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Abstract
Last fall, when suspicions regarding the academic integrity of the Vietnam Center were first voiced on this campus, spokesmen for the Center lost no time in denouncing the critics as “irresponsible”, “unscholarly”, or worse. Since that time the irresponsible ones have been joined by many Asian scholars in this country and abroad who likewise feel that the Center lacks sufficient guarantees of academic freedom and independence from such a politically committed agency as AID. One widely circulated statement reads as follows: