Elie Wiesel, the renowned author and lecturer, will be appointed to a second term as the head of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the White House announced Monday. The announcement, issued during President Reagan’s visit to Tokyo for the economic summit, came almost a year after Reagan visited the West German military cemetery in Bitburg where members of the Waffen SS are buried. Wiesel decried the President’s visit there.
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