Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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'Star Wars,' President Reagan's exhaustive drive for space weaponry, is an exception to both rules. A pledge by professors not to do any federally-sponsored research with Star Wars funds sprang up at two university campuses--the University of Illinois and Cornell University--at the end of the last...
On the other hand, virtually no established academic authorities have come forward to defend the Star Wars' technical feasibility. The pledge against the program, laden with signatures of Nobel Prize winners, comes from those who know about space technology and its limits and who have the moral courage to tell...
We agree with the pledge's signatories that Star Wars is "ill-conceived and dangerous," and we join with them in urging their colleagues to follow their example.
Acting on their pledge, Harvard students have participated in a series of recent Boston demonstrations, and some have been arrested.
The petition, titled "The Pledge of Resistance," has garnered an estimated 110,000 signatures nationwide, according to Thomas A. Bunch, a fourth-year graduate student in molecular biology who has signed the petition.