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- WORLD, Page 71World NotesCHINABetter Red Than Well Fed
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- Defending the introduction of capitalist reforms, Deng
- Xiaoping once said it did not matter whether cats were black or
- white so long as they caught mice. Now the Chinese leader is
- determined that his cats will be red. Four months after his
- crackdown on the prodemocracy movement, the first tocsin for a
- "purification" of the Communist Party has been sounded. The
- Beijing municipal party headquarters announced that all its
- members must reregister by the end of 1990, and those deemed
- "hostile and antiparty" will be purged. Diplomats estimate that
- as many as 50,000 of the party's members in the capital might
- be expelled. Party officials elsewhere fear the campaign will
- soon include all 48 million members nationwide.
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