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Harvard astronomers fear the government will slash funds earmarked for a National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) mission to study Haley's comet when it passes through the solar system...
...spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, D.C., said yesterday other space projects, including a $600 million Venus probe, have consumed funds the $250 million Haley's comet program would require. The OMB will make its final decision in January when it completes the final budget for the 1982 fiscal year...
...United States foregoes any close-up study of Haley's comet, it would pass up an opportunity to observe the brightest and most active comet for which scientists can predict passage into the solar system...
...Counter in Stockholm in 1978 at a Press Conference for Alex Haley and on a few other occasions. I sent him an invitation because the films have ethnomedical and health aspects. After the screening he made some aggressive remarks and walked out while most of the audience stayed on for further discussions. I did not have any "companion" and I did not know of any "German" in the audience...
Amnesty International is having some success in liberating victims of torture by releasing visual material of atrocities. The pathological activities of Ku Klux Klan against black people has been documented in films and "explicit photographic materials." (Alex Haley's TV Series "Roots" also shows violence against women.) According to Dr. Counter's "unwritten rule," such topics are "not worthy of scientific attention and go far beyond the realms of human decency to be presented in serious academic settings." Does the Black Students' Association agree...