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...star defendant last week at the great show trial in Peking was once again Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Tse-tung and head of China's notorious Gang of Four. In the dock for the third time since the proceedings began on Nov. 20 Jiang seemed calmly defiant and unrepentant as she listened to the most serious charge against her: organizing the persecution of former Head of State Liu Shaoqi during the chaotic Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. Liu, who died in disgrace in 1969, was posthumously restored to favor last year...
University experts agreed recently that the trial of the Gang of Four--former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's widow and three members of the Politburo during his rule--should impugn Mao's image in the minds of the Chinese people. But at the same time, they doubted that the trial represents the adoption of Western legal procedures in the People's Republic...
Yesterday, the official Xinhua news agency reported that Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, admitted in court that she led a group in preparing false evidence against then Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and ordered the arrest of his wife on charges she was an American...
...host of heinous crimes that took place during the Cultural Revolution. The charges specify that 727,420 Chinese were "persecuted" during that period, and that 34,274 died, though the often vague indictment did not specify exactly how. Among the chief victims: onetime Chief of State Liu Shaoqi, whose widow Wang Guangmei, herself imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, attended the trial as an observer...
...snapped them up because they looked racy, yet cost as little as $2,368. Older folks bought them as second cars that had much more pizazz than the Volkswagen Beetle. Whooped a rejuvenated Texas bachelor of 44 in a letter to Ford: "Man, this pony is the greatest. A widow with 7,000 acres came 60 miles so I could take her riding in it. I thought the jig was up for me. Thank you, thank you, thank...