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...DIED. RUI XINGWEN, 78, former aide to ousted Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, who died under house arrest earlier this year; in Beijing. As a senior propaganda official under Zhao in the late 1980s, Rui helped usher in a brief period of loosened media controls and a freer environment for ideas that gave rise to 1989's democracy demonstrations. When Zhao was purged in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Rui was demoted and never regained his earlier stature. His death has not been reported by mainland Chinese media...
...often appeared on Chinese television to promote government policy are being detained for anti-Chinese activities? According to Lau, the 55-year-old reporter was picked up by Chinese security personnel on April 22 while in Guangzhou to collect a top-secret manuscript by a friend of Zhao Ziyang, the popular ex-Premier purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, who died under house arrest in January. Although the manuscript's exact contents are not clear, a previous memoir by the friend, Zong Fengming, who was able to visit Zhao under house arrest, quoted the former leader as saying that calls...
...didn't know if anyone would consent to be photographed, but once the word got around, we got amazing cooperation." For one thing, Adams' sessions never took more than ten minutes. "In fact," he says, "the Prime Ministers of Britain, Italy and China [Margaret Thatcher, Bettino Craxi and Zhao Ziyang] all showed up at the same time, and we took three different sets of portraits in 15 minutes...
...time former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and Premier Zhao Ziyang died in January, he seemed to have already vanished from the consciousness of most citizens of China. Because he had been under house arrest ever since that fateful May night in 1989 when he tearfully appeared in Tiananmen Square, and because the leaders who succeeded him controlled the media, Zhao became a kind of political antimatter...
...Zhao's Progress When former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang died in Beijing last month after more than 15 years under house arrest, the political reforms he had hoped for were still unrealized [Jan. 31]. But Zhao had more success with other goals, including liberalizing the economy and fostering closer ties with the U.S. TIME reported on Zhao's first visit to America 21 years ago in a Jan. 16, 1984, article...