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Welcoming Remarks
Pages 16-17

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... Correspondents are members of the academy and its foreign associates and members of the Institute of Medicine who actively assist the committee by making private personal appeals in behalf of imprisoned scientific colleagues. They now number well over one thousand.
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... It is a great pleasure to introduce Eliot Stellar.
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