1918 KURT WALDHEIM 2007 Former leader of U.N., Austria hid ties to Nazis By Jonathan Kandell NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE June 15, 2007 Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general and president of Austria whose hidden ties to Nazi organizations and war crimes were exposed late in his career, died yesterday at his home in Vienna. He was 88. Although it was never proved that Waldheim himself committed atrocities during World War II, he was a lieutenant in army intelligence attached to German military units that executed thousands of Yugoslav partisans and civilians and deported thousands of Greek Jews to...