200,000 may be hit by Chinese purge

Vice-Chairman Deng Xiaoping's purge of Chinese leftists, corrupt officials, and bureaucrats took on massive proportions with reports that hundreds of thousands of officials will be sacked or sent to factories.

One newspaper said a third of China's central government personnel -- about 200,000 people -- would be eliminated through mergers of ministries and departments.

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