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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
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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<
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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;
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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."
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|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.