Hua Guofeng, who briefly succeeded Mao Zedong as premier and Communist Party chairman of China before being pushed aside by rival Deng Xiaoping, has died at the age of 87, state-run media reported on Wednesday. ...full story at cbcnews
from cbcnews on Wed, Aug 20 2008
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