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This activity should be endorsed at political levels and steered by 

 the fusion program leaders in the respective countries, who should 

 meet periodically to reconcile their programs. Subsidary planning 

 groups, involving technical leaders, should meet periodically to plan 

 cooperative activities. This activity must be a continuing one. The 

 involvement of the technical level is important both to the planning 

 of sound objectives for the project and to the development of a 

 cooperative spirit for its pursuit. It seems self-evident that the 

 United States should not advocate in these meetings what it cannot 

 deliver. 



Although the United States, the European Community, or Japan might 

 well take the lead in proposing increased collaboration, the committee 

 believes that, because the United States is currently reexamining its 

 program, the initiatives could be taken with greater ease from this 

 side. There is, here, an opportunity to provide leadership in a 

 uniquely important technology development of global significance as a 

 potential power source, provided that recognition is given to the 

 concept that leadership is possible in a partnership if we are willing 

 to share it. 



