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MILESTONES, Page 89
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.