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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d cigarette May have started stadium 2 d wins world cup qualifying soccer 21 d firing among subjects aired at Dodds session Page 28 the Stesan stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 30 May 1985 Ond d 8693 a Bond reinforced Kohl says Reagan fought Battle for Friendship photo by red Grandy German Chancellor Helmut Kohl praises reagans farsightedness by de Reavis staff writer Bonn president Reagan fought a great Battle for German american Friendship in his recent visit to Chancellor Helmut Kohl told the stars and stripes on Kohl said recent polls proved that 70 percent of the German people consider the visit a resounding despite the controversy Over reagans visit to a Pitburg military and he said reagans popularity with the German people has taken an upward the German people and will never forget this gesture of it was a great deed against the latent anti americanism existent in certain circles in the Federal Republic of to use a military he fought a great Battle for German american Friend what impressed us All the More is the fact that he chose to fight the Battle against enormous pressures from within the United Kohl Kohl said it took courage and farsightedness for Reagan to go against the Strong recommendations from the Senate and House of representatives to keep away from for Kohl it was an important and magnificent Kohl said reagans decision affected germans of All age groups War veterans As Well As the what particularly pleases me is that a personal Friend broke through the sound Barrier of personal Defa mation in this the German people experienced a Man who not Only commands his but who is direct and has a Way with nowhere better did he prove that than in Kohl Kohl said he understands some of the negative re action in the United we understand the reaction of people who suffered personally under nazi if one had suffered in Bergen Belsen or Auschwitz or lost their family or friends i neither As German nor expect that they forget or but i can Only beg for Kohl said germans do not want to forget because forgetting would be the wrong he said one cannot walk away from the history of ones people and claim one has nothing to do with it All because one belongs to a generation born after the what happened then is a shame for the German what germans did cannot be eradicated from nor can it be made Good with monetary restitution although we made great efforts in that area death and suffering cannot be offset with payments of Kohl said he could not accept Blanket judgments of the visit made out of pure he also rejected Blanket judgments of the German he defended his saying that May the end of the was not but was observed with we had a memorial hour in parliament with a speech by the German president and an evening religious service in the Cologne the largest Cathedral in Ger with the Cardinal from Cologne and the head of the protestant Church in we prayed for peace and for forgiveness for the Kohl said the act of remembrance was More difficult continued on Page 3 Senate passes billion foreign Aid Bill Washington a the Senate voted 7519 wednesday to approve a billion foreign Aid including million for no communist resistance fighters in Cambodia and a Resolution aimed at pressuring philippine president Ferdinand Marcos to implement demo cratic reforms in his the legislation reluctantly supported by the White House now goes to the democratic led which is not expected to take final action until Early the million is intended to help guerrillas who Are trying to oust the vietnamese forces which now occupy Cambodia and control its Secretary of state George Shultz would have to certify that Southeast asian countries also were providing assist Ance to the cambodian guerrillas before the help could actually be communist Khmer Rouge although also battling the would be denied any on the Senate voted to provide million in overt Aid to victims of the soviet occupation of Afghani on another the Senate voted to give president Reagan the authority to suspend Trade with headed by Moa mar an amendment proposed by Jesse would Cut off million in Aid to the socialist government of Mozambique unless it produces a plan to reduce the number of soviet advisers in that country from a current estimated level of Down to the same number of military advisers in Al the philippine sponsored by John Calls on Marcos to guarantee free elec prosecute fully the killers of philippine dissident Benigno establish a free press and release political the Resolution says Congress will watch for sufficient Progress and determine whether there has been enough democratic change before future Aid is voted death toll from assault on move limbs to 11 Philadelphia a police found five More incinerated bodies and a Cache of weapons wednesday in the ruins of the Radical cult moves fortified Row raising the death toll to including four were taking one shovel at a said police spokes Man Jerry were looking for any kind of evidence to Tell us what went any More bodies that May or May not be things of that related Page the five bodies found wednesday were taken to the City according to Clarence the cites assistant managing police assaulted the House monday with water tear Gas and finally a two Pound the ensuing fire burned 61 Homes and uprooted at least 225 residents of the West Philadelphia two shotguns and a Rifle were found Mosley along with a substantial Quantity of Caliper police also uncovered a second Bunker with gun ports in a rear Corner of the police found another basement Bunker and bombed a steel reinforced Bunker off the mayor Wilson Goode again defended his plan to evict the radicals and took full responsibility for the the whole purpose of the operation was to preserve what happened was an there will not be any i am fully and totally he said at a news Goode said the City would have acted differently if hostages had been although police had tried to persuade the cultists to let the children out of the Goode said the children were not considered asked the difference Between a child and a he said their parents were in the it Means that they were there with their Goode said he would appoint a commission within one week to review the facts that led up to the monday police used a five Story Crane with a Jawline bucket to scoop rubble from the move House and dump it in the officers picked through the debris with hand it was Uncertain How Long the search would Whartenby they dont want to miss something that might be he refugees from the Middle income neigh boyhood were sheltered at College dormitories and with friends and relatives while the City develops plans to rebuild the City officials were sharply criticized wednesday for dropping the bomb from a police helicopter onto the roof of the United press International the bomb was the first and it was followed by the catastrophe of letting it state Vincent a Philadelphia but Goode and police commissioner George Sambor defended the saying it was intended to destroy a steel and Wood rooftop battlement and blow a Hole in the roof of the House so police could hurl tear Gas and water inside to Force them out of the House and pre vent loss of up  
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