European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 28, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 museum planned at final solution site b Joe Mapother Bureau Berlin fourteen top nazi bureaucrats met Jan. 20. 1942, in a comfortable wannit11 Villa to coordinate plans for the final solution to tic Fate of the jews. Forty five years later that Villa has been earmarked for Resto ration and transformation into a museum and conference Center. A commission convened by West Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen re leased a report this month calling for exhibit arid Reff acc facilities to be coordinated within the Fram Woik of other nazi Era historical Sites in the divided c a and West Germany. In no other place in Berlin or the Federal Republic of Germany will the theme be handled in such a Way As is planned Here wrote two members of the commission in a planning group report. It is to be hoped that this exhibit will not be misinterpreted by any one As an exemption from bothersome obligations but rather As a stimulus for other museums elsewhere in this coun try to Deal with the the Villa across the Wannice from . Military recreational facilities at the popular Lake was used for a time to Billet american officers before being turned Back to the Berlin City govern ment in 1952, said Tom Blake com Mand information specialist for the . Come Berlin. Confiscated from a jewish family the Wannice Villa was taken Over by Reinhardt Heydrich nazi secret police chief and lord Over Czechoslovakia. Heydrich died four months after Host ing the meeting along the Wannice from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt in Prague. Two villages Lidice and la Zasky were wiped out in retaliation by the a is. More than 1,000 people lost their lives. Despite la Cedrich s death the wheels set in motion by him Adolf Eichmann and others during the Jan. 20 Wannice meeting would Cost 6 million jews their lives during the iit/1 the act a rare since 1952, the House at am Gros sen Wannice 56-58 has been used by the District of no Koelln As a school where students can escape the Down town atmosphere of no Koelln for the More Rural District of sch Lundorf. A West Berlin government spokes Man said the school is expected to vacate the via be i year and renovations should Start in 1989. No Price tag has been set on the project but the spokes Man said it certainly would Cost several million Marks. In addition to a permanent exhibit the commission recommended setting up an educational Center capable of handling youth groups As Well As Aca Demic conferences. To those ends the commission proposed locating research facilities to include collections of Pho tos documents films and newspapers. Contemporary no fascist literature should also be included in the reference collection the commission said though it recommended the collection be housed separately from the Oiler mate rial. The commission noted it was unaware of a comparable collection of such material in West Germany the commission recommended the City government develop the Wannice site As part of an Overall plan including other nazi Era Sites. That Overall plan Calls for the exhibit opened this sum Mer on the former site of the Gestapo Headquarters to become a permanent City fixture. The old Headquarters is near checkpoint Charlie the entry Point into East Berlin from West Ber Lin. Is photo by to Villa where the nazis developed their infamous final women say their Power As voters not recognized Washington a women have emerged As a voting majority in recent elections yet presidential Candi dates in both parties have not begun talk ing their language the Leader of a women s political group says. Irene Natividad head of the National women s political caucus said the Pat Tern of women out voting men is particularly striking in the South where nearly one third of the democratic and Republican delegates will be at stake in the super tuesday March 8 presidential primaries. Presidential candidates in both in ties she said have failed to recognize that women now constitute a voting majority or to find a Way to address their message in a Way that women concerned with pocketbook issues will respond to. The partisan strategy As i see it has been to Wop the White male vote Nativ Idad said in a recent interview. What they Are missing is that the constituency that has delivered and can deliver again the women s vote is not being paid As much attention the National women s political Cau Cus a bipartisan group is sponsoring a meeting in Atlanta next month in an at tempt to draw attention to this Point. Several Hundred women from across the South Are expected for the dec. 5 forum called super saturday women and the primary politics of super tuesday. The presidential election of 1984 was the first in which women surpassed men in voting participation she said citing census Bureau figures. In the 1986 Senate House and slate elections women made up a majority of those who voted in every one of the 20 Stales thai next year will hold democratic or Republican primaries or caucuses on super among some of the 15 Southern super tuesday states the female majority last year was very High. It was nearly 56 percent in Florida and missis Sippi and nearly 55 percent in Alabama and Georgia. Republican Senate incumbents were turned out of office in three of those four Florida Alabama an Georgia. There have been poll after poll that indicate women s votes in coalition with minority votes in certain states were the ones that changed the Senate composition in 1986," Natividad said. They Are the critical votes for any or Republican who wishes to get a majority of super tuesday Del at the meeting next month a coalition of women s groups conducting the women s vote project is to release group re search indicating that there Are common links on key issues Between White and Black women in the South. Research from such groups is not a scientific Sam ple As in a poll but is often used to gauge depth of feeling about candidates products or issues. The tensions that operate among Black women As Well As White women arc pretty much the same. They re economic issues child care and pay inequity being the major issues Natividad polling she said suggests women have higher Levels of concern than men on a Range of Domestic issues such As social Security unemployment child fare and support for education. She credits republicans with recognizing and dealing with the gender Gap Bel Ter than the democrats. She cited go polling on the question in 1980 and 1984 and comments by vice president George Bush about the pay equity Issue and by sen. Robert Dole r-kan., about Broa Dening the party s message to women and minorities. Still she said the 1988 candidates need to reshape their message to in clude their audience in their women Are pretty savvy voters she said. They want to know where child care stands in the priorities for that fed eral ., panamanian military exercises postponed Panama City Panama a president Eric Arturo Dick ally thursday said his country will not hold joint Mili tary exercises in january with the United slates. Delvalle said relations Between the United states and Panama heated up this year and therefore it s better this he said the . Government made the decision unilaterally to put off the exercises. It would t have been the Best moment to continue he told report ers As he prepared to leave for Acapulco Mexico to attend the Summit meeting of eight latin american presidents. Foreign minister Jorge Abadia added that Panama made no attempt to sus Pend the exercises. The exercises called kindle Liberty and King s guard were intended to train fur Protection of the Panama canal and were planned according to provi Sions of the 1977 Waifu treaties. The National Assembly on tuesday night approved a Resolution asking the government to suspend visas of . Mil itary personnel and urging the Start of talks to remove the . Southern come from Panama. Relations Between the two countries have been strained since june when pro tests began against military control of the nominally civilian government the . Senate has called for a halt to All Ameri can Aid to Panama until the panamanian government institutes Broad reforms and moves toward democracy. Spurred by riots outside the . Embassy in june the Cagan administration suspended $26 million in Aid and instructed american diplomats to shun Panama s military strongman. Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega whenever pos sible. The . Senate move would make the Aid suspension permanent unless presi Dent Cagan certifies thai conditions set by the legislation had been met. The conditions state that Panama must show a substantial Effort to assure civil control of the armed forces and that Noriega and his commanders be removed from non militia re posts. About 10.000 . Soldiers Are based in Panama. The Southern come is head quarters for the american military in latin Morua
