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his staff housed in cramped quarters in the old FBI Building, Chairman 

 Lloyd soon found that he was one Metro stop away from his own com- 

 mittee staff. Lloyd pursued a wise course in the first few months of his 

 subcommittee's existence, laying very careful plans for the future 

 instead of rushing in to establish public visibility at the expense of 

 committee good will. The subcommittee's first major activity was a 

 field trip to Mexico, May 3-7, 1979. The subcommittee and staff were 

 joined by Brown, whose Science, Research and Technology Subcom- 

 mittee also held later hearings on scientific and technological coopera- 

 tion between the United States and Mexico, with Lloyd chairing one 

 of the hearings. The Mexican trip included a meeting with President 

 Lopez Portillo, as well as members of CONACYT, the Science Council 

 of Mexico. The group examined the potential for the transfer of tech- 

 nology and energy resources between the United States and Mexico, 

 also assessing the role that science and technology might play in 

 recent agreements to expand Mexican-American cooperation resulting 

 from President Carter's Mexican trip. 



The group was personally escorted to the Mexican oilfields by 

 officials of Pennex, the Mexican National Oil Co., and visited the 

 International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, birthplace of 

 the Green Revolution. In the report on the trip, recommendations 

 were made for closer joint cooperation and agreements to speed the 

 development of better trade relations between the United States and 

 Mexico, with particular emphasis on petroleum, natural gas, and 

 technology transfer. 



During July 1979, the Lloyd subcommittee held hearings in 

 Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, Calif., on the aeronautical design 

 of the DC-10, as an aftermath of the worst tragedy in U.S. aviation 

 history when an American Airlines DC-10 lost an engine on takeoff 

 and crashed on May 25 near O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, 

 111. The subcommittee investigated the technical aspects and design 

 in order to recommend future modifications. 



RESEARCH PROGRAMS TO AID THE HANDICAPPED 



For many years, Teague had been interested in and concerned with 

 programs which involve handicapped people. As a disabled combat 

 veteran who had spent many years working with veterans' program 

 in his capacity as chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, 

 Teague had become intimately acquainted with the work being carried 

 on in veterans' hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and the limited 

 amount of research going forward in other agencies like the Depart- 

 ment of Health, Education, and Welfare. Teague's personal interest in 

 the handicapped was further enhanced when he suffered a stroke and 

 his left leg was amputated in 1977. 



