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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- BUT HAS HE WATCHED REDS? Remember Zhao Ziyang, former
- general secretary of China's Communist Party? He was last seen
- in public on May 19, 1989, during a tearful meeting with
- student hunger strikers in Tiananmen Square. Then came the
- crackdown and Zhao's expulsion from the party. Friends now
- report that Zhao is at peace with his current situation. Small
- wonder. He may have lost his chauffeured Mercedes 500, but he
- still has a staff of five aides and an assigned Nissan that
- comes with, yes, a mini-bar. Zhao seldom leaves his house,
- spending most of his days reading and watching videotapes. One
- acquaintance quotes the ex-leader: "I didn't realize so many
- good movies existed."
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