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That was made clear on Friday in a personal telephone call to Reagan by Kohl. Indirectly, Reagan raised the possibility of bypassing Bitburg for a less explosive site. Speaking in a somber tone out of keeping with his amiable personality. Kohl advised Reagan that to cancel Bitburg could impair official relations between the two governments and, more important, hurt "the feelings between Germans and Americans." Reagan assured Kohl that he would not buckle under to the pressure at home...
...bravado undiminished, Konrad Kujau, confessed forger of the notorious Hitler diaries, awaited the verdict of a Hamburg court by scrawling facsimiles of the Führer's signature. Kujau's mood grew more somber when Judge Hans-Ulrich Schroeder declared him guilty, along with former Stern magazine Reporter Gerd Heidemann, of defrauding Stern of $3.8 million between 1981 and 1983. The German weekly had purchased 60 volumes of the phony diaries in what it billed as the "scoop of the post-World...
...Regan who decided, only hours after the surgery, that the President should resume immediately the constitutional powers and duties he had briefly transferred to Bush ("Uh-oh, the Russians have fired a missile," quipped Reagan, noting the chief of staff's somber expression). It was Regan, in consultation with the First Lady, who determined who should be permitted to see the President and when. It was Regan, too, who pronounced on policy questions that could not be postponed...
...funny--or, rather, somber--thing happened during John Paul's hard final days. Vatican handicappers realized that there is a downside to an old Pope and a short papacy. A Vatican official who watched several electors view John Paul's body says, "The look in their eyes said the unstated, [that] the last thing we'd want is a decrepit [Pontiff]." Now fans of the interim solution have reluctantly had to return to regarding the full spectrum of Cardinal options...
...President Bush flew to Rome today for the Pope's funeral. It was a very somber moment. There was an awkward moment today when Bush met a group of Cardinals and congratulated them on beating the Astros." --CRAIG FERGUSON