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The Murphy Commission's final report tended to confirm the 

 findings of the CRS study, by proposing that "science" (i.e., tech- 

 nology) be elevated to concern at the level of Under Secretary of 

 State. However, by recommending separation of the offices of Assist- 

 ant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of 

 State, the Commission may have called for a diminishing of recogni- 

 tion by the White House of the importance of nonmilitary technology 

 for diplomacy and (in its broader sense) national security. 



In his welcoming speech to the Foreign Service Officer Class, June 27, 

 1975, Secretary Kissinger spoke of the widening scope of foreign rela- 

 tions, the need for acceptance by the Congress and the public of the 

 Nation's course of foreign policy actions, the need for a "more analyti- 

 cal, more strategic approach to the issues of foreign policy," and the 

 need to allocate resources to piiority objectives.^^^ 



Conflicts between executive and legislative foreign polic}^ became 

 evident in 1975 as the Congress interposed its views on Soviet trade 

 relationships b}' linking them to Soviet policy on the emigration of 

 Jews, took a policy stand on the use of U.S. weapons by Turkey in 

 Cyprus, and forebade U.S. intervention in Angola. Apart from any 

 question as to the rightness of these positions, they forcefully dram- 

 atized the importance of Secretary Kissinger's observation that, 

 "Today the Congress has a decisive role to pla}^ in the formulation 

 and execution of our foreign policy. . . ." ^'^ 



Kissinger's 19 proposals to u.n. general assembly 



Possibly the most important event in technological diplomacy in 

 1975 was the address delivered September 1 before the Seventh 

 Special wSession of the United Nations General Assembly, by Ambas- 

 sador Moynihan for Secretary Kissinger, on "Global Consensus and 

 Economic Development." An analysis of that address provides an 

 excellent recapitulation of the importance of technological diplomacy 

 in today's world, and the need to develop institutions, policies, and 

 programs based on the new reality of the world of nations. Said 

 Kissinger: 



The reality is that the world economy is a single global system of trade and 

 monetary relations on which hinges the development of all our economies. The 

 advanced nations have an interest in the growth of markets and production in 

 the developing world; with equal conviction we state that the developing coun- 

 tries have a stake in the markets, technological innovation, and capital invest- 

 ment of the industrial countries. 



To meet this changed global condition the Secretary proposed a 

 strategy consisting of five sets of international actions. These might 

 be summarized as follows: 



1. International cooperation to stabilize the global economy of 

 supply and demand. 



2. Accelerated growth through technological innovation and 

 investment capital. 



3. More widely shared trading opportunities. 



4. Improved terms of trade in key commodities, especially 

 food. 



3" "Strcngtheninp the Department of State," address by Secretary Kissinger, Department of State 

 Newsletter, no. 1882 (July 1975), pp. 2-3. 

 3" Jbid.. p. 2. 



