House passes $248M to expand HI military occupation
The
Star-Bulletin
reports
that "Hawaii stands to gain $248 million in
new military construction and high-technology research and development under
legislation approved this week by the U.S. House." The
Advertiser
has
more. The budget bill goes to the
Senate next.Meanwhile, in the
S-B
letters,
Jeffree Pike from Hilo writes to thank the anti-UARC protesters at UH and
reminds us that "The late Martin Luther King once stated that a country that
continues to increase its military budget year after year is approaching
spiritual death. With the Pentagon budget over $1 billion a day, the United
States is spending almost as much on our war department as every other nation
combined. " But Robert Young from Wailuku thinks peace protesters are the
"lunatic fringe." And in the
Advertiser
letters,
Gary K. Ostrander, Vice chancellor for research and graduate education at
UH-Manoa, responds to an earlier commentary
by Professors Robert Kamins and Robert Potter, saying that "the proposed
research contract arrangement with the Navy is not to establish 'a classified
research center'" but that "perhaps 15 percent" of the newly funded research may
be classified.
Posted: Fri - May 27, 2005 at 06:49 AM