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But in the surrounding Kwangtung province, said Peking, 187 people were dead, 200,000 were homeless, and 2,000,000 acres of land had been inundated. The local battle cry, reported the New China News Agency last week, was: "Nobody drowns while there are members of the Communist Party around." But there was less cocky talk now of overpowering the God of Water.