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 \u003Cbr>For many years,Common Cause has  \u003Cbr>dvocated reform of campaignfinancing  \u003Cbr>aws.Mr.Zelman will speak on this  \u003Cbr>mportant issue.  \u003Cbr>illiam T.OLeary  \u003Cbr>Carl E.Rosenfeld   | Maintaining America's  \u003Cbr>High-Tech Lead  \u003Cbr>T H U R S D A Y一J U LY 7  \u003Cbr>The Honorable  \u003Cbr>Ed Zschau  \u003Cbr>Member of Congress  \u003Cbr>On January 25,1983,President Reagan  \u003Cbr>in his State of the Union message an-  \u003Cbr>nounced that“”This administration is  \u003Cbr>committed to keeping America the tech-  \u003Cbr>nological leader of the world now and  \u003Cbr>into the twenty-first century.\"The Presi-  \u003Cbr>dent's commitment to spur technology  \u003Cbr>may have come just in the nick of time.  \u003Cbr>U.S.technological leadership has eroded  \u003Cbr>in recent years.It hasn't been squandered  \u003Cbr>like some other resources through over-  \u003Cbr>use and waste.It's beenfrittered away  \u003Cbr>through neglect.  \u003Cbr>Declining R&D  \u003Cbr>Over the past 20 years,research and  \u003Cbr>development expenditures as a percent of  \u003Cbr>GNP have declined in the United States.  \u003Cbr>During the same period,our two most  \u003Cbr>aggressive trading partners-Japan and  \u003Cbr>West Germany—were increasing these  \u003Cbr>expenditures.  \u003Cbr>With the decreasing intensity of our  \u003Cbr>research efforts,it is not surprising that  \u003Cbr>our leadership in technical contributions  \u003Cbr>has fallen as well.  \u003Cbr>Due to the outstanding past perfor-  \u003Cbr>mance of America's high technology in-  \u003Cbr>dustries,plus the growing recognition  \u003Cbr>that our leadership in technology is being  \u003Cbr>challenged by foreign competitors,high  \u003Cbr>technology has become a hot issue in  \u003Cbr>Washington.In the first months of 1983,  \u003Cbr>more than one hundred bills to promote  \u003Cbr>high technology have been introduced,  \u003Cbr>and some political pundits predict that  \u003Cbr>the high-tech issue could become pivotal  \u003Cbr>in the 1984 campaign.  \u003Cbr>Government's Proper Role  \u003Cbr>In its enthusiasm to help high technol-  \u003Cbr>ogy,Congress must avoid the temptation  \u003Cbr>of legislating direct government involve-  \u003Cbr>ment.We can't afford to let the helping  \u003Cbr>hand of government\"strike\"high-tech  \u003Cbr>the way it struck agriculture or energy.  \u003Cbr>We should have learned our lessons,but  \u003Cbr>still some members of Congress suggest  \u003Cbr>Continued on page 209   | JULY 22  \u003Cbr>The Honorable  \u003Cbr>Sol.M.  \u003Cbr>Linowitz  \u003Cbr>Former Ambassador to the  \u003Cbr>Organization of American States;  \u003Cbr>Co-chairman,Inter-American  \u003Cbr>Dialogue,Woodrow Wilson  \u003Cbr>International Center for Scholars.  \u003Cbr>Security and Peace  \u003Cbr>Keeping in Latin  \u003Cbr>America  \u003Cbr>Noon,Friday  \u003Cbr>Gold Ballroom  \u003Cbr>Sheraton Palace Hotel  \u003Cbr>In Central America,civil wars are esca-  \u003Cbr>lating,and military involvment by non-  \u003Cbr>Central American nations appears to  \u003Cbr>be increasing.  \u003Cbr>Latin America also faces a severe  \u003Cbr>depression threatening international trad-  \u003Cbr>ing and financial systems,and contribut-  \u003Cbr>ing to social unrest in the region.  \u003Cbr>According to the report of the Inter-  \u003Cbr>American Dialogue,the roots of insecur-  \u003Cbr>ity—and the problems of security-in  \u003Cbr>this Hempishere are economic,social,and  \u003Cbr>political,and internal to each nation.Ex-  \u003Cbr>ternal influences are ","cbCaiesEjJaBqpV8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiesEjJaBqpV8","pdf",2920757,"English","# July 21 - Current Affairs Forum\n## Common Cause Campaign Financing and Political Action Committees\n# High-Tech Research and Government Role\n## Maintaining America’s High-Tech Lead\n## Declining R&D and Foreign Competition\n# July 22 - Security and Peace\n## Keeping in Latin America","[{\"question\":\"What issue does the forum address regarding state-level political campaigns?\",\"answer\":\"It examines whether candidates’ increasing reliance on large contributions from major interest groups poses a serious threat to democracy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the document describe America’s high-tech leadership trend by the early 1980s?\",\"answer\":\"It states that U.S. technological leadership has eroded and that declining R\\u0026D spending has contributed to reduced technical contributions compared with Japan and West Germany.\"},{\"question\":\"What guidance does it give about Congress’s role in supporting high technology?\",\"answer\":\"Congress is advised to avoid legislating direct government involvement and to ensure that government support does not “strike” high-tech the way it did agriculture or energy.\"}]","Common Cause Campaign Financing and the Merits of Political Action Committees - Current Affairs Forum | PDF",1790701900,23]