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Saturday March 10, 2:05 AM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Falun Gong spiritual group on Friday denied allegations by a Chinese scientist and leading figure in Beijing' fight against the movement that the U.S. Congress gave it millions of dollars in funding.

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March 9, 2001

BEIJING, March 8 Last month, President Jiang Zemin summoned more than 2,000 top [party' name omitted] officials to Beijing for an extraordinary, closed-door meeting.

At a crucial point in his political life, Mr. Jiang wanted to make sure that the ruling party remained firmly unified on two divisive issues: the campaign to crush the Falun Gong spiritual movement and the correctness of the party' decision to use troops against the 1989 pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.

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