Feb 24 1968
From The Space Library
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House Government Operations Committee said in report that despite acute need to eliminate U.S. balance of payments deficit, Government continued to make grants for foreign research projects of about $20 million yearly-more than $15 million being spent in developed countries. Committee recommended rigorous scrutiny of dollar-financed projects in Japan, Canada, U.K., Sweden, Italy, Australia, France, and West Germany. (W Star, 2/24/68, B9)
U.S.S.R. inaugurated fifth permanent Antarctic research station, Bellingshausen station on King George Island, according to Moscow newspapers. U.S.S.R. thus joined U.K., Argentina, and Chile in operating scientific bases in northernmost and warmest part of Antarctica. (NYT, 3/6/68, 49)
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