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8A hf AntltHtnn BtUV Thursday. Feb. 1978 Collar Days Clearance Final 3 Days Ladies' Shoes un If 4 i 1 Some spring shoes included Values to 26.00 Only 3 days to save Last 3 Days Last 3 Days Ladies' Shoes Wlrtplwtt Men's Shoes Price President and Mrs. Carter talk with Sparkman at dinner Carter honors Sparkman, other retiring lawmakers U.S. keeps tons of Nazi records HtiKUN AP) The U.S.

State Department is still sitting on tons of Nazi records of millions of Germans stored behind barbed wire in an unmarked archive in a West Berlin suburb. "There's nothing classified here, though a lot of it is sensitive, and contrary to what a lot of people think, we aren't protecting Nazis," says Dan Simon, the retired U.S. Army major in charge of the Berlin Document Center. The center is closed to the general public. Simon says access is restricted to "friendly Western governments" and scholars with credentials from a university or a sponsoring professor.

"We don't answer private inquiries, and we try to keep the press out of here," he says. The Americans have copied files they wanted and once set a date to transfer the center to the West German government. But the Germans backed off, although they have free access to it and pay its expenses. Karl-Heinz Hansen, a Social Democratic member of parliament, says he suspects the West German government does not want to take the center over because it "wants to cover up for personalities of public life who are former Nazis." In the center's files, captured by Allied forces as the Third Reich collapsed, are Nazi Party membership records and correspondence, records of the SS special police and the brownshirted storm troopers of the SA, documents on Germans from abroad who resettled in Germany during the Nazi years and records of Nazi courts and cultural officials. A shelf with bound lists of SS men and women who staffed the concehtration camps is usually the first stop for Israeli officials.

"These people kept records of just incredible things," says Simon, thumbing through old Nazi court records. "They would send people to camps, obviously to be liquidated, and put down their names, when they arrived, and what the quota was for that day." One file contains a witness's written statement approving the plans of SS man Karl Koch and his fiancee, Use, to marry. Later they ran the concentration' camp at Buchenwald, and she had lampshades made of human skin. Wooden filing cabinets hold records of 10.7 million Germans who joined the Nazi Party, all but a few hundred thousands in the party's last years. They were captured at a pulp mill near Munich, waiting to be destroyed.

Also captured were loyalty files on teachers, doctors, policemen and others in special classifications. There are records of some 600,000 SS officers, enlisted men and women. Some are singed from attempts at burning. Nearby are files of 250,000 SS members who had to prove there were no Jews in their lineage so they could marry and have children. Another room holds 1.5 million files of correspondence among party officials, some of it on red-trimmed Nazi stationery.

Records of the Reich Culture Chamber include 500,000 flies on writers, musicians, filmmakers and other artists. A force of 300 used to work at sorting the files. The job is still not finished, says Simon, but the staff is down to 34 and he is the only American. The center handles 3,000 to 4,000 information requests a month. Simon says 70 percent come from West German officials.

The State Department took over the center from the Army in 1952, after the files had been used for Allied war crimes trials and de-Nazification proceedings. Fenced and guarded, it stands alongside a park and pond at the end of a quiet street named Water Beetle Path, in a wooded section of -suburban Zehlendorf. Beneath the buildings are tunnels and underground chambers from which the SS once tapped Ber-liners' telephone lines. Final 3 days on our clearance Sale ends Saturday Open 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

energy bill." Carter's energy program has been stalled in Congress for months. Carter said the retirees represented almost every committee in Congress and noted that they included the chairmen of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. George Ma-hon, D-Texas, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. John J. Sparkman, D-Ala.

The diners sat in the East Room at round tables draped with flower-embroidered cloths and centered with violets and white candles. Their menu included cold crab legs, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. kenberry and Philip Anglim. Robertson read Washington's description of how he evaded office seekers at Mount Vernon by repairing to an orchard and waiting until his wife signaled him with a cowbell that the unwelcome callers were gone. Carter noted that "the president is still afflicted with office seekers" and added: "I think I'll use a back garden and cowbell so I can escape." The president produced more chuckles when he noted that the collective congressional service of the retirees totaled more than 400 years, "and we still haven't been able to get an WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter says if retiring members of Congress have not yet chosen a second career, "I wish some af you would consider mining coal." The president made the suggestion Wednesday night as he and his wife honored congressional retirees at a White House dinner in the midst of negotiations aimed at ending the 80-day-old coal strike.

Although Carter gave a status report on the strike to his dinner guests, who included five senators and 17 House members, the evening was not strictly for business. Coming on George Washington's birthday, the dinner featured cherry pie for dessert, an after-dinner reading of some of Washington's words by actor Cliff Robertson and readings from Martha Washington and Thomas Jefferson by Jill Ei- n. Jim Navy sends 4 ships to Indian Ocean Holloway AT ANNISTON LINCOLN MERCURY WASHINGTON (AP) A four-ship Navy task force is in the Indian Ocean for a "routine deployment," the Pentagon says. The announcement Tuesday made no mention of the war on the Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and Somalia. The ships, which entered the ocean from the Western Pacific on Monday, are still far from the conflict.

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