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Urho Kekkonen, president of Finland from 1956 to 1981, was buried as delegations from 40 nations paid their respects. Police estimated that 100,000 people lined the two-mile route from Helsinki’s Lutheran Cathedral to the national cemetery. Kekkonen died Aug. 31 at age 85 after a long illness. President Mauno Koivisto eulogized him as champion of Finland’s neutrality, devoted to building trusting relations with neighboring countries, especially the Soviet Union. However, no high-ranking Soviet was present at the funeral.
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