Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was disagreement over whether Bitburg had hurt the alliance as a whole. Said one U.S. diplomat: "Not only have we not achieved a symbol of reconciliation, but we've cast doubt on something that everyone had counted on for years as a firm friendship." Others were not so sure about the long-range effects. Said a Kohl aide: "We still need each other." One consequence is almost sure to linger, a politically weakened Kohl. Admitted this official: "There will be some wonder over whether this Chancellor is really such a good crisis manager...
Procter & Gamble explains that the stars in the symbol signified the original 13 colonies and that the quarter moon with a human face was simply a popular image of the time. While the company wanted to retain the symbol for posterity, market research showed that most consumers never even notice it. Said Spokesman W.F. Dobson: "There is very little benefit to having it on the packages." Procter & Gamble, which makes a host of products ranging from Jif peanut butter to Crest toothpaste, will retain the symbol on corporate stationery and buildings...
...project hopes to raise a total of as much as $100 million, with at least $15 million coming from the sale of souvenir shirts. The fake merchandise has turned up in cities all across the U.S. Some of the bogus shirts can easily be spotted because a wheat-stalk symbol appears in the first letter of the word Africa instead of the last one. In many cases, the offending merchants have been turned in by consumers. Says Cooper: "People are absolutely outraged at this thing...
...East bloc officials at the ceremonies. Along with the Soviet veterans came Vyacheslav Kochemasov, Moscow's Ambassador to East Germany, and General Mikhail Zaitsev, commander of Soviet forces there. General Yuri Naumenko read a message from Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who described the first Elbe meeting as "the symbol of hope and friendship" and called on veterans and young people to "prevent the fire of war from burning our earth." A few of the U.S. veterans were concerned about President Reagan's plans to visit the graves of German war dead in West Germany. Some distributed leaflets reading, "Celebrate...
...They can, however, bear witness to history by standing with the victims of the SS Wherever the Nazis ruled in Europe, they decreed that all Jewish people wear a yellow armband or Star of David upon their clothing Intended as a mark of shame, it was transformed into a symbol of courage and solidarity by the Gentiles who wore it also We be have an appropriate form of commemoration for all the victims, and repudiation of Mr. Reagan's act, would be for all people--Jewish and Gentile--to wear a yellow armband this Sunday. "The issue here...