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...letter, Wood referred to a 1986 interview in which Dukakis told The Boston Globe that Massachusetts' public colleges should not try to compete with the state's private institutions...
...Wood was president of the UMass system from 1970 to 1978, and he worked with Dukakis during the governor's first term in office...
...Wood, who now teaches at Wesleyan University, said yesterday that he wrote the letter because other professors asked him about Dukakis's record in higher education...
...They had been under the impression that he had been in the forefront of higher education," said Wood. "That impression was factually wrong...
Robert B. Schwartz, education adviser to Governor Dukakis, called the letter "absolutely a personal vendetta." He said Wood and Dukakis were long-standing opponents, and "it was a Dukakis majority on the Board of Trustees that forced Wood to resign his position...