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	Here is the resolution passed, but I have learned one fact
since I wrote which makes the matter less urgent - namely, Les Earnest
as chairman of SIGART has decided not to take the advice of the meeting
and their will be no mail ballot.  He thinks it's too late and anyway it's
a different organization.  Therefore, I do not recommend putting the
thing on the bulletin board, but rather put something on the bulletin
board having to do with AI.

	Those present at the annual business meeting of the Special
Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) held at the ACM-74
Annual Conference in San Diego, California on November 11, 1974
have unanimously voted for the following resolution:

	"For a variety of logistic, scientific, and political reasons
we find the location of the Soviet Union for the IJCAI-4 unsatisfactory
and ill-considered.  We recommend that the IJCAI Conference Committee
immediately seek a new location for this conference.  We also request
that a referendum of the full membership of SIGART on this issue be
carried out by mail at the earliest possible time."

	The vote was 31-0 with one abstention.