European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Last rites for a pontiff. Lite Cypress coffin bearing the remains"2 ill Pope Paul i rests on an Oriental Rug in front of an altar in St. Peter s squares Cardinal Carlo Gonfalonieri delivers the funeral Eulogy. After the rites the coffin was transferred into a triple coffin of Oak and Lead and burled be Neath St. Peter s Basilica. Apaul eulogized buried in mfr Jiw a Ilia 100,000 attend funeral millions watch on to authorized unofficial publication Fob the us armed forces vol.37, no. 117 lie , or sumo sunday August 13, 1978 if 21855 a Vatican City a Pope Paul v was Laid to rest in a private ceremony sat urday in the True Earth beneath St. Peter a according to his wishes As the Sun set behind the dome of the largest Church in " Jib ifs 5 of operate titans fjt3 of posts women housing nuclear by Paul Stevens an. A five women of to airmen Are taking combat Posi a mde ground silos in Kansas. Tif Arizona As Crew members s nuclear armed missiles. I recent graduates of training program Are All male Crews of fours a the strategic air come s Ujj Continental of a full scale War they t roles in launching the mis a predetermined targets As part Jav in s three pronged strategic so includes manned bombers and nuclear air Force is prohibited by Law from assigning women to combat flying roles but the service announced last september that women could assume missile Crew duties it s combat All right said airman 1c. Tina Ponzer of Oshkosh wis., a missile facilities technician in the 381st strategic missile Wing at Wichita s Mcconnell air Force base. It s just not that dramatic blood and guts stuff people think of when they hear the first it. Patricia Fornes will soon become a Deputy combat Crew commander at one of the Wing s 18 missile Sites scat to silos missiles tired through South Central Kansas within 60-mile radius of Wichita. Should a launch order be Given she an the Crew commander would turn keys simultaneously at switches widely separate Din their silo sending the 103-foot Titan to a target As far away As 6,000 separated switches Are part of a fail Safe system designed to prevent launch by a single person. If a conflict broke out and i knew i could t Aid and defend my country be cause i m a woman that would not make me Happy said Fornes. Because it s an operations and combat role to be part of it continued on Page 21. Col. Ii quiet burial followed an open air funeral telecast around the world and at tended by a crowd estimated at 100,000 princes and premiers pilgrims an priests tourists in to shirts and workers in Hundred and four red Robed Cardi nals of a total of 130 princes of the roman Catholic Church con celebrate the funeral mass on the Basilica s Marble Steps bidding Farewell to their pontiff. At the end of the two hour service 12pallbearers, in White tie and formal tails carried the starkly simple Cypress coffin inside the Basilica. The crowd burst into applause and waved White handkerchiefs in a final Salute. Only a few cardinals Church official Sand relatives attended the burial in the Grotto of s. In accordance wit the Pope s wishes expressed in a Testa ment written in 1965, workmen dug 4 feet 7inches into the Earth for the Pope s Tomb. The triple casket of Cypress Lead and Oak weighing a total of 1,760 pounds was lowered into the Earth and covered with simple Marble slab bearing the Pope s name. The Pope was dressed in red Robes a White Miter and red shoes with a White veil covering his was the first Pope this Century to be buried in the beamed the funeral mass to 49 countries including communist Hun Gary and Poland. In a homily delivered in italian Carlo Gonfalonieri the 85-year-old Dean of the continued on Page 24, col. I
