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...Cambridge City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend its three-month moratorium on controversial "recombinant DNA" research at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for an additional three months...
...recent years SftP has actively protested, although not always in such a theatrical manner, what the group sees as misplaced priorities in many fields of scientific research. This summer, for example, the Cambridge City Council voted a three month moratorium on recombinant DNA experiments within the city limits of Cambridge. The decision came after two public meetings involving pro and con testimony from prominent science-faculty members at Harvard...
...Bubbling over with ideas, he sometimes lets his thoughts race ahead of his prudence. But so far he has not made another gaffe on the order of "benign neglect," the phrase taken from one of his memos to Nixon and gleefully misinterpreted by his enemies. Moynihan was urging a moratorium on harsh racial rhetoric, but his words were twisted to make it appear he was recommending the neglect of blacks. For this and other dubious reasons, most black leaders in New York oppose his candidacy...
After Sullivan announced the formation of the committee, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, an advocate of a longer moratorium on the research, gave a discourse on the dangers of recombinant...
...germs from escaping) and sterilization of wastes. That was not enough to reassure the Cambridge council, led by Mayor Alfred Vellucci. After conflicting testimony from a host of scientists, including Nobel Laureates David Baltimore (for the research) and George Wald (against it), the council last week voted for the moratorium, during which a panel of scientists and lay members will consider the issue further. Gloated Vellucci: "We caught Harvard just in time...