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Some critics contend that putting off the admittedly expensive cleanup effort will mean greater expense in the future. "Delay not only prolongs the time that people are exposed to toxic hazards," says Michael Podhorzer, director of the National Campaign Against Toxic Hazards. "But every day it means that more toxic chemicals are released into the soil, air and water. The longer we wait, the greater the damage will be and the higher the final cleanup cost will...
...exports. But the U.S. is a sinner too. From time to time it has negotiated quotas, sometimes disguised as "voluntary" agreements with foreign producers, on imports of steel, autos, sugar and even textiles. In a study for the Institute for International Economics, C. Fred Bergsten and William Cline contend that the U.S. restricts imports from Japan about as much as Japan limits purchases from the U.S. Another widely quoted estimate is that if all the restrictions that American businesspeople complain about were eliminated, the U.S. trade deficit would be reduced by no more than $10 billion a year...
...engaged in Star Wars research staunchly defend their work, noting that the Soviets are building their own missile defenses. Says Wayne Anderson, a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo: "If we don't compete, we're in trouble." Other Star Wars supporters contend that the program need not lead to an escalation of the arms race. "We could offer to share our technology for stability and tie that to an arms build-down," says Robert McCrory, director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester...
Star Wars supporters point out that only a few decades ago, some scientists were skeptical about the possibility of creating nuclear weapons or reaching the moon. SDI advocates contend that much of the opposition is more a knee- jerk political reaction than a genuine scientific critique. Indeed, some of the attacks on Star Wars come from scientists whose work has nothing to do with space technology. Contends James Ionson, the astrophysicist who heads SDIO's Innovative Science and Technology Office: "The only ones who complain about money being thrown around are those...
Some opponents contend that SDI will hurt the civilian economy and the U.S. position in world trade. Says Hans Bethe, a Cornell physicist and Nobel laureate: "The best engineers will go into SDI because the technical problems are fascinating. Meanwhile, we can't make an auto to compete with the $ Japanese. It's less exciting to design a better auto...