BOARD OF GOVERNORS
July 1993-June 1994

Chairman of the Board
CYRIL M. HARRIS
Batchelor Professor Emeritus
of Electrical Engineering &
Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Columbia University

President
JOSHUA LEDERBERG
University Professor
The Rockefeller University

President-Elect
HENRY M. GREENBERG
Associate Professor of Clinical
Medicine Columbia University
College of Physicians & Surgeons

Secretary- Treasurer
HENRY A. LICHSTEIN
Vice President, Citibank, N.A.

Vice Presidents
EDWARD COHEN
Chairman & CEO
Ammann & Whitney, Inc

MARTIN L. LEIBOWITZ
Managing Director
Satomon Brothers inc.

JERROLD WILLIAM MABEN
Coordinator of Science
Danbury Public Schools

Governors-at-Large
BARRY R. BLOOM
Protessor of Cell Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

RONALD BRESLOW
Samuel Latham Mitchill
Professor of Chemistry

Columbia University

SUSANNA CUNNINGHAM-RUNDLES
Department of Pediatrics
Corneli University Medical College

MARTHA R. MATTEO
Research & Development Administration
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

DOROTHY NELKIN
Professor of Sociology
New York University

RICHARD A. RIFKIND
Chairman
Sloan-Kettering Institute

DAVID E. SHAW
Managing General Partner
D.E. Shaw & Co.

WILLIAM C. STEERE, JR.
Chairman ot the Board & CEO
Pfizer inc

SHMUEL WINOGRAD
Director, Mathematical Sciences Department
TJ Watson Research Center

Past Chairman

CHARLES A. SANDERS
Chairman & CEO, Glaxo Ine.

Honorary Life Governor
WILLIAM T. GOLDEN
Chairman
American Museum of Natural History

Chief Executive Officer
RODNEY W. NICHOLS

General Counsel

HELENE L. KAPLAN
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

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THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

January 20, 1994

The New York Academy of Sciences has received
notification that Dr. Vil Mirzayanov will be brought
to trial for actions protected under international
agreements and required under ethical standards of
scientific responsibility.

We ask your Academy to join us in demanding
that charges against Dr. Mirzayanov be dropped.
At the very least international observers should
be permitted to attend the trial on January 24,
1994,

The freedom on the part of scientists to call
the attention of the world to possible transgressions
on the part of elements of their government is an
elementary part of scientific freedom. The abuse
of that freedom also undermines the foundations
of confidence in the trustworthiness of governments
in their international relations.

VG an

Joshua Lederberg,
President
New York Academy of Sciences

Ph.D.

ATTENTION OF: Dr. Yuri Sergeivich Osipov, President
Russian Academy of Sciences
14 Leninsky Prospekt

Moscow, Russia

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