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4. Financial support by foreign countries (regions) for the construction of a new 

 facility. This can be done by contributing funds or by delivering important parts 

 to the facility. The construction, however, Mould be under national or regional 

 administration. 



5. Establishment of a truly international Laboratorj- as a collaboration of 

 several regions or on a world scale, with international funding and administration. 



The first step has become an established tradition for 3 decades, in form of 

 the so-called "Rochester Conferences" spanning the whole field of High Energy 

 Physics. They were started in Rochester, New York. Dr. Robert Marshak deserves 

 credit for initiating them. Today they are held everj- two years, alternating in 

 USA, Western Europe and Soviet countries, and lately in Japan. Furthermore 

 international conferences are held regularly about special topics such as accelerator 

 technology-, and other particular problems. These conferences are open to large 

 numbers of invited scientists. The discussions are free of any restrictions. We have 

 no evidence that the Soviet scientists have held back any information. 



The international character of the field is most evident in steps 2 and 3. All 

 major accelerators around the world are used and exploited by groups of nationals of 

 other countries or regions than the one which owns the machine. This international 

 exploitation has become more important in the past decades. It is no longer possible 

 for one nation or region to have all types of machines necessary- for the progress of 

 the field. It is a financial necessity to have the difi"erent types of very high energy 

 accelerators distributed over the regions of the globe. Duplications of facilities may 

 be ver)- useful for physics and convenient for the physicists, but we can afi"ord them 

 only for smaller scale machines. Work in other countries is necessarj" if research is 

 supposed to cover the whole frontier as it should. 



