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    BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Zhang Chunqiao, member of the "Gang of Four", died of cancer on April 21 at the age of 88.

    Zhang, one of the culprits of the "Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique," was given death sentence with a two-year reprieval by a special tribunal of the Supreme People's Courtin January 1981.

    His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment with political rights deprived for life in January, 1983, and was commuted again to 18 years in prison with political rights deprived for 10 years.

    Since January, 1998, Zhang had been on medical parole. Enditem