cers and ten administrative and technical staff personnel, all of whom are to be members of the U.S. Embassy at Caracas, and who are to receive as such the privileges and immunities corresponding to their rank and function. The Regional Office is also responsible for cooperation with those agencies of the Government of Venezuela charged with drug traffic prevention functions, for providing technical assistance, and furnishing information concerning traffic in controlled substances. The Regional Office is to have periodic meetings with such agencies in order to augment and maintain cooperative activities. Since its creation in 1973, the DEA has almost doubled the number of special agents assigned to U.S. embassies abroad, and by the end of Fiscal Year 1975 plans to have approximately fifty special agents in U.S. embassies in South America. DEA agents are located in U.S. embassies in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The agents serve as advisers and trainers, and also assist in developing investigative leads on the part of foreign police agencies by providing them with information obtained from the DEA's activities. Heart Research On June 28, 1974, the United States and the Soviet Union signed an Agreement on Cooperation in Artificial Heart Research and Development (TIAS 7867; 25 UST 1331; entered into force June 28, 1974). The Agreement provides that cooperation will focus on research, development and testing of devices, materials, instruments and control mechanisms which will provide cardiovascular support, including total heart replacement. Cooperation is to take the form of information exchanges, organization of conferences, workshops and meetings of experts; exchanges of specialists and delegations; preparation of joint publications and technical manuals; and familiarization with and exchange of technical aids and equipment. The implementation of the Agreement is delegated to the U.S.U.S.S.R. Joint Committee for Health Cooperation. This Joint Committee, established pursuant to a 1972 understanding reached in Letters of Agreement between the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the U.S.S.R. Ministry of Health (Department of State File L/T), is to approve the programs of cooperation, designate the participating organizations responsible for the realization of such programs, and conduct periodic reviews of the cooperation. The Agreement is to remain in force for three years, after which it will be extended for successive five-year periods unless either party gives six months' notice of its intention to terminate the Agreement. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Vol. 10, No. 27, July 8, 1974, pp. 740-741; Dept. of State Bulletin, Vol. LXXI, No. 1831, July 29, 1974, p. 190. Chapter 12 SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS § 1 Scientific Affairs Scientific and Technical Cooperation Agreements U.S.-Federal Republic of Germany On March 6, 1974, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology of the Federal Republic of Germany signed an agreement on nuclear reactor safety research and development. Under the agreement, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany will exchange information primarily on the safety of light water reactors, the system most widely used in both countries. The arrangement provides also for the inclusion of appendixes to cover the safety research and development areas of other reactor concepts in addition to that of water reactors. In addition, on March 8, 1974, the two countries issued a joint statement that listed several additional areas considered "particularly appropriate" for cooperation. They included research and development in energy and natural resources, reactor safety, radioactive waste treatment and storage, biomedical research and technology, environmental research and technology, transportation technology, communication technology, and ocean research and technology. The statement noted agreement between the two countries "that there should be further consultation on cooperation in these areas; and that such cooperation should be expanded gradually and with flexibility considering the special characteristics of each sector." The two countries agreed further that it was "useful to continue exchanges of experience in the planning and assessment of research and development relating to modern societal needs." See Dept. of State Press Release, No. 89, Mar. 8, 1974; Dept. of State Bulletin, Vol. LXX, No. 1813, Mar. 25, 1974, pp. 300-301; also Atomic Energy Commission press release, No. T-103, Mar. 7, 1974. U.S.-New Zealand The United States and New Zealand, on February 27, 1974, signed an Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation (TIAS 7806; 25 UST 304; entered into force February 27, 1974). The two governments agreed to establish and implement a program of scientific and technological cooperation for peaceful purposes in agreed areas of mutual interest, with initial emphasis on areas of energy research. Particular cooperative activities will be the subject of specific arrangements. Cooperation will include joint or coordinated planning, support or implementation of projects; exchange of scientific and technological information; the establishment, operation and uti lization of scientific and technical installations relating to individual projects; and exchange of scientific and technical personnel relating to projects or cooperative activities under the Agreement. Scientific and technological information of a non-proprietary nature resulting from cooperative activities under the Agreement is to be made available to the world scientific community "through customary channels and in accordance with normal procedures." The disposition of any patents, know-how and other proprietary property is to be provided for in the specific arrangements that cover particular cooperative activities. Each party is to facilitate, "consistent with law," the entry into and exit from its territory of scientific and technical personnel engaged in cooperative activities under the Agreement, as well as their families, equipment and material, and personal effects of the scientific and technical personnel and of their families. Each government is to designate an executive agent responsible for the coordination and facilitation of cooperative activities under the Agreement. It is also provided that scientific and technical personnel. agencies, organizations and institutions of third countries may be invited to participate in projects and activities under the Agreement with the joint approval of both parties. The Agreement is to remain in force for five years. U.S.-Mexico From June 4-6, 1974, the United States-Mexico Mixed Commission on Science and Technology, established under the 1972 Agreement between the United States and Mexico on Scientific and Technical Cooperation (TIAS 7362; 23 UST 934; entered into force June 15, 1974). held its first meeting, at Washington, for the purpose of reviewing and formulating the program for scientific and technological cooperation for peaceful purposes. A statement issued by the Mixed Commission on June 7, 1974, said that "both delegations viewed with profound satisfaction the progress made in joint Mexico-United States programs since the signing of the [1972 Agreement] and recommended that each government search for new areas of cooperation of mutual interest and seek to improve the existing ones so as to strengthen the economic and social development of both Mexico and the United States." The statement continued as follows: A review was made of the program of the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology and the National Science Foundation for cooperative efforts including joint research projects, scientific visits, joint seminars and workshops, and exchange of information and documentation. During the first year of operation of the program the two countries had jointly selected four areas of research: (1) Earth Sciences; (2) Biological Sciences; (3) Marine Sciences; and (4) Environmental Sciences. During the second year (July 1, 1973, to June 30, 1974) an intensification of scientific and technological efforts resulted in the approval by the executive agencies of nine projects of mutual interest and of special significance for Mexico's priorities. The Mixed Commission identified the following ten areas of common interest to both countries: 1. Energy Research 2. Meteorological Research 5. Marine Resources 6. Demographic Research 7. Tropical Agriculture 8. Standards 9. Information and Documentation, and A wide variety of scientific disciplines and scientific and technological institutions of both countries would be involved in these efforts. The Mixed Commission reviewed the experience gained in 1973 when twenty-three young Mexican technicians received an average of six months training in the United States in such specialized fields as electrical engineering, food technology, desalinization, livestock management, thermonuclear plant operation, foreign trade, communication, machine technology, education, and marine biology. U.S. technicians will be sent in 1974 for training in such fields as geothermal energy, sociology, and vocational training. The depth and extent of ongoing bilateral activities in the field of science and technology by government institutions of the two countries and by private institutions and individuals was given a comprehensive review. The Mixed Commission took satisfaction in the fact that a large number of public and private institutions in both countries are now known to be active in cooperative scientific and technological projects. Dept. of State Press Release, No. 238, June 7, 1974. 569-769-75- -42 U.S.-Poland On October 8, 1974, the United States and Poland signed an Agreement on Funding of Cooperation in Science and Technology (TIAS 7935; 25 UST 2572; entered into force October 8, 1974). The two governments agreed to establish the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fund to finance joint scientific and technological research activities such as studies and investigations, courses, conferences and symposia, exchanges and other agreed upon forms of cooperation. To create the Fund and subject to its legal budgetary requirements, the United States obligated itself to "make every effort to have agencies of the United States Government deposit 568 million zlotys into the Fund no later than September 30, 1978, in four annual and approximately equal installments." Poland is to make equivalent deposits no later than seven months after the completion of the total U.S. annual installment. The Fund is established in an account in the Polish National Bank in Warsaw in the name of the Joint Board established by the Agreement. The Joint Board, to consist of three members from each country, is to establish the broad areas of research and the total financing in particular fields. It is also to establish a common grant document setting out general rules and terms as well as agreed accounting methods and definitions under which the institutions of both countries will conclude agreements for particular research projects. The Joint Board is responsible for approving, from the fiscal and budgetary standpoints, all documents committing or disbursing monies from the Fund. The Agreement is to remain in force until December 31, 1981. It is provided that the Agreement "may be modified, extended or terminated by mutual agreement of the parties." See the 1972 U.S.-Poland Agreement on Cooperation in Science and Technology (TIAS 7565; 24 UST 465; entered into force Oct. 31, 1972). The Joint Board established under the 1974 Agreement is to take into account, when deciding upon broad areas of research and the financing thereof, the preferences and priorities of both sides as periodically expressed in the review provided for in Art. 4 of the 1972 Agreement. U.S.-U.S.S.R. On June 28, 1974, the United States and the Soviet Union signed an Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Housing and Other Construction (TIAS 7898; 25 UST 1592; entered into force June 28, 1974). The Agreement provides, in Article II, that cooperation will be directed to the investigation and solution of specific problems of mutual |