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Article: Deep Rift With Deng Behind Hu's Ouster;Physicist's Ouster from Party Confirmed
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- The Washington Post
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- January 20, 1987
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China's Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang was forced to resign
because of a split with senior leader Deng Xiaoping that went much
deeper than has been previously disclosed, East European and other
sources said today.
No details of Hu's errors have been publicly announced, but an
East European source said acting party chief Zhao Ziyang told a
visiting Hungarian communist party delegation yesterday that Hu, as
party leader, had been given "several warnings" that he was deviating
from party policies.
According to this source, Zhao told the Hungarians that Hu
"failed to follow the instructions" of an historic party Central
Committee meeting in December 1978, when Deng Xiaoping first laid out ...