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Web-only Exclusives November 30, 2000 From Our Correspondent: Hirohito and the War A conversation with biographer Herbert Bix From Our Correspondent: A Rough Road Ahead Bad news for the Philippines - and some others From Our Correspondent: Making Enemies Indonesia needs friends. So why is it picking fights? |
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DIED
FORMER CHINESE PRESIDENT AND ex-vice chairman of the Central Military Commission YANG SHANGKUN, 92, of an undisclosed illness in Beijing on Sept. 14. A companion of Mao Zedong, Yang was one of the "eight immortals" of the Chinese revolution. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution and was president during the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Yang later fell out with Deng Xiaoping and went into enforced retirement in 1993.
DIED
VU VAN MAU, 84, briefly premier of South Vietnam, died of natural causes in a Paris hospital on Aug. 20. As PM for five days before the South fell to the Communist North in 1975, Vu Van Mau helped evacuate some 1,000 Americans and over 5,000 South Vietnamese. A Buddhist, he advocated non-violence and was president of Forces for Reconciliation, a pacifist party in the south.
DIED
AWANG HASSAN, 87, FORMER governor of Malaysia's Penang state, at his home in Johor state, following a short illness on Sept. 12. Awang was Penang's fifth governor from 1981 through 1989. Earlier, he had served as deputy speaker of Parliament's House of Representatives and as high commissioner to Australia.
ACQUITTED
THAI DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER WATTANA ASAVAHEM, his son POONPOL ASAVAHEM and Prachakorn Thai MP SANIT KULCHAROEN, of electoral fraud Sept. 7 by the Supreme Court. They had won an election from the Samut Prakan constituency in 1996. The court ruled that while the election was rigged, the winners could not lose their seats as a by-election in that particular case would be unconstitutional.
BANNED
SOUTH KOREA'S SACKED WORLD Cup coach CHA BUM KUN, from coaching in the country for five years by the South Korean Football Association Sept. 10. A disciplinary committee last month recommended the ban on Cha, once a national icon, after he was quoted in a magazine as saying professional matches in South Korea are fixed.
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