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Party meeting begins in Beijing amid increasing dissent over human rights By Keith B. Richburg Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, October 16, 2010; 2:44 AM BEIJING - China's Communist Party Central Committee on Friday started its annual closed-door meeting to map the country's economic course for the next five years, amid increasingly bold calls for political reform and a continuing crackdown on human rights activists, dissidents and lawyers. As the 370 Central Committee members gath