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Faculty Group Endorses Statement

Faculty Group Endorses Statement

A number of MIT faculty members joined with scientists and 
engineers from area universities and other organizations in a press 
conference at Cambridge City Hall on Thursday (January 10) to urge 
that the government rely on sanctions, coupled with negotiations, to 
end Iraq's occupation of Kuwait.

While opposing the occupation, and supporting the blockade of Iraq, 
the group said in a statement, "we also recognize recognize the 
immensely high and long-lasting costs of rectifying this aggression 
by war."

Dr. Herman Feshbach, Institute Professor, Emeritus, and professor of 
physics, emeritus and Dr. Vera Kistiakowsky, professor of physics, 
were among those who spoke at the news conference.                   

Others from MIT who had signed the statement as of January 10 
were: Aron Bernstein, Stephanie J. Bird, Ernesto E. Blanco, Claude R. 
Canizares, Noam Chomsky, Stephan Chorover, George W. Clark, 
Suzanne Corkin, James Fay, Bernard T. Feld, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, 
Richard O. Hynes, Vernon Ingram, Roman Jackiw, Jean Jackson, 
Kenneth A. Johnson, Frank S. Jones, Daniel S. Kemp, Jonathan King, 
Daniel Kleppner, Alan Lazarus, Heather N. Lechtman, Stephan J. 
Lippard, Francis Low, Robert Mann, Phillip Morison, John W. Negele, 
Robert P. Redwine, Patricia Reilly, Phil Robbins, Michael J. Rosen, 
Thomas B. Sheridan, Louis D. Smullin, Frank Solomon, Lisa Steiner, 
Annamaria Torriani-Gorini, Leon Trilling, Joseph Weizenbaum and 
Harry West.