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In ODP, the very nature of the program has removed some of the issues which 

 perplex other candidate programs. We hear the concern, for example, that 

 U.S. scientists may find it an unacceptable inconvenience to travel to 

 Tokyo or Geneva to use an instrument or facility. Since ocean scientists 

 have never had the option of staying home, that has never been a problem 

 for us. Perhaps more important, ODP is not a "time-sharing" arrangement 

 where queuing problems can take on a national aspect. Every mission is 

 staffed by an integrated scientific party drawn from all of the membership. 



The management diagrams for ODP, viewed from outside, are complex. But 

 having developed organically with the program, they have one undeniable 

 virtue -- they work, and quite efficiently at that. Yet I could not 

 recommend them as an organizational starting point to planners of other 

 efforts. 



In sum, then, while there are undoubtedly useful lessons to be learned from 

 the international experience in scientific ocean drilling, there is also 

 much that is not necessarily applicable to other candidate programs. It 

 will require considerable discrimination among policy-makers, derived in 

 part from careful studies such as this one, as well as the good will and 

 enthusiasm of each involved scientific community, to develop mechanisms and 

 arrangements that meet their particular needs. 



Fortunately, the pursuit of knowledge is not a zero - sum game. One 

 nation's discoveries do not diminish the residue available for discovery by 

 others. There are mysteries enough to go around. 



