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Group outlines arms research projects
y DAVID SCHWARTZ if they're going to publish their "We wanted to let them know sity's Board of Regents voted to
he Coalition Against Weapons views about a project, it's good that that we were publicizing information change the research guidelines last
arch, a group formed to monitor they get professors to respond," Vice that would otherwise be lost in pa- April.
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the weapons research taking place on
campus, presented a list of 15 such
projects yesterday to the Research
Policies Committee during the
RPC's monthly meeting.
The coalitionhopes to interview
University professors whom they
believe are conducting weapons re-
search, and then draw up project
profiles outlining arguments both
for and against labelling the projects
as weapons research.
"It's a responsible thing to do -
President for Research Linda Wilson
said.
The RPC, which serves as an ad-
visory board to Wilson, listened to
CAWR's findings and informally
agreed to let the groupapresent re-
ports at RPC meetings at least once
a year.
Coalition members Jackie Victor
and Edward Hellen, who also serve
as student representatives to the
RPC, explained the purpose of
CAWR to the committee.
perwork," Victor said.f
CAWR consists of students, fac-
ulty, religious leaders, and commu-
nity members who are opposed to
weapons research on campus. The
group Was founded after the Univer-
Before the old guidelines were re-
pealed, classified research which had
a potential "end-use" that could kill
or maim human life was prohibited.
Such restrictions no longer exist.
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restrictions, sponsors will use other
universities (to conduct their re-
search)," Wilson said.
Law Prof. Rebecca Eisenberg, an
RPC member, was concerned about
the impact of allowing some infor-
mation to remain confidential. She
said professors might not be able to
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The regents' guidelines allow
confidential information only for
"classified or proprietary information
supplied to the investigator by the
sponsor." No mention is made of the
protocols.
Wilson also defended the five-year
time limit for confidentiality. "If we
agree to keep something confidential,
and through our carelessness it gets
out, we could be liable," she said.
"We can be sued for millions of
dollars," Wilson added.
Elaine Brock, a project represen-
tative for DRDA, told the RPC that
confidential material is often returned
to the sponsor before five years have
elapsed in order to avoid public dis-
closure of the information.
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Afghanistan unrest continues
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Spring thaws have opened the mountain
supply routes of Moslem guerrillas and the seasonal surge of fighting in
Afghanistan has begun despite a U.N.-sponsored accord on Soviet mili-
tary withdrawal.
Leaders of the insurgency, which began after a communist coup in
April 1978, were not parties to the Geneva agreement announced last
week and have said repeatedly they would continue the war.
Western diplomats said yesterday there was a sharp increase of military
activity in the past two weeks in eastern Afghanistan near Pakistan.
About 3.5 million Afghan refugees live in camps and cities just inside
Pakistan that serve as bases and supply points for the guerrillas.
Guerrilla leaders, who have said they will ignore any agreement reached
without their direct participation, have called the government in Kabul,
Afghanistan a Kremlin puppet.
Michigan gets 'A' m economics
DETROIT - A study ranking Michigan first in the nation for its
economic development policy shows that the state's dependence on the
automobile industry is lessening, a state Commerce Department official
says.
The study released yesterday entitled "Making the Grade: The 1988
Development Report Card for the States," was conducted by the Corpora-
tion for Enterprise Development, a non-profit economic-development re-
search and consulting group founded in 1979 in Washington D.C.
Michigan was tops among the states in economic development policy,
which included categories of improving governance and regulation, mobi-
lizing capital, and promoting new enterprises and strengthening existing
businesses.
In addition to the A grade for economic development policy, the state
received a B for capacity and Cs for business vitality and performance.
EPA hails decision to detoxify
ozone-harming food containers
WASHINGTON - Makers of plastic foam food containers will stop
using ozone-destroying chemicals in their products after this year, the first
industry to give up the compounds completely, their trade association said
yesterday.
Major environmental groups and the Environmental Protection Agency
hailed the decision by members of the Foodservice & Packing Institute
substitutes for the chlorofluorocarbon, or CFC, compounds.
Consumers will notice little impact because the decision does not
mean an end to foam containers, like the egg cartons and clamshell ham-
burger containers used by fast food chains, which are valued for their
lightness and insulating properties.
Fake quotations irk Reagan
WASHINGTON - The White House said yesterday that President
Reagan was upset and it was an "outrage" that former presidential
spokesperson Larry Speakes had made up quotes and given them to re-
porters as Reagan's words.
"Everyone is appalled that he made up quotes," said spokesperson
Marlin Fitzwater, who replaced Speakes 14 months ago.
In a kiss-and-tell book that has riled White House officials, Speakes
disclosed that he made up a widely reported statement that was attributed
to Reagan during his first summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
in 1985.
In another instance, when a Korean Air Lines passenger jet was shot
down by the Soviets in 1983, the president "had almost nothing to say"
during meetings with the Cabinet and congressional leaders, Speakes said.
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world's first patented animal
WASHINGTON - A new type of laboratory mouse broke legal
ground yesterday as the federal government granted Harvard University the
first U.S. patent on an animal.
"A few minutes ago we issued a patent which, for the first time in the
history of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, covers an animal,"
Patent Commissioner Donald Quigg announced shortly after noon.
"This particualr animal (is) a mouse which has been genetically en-
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Patents on forms of life are not new, with both plants and types of
bacteria having been patented in the past.
The question of patenting animals has raised some controversy in re-
cent years, however, with opponents questioning the ethics of changing
animals.
The only other animal case occurred in 1974, when the Patent Office
refused to patent a dwarf chicken.
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