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President Carter has had difficulty persuading Congress to increase support for basic research. Next year promises to be even harder. David Dickson reports.
The US Department of Energy has extended construction time for Brookhaven's 400×400 GeV accelerator from five to seven years. David Dickson reports on the implications.
During 1978, three cosmonauts from Eastern Europe visited the Soviet Salyut-6 orbiting space station. Vera Rich talks to the Polish cosmonaut, Miroslaw Hermaszewski in Warsaw