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Nature 388, 610 (14 August 1997) |

Universities rally against cuts in Pentagon-funded research

Colin Macilwain1

A congressional committee has created alarm among many leading US research universities by calling for a major redirection of Pentagon money away from basic research, and for this money to be used to restore the sagging budget for developing and deploying new weapons systems.The national security appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives has cut the Clinton administration's budget request for basic research at the Department of Defense (DoD) from $1.