Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner is expected to press American officials during her upcoming trip to the United States for the removal of former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from a list that prevents Nazi war criminals from visiting the United States. Waldheim, who served in the Balkans with a German army unit during World War II, has denied that he was involved in Nazi war crimes.
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