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    "ocrText": "13\nChairman Burch and Commissioners Lee and Reid\nvoted to drop the financial study. Bartley con-\ncurred with \"deep regret\", suggesting that Congress\nor some special task force under FCC agencies\nshould undertake the study.\nNBC had footage of Burch explaining that the agency\nhad neither the manpower nor the money and you\nhave to ask how much is going to be accomplished.\nDo we want domestic satellites or to look into ex-\npense accounts? Nick Johnson followed stating that\nregulatory agencies are dominated by those they're\nsupposed to regulate -- its \"preposterous. 11 NBC\nnoted that FCC does have a \"modest\" budget and\nhas added only 50 employees in 10 years. Mean-\nwhile AT&T has quadrupled in that period. --\nBut he concluded by noting that AT&T seems to\nbe too complex to regulate\nCronkite also noting\nthe action reported that FCC (in the area involved)\nhas 162 employees compared to 3M with Bell. FCC\nhas a $1M budget; AT&T assets are $4B.\nDRUGS\nCBS AM News had footage of US Army Dr. (Forest\nTennat) who is taking a new approach to GI drug\nuse. He is instructing GIs on how to use drugs.\nWithout encouraging the drug use, (tho the GIs were\ntold marijuana was relatively harmless on film)\nthe Dr. tells them that hashish is dangerous and tells\nthem how to take the drug so as not to be destroyed\nby it. Drugs taken intraveniously are discouraged.\nTennat is traveling the GI bases and estimates that\nhospitalization due to drugs has been reduced by\n2/3 since September.\nVA Administrator Donald Johnson said the drug\nproblem among the US military is far from ex-\nclusively a VN war problem. He also said \"a\nyear ago, specially staffed and equipped drug\ntreatment centers were not much more than an\nidea. Today, we have 32 such centers in operation,\ncapable of treating upwards of 6, 000 drug addicted\nvets a year, in addition to facilities at VA hospitals."
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