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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, August 25, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news update the stars and stripes Mon Fay August 25,1986 Lampedusa tourism Island of Lampedusa up Lampedusa the tiny ital Ian Island that Libya irid 10 hit with two missiles last Spring has a new problem Loo Many tourists. The people of the Island which is off the libyan const in in Southern Mediterranean had some pessimistic thoughts april 14 after two libyan scud missiles splashed into she sea just Short of the Lampedusa Shore. Mayor Giovanni Fragapane and the Island s hotel and guest House owners were certain thai the attack launched Afler the , air raids on Libya would wipe out All business. By Early july however the air planes and ferries that service the Island began debarking Ever larger numbers of tour iils and the number of people on Lampedusa has swelled from its Normal population of 5.000 to three times that much local officials said. Isabel Peron views Palma Mallorca Balearic is lands a former Argentine president Isabel reran says she wants to live in peace and has no interest in politics. In one of he few interviews she has Given since 1974, the third wife and successor of Gen Juan Peron told the National news Agency efe she lives in seclusion and seeks anonymity i Don t want to know anything about politics. I no longer an important person and i would like to be Agelopas unnoticed she said. 3 More deported Tel Aviv Israel a Israel has expelled three More members or a group of american based Blac hebrews arrested four months ago for overstaying their visas. The latest expulsions came Earl Friday morning spokesman Yitzhak Agassi said sunday in a Den hone interview. The three were placed inboard an Al Al flight to new York forty six members of inc Blac hebrew sect were arrested april 12 and ordered Oul of he country. Altogether eight members of the group of 46 and two other members of the Seel were deposed last week. Agassi said Israel will Deport All ofic 46, most of whom Are in prison. Temperatures Anutra l h n a h in 12 hou1hi h Mit ass ski european weather far eur Tor a soot. Few Fletr Stolov Tum Mitt scary  tag ind Eccl Kyul run or Ftp Nowai  Vang n mull it or High  92-40. Betti 4&50. & i Mamur b � p m., War in to div 6 30 no Oun ook Lor  milk Abouo us in Mong tag ird re a Ltd . Tyrne Trahern Wirty in in.  r Sadhu Pali us a. P Alwa p Ofui. . P Blu huh. I Mem 71 copts attn. P u fstrontdt6 n Urdon n n Muur u w Unn re n Piri. P h i Ron. M 4im apm12 a � i a3 he s n a i Gullow Hullo Ctm. To a Hamm a to 14 Dublin r fl7 4t motor t ff7 Hall Lnu. D it a Olio 0 6s i twi cum. R h h Toronto d 4tutai. R 7i via Alai a n u  services held for More victims of Oklahoma shooting spree Edmond okla. A mourners attended More burials saturday for Vic Tims of n killer who took two pistols to work at inc Edmond Post office and killed 14 co workers before turning a Guenon himself. Patrick Henry shr full who wounded six other people during wednesday morning s shooting spree was cremated and was buried sunday at a Tonga at his parents graveside. The service for Sherrill was open Only to his family and close friends according to the funeral Home. Sherrill was one of five top marksmen in the Oklahoma National guard and was Kulli Oriord to Check out weapon Sand ammunition officials Saiid Friday. Maj. Cen. Bob Morgan adjutant Gen eral of inc Oklahoma National guard said Sherrill had been scheduled to leave aug. 31 for a National marksmanship contest in Little Rock Ark. The two .43-caliber handguns and am munition Sherrill took into the Post of fice were issued by the Guana so he could qualify Tor he five Man Oklahoma team. Morgan said he will ask the National guard Bureau to review regulations involving the Issue of Una rms. Six of scr rips victims were buried saturday in Oklahoma one service was held in St. John kan., and another in Marietta a. Four victims were buried Friday. One was scheduled sunday Andone monday we be experienced pain Haven t we you bet we  the Rev. Finley tin Nin said at the funeral of Pally i. Hus band 48, a five year postal employee. Bui think of pain being the to Brash hold of peace. It is because of pain that god moves to us and brings us his  More than 200 people crammed into the Chapel of an Oklahoma City Funera Home for husband s rites. Tinnin old mourners it was Likely most of those in attendance fell husband died too Young. But everything that is mortal is conspicuously snort Tinnin said. We find Pur Comfort in the knowledge that Lime is something god manufactured. And eternity is god s natural  at a roman Catholic funeral mass in Edmond for Paul Michael Rockne 33 year old grandson of the notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne about 150postal workers were among 700 mourn ers. Three dozen postal employees wore their uniforms with Black armbands. Everything that has been done in this last week has been unusual and has been cruel but we know that his soul has been called to god our father said the Rev. Marvin Leven Rockne whose casket was draped with an american lag was one of the firs people killed in the Slaughter police said. Cathy Miller wife of slain employee Bill Miller said her husband May have saved several lives. Everything 1 can gather indicates that Billy was trying to take the gun away from him she said after his funeral Fri Day the Rev Robert a Hawkins Castor of Millers Church said he was with mrs. Miller when . Postmaster general Preston Tisch called to thank her for her husband s efforts. In Enid okla nearly 300 people Gath ered at the first Baptist Church to pay tribute to Jonna Gragert Hamilton to. Other services for Hamilton were Hel Friday at the pint Baptist Church in Edmond. She was buried in Enid saturday. We be got thousands of people Pray ing for us and we re at peace said Joyce Gragert the woman s Mother. At the first Christian Church in Edmond. About 450 counters attended services for Jerry Pyle 51, who had worked at the Edmond Post office for 25  175 people crowded into the Minnie funeral Home Chapel in St John kan., to attend services Tor Leroy Phillips. Phillips 42, of Choctaw bad worked As Rural earner at the Edmond Post office for three months. More than 200 people attended Irv. Ices for Kenneth Morey at Baggerley funeral Home in Edmond. Morey 49, had been a Rural mail Carrier for five  the Bill Merritt funeral Home in Bethany about 60 friends and  attended a private service for Thomas Shower. Shader 31, was a pan time clerk at the Post office. Services also were completed saturday for Judy Denney. 39, who bad moved to Oklahoma City with her family about two months ago from Atlanta and had reported to work at the Post office Only four Days before the killings. Service were held in Marietta a. Garn to donate kidney to daughter Salt Lake City up sen. Jake Garnr Ulah says he will be very Happy and very proud to donate a kid  to his ailing daughter whose 17-year bout with diabetes threatens her own or Gans or. Wayne Border chief of Depholo by at the University of Utah Hospital said routine tests Friday indicated Gam is a suitable donor for Susan Gam Home 27, who lives in Vienna va., oui Side Washington . Home has been diabetic since age 10, i d be very Happy and very proud to help her Gani said her Mother car ried her for nine months and to be Able to give her pan of  if that s the Way it works put to preserve her life there s no decision whatsoever Garn said Fol lowing tests to determine his suitability As a donor Garn 53, was slightly Pale Friday As he was wheeled into a conference room by attendants following his nine hour stay in the Hostila for the tests. But he said he would be jogging his usual five Miles n Day within a month after the transplant operation i did t think there s any doubt the transplant will be necessary he said. She has been gradually losing kidney function but she docs face eventually Lota kidney failure that requires dialysis or  Garn said no specific time has been set for the operation and that it could come at any time. If she rejects  kidneys the would need another transplant she has two Brothers in  in june Gam the father of seven said one of his sons might be the donor depending on who doctors determined is the Best match. Garn said he has known for some Lime his daughter would ultimately need a transplant and that the operation would Likely be done at Georgetown University Hospital to Washington. Gam a former Navy Pilot who in april 1985 became the first civilian to ride in the space shuttle said he Wai terribly bored during i nine tour stay at the  Haven t had thit much rot a six months he Laid referring to two mis Erable weeks of congressional budget  underwent a renal Arterio Gram a procedure that involves making � half Inch incision in an artery in the Lei and then injecting a Dye that shows in detail the anatomical Structure of the kidneys spokesman John Dwan  is the daughter of Gam s first wife. Hazel who was killed in an aug.17,1976, Auto Accident. Six months later Gam married the sex wife of Bis administrative assistant. They have three chit Dren. 40 . Policemen to March for Ira Dublin Ireland a sinn fein the Legal political Wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Aimy said saturday about 40 new York City policemen will March in a Parade honouring Ira guerrillas who died during hunger strikes. The announcement brought an angry response from Irish police who arc battling the Ira. A Brief sinn fein announcement said the new York police would join the March on aug. 30 in Bun Doran county Donegal Bun Doran is nine Miks from the Seaside Village of mull Gahmare where lord Louis Mountbatten an Uncle of Prince Philip was killed in 1979 when a bomb planted by Ira guerrillas exploded aboard his yacht. Sinn fein said the american officers Are members of new York s Emerald society police band but they will March in civilian clothes and As Ordinary tourists rather than As representatives of theban. No matter what Guise they Are in they Are still policemen marching for people fighting the police in Ireland said a spokesman for the police Force s sergeants and inspectors association. He was not identified by name in Accord Ance with police customs. The participation of new York police men the past two years at events in Bun Doran commemorating the hunger strikes Drew protests from the Irish Eov emment. Annual parades hav been held indu Doran and other owns since Bobby hands a convicted guerrilla starved himself and died in May 1981 in the Maze prison near Belfast the capital of Northern Ireland he was the first of 10 prisoner to die in hunger strikes organized to presi their demands that they be treated u political prisoners instead of criminals. The Brit ish government would not concede and the hunger strikes were called off in october f 981. The Irish Independent newspaper said the pro Ira group sponsoring the Parade in Bun Doran had asked the new York police to participate. The predominantly roman Catholic Ira is waging a guerrilla War in North. Ern Ireland to unite that British prov Ince where protestants outnumber Cath Olics 3-2, with the mainly Catholic Irish Republic  
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