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...went to see him, she learned that he was actually dead. She told newsmen that he had probably killed himself with a submachine gun presented to him by Cuba's Fidel Castro. But rumors spread that Allende had been shot 13 times−the widow later saw his coffin but never his body−and that he and four aides had been killed in cold blood. The rumors fed the rapidly growing legend of Allende the Marxist martyr...
...Santa Ines cemetery, Mrs. Allende, torn between sorrow and fury, picked some flowers and laid them on the coffin. "Salvador Allende cannot be buried in such an anonymous way," she said in a hard voice to the gravediggers. "I want you to know at least the name of the person you are burying...
Lady Li's silk-wrapped body had been placed inside an airtight coffin that was the innermost of six boxes packed in five tons of charcoal, completely surrounded by a layer of white clay and, finally, buried under more than 60 ft. of earth. Furthermore, inside the inner coffin scientists found a reddish, mildly acid fluid containing mercurial compounds that preserved body moisture and helped retard decomposition...
...beat down on the dusty highway until the temperature reached the mid-90s, but the men doggedly marched on, carrying a coffin heaped with flowers. Before them, behind them, some 5,000 striking vineyard workers and their supporters trudged along. Some of them carried the blackeagle flags of the United Farm Workers Union, others a banner portraying the Virgin Mary. They sang hymns in honor of the man whose body lay in the coffin. He was Juan de la Cruz, 60, who had been among the first to join Cesar Chavez's campaign to organize the farm workers...
This explanation is unfounded on two accounts. For one thing, radical lawbreakers such as William Sloane Coffin (cited specifically by Magruder) conducted their illegal activities openly and fearlessly. Their actions were public actions designed to enlighten and awaken the American people--not to deceive and mislead them. More importantly, however, Coffin's lawbreaking was an act of conscience. He--and others--felt morally compelled, by a belief in God or in the value of human life, to disobey the laws of our nation. They put God, or conscience, above country...