Word: mourned
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Responsibility for the bombing remained uncertain. The Syrians, who control West Beirut, blamed Lebanon's Christians; the Christians accused the Syrians. But fittingly, the death of the peace-loving cleric inspired a rare display of unity: Christians and Muslims joined in a one-day nationwide strike to mourn his loss...
...lasted 16 hours, as students from 32 colleges paraded 25 miles from the university belt in northwestern Beijing to Tiananmen Square in the city's center. It was the latest and by far the largest in a series of protests that began when students gathered on April 16 to mourn the death of former Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, whose tolerance of demonstrations two years ago precipitated his downfall. The marchers, divided into well-organized ranks according to their school, chanted and waved red and white banners. When they tired of singing the Internationale and the national anthem...
Night after night, arriving on bicycles or on foot, they converged on Beijing's gigantic Tiananmen Square. Gathering ostensibly to mourn the ousted Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang, who had died the previous weekend at 73, the throngs of university students actually had a much more provocative, and important, goal in mind: a demand for greater democratization in the world's most populous country. Implicit in the spreading protest campaign was a call for a shake-up in China's Communist leadership, including the retirement of Deng Xiaoping, 84, after a decade in power. In a scene never witnessed...
Many residents mourn the passing of historic homes like Crosby's. Among the homes that have vanished or will soon vanish are those that once belonged to Ray Milland, Jeanette MacDonald, James Coburn and Jack Benny. "We're losing a great deal as a culture," says Alan Bergman of the Los Angeles-based Victorian Register, a real estate agency that specializes in vintage homes. "We're losing our heritage, the tolerance for things that are different...
...government proclaimed today a national holiday, asking all Japanese to "suitably mourn" Hirohito and observe a minute of silence at noon...