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<text id=91TT1287>
<title>
June 10, 1991: A Widow Dies In China
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 10, 1991 Evil
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
A Widow Dies In China
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<p>By SIDNEY URQUHART/Reported by Linda Williams
</p>
<p> Beijing sources say that Jiang Qing, 77, widow of Chairman
Mao Zedong and ringleader of the infamous Gang of Four,
committed suicide late last month. She is believed to have
hanged herself at the suburban Beijing villa where she had been
under virtual house arrest since her trial and conviction 10
years ago for helping to carry out the Cultural Revolution that
bloodied China from 1966 to 1976. Jiang, who was known to have
throat cancer, may have wished to cut short her suffering. Her
death comes at an awkward time for the Beijing government,
concerned just now with the anniversary of the June 1989
massacre in Tiananmen. Although Jiang had nothing to do with
that event, a public announcement of her death could conceivably
ignite a new wave of disturbances.
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</body></article>
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