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EXPECTING. Candice Bergen, 39, placidly beautiful blond film actress (Starting Over, Rich and Famous), photojournalist and best-selling autobiographer (Knock Wood); and her husband Louis Malle, 52, French film director (Atlantic City, Alamo Bay): their first child (he has two children from a previous marriage); in October...
...visiting colleagues, the economic summit turned out to be an interlude in reporting on the Bitburg controversy. Bureau Chief William McWhirter interviewed government officials about the contretemps, as Correspondent John Kohan reported on a commemoration by U.S. Jews at the Dachau concentration camp and the official observances at Bergen-Belsen. The bureau's planning, together with that of dozens of staff members in New York, enabled TIME to have one of its latest closings ever, and to bring readers, only hours later, the dramatic events of the summit and Bitburg...
...sight of the lush German countryside on his flight to Bergen-Belsen, Reagan said, reminded him that prisoners at the camp must have despaired of ever seeing spring again. Choking with emotion, he went on: "All these children of God, under bleak and lifeless mounds, the plainness of which does not even hint at the unspeakable acts that created them. Here they lie, never to hope, never to pray, never to live, never to heal, never to laugh, never...
...scene Sunday was filled with poignancy, the mood as dark as the grim German day. The President of the United States, holding the hand of his wife Nancy, paced somberly through the museum of Bergen-Belsen, one of the concentration camps where Holocaust victims were exterminated as part of Hitler's Final Solution. As the Reagans passed picture after picture of wretched inmates and naked corpses, they had trouble holding back their emotions. Proceeding to an 80-ft. gray stone obelisk that towers above the camp's mounded mass graves, Reagan spoke huskily of Bergen-Belsen's dead, who include...
Reagan's speech at Bergen-Belsen was carefully crafted to acknowledge Nazi atrocities while also striking a note of amity with the Germans. The message, delivered with obvious feeling, was a skillful exercise in both the art of eulogy and political damage control. "Above all, we are struck by the horror of it all--the monstrous, incomprehensible horror," Reagan said. "Here, death ruled...