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...misunderstanding between the two allied leaders was amplified by a second letter from Kohl to Reagan last week. In the letter, which was made public in Bonn, Kohl stressed that he had proposed the visit to the Dachau memorial site and added: "I ... request you to either include the concentration memorial site in Dachau or another memorial for the victims of Fascist terror in your visiting program." When the letter was received at the White House, one U.S. official said, "The President read it and looked up in astonishment. He took off his glasses and said, 'Hell...
...noon on Monday, May 7, millions had heard the news, but the Allied governments still refused to confirm the story, apparently because of a Soviet request for a delay until a formal surrender in Berlin could be arranged. Several hundred thousand people milled around for five hours in New York's Times Square, sober, uncertain whether to celebrate or not. Ticker tape fluttered through the air, then stopped. Finally Mayor Fiorello La Guardia bellowed through a loudspeaker, "Go home ... or return to your jobs...
...other ways, including the staging of large-scale "training exercises" with Nicaragua's pro-U.S. neighbor Honduras. Convinced that a resumption of U.S. aid was needed not only to bolster the contras 'morale but also as a gesture of U.S. resolve, Reagan three weeks ago tied the funding request to a new Nicaraguan "peace initiative." If the Sandinistas would agree to hold negotiations with rebel leaders under the auspices of Nicaragua's Roman Catholic hierarchy, he proposed, the U.S. would temporarily limit its aid to nonmilitary items. If no progress was forthcoming in the talks after 60 days, however...
Speaking before the City Council last night, Richard V. Scali, the chair of the licensing commission, explained why Tyler’s request had been turned down...
McLoughlin said that protest organizers never filed a permit request with College administrators—an assertion which Gould-Wartofsky confirmed...