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...suspended death sentence for Mao's widow...
...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...
DIED. Nadezhda Mandelstam, 81, doughty widow of the major Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who preserved her husband's work after his death in a concentration camp in 1938, making possible the 1974 publication of a small selection of his poetry in the Soviet Union; of heart disease; in Moscow. Her own memoirs, Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), powerful chronicles of life in Stalinist Russia, had to be smuggled out of the U.S.S.R. to be published...