Purged Chinese Leader Near Death -Sources
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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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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Wuhan, Feb.
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The funeral of purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, who died on January 17, will take place on Saturday, his family and the government told AFP after days of wrangling about the service.
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The death of China's purged Communist leader Zhao Ziyang gets on limited coverage in the local media.
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China will bar dissidents from a weekend memorial for Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, but will allow some 2,000 other mourners to take part, an activist close to Zhao's family said Friday.
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BEIJING - China would come to a &#39;dead end&#39; if it copied blindly from Western political systems, President Hu Jintao said yesterday on the eve of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) meeting focused on shoring up its own waning image and legitimacy.
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A group of veteran China Communist  Party members has urged the leadership to assure proper funeral  honors for Zhao Ziyang, purged as party chief in 1989 for  sympathising with the Tiananmen Square democracy protests.
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A Chinese man who swindled some 66,000 dollars out of four people by claiming he was revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen, who died in 1925, was jailed for 11 years, state media has reported.
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Secrecy shrouded a meeting of China&#39;s Communist Party for a third day Saturday, but a Hong Kong newspaper added to speculation that military chief Jiang Zemin would
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Zhao Ziyang, the former general secretary of China's Communist Party, lived under house arrest for 15 years, not far from the government offices where he once led China.
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Thousands queued at Beijing's Mao   Zedong Mausoleum on Saturday for a glimpse of the embalmed   corpse of the former Great Helmsman on the 30th anniversary of   his death but Chinese state media kept coverage of the event   low-key.
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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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Secrecy shrouded a meeting of China's  Communist Party for a third day Saturday, but a Hong Kong  newspaper added to speculation that military chief Jiang Zemin  would give up his last post and complete the succession to  party chief and president Hu Jintao.
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Zhao Ziyang, who was ousted as China's Communist Party leader after sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests and became a symbol of the era's shattered hopes, died Monday after 15 years under house arrest. He was 85.
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The United States on Tuesday called China's purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, a "man of moral courage" as Beijing strove to downplay coverage of his death.
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BEIJING -- China's communists were set to wrap up a key leadership meeting today amid speculation over whether former president Jiang Zemin is giving up his last major post, accelerating a handover of power to his successor, Hu Jintao.
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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.