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Reagan says 'horror
By Associated Press
BONN, West Germany ? In an
emotion-laden gesture of permanent reconciliation,
President Reagan and Chancellor
Helmut Kohl exhumed the most monstrous
memories of World War II Sunday and told
the citizens of the United States and West
Germany "the horror cannot outlast the
hope."
Reagan and Kohl's tour across Germany
climaxes a bitter controversy that has boiltd
$ince April 11 when it was disclosed that
the nrr?tr1l?nt hart oi<c*nt?/1 on Im/Unimn "?
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lay a wreath Sunday at a German military
cemetery at BUburg containing 49 Nazi SS
graves/' ;h'. . V
To offset the furor, Reagan and Kohl
later organized a stop at the site of the
Bcrgen-Belsen death camp near Hanover in
northern Germany, where about 50,000
people died at tfte hands of the Nazi SS.
i ney were to ny to the site from Bonn,
Where the sevcn-Hatidn economic summit
ended on Saturday;
"We are struck by the horror of it all ?
the monstrous, incomprehensible horror,"
Reagan said in Jremflrks prepared for
delivery at-Bergen-Belsen.
Both leaders' remarks were being made
to television audiences in both countries.
Neither leader scheduled remarks ddring
their 10-minute visit to the Kolmeshohe
military cemetery at Bitburg.
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Kohl, in his prepared remarks at Bereen
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\ BONN, West Gemuny ? President
P Reagan was dealt a setback at the conW
elusion of the economic summit Saturday
when France prevented the leaders
of seven industrial nations from setting
BK a date for new trade talks,
j Reagan was described by Treasury
Secretary James A. Baker as disapSi
pointed with the outcome on the trade
issue, but "genuinely pleased" overall
.'? with the allies' llth annual summit.
! "We all got what we wanted,"
Reagan said as he walked with other
gji leaders to hear West German Chancellor
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in the Bundestag, the federal
? parliament.
The statement said summit members
believe trade talks "should begin as
| soon as possible. Most of us think that
^ this should be in 1986."
j Despite this disagreement, the seven
nations pledged to work toward world
f.; economic recovery and to resist pressure
P to protect their own markets from out*
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By Aoociated Press
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. ? These days 83-y
Marker passes the time quietly in the same gre<
in which he has lived for the last 40 years.
But the organic chemist, whose work rev(
production of steroid hormones, is still remer
leagues as the one who pavcu the way for the c
the birth control pill ? a 20th century discovt
society.
"He was the father of the whole hormone st(
i'rom which the pill evolved, said Dr. Monr
.scientist at Research Triangle Institute in Res
Park, N.C. "My admiration for him has neve
MARKER'S CONTRIBUTION to hormo
well-known by scientists, and yet he remain;
touched by the enormity of his contribution.
He shuns such labels as "the grandfather o
admits to being surprised by any attention he
After hitting on a chemical process and a
abundant production of the socalled pregnane;
gesterone in the late 1930s and early 1940s, N
out of sight for 20 years and out of the science *
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cannot outlast hope'
"The supreme goal of our political efforts
is to render impossible any repetition
of that systematic destruction of human life
and dignity," Kohl said.
The chancellor recalled that two weeks
ago, on behalf of the German people, he
"professed our historical responsibility." i
I ittlp nf thp ramn ri>mnln? fine r*f
several monuments there, an 80-foot gray
stone obelisk rises above the mounds of
mass graves and is inscribed, "Earth conceal
not the blood shed on thee!"
"All these children of God, under bleak
and lifeless mounds, the plainness of which
docs not even hint at the unspeakable acts
that created them," Reagan said.
"Here they lie. Never to hope. Never to
pray. Never to love. Never to heal. Never to
laugh. Never to cry," he added.
Reagan said his visit was a "painful walk
into the past" and "no one of the rest of us
can fully understand the enormity of the
feelings carried by the victims of these
camps."
Without mentioning Adolf Hitler by
name, Reagan said that "for year after
year, until that man and his evil were
destroyed. Hell yawned forth its awful
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Reagan, however, said he was at the
camp site "because humanity refuses to accept
that freedom or the spirit of man can
ever be extinguished.
"We are here to commemorate that life
triumphed over the tragedy and the death
of the Holocaust ? overcame the suffering,
the sickness, the testing, and, yes, the
gassing*/'
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s trade talks |
nit concludes I
side competition.
Reagan's biggest victory was lining up ??
all his partners ? Britain, Canada, ??
France, Italy, Japan and West Germany
? behind his strategy for arms talks p
with the Soviet Union. \
He had to swallow silence from the vr
allies, inougn, on nis rsiar wars pian ;?} .
lor research into space-based missile
defenses. At the last minute, he was
heartened by a personal endorsement of
the program from Kohl at the closing
ceremony.
And Reagan got no help for his trade i
embargo against Nicaragua.
Two miles from the final session, in a $
cobblestone square of this Rhine River %.
capital city, protesters 7,000-strong
assembled to attack the meetings.
About 250 youths clad in leather, Jc
chains and hoods broke from the group
and scuffled with baton-wieldini> notice.
There about three dozen arrests and
about a do/en injuries to police as the
youths smashed windows and looted
stores.
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er downplays
ear-oid Russeii "| was interested in 1
use of the thing. I'm nt
jiutionizcd the ma(je the material avail
nbercd by collevelopment
of
?ry thai altered
;rflid industry" Marker said he "had an ide;
oe Wall, chief ing to be used much more th
earch Triangle conducting his research. But
r ceased. lion as a result ol his work.
THE FIRST HINT of tha
ne research is Ciregory Pincus, one of sever
, relatively un- development of the pill.
"Pincus came to Mexico am
f the pill" and was a sufficient source of ma
may get. was tor, Marker recalled,
source for (he huge amount of progesterone
i hormone pro- available. I told him yes it ci
larker dropped wasn't interested."
A'orld for good. Marker, who never receiv
world todays?
Fighting continues in Beirut
BKIRUT, Lebanon ? Christian and
Moslem militiamen, entrenched behind newly
erected earth barricades, traded sniper fire
and hurled grenades Saturday on the seventh
day of sectarian fighting in the Lebanese
capital.
The thud of exploding rocket-propelled
grenades and mortar rounds mingled with
the crackle of rifle fire throughout the day,
after fierce overnight tank and mortar exchanges
killed four civilians and wounded 37
people, including three Lebanese soldiers.
Police said a woman also died of wounds
received earlier, bringing the toll in fighting
in Beirut since last Sunday to 19 killed and
116 wounded.
Lebanon's leaders contacted each other by
telephone trying to end hostilities which have
again placed this Mediterranean nation on
the brink of all-out civil war.
Milton Eisenhower mourned
BALTIMORE ? Relatives wiped tears
Saturday at the funeral of Milton S.
Eisenhower, as a friend quoted the adviser to
eight presidents, including his brother
Dog survives IpHgi
fall off cliff |H9|
into crevice jpfli
By Associated Press
Knccland Taylor thought for
sure his dog was dead after he 'M
watched him plummet 1,000 HNfl .Q
feet down a steep mountain !
face and vanish into deep ' .
snow. i
But five days later, Lucas | W
came home. j - ^ ?
The fall had broken two
ribs, collapsed a lung and
knocked out some teeth, but ,
the 12-year-old mutt H'
somehow found his way
down O'Malley Peak to a , " ?
parking lot at the trail head. \ ;;
"Hv ?lmr??t miv jWinif ir?n H =
it was a miracle," Taylor said |H^
Lucas plunged over the |
edge of a cornice of snow '
April 27 as Taylor and some i;
friends climbed O'Malley '.yft
Peak, a jagged and snowy ^ ,
5,000-fool mountain near 1*8 |jjjjif
Anchorage. i _ '
"We were up there for an
hour looking around,"
Tavlor said Fridav.
Thursday, Taylor received JiM
a call from a couple who had .J& '''
found Lucas sitting in the
parking lot, a few miles from BjRjsKBffiHBS
the mountaintop. Taylor
figures that L ucas, who has a Btin
climbed mountains and run Ullc HIU
marathons with him for Carja Mcq0|
years, remembered the park- boar(J at the (
ing lot as the staging area for c|,|t th,
previous climbs. L__
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riculum dispu
the chemistry, not in the that is "neede<
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)t the grandfather, I just was intei
lable." thing," says fv
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Birth control pill pioneer
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a that :ne sex hormones were go- sharecropper,
an they thought" while he was Rockefeller Ir
he never envisioned contracep- $2,600 nav cut
newfound inte
t came after a 1952 visit from In a campu:
al researchers credited with the scientific theoi
called sarsasaf
cl he wanted to sec whether ihere yuccas.
terial. He didn't tell me what it
He said he may have use for a In trying tc
He wanted to know if it was gesterone to i
ould be made in Mexico, but I such as treatin
sei out in seai
ed a F'h.D. because of a cur- since sarsapar
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, as saying: "1 have
done the best that I knew how to do."
Mourners at the Church of the Redeemer
included his son Milton Eisenhower Jr.,
grand-nephew David Eisenhower and his
wife, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and Sens.
Charles McC. Mathias, R-Md., and Paul
Sarhanes, D-Md.
Ill with r<cmilw?i.<ir>L ?...
Rev. Robert Patterson, rector of the
kipiseopal church, did not give a eulogy.
Reagan criticizes Soviets
BONN, West (iermany ? Calling the
Soviet Union "the major source of aggression
in the world," President Reagan on
Saturday urged America and its allies to
persevere in the defense of freedom.
In his regular weekly radio address broadcast
to Americans from the site of the insi
concluded international economic summit, ^
Reagan said "the West will receive no gifts
from the Soviets. Allied unity and resolve is
the only message we can expect them to
respect and respond to in constructive
ways."
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Hum, a pharmacy senior, checks the schedule
Coliseum to see if there are any seats left in a
ds. Registration ends tomorrow.
iportance
te with his advisers, says the pill is something I
J," but beyond that he will make no pronounce
rai contraceptive.
rested in the chemistry, not in the use of the
larker, now a Penn State professor emeritus of
in not the grandfather, I just made the material
\ log cabin in Cave Town, Md., the son of a
Marker left a lucrative position with the
istiiute in 1934 to take a research job, and a
, at Penn State University, where he pursued his
rest in steroid research.
s lauoraiory, nc proposea, contrary to existing
y, a new structure for the side-chain of a steroid
>ogenin, which is found in sarsapariila root and
find an abundant and cheap supply of prouse
experimentally and for medical purposes,
g menstrual disorders and miscarriages, Marker ^
rch of other plants containing sarsasapogenin, w
ilia root was available only in limited amounts.