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...study developed by Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, has spurred the Department of Defense into action on defoliation in South Vietnam. The DOD has commissioned the National Academy of Sciences to do an in-depth study of the United States' use of herbicides...
...sections of the Faculty are being particularly hand hit. The Mansfield Amendment, which stipulates that Department of Defense research projects must have a clear military value, will have severe consequences for the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. These consequences have not shown up yet because many recent DOD grantsto the Division have been continuations of research projects already in progress...
United Aircraft Corp now holds a $4.3 million Department of Defense contract for producing a small portion of the DOD's napalm supply. The company produces airplanes for most major commercial airlines, but in addition does 55, per cent of its business with the Defense Department...
...DOD is interpreting broadly Section 203 of this year's Military Procurement Bill, which prohibits the funding of any research not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function...
...Teeth. Until recently, the Department of Defense generously funded research projects that had no foreseeable military applications. That will no longer be possible. An amendment attached to a military procurement bill by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield requires that research must be "mission-oriented" if it is to win DOD support. Mansfield learned 1) that researchers were trying to ferret out the magically strong adhesive produced by barnacles, in the hope of using it to secure fillings in teeth, and 2) that the Navy was backing barnacle research. Actually, barnacle-tooth research at the University of Akron has been funded...