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Another message that emerged from Beijing was that the power struggle at top levels of the party had finally been settled. On Saturday, following a two-day meeting of the Central Committee, officials announced the ouster of Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. In a report read by Premier Li, Zhao was $ accused of holding "unshirkable responsibilities for the shaping of the turmoil" of the past two months. Zhao was also stripped of his other official posts, making his disgrace more complete than that of his predecessor Hu Yaobang, who was allowed to remain on the Central Committee following unrest...
...increasingly turned toward the Pacific rather than the Atlantic. No one asked him what was going on in Europe, only whether he liked it in California. Last month a television-news crew staked out the portals of the Beverly Hills Hotel as the visiting Jacques Chirac, the former French Premier and still well-known mayor of Paris, strode inside, trailing limousines and entourage. The TV crew failed to budge. Turns out it was there to cover a more important celebrity, wrestler Hulk Hogan...
From June 4 to June 8, as the leadership was enveloped in an unseen struggle for power, the world searched for signs of reason amid the turmoil. The country's rulers finally began to re-emerge, but not reason and not humanity. First came Premier Li Peng, 60, the front man for the regime's hard-line faction, giving the lie to rumors that he had suffered a gunshot wound. On TV he praised the soldiers who had killed and maimed to wrest the capital from the demonstrators. "Comrades, you must be exhausted," Li said. "Thank you for your hard...
After a decade of reform that the Chinese had hoped would lead to steady economic and social progress, why had chaos and barbarity suddenly descended on Beijing? No answer had meaning for long. Even as Li and Yang appeared at Deng's side, speculation was rife that the Premier and the chief of state were dispensable. Rumors about Deng's frail health were not resolved by his appearance on television: his left hand trembled, his face was puffy, his eyes ringed with dark circles. But as he spoke, his words grew in coherency and exuded authority. At one point...
...document leaked through Hong Kong claims Deng then demanded action and the suppression of all perceived threats to the party's central authority -- namely himself. In spite of Zhao's refusal to support the imposition of martial law in Beijing, Deng pressed ahead with plans for military rule with Premier Li and President Yang...