Aucbarpa.788 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:arnold Thu Feb 4 16:21:15 1982 Re: I think you might also give some credit to Jerry Brown. Some inside information indicates that one reason Reagan + advisors decided not to slash hard at NASA programs was to avoid handing Jerry obvious and wonderful targets for his campaign. Not that I want to dengrate those who worked hard on this. But remember that Reagan doesn't make all of his decisions on a basis of philosophy. Ken P.S. Neither does any other politician, of course. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.