200‐GeV imbroglio

“A site selection should be expected by the end of September,” Rep. Chet Holifield, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, recently told Congress. An Atomic Energy Commission spokesman, howevèr, denied this and reiterated the AEC position that the “commission hopes to be able to select a site before the end of this calendar year.” Another member of the Joint Committee, Rep. Craig Hosmer, agreed with Holifield and said that the AEC “has been sitting on the list ever since it got it.” Hosmer, a Republican, charged that the White House had ordered the commission to do so. “The Johnson administration,” he added, “wants to stall the project a year or more clue to its budget difficulties.”