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CHINA RELEASES SCHOLARS, SAYS ARREST WAS 'MISTAKE'
Warns 'Mistakes Could Happen Again'
In Qui Si Shun, China - (GIN) - China released two of the scholars it jailed yesterday and announced "it was a mistake."
     "We thought they were spies, it turned out they were just highly educated troublemakers," said Hu Solly Now, Minister of Prevarication.
      Now cautioned that the mistake "could happen again."
      "We have a saying in Peking. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it will make a strange but delightful dinner," he said.
     Now said the two scholars were arrested as spies because they were suspected of dealing in American spy-plane parts.
     He said further investigation revealed the charge was preposterous, but he defended the actions.
     "It is the policy of our country to suspect anyone behaving oddly, anyone who fits a troublemaker profile. Americans have racial profiling, we have intelligentsia profiling," he said.
     Now said the two scholars were to be expelled to the United States as punishment.
     "We cannot tolerate symbols of our mistakes walking free among us," he said.
     He denied that the whole thing was an elaborate ruse to place Chinese spies in the United States or other foreign countries.
     "The idea that you would be celebrating the presence of a Chinese scholar in your country who was actually a spy for us is not something we would do. We do not have that kind of imagination. You have seen too many movies. Excuse me, I have to make a telephone call," he said.