1398 



THE UNITED STATES-FRANCE PROGRAM OF SCIENTIFIC AND 

 TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION 



A somewhat different scheme of cooperation was developed betweem 

 the United States and France on the occasion of conversations between; 

 President Nixon and President de Gaulle in Paris in early 1969. 

 Subsequently further discussion took place between M. Francois X. 

 Ortoli, French Minister for Industrial and Scientific Development, 

 and Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, the U.S. President's Science Adviser, in 

 Paris and Washington. These resulted in a Joint Statement on Franco- 

 American Scientific and Technical Cooperation, November 25, 1969. 

 Dr. Allen V. Astin, retired Director of the National Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, was appointed by the Department of State to coordinate the 

 U.S. side of the program. It operated without a formal agreement, 

 apparently at the request of the French negotiators. 



This program is quite w^idespread in scope. According to the first 

 status report by Coordinator Astin, March 20, 1970, it involved, 

 participation by the following U.S. agencies : 

 Atomic Energy Commission 

 Department of Agriculture 

 Department of Commerce: 



Envhonmental Science Services Administration 

 National Bureau of Standards 

 Department of Defense 



Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: 

 Environmental Health Service 

 National Institutes of Health 

 National Library of Medicine 

 Department of Housing and Urban Development 

 Department of the Interior: 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 

 Bureau of Mines 

 Bureau of Reclamation 



Federal Water Pollution Control Administration 

 Geological Survey 

 Department of Justice: 



Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs 

 National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal 

 Justice 

 Department of Transportation 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

 National Science Foundation 

 Smithsonian Institution 

 Veterans Administration 



THE F.S.-U.S.S.R. SCIENCE BILATERAL 



Probably the most elaborate bilateral science program evolved out of 

 the agreement between the United States and the U.S.S.R., at Mos- 

 cow May 24, 1972. The elaborate scope of this bilateral is attributable 

 to the mutual effort of the two countries toward a political detente, a 

 thawing of the "Cold War," as well as to the strong shared interest 

 in science and the particular desire of the So\aet Union to raise the- 



