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- <text id=91TT1287>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: A Widow Dies In China
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- A Widow Dies In China
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By SIDNEY URQUHART/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> Beijing sources say that Jiang Qing, 77, widow of Chairman
- Mao Zedong and ringleader of the infamous Gang of Four,
- committed suicide late last month. She is believed to have
- hanged herself at the suburban Beijing villa where she had been
- under virtual house arrest since her trial and conviction 10
- years ago for helping to carry out the Cultural Revolution that
- bloodied China from 1966 to 1976. Jiang, who was known to have
- throat cancer, may have wished to cut short her suffering. Her
- death comes at an awkward time for the Beijing government,
- concerned just now with the anniversary of the June 1989
- massacre in Tiananmen. Although Jiang had nothing to do with
- that event, a public announcement of her death could conceivably
- ignite a new wave of disturbances.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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