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- From: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald George Marfoe)
- Subject: Article (part) on Gore's support for NASA from 9/5/92 Birmingham News
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.083326.27143@news.duc.auburn.edu>
- Keywords: Gore, Quayle, NASA, ASRM, Birmingham
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:33:26 GMT
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- Since I haven't seen any coverage of pro-space statements by either the
- Democrats or Republicans in this newsgroup and talk.politics.space, I thought
- I'd get started by posting this article from the Birmingham News/Birmingham
- Post-Herald of September 5, 1992. Come to think of it, this is probably the
- first story I've seen in the general media concerning how the candidates regard
- the future of space exploration. (I don't consider Aviation Week & Space
- Technology to be the "general media".) ;-)
-
- This article also mentions the ASRM funding battle, which I thought might
- be of interest to this newsgroup.
-
- If someone from Huntsville could post an article from the Huntsville papers
- of last week, when Vice-President Quayle visited Marshall Space Flight
- Center, I'd appreciate it. All I saw from the TV news was Quayle's remarks
- bashing Murphy Brown, but nothing about his support for the space program.
- (All flames will be ignored.)
-
- The following article is partially reprinted without permission from the
- Birmingham News/Birmingham Post-Herald of Saturday, September 5, 1992.
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- "HE AND CLINTON BETTER FOR NASA, GORE SAYS IN VISIT"
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- By Justin Fox
- News staff writer
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-
- America's space program would fare much better under Bill Clinton than it
- has under President George Bush, Democratic vice presidential candidate
- Al Gore said at a campaign stop in Birmingham Friday.
-
- "My position on this is not one that comes out of a sudden foxhole
- conversion", the Democratic senator from Tennessee said of his support for
- space exploration. "I've been fighting in the trenches for many years."
-
- Gore, in town for two evening fundraisers, talked of little else but space
- in a brief news conference at the Birmingham Airport.
-
- The vice presidential hopeful, who is chairman of the Senate subcommittee
- that oversees the space agency NASA, said he "fought tooth and nail with the
- Bush administration" to keep alive a space shuttle booster plant in Iuka,
- Miss.
- (Note: This refers to the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) program.)
-
- In a July 16 letter, Vice President Dan Quayle said the administration
- opposed continuing to fund the plant, which employs hundreds of Alabamians.
- But during a visit to Huntsville Monday, Quayle said he supported funding
- the plant as part of "a strong and vigorous space exploration program."
-
- Said Gore: "Anybody who believes that, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to
- sell you."
-
- Gore aimed other remarks at Alabama interests as well. Speaking about
- the Star Wars missile defense program, which employs many researchers at
- Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal, he said, "Bush and Quayle have tried to take
- money away from Huntsville and steer it to their pie-in-the-sky Brilliant
- Pebbles program."
-
- He also complimented medical research efforts at the University of Alabama
- at Birmingham and said he is "extremely optimistic" about the Clinton/Gore
- ticket's chances in the state.
-
- Gore was greeted at the airport by Alabama U.S. Senators Howell Heflin
- and Richard Shelby and more than 200 other supporters. Scores of others
- were turned back at the gate of the private hangar - on orders of the
- hangar company and the fire marshal, campaign aides said.
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- The remainder of the article dealt with Gore's stand on environmental issues
- and economics, and fundraising details which I won't bore you with.
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- Gerald G. Marfoe |"Mirabile visu. Mirabilia/Et itur ad astra
- InterNet: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu |... Suus cuique mos. Suum cuique.../
- ggmar@ducvax.auburn.edu |Memento, terrigena./Memento, vita brevis."
- ggmar@hoshi.colorado.edu |- "Afer Ventus", Enya, "Shepherd Moons"
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