Family of China's Zhao Forgoes State Funeral -Source
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The family of purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang has decided to forgo a state funeral, sparing China's leaders a sensitive decision on whether to hold a high-profile ceremony that they fear could trigger protests.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's  Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army crackdown on  the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in hospital on  Monday, his family and the government said. He was 85.
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CAOTANG, China -- This week in Caotang village, members of the Huang family were preparing for the Chinese New Year by making traditional dishes, scrubbing their already spotless homes and paying their respects to the family patriarch.
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When fallen liberal Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang died in 1989, his family debated whether his body be clad in a business suit to mark him as a reformer or the more customary Mao jacket of an ideologue.
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Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese  Communist Party chief who was purged for sympathizing with the  Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, lay in a deep coma Sunday and  could die at any time, a source close to his family said.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao left here for Kyrgyzstan and Russia a day after embattled Russian oil giant Yukos said it was slashing supplies to China in a move analysts said was designed to cause maximum embarrassment in Moscow.
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Zhao Ziyang, former Chinese Communist Party chief who was purged for sympathizing with the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, lay in a deep coma on Sunday and could die at any time, a source close to his family said.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China&#39;s Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, turned 85 on Sunday in poor health and living his 15th year under house arrest.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has ruled out a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative &quot;iron lady&quot; who governed the nation throughout the 1980s, a spokeswoman said.
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BEIJING -- One by one, the mourners pinned on white flowers and stepped into the Beijing courtyard home where China's purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest for almost 16 years.
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Zhao Ziyang, a Chinese reformist  toppled as Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army  crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in  hospital Monday, his family said. He was 85.
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NAUDERO, Pakistan  - Thousands of mourners wept and beat their heads in grief as the body of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's slain former prime minister, was carried out of her ancestral home on her funeral procession on Friday.
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In Beijing Saturday, mourners braved police presence to pay respects at purged premier's funeral.
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Ordinary Chinese bade farewell Wednesday to Zhao Ziyang as security agents watched, filing past a black-draped portrait of the late Communist Party leader in the villa where he spent 15 years under house arrest after being ousted for sympathizing with democracy activists.
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China kept a close eye on dissidents Sunday, a sign of the government's unease over potentially widespread mourning over the death of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who fell from power for sympathizing with pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989.
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Grieving relatives scuffled with guards Friday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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The death of China's purged Communist leader Zhao Ziyang gets only limited coverage in the local media.