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H. GUYFORD STEVER 

 1328 33RD STREET N. W. 

 WASHINGTON. D. C. 20007 



International Cooperation in Science 



Testimony of H. Guyford Stever to the 



Task Force on Science Policy of the 



Committee on Science and Technology 



June 19, 1985 



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Task Force: 



Thank you for inviting me to speak on international cooperation in 

 science, a feature of science which has always been an important positive 

 force in securing the health and progress of science both in the United 

 States and throughout the world. Your review of science policy relating 

 to international cooperation is important and timely. 



International cooperation is currently subjected to three strong 

 societal pressures: the desire to share the ever-increasing costs of 

 scientific research which has resulted from the comucopial growth of 

 science and the need for ever more sophisticated and expensive 

 instruments and facilities; the concern that our relative industrial 

 competitiveness is decreased by the free outflow of our basic science 

 results on which so much of the development of new products and processes 

 and manufacturing technologies are based; and the worry that 

 international scientific exchange is a source of leakage of our military 



