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Summarized views of national representatives (Greece, Germany, 

 Holland, France, Denmark, Australia, Great Britain) to a solar 

 energy conference, and noted the technical problems of a proposal 

 for a "zero energy house" as being thermal storage capacity, insula- 

 tion, and climatic differences among nations. Conclusion: solar energy 

 is not important as an early prospect. 



6. Report from Tokyo, November 18, 1974, 3 pages. 



Subject: "Space Cooperation: GOJ Requests for Export Approval 

 for Improved N-Rocket Items." 



An update on the state of negotiations for U.S. assistance to the 

 Japanese space program, explaining the rationale of a counterpro- 

 posal to an earlier U.S. offer. 



7. Report from Rome, November 21, 1974, 3 pages. 



Subject: "First Report on Science and Technology Research in 

 Energy in Italy." 



Described reports of six working groups under the Ministry for 

 Scientific Research on program directions in: "primary conventional 

 sources (including nuclear energy)", "non-conventional primary 

 sources," "transport, transmission, and storage," "large utiUzations," 

 "small utilizations," and "regulation problems." Suggested, among 

 other items, generation of hydrogen fuel at nuclear sites. 



8. Report from Tel Aviv, December 13, 1974, 4 pages. 



Subject: "Absorption of Immigrant Scientists." 



Unrestricted immigration adds congestion to Israeli science job 

 market. 300-400 annually. Job placement "disappointing." Problems 

 and plans for the future described. 



9. Report from New Delhi, February 11, 1974, 10 pages, 

 (Suggested recipients included Department of Health, Education, 



and Welfare; Public Health Service; National Institutes of Health; 

 Food and Drug Administration; National Science Foundation; and 

 others.) 



Subject: "Summary and Analysis, draft fifth 5-year plan (1974-79) : 

 Health, Family Welfare Planning, and Nutrition." 



The purpose of the report was to summarize and analyze the draft 

 plan. It was explained that "A delineation of possible areas of U.S./ 

 Indo cooperation in these fields during the next 5 years will follow as a 

 separate airgram." 



10. Suggestion from French scientific counselor for an intensification 



of U.S. -French scientific cooperation under the bilateral agree- 

 ment of November 1969. 



The occasion of the bilateral agreement was the meeting of United 

 States and French Presidents at Martinique. The suggestion was 

 coupled with a report summarizing activity currently underway pursu- 

 ant to the 1969 agreement. (No date) (This particular report was re- 

 cast by SCI staff as an agenda item for consideration by a bilateral 

 agreements subcommittee of the Interagency Committee on Inter- 

 national Science and Technology.) 



