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Flags at the base dropped to half-staff, and preparations were begun for a memorial service this week to be attended by President Reagan. Later, two-man military teams began carrying out a duty as difficult as any combat the legendary division has experienced. At houses and apartments across the U.S., the grim messengers knocked on doors to deliver the feared official notification: the Eagles had fallen...
...India, "she" meant Indira. All around Connaught Place, the capital's commercial center, there was the sound of steel shutters slamming down as shop after shop closed for twelve days of mourning. By late afternoon, New Delhi had become a ghostly city of empty streets. Flags were lowered to half-staff. On television, prayers were offered by priests and holy men representing India's main religions and sects. Patrols were quietly posted around the darkened Sikh temples to protect them from attack. From Amritsar, the five Sikh high priests at the Golden Temple expressed their "shock" and "deep grief over...
...communicate? "Mostly with our eyes. In a lot of ways, it's more forceful." The news of Yuri Andropov's death arrived about the same time as Zimiatov. But no one suggested that the team withdraw. With both Soviet and Yugoslav flags at half-staff, fun and Games continued...
...answered, "That's for those who did it to wonder about and worry about." Reagan, he said, would consult with the French, Italian, British and Lebanese governments before announcing the other decisions that were made. That night, the President signed a proclamation ordering the lowering of American flags to half-staff until...
Barely a month after the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, flags were again at half-staff throughout South Korea. Nightclubs, bars and movie theaters were shut down for three days; store clerks, officeworkers and government officials wore black ties or black ribbons of mourning. As the flag-draped coffins were brought home, the anguished wails of newly widowed women and bereft families once again echoed through the corridors of Seoul's Kimpo Airport...