Word: ziyang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Still, the wheelchair man's arrest Thursday was a small reminder that Beijing is not ready to accept the ghosts of what it refers to laconically as "the June 4 incident." Security has been tightened even further at the home of Zhao Ziyang, the disgraced former party general secretary who has been under house arrest for the past nine years. Meanwhile Hong Kong, experiencing its first Tiananmen anniversary under Chinese rule, prepares for its own demonstration Thursday evening. The People's Liberation Army's response will be crucial: If it is muted, it will constitute the first official acceptance...
...battle to be Ambassador to Mexico (TIME Daily) ... The Justice Department is investigating one of Al Gore's top aides and money-raisers (TIME Daily) ... At the FDA's request, Redux and Fen/Phen manufacturers are withdrawing their drugs from the market (TIME Daily) ... Disgraced former Chinese Communist chief Zhao Ziyang, purged after the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, asks the party to reverse its verdict that those protests were a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" (TIME Daily) ... Thirty-three people are missing following a mysterious crash involving a U.S. Air Force transport plane and a German military airliner off the coast of Africa...
BEIJING: As President Jiang Zemin sells his privatization plan to the Communist Party Congress, former premier Zhao Ziyang is causing more headaches for hard-liners by calling for a reassessment of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. The appeal is part of a bid for political rehabilitation by Zhao, who was purged following the massacre for his soft stance toward the protesters, and always maintained that Tiananmen Square was a mistake...
...Yaobang, for pushing political reforms. By this time the only title Deng held was honorary chairman of the Chinese Bridge Association (he had refused all high posts since his 1977 comeback, and in 1989 gave up the critical job as head of the Central Military Commission). Still, Premier Zhao Ziyang admitted to the visiting Mikhail Gorbachev that all major Politburo decisions had to be approved by Deng...
...fickle as it is brutal. Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic has had no fewer than six heirs apparent, not one of whom held that position for more than five years. Deng's earlier choices for succession, Party Secretary Hu Yaobang and Premier Zhao Ziyang, were both unceremoniously dumped when conservatives deemed them overly tolerant of liberal ideas...