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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1981
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Administration plans
to transfer Cubans
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The U. S.
government is planning to transfer
100 Cuban refugees at Fort Chaf
fee, Ark., to four communities in
the San Francisco Bay area, a
spokesman said Wednesday.
Oliver Cromwell, spokesman
for the federal Office of Refugee
Resettlement, said there are 543
refugees located at the Fort Chaf
fee facility, where they were sent
after arriving in the United States
during the 1980 boatlift from
Cuba.
More than 125,000 Cuban re
fugees arrived on U.S. shores by
boat last year during the “Free
dom Flotilla” from Cuba. Most
have been resettled.
The administration, which has
been looking for months for a
place to relocate the Fort Chaffee
refugees, who once numbered
over 1,000, has encountered local
opposition from communities
where the Cubans could have
been settled.
Many of the Fort Chaffee re
fugees have been difficult to relo
cate because they were consi
dered antisocial by public health
officials, Cromwell said.
However, the 100 Cubans are
not felons, ex-felons or mentally
ill, he said.
The Cubans would be transfer
red to halfway-house facilities in
San Jose, Watsonville, Gilroy or
Mountain View — with the first
group of about 10 to be moved
within the next two weeks, he
said.
“They will not all be concen
trated in any one area, ” Cromwell
said.
Negotiations are continuing for
a permanent refugee center at a
former air force base at Glasgow,
Mont., he said.
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Sdentist backs space work
NASA facing big budget cut
United Press International
PITTSBURGH — The chief sci
entist for America’s Voyager pro
ject to explore the outer planets
says the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration is facing
some tough decisions because of
budget cuts, but should not aban
don its planetary exploration
program.
“It’s not in the best interest of
the United States to kill off the
program,’’ Dr. Edward Stone
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latest Voyager findings at a meet
ing of the American Astronomical
Society Tuesday. “Many benefits
derive from the program.
Dr. David Morrison, chairman
of the society’s division of planet
ary scientists, said in a statement
issued before the meeting that the
budgetary belt-tightening now
going on in Washington may eli
minate the planetary effort.
“Given its tremendous boost to
national pride and prestige, many
people don’t realize that the entire
planetary effort uses only 3 per
cent of NASA’s budget, and all of
NASA is less than 1 percent of the
federal budget,” Morrison said.
Yet this highly successful effort
is to undergo more than a belt-
tightening, it may be killed out
right.”
Sources said the White House
Office of Management and Budget
had asked NASA to trim the cur
rent spending plan by $367 mil
lion and the proposed budgets for
the next years by $1 billion each
year.
“The budget situation isa
difficult one,” Stone saidatai
conference Tuesday.
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