Dr. Charles W. Shilling DR. SHILLING stated that a $5 million item for research equipment and support has been provided in the budget which should aid materially in assisting cooperative countries in establishing their own research training programs. FOREIGN Such funds could be used for small accelerators, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM mass spectrometers, radioactive laboratories, gamma sources, subcritical assemblies, low-cost computing devices, and so forth. An illustration of the type of activity planned by the DBM for 1958 is the expenditure of $310,000 to assist five countries in the establishment of isotope training facilities and a half-million dollars for the establishment of facilities for training personnel for the five foreign countries in the principals of radiological safety. . [Two additional items of interest were the training of foreign nationals ($2 million) and a scientific and technical conferences ($200,000). Another budget item of interest is the provision of $350,000 for a contract with the engineering group in Puerto Rico for a reactor with a view of setting up sort of a Puerto Rican BNL for $3.9 million including laboratory buildings for agricultural, medical, biological, and physical sciences. The extended use of Cobalt-60 teletherapy as well as other radioisotopes would be of great help to many South American countries because of difficulties in maintaining x-ray equipment in good operation. Dr. Paul B. Pearson On extremely short notice Dr. Pearson visited Costa Rica with Dr. Sterling Hendricks, Department of Agriculture; Dr. Harold H. Smith, Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Mr. Allen Newton, Division of International Affairs. He gave a detailed account of his visit and observations and TRIPS TO COSTA again pointed out the importance of its location in RICA, ITALY, Costa Rica. One reason for selecting Costa Rica is AND SPAIN that it already has an established and functioning Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences. DR. DUNHAM remarked that Dr. Pearson's complete re- port of the trip is now considered as a model for such a visit by the Division of International Affairs. DR. PEARSON then reported briefly on his visit to Italy and Spain. DR. PEARSON expressed concurrence in the recommendation that an ~ 10 -