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PROPOSED TELEGRAM ABOUT SHCHARANSKY

	The prosecution of the computer scientist Shcharansky, which we
regard as motivated by his desire to emigrate and his work in monitoring
compliance with the Helsinki agreement, will have a very negative effect
on Soviet-American co-operation and contacts in the computer field.  The
prosecution reminds us of the 1930s, and we hope it will be dropped.

To Alexandrov - USSR Academy of Sciences
To Rudenko - USSR Public Prosecutor
cc. U.S. National Academy of Sciences
cc. U.S. State Department
cc. U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

Potential signers
Herbert Grosch - President ACM

John McCarthy - Computer Science Dept., Stanford,yes

Edward Fredkin, M.I.T.,yes

Marvin Minsky, M.I.T.

Alistair Holden, Univ. Washington,yes