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- Apr. 24, 1989: Died:Hu Yaobang
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 24, 1989 The Rat Race
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 89
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- <p> DIED. Hu Yaobang, 73, General Secretary of the Chinese
- Communist Party from 1980 to 1987; of a heart attack; in
- Beijing. A veteran of Mao Zedong's Long March of 1934-35, the
- diminutive Hu was disgraced along with his mentor, Deng
- Xiaoping, during the 1966 Cultural Revolution. After Mao's
- death, the two began a slow return to power. An advocate of
- expanding the market economy and a freer political system, Hu
- was being groomed as a possible successor to Deng as the
- country's senior leader until his ouster and replacement by
- Zhao Ziyang.
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