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especially conducive to cooperation. The national investments 

 are spent at home as each partner prepares his special 

 contribution to a complex mission. 



- In the case of a large accelerator, such as the SSC, most 

 of the expenditure feeds the economy of the area in which 

 construction takes place. If the U. S. builds the accelerator, 

 we can at most expect other countries to support the 

 construction of beam port instruments at home and finance their 

 use at the accelerator. The experimental equipment would not 

 likely exceed 20 percent of the cost of the accelerator itself. 



