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Because of the logistical difficulties involved in getting world leaders to Israel within the customary 24-hour period between death and burial, Rabin's state funeral was put off a day--until Monday afternoon. But Israelis themselves poured out their confused and troubled emotions on Sunday in a remarkable rite of homage. As a motorized cortege bore the warrior statesman up the highway from Tel Aviv to the Holy City, teary-eyed mourners lined the route. And when he came to rest in the brilliant blue November afternoon on a catafalque outside the Knesset, hundreds of thousands of Israelis...
...Latvians began shooting. The scene was bizarre as well as murderous. Some of the women were wearing, in effect, priceless bulletproof vests: they had hidden jewels in their corsets, which sent slugs ricocheting around the room. Pulses were checked and the stripped bodies loaded onto a truck for burial elsewhere. The "whole procedure," as Yurovsky called it, took 20 minutes...
...Native American objects belong to societies whose members live on today. No descendants of the Mayans could complain or demand restitution when explorers destroyed their temples at the beginning of this century, nor do many Babylonians boycott the Louvre. But native Americans have a legitimate right to take back burial objects and human remains stolen from their tribes, though the exact circumstances of the relics' procurement are often nebulous...
...Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), requires museums to identify and possibly return all human remains and many types of burial artifacts to the Native American tribes with which they originated...
According to Isaac, the Zuni decided to leave some human remains with the Peabody Museum because burial is by clan and each clan has different customs. Since the specific clan could not be identified from the remains, the Zuni decided not to repatriate those remains...