The World - News from Sept. 4, 1989

A senior foreign trade official in China’s Guangdong province was fired for corruption, the official New China News Agency said. Xu Yunian, director of the province’s foreign economic relations and trade committee, was dismissed for “squandering and abusing power for personal gain,” the agency said. It quoted local investigators as saying Xu spent $29,000 to import a luxury car and a similar amount to buy and lease mobile telephones for his own use. He also allocated himself a huge apartment, the agency said. It did not say whether criminal charges would be brought.