Opinion in 1989

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  • Moscow's mourning of the death of Sakharov Is understandable, but Sakharov's life has touched all of us in ways that the international research community dares not forget.

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  • With Sakharov gone, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev will have to change his style.

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  • Britain is about to destabilize a good broadcasting structure to satisfy Tory ideology and Treasury greed.

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  • Last weekend's European summit served chiefly to remind its participants that the European Community is far from being a self-consistent legal entity.

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  • The British government seems bent on letting past investments in nuclear power be wasted.

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  • A British minister hopes that compulsory physics will make more physicists, but he could be wrong.

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  • Excitement over developments in Eastern Europe should be moderated by a recognition of the chauvinistic dangers that it brings. What Europe needs is a moratorium on boundary changes. German reunification is best postponed.

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  • A US newspaper has raised questions about the discovery of the virus responsible for AIDS that compel explanation.

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  • Four years late, the British government has published a bill to regulate embryo research. The need now is that the British parliament should take an enlightened view of the freedom of research.

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  • Having outlasted an administrative attack, the US fusion programme must not subside into somnolence.

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  • One of the best, but smallest, of Europe's research organizations wants to be bigger. Not before time. But will those who hold the purse-strings agree?

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  • The US government's decision to continue its moratorium on fetal tissue transplants is sqeamish and damages NIH.

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  • The unexpected early summit meeting between the presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union could be the most fateful of its kind ever to have been held.

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  • The British government needs to learn from the way it has damaged its own research enterprise.

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  • The US Secretary of State is rightly cock-a-hoop about the prospects for arms control in the near future, but his vision of what follows is incomplete. But it is not too soon to be planning for the post-strategic world.

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  • The US human genome project must be mounted inter-nationally, and others must help pay for it.

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  • Runners-up to science prizes receive no recognition but should know better than to complain.

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  • The chairman of the US Republican Party is not the most familiar source of wisdom on abortion, but everybody will benefit from what Mr Lee Attwater has learned in this month's elections in the United States.

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  • Migrations of skilled Europeans in the past few weeks are only the beginning. Employers should respond.

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  • British research councils may have sacrificed too much autonomy for administrative flexibility.

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