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- Subject: What's New for July 24, 1992
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- WHAT'S NEW, Friday, 24 July 1992 Washington, DC
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- 1. PHYSICISTS IN EUROPE, JAPAN AND CANADA OPPOSE SPACE STATION!
- In an unprecedented joint statement issued today, the Presidents
- of a group of major scientific societies, including The American
- Physical Society, fired a blast at Space Station Freedom. That's
- hardly news; they do it every year. But this time, the statement
- was accompanied by the translation of a statement adopted by the
- German Physical Society. Like their American colleagues, German
- physicists contend Space Station Freedom cannot be justified on
- the basis of economics or science. And it didn't stop with the
- Germans! The strongly worded German statement was endorsed by
- the Executive Committee of the European Physical Society, and by
- the Presidents of the Physical Society of Japan, the Canadian
- Association of Physicists, and the American Physical Society;
- Japan, Europe and Canada are "partners" with the United States in
- the space station. Meanwhile, at a Capitol Hill press conference,
- Rep. Howard Wolpe (D-MI) released a letter signed by 75 of the
- most distinguished American space scientists; their letter
- contends the space station cannot be justified on the basis of
- its scientific usefulness or its importance to space exploration.
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- 2. BUT PROPONENTS OF THE SPACE STATION HAVE NOT BEEN IDLE EITHER.
- On Tuesday, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin and NIH Director
- Bernadine Healy signed a Memorandum of Understanding Regarding
- Biomedical`x}d Behavioral Research. The matchmakers were none
- other than Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Jake Garn (R-UT), the top
- space station tub thumpers in the Senate. The agreement, which
- Mikulski hailed as "historic," is little more than a pledge to
- cooperate, but it is meant to give credibility to claims that
- space research will somehow lead to cures for disease on Earth.
- At the Hill press conference, Rep. Durbin (D-IL) commented that,
- "Cancer cures are the last refuge of budgetary scoundrels."
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- 3. SENATE COMMITTEE RESTORES $550M TO THE SUPERCOLLIDER IN FY 93!
- The Appropriation Committee yesterday left untouched that portion
- of a Subcommittee Report dealing with the SSC. The report calls
- for $623M for high-energy physics, $7.5M less than the Adminis-
- tration request. The Fermilab injector upgrade would get $25M,
- $5M below the request but $10M above the House number. In a
- surprise move, SSC champion Bennett Johnston (D-LA), folded the
- controversial Energy Strategy bill into the appropriations bill.
- The effect was to deflect the debate away from the SSC. Senator
- Bumpers (D-AR), who leads the opposition to the SSC, decided to
- withhold an amendment to kill the supercollider until the bill
- comes up on the floor. That could happen as early as next week.
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- 4. LAMPF SUPPORT SHIFTED TO ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS.
- With the venerable Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility facing term-
- ination, its $54M, plus $11M, was shifted to a defense account in
- a ploy credited to Sen. Domenici (R-NM). But Budget Director
- Richard Darman could rule that the move violates the "fire wall."
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- Robert L. Park OPA@AIP.bitnet The American Physical Society
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