The Washington Post, March 29th, 1987
Two leading Chinese officials publicly criticized ousted Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang today as "weak and ineffective." In a press conference, Vice Premiers Yao Yilin and Li Peng blamed Hu for allowing student prodemocracy demonstrations to spread last December and for failing to combat a trend toward "bourgeois liberalization," a term used to describe western democratic ideas. Hu resigned as party chief on Jan. 16, but until now the Chinese government has said little in public to explain his ouster. A confidential party document issued in January said that Hu had been guilty of six major m...
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