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...visit to a military cemetery at Bitburg with its Nazi graves. Last week the Chancellor faced an ordeal that was, in terms of his political future, more significant. In the most important state election since Kohl's national victory two years ago, voters went to the polls in North Rhine-Westphalia, whose 17 million residents represent more than a quarter of the country's electorate. The result: a stinging setback for the Chancellor...
...page schedule covering virtually every step to be taken by President Reagan and the White House press corps during the first four days in Bonn. NBC Correspondent Irving R. Levine clambered onto a restaurant table so cameras could present a clear shot of him delivering his report with the Rhine in the background. The reporters raced among briefings often conducted simultaneously in five languages and scrambled for every scrap of news or reasonable facsimile thereof. Sample: TV interviewers surrounded Nakasone after his bilateral talk with Reagan and asked whether he favored more trade concessions. Nakasone's studiedly uninformative reply...
...March 7, 1945. The retreating German army planned to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine with 650 lbs. of explosives strapped to the girders in 60 separate charges. But the Germans were too late: U.S. 9th Armored Division tanks and infantrymen, swarming down the steep bluffs overlooking the town of Remagen, reached the bridge just as the charges were tripped. Only a few detonated, though witnesses from both armies insisted that the span lifted off its stone foundations, then settled back down. Before the Germans could set more explosives, the Americans had taken the bridge and crossed the river...
DARTMOUTH (62)--Ron Jones 4.2-10; John Rhine 1.0-2; Scott Schroeder 5.0-10; Bryan Randall 8.3-19; John Mackay 5.1-11; Tim Hassett 0.0--0; Shaun Tobin 2.0-4; Derek Sells 1.0-2; Joe Kilroy 2.0-4; Totals...
...excursions included trips down the Rhine. "There are lots of castles in Germany," DiAntonio observed...