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(Former) Chinese Premier ZHAO ZIYANG Reported Dead (Breaking)
Kyodo News, Tass, etc. ^
| 30 April 2003
| AmericanInTokyo
Posted on 04/30/2003 6:07:52 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
It was reported on TASS and a couple of other news sources (I am reading them in Japanese), that former Chinese Premier ZHAO ZIYANG has died in Beijing. If true, he would have been 84.
If you recall, he was removed from power as he sided with the students during the 1989 Tienanmen Freedom uprising. There is a famous photo of him (above) addressing the young Chinese protestors with a little bullhorn, down in Tienanmen, before Deng Xiaoping ordered the tanks in.
From Tass, and others. Breaking. (9:05 am Eastern time Wednesday)
TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; communistparty; coupdetat; crackdown; death; premier; tienanmen; zhao; zhaoziyang
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Lead poisoning.
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:08:47 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Standing tough under Stars and Stripes)
To: CholeraJoe
It wasn't cholera?
3
posted on
04/30/2003 6:10:02 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Arkansas coincidence?
To: CholeraJoe
It wasn't the Kung Flu?
To: COBOL2Java
Unless he had something 'on' Bill Clinton and against Bubba and Hitlary, I don't believe it was an "Arkancide."
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:12:35 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: Constitution Day; AmericanInTokyo
He was old. Old guys die.
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:12:51 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Standing tough under Stars and Stripes)
To: AmericanInTokyo
At the time of Tienanmen Zhao Zyiang was Secretary General of Chinese Communist Party, not the Prime Minister.
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:13:06 AM PDT
by
JackTom
To: AmericanInTokyo
"This just in. Chinese Premier ZHAO ZIYANG is still dead!"
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:13:16 AM PDT
by
texson66
("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
To: JackTom
Who said "Prime Minister"?
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:13:59 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: CholeraJoe
Wonder what kind of funeral? Quiet and discreet, or 'state' with some kind of honors. He did, after all, take on (successor) Premier Li Peng and Deng Xiaopiong and Jiang Zemin and all that rotten crowd.
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:18:21 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: CholeraJoe
He was old. Old guys die. Kill me before I get old. I don't want to die!
(I think we have a great start to a country song here)
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:18:29 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(California wine beats French wine in blind taste tests. Boycott French wine.)
To: SamAdams76
You can always move to The Netherlands, where they released the figures on 'euthansia' performed last year: nearly 1,800 souls taken by Man.
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:19:30 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
RE #1
While Hua Kuo-Feng(Mao's successor) is still alive, Zhao Zi-Yang is already dead. I heard that Hua is 83 years old.
Perhaps Zhao caught SARS, too.
To: texson66
"This just in. Chinese Premier ZHAO ZIYANG is still dead!" LOL
"And Chairman Mao has the sniffles!"
To: AmericanInTokyo
What is the Japanese perspective on the chair-shuffling going on in Beijing?
New blood in their leadership, or deck chairs on the Titanic?
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:30:51 AM PDT
by
texas booster
(Insert Piltdown comment here. Must keep up with other FReepers.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Hua Guo-feng! Now THERE's a 'blast from the past!'
That was the biggest farce of orchestrated communist coup propaganda, when Hua aligned with some forces after Mao kicked the bucket in 1976, and the Gang of Four were sidelined; they had those propaganda depictions all around China with Mao on his deathbed, holding Hua's hand standing above him, and the made up Mao 'last words' quote: "With you at the helm, I can now rest easily." (Ni ban shi, wo fang xin))
Sheesh.
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:39:41 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: CholeraJoe
SARS...but they'll never admit it.
To: SamAdams76
I think we have a great start to a country song hereIt was raining the day my momma got out of prison
And I went to get her in my old pickup truck
As we drove across the tracks
She turned to me with tears flowing and said
"Son I don't want to get old, shoot me before I die."
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posted on
04/30/2003 6:45:33 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Standing tough under Stars and Stripes)
To: AmericanInTokyo
President for Life?
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