U.S. Embargos Extended to Editing Articles
Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2004, page A20.
By Mary Curtius, Times Staff Writer.
The L.A. Times reports today that a September 30, 2003 ruling of the
U.S. Department of the Treasury‘s
Office of Foreign Assets Control “pits national security concerns against academic freedom and the international flow of information.” It says that altering any works written in Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, or Cuba is illegal.” and that academic publishers including the
American Chemical Society and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers are grappling with the implications.
In a statement issued Friday in response to questions from the Los Angeles Times, [John H.] Marburger, Bush’s science advisor, indicated unease with the regulations. Marburger said he supports “the use of economic sanctions against state sponsors of terrorism.” But he added, “I’m concerned about the impact interpretations of such sanctions may have on scientific publishing and, therefore, scientific openness. We are working on this issue and hope to achieve a satisfactory resolution.”
The OFAC ruling referred to in the article is evidently this one:
031002-FACRL-IA-11 September 30, 2003
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