European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 17, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 3 2 catholics gunned Down in Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland a two catholics were sent dead anal hearses bringing the bodies of three Irish Republican army guerrillas to Belfast for burial wednesday were pelted with stones by angry jeering protestants. Charles my Cirilla who is married and has a daughter was gunned Down from a motorcycle outside a Belfast supermarket tuesday As he arrived for work pal ice said. Hit death bore if Hallmarks of a Sec tarian murder by protestant terrorists they said. The night before police said troop shot a gunman who tired on an army patrol near the Belfast Home of one or the dead guerrillas. Kevin Mccracken 3who had a re Cord Olra activity died shortly afterwards  said. The three guerrillas shot to death in Gibraltar March 6 by a British anti terrorism squad As icy were planning car bombing were to be buried wednesday in the biggest such funeral since 1981, when 10 guerrillas died in prison hunger strikes. Catholic sympathy for Mairead far Roll 31 scan Savage 24 and Daniel Mccann 30, is heightened by the fact Tinl they were unarmed and the Irish government has proc Slid that they need not have been killed. Their bodies were flown front Gibraltar to Dublin monday and driven in a slow inc hour Long cortege 10 Belfast 100 Miles North. Thousands of Ira sympathizers waved Black flags of mourning along the Highway while at six Points along the 40-mile Northern Inland segment of the route the three hearses were stoned and jeered by protestants to whom the predominantly Catholic 1ra is a mortal enemy. At the Ireland Ulster Border the pro cession Rait into Northern Ireland police demanding the removal of Irish Republic flags draped Over the coffins. Afler 30 minutes of argument the mourners com promised by folding the nags replacing them on the coffins and covering them Wilh wreathes. The Tricolour Ireland s National Flag is identified in most protestant minds with the Ira. The outlawed Ira s Legal political Wing. Sinn fein said police tried to break up the cortege and twice crashed a vehicle into a Hearse Ira number in Belfast ire shots monday Over photos Oft ret Atherh who were killed by British Security farces in Gibraltar at Newry five Miles inside Northern Ireland the hearses were paraded around the largely Catholic Lown for two hours in front of cheering Ira supporters. On Newry s outskirts protestant crowds jeered waved British flags and hurled bricks bottles and stones at the cortege breaking some car windows. Similar scenes repeated themselves along the Road to Belfast. On monday he Ira said its members tired a Volley Over a makeshift shrine in Belfast As n Farewell Saluc to tie three guerrillas. The traditional paramilitary Salute which is banned in Northern Ireland As an illegal display of firearms was fired monday afternoon As the bodies landed in Dublin the a said in a statement issued through sinn fein the Royal Ulster constabulary North Ern Ireland s police fora promised in newspaper advertisements not to interfere Wilh the funerals if the Ira did not mount a gunfire Salute Over the coffins. Sinn fein president Gerry Adams accused the Ruc of partially splitting up he Convoy sending can with Rel Alivs of the three guerrillas into mainly protes Tant Lisburn eight Miles outside Belfast where they were stoned. In Belfast Adams said the Ruchi jacked the three hearses by forcing them Down to Broadway and refused to allow the remaining relatives to accompany their loved  police said thai near Belfast they separated the hearses from the rest of the slow moving funeral procession which had grown to several Miles in length. Re porters saw an Ruc armoured land Rover at one stage bump into the Back of the Hearse containing the body of Savage but it appeared to be accidental. The coffins were taken to the Homes of the guerrillas families in Belfast. They will be buried Al Belfast s Catholic Milltown cemetery alongside Many other Ira guar Rillas killed in nearly 20 years of political and sectarian strife in he province. Some 2,630 people Nave died since 1969. The Ira is fighting to rid North. Ern Ireland of British Rule and unite the province with Ireland. Greenspan praises foreign investments in . Washington a the Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Green Span told Congress tuesday that foreign inc Tameni in the United Stales is a plus even Al current record Levels. It is a highly desirable International trend Greenspan told the House san ale joint economic committee he said he was less worried about the fact that More and More . Assets arc being acquired by japanese and other foreign investors than he would be if they were simply amassing dollars. Pcs pile the recent increase in foreign holdings in the United slates we Mill have a s5d billion greater balance in in vestment abroad,11 Greenspan said. The fed chief also said that chances Are relate Clywood for maintaining the current economic recovery now in its Singh year and a record Tor peacetime expansions through another  but he added although the near term prospects thus look reasonably encouraging major uncertainties remain and we should not be complacent about the nation s economic  to a considerable extent we Ore Siil sailing in uncharted Waters he said. He reiterated earlier testimony that reducing the government s is so billion annual budget deficit should be government s no. I priority. He hailed recent data showing that unemployment in february had dipped to 5.7 percent its lowest level since May 1979, he said thai while theoretically there was a Point at which lower unemployment rates could trigger a new burst of wage driven inflation i Don t think we re there yet Greenspan was asked by sen. Alfonse d Amato r-n.v., whether he was Trou bled by the extent of the growing foreign investment in the United slates. Japan is buying America and leasing it Back to us d Amato said. Greenspan said i am very Little concerned about the Issue of foreign invest ment in the United slates. On the contrary integration of world economics is a desirable trend we will find that foreign investment in the United states will be a  he said that companies in he United states that have been bought by foreign concerns have become Good corporate  Greenspan said it is difficult to Tell the exact extent of foreign holdings in the United Stales. In terms of . Treasury securities alone foreign investors held 16.4 percent of the total at the end Oflas year be said. In other testimony. Greenspan called upon newly industrialized countries in Asia. And. Particularly Taiwan o do More to bring their economic and Mone tary policies into equilibrium with he United states and other major trading partners. He olso praised the recent stance by the government Obriti a prime min ister Margaret Thatcher for not favouring intervention by the Hank of England in support of the Pound against the West German Mark and other key currencies. Big Mac Savouring a clash with the polje Slavica Belgrade Yugoslavia a the communist world will get its first Mcdonald s fast food restaurant when the International Chain opens an outlet in Bel Grade next week. In a dispatch carried by Tan Jug. The yugoslav news Agency officials of Gene said monday thai the Jong awaited opening would Lake place on March 24. I mid  hamburger restaurant the first of a planned Chain in Yugoslavia will offer the big Mac French Fries and other specialities familiar to patrons throughout the Western world. The local Media have suggested thai he Success of the american res Duranl in Yugoslavia depends on is acceptance by a citizenry Long accustomed to a Ham Burger Lilac fast food dish called the polje Slavica. In fact this is a clash Between the Lilg Mac and Pic Savira said another go Nix official. Polje Slavica is a traditional dish made with ground pork and onions la is sold throughout the country in fast Rood restaurants. Officials of Gonci the nation s largest state run Enterprise Lay they will hold prices Down to compete Wilh local Hod if is. The next East european Mcdonald s is scheduled to be opened in Budapest Hungary by the end of this year said Visna Milosevic a Genet official. She said that there arc nearly 10.000 Mcdonald s restaurants worldwide but that the Belgrade outlet an one of the main downtown squares will be the first in a communist country. Negotiations have been going on for years for expanding the fast food Chain to the soviet Union but no agreement hat been announced