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About 60 per cent of the satellites launched by the US and the Soviet Union are for military purposes. These include navigation and geodetic satellites which aid in the guidance of ballistic missiles, to the point where extreme accuracy of targeting can be achieved. In combination with communications satellites, these programs are central to implementing the avowed US counter force doctrine of fighting "limited nuclear wars." Much has been made of another type of satellite being tested by the Soviet Union--interceptor/destructor or, "killer" satellites--although little mention has been made of the fact that as early as 1965 NASA...
...only Harvard professor to speak out against this latest example of a dangerous US initiative in furthering the arms race. His colleagues in the Astronomy Dept. have either silently acquiesced to the military's plans or have been vocally supportive of them. When one considers that 50 per cent of our nation's scientists are engaged in military-related research it becomes clear that material concerns have long since replaced moral ones. If we are to avert the grim consequences of our present uncontrolled arms race, many more scientists must join Professor Chaisson in speaking out against this madness...
Seventeen Cornell students occupied the office of Frank H. T. Rhodes, president of Cornell, for three hours last week to protest the 15 to 18 per cent tuition increase proposed for next year...
...anti-MATEP group also told the EPA that it should not exempt the plant as an educational or health related institution because only 20 per cent of its output will be used by the University, Partan said...
Laughlin mentioned the state's 35-per-cent tax credit for solar energy users as an example of its support for solar energy development...