Koreys article to my colleagues attention. and ask that it be printed in the RECORD at this point THE SoviETs ARE REVOKINo DEOREES HELD BY JEWS (By William Korey) An extraordinary assault upon the autonomy and Integrity of academia has been launched In the U.S.S.R. It warrants the at tention and concern of the international scholarly community. A number of distinguished Jevi.ish scientists who have sought to emigrate are advised that their higher academic degrees have been or will be revoked. Not since the imposition by the Kremlin of the scandalous "diploma tax" In August 1972 has the Soviet Jewish intellectual been confronted by such a serious threat to his fundamental academic rights as well as to his livelihood. Higher academic degrees everywhere are granted in recognition of scholarly achievement.
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