The World - News from Aug. 11, 1989
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China’s Communist Party expelled the country’s leading computer entrepreneur for having supported the spring pro-democracy protest. Wan Runnan, whose company, the Stone Group Co., was nicknamed the IBM of China, was ousted from the party and fired as Stone chairman and president. He fled China after the June 3-4 crackdown. Meanwhile, police in the southern city of Canton confirmed the arrest of Zheng Xuguang, of the Beijing Space and Aeronautics University, bringing to seven the number of student leaders arrested out of a national list of 21.
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