WAP021407 - 5 APRIL 1997 - ON THE YANGTZE RIVER, CHINA: Poet Allen Ginsberg, seen here in a 1985 file photo on a steamboat going through one of the gorges of the Yangtze River during a two-and-a-half month foray to China as a guest of the Chinese Writer's Association. Ginsberg died April 5 in New York City from liver cancer. cs/files UPI
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