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...Allen M. Wieder and Joel Katcoff said yesterday they filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., because they believe that paying chaplains to lead servicemen in prayer is a form of governmental support of religious activity, and therefore unconstitutional. "The state should not take money from its citizens to support religion," Katcoff said...
Both Katcoff and Wieder said that, constitutionally, servicemen should be provided with clergy and the opportunity to worship, but that the clergy should be paid from the private sector and not by the government...
...began research on the suit early last summer, framed and filed the complaint without the aid of a lawyer. "We asked some people for advice, but it was basically our own case," Wieder said...
Going It Alone? The current eruption of the chronic horror was touched off at last month's NATO meeting in Paris. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, eager to do his bit for Wieder-vereinigung, tried to get the U.S., Britain and France to support an invitation to Russia for a four-power standing committee that would meet periodically to discuss the German problem. Neither Washington nor London was very interested, judging that Russia would turn down the invitation anyway, and France flatly refused. Schröder could only issue his own unilateral communiqu...
Throughout the tireless round of farewell appearances-including one at Cologne, the old man's birthplace, where thousands of faithful Christian Democrats rallied to cry Auf Wieder-sehen-Adenauer returned to two themes that he hoped to leave behind in Germany's consciousness. The first was that any East-West "détente talk" could only lead to "new Munichs." Revealing that he himself last year had offered Moscow a ten-year "truce" in return for better treatment of East Ger many's people (he was turned down), Adenauer insisted that any hope of easing the cold...