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cooperative basis. The establishment of such an operation would take a 

 prodigious effort by the high energy physics community and governments 

 worldwide to arrange. It is difficult to imagine establishing such an 

 operation in a reasonable time, and, if it is made a requirement for the 

 SSC, it will surely delay it substantially. Perhaps more threatening to 

 the scientists involved is the belief that the countries which did not 

 have the facility would suffer in the progress of their high energy 

 physics as both university professors and their graduate students would 

 be handicapped by the difficulties of working so far from their home 

 bases. 



International cooperation in science goes far beyond high energy 

 physics, and it takes many forms ranging from person to person 

 associations on small scale research programs, to groupings of research 

 exchanges, for example, in a government country to country bilateral 

 exchange, to broadly organized multinational efforts. But there is 

 another dimension, for each of the fields of science has its own 

 characteristic interchanges -- atmospheric scientists share the global 

 weather and climate data base; oceanographers rally around research ships 

 exploring the many features of the oceans; geneticists share their plant 

 and animal strains; and all share information characteristic of cutting 

 edge research in their field. There is still another dimension of 

 international cooperation -- governmental agencies share science related 

 to their missions through many international agreements. All of these 

 dimensions of international cooperation make the coordination and 



