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MILESTONES, Page 18
DIED. Wang Hongwen, 57, youngest member of China's Gang of
Four during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; of a liver ailment;
in Beijing. He and the three other Gang members were responsible
for purging tens of thousands of party members and
intellectuals and launching ultra-leftist ideological and
political campaigns. In 1981 he was sentenced to life in prison
for wrongful persecution and plotting to overthrow the
government.