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uations and those with planned economies? Is it feasible — given the 

 consent of a sufficient number of nations with resources — to divide 

 resources into two broad categories: those which must be shared 

 within certain agreed hmits of pressing need, and those subject to 

 competitive exploitation? And how can the value of raw materials 

 exports be validly balanced against the value of exports of technology? 



Should the United Nations, as a long-range planning measure, 

 consider seeking international consensus to divide the world into tech- 

 nological, economic/occupational, production-and-services regions — 

 i.e., countries within subcontinents, and regions within or cutting 

 across coimtries, in such a way that primary (but not exclusive) 

 emphasis in some regions would be on heavy industry, in others on 

 high-technology hght industry, in still others on recreation and tour- 

 ism — ^in accordance with their natural endowments and cultural 

 preferences? If this is an impractical concept, what steps might it be 

 feasible for the United Nations to take in the direction of planned and 

 harmonious world development? Should a start be made by encourag- 

 ing such variegated but balanced development within regions? 



Would it be feasible and desirable to strengthen the modest pro- 

 gram of United Nations Volunteers as a vehicle, in the development 

 field, for promoting constructive interdependence? Would it be useful 

 to emphasize the regional approach in this field also? 



Might it be desirable and feasible for the United States to encourage 

 the establishment under U.N. auspices of a futures research facility 

 staffed by social, poUtical, and physical scientists, technologists, 

 engineers, and speciahsts in futures research and forecasting, to study 

 and report on various growth and resource trends and their implica- 

 tions for balanced versus unbalanced growth and ecological overstress? 



In what ways, if any, should the Federal Government involve State 

 and local governments in problems and issues of global interdepen- 

 dence, as was briefly attempted dming the Presidency of John F. 

 Kennedy? 



In what ways might it be useful for the U.S. Government to pro- 

 mote cooperative efforts among government, private enterprise, 

 academic, and other interested elements in the United States, directed 

 toward the solution of problems of interdependence? 



What steps might it be practical and useful to take toward develop- 

 ing a philosophy of interdependence? 



