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  • Thousands queue to see Mao on anniversary (Has it been 30 years already?)

    09/09/2006 10:01:11 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 9 replies · 388+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/8/06 | Emma Graham-Harrison
    BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands queued at Beijing's Mao Zedong Mausoleum on Saturday for a glimpse of the embalmed corpse of the former Great Helmsman on the 30th anniversary of his death but Chinese state media kept coverage of the event low-key. Police and undercover agents infiltrating crowds outside the squat building on Tiananmen Square were a reminder of government sensitivity about how the man who founded "new China" -- but then plunged it into bouts of famine and chaos -- is remembered. Five years after his death the Communist Party, which uses Mao as an ideological prop to help govern...