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Zoom out Cuban flag at half mast in Revolution Square2. Medium shot flag at half mast at Interior Ministry building in Revolution SquareCubavision 3. Wide of memorial service for Vilma Espin4. Close up of acting...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e1. Zoom out Cuban flag at half mast in Revolution Square\u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium shot flag at half mast at Interior Ministry building in Revolution Square\u003cbr/\u003eCubavision \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of memorial service for Vilma Espin\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of acting President and widower Raul Castro walking toward baskets with rose \u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium of children and grandchildren of Espin and Raul walking \u003cbr/\u003e6. Medium of Raul looking at picture of Vilma Espin \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of ceremony \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of Raul \u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium of Cuban officials placing roses in basket \u003cbr/\u003e10. Medium of National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon and Vice President Carlos Lage \u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium of Raul shaking hands with mourners \u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of revolutionary Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara's daughter Alina depositing roses in basket\u003cbr/\u003e13. Medium of Alina Guevara walking away from memorial \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque depositing rose\u003cbr/\u003e15. Medium of mourners paying hugging Raul \u003cbr/\u003e16. Medium of Perez Roque walking away from memorial \u003cbr/\u003e17. Medium of Roque shaking hands and hugging Raul \u003cbr/\u003e18. Pull out from photograph of Vilma Espin to wide \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e19. Medium shot men reading newspapers\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up newspaper in hand with pictures and article on Vilma Espin\u003cbr/\u003e21. Medium shot newspaper headlines\u003cbr/\u003e22. Pan right headlines (Spanish) \"Heroine of Clandestiny and Distinguished Combatant, Vilma Espin, Has Died\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Medium shot flag at half mast Maceo monument on Malecon Avenue\u003cbr/\u003e24. Medium people walking to ration bodega\u003cbr/\u003e25. Close up people outside bodega\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Marta Jimenez, Havana Resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a great sorrow for us Cuban women. We will always carry her example to the end.\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide shot Morro Castle with Cuban flag at half mast\u003cbr/\u003eClearly shaken and his eyes filled with tears, acting President Raul Castro paid his respects Tuesday to his late wife Vilma Espin Guillois, a fellow rebel fighter who served for decades as first lady of the Cuban revolution.\u003cbr/\u003eRaul Castro, who has governed Cuba nearly 11 months during his brother Fidel's convalescence, was among top Cuban leaders who filed past a huge black-and-white photograph of Espin atop a red, white and blue Cuban flag, each depositing a pink or yellow rose in her memory.\u003cbr/\u003eCuban state television showed several leaders embracing Raul or shaking his hand during the ceremony inside Havana's Jose Marti Memorial after his wife's death Monday at age 77.\u003cbr/\u003eAuthorities did not give a cause of death for Espin, but she was said to suffer from severe circulatory problems in recent years.\u003cbr/\u003eFormal homages to Espin were scheduled for all day Tuesday across the island of 11.2 (m) million, and Cuban flags will be lowered to half mast at all public buildings and military bases.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a great sorrow for us Cuban women. We will always carry her example to the end,\" Havana resident Maria Jimenez said. \u003cbr/\u003eA historic black-and-white photograph of Espin in military uniform, flanked by her husband, was posted Tuesday morning on the front door of the headquarters of the Federation of Cuban Women, which she helped found more than four decades ago.\u003cbr/\u003eEspin's death was likely to have a profound emotional impact on the Castro brothers at a critical moment in Cuban history. \u003cbr/\u003eShe is the most important revolutionary figure to die since Celia Sanchez, another rebel fighter who was Fidel's closest confidant, succumbed to cancer in 1980. \u003cbr/\u003eNo state funeral will be held. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Espin's wishes, her ashes will be placed in a mausoleum in eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains that contains the remains of other rebel fighters. \u003cbr/\u003eEspin was born in Santiago on April 7, 1930, the daughter of a lawyer for the Bacardi rum distillery there. \u003cbr/\u003eOriginally trained as a chemical engineer in Cuba and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Espin joined street protests after Fulgencio Batista's 1952 coup and became involved in the revolutionary underground.\u003cbr/\u003eWorking with Frank Pais, a regional leader who was assassinated in 1957, Espin eventually assumed leadership of the clandestine urban rebel movement in eastern Cuba, offering her house as its headquarters.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 1958, she sought refuge in the mountains above Santiago, where the Castro bothers commanded their uniformed rebel fighters.\u003cbr/\u003eShe and Raul Castro were married in April 1959, four months after Batista fled the island and rebels marched triumphantly into Santiago, and later Havana. \u003cbr/\u003ePictures in Life magazine showed the bride in an elegant white gown and pearls in her hair. 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