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Long lasting or not, the controversy last week gave the Administration a severe buffeting. In Manhattan, an annual Holocaust service was moved from a synagogue to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum, where an overflow audience of 5,500 heard Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, declare, "A courtesy call at a conveniently located concentration camp cannot compensate for the callous and obscene scandal of honoring dead Nazis." Dressed in black, 41 women who had survived the death camps marched silently to the stage and lighted six banks of candles. At a similar observance in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon...
During a lull in the Soviet shelling, the two bodies were carried upstairs to the Chancellery garden, doused with gasoline and set afire. Even before the flames died down, renewed shelling drove the survivors underground again. Goebbels and Nazi Party Secretary Martin Bormann decided to try offering the Soviets a deal. On May 1 they sent a general to Soviet headquarters to propose a surrender of Berlin in exchange for their own safety in leaving the city. During the long interval before the general returned with a Soviet rejection, Goebbels decided that he too must die. He ordered...
...break. "We're pretty much split down the middle," House Minority Leader Robert Michel said of the impasse. By then Reagan was ready to get back into the fray. Last Tuesday evening he held a reception for congressional leaders of both parties under the oak tree in the Rose Garden. It was at this "Oak Tree meeting" that the President surprised his guests by simply backing down on Social Security, agreeing to dispense with the COLA freeze...
...blaze moved toward Santa Cruz, a nudist camp in its path was evacuated, scores of animals were rescued, including a wildly oinking 600-lb. sow, and lone fire fighters in the hilly terrain made desperate last stands against the flames with garden hoses. Nine helicopters churned overhead, dumping water when necessary and lowering equipment to the fighters below...
Some along the mountainside survived as the water surged by just below them in the valley. Farmer Valentino Tretter saw the cloud of white dust raised by the torrent and climbed above the valley road to investigate. "Soon after, the mud came across my garden and my barn," he recalled, "I shouted toward the house of the Vinante family, which is a little underneath mine, but in a few moments it was wiped away. Adriano, his wife Pauola and their three children--all are dead...