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...Hirohito rode in an open carriage to the House of Burgesses, and like thousands of tourists before him, fed the ducks on the grounds of the Williamsburg Inn. He also found time to smooth over a troublesome incident. He dispatched a Japanese official to nearby Norfolk to lay a wreath on the grave of General Douglas MacArthur, the commander whose forces had defeated Japan but who had allowed Hirohito to keep his title. The gesture was made to appease MacArthur's widow, who had said she was "very unhappy" that Hirohito's schedule would not permit...
President Ford laid a wreath in memory of the Nazi concentration camp victims at Auschwitz and then proceeded to Helsinki to a friendly meeting with Mr. Brezhnev, the boss of a system responsible for maintaining numerous Soviet concentration camps...
...tumultuous crowd of 250,000 in Warsaw ("American VIPS are no big deal here any more," noted a U.S. diplomat). The following day he visited Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp where 4 million people were put to death during World War II. The grim-faced President placed a wreath of red and white flowers at a memorial honoring the dead of 19 nationalities...
...scant six feet of space separated Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko from tragedy. The first members of the royal family to visit Okinawa in 54 years, Akihito and Michiko had stopped to place a wreath at a World War II memorial when a helmeted attacker tossed a Molotov cocktail that landed two yards from their feet. Miraculously unhurt, the couple retreated to their car while police arrested two radical students for the firebombing. Okinawa was the scene of 187,000 Japanese deaths during World War II, and last week's attack served as a grim reminder...
...Belsen concentration camp near Hannover, where an estimated 30,000 Jews died during the years of Nazi terror. While his German-born wife Leah, who fled the country as a child, looked on, Rabin recited the Kaddish, the traditional Hebrew prayer for the dead. The Premier also laid a wreath of blue and white carnations -the national colors of Israel-at the foot of a memorial plaque...