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Officials, fearing that the act may curtail scientific research, which often produces such waste, will try to clarify language in the act exempting bio-medical work and expand the exemptions to other scientific research...
...military supply route linking Kabul with the southern Soviet republics. There have been rumors for the past two years that Afghan rebels planned to blow up the tunnel. Western military and diplomatic sources in Pakistan said that any sabotage that closed the tunnel for a long time could severely curtail delivery of military supplies to the 100,000 Soviet troops stationed in Afghanistan. For that reason, it is well guarded. An insurgent group called the Islamic Party belatedly claimed responsibility, but few diplomats took the pronouncement seriously. If the tragedy in the Salang Tunnel was more than an accident...
...report issued by the subcommittee, those policies are "having a strongly adverse impact on the Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. corporations." Indeed, so strong is the feeling in Congress that, according to Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Allan Gotlieb, there are 53 pieces of legislation pending in Washington that would curtail U.S.-Canada trade in areas ranging from trucking to electronic technology to automobile manufacture...
Representatives of six Boston-area research institutions including the Medical School, yesterday sharply criticized a proposal on the November 2 state ballot which would curtail dumping of low-level radioactive wastes in Massachusetts...
...they continued to express worry about a statewide referendum question which it approved in the November 2 election, could severely curtail research with radioactive by products...