European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fray March 18, f 988 the stars and stripes 0 Pagas 3 die in violence at Ira agents funeral Belfast Northern Ireland a attackers fired pistols and hurled hand grenades at a graveside service for three Irish Republican army guerrillas wednesday killing three people and injuring 34, polite  Man was arrested thousand or mourners threw themselves to the and u the explosions ripped across the Mili Lown Len Catholic cemetery while hundreds of others raced across the Graves pursuing a suspected attacker. One attacker weaving and dodging Between grave stones Flung a hand grenade at the pursuing mourners. Organisers of the funeral Tor the guerrillas who were Shoi by or Irish troops in Gibraltar immediately blamed protestant paramilitaries for the attack. Police moved in to surround the cemetery and a dozen ambulances ferried the 34 injured including several Yonne children hit by gunfire to the nearby Royal Victoria Hospital. The three dead All men were not immediately identified a Hospital spokeswoman said one of the injured a woman was in serious condition and three men also were gravely wounded it s obvious it was an attack by loyalist protestant movements Martin Mcguinniss vice president of sinn fein the outlawed Ira s Legal political front told reporters in the cemetery. The violence erupted about i Yards away As the Flag draped coffins of Mairead far Rotl 3l Sean Sav age 24 and Daniel Mcginn 30, were being lowered into a single grave. The unarmed agents were shot March 6 by British troops in Gibraltar and British authorities said that the three were on a bombing mis lion. Mcguinnis said that shortly before the attack wit Nesses reported seeing four men jump out of a White Van on a Highway running alongside the cemetery. We believe that a number of men four is the Fig ure came out of while Van on the Motorway and came up onto the cemetery macguinness told reporters at the cemetery. We believe they either threw hand grenades or mortars or a mixture of both. Certainly some rifles Ocie fired at the crowd. Quite a few people Are suffering from gunshot wounds he said a group of mourners had grabbed one at Tacker but then police moved in and arrested both the suspect and the mourners. After the attack which happened As the third coffin was about to be lowered into a joint grave the funeral was completed. Police and troops in an evidently deliberate policy had kept out of sight during the funeral far the three which began with o requiem mass in a packed Parish ppm run mourners at the funeral in Belfast of three Ira Urc Nta run in panic u gunfire and explosions interrupt in Rita. Church. St. Agnes. The mourners had followed the coffins draped in the Irish Tricolour through somber streets with shops shut to the cemetery. At the mass in St. Agnes mourners listened silently As the priest charged that the three unarmed Ira members ambushed on Whit the government said was a bombing Mission were murdered. Shortly before the funeral began a bomb exploded on a Street More than a mite from the Church slightly injuring a British Soldier on foot patrol police reported. Earlier about t so mourners watched with no sign or police or troops As relatives and members of sin fein the Ira s Legal political Wing carried the coffin of Mccann from his parents two Story Row House. The coffin was then driven to the Church. The almost exclusively Catholic Irish Republican army is fighting to push the British out of protestant dominated Northern Ireland join it with the Irish re Public and set up an All Ireland socialist slate. In his funeral oration at St. Agnes the Rev. Tom Toner called the March 6 shootings in Gibraltar Mur Der and accused British authorities of gloating Over them. Britain says the slain guerrillas were shot by com Mandos while the guerrillas were preparing a car bomb attack on the changing of the guard outside he Gover nor s residence in the Colony on the Southern tip of Spain. The three were unarmed but Britain said they nude movements thai led the soldiers to believe their lives were in danger. The Irish government has complained thai the soldiers should have tried o arrest the three who the Ira said were on Active service outside he Chapel a crowd of about 3,000 gathered to accompany the coffins to Milltown the burial ground for Many other guerrillas killed in nearly 20years of sectarian strife that has claimed More than 2,600 lives. In tie tens buildup to the funerals protestant stoned hearses that brought the Ira bodies Home tuesday on a 100-mile route from Dublin. Two catholics including Ira member Kevin Mccracken 33, shot by British troop near Savage s Home on monday were fatally wounded in Belfast Over the Post two Days another Catholic Charles Mcgrillen died when unidentified gunmen opened fire As he arrived for work tuesday. Police said they suspected a sectarian attack by protestant militants. Leader of la schools year round plan los Angeles not a plan to put the entire lot Angeles school system on a year round Calendar thai Drew National attention Wilsn it was approved last october has been withdrawn by the superintendent of schools. The Surprise action carte at a meeting of Ine Board of the los articles unified school District monday night five months after us members approved the concept igniting a political dispute that deeply divided the City along ethnic and economic lines. The Board which1-Lijj tabled the plan for further study generally been expected to Dela longer any final decision an he  with 985,000 students the los an Geks school system second when in the country after new a offs would have been the biggest school by item Ever to adopt a year round Calendar. Under the plan All los an rfcs schools would have been put on a Cingle Basic calendaring which pupils would Nave had a series of Short vacated in rather than the ton summer vacation. But the amount of school Days would have been about the same. Pupils in districts with the most crowded schools would have been on Usu sol Dules that would Bave had the buildings being used the year with some pupils in classes while sinew were were on vacation. In All 61 school districts around the country use some variation of an All year Calendar and the concept has been tinder discussion in no York City and state us a Means remaking More efficient use of sch buildings. Many ripens say it Irod Fovos education by Mak ing it Ca afr for children to retain inter Matzl by eliminating the Long Sumner break. But the concept has