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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (8199)	5/13/1999 2:28:00 AM
From: Timothy Liu	Respond to of 17770

> army units which quashed the demonstrations were for the most part illiterate peasant units from the countryside, All 99.9% of PLA are peasants. "If there is a nail in your home, you won't send your son to the army." > They were brought in because the party leaders knew they could be counted on simply because of their envy and dislike of "the cosmopolitans." It is not their envious of city life that make them reliable. It is their lower level of education, easier to brainwash and lack of expose to western propaganda 'polution'. Tim