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DIED. Martin Niemöller, 92, German theologian, preacher and pacifist who spent seven years in Nazi concentration camps for his outspoken opposition to Adolf Hitler; in Wiesbaden, West Germany. A U-boat commander during World War I, he became a minister in the Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1924. Though an early Nazi supporter, Niemöller led the clerical opposition after Hitler came to power in 1933, crying, "Not you, Herr Hitler, but God is my Führer." Hitler responded by sending him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 and later to Dachau. After...
...operating rooms, most were flown directly to U.S. military hospitals in West Germany and Italy or to a British Royal Air Force hospital on Cyprus.* The most seriously injured were sent to West Germany. When word of the explosion was flashed to the U.S. Air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden, where the U.S. hostages in Iran were first treated after their release in 1981, a trio of American doctors immediately flew to Beirut to accompany the victims back on the five-hour flight...
...soon as the planes landed in Frankfurt, their passengers were hustled into Black Hawk helicopters and dispatched to Wiesbaden and two other U.S. military hospitals. Of the 61 injured who were eventually flown to West Germany, about a dozen required major surgery, while others needed broken bones set or dirt and shards of glass cleaned out of hastily bandaged wounds. By Friday, most were in fair condition, and eight felt well enough to fly home to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington...
...most poignant moment occurred at Wiesbaden, when General Kelley, on his way to Beirut, stopped by to award the Purple Heart to the survivors. As Kelley later recounted the incident at a press conference, he was pinning the medals to the blue hospital gowns of the wounded when he came to a Marine "with more tubes going in and out of his body than I have ever seen in one body." Lance Corporal Jeffrey Nashton of Jacksonville, N.C., reached up and grabbed Kelley's four stars to make sure he was who he said he was. In response...
...attributed to former NATO Commander and Secretary of State Alexander Haig.) Occasionally the mood has turned ugly. When U.S. Vice President George Bush visited the city of Krefeld last June, his car was stoned by so-called chaotics, militant rabblerousers who have attached themselves to the peace movement. In Wiesbaden last month, a member of the Green Party poured a jar of his blood over U.S. Lieut. General Paul Williams. Later, a bomb exploded in a U.S. officers' club near Hahn, and on the same day, antimissile activists tried to disrupt the annual air show...