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PageA8, Tuesday, May 24,1994 The Beacon Journal Onassis Onlookers gather to say goodbye to former first lady Gunmen kill one, hurt 4 in Indiana Botched robbery begins siege that ends in surrender their two infants who died. The spectators outside the cemetery could have seen more on TV, but it wouldn't have been the same, the sidewalk congregation of admirers said. It was a diverse group tourists in shorts and T-shirts, bureaucrats in business suits, uniformed folks from the Pentagon. Some, clustered in the scant shade of cemetery hedges, marveled at how fast time had passed. Others gawked at the network news stars and gossiped about how handsome young John Kennedy had become and how they thought Maurice Tempelsman was nicer than the late Aristotle Onassis.

They came because they could, and they couldn't imagine passing up such an opportunity. "I had to say goodbye to Jackie Kennedy. She was a private person, but it seemed like I realty knew her and her family," explained Pat Beauprez, a tourist from Defiance, Ohio. The service ended with a tation of the Lord's Prayer. ward, the Kennedy family filed past the nearby grave of Robert F.

nedy, who was assassinated in 1968. Later, the Clintons attended a reception at the Kennedy family home in McLean, for Washington friends of Onassis. Associated Press and Cox News Service contributed to this report. After the service, which the family allowed to be heard but not seen, the mahogany casket, draped with ferns and a cross of white flowers, was flown to the nation's capital aboard a chartered jet for burial at Arlington. About 40 members of the Kennedy family and Hillary Clinton accompanied the body.

President Clinton met the plane at National Airport and joined the funeral motorcade for the five-minute drive along the Potomac River to the burial site. Outside the closed gates of Arlington, the scene was similar to the church service in New York. Hundreds of curious tourists mingled with Washingtonians who had come to pay their respects. A few wept as the hearse rolled by. "I've been waiting here all morning, then I got so nervous I didn't get a picture," said Ular Bailey.

''But I had to come to pay my respects. I came when they buried her husband and her brother-in-law, and I thought I couldn't miss this. She was just a very beautiful, very gracious lady." The interment was closed to the public, but the Kennedy family allowed a pool of reporters and cameras to record the service from a distance of 100 feet. The network cameras captured an unforgettable picture the casket of Onassis resting next to the grave of her husband and the smaller graves of about Jack in December after he died: 'They made him a legend when he would have preferred to be a the senator said in a trembling voice. "Jackie would have preferred to be just herself, but the world insisted that she be a legend, too." The private Mass, attended by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and a hundred or so other invited guests and Kennedy family members, took place at the Church of St.

Ignatius Loyola, two blocks from the Park Avenue apartment into which Onassis moved with her two small children after her husband was killed in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Her daughter and son, now grown but still etched in the nation's memory as the little girl and boy who kissed and saluted their father's coffin, both read poems favored by their mother, as did Maurice Tempelsman, Onassis' longtime companion. Outside the church, a large crowd of solemn mourners, some weeping, gathered on the street under tight security to listen to the audio of the service, which was piped outside through Associated Press Indianapolis: Ed Gill and his family were eating when two gunmen burst inside the restaurant and began shooting. "We just went in to have lunch and all of the sudden it sounded like somebody set off a firecracker back in the kitchen," Gill said.

"And the next thing I knew, everybody was diving for the floor, and the next time I looked up, this little boy or girl about 4 or 5 years old had been hit in the mouth." The gunmen opened fire in the Denny's restaurant just before noon Monday, killing one person, wounding at least four others and taking up to 25 hostages. They surrendered after a six-hour standoff. The gunmen released the hostages in groups of four or five throughout the afternoon, including the 5-year-old boy who had been shot in the face. The final five or six hostages were released shortly before the two gunmen surrendered around I AND SAVINGS! MISSES' AND PETITES' FAMOUS MAKER SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS. Continued from Page Al president or raising the children with the care and privacy they deserve, or simply being a good friend, she seemed always to do the right thing in the right way," the president said in tribute to Onassis, who died of cancer Thursday at age 64.

After Clinton spoke, Onassis' two children, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and John F. Kennedy knelt in silent prayer near their mother's casket. Rising, Caroline placed a small white bouquet on the casket and knelt again to kiss it. John Jr. followed her, but he stopped briefly to touch the grave of his father after kissing his mother's casket.

Earlier, at a funeral Mass in New York, the former first lady was eulogized by her brother-in-law, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, as a wonderfully giving and caring woman who bore the burden of her husband's assassination with extraordinary grace and courage. "During those four endless days in 1963, she held us together as a family and a country. In large part, because of her, we could grieve and then go on," Kennedy said.

"I often think of what she said TV WJW officials believe CBS will switch before fall Continued from Page Al League's NFC games to Fox, CBS now has lost its Cleveland affiliate to the upstart network. Channel 8, however, will be losing David Letterman's show, which is ranked No. 1 nationally among late-night programs. Fans of the gap-toothed one will be following their hero to whatever station gets the CBS affiliation. Channel 8's agreement with CBS requires a six-month notification, which means the switch to Fox could be delayed until November, well after the start of the fall TV season and football season.

Executives at Channel 8, however, believe that CBS will want a new Cleveland affiliate by the time new fall series premiere. The deal could leave current Fox affiliate WOIO (Channel 19) without network programming, but the Cleveland station should be battling for the dropped CBS affiliation. CBS, however, may lean toward Cleveland independent station WUAB (Channel 43) because it has an established local news operation. "This is only a little bump in the information superhighway," said Dennis P. Thatcher, vice president and general manager of Channel 19.

"We still have respect for Rupert Murdoch. He's doing what he has to do to benefit his company, but we were one of the founding Fox stations and we're more than a little disappointed." Thatcher said Channel 19 would pursue all options, including the CBS affiliation. "The range of options are exciting," Thatcher said. "After all, we only get 15 hours of programming a week from Fox. We'll still have everything else." According to Fox, the 12-station deal is "the largest network affiliation realignment in television history." In addition to Channel 8, New World has stations in Detroit (WJBK), Atlanta (WAGA), Tampa (WTVT) and Milwaukee (WITT).

New World is buying and planning Fox affiliation for stations in seven other markets, including St. Louis, Dallas and Austin, Texas. URW Workers in Gadsden, begin balloting today Continued from Page Al plants. The agreement needs 5,895 yes votes to pass. The proposed contract contains the basic elements included in a contract settled recently with Uni-royal Goodrich Tire and with an agreement now under negotiation with BridgestoneFirestone.

Eventually, the agreements at the three companies will cover 22,000 workers. Workers at four Goodyear plants went on a brief strike three weeks ago when negotiations on a second agreement went past the deadline. The new agreement was reached May 15. So far, three locals in Lincoln, St. Marys, Ohio, and Sun Prairie, Wis.

have voted to accept the contract, which provides for profit sharing, a $500 signing bonus and improved pension benefits. It also secures medical coverage for 30-year-and-out retirees and returns a company-funded health plan. 5:15 p.m. Police said the siege began with a botched robbery. The restaurant's manager tried to wrestle a gun away from one of the men and was shot.

After that, the other man "went crazy" and started shooting wildly, said Sgt. Frank Evans, the chief hostage negotiator. Police sealed off the restaurant and surrounded it with SWAT teams and helicopters. Witnesses who fled the building or were released said it seemed as though the gunmen simply appeared and began firing without warning. The witnesses said 40 people were inside when the gunmen entered shortly after 11 a.m.

One man had a pistol and the other had a weapon resembling an Israeli-made Uzi, police spokesman Lt. Tim Horty said. The body of the person killed in the attack was brought outside around 4 p.m., the head covered with a brown tablecloth. Discover Card, Diners Club or Carte Blanche. We've made a fabulous buy of 2-piece, short-sleeved suits In a variety of colors and patterns.

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"This agreement will forever change the competitive landscape of network television," Murdoch, Fox's chairman, said in a statement Monday. "This is a giant step toward leveling the playing field and toward the long-standing public policy of achieving a fully competitive fourth broadcasting network for America." Channel 8's change also should mean younger viewers more attractive to advertisers. But Channel 8 will be losing hours of daytime (soap operas and game shows), Saturday morning and sports programming and Letter-man. Channel 8, neck-and-neck for No. 1 with Channel 5 at 6 and 11 p.m.

in local news, says it will respond to this loss with programming produced by New World and by expanding its daily news presence. That means a 7-9 morning show, the noon newscast expanded to an hour and the 11 p.m. newscast moved to 10 p.m. and expanded to an hour. "We also expect a lot of attractive syndicated programming (series sold market by market, instead of carried by a network) to drop loose when one of the other stations in town picks up the CBS affiliation," a source at Channel 8 said.

Channel 8 already announced that, starting June 13, it would carry New World's late-night soap opera, Valley of the DoUs. A winner in the Channel 8 switch should be ABC affiliate WEWS (Channel 5), which will be losing its fiercest 11 p.m. news competitor. But Channel 43, the only Cleveland area station with a 10 p.m. newscast, will be gaining its first local news competitor unless it gets the CBS affiliation, bumping its news to 11 p.m.

(after the network's 8-11 prime-time programming). "Our strength for many years now has been in local news," said Virgil Dominic, president and general manager of Channel 8. "This new agreement will enable us to expand our newscasts and our news coverage. There is also the positive of job creation. We'll be hiring new employees to staff these new programs." The URW's biggest local, at a Goodyear plant in Union City, rejected the tentative agreement Friday.

That plant, along with Gadsden and Danville, have a majority of the Goodyear membership. The other plants including Topeka, Akron and Marysville, which have yet to schedule a vote are together too small to carry the pact. Its defeat certainly would be a blow not only to the union, the majority of whose top officials endorsed the agreement, but to the company as well. Goodyear plants have been running at capacity to meet heightened market demand and a strike now could jeopardize that position. Failure to ratify the contract could also create long-term problems for the Akron-based URW, threatening the whole notion of a master contract and pattern bargaining.

Already, negotiators at BridgestoneFirestone have indicated they won't be bound to follow the pattern set by the Goodyear pact. If the pattern is broken, BridgestoneFirestone could decide to hold out for its two main goals: shifting a greater portion of healthcare costs to workers and the ability to run all its plants SPECIAL PURCHASE! Shop 10 to 9, or call Summit Mall (667-3300) and Rolling Acres (745-1 360) to order. Use your Dillard's Charge, MasterCard, Visa, American Express..