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Sherrill buried;
local residents
mourn dead
WATONCA, Okla. - Pal rick Ik-niy
Sherrill, who kilird 14 Postal Service
co-workers and wounded six others
before committing suicide, was buried
Sunday in a family plot in his hometown.
Sherrill, 44. was cremated and his
ashes placed at the graves i to of his
parents in a brief, private service
attended by 25 friends and relatives
but no clergy.
Sherrill, w ho had worked at the Post
Office in Edmond, about SO miles away,
for about V 2 years, ent ered the build
ing about 7 a.m. Wednesday and began
shooting.
Sunday was declared an official state
day of mourning by Gov. George Nigh.
The delcaration came as Edmond resi
dents gathered at a college football
stadium for a memorial service that the
YUv. Dale Carter, a Methodist minister,
said would begin "our town's healing."
Eight victims of the shooting were
buried Saturday. Six burials took place
in Oklahoma. One was held in St. John,
Kan., and another in Marietta, Ga. Four
others were interred Friday.
The reference was to reports that
supervisors had threatened Sherrill
with dismissal if his work did not
improve. Postal Service officials have
denied that the supervisors threatened
to fire Sherrill.
Police have speculated that Sherrill
was angry over a reprimand, which
came the day before he entered the
post office carrying a pistol in one hand
and two others and ammunition in his
mail bag.
Sherrill was one of five top marks
men in the Oklahoma National Guard
and was authorized to check out wea
pons and ammunition, officials said
Friday. The guns used in the killings
were from the Guard.
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ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1938 DAILY NEBRASKAN
NEW YORK A Soviet employee of
the I'nited Nat ions suspected of being
a KGB agent has been charged with
espionage after being set up by a
defense worker he tried to recruit but
who went to the FBI instead.
The FBI foiled an attempt Saturday
night by Gennadiy Fedorovich Zak
narov "to obtain classified information
of the I'.S. government" at a subway
platform meeting with the informant,
according to a statement by FBI Direc
tor William Webster.
Three FBI agents had to tackle Zak
harov and wrestle him to the ground
before handcuffing him at the subway
station, said FBI Assistant Director
John L. Hogan.
The informant, employed by a sub
contractor to two major defense con
tractors, has been working w ith t he FBI
for three years, Hogan said.
Zakharov, who has only limited diplo
mat ic immunity, could be sentenced to
life in prison if convicted on espionage
charges.
Zakharov, :)!), was a scientific affairs
officer assigned to the Center for
Science and Technology for Develop
ment at the United Nations Secre
tariat. Hogan said agents believe Zakharov
is an agent of the KGB, the Soviet
secret police and intelligence service.
The three federal agents arrested
Zakharov right after he allegedly paid
$1,000 for documents on a I'.S. Air
Force jet engine, Hogan said.
Hogan said Zakharov had offered the
informant a contract outlining what
information the Soviets needed. Zak
harov also asked for manufacturers'
manuals of military projects that would
give the Soviets a better idea of what
Americans were building he said.
In New York, a man who answered
the telephone on Sunday at the Soviet
I'nion's I'.S. mission and identified
himself as a diplomat on duty, said,
"There is nobody here in the mission
who can comment."
Hogan said the informant has
worked with the FBI on the case for
three years and all his meetings with
Zakharov were monitored by the FBI.
The man is employed by a subcon
tractor to Bendix Corp. and General
Electric Co., two important military
contractors, Hogan said.
Hogan would not identify the com
pany, which makes unclassified com
ponents for military aircraft engines
and radar equipment.
Hogan said the case began when
Zakharov tried to recruit the infor
mant, then a junior at Queens College,
and that the student immediately went
to the FBI and offered his assistance.
Aquino begins
"journey of brotherhood"
JAKARTA, Indonesia Phillippines
President Corazon Aquino put aside
warnings of a possible coup attempt at
home and traveled Sunday to Jakarta,
where she called for new momentum
within Southeast Asia's regional as
sociation. Philippines and Indonesia are a
mong six members of the nearly 20-year-old
Associat ion of Southeast Asian
Nations, or ASEAN, which promotes
economic cooperation but sometimes
also discusses regional political prob
lems. The other members are Malaysia,
Thailand, Singapore and Brunei.
Before leaving Manila on Sunday for
the four-day trip to Indonesia and Sin
gapore, Aquino called it a "journey of
brotherhood."
Some Aquino advisers had suggested
she cancel her trip, warning that
backers of ousted President Ferdinand
E. Marcos might try to grab power in
her absence and that Marcos might try
to return from his exile in Hawaii.
The trip is her first abroad since
taking office last February during a
military-civilian revolt against Marcos'
20-year-old government.
On the eve of her departure, her
armed forces chief, Gen. Fidel V.
Ramos, put the army on alert to fore
stall possible disturbances timed for
her absence.
She was met at Jakarta airport by
Suharto, his wife and other dignitaries.
The two will confer Monday on trade
and other issues. Indonesian palace
sources said Aquino may sign eco
nomic and technical agreements and
one involving cooperation in air
searches and rescues.
Aquino is due to leave Tuesday for
Singapore, and to return home Wednesday.
Frontier shuts down;
bankruptcy threatened
DENVER Frontier Airlines shut
down early Sunday, stranding 17,000
passengers throughout the West and
idling nearly 4,700 workers, and
threatened bankruptcy acton if a
merger with United Airlines wasn't
worked out.
"We deeply regret that this step had
to be taken but we were left with no
choice. . . . Frontier is out of funds,"
said a statement from New Jersey
based People Express Inc., which
bought the ailing Denver-based carrier
last fall.
Frontier lost $10 million a month in
the first six months of this year.
United Airlines offered to buy Front
ier for $146 million if agreements with
Frontier's five labor unions could be
reached by Aug. 31.
"We are still interested in acquiring
Frontier," said Joe Hopkins, a United
spokesman in Denver.
But talks with the Air Line Pilots
Association, the first of the five Front
ier unions to talk with United, stalled
over the issue of when Frontier pilots
would begin receiving the same salar
ies as United pilots. Frontier pilots
make about 67 percent less than Uni
ted pilots.
Frontier employees have made a ser
ies of wage concessions over the last
'four years in efforts to save their jobs.
"Unless an agreement (with pilots)
is reached, Frontier will file for bank
ruptcy tomorrow (Monday)," said
Marilyn Mishkin, chief Frontier spo
keswoman. "It's that or it's nothing."
"The thing is still open. It's not
over," said ALPA Vice Chairman Jamie
Lindsay in Chicago. "We are prepared
to negotiate."
At People Express headquarters in
Newark, N.J., spokesman Russell Mar
chetta said a bankruptcy filing would
seal Frontier's fate.
"The new set of parameters that will
be outlined by the bankruptcy court
will make any acquisition much more
difficult," said United spokesman Matt
Gonring in Chicago.
Frontier served 55 cities in the West,
from Chicago to California and includ
ing four cities in Canada.
Frontier customers may present
their tickets to Continental and United
for travel on many flights, subject to
space availability, spokesmen for the
two carriers said.
United also planned to hire 255
Frontier service and reservations
agents to handle the increased load
expected over the next two weeks,
Hopkins said.
Continental will give pass privileges
to Frontier flight crews and other
employees stranded by the shutdown,
said Continental spokesman Bruce E.
Hicks in Houston.
A Frontier collapse would be a major
blow for Denver, where the carrier
started nearly 40 years ago. All but
1,000 of its employees are in Colorado.
Poll: Experience beet quality
LINCOLN Experience was listed as the best-iued quality in the
Democratic and Republican party candidates for the Nebraska governor's
race, according to a statewide survey of registered voters.
A Lincoln Sunday Journal-Star poll asked W people what they liked
best and least about Democrat Helen Boosalis and Republican Kay Orr.
Comments about each candidate's experience and record in office
formed the largest positive category for-each.-. Twenty-five percent of
respondents named Boosalis' experience or her eight year record as mayor
of Lincoln as the quality they liked best about her. Boosalis headed the
U.S. Conference of Mayors for a year and directed the state Department on
Aging for 2'z years. ;
For Orr, 11 percent said they liked her experience with state govern
ment or her record as state treasurer. She has been treasurer since 1981
and was an aide to former Gov. Charles Thone for.2h years before that.
The "Don't Knows" swept the poll on' every question with 50 percent
saving they didn't know Boosalis' best quality and 58 percent said they
didn't know Orr's. When questioned about negative qualities, 86 percent
didn't know for Orr and 78 percent for Boosalis.
"People aren't willing to say bad things, period, or else they don't have
them to say," said Barb Derrick of Research Associates, the Lincoln firm
that conducted the poll Aug. 8-12.
Fifty-two percent of the 44'J registered voters were Republicans, 30
percent were Democrats and 9 percent were independents.
The confidence level of the poll is 95 percent and the accuracy rarc is
4.6 percent. That means if the poll were repeated 100 times, the results
would fall within the accuracy range at least 05 times.
- On the negative side, most people Iiin't niT.e a quality f;r either
candidate. Cut of the few who did, the tacit frequent comment for the
6S-yeawId Poosaiis was that she's too old (5 percent r-f people poflt) and
for Orr, who's 47, that she's inexperienced of bcks tov!ed$3 or cape
ter.ee (4 percent).
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Eiffel's wife, Joyce, and threatened Kemp.
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