[Muanet] Scholars defy US ban

[Dion Giles]

Writers and editors who have spent years translating essays, films, poems, 
scientific articles and books by Iranian, North Korean and Sudanese authors 
have been warned not to do so by the U.S. Treasury Department under penalty 
of fine and imprisonment. Publishers and film producers are not allowed to 
edit works authored by writers in those nations. The Bush administration 
contends doing so has the effect of trading with the enemy, despite a 1988 
law that exempts published materials from sanction under trade rules.

Robert Bovenschulte, president of the American Chemical Society, is 
challenging the rule interpretation by violating it to edit into English 
several scientific papers from Iran.
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The full Daytona Beach News-Journal story, including an account of the 
closing down of a school poetry circle for being "un-American", can 
currently be found at

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN62051504.htm

Dion Giles