European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1981 maos widow escapes the firing squad chivas trial of Century ends former vice Premier and mayor of session of chivas gang of four trial Leader Jiang Zhang was sentenced Shanghai Zhang Chunxiao is handcuffed of the Century in charged with to execution by firing but the by two court attendants in the final being the closest Collaborator of ring sentence was a photo convention angers British right wingers Union Power May split labor party London up the British labor party sunday headed toward a probable Early split and walkout by embittered right wingers in the Wake of a special on Day convention that handed effective Power in the party to the left and the big Trade three former labor Cabinet ministers All of them right wingers who have been nicknamed the gang of met to decide if and when to walk out and form a new breakaway social democratic probably in Alliance with the maybe there will be a Miracle but it looks As if we Are on our Way said former social services Secretary Shirley one of the its a a we will now have to sound out the prospects for a new said former foreign Secretary David another of the William former transport Secre tary and the third member of the i think there will be some new Initia political informants said such a walkout will be gravely damaging to the labor party and could hand another Victory to mar temperatures Garet thatchers conservatives in the next parliamentary general the crisis erupted after the convention voted overwhelmingly to set up an electoral College to pick a party Leader annually and gave the unions a dominant 40 percent say with another 30 percent for predominantly left Wing local labor parties and Only 30 percent for labor members of it was humiliating for party Leader Michael who wanted members of parliament to have a bigger share in electing the but foot said he had to accept the convention decision and appealed to an Gry right wingers not to i dont think a new Center party will exist in terms of getting members into the House of he i dont think its going to be a serious element in British peking up Yelling Long live the Mao tse tunes Jiang was dragged forcibly from the courtroom in Handcuffs seconds after receiving a suspended death sentence to Climax chivas trial of the the verdict and sentencing against Jiang and her Las minute courtroom tantrums ended the often tumultuous trial a showcase courtroom drama staged by the country marxist leaders to ring Down the curtain on the Mao Tseung Era and Herald the Start of a new period of Law and order and modernization in Jbangs sentence meant that if she re formed through hard labor in the next two her death sentence would be commuted to life imprisonment and solitary but it she continues to denounce the leadership and proclaim her innocence As she did throughout the she could still be executed at any time in the next 24 months at the discretion of the Jbangs colleague in the gang of Zhang the former mayor of Shanghai and her closest received a similar sentence death by firing squad suspended for two former Cotton Mill worker Wang Hong Wen was sentenced to life and the fourth gang Yao received a 20year prison maos political Secre tary Chen Boda was sentenced to 18 years the five military defendants and their sentences were former chief of the general staff Huang 18 years former air Force political commissar Jiang 18 years former air Force commander we 17 years former Navy vice com Mander i 17 and former Deputy chief of staff Qiu the Light est 16 As Jiang continued to she was or dered out of and guards half carried her from the packed courtroom As she again Long live the the other defendants received their sentences almost the packed audience of some of them victims of the stood and applauded As the accused stumbled from the the verdict delivered against Jiang after weeks of Rumor and was a Compromise solution hammered not by the courts 35 but by chivas top this was equally divided be tween hardliners wanting Jiang executed for her towering crimes and moderates led by Deng who argued execution could elevate Jiang into a Martyr and split the country if the widow of the found ing father of communist China was Deng finally prevailed despite Jbangs dare to put me to death and her taunt that she was not afraid to l 15 30 32 19 34 32 26 25 27 44 Worth 62 40 37 vegas m l 55 Beach 27 41 Orleans 32 York 45 29 42 29 26 Lake City 41 Francisco 73 Juan 35 40 Louis 35 news update quake Relief Mission Rome up a three member Canadian delegation bringing Aid for the victims of the 23 italian Earth quake arrived Friday in Rome for a fou Day visit to headed by Jean mar speaker of the Canadian will tour the areas of Southern Italy devastated by the quake that killed nearly they will also meet with italian president Sandro Certini and Senate president Amintore Marchand said the delegation brought funds of almost 10 million Canadian dollars for reconstruction of the quake struck poles ousting newsmen Washington a soviet forces deployed around Poland have reduced their state of readiness but their capability to intervene quickly remains the state department said on a related dress confirmed that american correspondents in Poland have been informed they must leave the country within a few he said the state department has made inquiries of polish authorities in Washington and Warsaw seeking an explanation for the polish Lith fire victim Dies London a Yvonne Ruddock became the 11th victim of the fire horror that erupted a week ago at her 16th birthday she died in Greenwich District Hospi Tal from the Burns and other injuries she suffered in jumping from a third floor window of her Home in South eight Young men and two other girls died in the same Blaze which police say was started fifteen persons Are still in most of them with intense others with broken Yvonne who were on the ground floor of the House but in the were Able to Bess Truman at Home Kansas a the nations oldest living former first Bess was released from a hos Pital stay of nearly a month and her doctor said she was completely was admitted 30 to research medical Center for treatment of a urinary tract condition and skin Wallace the family longtime personal said widow of Harry was completely healed and in very Good condition for a lady her who will be 96 on had been listed in satisfactory Condi Tion and in Good spirits throughout her she was very Happy to be going Graham and even threw a Salute to the former career army