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INIan's technical genius [he continued] has given us labor-saving technology, 

 healthier populations, and the green revolution. But it has also produced a 

 technology that consumes resources at an ever-expanding rate; a population 

 explosion which presses against the earth's finite living space; and an agriculture, 

 increasingly dependent on the products of industrj'. 



Let us now apply science to the problems which science has helped to create. 



On April 20, the Secretary told the General Assembly- of the Or- 

 ganization of American States (OAS) in Atlanta, Georgia, that the 

 United States was "prepared to link its technology with the resources 

 and capital of the hemisphere's oil producers to help them expand 

 their production and diversify tlieir economies." The United States, 

 he went on, '"will give high priorit}' to linking our technological skills 

 with the raw materials and capital of oil producing countries to en- 

 courage the development of new fertilizer capacity." A program to 

 increase hemispheric food production, he proposed, "should encom- 

 pass research, the appUcation of science and technology, and the 

 intensified application of foreign and domestic resources." He also 

 favored the "transfer of science and technology" by both private 

 and public means. 



An article in Science Cjuoted R. Mark Palmer, identified as "Kis- 

 singer speechwriter," to the effect that the Secretary "thinks that 

 Americans' ability to contribute money and run the world in the 

 old-fashioned way of the 1950s and 196bs is now over. What we can 

 contribute — and what the world wants — is our technological capa- 

 bilities." "Kissinger aides" were reported as stressing that the pro- 

 posals in the April 15 speech would be implemented; and Palmer 

 again: "The Secretary" took the speech ver}- seriously and he hopes 

 the scientific community will take it seriously." The article continued: 



Before leaving on his latest trip to the Middle East, Kissinger directed Winston 

 Lord, director of the State Department planning and coordination staff [i.e., 

 Policy Planning Staff] and one of his few close associates, to develop a strategy 

 for following up on the initiatives proposed in the speech, including these related 

 to science and technology'. 



Lord declines to say what actions are envisaged, and it is too early to say 

 whether there will be major budget or program changes. 



According to the Science article, the ideas for initiatives were 

 gathered by the speechwriter not from (the then) SCI, but "from 

 within and outside the State Department." And — "Kissinger's interest 

 in science and technolog}' lies chiefly in its effects on diplomacy and is 

 shaped by the study of nuclear weapons problems on which he spent 

 much of his academic career." ^*^ 



Some Concluding Observations on Policy 



During at least the next 2 j'ears, the organizational framework 

 for policy in the interaction of diplomac}^ with science and technology 

 appears to be established, assuming present incumbencies continue. 

 The President, as always, has constitutional jurisdiction over all 

 negotiations. He has the support of a Special Assistant for National 

 Security Affairs who is also Secretary of State. The National Security 

 Council supports the Special Assistant and the State Department 

 supports the Secretary. Senior planning people in the Department 

 interact functionally with the NSC committees and staff. A new 



"5 Nicholas Wade, "Kissinger on Science: Making the Linkage with Diplomacy," Science, May 17, 1074, 

 pp. 780-781. 



