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Under its University Research Initiative (URI), the Department of Defense (DOD) granted $3 million to the two schools last June for the purchase and upkeep of four pieces of electronic detection equipment, members of the Harvard Physics and Chemistry Departments said...
Administered by the government's DefenseAdvanced Research Projects Agency, the nationwideURI program is "designed to strengthen the abilityof universities to conduct research and educatescientists and engineers in 10 technologiesimportant to national defense," DOD officialssaid...
...will have awarded $110 million dollars to70 universities by the end of 1987 in chunks of$170,000 to $3 million, DOD officials said. said...
...legislators say that the Administration's attack on student financial aid and the rapidly increasing Defense Department (DoD) share of the federal government's research and development budget may hurt science research development in the long...
With the built-in obsolesence of the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative acknowledged by the DOD's own intelligence agency, the absurdity of Star Wars becomes increasingly obvious. Escalation of the arms race into space offers no viable solution to a world in search of a lasting peace. In the end, this nation will have to rely upon something more substantial than technology to remain leader of the free world...