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	The undersigned think that Stanford should develop and adopt
a different policy concerning restrictions on visitors from the
Soviet Union than the total non-co-operation that seems to be implicit in the
attached news story.

	This policy should balance considerations of

1. maximizing reciprocity

2. keeping down defense costs by delaying Soviet access to areas in which
we are ahead

3. avoiding security measures within the University

4. showing a society more open than their own to visitors from the Soviet Union
Do you think the following is ok for presentation to Lieberman along with
the AP story and the Stanford press release.  In particular, can you
support it?

FACULTY STATEMENT ON SOVIET VISITORS

	We are distressed by the situation described in the attached
Associated Press story.  It gives the impression that Stanford takes an
attitude of total opposition to the Government's efforts to restrict
technology transfer to the Soviet Union.  Moreover, this attitude seems to
be supported by a number of untrue statements, namely (1) The Soviets are
ahead of the U.S. in robotics.  (2) Robotics has no military applications.
(3) There are no possible restrictions on Soviet visitors that won't
disrupt the functioning of the University.  We are further distressed that
that when the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco reported on the situation
to Moscow, this report probably re-inforced the idea in Moscow that
American protests about Poland and Afghanistan were a governmental sham
without any support in the institutions of the country such as
universities.

	We believe that Stanford should adopt a policy toward Soviet
visitors that balances the following considerations:

	1. Preserving the orderly functioning of the academic processes of
research, publication and teaching and avoiding the creation of a security
atmosphere.

	2. Showing the visitors a society more open than their own.

	3. Minimizing transfer of militarily useful technology so as to
minimize our own defense costs; perhaps we can help obviate the need for a
return to the draft.  Ways of implementing this without security measures
need study.

	4. Increasing reciprocity so that access to Soviet research
becomes available to Americans to the same extent that our research
activities are accessible to them.  This involves some degree of support
to the bargaining efforts on our behalf conducted by the State Department
and the National Academy of Sciences.

	5. Maintaining good relations with the State Department, the
Defense Department and other Government agencies.

	Since these goals are not entirely co-incident, some degree of
compromise is needed.

	We suggest that a committee be appointed to develop a policy.  If
an interim statement clarifying the impression given by the Stanford press
release could be made, it might help mitigate the unfortunate signal that
has been sent to Moscow.