European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 germans Call Reagan visit a Success Helmut Kohl Borri april 1930 family married to Hannelore a former interpreter two Walter and education political science and history at the universities of Frankfurt and 1950 to Doc toral career highlights 1950 joined Christian democratic Union 195566 member of Dij executive Rheinland Pfalz 195976 member of Rheinland Pfalz parliament 196976 prime Rheinland Pfalz 197682 member of German parliament 1982present Chancellor of Germany German Leader the Job of Chancellor of1 As defined by the German is much like that of the the Chancellor determines policy guidelines and the business of executive government at the Federal it is the chancellors duty to define general Domestic and foreign policy pre sent a government program and see to its simple ministers Are appointed and dismissed president at the proposal of apart from of death or their terms of office end with their which of fact edit any or with the termination of the chancellors term of a candidate for the office of Chancellor is usually proposed by the by the German after pointed by the the cancel of v term of office begins As soon As he is appointed by the except in cases of it ends when the Chancellor when there is a vote of no Confidence in the parliament and a successor is or with the opening ses Sion of anew the previous Chancellor May be Edre Avis continued from Page 1 40 years after the War than it was 20 years because 90 percent of the German people still had memories of what happened to them on May in you could go out on the Street Here and nine out of 10 people could Tell you exactly where they were on May 8 and what they youll find that More than half of the people you meet on the Street we rent born at that time and thus have no photo by red Grandy Chancellor Helmut Kohl walks with president Reagan and prime minister Margaret Germany foreign minister therell be a Summit Vienna a West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich after meeting for nearly two hours thursday with soviet foreign minister Andrei Gro said he is convinced that a Summit conference will be arranged this who met earlier with Secretary of state George told reporters that the political will is there on both even if the place and time have not yet been Gromyko stayed in Vienna for bilateral meetings with Western diplomats who attended wednesdays 30th anniversary celebrations of the signing of the austrian state Shultz talked with Gromyko in a six hour session on tuesday and said before leaving that no Date or place had been set for a meeting Between president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Reagan has invited Gorbachev to a meeting in the United the soviet Leader is expected to visit the United nations in new York in Genscher pointed to a planned August meeting in Hel of foreign affairs chiefs from 35 countries on the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki accords on Security and cooperation in both Gromyko and Shultz Are to austrian newspapers and television have been speculating that a Summit would take place Western Diplo refusing to be identified by name or have also brought up that possibility in talks with report austrian Chancellor Fred by austrian reporters whether he had proposed this Neutral site for a said Only that Vienna had always been a meet ing but declined to it really Doest matter where they but that they meet is whats Genscher both countries will find a suitable nato cautioned on Osfar wars Lyndon a nato Secretary general lord Carrington warned the Western defense Alliance thursday not to pin All its Hopes on president reagans Star wars program too soon at the expense of maintaining the nuclear a former British foreign told the Royal United services Institute in London that deterrence would not succeed if nato failed to take full advantage of what new technology could in a speech that indicated his own caution on what the effects of Star wars strategic defense systems May prove to he warned we must be careful also not to count our strategic chickens before they Are hatched and to maintain the political and technical underpinning of our present until we Are sure that we have something better to put in its the Star wars formally known As the strategic defense envisages a defense system of space based weapons capable of shooting Down incoming missiles before they can reach their Kohl said the misery of a War cannot be comprehended from there Are experiences that you cannot communicate to an experience of an entire generation Dur ing and after the cannot be passed on to your Chil he the fear of a child trembling in a cellar who develops an unerring facility of the who is Able to distinguish if the Blanket bombing was close enough to harm one or Hes like an old Soldier with years of Battle i developed such a sense in More than 100 an entire generation of children in Large cities Learned and things that you cannot he for this the Date May 8 is so meaningful for so Many of turning to the division of Kohl Drew this Paral Lel when i stand on the Balcony of the watergate hotel in Washington and look Down at the All 1 have to say to americans now imagine you Are in Berlin and Down there where the boaters Are or where the joggers Are running is a Wall with barbed and behind it Are trained German Shepherd and the entire Complex is then i explain the attempt to overcome these obstacles is usually such is the scene from Kohls Berlin office in the Ger Man looking out onto the Landwehr he said he can also see the Row of crosses erected where fugitives were then after youve made that Point you Tell them that the Wall was erected overnight and that families were divided by then you discover that the Wall has nothing to do with but that the dividing of a living organism such As a City like Berlin is an act of the greatest Kohl said he used a similar example in 1983 in an swering soviet Leader Yuri Andropov claim that West in seeking reunion with East was seeking when i asked if the Man who wants Unity with his with his is a revenge Andropov he is Kohl said there is no real peace As Long As such a Situa Tion we say two that War and violence Are no Means for politics that the important lesson of German history we say we Are not historically prepared to accept the division and that we Are Well aware that the topic of the German division is not on the Agenda of world we know its not on the Agenda either in Washington or but what difference does that make it May take 50 years to get on their but what Are 50 years in the history of a people we dont intend to Stop working for the reunification of a photo Schmidt in Jerusalem former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Cen Ter lays a Wreath wednesday at the grave of for Mer israeli prime minister Golda Meir during a private visit to Jerusalem that includes meetings with israeli and palestinian