European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes May 1985 Pitburg cemetery visit divides nation despite reagans standing changed poll says by Adam Clymer new York times after four weeks of intense National debate Over presi Dent reagans visit to the German military cemetery at the american Public is equally divided Over whether he should have a new York time subs news poll in Telephone interviews conducted monday 41 percent of those half of whom singled out the need for Good relations with said they approved of the presidents visit to the cemetery an equal 41 citing atrocities against jews and War memories said he should not have eighteen percent expressed no there were relatively modest divisions among differ ent population groups in the National Sample of 692 which carries a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage men favored the by 46 percent to 41 while women opposed by 40 percent to 36 there were no Clear differences of opinion by Mili tary veterans were narrowly in 45 percent to 42 of the 22 jews 21 said he should not have and the other was the polls findings suggested that sundays along with an added Slop at the site of the concentration Camp at May have diminished Public opposition to the a Washington Post Abc news poll taken april 22 had found that 51 percent of the people inter viewed disapproved of the visit and 39 percent that polls margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage the latest poll also suggested that for All the attention the visit received in the press and the arguments about it did not All a total of 30 percent of those favouring the visit said they did not know Why others opposed and 44 percent of those against the trip said they did not know Why others favored but most of those interviewed could explain Why they Felt the Way they among the argument of Good relations with Germany and Chancellor Helmut Kohl was a 73yearold Veteran from Indiana the press has overblown a minor he went there for a much bigger two countries that were at Kohl wanted him to visit their As he would have if he were Many spoke of forgetting the but some also urged a 27yearold South Carolina woman Treyve been dead for so lets forgive and Goon with among the Many cited the a 27yearold Massachusetts Man said he was opposed because in because of the is officers Why visit a graveyard full of murderers not Only jews gave this sort of response a 47 year old woman from a said she was opposed because of what they did to the jews during the other foes spoke of the War More a 30 year old South Carolina Man said he was opposed be cause troops lost their lives in world War and Reagan is letting them the Survey showed no significant change in reagans Overall standing with the at the end of a time subs news poll showed that 59 percent of the Public approved his handling of his Job in the latest 56 percent that finding agreed with the judgment of Richard the presidents who said in washing ton on tuesday that reagans approval was relatively stable with the although the evidence is pretty Clear that the jewish Community has been strongly alien the poll bore him out recording a decline in approval of Reagan among but the very percentage of jews in the nations and thus in the causes a High margin of sampling error and thus considerable uncertainty about the magnitude of the the poll also suggested that the controversy had led to some hostility toward jewish critics of the thirty eight percent of the including 60 percent of those who supported the cemetery visit and 18 percent of those who opposed said they agreed with the statement that jewish leaders in the United states protested too much Over his thirty nine percent said they did not feel that and 23 percent had no ant jewish feelings came through in a few of the explanations Given by supporters As to Why the visit was but far More of those attributing opposition to did so for a 56yearold Veteran from Texas who supported the visit we reconciled with Why cant we reconcile with Ger Many but he i can understand the jewish outcry because of the a total of 39 percent of the Public said they thought the Reagan trip would improve relations with West Ger sixty two percent of the backers of the cemetery visit held this As did 18 percent of those opposed to seven percent of the Public said it would drive the two countries forty four percent said the trip would make no and the rest had no older germans tired of hearing about nazis Bonn not various pub Icopin Ion polls indicate that older germans generally feel that they have enough information about the nations nazi a poll taken in february among respondents by the Bon based incas organization found that 54 percent Felt there should be no further television and press documentaries about world War yet the poll found a difference among sixty one percent of respondents Between the Ages of 18 and 24 grandchildren of War veterans said they wanted to know More about the Hitler but Only 36 percent of those Between 25 and 34 mostly children of fathers who fought wanted More most germans appear to regard the anniversary of be Day As a Day of mourn ing and not one of rejoicing Over the end of nazism and the Start of the process of building a stable democracy from the rubble of a poll taken in late january by the Allensbach organization asked respondents should May 8 be viewed As marking the end of hitlers dictatorship and Freedom for at least part of the Ger Man or should it be a time to think of the wars the the refugees and the division of the nation Only 9 percent approved the first and 44 percent supported the second 41 percent said both were equally a followup Allensbach sounding in March gave respondents an Opportunity to select among 18 issues on which to meditate on May seventy eight per cent selected the proposition that a War should never again emanate from Ger the second highest Choice 58 percent was that since May there have been 40 years of peace third was remain ing vigilant against another dictatorship 54 fourth was working for a United Europe 53 and fifth was pondering the division of Germany 52 priorities at the Bottom of the poll were also the development of the Federal Republic into a Well regarded country Drew the support of Only 42 per cent As an Issue on which to and Only 34 percent among respondents 16 to 29 years of a total of 29 percent of All polled checked off the collapse of the German Reich and the loss of the Only 19 percent of the 16to29 age group selected this in comparison to 43 percent of those 60 and who remember a United but the item that Drew the least amount of support in the Allensbach poll was War guilt of the Only 25 percent thought this was a theme for meditation on the anniversary this denies he advised against meeting with Brandt Reagan aide Burt is Center of German juror Bonn not Richard assistant Secretary of state for european tuesday denied press reports Here that he had advised president Reagan against meet ing with Willy the Leader of Germany s opposition social democratic Burt was acting to defuse a clash with social democratic after German newspapers reported that the president refused to meet the former Chancellor at hurts because of strident ant american tones at social Democrat led demonstrations to protest reagans the Brandt incident provoked Strong reaction Here be cause of reports that Burt will succeed Arthur Burns As ambassador to Burns had said Burt would succeed him after the economic Summit the in several German said the president overrode Burns advice that he meet with social democratic leaders reacted bitterly to what they considered a Brandt refused to attend a state dinner with Reagan on sunday and Hansjochen the party parliamentary i cannot Overlook the fact during a state visit so strongly set under the word a meeting was refused a Man who is a Nobel peace prize recipient and offered Active resistance to the Hitler in a statement released by the american affirming support for dialogue Between the United states government and All segments of political Opin Ion in said the charge has no foundation in 1 have always found my own contacts with the leadership of the social democratic party to be he a senior american official said he understood that Burns had recommended that the president see or Wolfgang the social democratic party were Happy Burt was Able to deny the reports that he opposed such a pop groups stonewalled by stonehenge officials London a the National guardian of Britain historic Sites and has won injunctions to ban a june pop music festival at the Britain largest said that As owner of stonehenge it wanted to protect the famous prehistoric site from it secured High court injunctions preventing trespassing of four new age peace Convoy and Rainbow Village we Are not pursuing the Issue he who was Chancellor from 1969 to received the Nobel peace prize in 1971 As one of the architects of Bonns policy of reconciling Germany with its Eastern european american officials were particularly upset by a social Democrat organized rally on saturday at near Hambach where the president on monday addressed about mostly Tje principal speaker in Oskar the social democratic Premier of the addressing a crowd of about accused Washington and Moscow equally of a backyard and front Yard mentality he said had them tripping from crime to Lafontaine attacked the administrations Central Amer Ica including its Trade embargo against Nuernberg on tuesday to Mark the end of world War ii 40 years Brandt said the Power of the United states and the soviet Union has object a threat to the Nuernberg rally was one of numerous ceremonies throughout Germany to commemorate the wars it was attended by mayors from european cities destroyed in front a Lucea Villeneuve near the former French Village of  Cologne Dresden m Coventry and