The World - News from May 8, 1988

China’s most prominent dissident, astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, said he would be allowed to make his first visit to the United States since he was expelled from the Communist Party a year ago. Fang said that he plans to attend scientific conferences in Dallas in December and in Australia in August. The outspoken dissident, who once was quoted as describing Marxism as an old, worn-out dress that has to be shed, had been barred from going to the United States and Hong Kong. “I had applied a long time ago,” he said. “I was told about this on May 5.”