The World - News from Jan. 8, 1988
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A spokesman for Kurt Waldheim denied that there are plans for the Austrian president to accompany Pope John Paul II to a former Nazi death camp during the pontiff’s June visit to Austria. Presidential spokesman Gerold Christian said there have never been any plans for Waldheim to accompany the pontiff on a visit to the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz. However, he said that the Pope and Waldheim “will certainly be (in) private conversation here in the presidential office.” Bishop Johan Weber, a member of the committee organizing the pontiff’s visit, said Waldheim will greet the Pope at Vienna airport June 23 and host a reception for him that evening.
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