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...stout pine coffin containing the body of Miguel Sotomayor Urbina was brought out of the family's wooden shack and carried through the dusty streets of Managua's Villa Cuba neighborhood. There was no honor guard and no red-and- black flag draped over the coffin, as there usually is for young conscripts killed in action against the U.S.-backed contras. And the cortege, passing beneath flowering cassia trees, headed not for the military cemetery but for an overgrown burial ground on the banks of a rubbish-strewn gully. "He hadn't wanted to go, and dodged the draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: At War With Itself | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Herbs and magic oils, crystal balls, animal skulls, magical jewelry, tarot cards, books on the occult and antique clothing suitable for mourning are all included in the inventory. People are greeted at the door by George, a skeleton in a coffin who holds a collage of costume ideas. The stuffed raven on the counter wears a Hallowe'en mask...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Of Witches, Warlocks and All Hallow's Eve | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...commission spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Anaya's sympathizers also planned a series of protest rallies, including one outside the U.S. Embassy with Anaya's coffin, before his funeral Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salvador Rebels to Call for Travel Ban | 10/28/1987 | See Source »

This year, two women assistant professors--Judith G. Coffin and Paula A. Sanders--resigned their professorships in European history to accept other offers...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Visiting Prof. Enters University Annals | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

...funeral, which included half a dozen speakers and prayers offered by Buddhist and Christian clergymen, began solemnly on Thursday morning inside Yonsei's leafy campus in western Seoul. At the end of the service, pallbearers hoisted the victim's coffin, draped in a South Korean flag, and carried it on their shoulders in a mass procession leading to the city hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea The Struggle Gains Its Martyr | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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