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The European Research Office of the US Army in London's Marylebone Road. Much of the US Dep artment of Defence's sponsored re2. At o time of crucial importance This new CND pamphlet is an exposure of military involvement in British uni verities and colleges. It summaries the excent and nature of this involvement, provides a list of suerifie prajects fanded by the military, and beielly examines the political implications to be drawn Betacen them, the Ministry of Def ense (Mol), the IS Department of Del ence, and NATO invest over 12 million annually in Brilish university science projects and fellaships. This money buys academic expertise to supplement their own rescarch work. In addition. MoD conducts various public relations exercises in the universities, which sti help in a general way to promote mil As Zoe Fairbairns says: "Today's weapons wore yesterday's "fundamental" MoD-sponsored rescarch Acsden ics and students who co-operate with the military are helping to develop tech nology which will be used by British and American imperialism in such places as Northern Ireland, Vietnam, and perhaps even closer to tome The pampilet looks at the changing role of the atay in the mid 1970s, -indicated by the 'exercises" at Heathrow, the threatened use of soldiers as strike breakers, and the much quoted works by military theorists like Kitsoe and What the Bristor WW can do now is to follow up and extend these initial factory contacts by going to see and discussing with these and other women at home. But the Charter is flexible... and the fad Weekly and the IMG mast be careful of being doctringire. But it car present and explain exampic 3. The two points above lead on to a general observation that Red Alekly's everage of the Charter these last six months has been very waak. Starting with ly written contrespreed: then the nodir ways of fighting the coemy from with in" If we consider the involvement of military agencies in the universities in aign to drive them out is part of the ards a strong state in Britain.
Zoe Fairbains gives some leas on how lo launch such a campaign. The first weapon is information", she says and so the major part of the pamphler is a list of to leas than 65 Hritish univer sities and colleges, giving details of thuir consections with the military.
Students at City University, for example, micht be surprised to disconer from this tist that 50 percent ofstad ents enroled for the Systems and 11ar agement degree are Reyal Navy officers Some of There will be takins part in a project which involves contriving a dyn amir model to represent the economics politics und conflict of a state with a common coonomy but distinct nopulations, eg. South Africa, Cyprus, and Ulster".
There are plenty of other examples like this, together with advice on how to find out more about a particular un varsity's military reseanch She coumph et conclades with a sod Lion on "What To Do", where we are re minded that it is official NOS policy to appose this type of rescarch, and that the executive is mandatod to support action against if at a local level. A Science for People proup has already been set up at Brunel Laiversity to find out what the C10,784 annual grant from MaD is used for, and what action to take. Workers and students at other cimpuses should follow their initiat Ive, and use every means possible to Diraw the military our. •..
ignorant squabbles between IS and IMG lignovant of the class strugglel: then a faslure to report on the impact the un the worner's home lives land this connection is the great feature of the Wel, and the total absence of featuris women ILIP, Lenks in France, squatters in Italy, etc. Jhave been involved in.
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