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There have been numerous evidences in recent years that the White 

 House and the Secretary of State appreciate the need for injecting 

 technical expertise into the foreign pohcy process. The report of the 

 President to the Congress, May 3, 1973, identified a number of 

 "global challenges of peace." Foremost were problems relating "the 

 Oceans" not only to questions of historic freedom of the seas and rights 

 of passage but also to such technologically connected matters as 

 depletion of fish, oceanic pollution, and seabed mineral resource 

 development. Problems of outer space, "economic and scientific inter- 

 dependence," various kinds of technology-related terrorism, drug con- 

 trol, population growth, energy, environmental protection, and impact 

 of domestic environmental controls on international trade were also 

 cited."* 



In a series of speeches and statements, Secretary Kissinger has 

 underscored the future importance of science and technolog}^ for 

 diplomacy. In his first speech as Secretary, he told the United Nations 

 General Assembly, September 24, 1973, that the world had been 

 drawn together by "modern science, technology, and new forms of 

 communication into a proximity for which we are still unprepared." 



Technology [said the Secretary] dailj* outstrips the ability of our institutions to 

 cope with its fruits. Our political imagination must catch up with out scientific 

 vision. 



At the Washington Energy Conference, February 11, 1974, the 

 Secretary attached importance to science and technology as one of 

 seven areas of international cooperation to assure "abundant energy 

 at reasonable cost to meet the entire world's requirement for economic 

 growth and human need." Said Dr. Kissinger: 



New technologies, and not only new explorations, can provide us with new 

 sources of energy. Many of our countries are launching large new programs. 

 (U.S. plans called for $11 billion in public and $12.5 billion in private outlays for 

 this purpose.] But we have no monopolj- on the most advanced and promising ap- 

 proaches. It is to our mutual benefit to coordinate and combine our efiForts. Thus, 

 the United States is prepared to make a major contribution of its most advanced 

 energy research and development to a broad program of international cooperation 

 in energy. 



Before the Sixth Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly in 

 New York, April 15, 1974, the Secretary proposed a "global agenda," 

 made possible by technology, to — 



— Achieve an expanding supply of energy; 

 — Enable an escape from the "c3xle of raw material surplus and 

 shortage" ; 



— Balance food and population; 

 — Buoy the poorest nations; 



— Exploit fully "our most precious resource" of science and 

 technology to overcome "a global economy of scarcity"; and 



— Sustain industrial civilization and growth by a workable 

 trade, monetary, and investment system. 

 With particular reference to science and technolog}", he said: "No 

 human activit}" is less national in character than the field of science." 

 (And also) "No development effort offers more hope than joint tech- 

 nical and scientific cooperation." 



'** Richard Nixon, U.S. Forcion Policy for the lOJO'g: Shaping a Durable Peace, a report to the Congress by 

 .the President of the United Stales, May, 3, l'J73, pp. 216-229. 



