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- Aug. 17, 1992: Died:Wang Hongwen
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 17, 1992 The Balkans: Must It Go On?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 18
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- <p> 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.
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