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TIME Photographers Dirck Halstead, David Burnett, Dennis Brack, Arthur Grace, Diana Walker and Sahm Doherty were deployed in Bonn and at the sites President Reagan was to visit. They also had to meet precise scheduling, especially at week's end. Within hours, film had to be shot, processed and transmitted to the U.S. as TIME held its presses...
...TIME Bonn Bureau, which played host to the 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...
...also featured a stop at the grave of Konrad Adenauer and a bitterly controversial ceremony of reconciliation at a military cemetery in Bitburg, climaxed a drama that could hardly have been more unexpected or perverse. What began as a ceremonial addendum to his duties at the economic summit in Bonn had escalated into the most passionate dispute of his presidency. A gesture of friendship had instead revived memories of the Holocaust and World War II, strained relations between the U.S. and West Germany, and provoked worldwide debate. As the tumult raged on all last week, Reagan and his West German...
...President had completed a simplified but still stirring set of themes: horror at the past, vigilance in the present, hope for the future. Rhetorically, at least, he had approached a highly charged problem with directness and skill. As Reagan and Kohl reboarded Air Force One to return to Bonn, the President's relieved staff applauded both leaders. Said Reagan: "It was a very moving day for all of us, a day of remembrance and hope...
...sense of unease that was so evident throughout the day--that indeed had been building for two weeks--had been heightened by four bomb blasts in Dusseldorf and Cologne. On Saturday a march in Bonn sponsored by the leftist Green political party attracted 7,000 political radicals, peace activists and leather-jacketed punkers. They carried banners with anti-NATO and pro- Communist slogans. Police charged one group of marchers burning an American flag in Munsterplatz, a cobblestoned pedestrian mall in the city center, and used tear gas to break up some of the crowd. In the ensuing melee, eleven officers...