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Night xLetter Charge Genetics Dept. a/e 2 HHZ-601-94650. .
Senater Thomas Kuchel Senate Office Building, Washington, D. c, NOV J 1966

Dear Senater:

I nete that you are about to leave fer a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary
Cenference. At this crucial time of decision fer the Atlantic Cemmunity, I am
especially gratified te knew that yeu will be sitting en the Cemmittee for Science
and Technology. I hardly need te review the many ferces that are ceming te a focus
at this time for a reconsideration ef the préncipal reutes of Atlantic ceoperation.
In particular, it seems paradexical that the United States, with its particular
leadership in technical and scientific capabiliity, sheuld still be making its
major commitment te the Atlantic Cemmunity in the form ef military manpower --
an inherently wasteful dissipation of ecenemic and human reseurces. We should
be careful, hewever, to formulate any alternatives so there can be ne misunder-
standing that eur fundamental cemmitment to western demecracy is strenger than
ever.

Since Minister Fanfani has called attentien te a ‘technelegical gap', this
might be a particularly propitious avenue, and one within the prevince of yeur

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committee, te pursue such alternatives. mein then qgpie an already

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studied prepesal, for an x£kak Atlantic Institute of Science and Technology, or
better, an Atlantic University, to be the vehicle of all-European and American
cooperatien net enly in technelogy, but acress the whele frentier of the use of
human intellect fer the solution ef human preblems. At one level, we sheuld see
American university students, undergraduate and graduate, take the oppertunity
ena very large scale

te broaden their mental eutleek by an intimate experience of the EKurepean approaches
te higher education. Our natienal centributien te these students' upkeep would
be far less expensive than eur troeps as a means of demonstrating a U.S. presence
in Eurepe. At anether, the availability ef prefessers and teghnical experts is

a means of communicating, or rather exchanging, the most advanced ideas in
science and texhnelogy. Uraduate schoels of public affairs, law, management
public health, and se en, ceuld bring tegether the best ideas frem each country,
drawing not enly en the academic cemmunity, but pregressive leaders in business
and government. The easier communication QR ameng these experts sheuld alse

facilitate the solution ef incengruencies in, e.gé/, menetazy and patent systems,
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and thus help further te unite eur human reseurces te cemmen advantage.

We might alse censider a symbelic recegnition of the intellectual exchange

by the fermulation of plans fer a commen free passport, especially fer the
Travel subsidies ceuld alse be very propitieus means of suppert

younger students.making the least drawn en national menetary reserves.

Fortunately, there has been an outshandingly successful working medel of
many ef these arrangements in the field of nuclear energy, threugh CERN. Cur-

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rent plans fer @ EMBO (Eurepean Melecular bielogy Organization?) have a similar
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orientatien. Hewever, the details must be werked eut by a truly international
initiative, which ceuld be given great impetus by moral and planning suppert
from the United States. In the leng run, we sheuld be satisfied by nething
less than a truly universal cemmunity ef scholarship, which is the aim of

the University in cohcept, and ceuld be the mest nobly implliemented by the

disselutien ef national barriers te the existing systems ef higher learning

in Europe and the U.S.

Jeshua Lederberg