412 HISTORY OF THl COMM1TTE1 ON SCIENC1 AND TECHNOLOGY 



May 19 _ 4. The Conference was officially known as the "International 

 Conference of States on the Distribution of Program-Carrying Signals 

 Transmitted by Satellite." The Conference was called to draft an inter- 

 national agreement to protect the rights of broadcasters, performers, 

 and copyright owners in television transmission via satellite. Fifteen 

 participating nations signed the agreement. 



On June 20, Chairman Teague arranged for Harvey J. Winter, 

 Director of the Office of Business Practices at the State Department 

 and Ms. Barbara Ringer, Register of Copyrights at the Library of 

 Congress, who led the U.S. delegation, to brief the committee on 

 the conclusions. The Treaty was best summarized in the following 

 provision: 



Each contracting state undertakes to take adequate measures to prevent the 

 distribution on or from its territory of any program-carrying signals by any dis- 

 tributor for whom the signal emitted to or passing through the satellite is not 

 intended. 



The trip to Western Europe enabled Chairman Teague to visit the 

 European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands, 

 and to be brought up to date on the work being done on "Spacelab" 

 for inclusion as a payload on the Space Shuttle. 



APOLLO-SOYUZ 



It was election time in 1970. Almost all committee members were 

 in their districts as October drew to a close. Having won his Demo- 

 cratic primary in June, Chairman Miller was safe again for two years. 

 He could afford to be expansive and relaxed when NASA's Acting 

 Administrator, George M. Low, called him on the telephone to advise 

 him that there had been a big breakthrough in the discussions in 

 Moscow between NASA and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Chair- 

 man Miller advised Low to follow up with a letter with further details. 



On November 2, 1970, Low advised Miller: 



Since compatible docking arrangements could open the way to a wide variety of 

 possible future activities in space, we believe that this is a matter of considerable 

 importance. The technical discussions, which took place October 26-28, resulted 

 in an agreement on procedure and a schedule for joint efforts to develop designs for 

 compatible rendezvous and docking arrangements. * * * The Soviet representatives 

 were direct, open and clearly intent on reaching positive results. 



When Thomas O. Paine had been NASA Administrator, he initi- 

 ated with Soviet officials, including M. V. fveldysh, President of the 

 So\ let Academy of Sciences, the negotiations which eventually led to 

 agreement and the Apollo-Soyuz (light in 1975- From the start, com- 

 mittee members were deeply split on the issue. Teague, who had 

 reacted sharply against President Kennedy's U.N. address in September 



