Word: yaobang
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Partisans of greater democracy in China, however, had little cause for optimism. Purges of intellectuals continued. An ideological campaign gathered force to rescind many of the political and economic freedoms permitted recently by Hu Yaobang, the Communist Party's General Secretary, removed from his post two weeks ago and replaced by Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang. With Fang Lizhi and Author Wang Ruowang already tossed out of the party for advocating "bourgeois liberalism," the purge turned last week to the president and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were removed from office. They had been responsible...
...forced to abandon a hand-picked successor and loyal supporter for committing grave political errors. Deng should have the personal prestige, like Mao again, to ride out this considerable reverse. But the history of Mao's cultural revolution should warn Deng that the demotion of Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang may have started the rot not stopped...
...customary Western- style coat and tie, the anchorman was dressed in a somber blue-gray Mao suit. Behind his head, a backdrop of Chinese characters spelled out the legend AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AN ENLARGED MEETING OF THE POLITBURO. The newscaster's report was brief -- and startling. Hu Yaobang, the man widely expected to succeed Deng Xiaoping, 82, at China's helm, had resigned. Moreover, he had quit as Communist Party chief "after making a self-criticism of his mistakes on major issues." Hu would remain a member of the Politburo and retain his post on the powerful Standing Committee...
...already been removed: Fang Lizhi, a vice president of the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, who has strongly supported demands for more democracy. The biggest loser, however, may be Politburo Member Hu Qili, a leading advocate of political reform, whose position as a likely successor to Hu Yaobang as Communist Party General Secretary seems to have been badly weakened by recent events...
When East German Communist Party Leader Erich Honecker, 74, and Chinese General Secretary Hu Yaobang, 71, got together last week in Peking, it was a little like a school reunion. There were bear hugs, "fraternal kisses" and reminiscences of the good old days. "I haven't seen you in 33 years," said Hu as he embraced the East German party chief in Peking's Zhongnanhai compound. Ho- necker presented Hu with a photograph taken during their last meeting at a Communist youth congress in Rumania 33 years...