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Mikhail Gorbachev. The name, the beaming, birthmarked visage and the outstretched, crowd-caressing hand have become so familiar in the past 33 months that it is difficult to remember the man's predecessors.Vague images come to mind of stone-faced figures frozen in mid-frown atop the Lenin Mausoleum. Gargoyles in fur hats. Perhaps Gorbachev's most obvious accomplishment is that he has reinvented the idea of a Soviet leader. Virtually everything about his country and its place in world affairs seems less ponderous, less opaque than it did before he became General Secretary of the Communist Party...
...Beijing's Tiananmen Square, long queues of Chinese pilgrims enter the imposing mausoleum of Chairman Mao for a fleeting glimpse of the flag-draped body. The scars of the Maoist era are still too fresh for the Chinese to emulate completely the Soviet Union's new view of history. But Deng's new society has found its own way of demythologizing the past. Visitors leaving the monument mob souvenir stands to buy cartons of cigarettes or candy boxes embossed with a golden silhouette of the mausoleum...
...troops protecting the country's sprawling frontiers. Tourists and Muscovites strolling through Red Square that evening looked up to see a small single-engine plane coming in low from the south. It circled the great plaza, barely clearing the red brick walls of the Kremlin and buzzing the Lenin Mausoleum before finally touching down. At about 7:30 p.m. the little craft came to rest on the cobblestones behind onion-domed St. Basil's Cathedral. Bystanders scattered. Police gaped in astonishment. Official black sedans sped to the spot...
...Stanford approves the plan, Reagan would be buried in a crypt next to Stanford's Reagan Library. Architectural plans submitted with Reagan's request call for a marble structure similar to the Stanford family mausoleum, according to The Daily...
...tree at which the terrorists hid four Kalashnikov machine guns and 15 hand grenades used in the airport attack. The safety plugs for the grenades were still there. He also directed authorities to Paris' Montparnasse Cemetery, where they found a bomb timing device in a toothpaste tube inside a mausoleum...