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At what point? With what kinds of expertise? Should the private 

 scientific and technological communities be consulted on these 

 matters in the course of such an examination? 



What multinational regions in the developing parts of the world 

 might be candidates for the sort of regional development plan 

 evidenced b}^ the Tennessee Valley Authorit}? Are the opportunities 

 for constructive participation of the private sector in. such regional 

 schemes adequately appreciated? Might this same regional concept 

 be applied to the seabed? 



What arrangements can ensure that contracts and negotiations 

 between U.S. businesses and offices of state-trading (communist) 

 nations are made known to the U.S. Departments of State and 

 Commerce for policy planning and coordination purposes? What 

 polic}^ guidance is available to U.S. companies and how can it be 

 bettered? 



Are there special diplomatic considerations regarding relationships 

 between the Soviet Union and U.S.-based multinationaicorporations? 

 How are these to be evaluated? 



wShould thought be given "to the formulation of a more explicit 

 technological strategy designed to increase the social return of its 

 immense investment in science and technology and to minimize its 

 negative environmental effects?" What are the policy resources the 

 United States can bring to bear on issues of national strategy in 

 technology, and how are these to communicate with the industrial 

 sector where such a strategj^ must be implemented? 



In the field of global health, can the tremendous medical and 

 industrial technology resources of the United States be mobilized 

 in support of U.S. diplomatic objectives? What initiatives might best 

 serve this purpose and how might they be organized and guided? 



What technologies might further the general objective of im- 

 proving global health and where does the responsibility lie for sponsor- 

 ing their development and use? 



Could cooperative arrangements be developed for oil-rich countries 

 to work with the U.S. chemical industry to provide fertilizers and 

 pesticides to developing countiies? Might such cooperation be 

 furthered by assisting the oil-rich countries to develop petrochemical 

 industries to produce these high-energ^'^ agricultural materials? 



Should there be recognition that transfers of value can include 

 more than finished goods, materials, capital, and credit? (For example: 

 transfers of teclmology and human expertise.) Might a system of 

 equity be devised in Avhich exchanges of tangible values and exchanges 

 of knowledge and knowledgeable people are taken together, so that 

 all parties benefit from the combined exchange? 



Even if it is not possible to maintain a strict accounting of the 

 value of transferred technology and "brains," should not these be 

 recognized as important elements in the flow of value from nation 

 to nation? 



What organizational and institutional changes are needed in the 

 Department of State to improve the coupling of technology and 

 diplomacy? 



How can the Department tap the private industrial community 

 for technological expertise to make diplomatic pohcymaking more 

 responsive to technological forces for change? 



What actions by private industry, at home or abroad, might 

 contribute toward tJ.S. diplomatic goals and how can the Department 

 motivate and coordinate such a private effort? 



