September 25, 1998

National Science Foundation Prepares for Another Battle Over Internet Fund

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

National Science Foundation officials were scrambling last week to respond to a new challenge that could keep the agency from spending $60-million on network grants to universities.

The Senate Finance Committee is considering whether to try to repeal part of a 1998 law that dealt with N.S.F. spending, said Virginia Flynn Koops, press secretary for the committee. The provision in question cleared the way for the N.S.F. to spend the

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