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Coanents to the Staff of the Task Force on Science an^ Technology 



Washington, D.C., June 7, 1985 



by David Wiley, Director, African Studies Center 

 Michigan State University, and representinjj 

 the American Sociological Association 



A. Some U.S. National Interests in SAT Cooperation with Third World Scientists 



1. Huaanitarian cooperation consistent with our national self-definition 



- assist Third World scientists and scientific institutions in research 

 to satisfy basic hwan needs and to avoid natural and huaan disasters. 



- particularly for research and social planning on issues of: 



population, 



food crop adaptation and growth, 

 urbanization and demography, 



social planning for the changing structure of populations, of 

 the family, of age cohorts, and of public opinion formation, 

 tropical disease (increasingly in the USA) and health, 

 climate, human habitation, and natural shifts, 

 scientific development for indigenous growth. 



2. Creation of an international coanunity of nations where there is 

 confidence that science and its benefits are not just commodities of the 

 wealthy nations but a property of the huaan coamunity which when shared will 

 inhibit international conflict, political polarization, and hostility to those 

 who possess great scientific capacity. 



3. Increased access to strategic aaterials available in Third World nations 

 and to sales of U.S. products - agricultural and manufactured. 



t. U.S. scientific access to foreign research sites for aeasureaents and 

 assays for "global science" based in the US* and to the ever-shrinking genetic 

 heritage of the world for iaproveaents in U.S. agriculture. 



5. Maintaining and increasing the free flow of international scientific 

 labor, ideas, data, and information as a shrinking proportion of the world's 

 science is located in the USA - now probably at one-third of global science. 



6. Increasing the scientific assessaent of foreign nations, societies, 

 populations, and opinions for the more careful and more successful development 

 and enactaent of U.S. foreign policy. 



