The World - News from Jan. 20, 1987
China’s Communist Party expelled Fang Lizhi, an astrophysicist who gained national prominence by supporting student demonstrators, the official media reported. Last week, Fang, 50, was fired from his post as vice president of China’s Science and Technology University in Hefei. The New China News Agency said the party ousted Fang because he tried to “incite intellectuals against the party and students to make trouble.” During the height of student protests in China last month, Fang had been hailed as a hero by the demonstrators.
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