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  • Veteran Chinese leader Bo Yibo dies (one of the "Eight Immortals", dead at 98)

    01/16/2007 9:12:11 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 10 replies · 365+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/16/07 | Joe McDonald - ap
    BEIJING - Bo Yibo, the last of the "Eight Immortals" who led China through economic reforms and the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has died, an official news agency reported Tuesday. He was 98. Bo's death was announced in a one-sentence dispatch by the Xinhua News Agency. It gave no date or cause of death, but Hong Kong's Phoenix Satellite Television, which has close ties to Beijing, said Bo died Monday at a hospital in the Chinese capital. Bo, the father of China's commerce minister, was a veteran of the 1949 communist revolution and a former vice premier. He was the...