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Space Digest                Sun, 25 Oct 92       Volume 15 : Issue 343

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                ==> New-Essential Clinton: Technology
            Gore Blames George Bush for Big Bang (2 msgs)
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Date: Sunday, 25 Oct 1992 01:38:14 CDT
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Subject: ==> New-Essential Clinton: Technology
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Subj:   THE ESSENTIAL CLINTON: TECHNOLOGY (update)

THE ESSENTIAL CLINTON: TECHNOLOGY


"I have every confidence that America has the energy and the
talent to regain its industrial and technological
leadership."



THE VISION
---------------------------
"America's international performance and international
influence rest, in large part, on its technology base
. . . .  We are the world leaders in biotechnology,
information technology, aerospace technology and [in] many
other fields on the frontiers of science applied to human
life.

"Unfortunately, by losing the lead in the commercialization
of many American-invented technologies, we are losing
control of our own economic growth and prosperity.

"The United States must act now to establish a technology
policy that will help U.S. companies to succeed in world
markets and help American citizens earn a good living in the
global economy."



THE BUSH LEGACY
---------------------------
"During the Cold War . . . U.S. industry dominated world
markets and massive U.S. defense spending for high-tech
weapons systems provided a big demand for leading-edge
technology.  Today, however, U.S. industry faces intense
international competition, and the global civilian market,
not the Department of Defense, is the testing ground for
most of the new technologies.

The absence of a coherent technology policy is one of the
key reasons why America is trailing some of its major
competitors in translating its strength in basic research
into commercial success--and why America is losing its lead
in technology.  Even in the technologies where we still
lead, we face the challenge of translating the world's best
research into the world's best jobs for American workers.

"the Bush-Quayle administration has done nothing while wages
have stagnated and our economic leadership has eroded.
Despite the growing consensus on what needs to be done, they
refuse to act, recycling the tired and failed policies of
the past."



THE CLINTON ALTERNATIVE
---------------------------
"In order to implement an effective U.S. technology policy,
I will declare that U.S. technological leadership is a
national priority and organize the government for results.

"First and foremost, a Clinton-Gore Administration will
emphasize the need to renew our civilian technology base.
America cannot continue to rely on trickle down technology
from the military to maintain competitiveness of its high-
tech and manufacturing industries.

"Civilian industry, not the military, is the driving force
behind advanced technology today.  Only by strengthening our
civilian technology base can we solve the twin problems of
national security and economic competitiveness.

"The Vice President will take on the task of organizing all
facets of government to develop and implement my
Administration's technology policy."



THE PRESCRIPTION
---------------------------

[21st-Century Infrastructure]

"Investing in infrastructure means more than repairing
bridges, harbors and highways.  Today, the United States
faces a new series of communications, transportation, and
environmental needs for the 21st century.

"The creation of a 21st-century infrastructure program would
serve as a critical technology driver for the nation.  It
would stimulate major new national R&D efforts; create
large, predictable markets that would prompt significant
private sector investments; and create millions of new jobs.

"For example, the government can serve as a catalyst for the
development of an advanced national communications network
[the National Research and Education Network], which would
help companies collaborate on research and design for
advanced manufacturing; allow doctors across the country to
access leading medical expertise; put immense educational
resources at the fingertips of American teachers and
students; open new avenues for disabled people to do things
they can't do today; provide technical information to small
businesses; and make telecommunicating much easier.

"Such a network could do for the productivity of individuals
at their places of work and learning what the interstate
highway of the 1950s did for the productivity of the
nation's travel and distribution system.


[Toward a High-Skill Workforce]

"The workplace of the future will be technology-intensive.
The U.S. education system must make sure that American
workers have the requisite skills.  The focus should be not
only on the top American students who measure up to world-
class standards, but also on average and disadvantaged
students.  It must also take into account the need to
upgrade workers' skills and help people make the difficult
transition from repetitive, low-skill jobs to the demands of
a flexible, high-skill workplace.

"Unlike Germany, the United States does not have a
sophisticated vocational education program, and unlike
Japan, U.S. firms do not have a strong incentive to invest
in the training and retraining of their workers.  We need
more of both, geared to meet the needs of the mobile U.S.
workforce."


[Empowering America's Small Businesses]

"A healthy and growing small-business sector is essential to
America's economic well-being.  America's 20 million small
businesses account for 40 percent of our GNP, half of all
employment, and more than half of the job creation.

"My technology policy will recognize the importance of small
and medium-sized business to America's economic growth by 1)
creating a national technology extension service, and 2)
expanding the highly successful Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) program.

"A national technology extension program will put the best
tools in the hands of those companies that are creating the
new jobs on which the American economy depends.

"The involvement of workers is critical to developing and
executing successful industrial extension programs. . . .
New production technology should be worker-centered and
skill-based, not skill-eliminating.

"In technology, as in other areas, we must put people
first."


[Increasing R&D for Critical Technologies]

"{A Clinton-Gore Administration} will view the support of
generic industrial technologies as a priority mission.

"At present, 60% of the federal R&D budget is devoted to
defense programs and 40% to non-defense programs.  This
level of support for defense R&D is a holdover from the
massive arms build-up of the 1980s.  At the very least, in
the next three years, the federal government should shift
the balance between defense and non-defense programs back to
a 50-50 balance, which would free-up over $7 billion for
non-defense R&D.

"We will create a civilian research and development program
to support research in the technologies that will launch new
growth industries and revitalize traditional ones."


[Maximizing Federal Investment in Technology]

"R&D conducted at the federal labs and consortia should be
carefully evaluated to assure that it has a maximum impact
on industrial performance [and] cooperation between
universities and industry should be encouraged.

"Funding for basic university research should continue to be
provided for a broad range of disciplines, since it is
impossible to predict where the next breakthrough may come.

"While maintaining America's leadership in basic research,
government, universities, and industry must all work
together to take advantage of these new breakthroughs to
enhance U.S. competitiveness.

"Cooperative R&D programs represent another opportunity.
Consortia can help firms share risks, pool resources, avoid
duplication, and make investments that they would not
undertake individually.  By requiring that firms match
federal contributions on at least a 50-50 basis, the
government can leverage its investments and ensure that they
are market-oriented.

"A Clinton-Gore Administration will work to build a
productive partnership between government, research labs,
universities, and business."


[Creating a World-Class Business Environment]

"Changes in America's tax, trade, and regulatory policies
are also needed to help restore America's industrial and
technological leadership.  In a global economy in which
capital and technology are increasingly mobile, we must make
sure that the United States has the best business
environment for private sector investment.

"[My specific recommendations] include the following:

*    Make the R&D tax credit permanent, to provide
     incentives for U.S. companies that invest in developing
     new technology.

*    Place a permanent moratorium on Treasury Regulation
     1.861-8, to encourage U.S. companies to perform more
     R&D in the United States.

*    Provide a targeted investment tax credit to encourage
     investment in the new equipment that we need to compete
     in the global economy. . . .

*    Help small businesses and entrepreneurs by offering a
     50% tax exclusion to those who take risks by making
     long-term investments in new businesses.



THE FUTURE
---------------------------
"The Bush-Quayle Administration has failed to stand up for
U.S. workers and firms.  We need a President who will open
foreign markets and respond forcefully to unfair trade
practices.  I will:

*    Enact a stronger, sharper Super 301 to ensure that U.S.
     companies enjoy the same access to foreign markets that
     foreign companies enjoy to our market.

*    Successfully complete the Uruguay Round.  This will
     help U.S. manufacturers and high-tech companies by
     reducing foreign tariffs, putting an end to the rampant
     theft of U.S. intellectual property, and maintaining
     strong disciplines against unfair trade practices.

*    Insist on results from our trade agreements.  Although
     the U.S. has negotiated many trade agreements,
     particularly with Japan, results have been
     disappointing.  I will ensure that all trade agreements
     are lived up to.

"[The Clinton Plan outlined here] comprises a technology
policy that will restore economic growth at home, help U.S.
firms succeed in world markets, and help American workers
earn a good standard of living in the international
economy."



ENDORSEMENTS
---------------------------
556 economists, including these Nobel Prize winners:
Paul Samuelson, MIT (1970)
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford (1972)
Lawrence Klein, Penn (1980)
James Tobin, Yale (1981)
Franco Modigliani, MIT (1985)
Robert Solow, MIT (1987)

Business and Professional Women's PAC, by unanimous vote.
The 7,000 participants at the B&PW convention in Minneapolis
made the first presidential endorsement in B&PW's 75-year
history.

Roger Johnson, Chairman, Western Digital (member of the
Orange County Eight and one of 30 presidents or CEOs of some
of the nation's leading high-tech companies endorsing
Clinton):  "As a Republican who has voted for every GOP
presidential candidate since Eisenhower in 1952, it has been
an eye-opening experience to find that a Democratic governor
from Arkansas has a far better understanding of what America
needs than does an incumbent Republican Administration."

Delano Lewis, President and CEO, C&P Telephone:  "The
Clinton-Gore plan is an investment in people, in plant, and
in equipment, the elements that [will] generate private
sector investment and participation in national economic
recovery.  For business people who want to provide
employment opportunities, this plan makes absolute sense."

Kathryn Thompson, real estate developer (and member of the
Orange County Eight):  "Bill Clinton knows only an
economically strong America can preserve world peace and
promote expanding markets.  Bill Clinton can see past the
moment and therefore is the most qualified [presidential
candidate] in shaping history in America's best interest."

The Seattle Times (10/4/92):  Bush has presided over an
economy that has created the fewest jobs of any
administration since WWII. . . .  As Bush tries to blame
others, Clinton talks about the future with plans for
investments in educations and major jobs-training programs
and strengthening the public works that allow private
commerce to thrive."

On Campus (official publication of the AFT), October 1992:
"It may not capture headlines, but computer networking and
its availability in schools and colleges is an issue that
certainly is relevant to the fall election.  By nominating
Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee as their vice presidential
nominee, the Democrats have chosen a candidate who has
consistently championed the rights of *all* schools to
pariticipate in, and contribute to, a new age of high-speed
computing."

John P. White, former Issues Director, Perot Petition
Committee (10/5/92):  "Today, I am announcing my support for
Governor Bill Clinton for President of the United States.
. . .  I believe that a Clinton presidency will achieve for
the country the essential combination of economic growth,
good jobs, and long-term fiscal strength."

The El Paso Times (10/11/92):  "The President, effective
though he has been in the foreign policy arena, has failed
to develop a cohesive domestic policy to address the issues
at home--the economy, industrial development, health care,
poverty, education or the environment.  Can we stand four
more years of this?  No. . . .  President Bush has had his
chance at the helm.  Today, Bill Clinton offers us the best
hope for getting the country going again."

*****

The San Francisco Examiner (10/11/92):  "It is not enough to
preside over the end of the Cold War; a president must lead
the country to economic victory in the peace that follows.
Although the presidential campaign has focused on the
domestic economy, we believe, along with Clinton, that
America's future depends on success in the global economy.

"Clinton envisions a new partnership among government,
business and labor.  He believes America can be pro-growth
and pro-environment.  He knows American business needs to be
more competitive in the world.

"He plans to stimulate the economy through public investment
in roads, bridges, and technology.  He wants renewed
emphasis on job training, new investment in infrastructure
and small businesses, and a manufacturing revival.

"He recognizes our country's greatest asset is its
industrious people.

"George Bush has failed to keep the promises he made four
years ago; Bill Clinton is the best choice for President of
the United States."

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Date: 24 Oct 1992 22:54 PDT
From: "Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gore Blames George Bush for Big Bang
Newsgroups: talk.politics.space,sci.space

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes...
Oh, Dennis, Dennis, Dennis...you're beginning to sound like a broken record...
(Dennis' tired old diatribe against the Democratic party has been deleted for
everyone's benefit...and my sanity :-).
>There was a large contingent from the University of Alabama in Huntsville at
>this little party carrying Bush/Quayle posters. Too bad it did not get on TV.
>Sorry Gore baby but it was the University of South Dakota that did it first.
>David Webb has also put the program in place at Emery Riddle University in
>Florida.  The University of Alabama in Huntsville continues in its efforts
>to train the real space professionals of the twentyfirst century. These
>students can read write and see propaganda when it is put out. Your
>talk is just talk.
>
It's just a pity that they haven't taught you how to spell properly.
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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 08:24:08 GMT
From: Patrick Draper <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gore Blames George Bush for Big Bang
Newsgroups: talk.politics.space,sci.space

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes...
>Oh, Dennis, Dennis, Dennis...you're beginning to sound like a broken record...
>(Dennis' tired old diatribe against the Democratic party has been deleted for
>everyone's benefit...and my sanity :-).
>>There was a large contingent from the University of Alabama in Huntsville at
>>this little party carrying Bush/Quayle posters. Too bad it did not get on TV.
>>Sorry Gore baby but it was the University of South Dakota that did it first.
>>David Webb has also put the program in place at Emery Riddle University in
>>Florida.  The University of Alabama in Huntsville continues in its efforts
>>to train the real space professionals of the twentyfirst century. These
>>students can read write and see propaganda when it is put out. Your
>>talk is just talk.
>>
>It's just a pity that they haven't taught you how to spell properly.
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>Irwin Horowitz                        |
>Astronomy Department                  |"Whoever heard of a female astronomer?"
>California Institute of Technology    |--Charlene Sinclair, "Dinosaurs"
>[e-mail]                |
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Let's see,

1)  Weak defense of the Democratic party and,

2) a spelling flame!

Irwin Horowitz is out of arguments, that is true.


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Date: 25 Oct 92 06:38:33 GMT
From: Henry Spencer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Question
Newsgroups: sci.space

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>     What ever happened to the Daedalus project?  ...

Basically, it finished.  It was always just a design study; nobody expected
to start construction any time soon. :-)
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