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search and development joint ventures in order to increase the 

 effectiveness of technology development and to improve the eco- 

 nomic competitiveness of the United States. The legislation also 

 would have provided for antitrust law immunity (including both 

 civil and criminal) for joint R&D ventures that comply with its 

 requirements. (This legislation was signed into law on August 11, 

 1984 (P.L. 98-462).) 



October 14, 1983; December 20, 1983; and March 30, 1984: Execu- 

 tive Orders 12444, 12451, and 12470, respectively, signed by Presi- 

 dent Ronald Reagan, to extend the legislative provisions of the 

 Export Administration Act of 1979 (EAA), which had an original 

 expiration date of September 30, 1983, but was granted one-year 

 extension by Congress. The EAA has been the principle regula- 

 tory instrument of the Reagan Administration to control the flow 

 of senstive technical data from the U.S., primarily to the Soviet 

 Union and its allies. 



October 19, 1983: Public Law 98-507, the National Organ Trans- 

 plant Act was enacted. It directed the Secretary of Health and 

 Human Services to establish a task force on Organ Procurement 

 and Transplantation. 



October 26, 1983: The Senate rejected, by a vote of 56-40, an 

 amendment to a supplemental appropriations act (P.L. 98-191) 

 that would have provided funds to continue the Clinch River 

 Breeder Reactor Project, one of the most controversial nuclear 

 energy demonstration projects Congress has ever supported. 



November 10, 1983: H.R. 4361, the Advanced Technology Founda- 

 tion Act was introduced. The Act would have established in the 

 executive branch an advanced technology foundation to initiate 

 and support applied scientific research and development pro- 

 grams directed at facilitating the movement of basic scientific 

 concepts into commercial products. 



December 8, 1983: The Grace Commission released a number of re- 

 ports on cost containment within the Federal Government. The 

 Research and Development Task Force report proposed a number 

 of recommendations for cost savings in the area of federally 

 sponsored R&D in support of President Reagan's goal of reducing 

 overall Government expenditures. 



December 15, 1983: The DOD-University Forum was chartered as a 

 Department of Defense advisory committee. The purpose of the 

 Forum is to help bring a new awareness to the defense communi- 

 ty of the vital role which the Nation's university research and 

 education programs play in maintaining the country's economic 

 and military strength. The DOD-University Forum is jointly 

 sponsored by DOD and three higher education associations: the 

 Association of American Universities, the National Association 

 of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, and the American 

 Council on Education. 



December 28, 1983: The Secretary of State, George P. Schultz, noti- 

 fied the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Sci- 

 entific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that the United 

 States was terminating membership in the organization effective 

 January 1, 1985. The Secretary stated that the decision had been 

 made because UNESCO has "extraneously politicized virtually 

 every subject it deals with; exhibited hostility toward the basic 



