Word: nimh
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Rubinstein and David Pearl, chief of the behavioral sciences research branch of NIMH and the project's director, stress that cleaning up TV cannot be achieved by Government regulation. Says Rubinstein: "We are not advocates of Government control or any constraints on the First Amendment." Adds Pearl: "Viewers will be interested in watching programs with less violence. The television industry should not be as definite in thinking this [violence] is what the public wants...
...expects a 75-per-cent reduction in the $40 million Carter had recommended for next year for the social and economic divisions of the NSF. He added that he has learned that Reagan also plans to slash over 60 per cent from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which funds research in psychology, among other fields...
Officials with NIMH and other agencies have repeatedly declined comment on where Reagan will slash funds and on the possible political motivations of the President's moves. But one source close to the administration said last week he had obtained a memorandum written by Herbert Pardes, director of the NIMH, and circulated within the agency, which separates areas of funding into those that "do not involve social research" and those that "involve social research to some extent...
Pardes could not be reached for comment, and Paul Sirovatka, an NIMH spokesman, said he had not heard of the memorandum...