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∂AIL Readers Write↓%2Christian Science Monitor%1↓Boston, MA∞

	Your August 22 editorial seems too complacent in regarding
the Moscow meeting of the International Political Science Association
as progress, in view of the fact that the Western attendees accepted
the exclusion of dissident political scientists from the meeting.
In 1975, in the face of a probable public demonstration by
Western scientists, the Soviets agreed to permit Professor Alexander
Lerner, a well known refusenik scientist, to take part in a panel
discussion at the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, and two other refuseniks were admitted to the conference.

	It is unfortunate that the political scientists, unlike
the computer scientists, were unable or not sufficiently motivated
to uphold the principle that admission to scientific meetings depends
only on scientific qualifications.  Perhaps the political scientists
need some lessons in the practical politics of human rights.

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