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the title. An indication of the heavy turnover in tins subcommittee 

 chairmanship can be ascertained from the following table: 



1971 Hon Fuqua 



1972 James W. Symington 



1973 "4 Richard T. Hanna 



1975 January March Roben A. Roe 



1975 76 March (1975) through December (1976) Ray Thornton 



1977 78 James H. Scheuer 



Six chairmen in seven years set a record for turnover among subcom- 

 mittee chairmen of the Science Committee. 



The charter members of the new Subcommittee on International 

 Cooperation in Science and Space were as follows: 



Democrats Republicans 



Don Fuqua, Florida, Chairman James G. Fulton, Pennsylvania 



John W. Davis, Georgia Charles A Mosher, Ohio 



Robert A. Roe. New Jersey Alphonzo Bell, California 



William R. Cotter, Connecticut Larrv Winn, Jr., Kansas 

 Mendel J. Davis, South Carolina 



STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 1971 



Following a brief organization meeting of his new subcommittee 

 on May 12, 1971, Chairman Fuqua began a series of three days of public 

 hearings to review the status of the rapidly expanding international 

 cooperative efforts in space and science, and to assess the prospects for 

 the future. Old reliables like Herman Pollack of the State Department 

 and Arnold W. Frutkin of NASA were joined later by Thomas B. 

 Owen, Assistant Director for National and International Programs at 

 the National Science Foundation; Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., the Presi- 

 dent's Science Adviser; Dr. Harrison Brown, a regular committee mem- 

 ber of the Panel on Science and Technology and Foreign Secretary of 

 the National Academy of Sciences; Dr. John W. Townsend, Jr., As- 

 sociate Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

 Administration; and Myron B. Kratzer, Assistant General Manager 

 for International Activities at the Atomic Energy Commission. 



The subcommittee received reports concerning the launching and 

 operation of the huge geosynchronous communications satellites, 

 weighing over 3,000 pounds and carrying from 3,000 to 9,000 tele- 

 phone circuits for use by the International Telecommunications Satel- 

 lite Consortium (Intelsat). Frutkin also described the Helios project 

 a joint undertaking with the Germans to understand the Sun and solar- 

 terrestrial relationships, with additional experiments coordinated with 

 Italy and Australia. NASA also brought the committee up to date on 

 recent space cooperation with the Soviet Union. 



