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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, April 17, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Part one of its your move pages 8 and 9 Hagler whips Page 21 the authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 363 april 1985 1se Ond sunday q 3593 a Reagan to visit death Camp reverses earlier decision after storm of protest Washington up president Reagan said tuesday he will visit a former nazi concentration Camp during his state visit to Germany next month to remind the world we must never forget the Holo Reagan reversed his earlier decision to bypass a death Camp on grounds that most germans did not remember the atrocities committed by the nazis and that he wanted to emphasize 40 years of Friendship be tween american and the president told a group of religious leaders that the decision provoked a storm of controversy and was made because of my mistaken impression that such a visit was outside the official but Reagan said Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrote him and made it Plain that my invitation to visit a concentration Camp was indeed a part of his planned so i have now accepted that invitation and my staff is now in Germany exploring a site that will fit into my schedule As the audience Reagan for Ive said and ill say it again today and ill say it again on that occasion we must never forget the holocaust nor should we permit such an atrocity to happen Ever echoing the cry of jewish he never in a German govern ment spokesman said that White House aides will need time to Check details such As Security arrangements before they can say which concentration Camp Reagan will the decision that Reagan would visit a Camp was announced in Washington after a delegation led by White House aide Michael Deaver discussed possible changes in the presidents itinerary with officials in the two most notorious nazi concentration Camps located in what is Row West Germany Are near and near the arrival of Deavers delegation in Bonn on tuesday followed mounting criticism of reagans plan to Lay a Wreath at a German soldiers cemetery on May 5 with out making a similar gesture toward victims of nazi veterans and jewish groups pro tested vigorously about the Wreath laying at a military cemetery in where German dead from both world wars Are those buried there include members of hitlers the military unit which was responsible for Many of the atrocities committed by the nazis during world War when 10 million including six Mil lion were killed in concentration Reagan said he still intended to go to Pitburg because Kohl had invited him to do he said he hoped that visit would show that the United states and West Germany had turned their backs on the atrocities of War and were Able to Cement the 40 years of Friendship Between the two peo that Why i accepted the invitation to Pitburg and that Why in going to bit Reagan a photo astronauts David Griggs left and Jeffrey Hoffman during their spacewalk outside the shuttle lots matzoh want lost space walkers get robot Arm ready for task Cape up discovery Crew members sailed through an Impromptu three hour spacewalk lashing snares to the end of the shuttles robot Arm in preparation for an attempt to activate a stranded satellite Jeffrey Hoffman and David working in the shuttles open payload Bay while attached to safety had the Fly swatter snares firmly in place a Little More than an hour after they left discovery were very Happy with what weve Jerry Ross told the Crew from Mission control shortly before the space walkers returned to the shuttles you Guys have done super before you get Back in the stand up and take a astronaut Rhea Seddon said from discovery Griggs and Hoffman went one better by floating up to the Cabins rear window and looking hello Griggs then they apparently took a Bow during a Brief television blackout before entering the Bye Hoffman their Success set the stage for a Tricky rendezvous wednesday and an attempt to activate the syncom communications which was left stranded in useless orbit saturday shortly after its launch from the Seddon Hopes to use the robot Arm and the snares to trigger a switch on the slowly spinning million satellite to activate its systems and Salvage its commander Karol Copilot Donald Mcdonnell Douglas Engineer Charles Walker and con Gressional observer Jake Rutah the other see task on Page 28 Page 28  
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