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...admirable effort to reverse the Reagan Administration's tight controls on the free exchange of information, Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck and Director of Policy Analysis Muriel Morisey Spence '69 last week issued a 32-page report urging President Bush to undertake a "Presidential Initiative on Information Policy" that would overhaul current federal information policies...
...Shattuck report calls on Bush to revamp the classification system and reduce the existing system of export controls and other related restrictions regarding the dissemination of unclassified scientific and technical information. It comes at a crucial time, when the United States is falling behind in the race to develop new technology...
...economy as well. Japan has overtaken us in the race to develop superconductors partly because of the Reagan Administration's counter-productive attempts to restrict the free exchange of technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy 188,000 jobs and $9 billion a year and was a major factor contributing to the nation's record trade deficit...
...Shattuck report addresses only half the problem that Bush must face in revitalizing the nation's economy. If the United States is to compete effectively in the world market, it must, at the same time as it loosens the classification and export control strictures, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights...
...Reagan Administration information policies have greatly hindered scientific research and technological innovation, thereby handicapping the American economy and potentially damaging our national security. In the spirit of the Shattuck report, we urge President Bush to put an end to a policy that has proven ethically and economically disastrous...