Gore's report on restructuring the government is selling well in DC. Insiders snapped up the first run, others could back order it (1 week) from the GPO for $14 or could get an immediate copy from a private printer for $11. :-) The report suggests a Cabinet-level National Science and Technology Council combining FCCSET with several other scientific coordinating groups. (Science advisor John H. Gibbons is behind this. The new agency would have more clout than FCCSET for setting technology policy and affecting agency programs.) DOE would "consolidate and redirect" its labs, which may mean closing labs. [Robert L. Park (opa@aps.org), WHAT'S NEW, 0/10/93. Also BW, 9/20/93, p. 85.]

Stephen Squires has been removed as ARPA's director of the Computing Systems Technology Office, but remains as a "special assistant." [HPC Select, 8/26/93.]

The Senate has tentatively cut NSF's requested 18% research increase to 4%, vs. 10% from the House. Both have agreed to a 17% increase in education, although NSF only asked for 14%. [Robert L. Park (opa@aps.org), WHAT'S NEW, 0/10/93.]