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Title:USSR: Hundreds of Mourners Pay Their Last Respects to Andrei Gromyko
Date:2nd July 1989
Summary:Former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko died on July 2 after retiring from the nation's presidency nine months earlier. Hundreds of mourners queued to pay their last respects at his lying-in-state on July 5, the day he was buried in Moscow. A military guard of honour fired a salute as his coffin was lowered into the ground. Gromyko served as Foreign Minister for 28 years.
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Location:RUSSIA MOSCOW
Reuters ID:LDL0011P35Z7Z
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