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Shouting radical slogans from the Cultural Revolution, Jiang Qing was ignominiously hustled out of the courtroom by uniformed bailiffs. The normally grave panel of judges and prosecutors applauded as the disgraced widow of Mao Tse-tung was declared guilty of "counterrevolutionary crimes" and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. The other nine defendants, each standing in turn to face the court, heard their verdicts with the same passive expressions they had worn since the trial began on Nov. 20. Thus, in a dramatic Sunday morning Peking court session, did China, after a mysterious delay of several weeks, conclude...
...Chinese government is trying to prove the credibility of its new legal system by suspending the death sentence of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, Jiang Qing, Harvard experts on China said yesterday. Jiang was given two years to reform...
...they will execute her or not." That comment last week, by a university professor who had been imprisoned during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, typified the growing curiosity of China's millions about the outcome of the show trial of Mao Tse-tung's widow Jiang Qing and nine other Chinese "evildoers" in Peking. Hearings ended nearly four weeks ago, after the prosecution demanded the death penalty for Jiang and her notorious Gang of Four. The sentences could finally come this week. However, according to TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein, the failure of the court to deliver...
...dilemma for the leaders seems to be this: Should they execute Mao's widow, or impose the death penalty but not carry it out? Peking sources say that powerful Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping fears that executing Jiang Qing would not only deeply offend those Chinese who still cherish the memory of Mao but would also turn her into a martyr. Deng, however, has apparently not convinced members of the Politburo, as well as other party leaders who suffered at Jiang's hands during the Cultural Revolution, that executing her would do more harm than good. "There are different...
Many Chinese, particularly those who suffered during the Cultural Revolution, remained totally unmoved by Jiang Qing's defense. "They wouldn't let me go to the trial as an observer," said one middle-level bureaucrat who spent four years in Peking's Qincheng Prison during the Cultural Revolution. "They were afraid I'd start shouting, 'Kill the bitch! Kill the bitch!' " Others grumbled that the case was a classic show trial whose purpose was only to give an appearance of legality to the vengeful elimination of the once powerful radical faction. "There...