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Jewish leaders decry comments WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ronald Reagan insisted Thursday that there is nothing wrong with his plan to visit a Ger man cemetery where Nazi SS soldiers are buried and said the young men interred there “were victims, just as'surely as the victims in the concentration camps.” The statement touched off another out burst of criticism of Reagan and his visit to Germany, with one Jewish leader calling the comments “morally unconscionable and politically outrageous.” Abraham Foxman, the associate national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and himself a Holocaust sur vivor, said “I am flabbergasted at the con tinued insensitivity and shocked at the lack of historical perspective.” Rabbi David Saperstein, the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said: “For the president of the United States to equate the soldiers who died in an attempt to subjugate the world to an unconscionable ideology, with those who were the tragic victims of the im plementation of that ideology, is morally unconscionable and politically outrageous. “It shows that he has learned nothing from the controversy of the past week,” Saperstein said. During an interview with about 100 editors and broadcasters at the White House, Reagan said he could not do an about-face and strip the visit from his 10-day schedule in Europe, asserting that would "look as if I had caved in in the face of unfavorable attention.” Reagan announced earlier this week that he would add a visit to a concentration camp or a similar place as a means to quell the controversy and show his wish to honor the victims of the Nazi terror. —UQBookstore= cW\KsaTurPaY CElEDr^TiON5 APRIL 20-OPENING CELEBRATION Featuring Magician Steve Pradell r Final tax bill votes slated today SALEM (AP) — Barring last minute problems, a sales tax ballot measure should be out of the Legislature today and on its way to the voters. A House and Senate negotiating committee on Thursday quickly revised a school spending limit in the plan and returned it to the House. Final votes are scheduled in the House and Senate today, the 96th day of the 1985 legislative session. The House-passed version of the tax plan allowed school district tax bases to rise by 6 percent a year without voter ap proval. The Senate — at the in sistence of the Republicans — cut the limit to 3 percent, a I move opposed o y trie Republican governor. The amendment adopted by the conference committee Thursday allows school districts faced with declining revenue a chance to ask voters once a year to approve special one-time property tax levies in excess of the tax bases. 1 ■ ■ ■ The SWINTEC 8000 remembers BUY ONE FOR $749 AND RECEIVE OVER $200 WORTH OF SUPPLIES FREE! 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Wolcott, 55, said it wasn’t until Briles had lived in the lean-to for a year and had begun to express misgivings about his own sexuality that he and Briles became intimately in volved. He said Briles “never objected" to the relationship. Briles, who had been living in Escondido, Calif., before he returned to Eugene two days before the fire in November, is accused of first-degree arson, first-degree burglary and second-degree assault. The jury was sworn in Thursday by Judge F. Gordon Cot trell. During opening statements for the defense, Eugene at torney Ted Carp contended that Briles was suffering from a mental disease or defect Nov. 8, the date of the attack, and that he should not be held criminally responsible for his actions. 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