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Yitzhak Rabin's comment was uncharacteristically bitter and probably undiplomatic. On the first stop of the first official visit by an Israeli Premier to West Germany, Rabin walked past neatly tended mass graves at the site of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hannover, where an estimated 30,000 Jews died during the years of Nazi terror. While his German-born wife Leah, who fled the country as a child, looked on, Rabin recited the Kaddish, the traditional Hebrew prayer for the dead. The Premier also laid a wreath of blue and white carnations -the national colors...
...farm near Jerusalem, Rabin nonetheless still counts himself "an heir to the Holocaust." As if to emphasize that point, his next stop after Bergen-Belsen was West Berlin, where he paid a visit to the city's Jewish Community Center. It stands on the site of what was once Berlin's Central Synagogue. All that remains of the original building is a chunk of wall. The rest was destroyed on the notorious "Crystal Night" of Nov. 9, 1938, when storm troopers savagely wrecked Jewish homes, synagogues and plate-glass ("crystal") shop windows. Before the war, 175,000 Jews...
...usually reticent standards, the Soviet Union was on a veritable ASTP binge. Moscow issued commemorative Apollo-Soyuz postage stamps, printed lavish brochures on the mission and even invited the American ambassador, Walter Stoessel, to watch the Soyuz blast-off from the once secret launch site near Baikonur, in central Asia; the Soviet ambassador to Wasinngton, Anatoly Dobrynin, will attend the Apollo launch at Cape Canaveral...
...Originally, tins was supposed to occur in the narrow, 4½-ft -wide docking module joining the two spacecraft. But when it was discovered that tins would allow the TV cameras to show only the white-suited backsides of the two commanders as they crouched in the tunnel, the site for the handshake was sinfted to the larger docking collar attached to the Apollo, where the men can stand...
...higher speed, Soyuz will gradually pull away from Apollo. Some 38 hours later, it will fire its braking rocket and enter an arcing course back to earth. At 6:51 a.m. E.D.T. next Monday, Soyuz is scheduled to land under its single giant parachute east of the Kazakhstan launch site. The Americans will remain in orbit another three days before their Pacific splashdown on July 24, performing a variety of different chores-some aimed at understanding more about the earth...