| Show U U. California Votes To Continue Nuclear Arms Work SACRAMENTO CA GPS The CPS The University of California will continue to administer two nuclear weapons weapons weapons wea wea- pons programs despite protest protest protest pro pro- test from student groups and from state Gov Jerry Brown who is a university regent The entire Board of Regents Regents Regents Reg Reg- voted last week to keep its contract with the federal federal federal fed fed- eral government to oversee weapons research at the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos laboratories David Saxon president of the nine-campus nine University of California system favored continuing the million per year contract You just cant can't walk walkaway walkaway walkaway away from that kind of responsibility responsibility responsibility re re- he argues Brown in addition to numerous numerous numerous num num- erous student and anti clear groups moved that the regents terminate the contract contract contract con con- tract last year soon after the near-meltdown near at the Three ThreeMile ThreeMile ThreeMile Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania Browns Brown's motion was defeated defeat defeat- ed then too The university created the weapons research program at the Los Alamos NM lab 35 years ago and the program at the Livermore lab in Berkely in 1953 It has supervised the research ever since The research came under increasing criticism as part of the Vietnam anti-Vietnam war protest protest protest pro pro- test and again as the antinuclear antinuclear antinuclear anti- anti nuclear power movement swelled in the mid-and mid late- late seventies Brown has helped mount additional pressure to sever ties between the university university university uni uni- and the labs Its more of an issue than its it's ever been in the past Saxon told a press confer confer- ence He attributed the controversy controversy controversy con con- to more public concern about things nuclear and the fact that we now have a governor that's out in front leading the issue |
