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...disastrous attempt to bury the hatchet, Reagan had initially refused to visit Holocaust sites during his visit to Germany for the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. Instead, he decided to visit a German war cemetery where some of Adolf Hitler's SS troops are buried...
...celebrate the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II, planeloads of graying and thickening Americans are suddenly arriving in strange lands and looking around them with half-remembering wonderment at half-forgotten places with names like Torgau, Remagen, Iwo Jima. Torgau is the German town where U.S. and Soviet forces linked up along the Elbe River on April 25, 1945. The recent Soviet shooting of an American officer in East Germany has cast a pall on the anniversary celebration. The U.S. military now says that it would be inappropriate to attend, but Robert Swan, an organizer...
...awkward moment. Larry Speakes had just announced President Reagan's intention to visit a German military cemetery near Bitburg when he travels to Europe next month to attend an economic summit meeting and commemorate the 40th anniversary of V-E day. A reporter asked who is buried there. The White House spokesman said he believed there were graves of both American and German soldiers at the site. Not so, an aide reported later: there are only Germans...
PRESIDENT REAGAN'S announcement that during his trip to West Germany next month he will visit a German World War II cemetery and forgo a visit to the Dachau concentration camp was particularly outrageous coming as it did last week, the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. While Reagan's aides are reconsidering the president's widely-attacked travel plans, thousands of ceremonies nationwide will commemorate the end of the nightmare that exterminated, among others, 70 percent of European Jews, and one-third of the world's total Jewish population...
Other Reagan aides said that a conference could take place next October in either Washington or New York if Gorbachev attends the 40th-anniversary celebration of the United Nations. But Reagan and his men avoided talking about specific plans. When a reporter asked him, "Whose court is the ball in?" the President promptly replied, "Theirs...