"You're the Press Syndicate's consultant on manuscripts in physics," Shevek said.

Barakat's lawyers released a statement July 7 urging the Press Syndicate "to take all possible measures" to facilitate his release from prison.

In 1960, Salem was made Chairman of the Press Syndicate.

"The problem is everybody has taken extreme stands," says Ahmed al-Haj Hassan, head of the Syrian Press Syndicate.

He urged readers to contact the Uni-versal Press Syndicate "that peddles the poison that Rall lives off," to express their revulsion.

The head of the Syrian Press Syndicate told The Times on Thursday: "There's a new world out there and a new reality.

The Press Syndicate meets in the Pitt Building, which is the old headquarters of the Press located in Cambridge city centre.

The Press Syndicate's publishing committee still meets regularly (eighteen times a year), and its role still includes the review and approval of the Press's planned output.

The Press Syndicate quoted him as saying " If I go to Albany I will hand a few jolts to the Trusts to show them they cannot control me.

Thereafter, Bayer was from 1959 to 1962 general secretary of the Press Syndicate.