Evangelist Billy Graham predicted here yesterday that time will heal the wounds of the Holocaust but conceded that time has not yet come. Speaking at a press conference, Graham declined to criticize President Reagan’s plan to visit the German military cemetery at Bitburg Sunday where members of the Waffen SS are buried along with other war dead.
Two other Evangelical Christians, Revs. Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority, and Jimmy Swaggart, both staunch supporters of Reagan, have publicly called the Bitburg visit a “mistake.”
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