00100	Dear Lick:
00200	
00300		In September 1967, we accepted a graduate student
00400	from Czechoslovaki, Ruzena Bajcsy.  After the Soviet invasion,
00500	she decided not to return there, but didn't tell the Czech
00600	government of her decision until they forced the issue by
00700	repeatedly ordering her to return.  She did a pretty good
00800	thesis under me on texture in vision, and got a job as an
00900	assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania where
01000	she got vision research started and has an NSF grant to continue
01100	work on vison, especially on texture.
01200	
01300		Now they are trying to deport her on the grounds that
01400	she was a member of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia
01500	which is true - for the usual reasons - an indecipherable
01600	combination of wanting to get ahead in her job and wanting
01700	to help run things, I suppose.
01800	
01900		She has a reasonably competent lawyer, and all the
02000	obvious things have been tried, letters from the President
02100	of the University of Pennsylvania, and trying to get the
02200	help of her Congressman (I don't know what help she got).
02300	I wrote a letter which is BAJCSY.LE1[LET,JMC], in which I
02400	said good things about her plus my belief that it would be
02500	better for U.S. defense to have her here rather than there.
02600	
02700		Do you think you could have someone look into the
02800	facts and get some official of DoD, yourself or yet higher,
02900	to say that it would be better for DoD to have her here
03000	rather than in Czechoslovakia?  Prompt action is important,
03100	and I would have asked before, but I hoped the previous
03200	appeal would work.  She is supposed to leave August 23, but
03300	I don't think she will actually leave then, and I imagine
03400	that actual deportation is a lengthy process.
03500	
03600		Sorry to put you to extra work.
03700	
03800					John McCarthy