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Dr. Michael J. Pentz @

Dean and Director of Studies of Science
The Open University

Walton Hall

Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

ENGLAND

Dear Dr. Pentz,

I was interested to receive your letter of December 2nd
concerning your investigation about the inside/outside dilemma.
This is a matter that has exeerdéed a number of my colleagues
to perhaps a greater degree than myself since I had intuitively
decided that there was a fundamental conflict between the role
of detached scholarship and of immediate policy involvement,

T hope you will have planned to include Sidney Drell, Carl Djerassi
Alain Enthoven and W, Panofsky in your list of correspondentedas
these are very able people who have taken a variety of different
stands on this issue. There is also a considerably larger group

of students of policy questiona that I think it would be profitable
for you to engage with perhaps in a seminar.

As to your specific questions, the answer to (a) is "yes",
(b) my schedule for January to June is relatively open at this time,
(c) I have a few dates that are strongly counferindicated, namely

February 24th ~ 27th, February 86hb and just a sprinkling of others
until about mid-June, Gr

Sincerely youra,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

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