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Dr. Halstead. The oceanog-rapliic station that the Soviets started to 

 establish at Ambon was on the basis of a loan to the Government of 

 Indonesia. This project came to an end, at the time at the coup when 

 President Sukarno went out and General Suharto took over. 



The station is on the edge of a deep water bay, a very beautiful bay, 

 and is located in an area having rich biological oceanographic 

 resources. 



The next slide shows the facility which is now about 80 percent com- 

 plete — I would estimate. Several million dollars was spent there. I 

 have heard estimates of $4 to $5 million. 



This is the main administration building and with it some of the 

 classrooms. 



You will see that this is a part of the engineering complex, and you 

 will notice that the entire facility today is overgrown with jungle 

 growth. 



This is part of the housing area. These are very excellent houses. 

 I have been through all of the facilities, and there are some magnificent 

 structures. Here are some of the engineering facilities that the Soviets 

 had developed. This is all Russian machinery. The legends are in 

 English. This material is sitting here today and is fully operational. 

 It is not all rusted out. It has been well preserved. 



This is one of the classrooms. 



This was the main library. This facility was attached to the Uni- 

 versity of Ambon. This last picture shows you the generator plant. 



I point this facility out to you because the Russians had planned a 

 very extensive oceanographic program. In my discussions with Soviet 

 scientists in the area of oceanography and pharaiacology I have asked 

 them repeatedly as to whether or not they have plans to get into the 

 area of marine pharmacology, and develop these marine biochemical 

 resources. 



They have emphatically stated that they are already beginning to 

 work in biomedical oceanography. In fact, they are presenting a re- 

 view of ten years of pharmacological research at the next Marine Tech- 

 nology Society meeting which will be held in August at the University 

 of Rhode Island on the Food-Drugs from the Sea conference. 



The significance of this subject is very clearly understood by Soviet 

 scientists, and they have been working and are going to continue to 

 work very actively in this field. 



I have a section here, looking at page 5, of my written presentation 

 on The Need of Regional Marine Health Laboratories. I think this is 

 self-explanatory. 



There is a need for field laboratories, and I would like to direct your 

 attention specifically to the center of page 6 with reference to Palau, 

 I would like to urge that we give serious attention to the establishment 

 of a marine biomedical oceanographic laboratory at Palau. 



The place is uniquely situated within a short distance from Ambon 

 where the Russians were building this tremendous facility. It is my 

 hope that we can also give some attention to the possibility of working 

 out a cooperative effort with the Indonesian Government in the fur- 

 ther development of this station, 



I have discussed this matter with Ambassador Adam Malik of the 

 Indonesian Government and he tells me that his Government would 

 welcome a cooperative program with the United States. 



