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...process again illustrated how hard it is to kill hugely expensive systems once they have established a toehold. Almost every new weapons proposal gets quick Capitol Hill approval for research and development, since this seed money is fairly small. After that, it is virtually impossible to stop, no matter how high the costs soar above original estimates. "Once a system nears the production stage it's too late," says Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen. "There's such a constituency of the Pentagon, the contractors and potential job holders that no democratically elected Congress...
...help is on the way, at least for America's vegetation, in the form of the Center for Plant Conservation, which has its headquarters at Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum. With seed money of $500,000, the center has begun an unprecedented program, by far the most comprehensive to date, that aims to preserve every kind of threatened plant...
...Africa, Central America, the CIA, the threat of nuclear war and proposed federal budget cuts in education. Of these, South Africa has engendered the widest protest, a movement inspired by the continuing arrests of demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. Among the campuses, Berkeley and Columbia, two seed-beds of '60s radicalism, are once again leading the march. At Columbia, which has $33 million invested in concerns doing business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered early last week when police arrested 159 protesters...
Reagan's doctors acknowledged that some cancer cells may have spread from the President's colon and could seed new tumors. Unfortunately, there is little that can be done to prevent them from seeding. Radiotherapy, or X-ray treatment, which sometimes works well to prevent recurrences of breast or lung cancers, has not generally proved effective against recurring cancers of the colon. And chemotherapy, or drug treatment, which works well against leukemia and cancers of the lymphatic system, will not help. "Currently available information is that chemotherapy does not improve survival" for colorectal cancer patients, Rosenberg said...
...wins over Connecticut College and the Bears helped the Crimson solidify its hold on the second seed heading into the Northern Championships which will take place in two weeks. Heading into Saturday’s games in Providence, R.I., the Crimson (14-6) held a 2-1 mark against Brown, but had never played the Bears on the road...