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...West German cemetery at Bitburg, where 47 of the Third Reich's notorious Waffen SS troops, as well as some 2,000 regular German soldiers, lie buried. As criticism mounted, Reagan had belatedly added a concentration camp to his itinerary next month in West Germany, where he will help Chancellor Helmut Kohl observe the 40th anniversary of the ending of the war in Europe (see following stones). Only the day before, Reagan had stirred passions anew by seeming to equate most of Bitburg's interred soldiers with the Jewish victims of the Nazi terrors...
...President to pay his respects to the Nazi victims. Deaver, who had directed the arrangements for the visit from the start, swept into Bonn with an entourage of 20, leading some members of Kohl's staff to complain privately that Deaver travels with more aides than the Chancellor does. While many West Germans view Kohl as a genial but often bumbling politician, they see the men around Reagan as undignified novices who are ill-equipped to handle the heavy duties of a superpower. In Washington, a State Department official conceded that presidential advance teams often "swarm all over our embassies...
Kohl brought his plans to Washington when he visited the White House last November. While there has been much confusion and some dispute between the two capitals over just what was said between Reagan and the Chancellor, there is no doubt that Kohl made an emotional appeal for the President to join him in appearing at a German military cemetery. Kohl had clasped hands on Sept. 22 with France's President François Mitterrand at a World War I cemetery in Verdun, where German as well as French soldiers are buried, and had found it a gratifying experience. Kohl mentioned...
...champions in the conclave will be many, some with formidable credentials. Rodríguez Maradiaga did not just hang with Bono. Calling debt "a tombstone pressing down on us," he presented a 17 million--signature petition for debt relief at a G-8 meeting, and he has bent German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's ear on the topic. In the 1980s, Brazil's CLAUDIO CARDINAL HUMMES backed strikes and defied his country's dictators by letting leftist labor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (now Brazil's President) make speeches during Mass. He has spoken out in favor of the organization...
...stepping down as party leader in 2000. Now, the maverick politician is making waves again - and the turbulence is rocking Austria's coalition government. In 1999, Haider and his Freedom Party (FPO) took 27% of the vote in parliamentary elections and a place in government as junior partner to Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's conservative Austrian People's Party. The European Union imposed a diplomatic boycott on Austria because of the FPO's extreme views; Haider has restrictive immigration policies and once called SS veterans "men of honor." Still, the coalition went ahead, and Austria gradually resumed normal relations...