State Department to Allow Huang to Leave for China

Wei-Yuan Huang, research fellow in Chemistry, is now preparing to return to his home in China after last week's State Department decision to allow 76 technically trained Chinese to go home.

The 76 had been denied exit permits by the Immigration Service under the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act. Huang and others have been trying since then to get permission to leave.

Huang, who has not been home for seven years, said yesterday that he was "very happy" that the Immigration Service was permitting him to leave. He has not yet fixed a date for his departure, but hopes to leave near the end of May, when the first available ship will sail for Hong Kong.

He said that several of the Chinese students who had petitioned President Eisenhower for their release would like to travel together, but that details had not been worked out.

Huang has been working on steroid research with Louis F. Floser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and hopes to complete the project before leaving.

The State Department decision has been viewed as an effort to obtain the release of 56 Americans now held in China.

Henry Suydam, State Department spokesman, has said that no official exchange has been arranged, but added, "Our position is that we would like Americans in China to be released for whatever reasons might appeal to the Red Chinese authorities."