Family Scatters Deng’s Ashes at Sea
From Times Wire Reports
Weeping uncontrollably, the widow of Deng Xiaoping scattered the ashes of China’s late “paramount leader” from a plane above China’s seas in a final farewell to the man who molded modern China. “Daddy, you have returned to the sea and to nature,” Deng Rong, one of his three daughters, sobbed as the family scattered the ashes mingled with fresh flower petals from a chute in a Russian-made military transport aircraft. “May you rest in peace,” she said in the ceremony, later televised.
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