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    
   
 
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