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Citizens Against Research Bans (CARB) received half of its $540,000 in funding from donors based outside Massachusetts, including 98 percent of its contributions from companies such as the General Dynamics Corporation, Honeywell and Rockwell International, according to a campaign finance report filed with the city clerk last Friday...
...with current efforts to affect multi-lateral disarmament. They believe that the measure will serve to redirect the aim of local, national, and international movements towards the very structures which support the building of nuclear weapons. With President Bok's help and the newly formed Citizens Against Research Bans (CARB), whose major contributors include the nation's largest defense contractors, opponents of the measure have attempted to scare Cambridge voters with cries that the anti-nuclear legislation would mean a loss of jobs and violation of the First Amendment...
...development of nuclear weapons--specifically excluding basic research. Furthermore, it is unlikely that any judge, after reading the seven point preamble to the body of the act, would construe its intent to be the "ban of a high school student's research paper on nuclear weapons," as CARB spokespeople have suggested...
...CARB employees commented favorably on the commission's forums, "I think they 're indicative of a very healthy campaign," said Richard Claussen...
...Another CARB representative, Hal Scott, criticized the referendum during his speech for being too broad. "[The referendum's ban on] evaluation could [prevent] free discussions of nuclear weapons and disarmament...