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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sex attorney general John Mitchell is dead at 75 Ujj Page 5 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial Public � Tiosh forthe . I Romeo forces vol. "47. No. 207 Friday november. 11, 1968 Good mornings d 8693 a Texas gets super Collider Washington a Energy Secretary John Harrington thursday announced the selection of Texas us the site for Hie highly prize $4.4 billion super Collider atom smasher if the giant research installation is Ever built. Seven states had vied for the project because of the economic benefits lied to the construction of the col list a 53-mile underground ring of 10,000 magnets capable of whipping Proton beams together with 20 times the Force of the world s most powerful ensling particle accelerator. Him Nylon said the Texas site some 16,000 farm acres in Ellis county South of Dallas was Superior to the others. The decision he said was based in part on site geology regional resources and environmental criteria. The Texas proposal clearly received the highest Overall technical evaluation ratings of any proposal and exhibited no significant Overall weaknesses Harrington said. The six other contenders were Illinois Arizona col Orado Michigan North Carolina and Tennessee. They were chosen by an Independent panel appointed by the Energy department from a Field of 25 bidding states. Officials of some of the losing slates however linked Texas selection to tuesday s election of George Bush who lives in Texas As president. The depart ment of Energy made a decision. Based on politics rather than on Merit and the Good of the american taxpayer said sen. Alan Dixon d-ii1. I do not be Lieve that the timing of this decision and its proximity to the election is a  sen. Donald Riegle d-mich., said the decision has a Strong smell of White House politics. That was our major concern All along. We and the other five finalist slates go a raw  but Harrington told reporters the selection was made purely on technical merits and added i have Tosee Collider on Back Page Reagan appointees asked to resign Washington apr the White House asked president Reagan s political appointees to submit their resignation thursday one Day after president elect George hush said he would revitalize government with a Brand new team of  the names being mentioned by the press and political sources As Poten tial members of the new Bush team arc Richard Bun ambassador to West Ger Many former sen. John Tower of Texas for defense Secretary and former transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole. Presidential spokesman Marlin Filz water said the request for resignations of inc current appointees customary at the end of an administration was made by White House chief of staff Kenneth n. Ducr Stcin during a breakfast meet in with the Cabinet and Heads of various agencies.  said the officials were also being asked to slay on if necessary to help in the transition. Hut he added it is prob ably fair to say that All political appointees at All Leves should be prepared to resign or depart on Jan. 20," the presidential spokesman  Bush nor Reagan attended the breakfast , but both attended a later meeting with Duberstein and were to attend  Cabinet meeting during which the transition and other matters were to be discussed even before Bush won the presidency Job applications were pouring into his standby transition office. The Stream of resumes is expected to turn into a flood now at newly opened Bush transition Headquarters.  Fuller Bush s vice presidential chief of staff and Campaign pollster Robert Teeter will share authority As co chairmen of the transition team. Just hours after claiming Victory Bush took the first Steps wednesday toward assembling his presidency by naming James a. Baker 111, his Campaign chair Man and a former Reagan admins ration official As his Secretary of state. Mindful hat the first months of a administration set the Lone for relations president elect George Bush Center and first lady Nancy Rybran Lau Jih at president see slips on Back Page Reagan s remarks during u postelection press conference wednesday Bonn official s Kristal nacht speech criticized Bonn Cwm Germany apr opposition lawmakers walked out of a Kristal nacht ceremony thursday after claiming a speech by the parliament president Lai cd to express proper grief for nazi crimes against jews. The 26-Page speech by president i Hil Ipp Jenninger i Taite some listeners cry but Drew angry criticism from Oiler members of parliament who said Jen Ninger recounted nazi atrocities in an inappropriately Cool and dispassionate  marched through history with the intellect of combat boots said Wolf King  parliament member of the. Free democratic party. The controversy marred a session marking the 50lh anniversary1 of Kristal nacht Crystal night the first nigh of organized nazi terror against the  ceremony featured an emotional appearance by Ida ehri88. A nazi concentration Camp survivor who read from Paul Celan s poem  actress Ida Ehric 88, weeps quietly As Philip Jenninger talks about . Death is a master from Germany his Eye is Bue Ehre a Well known actress and director in Hamburg read from the famous work he strikes Tecc with Lead in bullets he strikes Tecc exactly.". Ehre dressed in Black Wilh a. White Blouse spoke before parliament and invited guests including West German jewish Leader Heinz Satinski. During the third Reich the nazis barred the jewish actress from working and eventually sent her to a concentration Camp for several years. Later during thursday s session Ehre put her hands on her forehead and  read ing an eyewitness account of the murder of concentration Camp victims in 1942, blood was running Over the Shoul Ders of almost  the 56-year-old Jenninger read. Songs of those Shol were Stilt moving some lifted their arms and turned their Heads to show they were still  he read some of the lawmakers in see speech on Back Page  
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