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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, Januarv 14. 1988
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Nationalist China leader dead at 77 successor to push for liberalization
The Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, died of a heart attack yesterday and was succeeded by a native Taiwanese, expected to continue his push for liberalization.
Chiang's death at age 77, ended the six-decade dynasty that led the Nationalist Party to victory and defeat in China and prosperity in Taiwan, an island nation of 19.5 million people off China's coast.
Vice President Lee Teng-hui was sworn in to succeed Chiang, in accordance with the constitution, after an emergency meeting of the party's Central Standing Committee.
Lee, a 64-year-old Christian and the first native Taiwanese to become president, is expected to continue easing the nationalists' authoritarian grip on the island they have governed since 1949.
But the reforms pushed by the charismatic Chiang may slow because Taiwan is likely to move toward a more consultative leadership.
"We have lost a capable leader," Premier Yu Kuo-hwa said, fighting back tears, as he announced Chiang's death on national television Wednesday evening. "Everyone of us felt a deep sorrow. This was an irredeemable loss."
Court upholds principal's right of censorship
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave public school officials broad, new authority to censor student newspapers and other forms of student expression.
The court, by a 5-3 vote, ruled that a Hazelwood, Mo., high school principal did not violate students' free-speech rights by ordering two pages deleted from an issue of a student-produced, school-sponsored newspaper.
"A school need not tolerate student speech that is inconsistent with its basic educational mission even though the government could not
censor similar speech outside the school," Justice Byron R. White wrote for the court.
The controversy arose in spring 1983 when Robert Reynolds, principal of Hazelwood East High School, refused to permit publication of two articles from the school-sponsored newspaper produced by students in a journalism class.
White noted that the court was not saying whether the same degree of judicial deference to educators' censorship decisions "is appropriate with respect to school-sponsored expressive activities at the college and university level."
News Roundup
AMERICAN'S TRIAL BEGINS:
U.S. citizen James Denby went on trial for anti-government activities in Managua, Nicaragua, yesterday. Sandinista troops shot down Denby's Cessna airplane Dec. 6 on an isolated Caribbean beach across the border from Costa Rica, where Denby has a farm.
TRADGE DISCUSSIONS: Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita vowed yesterday to continue to work toward easing trade friction. The leaders made no agreement on Americans working on Japanese construction projects. Takeshita said Japan was trying reduce its trade surplus by $10 billion this year.
NUCLEAR SMUGGLING: The State Department has found that the Pakistan government was likely involved in a plot to smuggle materials for nuclear devices out of the U.S. It recommended that aid not be severed.
ISRAELI EXPULSIONS: Israel expelled four Palestinian activists yesterday in defiance of international protests, and two Arabs were killed in new violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Washington deplored the expulsions, saying "that's an action we deeply regret."
SMOKING ABDOLITION PLAN: Pat Robertson defended his pat, which called for phasing out the tobacco industry in seven to 10 years, in South Carolina yesterday. He said there was no question that smoking causes cancer, birth defects and heart disease.
DOLE AIDED CONTRIBUTOR:
The Washington office of Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole contacted a top official at Fort Leavenworth last year about a controversial housing contract that was eventually extended for a Dole campaign contributor. Aides said the office did nothing improper.
BISHOP RE-ENTERS NICARAGUA; Monsignor Bismark Carballo, a bishop who speaks for the Roman Catholic church in Nicaragua, returned to the country after being forced into exile in June 1986. His return signifies the recent improvement in church-state relations.
DRUG USE DOWN: Cocaine use by high school seniors fell 20 percent last year, the first time in more than a decade there has been a significant decrease, officials said yesterday. Marjuna smoking and other illicit drug use also declined.
RABAIN JOBS PARLIAMENT: Britain's chief rabbi is joining 26 Anglican bishops in the House of Lords, but there still are no Catholic prelates in the august body four centuries after Henry VIII broke with the Church of Rome. Roman Catholic leaders say Pope John Paul II disapproves of priests becoming politicians.
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DUELING TRIAL SET: Elmor Roy Southern faces trial under a 19th century California law that prohibits dueling, a band stemming from the gunfights once familiar to the Wild West. Southern allegedly killed a man in a shootout last April at a popular urban nightclub. Published Press.
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