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Horte Gaetan lies in his coffin and peace returns at last to Bogota.

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Idol of Colombia's working men and little people, his assassination touched off a bloody

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upheaval in which 500 died. His widow, shown with their 10-year-old daughter, at first

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refused a funeral until conservative President Pérez resigned. Then the government proposed

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that Béry will be in Gaetan's home, which would become an honored shrine. And so the

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thud of spades in the room where once he worked, writes an end to the promising career of the

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beloved Gaetan. Around the liberal leader's home, a national park is planned, crowned

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by a statue of the martyr. Now from all Colombia, the men and women who remembered Gaetan as

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their friend and mentor come to do him reverence. But the sorrow is not alone for the liberal

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chieftain. It is for Bogota's 500 unburied dead and 2,000 injured as well.

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Senora Gaetan and daughter Gloria join 20,000 other mourners in the long procession. There

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is no disorder, though not a policeman or soldier is on duty at the service. Wearing red and

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black armbands, liberal party members control the mob. The world will not soon forget the

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whose violent death ignited one of the worst disasters in South American history. Back

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in session at the quickly repaired Capitolio, the Pan American Conference passes an anti-communist

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resolution. Though not blaming the Reds for Gaetan's death, the conferees remember red

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slogans which greeted their arrival, Down with Truman, Down with Marshall. The conference

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answers with a request for improved economic conditions to wipe out communism's breeding

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areas.