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...problem is still in the future. "I see no problem with the Pentagon unless the funding rises above 10 percent [of overall research]," said Lewis M. Branscomb, professor at the Kennedy School of Government and former head scientist at IBM. "The DOD is capable of funding research in ways that are acceptable to the university...
...Harvard's report gives us more force to our arguments against the Administration," says Robert L. Park, executive Washington director of the American Physical Society and a scientist. "The report's emphasis on the economy and national security and the Harvard name will make nonacademic people aware...
...while most scientists agree that atmospheric chemistry and dynamics are major causes, the increased scrutiny of the Antarctic atmosphere following the discovery of the hole has seriously undercut the sunspot theory. Data from Punta Arenas, says Robert Watson, a NASA scientist involved in that study, made the verdict all but final. Nitrogen and ozone levels were down, but concentrations of chlorine monoxide were 100 times as great as equivalent levels at temperate latitudes. Says Watson: "We can forget the solar theories. We can no longer debate that chlorine monoxide exists and that its abundance is high enough to destroy ozone...
Conditions aboard the DC-8 were considerably better. The plane, which carried up to 41 scientists, flew no higher than 42,000 ft. on its 13 missions, and those on board were free to move about. But heavy clouds obscured views of Antarctica most of the time, and the flights were a tedious eleven hours long. Observes Atmospheric Scientist Ed Browell, of NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia: "I sort of likened what we were doing to taking off from the East Coast, flying to the West Coast to do our work, then flying back East to land...
...departures of its chairman, Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, chief executive of the Mayo Clinic, and its vice chairman, Dr. Woodrow Myers Jr., Indiana's health commissioner. Said Myers: "We did not receive the full degree of support from the Administration." The new chairman is not a medical scientist but retired Admiral James Watkins...