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ROBERT G. TORRICELLI...
...philosophy of this Administration that the federal government has a decreasing role in education, either our leading universities are going to have to substitute with funding, imagination and effort in research, or this country is simply not going to make a response to the competitive threat," says Congressman Robert Torricelli...
...Reagan Administration argues that there is an increasing research budget in the U.S. and they are correct," says Torricelli. "The problem is that military research is substituting for the important basic civilian research and military research is not always transferable to the civilian economy and industry anymore...
Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey plans to introduce this week the most comprehensive national-service plan yet: a bill that would draft all American men and women ages 18 to 25 for one year of service in either the military or approved civilian projects. Oklahoma Democrat Dave McCurdy will submit a proposal for a voluntary program that would require applicants for federal college loans to spend a year in national service first. Neither of the bills is likely to pass in this session. But they will help stimulate a debate that has been under way since the draft...
...Torricelli, just back from a trip to Iraq, said, "The security of our country and of the entire western world is very much at issue today. There is a very real threat the Arab world could be united under this [Iranian] fundamentalist revolution...