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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes related stories and the stars an stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 20 May 1985 and d 8693 a Reagan tells youths future in your hands photo by Emmett Lewis Flag waving crowd cheers Reagan at Hambach by Judy Sarasohn staff writer Germany president Reagan turned to the future of Germany youth monday and addressed the nations aspirations for unification and peace in unlike your cousins on the other Side of the your future is in your hands you Are free to follow your dreams to the Reagan told an enthusiastic crowd of mostly Young people from around the cause of German Unity is bound up with the cause of democracy and democracy will Only be Europe will Only be when All Ger mans and All europeans Are finally he for More than 150 Hambach Castle has been a Symbol of German yearning for National Unity and Freedom from tyrannical after his Reagan left for Ramstein where he boarded air Force one for a state visit to there have been demonstrations there against his visit and Reagan was also greeted with demonstrations at Twenty seven people were arrested on charges of attacking the buses carrying visitors to the a police spokesman another 200 people demonstrated along the route of reagans Reagan was accompanied to Hambach Castle by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and first ladies Nancy Reagan and Hannelore the weather seemed to follow the mood of the monday was a warm Spring in marked contrast to sundays Clouds and on Reagan was concerned with the past As he Laid a Wreath at the Pitburg military cemetery in a gesture of reconciliation with americas ally of 40 years since world War the Pitburg visit provoked a storm of criticism from jewish groups and american veterans organi leading Reagan to add a trip to the Burgen Belsen concentration Camp memorial on Bernhard president of Rhein welcomed Reagan to the Castle and we appreciate that you were with us yesterday in Bergen Belsen and visiting a concentration Camp and a German military we do not deny the events in the darkest epoch of our today and in the future we will not for see Reagan on Page 28 Spanish Fang Greefs Reagan in Madrid photo by Dave Didlo president Reagan and King Juan Carlos inspect Spanish troops at the Airport in by Diana Valdez staff writer Madrid under partly Cloudy skies and a full scale Security umbrella president Reagan stepped Down onto Spanish soil for the first time since taking office to begin the iberian portion of his 10 Day european Spanish and Security personnel swarmed the Madrid Airport hours before Reagan and his the Security precautions came in the Wake of several ant american demonstrations in Madrid and surrounding towns during the past few Reagan and the first lady were met by King Juan Carlos i and Queen a Brief ceremony followed during which Reagan and the King reviewed about 150 Spanish the accompanied by the Royal were rushed off to the Pardo the official residence of visiting Heads of presi Dent Felipe Gonzalez Marquez was scheduled to Greet the reagans at the a major artery into Madrid was closed off for the and hundreds of demonstrators lined the streets outside the the Day was scheduled to end with a private dinner Given by Gonzalez at the Zarzuela the Resi Dence of King Juan Carlos and Queen a Tenta see Madrid on Page 28 challenger sets Down after 7day Mission Edwards a the seven astronauts and their min zoo aboard the space shuttle challenger swooped to a Landing on a California desert monday a seven Day Mission to collect data about cosmic space manufacturing and the human the 107ton space plane settled onto the hard packed Sand of a dry Lake bed to end what has been hailed As a highly successful scientific expedition that covered some million Miles and peered deep into the solar the Landing came three hours after the astronauts received a false alarm that their cargo Bay doors might not have closed and an hour after commander Robert Overmyer and Pilot Fred Gregory fired braking rockets to Start the challenger on a dive through the atmosphere on a course Over the Indian and Pacific across the California coast at Long Beach and into the Mojave the challenger landed on the Lake bed instead of its Home base in Florida because the brakes locked and a tire ruptured on its sister when it landed at Cape canaveral on april Nasa decided that until it understands the problem it would be safer to touch Down on the wide open an other Factor was the space lab module in the challengers cargo adding four tons to the Landing there were no Brake or tire problems monday As the shuttle settled onto the run kicking up a plume of Sand As it rolled to a Stop on the Center Welcome said mis Sion Nice waiting for the astronauts in Crew quarters were ice Cream with chocolate and filling a request they had made see challenger on Page 28  
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