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- PEOPLE, Page 54Rest in Pieces
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Kathleen Brady
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- What if they blew up Mao Zedong and no one complained?
- That's just what happened last year, when Peking University
- dynamited its massive statue of the late Great Helmsman. In
- China's capital, the only prominent image left of the once
- ubiquitous Chairman hangs in Tiananmen Square, and already
- there is talk of removing it. Moreover, Mao himself is under
- siege. One proposal would have his embalmed body, on display
- right off the square, cremated "so he can sleep peacefully."
- Currently, the remains are mechanically raised from a freezer
- for viewing, then lowered again at night.
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