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...scene was remarkable: the President of the United States was about to be lectured on morality while a national television audience looked on. It unfolded in the White House Roosevelt Room, crowded with top Administration aides, some 30 Jewish leaders, a sprinkling of Senators and Congressmen. Reagan's deceptively gentle antagonist was Elie Wiesel, 56, a survivor of Nazi death camps, who was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement for his life's outpouring of books that detail the savagery of the Nazis and the suffering and courage of their victims...
...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...
...Kohl's closest aides: "Our friends overseas have to make up their minds whether we are friends, fighting shoulder and shoulder together, or whether we are just the offspring of Nazis." In the U.S. and Israel, in the very week that poignant Holocaust remembrances were being held, Jewish leaders were outraged at what they considered Reagan's lack of appreciation of the Nazi horrors. They were mystified by his insistence on the cemetery visit, since he had long been a staunch ally of Israel and had even shed tears when watching films of the concentration camps. Some U.S. veterans' groups...
Addressing a Houston congregation, Menachem Rosensaft, chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, termed the President's insistence on going to the Nazi cemetery "so macabre and so awful that one can only wonder what possessed Reagan." If Reagan does not change his plans, Rosensaft warned, "I would want to organize survivors and American veterans to be at the gate of Bitburg, so that he should look into the faces of those he has terribly and permanently offended...
...Although I am Jewish, I have statues of Mary around my home and don't in the least feel any conflict with religious doctrine. I regard Mary as a symbol not of religion but of ideal motherhood. Mary provides solace, unconditional acceptance and love, and a spiritual, nondenominational sanctuary from life's madness. Judi Laing Los Angeles...