1971-11-06
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 5 —More than 350 scholars have signed a statement urging President Nixon to withdraw United States support from Pakistan until there is a peaceful settlement of the India‐Pakistan crisis.
A proposal from an ad hoc committee asked Mr. Nixon to “inform the Pakistan Government that the United States will not provide military or economic assistance” nor continue aid programs “until there is political settlement with the elected Awami League leadership of East Bengal.”
The statement is signed by five Nobel Prize winners and many of the country's leading specialists on Asia, including Profs. Henry S. Rosovsky and Benjamin I. Schwartz of Harvard and Myron Weiner and Harold R. Isaacs of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Weiner and Mr. Isaacs began circulating the statement for endorsement within the academic community at the beginning of this week.
Other signers, who are Nobel Prize winners are Paul Samuelson and Savador Luria of M.LT., Simon Kuznetz of Harvard and Linus Pauling and Richard E. Hofstader of Stanford. The signers also include the economists James Tobin of Yale, Wassily Lontiff of Harvard and Otto Eckstein of M.I.T.; Seymour Martin. Litset, Harvard political scientist, and Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. expert on linguistics.