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The World - News from April 4, 1986

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Chinese officials announced that Peking will send a delegation of nuclear experts to the Soviet Union to study nuclear power plants there, and will decide afterward whether to buy Soviet equipment. Vice Premier Li Peng also disclosed at an unusual two-hour press conference that China is cutting back on its anticipated purchase of foreign nuclear equipment and reactors, raising doubts about the prospects for multibillion-dollar nuclear sales to China by some Western companies.

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