FULBRIGHT URGES SPACE FUND CUT

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• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
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FULBRMflT URGES
SPAU`FUND CUT
Jnslsts", bahools and 'fobs
Should I1ave Priority
'MAStH71 ETON, Oct. 17 us to the mognr' II( .;
said. "More intpoT t, 1t 1S
Senator J. W. I'`ulhright called eve
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on,=Congress tndty to reduce an irretrievable disal!!?;'tfti a
"substantially" the space budget did."
and end the race with the Rus- ' If the Russians win the,
Mans for too m wn. race, he said, 'it would Brt
Any funds cut from the $&I pride, but not,our lives as free
billion appropriation voted .1 men in a free society; nost em-
the `House for the National ~!hatically, it. would not change
Aeronautics and Space Admin- The c con on the course fllict ist between not
istration should be reallocated stedom
said dict1%tt0AW, he;inidsted, Is to education and employment more than "a- co titlon in
,programs now before Congress, technologx~ stunts
the Arkansas Democrat urged. If, by It;qO, he added, the Rus-
On the eve of consideration of the NASA'budget by the re ched the .m
e o
''Senate Appropriations Commit- tie the United' Stares has
ullt the best system of public
ice
Mr
P'tilbri
ht declared in a if
,
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g
tgclucation, renovated Its -cit~es
floor speech: and alleviated poverty and dls-
The conquest of outer space l qe, ''Who would then be ah
is a wortby and inspiring as-kin the worldwide struggle for
basic and e0iate.necessity."
Congress had not provided syf ?
Qu
Ilon s PNority ficient money for education ahd,
id th
..A. c ay 1Maaa, sa
e ^ea thlre was no assurance, that
question" ing Congress wall
is funds cut from the apace bud t
a danger-
pri orities ere
ous a .between thq uld be spent for those pur- y,
4 in apace whose benefit omen.
a reduction In space e.
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and thQ~ petidttncould-be thy impetu5i
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a
remo a al
~8ebate over the n100 , '?'"'s???e., ..ca.M,av;uaa auUalr-Y
rn he said; he hxs npI l is not spent on uIge4 needs, he .
Ldmitiittration has ?ent of othernattanai t" 'f` efforts."
i flutnicc, unbelievers "
P He said scientiate" had est1a
e.s *q to the itnpot?- thated that as much information
plneult an American could be obtained front an un-
boon by !u9V. Than cost manned flight at one-tenth this
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