European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Mediterranean Admiral d an i depth look at air Force one d celtics topple take playoff Lead Page 8 Page 9 21 the stars an stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 3 april 1985 Dolly and sunday 0 8693 a Reagan oks restricted Contra Aid Washington up president facing the Prospect of a Sharp foreign policy gave ground accepting a plan to assure that Aid to Contra rebels in Nicaragua is not used for weapons or the White House signalled its agreement late in the Day to the drafted by Senate Republican it eliminates a controversial element of reagans initial proposal the conversion of million in humanitarian Aid into military help for the rebels if talks Between the contras and the leftist sandinista government of Nicara Gua under the Congress would provide the but bar the use of any funds for military White House officials As a face saving Concession to Rea the language also would reaffirm support for his peace efforts in the the officials with showdown votes set tuesday in the Senate and House of Republican leaders scurried for a Compromise that could Avert what increasingly appeared As a defeat for while maintaining that the plan he offered april 4 is the proper sent a message of willingness to Compromise during a meeting with journalists at the White saying his feet Arent in Concrete on the Aid on Capitol where lawmakers talked up the idea of stripping the lethal trigger frown the the sen ate appropriations committee voted 1513 for the initial White House it would be a wrong signal to turn Down the presi argued Bennett pass the then negotiate with the Nicaragua already has rejected the idea of talks with the and critics have argued that reagans first proposal simply wrapped the temporary Mantle of peace plan around his intention to use the Money for military although the Compromise marked a Sharp Retreat by who has argued Over the last two weeks for an incentive to make the sandinista a senior administration official said the White House had to recognize political theres a real situation Here what agreement can we come to the official if we can come to this agreement that expresses support for the resistance forces and for our policy its not what we but we can buy Kohl will pay visit to Bergen Belsen death Camp Bonn up president Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl will visit the for Mer nazi concentration Camp Bergen Bel sen during reagans state visit in the German government announced the government press in a Brief telex message to the said the decision to visit Bergen Belsen on May 5 was taken by Rea Gan and Kohl on the basis of consultations Between their two located in a sparsely populated area North of Hannover and close to the East German became a Syno nym for nazi cruelty partly through the diary of Anne a teenager who died about inmates of the Camp were liberated by advancing British troops on april 1945 after thousands of others had been killed the Camp was promptly burned by the British to head off a possible plague caused by rotting corpses and unspeakable sanitary conditions on the basis of further consultations Between the american government and the West German government and after visits to possible Sites by a White House delegation led by Michael Deaver with the participation of the chancellors president Reagan and Chancellor Kohl have decided to take part together in a remembrance ceremony in Bergen Belsen on May the government statement the victims of nazi tyranny will be remembered at the it at the Capitol in the sol emn tones of the ancient hebrew prayer for the dead echoed thursday under the soar ing dome where America traditionally pays its highest honors and last respects to fallen presidents and National but this time it was victims who were being remembered in the great Rotunda of the Capitol the 6 million jews and in the victims of nazi tyranny will be remembered7 counted millions of other europeans who were murdered in the nazi holocaust that ended 40 years ago when Allied troops began liberating the German death the administration sent Secretary of state George Shultz to say never again to the aging band of concentration Camp survivors and several Hundred spectators who attended the Days of remembrance cer Emony at the the ceremony was designed also to Honor the 10 army divisions that took part in the liberation of the concentration Camps in the Spring of the army turned Over to the proposed holocaust museum the brightly coloured divisional Battle flags of the units that overran the the museum will be built in the event was heightened by the obvious anger of the participants about reagans insistence on visiting a German army cemetery at where a num Ber of Waffen is troops Are buried during his european trip next the dismay was made Clear Early when Mark vice chairman of the holocaust commission opened the ceremony by calling it unthinkable to pay homage to these criminals and Steven deplored paying tribute to the villains whose service to the nazi regime made the holocaust Sigmund a White haired Auschwitz said refusal to cancel the Reagan visit for fear of offending the present German government was an in sult to All who died fighting the nazis or at their hands and aids those who say the holocaust never took it was author Elie chairman of the who had the sharpest addressing his remarks to who was sitting behind Wiesel we look with understanding upon our govern ments efforts to Deal with German Sensini but he did no one consider the see Reagan on Page 28 a photo rescued Miner Curtis Sanders suffered Only cuts and bruises after being rescued from a Coal mine near grand Sand ers had been trapped in a Coa digging machine under tons of Rock for 36 discovery glides safely Back to Earth Cape a discovery Astro their Homecoming delayed 98 minutes by glided safely Back to Earth Friday at the end of a journey that Jake Garn hailed As proof that Man is needed in president Reagan and who was aboard As a con Gressional had High Praise for the astronauts the 103ton space plane blew one of its six tires As it rolled to a but the astronauts were not aware of and the rupture did not cause the Craft to veer from its Enterline fifty five minutes after the the Crew left the shuttle for medical exams and Garn walked unsteadily Down the and he waved and smiled weakly As he was helped into the astronauts Garn had volunteered to get sick aboard the shuttle for the medical while in he said he had been ill the first couple i certainly Hope that the experiments i did will add to the knowledge we have about space motion he said during the its final dash across Central Florida heralded by sonic dropped out of a Clear sky and onto a runway three Miles from the launching pad it left a week ago and where shuttle challenger is 10 Days from like the discovery s launch was delayed by with commander Karol Bobko at the the shuttle touched Down at swooping in from the South after making a series of wide circles above this the ship had travelled million thousands of spectators at the Landing strip and along nearby Rivers and highways viewed the the fifth Here in 16 shuttle flights and fourth in an hour before Bobko and Pilot Don Wil Liams fired braking rockets More than 200 Miles above the Indian Ocean to slow the shuttles Speed and Start it on a supersonic dive through the the astronauts were to have landed at but rain Clouds near the Landing strip prompted Mission control to instruct them to stay up one extra circuit of the the Clouds moved and discovery was told to come during seven Days in the Crew of six men and one woman logged Many accomplishments and one big disappointment the through no fault of their to revive the million syncom communications syncom could not be fixed because a switch which ground engineers thought was in the wrong position was not at the astronauts had concentrated on moving that switch after tracking Down the satellite in