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...demonstrators were exhorted to press for worldwide disarmament by speakers ranging from Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta to Movie Director Orson Welles. The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., long a prominent antiwar activist, declared the beginning of "the human century" and said, "The first order of the human century is to freeze the weapons so they won't burn the people...
Covered by a rug and preceded by three men holding Palestinian flags, the empty coffin was carried slowly along the main street of the village of Beit Likya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "In spirit and blood we sacrifice you," murmured one of the 250 onlookers, as others shouted, "Palestine is Arab!" The ceremony was a mock funeral for Jihad Ibrahim Badr, 16, one of the two Palestinians killed during the Easter morning shooting on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Both Badr and the other victim, Salah Alyamani, had already been buried in a tiny, fenced-off cemetery underneath...
...funeral, Brezhnev appeared grief-stricken as he shuffled along, supported by aides, behind Suslov's coffin. Before the body was lowered into a grave next to Joseph Stalin's beside the Kremlin Wall, Brezhnev read a eulogy: "While saying goodbye to our comrade, I would like to tell him, 'Sleep peacefully, our dear friend; you have led a great and glorious life...
...stand to suffer more than city folk. According to Thomas Irvin, the state's commissioner of agriculture, cash-crop and grazing acreage both incurred "sizable damage." Said Irvin: "A third of our farmers are already on the borderline of bankruptcy. The storms just put another nail in the coffin...
...always will hold positions alien to Marxism." Perhaps the most telling indication of the failure of Soviet religious restrictions comes in a statistical detail. The Patriarchate annually prints and distributes over 1 million "garlands and prayers," paper strips inscribed with religious pictures and text that are placed in the coffin during Orthodox funerals. Since that is roughly 60% of the annual U.S.S.R. mortality rate, such a large-scale printing can only mean that however irreligious they are supposed to be in life, Russians still are drawn to the church in death...