Word: ziyang
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...40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was the most public step yet in the grooming of Jiang, 63, to succeed 85-year-old party patriarch Deng Xiaoping. When Jiang, the mayor of Shanghai, was selected in June to replace ousted General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, most Chinese were surprised. An engineer who lacks both a political power base and ties to the increasingly influential military, Jiang was considered a seat warmer ultimately destined for lesser things...
Quan has another claim to local fame: in the middle of his orange groves he has erected a 6-ft. shrine to Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party leader whose tacit support of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square contributed to his ouster in late June. Near the top of the tiled column is a photograph of Zhao -- with Tommy Quan standing at his side in his Seattle Seahawks cap. "Zhao made it all possible," says Quan. "He showed people that incentives can turn China around. Now that he is out of favor, my friends think I should tear my monument...
...they said the case was "under investigation." Said a Western diplomat: "The language is strongly reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution." If the booklet is genuine, he added, "it tends to confirm the view that a lot of attacks that appear to be aimed at ((ousted Communist Party leader)) Zhao Ziyang are in fact directed against Deng himself...
...Jiang settled into his new job, the purge widened against party officials and intellectuals associated with his more moderate predecessor, Zhao Ziyang, who was formally dismissed on June 24 from most of his major posts but not the party. The country was also subjected to an intense campaign aimed at building the visibility of 84-year-old Deng Xiaoping, who used to eschew the cult of personality but has come out of semiretirement to show that he is still firmly in charge. A speech Deng delivered on June 9 defending his order to the army to remove the demonstrators from...
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...