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...Department of Defense (DOD) has relegated this job to private corporations, subject to "stringent" safety precautions, such as Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL), located in Cambridge. A controversy arises in this seemingly simple set-up when it becomes apparent that the DOD regulations do not take responsibility for potential hazards to researchers and surrounding communities and that the citizens of Cambridge will not tolerate the risks of "supertoxic" chemical weapons research. Furthermore, ADL has dealt inconsistently with the city government and has misled the public...
Cambridge's solution is no "average" scenario, no paradigm panacea to be adopted by other communities, and we should be wary of spotlighting the extreme population density argument. However, the fact that the DOD regulations, the only federal restrictions regarding "supertoxic" chemicals, could allow ADL to begin such research in a city with so many people per square mile clearly earmarks these inadequate regulations for national-level overhaul...
...cable to the Pentagon last week, Lockheed President Lawrence Kitchen insisted that his company had made only a 13.4% profit on the units. Nevertheless, he eventually lowered the price of the covers to $100 apiece and gave the DOD a $29,165 refund. "This action is intended to put to rest an artificial issue," said Kitchen, "that detracts from the critically important ongoing review of the 1986 DOD budget." Senator Roth, on the other hand, might have felt he was getting to the bottom of the whole defense- spending issue...
...Pittsburgh school will get $103 million to build and maintain the Software Engineering Institute, which will experiment with and evaluate software for use in defense projects, said Major Prank Word of the DOD's Computer Software and Systems Office...
Harvard had passively supported a bid by Northeastern University for the Institute, but the DOD turned down Northeastern's proposal. However, the institute's location will have little effect on Harvard, said Paul Martin, dean of the Divison of Applied Sciences...