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GV & SV People outside chapel (2 shots)
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SV Riot police lined up.
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SV Funeral procession.
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MS Pall-bearers carrying coffin.
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GV Militants singing and giving salute to coffin.
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SV Coffin entering chapel (2 shots)
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SV Demonstrators chanting.
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SCU Leftist leader Debray speaking.
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SV Crowd chanting
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SCU AND SV Other man talking (2 shots)
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SV Security officers outside.
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Background: The body of millionaire Left-wing Publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli - killed mysteriously in a dynamite explosion two weeks ago - was held in Milan yesterday (Tuesday). In the first instance police had announced that the burial would take place in secret to avoid clashes between extreme groups from the Right and the Left. But eventually, some 5,000 Left-wing students and workers were permitted to file past the coffin and line the route to the cemetery - and, in spite of shouts of "Foltrinelli assassinated" and "You will be revenged", there wee none of the outbreaks of violence expected by the massive police guard.

The funeral itself was conducted without priest or religious observance - and among those literary and political figures who participated in the family and close-associates ceremony was the French Leftist leader Regis Debray who made a brief oration, describing the dead man as a "fearless comrade who, although born into wealth, had dedicated his life to the service of the people."
Right-wing groups maintain that Sr. Feltrinelli died when a bomb accidentally exploded as hke was trying to blow up an electricity pylon - but his leftist supporters and associates claim that he was killed in a neo-Fascist frame-up aimed at discrediting the Left.

SYNOPSIS: People gathering outside the chapel of the Feltrinelli family in Milan on Tuesday - to await the funeral of the millionaire left-wing publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who died in a mysterious explosion two weeks earlier Massive police security was on hand - earlier authorities had said the funeral would be held in secret to avoid extremist Right and Left clashes, but eventually permission was given for Signor Feltrinelli's leftist admirers to file past the coffin and line the funeral route. Although shouts of "Feltrinelli assassinated" and "You will be revenged" were heard, the expected violence did not break.

Among the close family and associates who took part in the non-religious funeral ceremony, was French leftist Regis Debray who gave a short oration. Right-wingers maintain Signor Feltrinelli died when a bomb accidentally exploded as he was trying to blow up an electricity pylon. His leftist associates claim this is a neo-Fascist frame-up aimed at discrediting the Left.