400 HISTORY OF THl COMM1TTE1 ON SCIENC1 AND TECHNOLOGY 



The National Science Foundation regaled the committee with the 

 details of eight cooperative science agreements with other countries, 

 including exchange of people, seminars, study of the environment, 

 medicine, and agriculture. The committee was especially interested 

 in the multinational programs which the NSF sponsored in the Arctic 

 and Antarctic, as well as the international decade of ocean explora- 

 tion and the global atmospheric research program. Congressmen Miller 

 and Davis, who had recently visited the Antarctic, hailed the fashion 

 in which scientists of different nations successfully worked together 

 in that area. 



During the Fuqua hearings, Winn expressed to Dr. David some 

 apprehension that other countries "have got their eve on our money": 



I attended .1 week ago Monday in Ann Arbor, Mich., a meeting ot representatives 

 (it \\ countries and 10 foreign organizations. Practically every conversation we held, 

 and even in the discussions as part of the program and the forums that were held all 

 week, the disc ussion of funding came up. It seemed to me these other countries were 

 looking to us to furnish the leadership in the international field and the funding. 



In response. Dr. David pointed out that our policy was to require other 

 nations to invest in the payloads we help them launch and the tech- 

 nology we supply. 



THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH 



Dr. Harrison Brown, after listing the truly remarkable advances 

 in international cooperation in recent years, threw down this challenge 

 to the Fuqua subcommittee: 



To a new subcommittee of Congress, the future must be tar more interesting than 

 the past. Your fresh capacity to create and to build for that future is unencumbered 

 with the baggage of past mistakes. Let me speculate with you while you are feeling 

 young, vigorous anil enthusiastic, for I think the challenge you face is enormous. 



After outlining short-hand titles of six areas where science and tech- 

 nology could help solve international problems -war, food, health, 

 material possessions, knowledge, and population, Dr. Brown added: 



Having worked with Chairman Miller for many years and knowing his dedica- 

 tion to the cause ot international cooperation, 1 can only say that the scientific 

 community should be equally enthusiastic about the prospects tor this group and 

 will, I hope, be prepared, as am I, to oiler it assistance and support. 



At the appearance of Dr. Townsend of the National Oceanic and 

 Atmospheric Administration, Mosher pushed him to take more aggres- 

 sive steps toward using satellite sensors for oceanography, as well as 

 the development of Earth resources satellites. Even though in 1971 the 

 committee had no jurisdiction in the nuclear field, the briefing received 

 from the Atomic Energy Commission on recent developments in the 

 peaceful uses of nuclear energy helped round out the committee's data 



