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Friday, January 23, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Chinese school officials fired from their positions
The Associated Press
PEKING — The two top officials of the Academy of Sciences were fired yesterday, apparently becoming the latest victims of a campaign against liberal Western ideas that began after student protests last month.
Another government announcement said that a new office had been created to control the news media and publishing.
A brief dispatch by the official news agency, Xinhua, did not say why President Lu Jiaxi of the academy, who is in his mid-60s, and Vice President Yan Dongsheng, 68, had been relieved of their posts. It said they were removed by decision of the National People's Congress Standing Committee.
Lu, a chemist of world stature
trained in Britain, had been president of the academy since August 1982. He was replaced by Zhou Guangzhao, 57, a theoretical physicist and one of the academy's three vice presidents.
Yan received his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Illinois. His post went to Teng Teng, 56, a chemist who has served as deputy chief of the Communist Party propaganda department and had no previous connection with the academy.
Diplomats specializing in science said there was a strong possibility that Lu and Yan were forced out because of student pro-democracy demonstrations at the University of Chicago to situate Héfei early in December.
Those protests began a month of similar actions around the country followed by an official campaign against "bourgeois liberaliza-
oon," a catch phrase the leadership defines as favoring democracy and Western culture over communism.
Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang was ousted last week after making a public confession of mistakes in handling the demonstrations. China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, was said to have decided that Hu must go because he was too tolerant of political dissent.
Also fired were the president of the Hefei university and its internationally known vice president, astrophysicist Fang Lizhi.
Fang was accused of inciting the students with speeches advocating greater democracy and more intellectual freedom. He and another intellectual, Shanghai writer Wang Ruowang, have been expelled from the Communist Party.
Siamese twins die after operation
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA - Doctors separated month old Siamese twins yesterday in a rare and delicate operation, letting one baby die to give his brother a chance to live. The second infant died two hours later.
The boys, named Baby A and Baby B, were joined from the breastbone to the stomach and shared a conjoined heart and liver. Doctors said the two were essentially living off each other, and that both would die unless separated.
Doctors decided during several weeks of meetings and tests that Baby B had the best chance to survive, so Baby A was chosen to die during the surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
"Baby A had to die — he was sacrificed," hospital spokesman
Laura Dawson said.
James O'Neill, the hospital's surgeon-in-chief said after the surgery that it went as well as could be expected, but that Baby B's survival was questionable. The twins were born Dec. 27 in New York City.
During the operation, a 12-member surgical team spent several hours sculpting the conjoined hearts into one working heart before the separation took place.
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Investigators begin looking for causes of midair collision
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INDEPENDENCE. Mo. — Investigators studying the collision of an Army aircraft and a private plane in which six people died examined the wreckage yesterday, interviewed air traffic controllers and reviewed flight logs.
The entire investigation could take up to one year, officials said.
Campbell called for the reassignment and said it would allow a controller to be available for questioning by investigators.
At least one controller working when the planes collided Tuesday afternoon was relieved of duties and reassigned to administrative tasks, said Sandra Campbell, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Jack Drake, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman, said investigators would question witnesses, study pilot qualifications, analyze radar data and examine flight records or the records of the aircraft. Investigators from the NTSB arrived at the crash site late Wednesday night.
Officials said they would try to determine whether it was a problem with the controllers, the equipment or another cause behind the collision over the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in rural eastern Independence.
The three people aboard the military plane who were killed were Brig. Gen. David Stem, 48, commandant of the Military Police School at Fort McClellan, Ala.; the pilot, Maj Michael Johnston, 36, of Alexandria, Ala.; and the civilian co-pilot, Carroll L, Baird, 40, of Riverside, Ala.
Killed on board the civilian plane were three employees of Sachs Electric Co. of St. Louis; the pilot, Alan Walls, who turned 43 on Monday, of St. Louis; Rocky Swyres, 39, a civil engineer from St. Louis; and James Spencer, 49, a fleet supervisor from St. Charles, Mo.
Five of the bodies were found Tuesday after the crash, but Wall's body was found about 40 feet north of the civilian plane wreckage
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