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Article: Chinese replace Zhao with hard-line leader
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 25, 1989
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BEIJING China's Communist Party fired its moderate leader, Zhao
Ziyang, on Saturday and replaced him with a Shanghai party boss who
moved swiftly to quell pro-democracy protests in his city.
The new general secretary of the 47 million-member party is
Jiang Zemin, 62, a university-educated technocrat who has served as
mayor and party secretary of Shanghai, China's largest city.
The first three executions after the crackdown on the
pro-democracy movement took place in Shanghai.
The party also purged Hu Qili, who shared the 69-year-old Zhao's
sympathy for the student-led movement for a freer society and served
with him on the Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's
highest-ranking ...