The university senate made its decision on the author's application for full professorship without consideration of the two impugned letters or his political belief.

In addition the number of women who obtained doctoral degree and professorship at the Universities both State and Private, has also opened wider opportunity to participate in international and regional scientific meetings.

In August 1984, after having applied for promotion to a full tenure professorship, a university promotions committee received and considered two unsolicited letters from other professors of the author's faculty that were critical of him.

My Columbia University colleague Ronald Findlay pointed out that one of them, 91 year old Hla Myint, who had held a professorship at the London School of Economics, was the father of the most successful development strategy ever devised, that of an open economy and export led growth. That blueprint has been used throughout Asia in recent decades, most notably in China.