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ASSASSINATION AFTERMATH : Dignitaries

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More than 40 past and present world leaders will attend the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today. They include:

* President Clinton

* Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating

* Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky

* British Prime Minister John Major, Prince Charles

* Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev

* Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien

* Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

* Dutch Queen Beatrix, Prime Minister Wim Kok

* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

* Estonian President Lennart Meri

* French President Jacques Chirac

* German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, President Roman Herzog

* Georgian leader Eduard A. Shevardnadze

* Icelandic Prime Minister David Oddsson

* Irish Prime Minister John Bruton

* Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini

* Jordan’s King Hussein

* Lithuanian Prime Minister Adolfas Slezevicius

* Moldovan President Mircea I. Snegur

* Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy

* Portuguese President Mario Soares

* Russian Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin

* Slovenian President Milan Kucan

* South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hong Koo

* Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, also representing the European Union

* Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson

* Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller

* Ukrainian President Leonid D. Kuchma

* U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher

* Former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush

* Former U.S. Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Henry A. Kissinger

* U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali

* UNESCO Director General Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Source: Times wires

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