Interview with Hollis G. Duell, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the Sargo, 1941; his responsibilities as a yeoman; early war patrols off the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines; transfer to the Submarine Division Commander's Office, Pearl harbor, 1944; postwar duty in the Submarine Service.

Photograph of the St. Barbara Gasthuis, a former hospital in Haarlem, Netherlands. The entryway has a carved relief of a scene from the old hospital over the doorway, with a caption in Dutch below it.

This report documents trends in R and D and in particular (public) energy R and D in the Netherlands. Besides quantitative information on R and D and energy R and D, the report gives an impression of changes in science and technology policy, energy policy and changes in energy research priorities (both organizational and financial). In the Netherlands, 2.09% of GDP (or $6.7 billion) was invested in R and D activities in 1995. The private sector financed 46% of all R and D in that year. A small but significant fraction (9.3%) of the research performed in the Netherlands is financed by foreign public and private sector entities. Energy R and D has been identified by the national Strategic Foresight Activity as an important area of R and D for government support in the future. This is due in part to the overall decline in public support for energy R and D that occurred from 1985 to 1995. However, recent concern over climate change and energy policy has resulted in increased budgets for energy R and D. Recent policy documents (e.g., the Memorandum on Energy R and D in April 1998) and initiatives (e.g., a recent university energy R and …

This report briefly discusses recent political, economic, and security issues in Turkey, especially relating to Turkey's relationship with Greece, the European Union, and the United States.