did not know about the atroci ties, Goldberg replied: “Don’t be asinine.” Bruno Kreisky, Jewish-born former Socialist chancellor of Aus tria who was a friend of Waldheim although politically opposed to him, first rejected the charges against Waldheim but later attacked his record. Foxman noted that Kreisky “went to great lengths to conform to standards he thought were neces sary to be met” in Austria. At one time, while leading the Socialist party, Kreisky called Jews “ein mieses volk” (a miserable nation). Simon Wiesenthal, who has devoted his life to documenting Nazi war crimes and has been honored with a congressional medal, said, “There are two losers in this election. One is the national image of Austria. The other is Aus trian Jews.” Referring to the return of open anti-Semitism, Wiesenthal said that threats against his Holo caust Center in Vienna had in creased from around two a week before the election campaign to four or five daily. Anti-Semitic signs were found throughout Austria. Many Austri ans saw the election as a vote for or against the World Jewish Congress rather than for or against Wald heim, Wiesenthal said. In Cleveland, Milton Wolf, who served as President Carter’s am bassador to Austria, told the Cleveland Jewish News, “I don’t believe Waldheim ideologically is a Nazi or an anti-Semite.” The newspaper reported Wolf, who is president of Cleveland’s Jewish Community Federation, as saying, “The Austrian (Waldheim) is ‘a professional bureaucrat’ who is not strongly committed to any particu lar ideology ‘but can take on the coloration of his environment. He’s naturally interested in surviving.’ ” Wolf said, “The most obvious shock is that a man could serve in the highest U.N. post for a decade without this information being made public. 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