NEWS
June 5, 1988 | DAVID HOLLEY, Times Staff Writer
Mao Tse-tung's widow, Jiang Qing, has throat cancer but is refusing an operation because it would leave her voiceless, a pro-Beijing newspaper in Hong Kong reported Saturday. Jiang, 74, was last seen in public Jan. 25, 1981, when a show trial ended and she was removed screaming from a Beijing courtroom, shouting revolutionary slogans and cursing her judges and China's current leaders as "fascists, renegades, traitors."
OPINION
October 19, 1997 | Stanley B. Lubman, Stanley B. Lubman, consulting professor at the Stanford Law School, is a specialist on Chinese law
Issues related to law increasingly dominate U.S.-China relations. Unfortunately, U.S. impatience with the pace of China's efforts to establish a rule of law threatens to obscure what gains have been made. Furthermore, specific issues between the two nations, such as insistence that Beijing comply with bilateral agreements on intellectual property, textile labeling, export controls and restrictions on the use of nuclear technology should not be mixed up with demands by some U.S.
NEWS
July 29, 1994 | BEVERLY BEYETTE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The 16 judges took their places at a horseshoe-shaped table in the boardroom of the State Bar Assn.'s Downtown offices. They had come to learn about L.A. law. They listened intently as a public defender, a deputy district attorney and a Superior Court judge explained such basic concepts as presumption of innocence, plea bargaining and right of appeal. And they were invited to ask questions. Surely, they would be eager for more details about the O.J. Simpson murder case. O.J. who ?
NEWS
July 31, 2000 | HENRY CHU, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A kilogram of heroin sealed Ding Aguo's doom. On June 22, the 31-year-old woman was executed by firing squad here along with six other people convicted of drug trafficking. The next day, 11 drug dealers in the city of Chengdu were rounded up, paraded before a stadium of spectators, then led away to be shot. Within a single week, authorities put to death at least 48 people as part of an aggressive national anti-drug campaign.
NEWS
June 5, 1991 | DAVID HOLLEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Tse-tung and fiery leader of radical leftists during China's chaotic Cultural Revolution, committed suicide at home last month, the government announced Tuesday. Jiang, 77, nearly achieved supreme power in 1976 while Chairman Mao lay on his deathbed. But she was arrested by political rivals just one month after his death and never regained real freedom.