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institutions of a free society, especially a free market and a free 

 press; and demonstrated unrestrained budgetary expansion." 



January 15, 1984: The National Academy of Sciences officially ap- 

 proved the establishment of the Government-University-Industry 

 Research Roundtable. The roundtable was created to provide a 

 forum where scientists, engineers, administrators, and policy 

 makers from Government, universities, and industry could come 

 together on an ongoing basis to explore ways to improve the pro- 

 ductivity of the Nation's research enterprise. 



January 25, 1984: In his State of the Union address, President 

 Reagan directed NASA to develop a permanently manned space 

 station within a decade and said that such a program would 

 permit "quantum leaps in our research in science, communica- 

 tions, and in metals and life saving medicines which can be man- 

 ufactured only in space." He also said that NASA would invite 

 other countries to particpate in the project. 



February 24, 1984: Executive Order 12465 authorized the Depart- 

 ment of Transportation to be the lead agency within the Federal 

 Government for encouraging, facilitating, and coordinating the 

 commercial development of expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) 

 within the United States private sector. The action came after 

 more than a year of debate over which Government agency 

 should have responsibility for commercial space operations now 

 that NASA is phasing out the use of ELVs in favor of the shut- 

 tle, and some private companies want to market the ELVs as an 

 alternative to the shuttle. 



May 31, 1984: S. 2723, authorized appropriations for fiscal year 

 1985 for the Department of Defense. Senate Report 98-500 which 

 accompanied S. 2723, requested DOD to report "on DOD activi- 

 ties and plans to support the United States infrastructure for sci- 

 ence and engineering education and research." The Senate 

 Armed Services Committee indicated that the report "should ad- 

 dress the role of DOD in the education and training of engineers 

 and sciences for technologies used by DOD." 



June 6, 1984: The House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee 

 on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture 

 began four days of hearings on research, extension services, and 

 higher education. This was the first time that all three parts of 

 the public agriculture system have been addressed in order to de- 

 velop a broad consensus on the major research needs and oppor- 

 tunities facing the food and agricultural systems in the coming 

 decades. 



June 20, 1984: The House Committee on Science and Technology, 

 Subcomittee on Science, Research, and Technology and the 

 House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Departmen- 

 tal Operations, Research and Foreign Agriculture, held a joint 

 hearing on H.R. 4684, the National Nutrition Monitoring and Re- 

 lated Research Act of 1984. The bill was designed to establish a 

 national nutrition monitoring and related research program, in- 

 cluding the establishment of a coordinated comprehensive nutri- 

 tion monitoring system between the U.S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture and the Department of Health and Human Services. 



June 3, 1984: Congressman Don Fuqua, Chairman of the House 

 Committee on Science and Technology, announced the establish- 



