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...women claimed to have been involved in many bombings and said they knew how to build explosive devices but needed help on firearms. Within two weeks of meeting the agents, they asked for weapons training and were taken by Ralph to the Mojave Desert, near Barstow, Calif. They used various rifles and handguns in target practice, but never became good shots. Ralph made sure their lessons were models of misdirection...
...Barstow said that in one case negotiations with HEW over a clause calling for "technical direction" lasted a year before the government agreed to change it to a milder form allowing HEW to have "technical monitoring" rights, Semper says...
...Barstow says that this type of off-campus research is "reasonably common," although he added that "a clear preponderance of governmental research is on-campus, in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Med School...
Wilson says that in his work with research grants he has not found that ORC reduced the red tape as Barstow asserts...
...That's the way it's developed over the years," Barstow says, explaining the dominance of scientific research at Harvard. "Congress hasn't perceived a willingness by the taxpayers to pay for non-essentials, such as art, history or music. Only recently has Congress been appropriating money in the arts and humanities...