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...POINT is not to ignore politics, but to place ourselves, as athletes, coaches, officials and spectators, above it, if only once in a while. It is precisely because politics can become so base and disgusting--as evidenced by Nazi Germany, or South Africa today--that we have to be above it occasionally, in order to reaffirm whatever shaky kind of faith we have in humanity...
...couldn't happen here, or could it? As President Germany, where he honored Nazi SS troops, it's surprising that some liberal Ed Schooler didn't suggest all the Jewish students, putting them behind barbed wire and branding them with inventory numerals to demonstrate the realities of the Holocaust to Reagan's ruling class...
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...
...this act, symbolizing the restoration of friendship, that stood at the heart of the controversy roiling around them. Buried in the soil of Bitburg were the remains not only of ordinary German fighting men but also of 49 members of the Waffen SS, a branch of the elite Nazi guard that ran the death camps, though the Waffen SS did not serve in that capacity...
...real, though he is in the Oval Office and thousands of miles away from Germany. But it is only a few hours before he is going there, both in body and in spirit. His mission is to make clear his feelings and those of his country about the Nazi horrors. Reagan is plainly anguished by the controversy that his trip and his statements created...