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...Chen's early reports to Deng, for instance, the student petitions were exaggerated and distorted, and were described as "attacks" on key government offices. Later, Li would use the occasion of a visit by Zhao Ziyang's to North Korea as the chance to push Deng to define the student movement, whose words were then used as the blueprint for the April 26 editorial. It seems clear that these actions were all politically motivated, and the student movement was used by Li as a way to attack the reform faction in the CCP led by Zhao Ziyang. Once the protests...
...denouement of the papers, when Deng decides to order martial law, occurs in a debate between him and Zhao Ziyang, the reform-minded General Secretary. "Of course we want to build a socialist democracy," Deng says. "But we can't possibly do it in a hurry, and still less do we want that Western-style stuff. If our 1 billion people jumped into multiparty elections, we'd get chaos like the 'all-out civil war' we saw during the Cultural Revolution... After thinking long and hard about this, I've concluded that we should bring in the People's Liberation...
...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...