Senior Ideologue Kills Self over Party Infighting

(Beijing) -A senior editor at a top theoretical journal of the ruling Communist Party hanged himself, apparently after becoming depressed over growing infighting between government reformists and conservatives nostalgic about less corrupt times under the rule of the late Chairman Mao Zedong.

Zhu Tiezhi, the deputy editor-in-chief of Qiushi Journal, died on the morning of June 26, the online edition of People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, reported later in the day. It did not state the cause of death.