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Finally — and this is one of my personal concerns — although Eng- 

 lish is the international language of science, the necessity for for- 

 eign language skills is increasing. As many of you may know, in 

 recent years there has been sort of a downplay of this on the uni- 

 versity level. 



Foreign language skills are important, particularly if we are to 

 make optimum use of U.S. scientists assigned overseas. There are 

 nuances in the language that we miss, and there is an awful lot of 

 information that we miss because we tend to lack the breadth of 

 language skill that so many of our allies abroad have. 



I would now like to briefly discuss the coordination and manage- 

 ment of international cooperative research as far as the Depart- 

 ment of Energy is concerned. 



Coordination, of course, is handled both unofficially, informally, 

 as well as on a government-to-government level. The unofficial 

 type of coordination goes on through meetings, the conferences 

 that were alluded to earlier, workshops, scientist-to-scientist inter- 

 action, which are vital to the progress of science. 



From the more formal standpoint, within the Department of 

 Energy, the management of activities in scientific areas resides 

 with the technical program areas in which the scientific activity is 

 housed. 



Beyond just the Department's standpoint, from an international 

 standpoint, there have been a number of efforts to try to coordi- 

 nate international scientific activities. I guess one of the most sig- 

 nificant recent ones is exemplified by the Working Group on Tech- 

 nology, Growth, and Employment established following the 1982 

 Versailles Economic Summit. This is a process that was put into 

 being in 1982 and has continued now with a report going to each of 

 the annual Summit meetings. 



Within the energy framework, there are four topics that are 

 dealt with in the Summit context. There is a High Energy Physics 

 Summit Working Group which is discussing long-term plans of the 

 Summit countries in the field of high energy physics and is at- 

 tempting to promote greater cooperation in the technology neces- 

 sary to conduct high energy physics research. Dr. Trivelpiece, the 

 Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Research, 

 has been our representative in that organization. 



There is also a Summit Working Group on Magnetic Fusion 

 which similarly is investigating the needs for future large facilities, 

 and there are Summit Working Groups in two other energy technol- 

 ogies: breeder technology and photovoltaics, solar. 



For multilateral scientific and technological activities, DOE 

 works through the International Energy Agency, as I mentioned, 

 and the Nuclear Energy Agency. The International Energy Agency 

 has a Committee on Research and Development which is really the 

 organizing group for this large number of multilateral activities 

 that we have under that organization. 



They serve to pull together projects; they don't run projects. The 

 countries that participate in projects are the management struc- 

 ture. The international body, the International Energy Agency, 

 serves as a facilitator in pulling together international cooperative 

 activities. 



