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_wire Chinese reor PEKING (AP) - The ( this week for the first tim? its seal of approval on the Premier Deng Xiaoping. With the emphasis on n Party Congress will put Zftairman Mao Tse-Tung 'indicate Deng. Deng, 78, twice purgec >romoted ideals of ck ellectuals, is believed fir The congress convent \ugust 1977 and is expect -et by Deng in a major sp Composed mostly of ] Hake sweeping change organization, then trim it each one to re-register i amount to a purge of lefti: Half the members enl Cultural Revolution -noi minded by leftists, manj secondary school educati The congress, as pre vie of chairman and six vice < Deng is expected to i continue to play a crucial to h ^ad a party committe military commission unc not the party's central coi The Congress also will new disciDline insDectio party secretariat, now ru Ziyang. Hu, one of Deng's close highest post as general sc Marines turr NEWPORT NEWS, V; harking up the wrong ti dogface out of Gigi Whiti "I know Reagan is Whitmore of Newport Nc The Whitmore's 13-yej a letter that read: "Dear Ms. Whitmore Marine Corps but since the Marine Corps for whi "But as our way of sh< we are enclosing a specie "I want to give you tl you to stay in school education you have the 1 and to the Marines...." Mrs. Whitmore said i prise. "How they ever got h "Even her age is right." She and her h us bant Corps recruiting office They noted that Gigi ca She's on file with the Am Mrs. Whitmore also s; an iron-on Marine Corps Gigi doesn't wear T-sh Plastin stfif?! (AP) - Now that Bi-L< steer as their mascot, ti replicas that used to ado The novelty steers h, centers, stockyards, ste; Gordon Fowler, who said he bought one of tl has mounted it on ponta lake on it. "We put a saddle on it around the lake," he s; thing, but maybe it'll be Mary Stone, mana* relations for the 139-sto and corporate headqt requests for the plastic i "We didn't think ar wouldn't believe the den Vandals bur NOTTINGHAM, Eng year-old hollow tree in legendary Robin Hood, survive. Police said they wer tree before the fire Mon As firemen struggled Ian Solly said: "Setting our heritage. It may be the tree is still alive." USC todc 1 Student football i Pacific game begir 8:00 a.m., accordinj RH film: "From Hei Lancaster and Deb p.m., and 9:30 p.m. V ganize congress Communist Party Congress meets a in five vears and is exoected to Dut liberal reforms carried out by Vice lodernization and stability, the 12th an end to the worship of the late and according to foreign observers, i for opposing Maoist policies that iss struggle and persecuted in-, mly in control of the government, is today for the first time since ed to follow the blueprint for reform: eech to the Politburo in August 1980. Deng supporters, it probably will 5 in the party constitution and :s 39 million members by calling on n what some observers say would sts. tered the party during the 1966-76 <v denounced as disaster master/ of whom lack even a primary or on. >usly reported, will abolish the posts chairmen. -esign as vice chairman, but will rnlft in nartv affairs Hp is pynpotpH e of elderly advisers and a new state ler the National People's Congress, mmittee. I elect a new central committee, a n commission, and strengthen the n by Hu Yaoband and Premier Zhao st associates, will retain the party's scretary. i down dachshund a. (AP) ? The U.S. Marine corps isree if it thinks it's going to make a nore. pushing this draft," said Lucille ;ws. "But drafting a dog?" ar-old purebred dachshund, Gigi got - We appreciate your interest in the . you are 13 you won't be able to join . le. 1 >wing appreciation for your interest, al Marine memento. i lis advice. The Marine Corps wants and get your diploma. The more more valuable you will be to yourself the letter came as a complete surler name I'll never know," she said i, Ronnie, called the local Marine Monday to point out the mistake, in't be charged with not registering, lerican Kennel Club. lid Gigi won't be using the momento, ; eagle emblem. lirts, Mrs Whitmore said. rs find nswu hnmoc IW ? *? IUIIIUU ) grocery stores have abandoned the he company is selling off the plastic rn the roofs of the businesses, ave founds new homes at day-care akhouses and private residences . lives at a marina on Lake Keowee, le steers from a store in Seneca. He ans and gives people rides around the . and let people ride it while we pull it aid. "I don't know why I bought the a collector's item some day." 5er of consumer and community re chain, said Bi-Lo store managers larters have been swamped with inimals. lybody would want them, but you nand," said Miss Stone. n legendary tree [land (AP) ? The Major Oak, a 500 Sherwood Forest, hiding place of the was set afire by vandals and may no1 e looking for two youths seen in the iday night. I to save the tree, forest ranger chie! ; fire to the Maior Oak is arson aaainsl several days before we know whethei _ ticket pick up for the USC* is at the Russell House at 3 to social security number. re to Eternity/' starring Burt orah Kerr at 2:30 p.m., 7 Sex offender f TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A 500-pound! faile convicted sex offender whose early' day, release from prison prompted angry Will letters from around the nation says he com feels victimized by publicity and fears Gi being jailed again. , j kill 1 "I'm a sick, sick man," Joseph "Jo oxyj Jo" Giorgianni said in a telephone obes interview Monday. "I'm being raped. profc I'm the victim. Sure, I'm being can persecuted." heal The Trenton sandwich shop operator Gi was scheduled to appear in court carr again today as prosecutors asked mor state Superior Court Judge Richard at h J.S. Barlow Jr. to reinstate his sent original 15-year sentence. Gioi An attempt to postpone the hearing app< : ...y . i S-- Sx *.* * M a . s s s-s . <sV I ' S *% ' * "S > ' I w.0:':N^:. ;*: : . ' ' ' ' . . s..> * . ' ;* . *.. S<S All the comforts of home USC student Margaret Schofield carries a few i Study indicates Si WASHINGTON (AP) - Influenza, alcoholis medical care are combining to cause a rising the Soviet Union, an unprecedented trend according to a private study. Murray Feshbach of Georgetown Univers authority on the Soviet population, also rep male life expectancy since 1964 in the Soviet Ui The declines in Soviet population growth shortages of workers and soldiers in that coun of the century, the study said. "Barring time of war, this trend is unique ii developed countries," Feshbach wrote in h Soviet Union: Population Trends and Dilemm * /t 1 I 41 1 ?- "' - muuuay uy uie private, non-prom fopuiat Bureau. Feshbach said the Soviet Union's death rat low of 6.9 deaths per 1,000 population in 1964, b if official Soviet data are to be credited, th creased by 50 percent to 10.3 in 1980. The U.l rate was 8.8 in 1980." A population's death rate goes up when few< being born, and thus elderly persons make i Lawyer wants Fl WASHINGTON CAP) The federal oris government should guarantee that by i drugs used to execute criminals are Me<3 " swift and painless, says an attorney soci ; who is appealing a court decision pass ^ upholding the right of states to ad- inje minister lethal injections. adn "I thought what you do for dogs you exe< would do for humans," said David E. H< ' Kendall, a lawyer for death row deal [ prisoners in Oklahoma and Texas. in 1 Kendall said he would ask the U.S. Idal Court of Appeals to overturn the Ken l decision Monday bv U.S. District the Judge Norma Holloway Johnson. thre She upheld the position of the Food Dep and Drug Administration, ruling the In FDA was not required under the law sep; to ensure that drugs used for exe< executions by states are effective for corn that purpose. T1 The prisoners, Kendall said, sub- star mitted affidavits from doctors ron- anir tending that laboratory tests in- simi dicated drugs designated for use in Jc executions would not cause a swift said and painless death. use Kendall said he is not aware of any anir aarc rmhlin re; %0%M I W W d at every court level. On Mon- After U.S. Supreme Court Justice release iam Brennan refused without reason' ment to order a delay. three 3 orgianni, 33, claims prison would '"J?* lim because he needs medication, Barli Jen and air conditioning due to his residen iity, asthma and breathing other p >lems. But state officials say he 1. ?* - - ... I.inrfli c be held without danger to nis Ui Kean orgianni was convicted in 1980 of hundre lal abuse and debauching the ?roun. als of a 14-year-old girl customer Y?2?,a is sandwich shop in 1978. Barlow enced him to 15 years, but Barlow -gianni remained free during his mainta sals. he s a E items essential to dorm life during the movhifl oviet Union death m and limited total population. ; death rate in j "However, the dramatic i in peacetime,' rate of the Soviet Union is b the population's 'aging' so fa ity, a leading Life expectancy at birth orts a drop in males, Feshbach found. In 1 n l?i i J iiuu, iui a iiiaic, uui llHJi SHUT UI could lead to comparison, for American it try by the turn at birth was 69.5 years in 197* Fesbach said the decline \ the history of particularly noted amoni is study "The Belorussians, while birth ci as," published Asian sections of that countr; ion Reference From a current estimate < age, Feshbach projects grov, e dropped to a 160 million by 1990. ut "since then, This means, he said, that e rate has in- longer count on the trartit S. crude death dustrial growth through abui Feshbach also said the n tv children are scription from two years to ip more of the forces at their current level c DA to guarantee oner executed in the United States to pr i lethal injection. The American killinj lical Association and medical need eties in the four states that have produ ?ed laws requiring death by drug Hal ction have said doctors should not Cosm linister lethal drugs for tion ;utions. prove e said 194 prisoners are under it w? th sentence in the four states: 146 priso Texas, 39 in Oklahoma, five in used 10 and four in New Mexico. dall represents five prisoners in - Oklahoma State Penitentiary and "J ? e in the Ellis Unit of the Texas [ B artment of Corrections. hanci dividual prisoners have filed ofsta arate suits contending that luiiuii oy injection is un- Th( ?titutional, he said. execi le FDA, Kendall said, has testing minis idards for drugs used to puti bitur nals to death, but won't initiate paral ilar safeguards for prisoners. >rry Halperin, an FDA official, Thi I veterinarians ar#? nnrmittoH ?v |?*/? wvvt iv uai any drug available to kill an and nal. But if a manufacturer wants thera action I serving one week, Barlow d him Aug. 6 for medical 3. His sentence was reduced to fears probation and a $2,000 ow's decision outraged its, Gov. Thomas H. Kean and olitical leaders. Kean ordered [ficials to help prosecutors put inni back in prison. 's press office has displayed ds of irate letters from citizens the country complaining about inni's release. y're trying to make Judge buckle," Giorgianni said, ining his innocence. "I think retty good judge." ilMHfl-2"' ------ - 7- K j I" ^ ^ ^1IthW - I MsmmMmm*. -a ' S Huts by Mia Otfcorn |in process. rate risina ?- ? ?"a -ise in the national crude death eyond what can be explained by r," he said. also is declining among Soviet 964, it reached a high of 67 years opped to 61.9 years in 1980. By lales, the official life expectancy I. in Soviet birth rates has been g Russians, Ukrainians and ontinued at a high level in the yrf 154 million Soviets of working 'th to only 158 million by 1985 and the country's leadership can no ional means of expanding inldant supplies of manpower, eed could arise to extend conthree to maintain Soviet armed >f 4.8 million men. drug safety ornote a drug as humane for I animals, the drug firm would FDA certification that the ict is effective for that purpose. Iperin said the Food, Drug and letic Act is a consumer proteclaw to make sure drugs are in safe and effective. But he said is never contemplated, as the tiers contend, that the law be "to destroy life." contended the use of lethal drugs ites was a matter of states' right idded, "We don't evaluate ropes e whether they're effective in ing people. Why create that kind ndard for drugs." e state laws authorizing drug itions generally require adoration of a quick-acting barate combined with a chemical lytic agent. e drugs contemplated for use idy are lawfully manufactured marketed for medical and ipeutic purposes.