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...unassuming Kolmeshöhe cemetery, German and American flags flutter from the tower that overlooks the quaint, newly restored town of Bitburg. The two flags symbolize the friendship that Bitburg's German residents and the 10,600 Americans connected with the U.S. air base there have come to associate with their haven in the Eifel hills near the Luxembourg border. Each year since the cemetery was consecrated in 1959, American and French military officials have joined Germans in a wreath-laying ceremony at Kolmeshöhe. This year Ronald Reagan intends to place a wreath there, and late last week, the cemetery...
Collins testified that the account was a CIA spy fund that financed covert operations in Asia. The general said that he personally had made only two withdrawals: a payment of $8,654 to purchase intelligence from an informer and an unspecified sum that went to a clandestine U.S. base at which East bloc weaponry is evaluated. Collins, a much decorated war hero who flew 104 missions over North Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos in 1969-70, had described the fund as "a political time bomb," set to go off if its existence were ever made public. The secret account...
...families he knew. He keeps a plot of ground here for his own family. Living in Ono again, he is close to both the villages of his youth, though Kuba, like Ono, has grown considerably. The hill of the graveyard had to be cut away at the base to make way for a new high school. Growth is natural, Kawamoto says, but he regrets modern disconnections from the past. "Now the future is everything." Still, he believes that the world is in many ways better off than before the war. He is glad in retrospect that the Americans...
After playing third base for seven innings in the second game of a double-header against Cornell, the slugging freshman phenom entered a chain-link pen surrounded by Harvard fans to prepare for a potential slide from the hot corner to the pitching mound. And whether sitting or standing, an entire audience stopped to see exactly how hard the much-heralded green-horn could bring...
With no outs and a man on second in the eighth—a 2-0 Harvard lead just whittled down to one—the freshman made the short walk from third base to the pitcher’s mound to relieve starter Mike Morgalis...