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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, June 7, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 07, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                United press International r grief went hand in the world thursday the nes came of the finally Rafte Kennedy drama. The question was asked,25 hours earlier when As fired into the brain Robert f. Kennedy again the world asks. Why who National states and for his ideals which France Sharo in was o7 a nyx a radio and television stations into their programs Tothy first news Flash an firs in Heiftz somber music Mes Les of sympathy and tribute pouring out to Mark what Lent Johnson called a i of tragedy and  Ordinary people shared reaction of the . Senate socratic Leader Mike mans res said there is Noth can say. I m just Over me just  spokesman msgr. Fau i Vallain received the news up and informed Pope 1vi, who went to his Privat Ejel to Pray for the soul of  signs cables a rare gesture Pope Pauli cables to Johnson and to. Ethel Kennedy. To John i he expressed condolences on in loss of an outstanding pub servant parliaments sat in shocked when the news was and. People on the streets. Their Heads sadly Over papers with such headline sle s  the feelings of Many we remied up by the speaker of dutch lower House or tons Van Thiel who said Ken Idy had fallen As a hero in his it for the Good in the United states for i ideals Are  president Charles de Gaulle sent cables thursday to Johnson and to mrs. Robert  drama which has just appalled the United states an plunged into mourning once again the Kennedy family profoundly saddens frenchmen. I want to inform you of this an to assure you that i share your emotion and that of the Ameri can  to mrs. Kennedy learn with great grief of death of sen.  France shares the pain of a fam ily so cruelly stricken. My wife joins me in praying you to realize Wiir profound  signed Caw a Charles de  Ireland became a nation of mourning when news of Ken Nedy s death was spread. Some people wept openly when they heard the news. Hundreds went into churches All Over the country. Nuns told the pupils of Convent schools of the new tragedy which had struck the Kennedy family then led them kneeling in prayer in the classrooms. Johnson in singular recognition of Ireland s special interest in the Young senator Telephone news of the death to . Ambassador Raymond guest i Dublin. Business and commercial life came to an almost Complete standstill As the Shock news hit the country. The Arab world deplored the assassination of Kennedy b u t the opinion was widely expressed that he had paid the Price for what is regarded As Pooh Victory pc 1 shaking Hanth up Sinitt approx Matt position of go Maun doors Frk fell Here embassy room main entrant shooting scene this is the area in the ambassador hotel in los Angeles where sen. Robert Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan wednesday. Associated press drawing America s pro Israel policy inthe Middle East. The insane attempt on Ken Nedy s life is a reflection of Tho bitterness which . Policy Haslet behind in the Middle East said one Beirut  Arab newspapers splashed the palestinian origin of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the Man accused of having shot Kennedy but radio Cairo dirt not even mention his name units Early morning newscast. Nei ther did the syrian  regretting the shooting one arabic newspaper in Leba non suggested that at last Tho murder of the palestinian Homeland had been brought dramatically to the attention of the american people. The suspicion that the murder was a zionist plot designed to discredit the arabs also was widely voiced. It s a zionist plot a Cair office worker Ahmed Al Haisha said. Sirhan is an israeli agent because Kennedy was More in favor of the arabs than  this will be very harmful tothe Arab cause because it will lose the arabs whatever sym Pathy we had in the United states and will be used by the zionists for propaganda against us store manager Mohamme Gamal said. It is unfortunate that Kennedy was shot but eve worse that his attacker was an  worker All Gouda summed up other reaction i Cairo when he said Kennedy was not pro Arab but the fac that his policy was pro Israel did not mean he should be  horizontal1. Corded fabric4. Lake .8. Title of Honor 12. High card13. Tropical Plant. Household need18. Killed 17. Be concerned m. High hill19. Cut 21. Wadin Birda 24. Transgress25. Garland 26. Total28. School .need82. Princess 84, buddy38. Auction 37. Mails39, Conjizo. To Meta Container 2. Crone merest 46. Stars and 50. Mongrel51. Scandur Daviann Airlift 52. Soak56. Spartan queen57. Ireland 58. Sailor59. Touch 60. Citrus fruit61. Ovum vertical1. Male. Bheep2. 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Kennedy who had died from an Assassin s bul let that struck him in the  trip now the senator from Newyork will make the same trip again. He will not walk this time. I was standing on the Virginia Side of the George Washington memorial Bridge just a Short distance from the Lincoln me  Kennedy walked with the president s widow and h i brother sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Behind the came hundreds of world leaders. They climbed the winding path to the grave site just be Low the Lee mansion in Arling ton. You could not get close to the Justice Douglas in hike to protest canal closing Bristol a. A .supreme court Justice William o. Douglas joined a group of Bucks count ians Here on a six mile hike to protest closing of portion of the historic Delaware , 69, and his 25-year old wife Cathy weren t even winded after slogging along the canal Bank but Many of the 200who started out from Grundy s Lagoon Here had dropped by the Wayside before the trek was finished. Grave. It was blocked off forthe family and official guests. But from below you could seethe mass of people gathered around the  were hundreds of cars military units and hundreds of thousands of people. The silence was  Robert Kennedy walked by the spot where i was stand ing he seemed to have a look of determination. He did no look around. At one Point he took John Kennedy s widow bythe Arm and whispered some thing to her. Then he straight ened again and continued the solemn walk. Intensity was the feeling that the people i knew associated with the Kennedy Brothers. In tense liking or hate. There seemed to be no Middle ground. Robert Kennedy looked in tense then. He has always been that Way. He assumed anew role nov. 22, 1963. He and his brother forged the youth of America into an important political Block. Saturday he will Cross t h abridge Over the Potomac River to join his brother on the gentle sloping Hill that looks out Over Washington. More thousands of saddened people will be there. 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