Basis Of International Cooperation Research Articles

8. Positional Astronomy

It is with deep regret that we mention the death, on 15 July 1969, of Prof. Dr G. Demetrescu who has done so much for the development of Astronomy in Roumania. This report is based on letters received from members of the Commission, whom I wish to thank most cordially. The most important events in the development of positional astronomy during the three past years were: (1) The construction and use of new types of astronomical instruments based on new techniques, and (2) The collective observations of large numbers of stars, especially in the Southern hemisphere on the basis of international cooperation. At the USNO a design study for a ten-inch automatic meridian circle (ATC)was completed in 1968. Construction and installation should be completed by the end of 1970. A modified Cassegrainian optical system with a Cer-Vit primary mirror is being used. For some other important parts of the instrument new materials will also be used. At each end of the horizontal axis of the instrument Inductosyns will be mounted. An Inductosyn system for digital readout of the pointing angle of the telescope was installed on the six-inch transit circle of the USNO in 1967 for testing and calibration. An IBM-1800 data acquisition and control system was on line with the same instrument.

Legal and Political Status of Antarctica: ABSTRACT

Interest in the possible hydrocarbon and other mineral resource potential of Antarctica has emerged as forecasts of resource scarcity stimulate the search for new sources of supply. In addition to geologic, environmental, economic, and technologic factors, the political and legal status of Antarctica will have an important influence on determining if and when mineral-resource activities take place there. In 1959, the 12 nations then engaged in scientific research activities in Antarctica concluded the Antarctic Treaty. Seven of those nations claim territorial sovereignty over portions of Antarctica; five nations, including the United States, neither assert nor recognize such claims. The Antarctic Treaty establishes a basis for international cooperation in Antarctica. It s ts aside Antarctica and the waters south of 60° S lat. for peaceful purposes only and guarantees the freedom of scientific research throughout Antarctica. The treaty provides for regular meetings of the parties enjoying consultative status (the original 12 plus 1) to recommend measures to their governments in furtherance of the principles and purposes of the treaty. For those matters it deals with, the treaty holds in abeyance the respective positions of claimants and non-claimants to territorial sovereignty. However, it does not address the question of resource activities in Antarctica. The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties have been engaged in discussions of a possible regime to govern exploration and exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources. The parties have recommended th t exploration and exploitation activities not take place while progress is being made toward the timely adoption of an agreed regime. End_of_Article - Last_Page 524------------

Food as a Basis for International Co-Operation

Opening ParagraphIn this paper I propose to describe in some detail how the particular mechanism in which I am interested in the United States is working inside the food situation, and then to go on from that to a consideration of the more general problems involved.The United States began a nutrition campaign just before the war. It is, perhaps, an interesting example of the different effects of timing in the two countries that so many of the measures which we took in connexion with nutrition among our own people were associated with the period of the depression, and with measures of recovery from the depression. In Britain the same kind of measures have been associated with the war, and have been subsequent to the height of the British war effort; they are therefore associated with the crest of a successful war effort, whereas we associate them with the less uplifting feeling of coping with the depression.

A Basis of International Co-Operation

A Basis of International Co-Operation