European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 a Marks grim 40th anniversary says Russia hold keys to survival of Mankind Japan a the City where Mankind discovered the terror and peril of the nuclear age marked the 40th anniversary tuesday of its destruct the Observance included a minute of appeals for peace and mourning for the thousands who died in the first atomic bomb some people at Hiroshima peace memorial Park listened to the toll of a Lone watched doves flutter into the sky and fell silent for one minute at exactly 40 years after the United states exploded an atomic bomb Over the killing up to some 600 youths fell to the ground in a symbolic die in near the atomic bomb the former Hiroshima Industrial promotion Hall whose fire ravaged Skele Tal remains have become a Symbol of the nuclear bereaved relatives of bomb victims tolled a Buddhist Bell to summon the at the nearby ground Zero Cenotaph that is the focal Point of the Black Clad mourners deposited the names of people who died this year from Long Range aftereffects of the the mourners left an offering of the final request of Many people who perished in the Days immediately following the in the new names bring to the number of identified Hiroshima atomic bomb whose names Are inscribed at the More than 90 percent of the people within a half mile of ground Zero died in the blast and heat of the Fourton police escorted several antinuclear activists away after they shouted briefly to protest what they said were hawkish defense policies of Nakasone Liberal democratic about doves fluttered from the swirled away from the eternal flame and the Stark outline of the dome and disappeared Over the nearby baseball stadium that is Home to the Hiroshima the Pride of this now prosperous City of about 1 million today hesitation leads to tomorrows said Hiroshima mayor Takeshi talks have made deplorable Little Progress As the superpowers use the facade of negotiation to jockey for advantage while they expand the nuclear arms race even into outer the a survivor of the atomic called on Japan to Lead the move ment for a nuclear weapons ban and and Here to the country so called three non nuclear principles barring the manufacture or presence of nuclear weapons in the United states and soviet who hold the keys to the survival of Man must immediately put an end to All nuclear testing and make a prompt Deci Sion at the Geneva Summit to eradicate All nuclear Araki Hiroshima and Nagasaki serve As an eve present admonishment never to diminish the Call for disarmament and the search for said Jan a spokesman for Secretary general Javier Perez de he stood before wreaths of yellow and White Flowers placed by japanese mourners and delegates to an International conference of after a 600member youth chorus led the crowd in the Hiroshima peace song to the a 200member band Buddhist monks in Saffron Robes thumped hand and the Sun briefly broke through thick the b29 plane Enola Gay dropped the bomb on a in a Clear summer As thousands of Hiroshima residents were heading to school and a second bomb was dropped on naga Saki on killing up to the two bombs Are credited with hastening the japanese which occurred the atomic Cloud mushrooms Over Hiroshima on file photo smoke still lingered on a Day after the bomb in the background is the ruin of the old Industrial exhibition now preserved As a a photo