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...sealed gray casket of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero rested on the steps of San Salvador's huge Metropolitan Cathedral, a wreath of red roses at its head. Mexican Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, the personal delegate of Pope John Paul II, had just finished a eulogy, praising Romero as a "beloved, peacemaking man of God" and prophesying that "his blood will give fruit to brotherhood, love and peace." Suddenly, the outdoor funeral service in the center of El Salvador's capital was transformed into a tableau of horror: exploding hand bombs, wild gunfire, terrified crowds stampeding in panic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Something Vile in This Land | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...Gainesville children's class on death would have learned a lot more had they visited one of our Wisconsin families. After they lost their young child, they made the casket, performed the service, and with friends buried their child on his grandparents' farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...horn, my stick and rope to be put in my casket with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Well, you used to live today, tomorrow you're buried in a casket...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Reggae Revolution | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

...Negros Occidental province of the southern Philippines, children with flowers carried a small white coffin along a country road leading through sugar-cane fields. The casket contained the body of Juan Latorgo. His grieving mother, Estrellita Latorgo, 21, says that she took her son first to the local hospital and then to a witch doctor. Neither could arrest the symptoms of malnutrition that killed Juan, at the age of seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Powder Keg of the Pacific | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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