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...WEST German citizens, we are disappointed with Harvard's choice of Chancellor Helmut Kohl as the Commencement speaker. Only three years after West German President Richard von Weizsacker gave a brilliant speech at Commencement, we will be embarassed to hear Kohl speak for Germans on such sensitive topics as reunification and Germany's relation to its past...
Once again the contrast to von Weizsacker could hardly be more striking. While von Weizsacker spoke of the need to confront the past at the 40th anniversary of V-E Day in 1985, Kohl celebrated German-American friendship with Ronald Reagan at Bitburg over the graves of SS soldiers. In light of Kohl's view of history, this incident and others--such as his comparison of Gorbachev to Hitler's propaganda minister--cannot be excused as isolated judgment errors...
Reflections by a Member of the Species. The late German neurologist Hoimar von Ditfurth examines man's arrogance and the resulting disregard for and mistreatment of nature. Claassen; 39.80 deutsche marks...
Kohl also becomes the fourth straight world leader--and the second German in four years--to deliver the Commencement address, following Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and West German President Richard von Weizsacker...
...address by von Weizsacker three years ago was planned as the 40th commemoration of Marshall's speech...