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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes August hundreds attend mass burial in Africa South Africa a hundreds of mourners saturday attended a mass burial for 10 Black riot victims in a tense Eastern Cape township in Defiance of a government ban on political but organizers went along with one provision of the emergency decree Banning outdoor funerals and urged mourners to remain inside a Church in wide outside port funerals of victims of violence during the past 11 months of unrest have been attended by up to people who gathered reporters in the township said beginning Early saturday an estimated mourners crammed inside the old apostolic Church in the Center of the town some two dozen police in armoured personnel carriers outside the Church did Little but stare As 10 including those of five arrived at intervals through the at least five More coffins were expected later in the the wide funeral was the first in a township covered by South Africa two Eskold state of emergency since the White minority government beefed up its emergency regulations wednesday with a ban on outdoor funerals and funerals for More than one person at a funerals Are among the main outlets for Black As the funeral police Headquarters in Pretoria announced the detention of 15 More people bringing to the number jailed without charge under the Emer gency fifty four detainees have been police the anglican Bishop of the right Desmond pledged to defy the funeral which also ban banners and posters and stipulate that Only ordained ministers May speak and that they May not discuss police clerics have warned that the restrictions May Lead to worse provoking Defiance by frustrated Blacks and triggering even bloodier clashes with but fear of reprisals under the restrictions appeared to have had a dampening effect As mourners began arriving at the Church several hours before the Start of the the funeral was conducted by local Black clergymen from several sources in the United democratic the main anti apartheid movement which now has Many of its leaders and followers in said All the Blacks being buried saturday had been shot by police in riots during the past two weeks in the Black townships outside port inside the mourners raised a Banner illegal under the funeral restrictions killing is not a solution to our the mourners arrived mainly in buses and other vehicles from half dozen port Elizabeth Black townships bowing to the new decree prohibiting the traditional mass marches to funerals from soccer police Headquarters reported renewed sporadic out Breaks of Stone throwing and demonstrations in three townships in the Transvaal including outside in the Indian Ocean port City of 22 Blacks were arrested for what police called participating in an illegal gathering on there was no immediate indication whether the Demon stration was directly connected with the slaying outside her Durban Home on thursday night of a prominent Black civil rights Nony Amezell Black nationalists have charged that fatally wounded by four gunmen who was killed by a government death Cheyenne begins mopping up after deadly storm a soggy mattresses and soaked carpets were piled on front lawns and Street Crews manned fronted loaders to Clear huge piles of hailstones left by one of the dead Liest storms Ever to hit Wyoming it was like someone opened a faucet immediately above Cheyenne and set it on super High mayor Don Erickson said estimating the damage from thursday nights storm at millions of Dol twelve people authorities the Hail and flooding damaged Homes and shredded Trees and Tore Down phone and Power lines and turned Lowling areas into the record setting storm dropped inches of rain on Cheyenne Between and thursday about half the precipitation the City usually gets in a along with it came one reported several funnel Clouds and Hail that floodwaters pushed into 8foothigh Federal emergency management Agency officials were scheduled to tour the City assessing damages and evaluating whether a Federal disaster declaration was said Wyoming civil de sense spokesman Norm they also were scheduled to meet with state officials and de who would have to sign any request for Federal disaster French the fatalities included a 73yearold woman trapped by floodwaters in a base ment where she sought Refuge during a Tor Nado also killed were a sheriffs Deputy and the 6yearold girl he tried to Rescue from a car near a flooded Erickson said 70 people were most with cuts and Only two people were hospitalized Friday they were listed in serious but stable fronted loaders worked to Clear streets still blocked with piles of hailstones up to 5 feet people wandered about Holliday Park in the Center of town some taking Pic Tures of big boy once the largest operate crash from Page 1 exploding before pieces of the Craft came to rest in a Grassy witnesses and survivors 1 saw the ground coming said Pas Senger Christopher John a 35year old wholesale grocer from the left Side came up and Meier said at Parkland memorial Hospital in then the right Side came up and i thought i was going to five ambulances and two helicopters evacuated most of the survivors to Park where hundreds of people thronged makeshift waiting rooms and a neighbouring Center to donate medical staff members volunteered in such numbers that Many were turned said Erwin coordinator of the emergency also gathered at the Hospital were rela Tives of Many crying As they awaited they were secluded in a waiting room near the emergency room and did not speak to Armond one of several nation Al transportation safety Board investigators sent from said the flight recorder had been recovered from the wreckage and would be sent to Washington for the safety Board investigators scheduled an organizational meeting saturday to begin the investigation that May take months to determine the cause of the Jack a Federal aviation administration spokesman in said it was not known whether wind Shear an abrupt change in wind direction and Speed was a Factor in the the Airport has equip ment to detect wind he Delta has 38 Lockheed the planes seat 243 to 302 depending on the configuration of the planes nor Mally land at speeds of about 150 budget from Page 1 changed by the budget Resolution does not bind legislative committees to find the savings in the areas that budget committee members but spending totals in authorization and appropriation Bills will have to come in at or under the Dollar or percentage rate limits in the budget the Senate staffer said the civilian pay freeze will be dealt with in legislation from the governmental affairs but that Bill probably will be rolled up with others when the budget committee begins work after the recess on the omnibus Bill to reconcile spending measures with its budget the million Active duty military Mem Bers were taken care of when House and sen ate conferees agreed last week on a defense authorization Bill for next year that includes a 3 percent pay starting senators and representatives will continue work on a defense appropriations the one that actually approves when they return after labor Day from the recess that began lebanese employee of Abc abducted Beirut a a lebanese employee of the Abc television network was abducted his office be coming the fifth employee of a Western news organization in Beirut currently held by Shakib operational manager for abcs Beirut was abducted on West Beirut Seaside corniche just 200 Yards from a police checkpoint As he drove to the according to a the who requested said Meidan planned to catch a flight to the United he was in a chauffeur driven office car when four gunmen in a Blue Peugeot approached at according to the the armed with ordered Meidan out of the Abc car and into their they took the keys of the Abc car and warned the whose name was not to follow Abc employees in Beirut said they bad no idea who kidnapped an employee for 17 or the Christian voice of Lebanon radio station reported saturday that the Kidnap pers of four frenchmen embassy vice Consul Marcel embassy protocol officer Marcel scientific researcher Michel and journalist Jeanpaul Kaufmann have moved their captives from unidentified hideouts to the Village of bridal near Baalbek in Syria controlled East was on assignment for a French Leve nement do when he was seized May the radio quoted sources in the Radical shiite moslem or party of As saying the positive aspects for the through syrian authorities has ing steam locomotive in the world As Waves lapped at the top of its massive drive soggy boxes and carpets littered Yards As homeowners opened base ment windows and turned fans on and cranked up sump pumps to empty flooded it was like where the world came to an As far As coordination weve been work ing on for years said the civil defense Dave after police and civil defense communications broke Down and emergency workers were flooded it failed because we had a flood through the entire temperatures August 2 l h 50 77 Albany 61 77 Albuquerque 56 69 Anchorage 70 80 Atlanta 64 73 Atlantic City 63 81 Baltimore 64 76 Billings 71 87 Birmingham 47 74 Boise 58 70 Boston 52 77 Buffalo 49 75 Burlington 74 79 59 81 51 77 Chicago 61 80 Cincinnati 53 75 Cleveland 77 103 Worth 62 82 Denver 59 81 Desmornes 54 78 Detroit 53 78 Fairbanks 60 78 Fargo 52 79 Hartford 75 91 Honolulu 77 97 Houston 57 80 Indianapolis 75 89 Jacksonville 59 80 Kansas City 73 101 Las vegas 67 85 Little Rock l h 65 85 los Angeles 60 82 Louisville 69 84 Memphis 77 88 Miami Beach 56 76 Milwaukee 60 81 Paul 66 85 Nashville 74 93 new Orleans 65 81 new York 68 78 Norfolk 66 92 Oklahoma City 59 76 Omaha 74 91 Orlando 62 80 Philadelphia 82 103 Phoenix 55 77 Pittsburgh 52 75 60 79 54 76 Providence 64 79 Raleigh 46 82 Reno 61 80 Louis 78 90 Petersburg 68 80 Salt Lake City 67 78 san Delgo 58 83 san Francisco 58 73 Seattle 52 78 Syracuse 73 87 Tucson 67 81 Washington 65 80 Wichita european weather forecast for sunday partly Cloudy skies with Patchy morning fog in Western and Central becoming mostly Cloudy with isolated ral showers in the of Northern Germany will be mostly Cloudy with ral showers and isolated Southern Ger Many will be Cloudy with Windy conditions win High temperatures will be in the lows in the Low Sunset sunday Sunrise monday Outlook for monday mostly Cloudy skies with Gusty winds and partly Cloudy skies will move in from the West for All but Northern temperatures will be slightly temperatures recorded saturday 4am 4pm 75 93 59 63 77 91 p p p p 72 84 r 59 64 m 57 61 p 57 66 4am 4pm r 57 61 r 54 66 m 57 59 p 61 93 p 52 79 m 57 70 p 68 88 by Del 7th weather Graben other worldwide temperatures High Low High Low f 100 73 f 81 55 f 61 51 f 70 55 d 68 59 cd 68 56 f 88 73 f 79 59 f 93 64 r 68 55 by the associated of far Cloudy partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy  
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