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In article <92206.204426WTU@psuvm.psu.edu> <WTU@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
(actually our old friend rpark)

>	WHAT'S NEW, Friday, 24 July 1992                   Washington, DC
>
>	1. PHYSICISTS IN EUROPE, JAPAN AND CANADA OPPOSE SPACE STATION!
>	In an unprecedented joint statement issued today, the Presidents
>	of a group of major scientific societies, including The American
>	Physical Society, fired a blast at Space Station Freedom.  That's
>	hardly news; they do it every year.  But this time, the statement
>	was accompanied by the translation of a statement adopted by the
>	German Physical Society.  Like their American colleagues, German
>	physicists contend Space Station Freedom cannot be justified on
>	the basis of economics or science.  And it didn't stop with the
>	Germans!  

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>	3. SENATE COMMITTEE RESTORES $550M TO THE SUPERCOLLIDER IN FY 93!
>	The Appropriation Committee yesterday left untouched that portion
>	of a Subcommittee Report dealing with the SSC.  The report calls
>	for $623M for high-energy physics, $7.5M less than the Adminis-
>	tration request. 

     Is this from the "It may be pork, but its OUR pork" file?

                                   dale bass


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