European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday. August 26,1936page 28 f 1 thousands mourn Shin postal employees Edmond. Of i. Up thou Sands of mourners a n ibo kill saudi unsaid their last farewells Sunda to 14 postal employees shot Down by a c four relative who k it a Small bouquet and two polled plants at the cemetery of Hie International order of Odd Fellows in nearby we Tonga. Tributes to inc slain postal workers were everywhere in the Small suburb of Oklahoma City from Jellow ribbons on the lampposts to a Rivurs of Flowers on the Post office Lawn and signs encouraging strength and line among neighbors. At the l or mail memorial service. Tisch said.  follow the Lead of the surviving workers at the Edmond Pott office. At i is . Thursday morning As you know the night Lour insisted on re porting to  the postmaster general said. They dared to walk the same workroom floor where their colleagues had been Cut Down the Day before. Their return to work Wai an act of Defiance Defiance of evil and hit Irra j Rockne wife of slain Post office _ Loyee Mike Rockne console their son Damien during St Nices saturday morning in Edmond okla. Rockne was a victim of a postal worker s shooting spree in Edmund last week. Tindal. It was an act of affirmation affirmation that life will go on Tisch said. Gov. George nigh told inc crowd the rest of inc country shares in their grief. We want to lift that Burden from you nigh said. We want to share our  the Rev Joel Baker closed inc serv ices with a reminder that life is a gift. The people who were taken from us were gifts. Something we neither earned nor had a right to. Focus on the wonder thai they were Given to you at All. Don t let anyone Tell you not to question and Don t Hope to find a Complete  the crowd filed out of the stands As quietly As they entered singing Amaz ing  Sherrill s sister a Niece and two nephews attended the private two a Nule graveside service in Watonga and one of the nephews delivered a Brief Eulogy that could not be heard by reporters who were kept far from the site until after the relatives had left. Kenneth Russworm of Russworm funeral Home in Watonga which handled inc Sherrill funeral made arrangements after consulting with Sherrill s older Sis Ter Joann Buswell of Edmond. The names of the Oiler relatives at the graveside service were not released. I have never in 40 some years in service walked into a House and seen the grief they had said Russworm. They re very depressed people. I Don think they have any idea Why it Hap  of Sherrill s victims were buried i saturday and four were buried Friday. Three Hundred people attended a Brief graveside service sunday at the Oakland Knowles cemetery in Crescent for Pat Ricia Gabbard 47, of Oklahoma City. Funerals were scheduled for monday morning in Edmond for Betty jarred 34, the last of Sherrill s victims to be buried. Sherrill 44, who had been reprimanded for his Job performance the Day before wednesday s massacre was Cre mated Friday. Russworm said Sherri s ashes were buried in a 10-Inch by 6-Inchconcrete urn he described As just Ordi nary. It s just a Box Type urn there will be a Headstone run Sworm said. This has t been arranged. There will probably be a government Type Marker. He was a Veteran. Thai will tie up 10 the family exercise from Page 1 Lily condemned the april . Raid on Libya. But Many government and military officials Here privately voiced support for the attack saying it appeared effective in stifling Qadhafi. In the april raid. American bombers hit Sites in and near Tripoli and Benghazi in response 10 what the United states charged were libyan supported terrorist actions. Egypt had requested that the current exercises be kept secret but a libyan Leader made them Public last week. In a vitriolic statement Qadhafi s Deputy maj. Abdul Salaam Jalloul called on egyptians to attack the american forces participating in the Maneu vers and seek  Jalloul said the presence of . Forces in Egypt amounts to an army of occupation and is an insult to the dignity and the blood of egyptian  Pentagon officials have said no american or egyptian planes or ships would enter the Gulf of Sidra which Qaddafi claims As libyan territory or Cross what Qadhafi has designated As a line of death in what the United states considers International Waters. By Pentagon officials said operations will be conducted in the International airspace of the Tri poli flight information Region the International air traffic flight control sector surrounding Libya that extends beyond the line of  before the april 1s raids . Policy had been to notify Libya As a Courtesy when it intended to conduct flights within that Region and observers said that its use now could be interpreted by the mercurial Qadhafi As a provocation. Petrovsky s endorsement of an International Middle East peace conference in news conferences saturday and sunday while a reiteration of soviet positions was probably Well received by egyptian officials who regularly hear american rejections of Arab blueprints for peace negotiations. President Hosni Mubarak s top political adviser Osama Baz said in an egyptian press interview last week hat the soviets support the Arab position much More than the ." Bui the United states holds the key to future negotiations with Israel and perhaps More importantly annually provides about $2.3 billion in military and civilian Aid to Egypt and the current military exercises arc a Clear sign that Egypt is strongly in tent on maintaining its close lies with Washington military exercises tentatively scheduled for last Winter were cancelled by Egypt after . Fighter planes intercepted an egyptian Airliner carrying the palestinian hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship. The incident in which the egyptian plane was forced to land at an air base in Italy where the four hijackers were arrested resulted in a Short chill in .-egyptian relations. The current Maneu vers Are the first since last August. As in the previous War games . Forces will practice a. Sea based attack and the egyptian forces will train primarily in defending their coast. From pac\1 lion against us. 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