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...Brian Tokar, an SAAC spokesman, said that the CIIC's letter was drafted from a resolution written by Thomas F. Jones, vice president for research who previously defended the Taiwan program...
...Tokar said the SACC delivered a brief to the State Department last week stating its objections to the Taiwan program. As a consequence, the State Department may have ordered its cancellation, he said...
...There are probably people in the State Department who felt this sort of program would be beneficial if the U.S. drops permanent ties with Taiwan--then Taiwan won't be left out in the cold militarily and will be able to defend itself," Tokar said...
...Taiwanese won't accept the program without the military stuff since they aren't interested in anything else," and MIT will thus be able to get out of the deal quietly, Tokar said...
Just like any salesmen, TIME agents have their problems. Francis Tokar of St. Bonaventure University reports: "I had been trying to sell a TIME subscription to a certain student for weeks. I finally wound up lending him the money to buy the subscription, and he left school without returning it. At long last, however, he did send a money order to cover the old loan." At Seton Hall University, Agent Irving Blau was stumped by a fellow student who refused to subscribe because TIME hadn't mentioned the remarkable Seton Hall basketball team. "However," says Blau, "the very next...