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Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in 1978, and is widely credited for leading the African nation to independence under his mandate as the head of U.N. peacekeeping forces there in the late 1980s.

Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s role in the mass killings of civilians during World War II.

In 1987, after investigators concluded that Austrian president Kurt Waldheim had committed war crimes as a high-ranking Nazi official during World War II, Mr. Sher recommended that Waldheim be banned from entering the United States.

In a report to Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, Mr. Sher wrote that “if Mr. Waldheim were in this country, O.S.I. would seek approval to institute deportation proceedings on the basis of such activities.”

He was selected secretary general in December 1981 as a compromise candidate after Waldheim, running for a third term, deadlocked with the Tanzanian foreign minister, Salim Ahmed Salim.