International development programs of the Office of the Foreign Secretary

scientists and engineers for this effort. This review, covering the decade ending in 1972, focuses on science cooperation programs aimed at improving indigenous scientific and technological capabilities for socioeconomic progress and conducted by the Office of the Foreign Secretary with counterparts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This account of OFS cooperative programs describes an attempt to bring science and technology to bear on development policies here and abroad. Most of the results described are accomplishments of our counterparts abroad, the USAID missions, and the governments that have supported the concerted, collaborative endeavor. NAS counterparts and others, to be sure, will have their own points of view. In this report, however, the OFS attempts to convey their sense of achievement by incorporating many of their expressions and views. Rather than a description of each program, this is a history of events and an analysis of the results. The data utilized included correspondence and spoken comments of participants and observers; proceedings and reports of workshops, study groups and panels; and communications from USAID missions and other overseas institutions.