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approximately half of his research for the proposed manuscript
was already completed, and he continued:
Partly for economic reasons, partly to get a change of pace,
I intend to go abroad to do the writing. My last sabbatical
was spent in Paris and I managed to take an hour a day of
conversational French as well as write MARX'S TRUTH AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES. I am considering going to Spain this time and
attempting to learn a bit of Spanish.
The manuscript referred to was initially begun by petitioner
on one of his earlier sabbaticals in France. For the planned
sabbatical, petitioner testified at trial "my intention was to go
to Spain and to talk to other people in Spain from elsewhere in
Europe about that subject". After arriving in Spain in August
1990, petitioner resumed work on the manuscript and completed a
draft that he sent to another professor at the University, who at
one time was chairman of the international relations department,
Dr. Henry E. McGuckin, Jr. Dr. McGuckin reviewed the draft
manuscript and advised petitioner: "It has a lot of great
arguments, but it's much too theoretical. I think you'll turn a
lot of people off with this." Apparently heeding Dr. McGuckin's
advice, petitioner did no further work on the manuscript and
decided to focus his attention on something else. At that time,
the military involvement of the United States in the area of the
Persian Gulf was just beginning, occasioned by the invasion of
Kuwait by Iraq. Petitioner decided that he would redirect his
efforts to a study of the Persian Gulf situation primarily from
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