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our human environment within the next decade. If we can cope with the problems 

 our unprecedented knowledge has created, we can do so onlj' by properly using 

 the tools of that knowledge. No previous civilization has had either our knowlege 

 or our tools. It seems to me that in this fact we have remaining some hope that we 

 can avoid following the path of breakdown that history suggests is inevitable 

 for every civilization. -"s 



The final panel meeting on the subject — International Science 

 Policy— w&s held Janiiar}/ 26-28, 197 1.'"-' The ke^^note address was 

 was delivered by William P. Rogers, Secretary of State who said : 



Our basic goal is to put science and technology at the service of human — and 

 humane — ends. 



In our foreign policy we are taking three major steps to achieve this goal: 



1. We are increasing our emphasis on science and technology in our aid to 

 developing countries. 



2. We are encouraging an international effort to preserve the quality of the 

 world's environment, and 



3. We are seeking greater international cooperation to enhance the benefits 

 of technology and to curb its danger.^io 



At this conference Franklin A. Long, du-ector of the Cornell Uni- 

 versity program on Science, Technology, and Societ}-, proposed the 

 creation of a congressional joint committee which would be the 

 counterpart of the National Securit}^ Council, with similar scope. 

 *T would hope," said Long, "that the interpretation of national secu- 

 rity by the new committee would be broad enough to include a study 

 of nonmilitary alternatives as well as of military programs and to 

 include a study of the impact of internal U.S. programs as well as of 

 international needs and goals." ^^^ 



One of the participants in the conference was Emilio Q. Daddario, 

 who had left the Congress and was senior vice president of Gulf and 

 Western Precision Engineering Compan3^ He called attention to the 

 coherence of the successive panels. I'he "central question" was "how 

 science can best be employed for the benefit of all mankind." New 

 approaches and mechanisms were needed for broader international 

 scientific and political cooperation. And it was necessary "to integrate 

 more completely our own national science activities vnih those of 

 other nations." ^^^ One such mechanism, he suggested, might be a 

 series of regional "international science policy committees" to "de- 

 velop more fully the multilateral approach to scientific cooperation." 



2M Hrai-ings, House Committee on Science and Astronautics, National Science Policy, p. 4. (The complete 

 letter appears in the Appendix, p. 92y.) 



2"* Guest panelists included: 



Dr. Viktor A. Ambartsumian (U.S.S.R.), President, International Council of Scientific Unions, Rome, 

 Italy, and President, Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, Yerevan. U.S.S.R. 



Hon. Staffan Biu-enstam Linder (Sweden), Member of Parliament, Stockholm, Sweden. 



Capt. Jacques Yves Cousteau (France), Centie d'Etudes Marines Avancees, Marseilles, France. 



Hon. Emiiio Q. Daddario, Senior Vice President, Gulf & Western Precision Engineering Company, 

 Manchester, Conn. 



Hon. Allister Grosart (Canada), Special Committee on Science Policy, The Senate of Canada, Ottawa, 

 Canada. 



Dr. Franklin A. Long, Director, Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N.Y. 



Prof. Thomas Odhiambo (Kenya), Director, The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, 

 Nairobi, Kenya. 



Mr. Herman Pollack, Director, Bureau of International Scientific and Technological Afiair.s, Department 

 of State, Washiiifjton, D.C. 



Or. Walter Orr Roberts, President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo. 



Prof. A!idus Salani (Pakistan), Director, International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. 



Dr. James D. Watson, Professor of Biochemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Mr. James E. Webb, Treasurer, National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, D.C. 



(As cited in, U.S. Congiess, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, International Science Policy, 

 proceedings before the Conmiittee ol the Panel on Science and Technology, Twellih Meeting, January 26-28, 

 1!)7I. p. iv.) 



2'» Proceedings, Panel on Science and Technology, Twelfth Meeting, InteTnalional Science Policy" p. 4. 



"1 Ibid., p. 71. 



212 Ibid., pp. 165-172. 



