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'NEW' SS WREATHS, OLD ANTI-SEMITISM

Date: 14 May 1985

By Marvin Kalb

Marvin Kalb

The controversy over the Reagan visit to Bitburg is receding, no longer a front-page embarrassment. But do you hear an echo from the past? I visited the cemetery the morning after President Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl placed wreaths of reconciliation in front of its chapel. For years, the cemetery had been largely ignored; now, it was an instant shrine, a focus of political debate. Small flower pots marked many flat graves, 49 of them honoring Waffen SS troops. By the end of my visit, many hundreds of Germans and occasional Americans from the nearby Air Force base paused before the wreaths. Some took pictures. Mothers hushed children. A religious air seemed to saturate the scene.

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Equal Restraints on Prosecution and Defense Are Inappropriate

Date: 15 May 1985

To the Editor: The proposition in Robert B. McKay's letter of May 3, urging that criminal cases be resolved in the courtrooms, not the press, is, taken by itself, unarguable. Decrying the tendency of adversaries to seek pretrial and trial publicity, the president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York properly notes the constitutional limitations on enforcing a policy of prior restraints on speech. However, by not distinguishing between the roles of prosecutor and defense counsel, he fails to recognize that equal restraints are inappropriate.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 14 May 1985

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1985 International Sikhs plotted to kill Rajiv Gandhi during the Indian Prime Minister's visit to the United States next month, according to the F.B.I. William H. Webster, director of the bureau, said that F.B.I. agents had foiled a plan to ''train a group of Sikhs in the use of firearms and explosives'' to carry out ''guerrilla-type operations'' against Indian leaders. [Page A1, Cols. 2-4.] A strike protesting Sikh attacks in northern India last weekend closed markets and businesses throughout New Delhi. Sporadic violence was reported as shopkeepers closed their doors to protest what the opposition called the Government's failure to prevent Sikh terrorism. [A11:1-4.]

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 15 May 1985

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1985 International Jean Dubuffet, the French artist, died in Paris. He was 83. Widely regarded as the most important artist to emerge from France at the end of World War II, Mr. Dubuffet had a international reputation as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and pioneer of idiosyncratic media of his own devising. He was best known in New York for the 43-foot-high ''Group of Four Trees.'' [Page A1, Cols. 2-4.] Three witnesses saw Josef Mengele, the German death camp doctor, in Paraguay as late as last July, according to Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi-hunter. Mr. Wiesenthal said the latest confirmed sighting occurred in a province in southeast Paraguay. According to previous accounts, Dr. Mengele was last sighted in 1983 in Chile and in Brazil. [A3:1-3.]

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Bankruptcy Judge Approves News Agency Benefit Accord

Date: 14 May 1985

AP

A Federal bankruptcy judge gave approval today for United Press International to pay $190,000 to the Prudential Insurance Company for employee health benefits through May 31. Under the agreement, approved by Judge George Francis Bason Jr., the news agency will pay $60,000 immediately, $60,000 on May 17, and $35,000 on May 24 and May 31 to Prudential.

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Award for Richardson

Date: 14 May 1985

A year after seeing his life and basketball career nearly ruined by drugs, Micheal Ray Richardson, who averaged 20.1 points this season for the Nets, was named the National Basketball Association's comeback player of the year.

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Here Comes William Lucas

Date: 15 May 1985

By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr

James Clarity

The Republican Party is predictably unwilling to let the dramatic shift in political allegiance of a prominent black Democratic official be celebrated exclusively in his home city of Detroit. William Lucas, the Wayne County executive who became a Republican a week ago, comes to Washington today to begin a two-day total publicity immersion that is designed to encourage further such Democratic defections around the country and to burnish his own political prospects as well.

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CARETAKER AT ANOTHER THRIFT UNIT

Date: 14 May 1985

By Eric N. Berg

Eric Berg

A second Maryland savings and loan association was placed under the protection of a conservator tonight, and the Governor implored depositors statewide not to panic. At the same time, Gov. Harry R. Hughes disclosed that nearly 350 Federal bank examiners would be assigned to Maryland to attempt to identify collateral that state-chartered thrift institutions could use to borrow money. The examiners, who may start as soon as Tuesday, will also try to help thrift institutions obtain Federal deposit insurance, the Governor said, because depositor confidence has been shaken in the private corporation that provides insurance for 102 Maryland thrift units. He added that he hoped that the state's privately insured thrift units would be admitted to the Federal insurance program ''in a short time. By that I mean a period of days.''

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EWING OPENS UP TO NEW MEDIA

Date: 14 May 1985

By Roy S. Johnson, Special To the New York Times

Roy Johnson

Making the transition from four years as a collegian to the unpredictable pressures of surviving and thriving in the so-called ''real world'' is a challenge that thousands of graduates will face this spring. But no one's progress will be charted, monitored and critiqued more than that of Patrick Ewing, the 7-foot center whose commanding presence is expected to transform the Knicks into a championship contender. Will Ewing be ready for what lies ahead? Has the protective wing of his coach at Georgetown, John Thompson, hurt Ewing more than help him in terms of preparing for the pressures of being a ''franchise'' professional? ''What pressure's that?'' he said, flashing a wide, relaxed smile this afternoon at a news conference in a room on the university's sprawling, sun-splashed campus.

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U.S.I.A. OFFICIAL IS NAMED

Date: 15 May 1985

UPI

Upi

President Reagan announced the appointment today of Marvin Stone, a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, as deputy director of the United States Information Agency to succeed Leslie Lenkowsky.

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