The spectacle of President Clinton's science adviser as a partisan politician startled and alarmed many who had gathered in the hotel ballroom for the annual R&D budget forum of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on 18 April. By deliberately attacking and sometimes ridiculing the new Republican majority in Congress, John H. Gibbons appeared to be creating a political gulf in science policy, an area that has rarely known such rifts and has in fact enjoyed mostly bipartisan support for the past 50 years.
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