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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes april 1985 Ortega ceasefire offer called propaganda7 Washington up the White House denounced a ceasefire offer from Nicaragua sunday As a Slick propaganda initiative intended to Sway votes in Congress this week on Aid to the rebels fighting the leftist what were seeing is disinformation and an attempt by some members of Congress to represent the Sandi nistas said one senior administration nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega conveyed the cease fire offer in a document handed to John d and Tom who held Marathon talks with the sandinista Leader in Managua Over the senior administration officials conceded that the offer could dim Hopes of preventing Congress from delivering a stinging repudiation of reagans Central America policy when it votes tuesday on million in humanitarian Aid to the Contra Kerry and Harkin said Ortega had offered a ceasefire in the guerrilla restoration of civil liberties and an end to press censorship if the United states agreed to resume bilateral negotiations and end its support for the Kerry said he believes ortegas offer is a substantive what they have put Forward is a framework for Deputy White House press Secretary Robert not ing that the rebels earlier had offered a ceasefire in Exchange for Church mediated peace accused Ortega of dealing in diversionary their problem is not with its with the opposition in their own Sims we dont see much in the sophistication of this propaganda initiative by or Tega is he a planned sunday meeting Between Reagan and about a dozen key senators was put off to give Senate democrats More time to decide what Type of if to strike with the White House Over Aid to the top administration including National Security adviser Robert Secretary of state George defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Cia director William held their own discussions on a Resolution that would be substituted for one now pending before both houses of Congress to lift a ban on military assistance to the Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole of Kansas said he expected bipartisan support in the Senate for a measure that would provide the rebels with million in humanitarian Aid and Rule out military support in any also said he understood a Compromise measure would ease curbs on nonmilitary assistance the Cia or other agencies could provide to the and contain language providing for another look at so called lethal Aid if the policy does not have the desired in the democrats remained confident of having the votes needed to deny Reagan the Aid humanitarian or military he has depicted As vital to maintaining pressure on Managua to talk peace with the Reagan last week abandoned the Central element of his Aid request insistence that the United states be committed to providing arms and ammunition to the rebels if Managua refused to participate in Church mediated negotiations leading to free ceremony from Page 1 that More than died in the decisive question is Why so Many peo ple remained did not listen prop closed their eyes to the realities when the Despo Stobe solicited support for their inhumane first in Back rooms and then out in the Kohl for the present and the Kohl Germany bears the responsibility for the crimes of nazi this responsibility is reflected not least in never ending we shall not let anything in this context be falsified or made Light it is precisely the knowledge of guilty cowardice and failure that enables us to perceive depravity and nip it in the As Kohl spoke on the sunny Spring morn 36 Bergen Belsen survivors from Israel gathered around the israeli each Wear ing a Small ribbon with the word remember written on dozens of wreaths were Laid around the towering Stone Monument in the Middle of the Field that Marks the site of the concentration Kohl said National socialism was not an Accident of history but the result of a combi nation of fatal factors belief in failure to exercise Freedom responsibly and apathy Over violations of human Basic rights and the Precept of Kohl called the collapse of the nazi dictatorship on May a Day of liberation for referring to the communist government in the other Germany the German democratic which rejects responsibility for the crimes of the nazis Kohl we in the free part of Germany realize what it following Auschwitz and to have been taken Back into the free Western those nations did so not least with the justified expectation that we will not disown the crimes perpetrated in the name of Germany against the nations of near the end of Kohl said that his government would establish an Archive for the study of jewish history in Germany to recognize the great contribution by German jews to German and world history and the chancellors speech was broadcast live on German Kohl was followed by Camp survivor Lola arrested at age 29 in the polish ghetto of Stodula in 1943 and separated from her Fischel described in graphic terms what daily life in Bergen Belsen and Auschwitz was she Are inadequate to express the beastly crash from Page 1 nearby when the crash said the plane did not appear to reverse its engines or attempt to Stop after it had he said there was a Ball of fire after the a Pentagon spokesman identified the Crew As Harry the Pilot Lester of the Copilot and Robert of no Hometown for Haugh was immediately Omalley flight originated at Langley where he had been stationed since september As the head of the tactical air the which is responsible for fighter aircraft in the United includes about personnel based at 18 among Omalley previous assignments was that of vice chief of staff of the air the 2 Posi in which he was stationed at the Pentagon until september Joseph my was to have been Omal Leys Host at the boy Omalley scout Omalley was a native of i am saddened beyond words by the tragedy that has struck the Omalley fam Mcdade i know All concerned extend their Heartfelt sympathy to the surviving general Omalley and his wife made countless sacrifices on behalf of Pur they were patriots in the truest sense of the and their loss will be deeply Omalley and his who celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary Are survived by four a 1953 graduate of the military Academy at West Omalley flew 115 combat missions in Vietnam and was awarded 17 the bodies were removed from the plane sunday morning and taken to Scranton state general general where autopsies were to be an air Force spokesman said it May take a month to determine the cause of the he said there was no flight recorder on officers from Page 1 paper to accompany the we place a tremendous Burden on our senior army the paper we charge them to perform As As spokesmen for their As Stew Ards of tremendous As role mod As Standard As Long Range plan ners and decision in we demand they perform As though they were effective corporate in time of there is a blurring of the distinction Between pure Warrior and pure corporate in both peace and across the spectrum of we expect our senior army leaders to be Charles who organized the said it was part of a larger Effort to improve the professional development of the officer we asked some real Tough questions about strengths and he said in a Telephone to see where we should be going in the Arthur Brown director of the army which is preparing recommendations for Wickham based on the sur said changes in the army system of educating officers in their careers were under serious in each of the Middle and senior service More emphasis would prob ably be put on teaching officers to be better mentors and coaches of their Brown the findings of the Survey suggested that the army officer corps had not entirely re covered from the Days of when morale was ethics were slighted and Many officers put promotion ahead of according to historians of the Vietnam the Survey responses also appeared to reflect the questioning attitude discerned in Many younger the majors and captains who were commissioned in the Post Vietnam period of the late they brought into the army the scepticism of their youth in the turbulent several marked differences Between the generals and the Lowe ranking officers showed up in the the the report thought the officer corps was less focused on personal gain than on selflessness Lowe ranking officers the generals said they Felt that about two thirds of the captains and lieutenants would make Good wartime while the captains and lieutenants themselves rated Only half of their Peers As potentially Good Battlefield the generals also thought that the army was preparing officers to keep Pace with weapons of advanced while Large numbers of the other officers Dis the report the Lowe ranking officers also wanted More of their Peers to receive advanced military education than the generals thought was on the other the report said Gener als and the other officers agreed that the weakest areas of officer preparation tend to be leadership and critical they also agreed that two thirds of the colonels and majors would be Good combat Ness of the her description brought tears to the eyes of Many Fischel said she has forgiven her tormentors and is now totally at Home in but she said she will never forget the murder of her family and so Many others in the Chaim president of the organization of the survivors of pleaded with Kohl to prevent the spread of antisemitism in prevent the Sale of arms to the enemies of Israel and help in tracking Down the murderer Josef Meng Mengele was responsible for inhumane medical experiments on jews in the Auschwitz concentration More than visitors from around the world gathered Between the marked mass Graves to attend the memorial service sponsored by the Council of German jews whose Werner was the first Lay speaker of the standing before the Bergen Belsen obelisk and and visibly moved by the Kohl appealed for German reconciliation with the mainly but also soviet the mentally handicapped and the so called social ambassador to Germany Arthur Burns spoke to the audience after one of his staff members read a greeting to the survivors by president Burns reaffirmed that Reagan would visit the Camp during his state visit to Germany in he said the president would dedicate himself to the legacy that All free men Bear As the lesson of history of the the ceremony wound up with a a jewish hymn in Praise of god recited in one form As a mourners about 200 Demontra waving the banners of the West Ger Man communist party and of the Young gathered near the temperatures l h 49 66 62 85 54 77 50 62 65 62 64 84 63 82 30 53 64 84 70 83 69 83 54 76 49 73 Albany Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Kansas City Las vegas april 20 l h 53 67 70 82 54 70 64 81 54 67 64 85 56 80 61 80 62 85 45 55 36 51 52 65 64 88 los Angeles Miami Minneapolis new Orleans new York Orlando Phoenix Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Salt Lake City san Francisco Washington european Featner forecast for monday fair to partly Cloudy skies with Patchy morning fog and afternoon High tempera Tures mid to upper 60s lows mid to upper Sunset monday Sunrise tuesday Outlook for tuesday mostly Cloudy skies with morning fog and ral showers in the Benelux and the Western part of highs in the lows in the lower temperatures recorded sunday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm p 55 73 f 46 68 f 40 55 p 36 52 f 50 61 r 52 50 f 43 64 f 45 72 f 45 63 f 45 63 f 36 55 p 50 64 cd 41 50 f 43 70 a Cloudy Pearlly Cloudy Iraln provided by Del 7lh weather tra Bentzar  
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