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Robert Dahl will Give Keynote Address for "Voicesof Democracy" Symposium

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The University pf Dayton ROBERT DAHL WILL GIVE KEYNOTE ADDRESS FOR 'VOICES OF DEMOCRACY' SYMPOSIUM

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DAYTON, Ohio, February 20, 1990--Robert A. Dahl, one of the foremost American political theorists, will be the keynote speaker for "Voices of Democracy," a symposium sponsored by the University of Dayton Center for International studies and the Dayton Council on World Affairs. The

symposium will be held March 16 and 17 at the Bergamo Conference Center, 4400 Shakertown Road.

Dahl, Sterling professor of political science emeritus at Yale

University, is the author of the recently released Democracy and Its

Critics. His address on "Transitions to Democracy" will be presented on Friday, March 16 at 8 p.m. in the Roncalli Center Assembly Hall at Bergamo.

Admission is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow.

On Saturday, March 17, a panel of international experts will analyze

the problems associated with regime transition and democratic consolidation in the Soviet Union, China, eastern Europe and Latin America. Small group

discussions and a buffet luncheon will also be held. Rita Klimova, the

newly appointed ambassador to the United states from Czechoslovakia and a

Civic Forum activist, will participate in symposium activities on Saturday. Vladimir Pechatnov, first secretary with the Embassy of the Soviet

Union and Guillermo O'Donnell, academic director of the Kellogg Institute

at the University of Notre Dame, will participate in the Saturday sessions.

Also participating on Saturday will be political science professors from the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia; the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology; and the Charles F. Kettering Foundation at Ohio

State University.

Symposium sessions on Saturday will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Roncalli Center and Marianist Hall. Attendance is limited to 200,

and registration is due by March 2. To register, contact Ann Halpin,

Center for International Studies, University of Dayton, 300 College Park,

Dayton, Ohio, 45469 or call (513) 229-3514. -30-

OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS 300 College Park Dayton, Ohio 45469-0001 (513) 229-3241