NATION : Scientists Prod Bush
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WASHINGTON — Scientists, engineers and physicians today urged President-elect George Bush to support their recommendations in the battle against AIDS, to take steps to improve the global environment and to establish goals for the space program.
Recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences and its affiliated National Academy of Engineering and National Institute of Medicine were in the form of white papers. Regarding space research, the panel told Bush that the United States cannot take a leading position without his help and urged making the space effort a $10 billion-a-year base operation augmented by separately financed special efforts, such as the space station.
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