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...DIED. ZHAO ZIYANG, 85, former Chinese Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 for sympathizing with pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. (See Appreciation...
...1980s, Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang arranged similar briefings for his staffers?until he was purged in 1989?but kept them secret to avoid criticism. In contrast, a story on Hu's "study session" hit the front page of the People's Daily, the party's mouthpiece. Hu wants extra points for addressing political reform?but hasn't aced the class...
...political instincts of a prairie dog in falcon country; he twice survived purges by keeping his head down while those of his immediate supervisors were rolling. During the Tiananmen uprising in 1989, Wen was firmly in the camp of reformists and protodemocrats as an aide to party chief Zhao Ziyang. Zhao failed in his bid to oust authoritarian party elders during Tiananmen and has lived under house arrest ever since. Wen avoided that fate by telling interrogators he was just obeying his boss. Now he's one of China's most powerful men. "I suspect he supports political reform," says...
...Beijing Party chief, Chen Xitong. "The congress has resolved very little, and Hu will have to move against someone" in Jiang's camp to show his strength, predicts Wu Guoguang, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a former aide to ex-Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang (who, incidentally, was purged...
...normal society, there would be a variety of voices. This is an abnormal society. It's oppressive. One can hardly breathe - Bao Tong, a former aide to deposed Chinese communist leader Zhao Ziyang a U.N. draft accord on biological weapons. The agreement, which would have strengthened the 30-year ban on germ warfare, was effectively scuppered as U.S. representatives at the U.N. meeting in Geneva claimed it would not achieve its goals and would damage American interests. SPAIN Tourists Targeted Police in the southern tourist resort of M?laga defused a powerful car bomb planted by the Basque separatist organization...