The World - News from Jan. 9, 1986
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Thousands of Chinese, many wearing white flowers as a sign of mourning, gathered in Tian An Men Square to pay silent tribute to Communist China’s first premier, Chou En-lai, on the 10th anniversary of his death. Despite the lack of any official commemoration, ordinary citizens left paper-flower wreaths and poetic tributes to Chou at the base of a monument to the people’s heroes. Chinese sources said the Communist Party took no official notice of the anniversary, in part because it would have set a precedent for observing the 10th anniversary of Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s death in September, 1976.
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