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of Understanding on i^cientific Cooperation" were entered into with: 

 the Council of Academies of the Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 

 January 1, 1966; the Pohsh Academy of Sciences, February 1, 1966; 

 the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, March 18, 1966; 

 and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, July 1, 1966. 



Bulgaria. — Negotiations with Bulgaria did not proceed as swiftly 

 as those with other Eastern European countries. Discussions with the 

 Bulgarian Academy continued over several years after Dr. Brown's 

 initial visit to Eastern Europe in 1962.3^2 jj^ jggg^ NSF granted the 

 NAS approval to expand activities to Bulgaria; no additional funds 

 "«vere needed.^*^ Negotiations between the two Academies continued 

 •during 1969 and 1970, and involved additional visits of Dr. Brown to 

 Bulgaria in 1969 and of a delegation from the Bulgarian Academy of 

 Sciences to the United States in May 1970. A Memorandum of 

 Understanding on exchanges was concluded May 23, 1970.^^* Under 

 the agreement the Academies will support visits totaling 10 man- 

 months in the first year and 20 man-months in the second year in both 

 directions. Specifically encouraged are short visits for lecturing, con- 

 ducting seminars, surveying current research, and exchanging pro- 

 fessional views. The behavioral sciences are included in the agreement. 

 Expansion of the Program: Yugoslavia and Romania. — Exchanges 

 with the Yugoslavian academy were conducted at only about two- 

 fifths of the agreed-upon level of exchange for the first few years of the 

 agreement. In 1970 the two academies agreed to try to fulfill the orig- 

 inally established level of 40 man-months per year. At the same time, 

 the agreement was expanded to other areas of cooperation: transporta- 

 tion and urban affairs, environmental quahty, oceanography, science 

 teaching, computer applications, metallurgy, petrochemicals, and 

 electronics. A Yugoslavian scientific attache was attached to the 

 Embassy in Washington to assist in implementing these arrangements. 

 These decisions were formulated in response to visits of Dr. Lee 

 DuBridge, the President's Science Adviser, to Yugoslavia, September 

 1969;^^^ discussions on scientific and technological cooperation be- 

 tween President Nixon and Yugoslavia's President Tito during the 

 former's visit to Yugoslavia in September 1970; ^^^ and the return 

 visit of a Yugoslavian scientific delegation to the United States in 

 October 1970.3«^ ^ ^ 



Exchanges between the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the 

 Academy of Science of Romania were formahzed in 1964 in an exchange 



3«2 NAS-NRC, Office of the Foreign Secretary, "Proposal for Amending Task Order No. 74, Contract 

 NSF C-310 Exchange of Scientists between the National Academy of Sciences. U.S.A. and the Academies 

 or Research'Councils of Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia," to include Bulgaria, 



1967 



M'ldem and NSF, Correspondent approval sheet amendment to NSF C-310, Task order No. 74, Decem- 

 ber 18, 1967, and Letter from Wilbur W. Bolton, Jr., contracting officer, NSF, to Mr. G. D. Meid, Business 

 Manager, NAS, Task order No. 74, Amendment No. 7, February 8, 1968. 



3S1 "East-Emopean Programs," In NAS-NRC, Office of the Foreign Secretary, "Proposal for Continua- 

 tion of the Program for Exchange of Scientists Between Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, 

 Romania, and Yugoslavia for the period September 1, 1970, through August 31, 1971,' Continuation of 

 contract NSF C-310, task order no. 39, May 28, 1970, p. 2. c . v, lo incn r 



3«5 "President's Science Adviser to Visit Europe," White House Press Release, September 12, 1969, Jn. 

 U.S. Department of State Bulletin 61 (October 20, 1969) pp. 338-9^ „ tt o t. < ..rn,^,. 



386 "Joint Communique following visit of President Nixon with President Tito." U.S. Department of State 

 Bi6«e«m 63 (November 2, 1970) p. 622. ^ „^^ ^^. ^„,,, -r, tj„ 



38' "Yugoslav Scientific Delegation visits the United States," Office of Science and Technology Press Re- 

 lease October 28, 1970. In: U.S. Department of State Bulletin 63 (December 7, 1970) pp. 698-99. On May 18 

 1973 the two countries signed a new agreement which provided for joint funding, paved the way for use of 

 more excess foreign currencies, and established a Joint Commission to supervise exchanges. These provisions 

 presumably, relate to exchanges administered by the National Science Foundation, not those admimstered 



by NAS with NSF funds. 



