Word: mao
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...Mao comes under direct attack, along with his widow...
...Peking neighborhood, residents have been instructed to turn in their old Mao badges to local authorities. In the late Chairman's home town of Shaoshan in Hunan province, a hotel built to accommodate a crush of reverent pilgrims stands empty and silent. In Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, the municipal party committee has decided to tear down the huge central statue of Mao that was built in 1968 with funds that had originally been earmarked for a sports center. Signs of a careful, calculated effort by China's current leadership to reduce the status of the once venerated...
...attack was published in the official Communist Party newspaper, People's Daily, which, for the first time ever, acknowledged that Mao "personally initiated and led the Cultural Revolution." It was a mistake, the paper added, that "brought grave misfortune to the party and the people." The denunciation seemed to tip the scales to a negative balance in the long and highly calibrated reassessment of Mao's historic rule...
...paradoxically, it seemed to provide the prime defendant in the trial of the Gang of Four, Jiang Qing, with ammunition for her defense. Ever since the trial opened in late November, Jiang has claimed that her actions could not be criminal since they had the approval not only of Mao but also of esteemed Premier Chou Enlai...
...argue the innocence of the accused. Since most of the defendants have already admitted their "counterrevolutionary crimes," the lawyers' role had been reduced to pointing out the defendants' contrite attitude and asking for lenient sentences. The main exception to that pattern is likely to be Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, who in her last court appearance was hustled from the chamber after she angrily attacked both a witness and a judge as "liars" and "traitors." When it comes her turn to make her defense, possibly this week, Jiang Qing is almost certain to make a highly embarrassing...