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DIED. YOUSUF KARSH, 93, portrait photographer who gained international acclaim for his 1941 picture of a defiant Winston Churchill; in Boston...
South African president and co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Nelson Mandela receives an honorary degree before a 25,000-person crowd in Tercentenary Theatre. The ceremony, the third of its kind, joins Mandela with George Washington and Winston Churchill as the only men honored with a degree conferment not directly linked to Commencement or the celebration of a University anniversary...
...prisoners House Republican Whip, has already lapped Democrats in the race to prove who is Israel's strongest ally on Capitol Hill. On April 3, long before Israel's diehard supporters in the Democratic Party had begun to wake up, DeLay visited Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri - site of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain " speech 56 years earlier - to give an impassioned defense of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's military offensive against the Palestinians. Yasir Arafat is "completely untrustworthy," DeLay thundered. Instead of trying to be a neutral broker in the deadly conflict, George Bush should "support Israel...
...ceremonial spectacle of the 29-minute procession that escorted the coffin to its lying-in-state at Westminster Hall, a part of the Houses of Parliament. As black-tied, black-suited TV presenters on every channel pointed out, it was a splendid event, the biggest display of pageantry since Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965. Draped in the Queen Mother's standard, topped by her diamond-encrusted crown and a single wreath of white roses and freesias from her daughter bearing the simple message, "In loving memory, Lilibet," the coffin was borne through crowd-lined streets on a gun carriage...
...Queen Mother. First will come several days of private mourning, which will be followed by a period of public mourning, during which her body will lie in state at Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament complex. After services at Westminster Abbey ? the first state funeral since that of Winston Churchill in 1965 ? and a private service at the royal chapel in Windsor, she will be laid to rest beneath a simple slab of black marble beside her husband, King George...