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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday May 1,1987 Pope begins 5-Day Germany tour. Myor a in us High a two Lical Dart tra Duall Cologne a Pope John Paul ii opening a five Day pilgrimage to Ger Many on thursday condemned the nazi death machinery 1 and wrongly defended inc conduct of German Bishops and the Vatican under Adolf Hitler s third Reich. The pontiff also sought to defuse Catholic jewish tension Over Friday s beatification of a martyred jewish bom nun saying she perished in a nazi Gas chamber not Only because she was a Christian but also because she was a jew. Edilh so Fin As a jew and a Catholic nun demonstrated her Solidarity with the jewish people by sharing their suffer ing and martyrdom the Pope said in his arrival statement. I shall also pay a respectful visit to the grave of Cardinal Clements Clemens August von Galen who defied the death machinery of a criminal regime by fear. In sly speaking out on behalf of the sacredness of sacred life he said. The roman Catholic Leader s special a italia jetliner touched Down shortly be fore 6 p.m., just ahead of schedule. John Paul was officially greeted by German president Richard von Weizsaecker. In his Airport remarks John Paul strongly praised tie jewish born nun who had taken the name sister to Crosia and the Rev. Rupert Mayer a Jesuit priest persecuted by the nazis. About 750 people marched through the streets of Cologne on thursday night to protest the pontiffs visit. Some threw bottles and set Cartons on fire but no arrests were reported City police spokesman Werner Schmidt said. Most of them were Young leftists opposed to inc pontiffs traditionalist stances against divorce birth control and abortion. The pontiff will beautify Mayer on Sun Day in Munich. John Paul said both religious figures Light up the horrid bring and dark chapter of an entire historical  denunciation of the nazis was viewed in Vatican circles As the strongest the pontiff has Ever delivered on the subject. In went beyond the Pope s condemnation during his visit to Auschwitz in 1979. During a later speech to the German Bishops conference in Cologne the Pon Tiff continued on the subject of inc coun try s nazi past during which 6 million jews were killed. Hitler s National socialist seizure of Power was the beginning of a fateful pro Cess which Politica party gradually developed its obsessive inhuman racism into a totalitarian ideology and almost into a pseudo religion the Pope said. He noted that the nazis eventually clamped Light restrictions on Christian leaders. In this context we think of the courageous sermons and statements of numer Ous Bishops and of their fateful pastoral letter in which the dutch episcopate voiced its protest the Pope said. From Cologne he i year old ponnut travels to Muenster to visit inc grave of Galen known for his bold sermons against Hitler during the nazi period. Galen died in 1946. The Pope s visit to Germany will be concentrated in the unemployment wracked Ruhr Industrial Region and the heart of German roman catholicism the state of Bavaria. 5 More bodies discovered in collapsed building Bridgeport Conn. A five More bodies were found together in a pocket in the shattered debris of an apartment building As the official death toll from last week s collapse Rose thursday to 22, men were burned when what was to have become a 13-Story apartment building collapsed on april 23. To one has been pulled alive from the wreckage since the afternoon of the collapse. Four of the five bodies spotted wednesday have been recovered and at officially counted among the 22  of victims continue hurting the dead the eighth funeral was Planinc j Lor thursday and others were scheduled on Friday and saturday. Meanwhile investigates Sill a offered no solid theory As to Why inc  collapsed. An Engineer hired by the City said investigators be Lieve they Are closing in on the cause but he refused to a British Engineer re Lumen Home in High spirits wednesday after spending nearly five years in a libyan jail on charges of Industrial espionage. La is absolutely fantastic to be Back Home in  scottish born Robert Maswell 38, told reporters. He was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on charges of economic espionage taking bribes. He also was charged with spying but was never tried. He denied both charges. Libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi or dered his release from jail 11 Days ago. He said he had not been ill treated and he and other foreigners jailed in Libya had been separated from other foreign prisoners for fear Orel Alillion against them after inc Libya raid. Maxwell had gone 10 Libya with an italian company and was based in Benghazi the nation s second largest City. His Wile and his son Paul 6, resumed Wilh him from Tripoli Libya s capital via Malta. Trade from Page 1 they could not Muster the needed Voles thursday to reverse inc outcome and abandoned an Effort to try to Force a new Vole. Reagan meanwhile Lod of Lossone thai we were very much heartened by the narrow margin of Victory in the House because inhere were a veto they Wil sustain my  a veto override must be approved by two thirds of the members voting. Nakasone is in Washington for two Days of talks with . Officials in an. Effort to ease intensifying Trade friction. Earlier the House decided 230 to 190 to retain a provision to require foreign companies and individuals with major investments in the United states to Register their holdings with the Commerce depart  measure would Force foreign investors will 10 percent or larger interests in Banks buildings Compa Nies or farm land Worth $5 million or More 10 file the reports. The administration opposes the provision claiming it would scare away foreign  but inc Hii use vote rejected an amendment seeking to strike it from the bin. It also turned Back by voice Vole an Effort to slip from the Bill a buy America provision that would bar the Federal government from buying merchandise produced in countries with Trade barriers against .  the 900-Page Bill contains numerous pro visions designed to enhance . Competitiveness and ease the Trade deficit the Gephardt measure has received the most attention. His measure denounced As  by the Rea Gan administration would require nations that main Tain Large Trade surpluses Wilh the Umed Stales through unfair trading practices to reduce them by 10 percent annually or face retaliatory tariffs or quotas. Japan Germany South Korea Taiwan and ital would be Likely targets of he Sand ions. The United Stales last year imported $59 billion More in goods from Japan than it exported to thai country making Japan the major single contributor to the nations record ji66.3 billion 1986 Trade deficit. The Gephardt amendment would give the Persia Cal Sii months to negotiate an end to Trade banners in countries having Large surpluses Large surpluses being defined As an excess of imports Over exports of Al least afteme six month period the president would be forced to use quotas or tariffs to reduce the Trade sur pluses by 10 percent  president could waive the sanctions on economic grounds a provision Gephardt claimed provided an important escape , the administration said the measure would lie the president s hands and trigger real Ilion. Trade legislation being crafted by the Senate finance committee contains no such provision. Thus while the Bill will technically go next to the Senate the Senate is expected to routinely reject in in favor oils own legislation. A House Senate conference committee then will be formed to fashion a Compromise. And the narrow mar Gin of House support for the Gephardt provision will make it diff cult to sell Illo the conferees House Lead ers  lawmakers believe the House Vole is not really a Mandale said rep. Dan Rostonkowski p iii., chairman of the House ways and Means commit tee. Reagan link to conspiracy denied Washington a president Reagan was nol part of Carl r. Spitz Channell s conspiratorial Effort to do fund the government and buy arms for the nicaraguan rebels the while House said thursday. In the Legal View of the White House the president is no a part of this conspiracy presidential spokes Man Martin filiater said. Channel a conservative political fund Raiser has not implicated the president in his Contra Aid Eltory but he and others have confirmed that he look contributors to the White House on several occasions and that Reagan Mcl with some of them. Fitzwater said the president believed he was meet ing with Channell s contributors to thank them for financing advertisements to bolster the contras cause. It was his understanding the Money was being raised for advertisement purposes the spokesman  spokesman denied reporters requests thai he question Reagan anew on the subject in Light of Chan Nell s guilty plea wednesday to a conspiracy charge. Channell pleaded Guilly to conspiracy to defraud me . Gov Emmonl of taxes on $2 million in contributions Tor military Aid to the nicaraguan rebels. He also agreed to cooperate Wilh Independent counsel Law rence e. Walsh in his investigation of the  affair. Ronnie from Page 1 fought to hang on until the very last  the doctors and the nurses in the ice unit could t believe it really. It was like he was going Inlo Baule and he would come Back and he would go again. Saying i m fighting for you mom i m really fighting for you i guess in was like he  fight  radio station Why pm in Hollywood Fla. Which raised $30,000 for Ronnie planned a Mongeni of silence Ai noon thursday in memory of the Miami boy. Miami Beach industrialist Victor Posner who donated $200,000 for Ronnie s transplant planned to Send a private plane to Pittsburgh thursday to return the boy s body and his family to Florida. In Washington the White House issued a statement to express sympathy to Ronnie s family saying the president and his wife Nancy had kept the boy in their prayers. Earlier wednesday Reagan proclaimed this week As National Organ and tissue donor aware Ness week. Reagan had called Ronnie in february with words of encouragement then contributed $1,000 after �4,000 raised by Ronnie s schoolmates to help pay for his surgery was stolen from his fort Lauderdale school. Asa result of publicity about the theft contributions poured in from around the country  
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