On November 16, 2005, Mark Magnier contributed the story for Los
Angeles Times that China announced plans on Tuesday to commemorate the
90th anniversary of the birth of deposed leader Hu Yaobang. Hu's death
sparked the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests.
Read the article in
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-yaobang16nov16,0,4004978.story
An outline of the article:
* Analysts and Communist Party members cautioned that this decision
should in no way be considered a step toward reevaluating the violent
crackdown 16 years ago. Rather, they said, this move reflects a
course adjustment by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
* Chinese government released a lengthy do***ent last month arguing
that it was making progress and that its single-party state was a
form of democracy.
* After Mao Tse-tung's death in 1976, China initially followed a "two
whatevers" policy, namely that whatever Mao said was right, and
whatever he advocated Chinese should follow.
* Hu Yaobang shepherded an im****tant article into the May 10, 1978,
Guangming Daily that challenged this view, arguing that pragmatism,
not Mao's utterances, must shape the future.
* Hu Yaobang was fired in 1987 as party secretary.
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