European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes april anti Reagan protesters rally in Washington up tens of thousands of protesters marched past the White House saturday in a festival of resistance to oppose president reagans Domestic budget cuts and arms buildup and his policies on Central America and on racial segregation in South the estimated by Park service police at carried signs saying Stop the secret War against Nicaragua and freeze and reverse the arms in a Day of protests that began at a Park South of the White House and included a March up Penn Sylvania Avenue to the the Jesse Jackson Knelt in the mid dle of Pennsylvania Avenue to Pray for the oppressed of Central the hungry in the United states and from bit Burg to one demonstrator carried a picture of Rea Gan with Toothbrush Mustache and pointed and a group of demonstrators Sang a song Labelling Reagan a Hitler we got a nazi in the White a Hitler with a Hollywood another Goose a hey diddle Hail to the chief and Seig scores of motorcycle police and mounted police stood Jackson spoke at a lat afternoon rally at the part of the fou Day series of protests called april actions for jobs and the William Sloan a Veter an of the Vietnam War protests and pastor of the Riverside Church in new York said he believes americans eventually will become disillusioned by one of these it seems to the bubbles going to and people will really begin to Wake up to the fact that Charm is no substitute for he the Man is not really an innocent Bungler Hes really a very dedicated Hawk who is quite willing to lie and to resort to All sorts of subterfuge to get his Bruce of state coordinator for the Florida coalition for peace and we know the Reagan administration is in the midst of a War and 1 think this crowd shows that the american people Are onto it and that the peace movement is not going to let them get away with the events began at the a Park South of the White with the Festi Val of featuring reggae dancing and expressions of opposition to reagans Domestic and foreign president Reagan and his colleagues have mastered the big lie technique in the conduct of Domestic and foreign said Damu an organizer for the april actions in too Many in Congress has bought and the Media has sold americans gather to Honor jews who died in holocaust by Judy Sarasohn staff writer Germany More than 60 americans connected with the military sunday gathered at the re stored synagogue Here to remember the 6 million jews of Europe killed by the they memorialized the dead in Pray song and the service lasted less than an and families and friends took advantage of the sunny Day to walk around the grounds and most of us in the service Are Here to prevent the violence of War and some thing like this happening if i cant give up an hour on a sunday to it could happen said 5 Ross stationed in Worms with the Security Philip who works at the army Hospital at land came to Worms with his rocking his 3weekold Rogers said we came to commemorate the jews who died in the because it is the Rashi synagogue makes it that much More the synagogue is known As the Rashi in Honor of the 11thcentury Worms rabbi and commentator on the originally built in the synagogue and its congregation were destroyed by the one of the participants at sundays service was someone who remembered the old rabbi Leo Treppe was the last rabbi of Oldenburg before he left for the United statesn45 years he spent three weeks in the Sach Senhausen concentration in what is now East before he was released when the chief rabbi of eng land obtained a visa for a visiting professor at the University of lit one of six candles in the service to commemorate the 6 million jews who died in the Holo another who lit a Candle was Lance a military policeman with the 385th my in in in and i wanted to show my sup port for the six million who died in the concentration he the service was conducted by three military army chaplain Philip Heidelberg army chaplain Kenneth Lein Stuttgart and air Force Chap lain Morris Ramstein some of the people who attended the service criticized president reagans photo by Dave Dudlo menorah frames american worshippers at Worms Rashi plans to Lay a Wreath at a Pitburg Ceme Tery where German soldiers from world War ii Are Reagan has said his intention is to stress postwar Unity and after criticism from jewish and american veterans Reagan re versed his decision to bypass a death Camp memorial when he comes to Ger Many next month and has now scheduled a visit to the Bergen Belsen Harry Ter a teacher in Stutt said reagans decision to go to the cemetery was a show of disrespect to the jewish people and veterans the United i think its important to if we dont its an experience that something the president has said 4 Thomas 1st 81st Field arty in Rogers lit one of the six candles during the Silverstein stressed that the service was not this was not to teach the world a its our duty to he report shows Overall decrease in crime Washington a reported crime decreased 3 percent last including a 4 percent drop in but rapes and aggravated assaults Rose at the fastest Pace since the Fri said the bureaus uniform crime based on preliminary said the Over All decline in reported crime last com pared continued a downward trend that started in during the fourth from 1 to reported crime Rose 2 percent compared to the same three month period in the f3i the quarterly in crease was the first since the figures Are based on a compilation of crimes reported by nearly state and local police agencies around the attorney general Edwin Meese 111 drop in crime Over the past three years is a significant but Meese also said in a statement that this is no to rest on our neither the president nor i accept crime As an unavoidable fact of the Overall downward trend is enc our but the increase noted in the fourth Quarter demonstrates that crime in our society must remain a concern of the general Public and a High priority of the criminal Justice Fri director William Webster while there was a 4 percent decrease in murders and a 5 percent decline in the number of reported last rapes jumped by 6 percent and aggravated assaults went up by 4 the net Overall rate of violent crime showed no change from the 3 percent decrease in Overall crime from 1983 to 1984 followed a 7 percent drop from 1982 to 1983 and a 3 percent decline from 1981 to but forcible rapes and aggravated assaults Rose at the faster Pace than at any other time since declines in the Overall uniform crime were recorded by each of the nations four geographic the Bureau the northeastern states registered the sharpest at 6 while the Midwest recorded a 5 percent drop and the Southern and Western regions each showed declines of 1 cities with populations Over registered a 2 percent decline in Overall crime last while those jurisdictions outside metropolitan areas reported a 5 percent de some crime experts and Justice depart ment officials have questioned the reliability of the Bis uniform crime report in recent maintaining there Are few controls to detect instances where local police might inflate or shrink crime figures for political or budgetary but the Overall decline in reported crimes last year did reflect the findings of a broader gauge of criminal activity the Bureau of Justice statistics National crime sur vey which includes the roughly two thirds of the crimes that Are never that regarded As the governments Best measure of showed that Overall crime fell percent last but that released on april like the Bis jus released uniform crime re indicated there has been no improvement in the rate of such violent crimes As