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High Frontier is the most conspicuous and conservative of the outfits lobbying for SDI. Graham says that this year his organization spent half of its $3 million budget on pro-SDI ads in print and on television, and forecasts a budget of $5 million for next year. The group publishes a newsletter with a circulation of more than 60,000. Graham zigzags across the country blithely suggesting that the U.S. could build SDI (he loathes the term Star Wars) with today's off-the-shelf technology. While Graham may be the most zealous of the pro-SDi salesmen...
Slow off the mark, the anti-SDI forces are racing to catch up. In Washington every Thursday at 1 p.m., the Space Policy Working Group, which includes representatives of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Council for a Livable World and other anti-SDI groups, meets to plot countermoves. Two anti-SDI groups, the Arms Control Association and the Committee for National Security, recently received a $1 million grant from Actor Paul Newman (financed in part by his sales of Newman's Own salad dressing) to set up a program to educate journalists about arms control, especially the evils...
...Council, was the brainchild of a group that included David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and former U.S. Senator and Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. According to Washington P.R. Man Burt Hoffman, who is helping the group organize, Trilogy intends to inform the public about the technical merits of SDI. "The object is to stay in the middle, not to be like High Frontier, which has been labeled as zealots, or the Union of Concerned Scientists, who have also been labeled as zealots," says...
...moment, SDI is still more theory than hardware, and has yet to attract the hordes of high-tech defense lobbyists bred by other weapons systems. But as Star Wars evolves, the usual suspects will no doubt hungrily line up at what Democratic Congressman Norman Dicks of Washington calls a "space barrel." With some estimates of the cost of building SDI ranging up to a trillion dollars, Star Wars could prove to be the most capacious pork barrel of all time. So far, SDI research has been funded to the tune of $2.385 billion ($1.397 billion in the past year), spread...
...college campuses, the Star Wars debate is turning into a high-tech version of the 1960s protests over weapons development and classified research. A group called United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War has circulated a petition asking scientists not to accept any Government funds for SDI research. Some 2,100 have signed the pledge, many from Cornell, Caltech and M.I.T. They contend that Star Wars research is high-tech hocus-pocus that will escalate the arms race. Some scientists suggest that because the protest has been centered at elite universities, SDI research is being done at less prestigious places. Huffs...