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PEKINGS CITIZENS READY FOR ANNOUNCEMENT Chinas Mao Tsetung dies PEKING CP Mao Tse tung father of the Peoples Re public of China died at 1210 pm EDT Wednesday the Ra dio Peking and the official Chi nese news agency Hsinhua re ported today The people of the capital had apparently been prepared for the announcement Only 30 minutes after the radio solem nly reported that Mao had passed away because of the worsening of his illness black armbands appeared on people in the streets Grave funeral music followed the announcement and crowds immediately began to gather in Tien Annmen Square in the heart of the capital The radio gave the time of death at 1210 am local time today The announcement was pre ceded by warnings that an im portant broadcast would be made at pm local time am EDT In factories shops and apart inent houses residents gathered around their sets The faces of the few people on the streets were grim and some were close to tears As crowds several hundred strong gathered in the centre of the city man stood on step ladder and made speech lion oring Mao Watching police and security troops made no move to prevent him Chinese lady working in the foreigners compound of East Peking wept quietly You for eigners dont understand what this means she sobbed The message was addressed to The whole party the whole army and people of all nation alities throughout the country PREMIER IIlA KlttFENG possihle successor It was released by the Central ommittee of the ommunist Party of China the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress and the mili tary commission of the Central Committee The complete text of the an nouncement stated Comrade Mao Isetung the esteemed and beloved great leader of our party our army and the people of all the nation alities of our country the great teacher of the international proletariat and the oppressed nations and the oppressed people chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Pary of China and honorary chairman of the National Coni niee of the Chinese Peoples il consultative con fer ltsed away at 00le hours September 1976 in Peking because of the wor sening of his illness and despite all treatment although meticulous medical care was given him in every way after he fell ill After briefly tracing Maos history and career the an nouncement went on to urge the whole country to turn its sorrow to strength by continuing to work to fulfil his will ttNIINlICItll The announcement also made point of stating that hina shall continue to carry out hairman Maos foreign pol icy It had been known for some time that the leader of the arm million mainland hiiiesc was approaching the end of his rcr markablclife Meetings with visiting states men Iiad been cut to bctw con 13 and 20 minutes ttficial photo graphs showed him seated his head resting back against the top of his chair Lowest 12month increase in living costs since 73 tll itlt The cost of living inch registered its low est lBinontli advance in August since March 1973 as decline in food prices offset higher costs for other consumer goods Statistics tanada reported tri day The overall increase in the consumer price index as meas ured by the federal agency was livetenths of one per cent last month giving 62pcrcent in crease in prices over the last year But the lower than usual rate of increase was mainly at tributable to fivetenths of one per cent drop in food prices from July Isually food prices rise bet ween July and August Food makes up 25 per cent of the items chosen by Statistics anada to reflect price move iiicnts Excluding food consumer prices in the month jumped by eighttenths of one per cent in increase comparable to that in August of 1974 and 1973 Ilighcr shelter and insurance costs led the rise TIIIIII USIS ItISII The higher costs for nonfood items which are more directly under the federal antiinflation program than food will likely intensify fire by critics of the antiinflation board They have said while food prices have been declining recently costs of goods which are under the controls program have not been moderating Statistics anada said the iii crcase in prices in August over July was only half the average rate observed between the two months in the preceding four years The allitems index in August was 1500 compared with 1412 year ago This means basket of goods costing $10 in 197l the COIN SHOW SATURDAY SEPT STARTS AT IO AM COIN DEALERS COIN DISPLAYS COIN INFO base year would now cost $11 In August 1975 it would hae cost Still and Ill Iiily would have been SH 93 rtiod prices were lower than year ago according to the in dex basket of food items which cost $1678 in August 1973 now cost Sltititr This was largely due to 17 pcrccnt decline in beef prices over the year However the government has predicted iiir creases in beef prices this fall Besides beef there were sca sonally lower prices for fresh vegetables Itrcsh frud poultry bread coffee and homeconsumed soft drinks showed price increases Increased shelter costs for both homeowners and renters and higher insurance premiums for automobiles homes and household effects led the surge in nonyfood items The last foreign leader to see him was Pakistan Prime Minis ter Zulfikar Ali Bhutto He told reporters after their meeting on May 29 that Mao was suffering from bad cold and was frail but was very quick on the uptake and grasped everything The eulogy included in to days announcement Stated All victories of the Chinese people were achieved under the leadership of Chairman Mao They are all great victories for Mao Tsetung thought The radiance of Mao Tsetung thought will forever illuminate the road of advance of the Chinese people Chairman Mao led our party in waging protracted acute and complex struggle against the right and left opportunist lines in the party defeating the opportunist lines pursued by Chen Iuhsiu Chu Chiupai Li lrisan Lo Changlung Wang Ming Chang Kuotao Kao Kangjao Shushih and Ieng lehliuai and again during the Great Proletarian ultural Itcvolution triumphing over the counterrevolutionary revisionist line of Iriu Shaochi Lin liao and Teng llsiaoping thus enabling our party to develop and grow in strength steadily in class struggle and the struggle between the two lines The broadcast gave no in dication of the nature of Maos final illness NEWS lICI III The announcement of Maos death was delayed for about It hours the same length of lllllt that intervened before the death of lrciiiicr liou IIn ho was announced last Jan ti The White House and the Stats Department iii Washing ton had no iiiiiindiatc coininciit onoiiMaosdcath The Soviet news agency lass pioiiiptly reported the death but iiiadc no editorial comment Ill its first bulletin Todays isslic of lravda however criii taincrl the routine tlllllAltlti ar ticlc Soy ict readers have coinc tocxpict iii ltttlll months In London the British goyciiiiiiciit said it has seiit message of condolences to Itkiiig and that Mao lll be rciiicbcrcd as man of great lltll and thinker with profound sciiscof history In Taipei Taiwans official radio grcctcd the news by dc scribing it as the end of the most despotic leader of the In new oininunists aiirl the greatest criminal in liliicsc history Maos death is expected to in tensify the power struggle that has shaken Peking inter mittently for years and that flared up with renewed in tensity after Chous death N0 DESIGNATED There has been no designation of his successor as chairman of the Chinese Coin munist party the countrys most powerful post which he had held since 1935 Presumably Premier lIua Kuofeng is next in line since he was also named first vice chair man of the party when he was raised to the premiership five months ago But his elevation is not assured Others who appear to be in the running are Maos widow Chiang Ching leader of the radical faction of the party her proteges Vice lrcmier hang Chunchiao Wang llungwen and Yao Wenyuan party vice chairman and defense minister Yeh Cliicnying and Chen lIsilt lien commander of leking units of the 3ltllllltlllllitll Liberation Army Wang also is vice chairman of the party The party constitution pro vides that plenary session of the ISISmember cntral oni iiiittce elects the new chair man pcasants son who became one of tlic zlotli centurys great est revolutioiiaries Mao not only deeply influenced the lives of his countrymen but also lv came model for revolution arics in many of the backward rcgionsoftlirworlrl lIIISIIIliiIlI classical poct calligrapher hardheaded politican guerrilla strategist and audacious thinker he led the long struggle which lltlttl tilt the triumph of coin nitinism Ill hiiia and llltl broke with the Soviet oiii inuiiist party in schism that split tlicoiiiinuiiist world His passing raiscs thc coin pelliiig question of how long his own brand of communism called Maoisiii will survive ttl tliina Much depend on how tliosc who follow him intcr prct and apply his ideals iiid tcachiiig bchcci in thc liltrst and pciinaiicnt icyolutioii 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