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Lyndon LaRoucke, Democrat for President, was the first candidate to visit the Sea. . . Our relevant branches ofresearch and development havealmost gone out of existence, andour present monetary and antiadvancedtechnologies policiesabsolutely prevent us fromhoping to match the continuingand growing military potentialsof the Soviet Union.. . . One cannot adopt a"neomalthusian" policy againsttechnological progress in expandedindustrial investment and maintainstrategic parity against nationseffectively pursuing policies ofwhich are promoting science andScientists and Engineers for LaRouche include among their number:Robert J. Moon, PhD,Professor of Nuclear PhysicsUniversity of ChicagoJohn Kozarich. Ph.D.Department of PharmacologyYale School of MedicineTom SawyerFounding Member, AmericanNuclear Society; Founder,Gas Turbine Division, AmericanSociety of Mechanical EngineersIra SeyboldHead of DisometryThree Mile Island: nuclear construction site.scientific potentials of industry andlabor-force... .Let us ccrrect the policies,and go back to a NASA-likeoutlook again. . . (but) theproblem goes deeper than simplychanging policy. . . (it) requires amassive upheaval in our politicalparties' leaderships... . The very existence of ournation—perhaps of all "westerncivilization"—stands in immediatejeopardy unless we can rid ournation of the neomalthusian forcesreflected in Zbigniew Brzezinski's"technetronic"! obsessions.Uwe ParpartDirector of ResearchFusiori Energy FoundationS. Johjn Oechsle, P.E.President, Metal Weld, Inc.Philadelphia. PA(Affiliations for identification only.)President Carter's policies have destroyed America'sscientific and industrial base. According to recentpolls, over 50% of Democrats are fed up with Carter'sincompetence and are demanding an open DemocraticConvention in August. It is time to defendDemand an Open Democratic Convention!Plato's AcademyContinued from page 77tion Board (see National News, thisissue) met a similar fate.The Washington Post has gone sofar in its rage as to call for an investigationof the Academy. After rehashingthe "sins" of the Academy, a Posteditorial pointed out that Philip Handler,the current president of theAcademy will retire next year and thatthe search for a successor is now underway. "Considering its [the Academy's]importance to a much largerconstituency, the qualifications andviews of the candidates should be thesubject of a much wider debate. Theworkings of that club require morescrutiny than they have ever receivedbefore."Ironically, Handler recently editorializedin Science magazine that scientistsshould retreat from the politicalarena and immerse themselves intheir specialties.—yohn SchoonoverBooks ReceivedContinued from page 79Limiting Oil Imports. D. Bohi and M.Russell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UniversityPress, 1978. 348 pp.. $22.50.Who Goes There: The Search for IntelligentLife in the Universe. EdwardEdelson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.228 pp., $4.95.Fundamentals of Plasma Physics. V.E.Golant, A.P. Zhilinsky, I.E. Sakharov.New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1980.395 pp., $39.At Highest Risk: Environmental Hazardsto Young and Unborn Children.Christopher Norwood. NewYork:McGraw-Hill, 1980. 248. pp. $12.95.Language and Learning. Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini,ed., Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press, 1980, 379 pp., $20.00.Science and Technology: A Five YearOutlook. National Academy of Sciences,San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979, 544pp., $15.00.Competition in the Health Care Sector.Warren Greenberg, ed., Germantown,Maryland: Aspen Systems Corp.,1978, 383 pp., $26.50.Coal: Bridge to the Future. Carroll L.Wilson, Cambridge: Ballinger PublishingCo., 1980, 220 pp., $12.95.80 FUSION September 1980