NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1984
Page 9
SS reunion riles German town
By United Press International
BAD HARZBURG, West Germany — About 800 of Adolf Hitler's World War II special troops have scheduled a secret reunion at a mountain resort, using the guise of a conference of economic experts to get accommodations, officials said yesterday.
Officials at Bad Harzburg said they received hundreds of protests after some people discovered that the meeting of economic experts scheduled with health center actually was a reunion of veterans of the Nazi's Waffen-SS unit.
"A real cuckoo's egg has been laid in our nest and now we are trying to get rid of it. But it is difficult to ban the meeting on legal grounds now that it has been booked," said town spokesman Gerd Eichrott.
to start May 17, town director Horst Voilt said.
The four-day reunion was scheduled
ANTI-NAZI ACTIVISTS in the town of Oberaula, in the central state of Hesse, said veterans of a second Waffen-SS regiment the 3rd SS unit. The units also claimed a three-day reunion in the town beginning March 30.
They said that local authorities had agreed to rent the veterans a sports hall for the event. It was the third time the regiment had booked the Oberaula facilities, said a spokesman for the Action Front Against SS Meetings.
Similar reunions in recent years have caused near riots as protesters gathered for counter-demonstrations. The unrest has not banned under West German law.
"We are doing everything possible to stop this meeting from going ahead. It is a pity that the organization is not behind it," said of the Bad Harzburg reunion.
THE WAFFEN-SS (Armed Security Detachment) were crack units of Nazis formed to stiften the frontline of the regular German Army and responsible for numerous atrocities, and members of the Warsaw Jewish schtet in 1943.
The organization was dropped last year from the government list of extreme right-wing organizations on which the Interior Ministry must keep an eye and report annually to Parliament.
Answering Jewish critics during his recent visit to Israel, Chancellor Helmut Kohl said that the Waffen-SS veterans' organization comprised many members, not all of whom were responsible for war crimes.
Dhao Harzburg, in the Harz mountains near the East German border, has a historical significance for the Nazi movement. The nationalist Harzburg front was formed in the town in October 1931.
Deaths don't deter raw Rio revelry
By United Press International
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Reports of 84 deaths in Rio's frenzied carnival celebration failed to stop the revelry yesterday with thousands of samba dancers, topless women and a throbbing beat.
Authorities reported as many as 30 people killed during the weekend, bringing to 84 the number who have been shot in five-day carnival began Friday night.
Other deaths were caused by alcohol poisoning, drug overdoses and car
accidents. There were 110 deaths last year during the annual festival, a last chance for revelry before the austere winter season. In Vigil, the 40-day period before Easter.
The samba parade, the highlight of the world's most famous carnival, featured toppless women dancing atop floats in Rio's sambadrome, a new $25 million open-air facility built specifically for the event.
The samba school Caprichos des Pilares, one of many samba schools competing in the event, won long term victory over Brazil's $90-billion foreign debt and a
The extravaganza began with clusters of gas-filled balloons carrying a giant "Elections Now" sign being released into the warm tropical night.
call for elections to choose a successor to military President Joao Figueiredo
The schools traditionally divide members into 30 or more groups, each with a different costume and each illustrating a facet of the theme.
Official judging was done by a panel whose votes were immediately sealed and put under police guard.
NEW YORK — A Scandinavian Airlines DC-10 is lifted out of Jamaica Bay. The plane, which ran off a runway at Kennedy International Airport last week, was brought out of the bay yesterday.
Pro racer dies from accident in family car
By United Press International
INDIO, Calif. — Veteran race car driver Mike Mosley, who survived spectacular crashes on the track, was killed on a California highway while driving home from an outing with his son, police said yesterday.
Mosley reportedly lost control of the van he was driving. The van rolled down an embankment, flipped over and drove to the California Highway Patrol said.
Mosley, 37, from Falbrook, Calif., and his son, Michael, 13, were returning from an afternoon of riding dirt bikes in the desert, authorities said.
A CHP dispatcher said that Mosley probably was killed instantly. His son was thrown from the van as it rolled over and was not seriously hurt.
"It was a miracle Michael wasn't
knew. Mosley's wife, Alice, said
surely."
"He looks like he's been in a fight with all the bumps and bruises, but he's all right. Some people saw it happen, ran over and picked Michael up and carried him away before the van blew up and caught fire."
Mosley survived two accidents at the Speedway, in 1971 and 1972. Both times, he came from far back in the 133-car field to grab the lead before mechanical failure caused him to crash. He braced each time from broken bones and burns to race again.
Mosley first drove at Indianapolis in 1967. His best finish was third place in 1979, although he consistently was among the fastest competitors.
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