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Dear Lick:

	In September 1967, we accepted a graduate student
from Czechoslovaki, Ruzena Bajcsy.  After the Soviet invasion,
she decided not to return there, but didn't tell the Czech
government of her decision until they forced the issue by
repeatedly ordering her to return.  She did a pretty good
thesis under me on texture in vision, and got a job as an
assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania where
she got vision research started and has an NSF grant to continue
work on vison, especially on texture.

	Now they are trying to deport her on the grounds that
she was a member of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia
which is true - for the usual reasons - an indecipherable
combination of wanting to get ahead in her job and wanting
to help run things, I suppose.

	She has a reasonably competent lawyer, and all the
obvious things have been tried, letters from the President
of the University of Pennsylvania, and trying to get the
help of her Congressman (I don't know what help she got).
I wrote a letter which is BAJCSY.LE1[LET,JMC], in which I
said good things about her plus my belief that it would be
better for U.S. defense to have her here rather than there.

	Do you think you could have someone look into the
facts and get some official of DoD, yourself or yet higher,
to say that it would be better for DoD to have her here
rather than in Czechoslovakia?  Prompt action is important,
and I would have asked before, but I hoped the previous
appeal would work.  She is supposed to leave August 23, but
I don't think she will actually leave then, and I imagine
that actual deportation is a lengthy process.

	Sorry to put you to extra work.

				John McCarthy