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AAAS Resolution:
Humanitarian Appeal on Behalf of Eleven Foreign Scholars
Whereas the deteriorating health while in detention, imprisonment, or internal exile of the scholars named below is a matter of deep concern to the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Be it resolved that the American Association for the Advancement of Science requests that the governments concerned release these scholars, on humanitarian grounds, and permit them to leave the country if they so desire:
Dr. Sixto Carlos, Jr. (political scientist, Philippines)
Dr. Ryszard Herczynski (mathematician, Poland)
Dr. Angel Ibarra (medical doctor, El Salvador)
Dr. Sergei Kovalev (electrocardiologist, USSR)
Professor Jose Luis Massera (mathematician, Uruguay)
Professor Jamaluddin Naquvi (literature, Pakistan)
Dr. Yuri Orlov (theoretical physicist, USSR)
Dr. Aleksandr Paritskii (physicist, USSR)
Aleksandr Podrabinek (medical assistant, USSR)
Dr. Andrei Sakharov (physicist, USSR)
Dr. Anatoly Shcharansky (computer scientist, USSR) [Adopted by the AAAS Council, May 30, 1983.]
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