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Page 10 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1980 world Top-secret fighter explodes near London United Press International LONDON — A top-secret Amer ican F-18 fighter aircraft burst into flames and crashed Monday near a British air force base west of London, but the two crewmen parachuted to safety. The plane, on loan from the U.S. Navy to the McDonnell Douglas Corp. for the annual Famborough air show, crashed 200 yards from the British army air corps married quar ters, the Defense Ministry said. The two-man crew, believed to be civilians on the staff of McDonnell Douglas, bailed out before the plane £ HOT DOGS! and more at the TAMU Collegiate 4-H Club Hot Dog Social $ Come One Come All Wed. Sept. 10 Kleberg Center 7:00 P.M. crashed and scattered wreckage over a wide area near the village of Middle Wallop, 60 miles west of London, a spokesman said. The crewmen were taken to the Royal Air Force Hospital at Wroughton, near Swindon. One man was reported seriously injured, the other slightly injured. Police immediately clamped down on news of the crash for security reasons, even confiscating film a 13- year-old boy took of the crash and destroying the negatives. The boy, Simon Orwin of Middle Wallop, his brother and sister, Jeremy and Nicola, and a friend, Jus tin Badger, 14, were bicycling past the Army air center when they saw the plane overhead. “The engines were on fire and the plane went into a dive,” the young photographer said. “It was totally out of control, but we could see the cock pit canopy was raised and the pilot had ejected.” The aircraft is one of America’s latest combat planes, and it is re ported to be undergoing evaluation tests for use in air defense and groun- dattack roles. A second accident occurred on the ground when a British Ministry of Defense fire tender collided with an an army vehicle as they raced to the crash site. Hua quits as premier in Chinese shake-up United I JBONN, W 1 Hitical and BATO and V jpustered thei of the East-W< United Press International PEKING — Hua Guofeng resigned as premier Sun day in a major victory for China’s strongman Deng Xiaoping, but Deng faces a much tougher fight in the power struggle to oust Hua as chairman of the Commun ist Party, analysts say. Deng and six other vice premiers also resigned en masse Sunday, handing the reins of government over to a collective leadership headed by master economic re former Zhaoa Ziyang, China’s new premier and a pro tege of Deng. EXPOSE YOURSELF TO OUR FILM DEVELOPING 35MM COLORPRINT FILM DEVELOPED. AND PRINTED T Size nr* i 1 °- 126 UO film 12 EXP 00 size 110-126 Film 24 Exp. Let us develop your film. You II get beautiful color prints... plus big savings with this coupon. Good on 110, I26siz.es FUJI and Kodak C-41 process film only. Cou pon must accompany order. Limit one roll per coupon. Offer expires Sept. 1 5th. We use Kodak paper... fora good look. ENGINEERS The major shake-up affecting more than one-third of the state council was carefully orchestrated by Deng to remove the aged and the uncooperative and separate the government from the party. ■ • , i ii .|,, Monday to sta Analysts said the new leaders will be Den;iM-g am es on I who mainly are younger and more professioniK e nd of W< ified to handle the day-to-day affairs of the NATO nation, which is undergoing a thorough refonK re than 1( structure of the government and the modemifler Allied ti its economy. |ly launche The next round in the battle for control oftlt^g British Rc ful Communist Party, still headed by Chaima r &e tersloh. expected to be tougher, the analysts said. Bpeneral Be Deng is believed to have control ofthePdi^Jme Allied ci not the entire Central Committee. There stills jjaTO Secre erable opposition to Deng’s campaign to oil and W Engineer the future with Union Electric Located in Missouri, we are one of the nation's largest investor-owned utilities. And we want to talk with graduating Engineers about positions available in St. Louis and at our Callaway Nuclear Power Plant under construction in mid-Missouri. We offer excellent career opportunities to Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineers. We'll be on campus: Tuesday, September 23 Visit your placement office for more information and to sign up for interviews. If you are unavailable for an interview, send your resume to: Michael Kurtz Employment Supervisor UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY P.O. Box 149 Hua’s long-anticipated resignation as premier was a major victory for Deng after months of bitter behind- the-scenes political infighting. It set the stage for a second showdown later this year between the two men for control of the ruling Communist Party. Hua retained the chairmanship of the party, though gravely weakened in the ongoing political struggle be cause of his past associations with the late Mao Tse-tung, but diplomatic sources said after his success at the con gress, Deng would probably go after Hua’s party post later this year. China officials have stressed the resignations will not affect China’s foreign and domestic policies. The National Peoples Congress is expected to announce its approval of the resignations and name replacements for the vacant posts at its closing session Wednesday. Chairman Mao down to human size. The urge to protect the legacy of Mao is strong among elderly leaders who oncefoi side with Mao. These include a few militana ders who analysts say are unhappy withde-M and are likely to rally behind Hua, Maos heir, when the crunch comes, they said. In his two-hour speech, Hua announcedtlnl| will scrap its current 10-year economic pro r develop an entirely fresh blueprint for the 1^ *o n include all the innovative decentralizedaoS enterprise programs advocated by Zhao. Theo is to raise the living standard of the onebillionC he said. United ■LONDON industry was It produce! ique cars h Alec Gui Leader wants to meet pope He also announced the government will Irf "crash drive’ to stop the growth of the populaM hope to keep the total number of people in ChkjUi T , billion by the end of the century, by using‘pqHf s , | " MS and education” to call on all married couples I T, T Vivien Leig Janies Masoi andthechann Strikes continue in Poland KAnd now? |The J. Artl has announce United Press International WARSAW, Poland — Scattered work stoppages persisted across Po land and the leader of the successful strike says he wants to go to Rome and meet with Polish-born Pope John Paul II. Lech Walesa, 37, who led the 18- day strike that won promises of the first independent trade unions in the Soviet bloc and led to the ouster of Communist Party boss Edward Gierek, met Polish Primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Sunday and thank ed him for the church’s support throughout the job action. Walesa, who had breakfast with the cardinal after attending mass in IN BY 9 — OUT BY 5” PH0 T0FINISHING LABORATORY 119 Walton Video the prelate’s private chapel, said that if he had the necessary travel docu ments he would be ready to go to Rome to meet John Paul II. But the official state-run television news, reflecting the open trend in the media that grew up during the strikes, said Sunday night there were still “sporadic cases of strikes” around the country, and confirmed earlier dissident reports of a dozen or so walkouts. 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