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Leona Baumgartner 
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Anne Pitts Carter 
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Abram Chayes 
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Paul B. Comely 
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Walter W. Heller 
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Hudson Hoagland 
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Marc Kac 
Henry S. Kaplan 
Carl Kaysen 
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George B. Kistiakowsky 
♦Arthur Kornberg 
♦Polykarp Kusch 
♦Willis E. Lamb, Jr. 
♦Wassily W. Leontief 
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Franklin A. Neva 
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Robert M. Solow 
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♦Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 
♦Edward L. Tatum 
James Tobin 
♦Charles H. Townes 
♦Harold C. Urey 
♦George Wald 
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Victor F. Weisskopf 
Jerome B. Wiesner 
Robert R. Wilson 
C. S. Wu 
Alfred Yankauer 
Herbert F. York 
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RESULTS OF DNA STRAW POLL FROM APRIL PUBLIC INTEREST REPORT 
In its April publication, FAS discussed DNA recombinants 
and the problems which this kind of genetic engineering might 
produce. It asked members to read the Report and to advise 
whether the guidelines appeared to them to be reasonable. Mem- 
bers were asked to advise, also, whether they were or were 
not biologists. 
As the table below reveals, 50% of non-biologists and 64% of 
the biologist respondents supported the guidelines. 30% of non- 
biologist respondents thought them insufficiently cautious, how- 
ever, as did 25% of the biologists. Five to ten percent thought 
them probably too restrictive. 
biologists non-biologists total 
A. "probably too restrictive" 
12 
11 
23 
B. "probably about right" 
83 
98 
181 
C. "probably insufficiently 
cautious" 
32 
61 
93 
D. "insufficient information" 
2 
23 
25 
129 193 322 
Ruth S. Adams 
David Baltimore 
Nina Byers 
Rose E. Frisch 
Arthur W. Galston 
[546] 
National Council Members ( Elected ) 
Morton H. Halperin 
Garrett Hardin 
Denis Hayes 
William A. Higinbotham 
John P. Holdren 
Daniel Koshland, Jr. 
Raphael Littauer 
Franklin A. Long 
Francis Low 
Victor Rabinowitch 
George W. Rathjens 
Marc J. Roberts 
Leonard Rodberg 
Joseph L. Sax 
George A. Silver 
Jeremy J. Stone 
Vigdor Teplitz 
Frank Von Hippel 
Myron E. Wegman 
