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January 20, 1993

  Outrageous use of Academic Paper for anti-Semitic propaganda.
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     I was astonished to realize that the IEEE COMPUTER , gives
     host to an inglorious wild anti-Semitic provocation, under the
     cover of so called academic paper.
     In the IEEE Computer of July 1992 , Page 74 ,given as " a
     sample of typewritten Arabic ", there is a paragraph in Arabic
     , describing the fall of the Moslem ruler of Turkey, and the
     raise of the "western agent "  Kamal Attaturk in 1922, as a "
     Jewish  Conspiracy ". The exact content of the paragraph is
     given hereby.  The translation has been done by my colleague
     Ron J. Goldring:

     "... The entire region, and the JEWISH delegation was
     expelled disgracefully. And he said: Palestine is the
     blood of six hundred million moslems.
     And since that time, the enemies of Islam laboured on
     removing that obstacle from their way. And their
     collusion was successful: They removed him from power,
     and toppled the "knifa", and brought the western agent
     Attaturk to power."


     Details of this "Academic  Paper"

     Title : Off - Line Arabic Character Recognition.

     Authors : Habib Goraine, Mike Usher, and Samir Al-Emami.
                 University   of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, U.K
                    Dept. of Cybernetics.

     I have to stress that such use of Academic Paper is unheard-
     of. I suggest that every one who wants to express his view in
     this matter will mail to IEEE Computers magazine < Editor-in-
     Chief is Jon T. Butler , internet email :
     butler@ece.nps.navy.mil . Magazine  Address : 10662 Los
     Vaqueros Circle, PO Box 3014, Los Alamitos,    CA 90720-1264
     U.S.A > , to IEEE , Reading Univ. or any other institute
     relevant for the matter.

     Yair Shachar
     School of Mathematics & CS
     Tel-Aviv  University.