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However, vestiges of the U.S. Attorney in charge of the case, Under the proposal the State repressive McCarthy Era linger and said that Yatani's constitutional Department would be required to have had an adverse effect upon the claim is, "...utterly devoid of merit purge the list with the exception of lives of aliens living in the United and borders on the frivolous." those whose presence on the list States. In contrast, Helton believes the proved compelling for national One such individual is USB case is groundbreaking. "The security reasons. Social Psychology Professor lawsuit seeks to remedy a dan- "Congress is growing Choichiro Yatani. As of press time gerous legacy of the Cold War increasingly frustrated with the Yatani awaits a response from the Era...over three hundred thousand Executive's seeming unwillingness State Department and the result of people are subject to exclusion and to dis-establish these obsolescent the Federal Court case that began abuse as long as their names remain look mechanisms," stated Helton. last January. At issue is Yatani's on the list," he said. Yatani told The Press, removal from the "lookout list" of The lists were established under "Regardless of the new law or the the State Department and Immi- the auspices of the 1952 McCarren- old law it was unjust to list me gration and Naturalization Service Walter Act which allows aliens to under the blacklist in the first (INS). These lists are essentially be denied entrance to the U.S. on place." According to Yatani the blacklists used to deny visas to the basis of communist party proposed purging, which entails aliens and bar their entry into the membership. examining each individual's record, United States on ideological and Yatani has repeatedly denied that might take as long as three years to political grounds. he was a member of the communist complete; three years that he is not According to Yatani's attorney, party in the 1960s or at any other prepared to wait. Arthur C. Helton of the New York time. Helton says that "the govern- Helton states that "if his name based Lawyer's Committee for ment has never revealed the basis," [Yatani] is removed that will end Human Rights, "...the list contains for Yatani's blacklisting. his controversy with the U.S. names of people who are a threat to Since Yatani discovered he was government." national security or opposed to listed in 1988, progress has been Yatani hopes to travel to Japan in foreign policy." Helton added, made in eliminating the "lookout Choichiro Yatani at his home in East Setauket July for the publication of his book "There are several thousand who list." in 1988 Congress passed the which details his experience and Helton stated, "When the lookout because of, "past, current, or are listed for no action of their Foreign Relations Authorization examines U.S. foreign system continued and names expected beliefs, statements, or policy in own." Act. According to Helton, section of the Iron continued to be listed," Congress associations, if such beliefs, light of the lifting Yatani himself referred to "the 901 of the statute implied the Curtain. passed a 1990 Immigration Act. statesments, or lookout list" as an "exclusion repealing of the McCarren - Walter associations would Section 601 of the law removes be lawful in the machine," as there exists potential Act. United States." barring aliens entry into the U.S. Section 601 also for further abuse with the list. A provides means 1990 report by the Lawyer's I Isl4LL rl I I ,, · · Committee revealed that the names listed tripled during the Reagan years. Symposium Honors Mathematician Since 1977 Yatani has lived in The Undergraduate Years be right. I looked at it and it needed The Fields Medal the United States with his wife and to be refined, but I could not find two children. However, he A.W. Tucker, former Chairman anything wrong. I gave it to a In 1962, Milnor received the remained unaware of his of the Department of Mathematics colleague, a specialist in the field Fields Medal. It is the most blacklisting until 1986, the year he at Princeton from 1953 to 1963 and and he agreed with me that it was a prestigious award was sponsored by University in mathematics, now 85 years old, remembers John solution. I then asked Milnor to and is given every four years to President John Mar-burger to travel Milnor as an undergraduate student. write a paper about it. Instead he three or four mathematicians at to Amsterdam for an international Tucker was freshman advisor to came at the end of the term with a most. The Fields medal is the peace conference. Milnor (by a random but lucky complete theory of knotted curves, equivalent of the Nobel Price for Upon his return to the United assignment). of which the resolution of Borsuk's mathematics. There is an States Yatani was apprehended by "At the beginning of the fall term, conjecture was only a part. apocryphal story often heard in custom officials because his name a new student by the name of 'At the end of his freshman year, mathematics departments that could was on the blacklist. Yatani was Milnor asked me about the classes he took a national math exam called not be verified. It seems that Alfred incarcerated for 44 days and faced he should take. From what he told the Putnam exam, and he ranked Nobel did deportation which was later waived Professor John Milnor not want to create a prize me, I recommended him to register among the top five. Harvard offered for mathematics because his wife because of the lawsuit. During his for an advanced calculus class. him a scholarship for graduate was having an affair with a imprisonment he received support by Jean Rousseau During the term, the man who was studies. Milnor came to see me and mathematician at the time. from the USB Administration as teaching the class came to see me, asked what he should do. I asked Usually a good mathematician well as New York legislators. A symposium in honor of John and told me that there was a young him: 'Are you happy here?' He said will contribute to one field of Although he was released Yatani Milnor's sixtieth birthday about man who was wasting his time. It yes and he stayed at Princeton for mathematics, but Milnor did remained on the list. Yatani topological methods in modern was Milnor. I told Milnor that he four years. Remember, it was the significant work that is still believes that the blacklisting may mathematics ended last Friday. should take the final exam in that Korean war and there was a draft influential in four different fields of stem from a 1968 arrest during a Milnor's name may not ring a bell course and that he should not going on. mathematics: geometry, analysis, Vietnam protest which took place for most of us, but for mathema- bother to attend the rest of the 'In their senior year, our algebra and a fourth field he while he was student body ticians, his work represents a classes. Instead he should read undergraduate students have to go practically invented: differential President of Japan's Doshisha seminal contribution to the about real variables. through a thirty minute oral exam. topology. That field consists of University. He submitted three advancement of mathematics in our 'In the Spring term, I was It is usually a formality. We asked studying the topological Freedom of Information Act century. properties teaching differential geometry. I him if he would rather take the of spaces in many (FOIA) requests in order to find out Milnor is a Professor in the dimensions, i.e., covered the material of curvature of three-hour oral exam that doctoral properties that are preserved like in why he was on the list. Certain Department of Mathematics at curve in space and at some point, I candidates must pass. He accepted. the case of a rubber balloon that documents were held and the FOIA Stony Brook and is a member of had five or ten minutes left, and I The exam consisted of four topics: can be stretched but which actions were referred to U.S. the Institute contain for Mathematical did not want to start the topic of real and complex variables, algebra Magistrate David F. Jordan. Sciences. His wife, more organized structures. It is also Dusa Mcduff, surfaces. I decided to talk about a and two topics of his choice that Jordan called the government's was already a faculty member described as the study of shapes conjecture of the Polish were differential geometry and non-cooperation disturbing. He before he moved with concepts from calculus.