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Ironically, his sudden death by a still un known assassin aroused Kenya's tribal rivalries. As his body lay in state in his Nairobi home last week, his fellow Luo tribesmen closed ranks against the rest of Kenya. Any mourner who was a Luo was welcomed, even if he had been an opponent of Economic and Development Minister Mboya. As the day wore on, Luo bitterness increased and even Mboya's close friends, if they were Kikuyus, Tugens or of any other tribe, were turned away with taunts and stones...
...first hours of De Gaulle's defeat, the jovial, ursine Pompidou was maintaining the respectful silence of a mourner. A onetime classics teacher, he knew how to honor the tragedy of the fall of a great man. But as a former Rothschild banker, he was also well aware of the fund of admiration and good will that the French people hold for him. When the Latin Quarter was a battleground last May and June, De Gaulle cut and ran for Colombey and very nearly quit. Pompidou took over, and in a round-the-clock performance under strong pressure, effectively...
...said, "have been at the very heart of the greatest and most promising revolution in human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious and the sanctified as well as into the obsolete and the useless." He told students to "get off the mourner's bench; you must not cloak yourself in the mantle of a wailing Cassandra. The great revolution represents birth pangs and not death throes, the life force and not the death wish...
...President Johnson demonstrated something more than a presidential duty. He showed that warmth and friendship can play a part in international politics. Can a mourner lessen one's grief? Perhaps not, but for some inexplicable reason he helps somehow. He doesn't do anything, he's just there, that...
...Valerie, Percy stood with his family in a funeral-home receiving line for four hours as grieving friends filed by. Though his eyes occasionally brimmed with tears, he remained sternly in control of himself, automatically wiping his eyes with the back of his hand and speaking individually to each mourner. "We all have problems and we overcome them," he said to one friend. "There has to be a reason for everything." After Valerie's body was cremated and buried in a Winnetka cemetery, the family fled their home for a few days' rest in private...