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...prices 10% to 50% less than those charged by the organized undertakers (Paris average: $1,170), Leclerc will give clients the ultimate sendoff. His prices include a coffin, a golden hearse, pallbearers and burial. But the price, not the frills, he feels, is the attraction...
...home front, the next Prime Minister will have to deal with the growing friction between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews. Tensions have arisen over issues ranging from burial practices to bus service on the Sabbath. In Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, a dispute has broken out over whether restaurants and cinemas could be opened on the Sabbath. The "ultraOrthodox" Jews, as they are known in Israel, have repeatedly battled police in their protests against archaeological digs outside Jerusalem's Old City. When a university professor inadvertently drove through one of their neighborhoods in Jerusalem on a Friday night, thus violating...
...examined for ten days; complete toxicity tests might take a month. The dark carcass of the son of Seattle Slew was sent to Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., for more than the traditional burying of the head, heart and hoofs. As Claiborne's only Derby winner, he rated burial in an oaken casket with a silver lid lined in the farm's yellow racing color...
...Robert Williams was convicted of murdering Pamela Powers, 10, in Iowa. That conviction was appealed to the Supreme Court and was thrown out in 1977 because of a famous illegal police interrogation-the "Christian burial" ploy...
While detectives were transporting Williams across the state, and be fore the corpse had been discov ered, one officer pleaded with him, saying that the parents "should be entitled to a Christian burial for the little girl." Moved, Williams led them to the body. Since police had promised his lawyer they would not interrogate him, the court threw out his statements. Williams was convicted at a second trial, in which evidence about Pamela's body was admitted but not Williams' involvement in the discovery...