11.   The police tried in vain to persuade the family not to have a public funeral.

12.   Hezbollah holds public funerals for its guerrillas killed by Israeli forces, with processions meant to mobilize the population against the Israeli occupation.

13.   Clerides and his entire cabinet joined thousands of mourners in a very public funeral for Isaac on Wednesday afternoon.

14.   The service of songs, held in the capital, Abuja, will be followed by a public funeral in his home town of Ibadan on Friday.

15.   Mrs. Mandela managed last week to defuse a separate row with her husband sparked by her scathing criticism of the government at a public funeral.