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CIA activities spreading to academics
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project entitled "forcasting policy
decisions," which ceased being fun-
ded in 1979.
NEITHER of these professors could
be reached for comment yesterday,
aqyd Plawchan would not provide
more details about the projects.
Lesch and University Vice
President for Research Linda Wilson
s4id the University wouldn't hesitate
to -ccept CIA money again in the
future, as long as any proposals sub-
mitted do not violate the Board of
Regents' guidlines on classified
research.
"If a project falls within the
guidlines and follow the rules of the
University, it's my understanding
that we won't discriminate against
the sponsor," Wilson said.
LESCH SAID past CIA projects
have been available for open
publication, which conforms to the
current guidlines.
The classified research guidlines
also prohibit research which can be
applied to the destruction of human
life. Opponents of the CIA - including
26 demonstrators arrested last week
for protesting the agency's recruiting
on campus - have accused the CIA of
a variety of crimes that threaten
human life.
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But Wilson said these alledged ac-
tivities are irrelevant if they don't af-
fect a specific research proposal.
"THE REGENTS guidlines are ap-
plicable to a specific project -
they're not applicable to what the
sponsor of the research does outside
of the project," Wilson said.
Lesch added that the CIA could
covertly fund research through other
agencies, although he couldn't cite
any specific examples of this prac-
tice.
Administrators at other universities
also noted the possibility that gover-
nmental research sources could be
coming indirectly from the CIA.
ACCORDING TO officials at other
schools and at the CIA, the agency has
been openly courting scholars for
years.
"About 10 years ago, we were man-
dated by Congress to go out into
academia and get third opinions - to
maintain the vitality of our analysis,
so that the CIA does not become
myopic in its research," said Central
Intelligence Agency spokeswoman
Patti Volz. "And, sure we've been
very, very active in doing this."
The agency's budget remain a
secret, and Volz declined to say how
much it spends each year or who
receives the money. But several
universities said they have received
funds for research on subjects
ranging from nuclear proliferation to
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UNIVERSITY administrators con-
tacted by The Associated Press said
they see nothing wrong with
professors performing work for the
CIA provided schools are told in ad-
vance and the research isn't
classified.
"We don't have bans against any
agency so long as they don't infringe
on the right to publish in the open
literature," said Robert Bock, dean of
graduate school at the University of
Wisconsin.
The CIA's financial stake in univer-
sities has grown noticeably in recent
years, says John Shattuck, vice
president for governmental and
public affairs at Harvard.
"There is certainly not less money
flowing in," he said in an interview
with The Boston Globe. "I think the
CIA has been trying to find an'
academic home all over the place,
and the trend has certainly been
toward further involvement."
But officials at several prominent
universities said that while they have
no explicit prohibition against taking
money from the ICA, they have ac-
cepted few, if any, grants from the
agency.
Yale University spokesman Walter
Littell said the school has not accep-
ted any CIA money for at least a
decade, although Yale's guidlines
wouldn't rule it out. The Massachuset-
ts Institute of Technology currently
has no CIA contracts, although
Provost John Deutsch said individual
faculty members probably act as con-
sultants to the agency.
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Knesset backs peace plan
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Shimon Peres urged the political right not to
oppose his peace efforts, and easily won a vote of confidence last night for
a plan that allows an international forum to be involved in negotiations.
The vote came after seven hours of debate in the Knesset, and was 68-10
for the Peres plan, with 10 abstentions. The prime minister presented his
peace proposals in a speech last week to the U.N. General Assembly in
New York.
He indicated willingness in that speech to consider an international
conference involving the Soviet Union if the Kremlin renewed diplomatic
relations with Israel. The Israeli position previously had been firm op-.
position to such a conference.
Peres spoke for 30 minutes to open the debate. Then opposition
legislator Guela Cohen announced that the prime minister had met
secretly in Paris with King Hussein of Jordan.
Peres' spokesman, Uri Savir, however, denied that the prime minister
met secretly with Hussein.
In Jordan King Hussein and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat met for
three hours yesterday to reassess their relationship and the future of
their faltering joint bid to make peace with Israel.
Dad, son admit spying
BALTIMORE - John Walker and the sailor son he recruited into
spying for the Soviet Union pleaded guilty to espionage charges yester-
day in an arrangement that will mean the father must serve at least 10
years of a life prison sentence and his sor more than eight years.
For the deal to stand, John Walker must cooperate fully with the gover-
nment in future proceedings, including the espionage trial of his Navy
buddy Jerry Whitworth. That trial is scheduled Jan. 13 in San Francisco.
"The reason we entered into this agreement is because John Walker
has something of vital interest to this country," said Assistant U.S. Attor-
ney Michael Schatzow. "We need to know what has been broken and what
needs to be fixed."
The principal beneficiary of the arrangement is Walker's 22-year-old
son, Michael, who faced possible two life terms plus 30 years had he been
convicted.
"The only thing we had to offer Mr. Walker would be some concession
for his son," Schatzow said.
Anti-apartheid meets banned
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Authorities banned meetings of 102
anti-apartheid groups yesterday in Cape Town, where a white farmer
trucking his vegetables to market fired into a crowd of mixed-race
youths, killing one person.
Police said the white farmer fired a shotgun at the group of youths who
stoned his truck as it passed a segregated suburb outside Cape Town. A
17-year-old yo~uth was killed.
Police spokesman Lt. Attie Loubscher said the farmer was not arrested
or charged because the farmer was considered to have been acting in
self-defense. An investigation was continuing, however, he said.
Also in Cape Town, a doctor charged that police, acting under
emergency regulations, opened fire with shotguns on a group of children
in a playground near Crossroads township and wounded three children -
a 5-year-old and two 7-year-olds.
Police thwart guru's escape
CHARLOTTE, N. C. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, arrested here
yesterday as authorities said he was trying to flee the country, was
charged in a federal indictment unsealed in Oregon with covering up
"sham marriages" to keep illegal aliens in the country.
The guru and eight followers were arrested after they landed early
yesterday aboard two Learjets which had flown from the Rajneesh-
puram, Ore., commune to Charlotte, said U.S. Marshal Ray Abrams.
Rajneesh, 53, is the spiritual leader of a sect that claims up to 500,000
adherents, mainly in the United States, Western Europe, and Australia.
About 3,000 followers live at Rajneeshpuram.
The 35-count indictment unsealed in Portland charges Rajneesh and
seven disciples with conspiring to defraud the United States, and with or-
dering others to make false statements to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service in a coverup of "sham marriages" between IU.S.
and foreign disciples.
Hurricane Juan thrashes La.
NEW IBERIA, La. - Hurricane Juan, a surprising late-season storm,
sank an off-shore oil rig and thrashed others with 85-mph wind and waves
up to 20 feet yesterday, leaving at least three people dead and four
missing. More than 141 people have been rescued.
On shore, high water stranded hundreds of people, while thousands
were told to evacuate.
Because the storm came so late in the season, many people paid little
attention to warnings until Juan reached hurricane strength Sunday af-
ternoon, and by then three days of rain and high tides had already flooded
some homes and roads.
Tides were 5 to 8 feet above normal along the coast. Gov. Edwin Ed-
wards states of emergency in 13 parishes, saying the heavy rains and
tidal flooding badly damaged soybean and sugarcane crops.
Storm-driven water breached a canal levee near Galliano, prompting
Lafourche Parish President Cyrus Tardo to advise about 5,000 people to
leave their homes.
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