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to the development process? Is UNITAR the logical center for mforma- 

 tion collection and exchange on this subject? Should the United States 

 establish a center for information and research on the subject, inde- 

 pendently of (or in conjunction with) the United Nations? 



To benefit both domestic and foreign policy what steps should 

 Congress take to deal with the medical brain drain from the LDCs to 

 the United States? 



Are there steps which the Congress might take, for sjTnbolic as well 

 as practical reasons, to signal its concern over the problems of the 

 developing countries and its interest in fostering the developnient 

 process? For instance, might Congress endow an independently ad- 

 ministered center for the long-range study of development problems, 

 mth provision for a substantial number of visiting fellowships for 

 LDC students and administrators concerned with development? 



In accordance with the principle that those institutions which will 

 benefit should help bring about a stable world and the peaceful solution 

 of problems generated by technology and change, should multinational 

 corporations be required, induced, or encouraged to contribute to an 

 international development fund? By what means? What concessions, 

 if any, should be askod of LDCs in which the corporations operate in 

 return for substantial contributions to such a fund? How and under 

 what auspices should the fund be administered? 



What, m general, are some of the waj^s in which the U.S. Govern- 

 ment might form a constructive partnership with U.S. business and 

 industry in furtherance of U.S. foreign policy goals relating to the 

 development i)rocess? How can some of the great reservoirs of techno- 

 logical and managerial resources, skills, and inventiveness of U.S. 

 private enterprise be tapped for work on development problems, 

 including the brain drain? 



ISSUE SIX: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 

 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 2" 



This is the most recent of the series of 12 studies of the interaction of 

 Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy which began with pub- 

 lication in December 1970 of The Ewkition of International Tech- 

 nology. The latter was designed to bring to the general subject some 

 historical perspective and a current overview. In each of the interven- 

 ing 10 studies a particular episode or continuing issue was examined 

 both for its intrinsic and separate interest and to shed light on the gen- 

 eral theme. 



The present study is similarly intended to perform this dual func- 

 tion. It differs from the preceding studies, however, in that its subject 

 is an operational expression of the theme of interaction among Science, 

 Technology, and American Diplomacy. The preceding studies make 

 abundantly clear that the interaction must be managed, insofar as it is 

 within human ability to manage it. Failure to control and direct it in- 

 volves risk of great damage to the public interest, both national and in- 

 ternational, as well as loss of substantial positive benefit. In the U.S. 

 Government, the locus for managing the interaction (apart from the 

 President and his immediate stafi) is the Department of State. Other 



2" U.S. Conpress. House. Committee on tnternational Relations. Sc'ence and Technology in the Departmen' 

 of State, a study in the series on Science, TechnoloRy, and American Diplomacy prepared for the Subcom- 

 mittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs by Dr. Franklin P. Huddle, Senior Specia ist in 

 Science and Technology, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, U.S. Govt. Print Off. 

 Washington, D.C., Juno 1975. See Vol. U, pp. 1319-1504. 



