IP: "no one from NSF had made them aware of the severity of

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

1. NSF: THE "STONY SILENCE" IS BROKEN -- AT LEAST BY SCIENTISTS.
Responding to last week's alert (WN 19 Jan 96), physicists buried
Capitol Hill in a blizzard of calls/e-mail/etc. -- more than 2000
contacts in 4 days.  And it wasn't just the physicists calling;
other societies that issued alerts, such as the American Society
for Cell Biology, report a massive response from their members. 
Surprised Appropriations Committee staff said that no one from
NSF or OSTP had made them aware of the severity of the problem.