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...decided to fly to Paris almost as soon as he learned of De Gaulle's death; in a message to Pompidou, he noted that "greatness knows no national boundaries." Other mourners included Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, President Giuseppe Saragat of Italy, Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath...
...Cushing turned over his diocese to the Most Reverend Humberto S. Medeiros, an activist bishop who had previously headed the diocese of Brownsville, Texas. "The will to live will be gone," predicted an old friend. Said another: "He's not able to do anything else except be Archbishop of Boston...
Died. Richard Cardinal Cushing, 75, retired archbishop of Boston and confessor for the Kennedys (see RELIGION...
Cushing had been in failing health in recent years, and looked visibly weakened as he presided over the installation of his successor, Archbishop Humberto Medeiros, last month. The official announcement of his death said that he succumbed to "the complications of a long standing malignancy...
...many Catholics for his support of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy at the time of her marriage to Aristotle Onassis two years ago. He offered his resignation at the time, but then retracted it. Cushing's body will lie in state at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross until Saturday, when Archbishop Medeiros will preside at a Requiem Mass concelebrated by four other bishops...