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JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
09-01-2001
Jiang Zemin Seeks to Cement Legacy

BEIJING (AP) -- President Jiang Zemin has saved his biggest battle for last: changing the bedrock dogma of China's Communist Party.

In July, Jiang surprised the world by inviting capitalists to join the ruling party. Now, as he nears the end of his years in power, he wants to give them a formal place in the charter that has guided the party through 80 years of war, revolution and reform.

Doctrinaire Marxists are furious.

Picking such a risky ideological fight is a striking change for Jiang, a ...

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