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...conclusion of the ceremony, Cristina V.Coletta '87, co-chairman of the 350th committeeand John Bender '89, a member of the committee,placed a wreath at the foot of the monument toJohn Harvard
...rural cemetery outside the southern city of Kwangju, a chilly drizzle fell on the 100 identical gray tombstones. As a pair of women sobbed quietly, Kim Young Sam and Lee Min Woo, two of South Korea's foremost opposition leaders, entered the cemetery and solemnly laid a wreath beside the graves. The women's keening rose in a crescendo. For a moment, the visitors stood together in silence, recalling the hundreds killed by government troops in Kwangju after a student uprising six years...
...laid a green wreath with a purple ribbon at the foot of a memorial to the 19, then stepped back and stood silent for a moment...
...sound of bugles blowing taps rolled across the site from which the astronauts had climbed so joyfully, but so briefly, into the air. Employees of the Kennedy Space Center held a memorial service near the stands where the schoolchildren had watched the lift-off. A helicopter then carried a wreath of white chrysanthemums and seven red carnations two miles out to sea and dropped them into the gray water...
...visit was hastily planned and largely unwanted. There were no flashy motorcades, no wreath layings and no banquets. Yet from the moment that Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski shook hands with French President Francois Mitterrand at Paris' Elysee Palace last week, he had achieved what he sought: the stamp of international respectability from a major West European leader. Mitterrand thus became the first Western head of state to receive Jaruzelski since the Polish leader crushed the independent trade union movement, Solidarity, and imposed martial law on the country four years ago this week...