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THE United States has rejoined IIASA, the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis based in Austria, and some feel that Britain may
soon follow. Both countries withdrew from IIASA in the early 1980s to reduce
scientific links with the Soviet Union.

Annual membership of IIASA, best known in the past for its work on energy
modelling, will cost the Americans 19.8 million Austrian schillings (about
Pounds sterling 990 000). Britain’s bill would be around 6.6 million schillings.
A spokeswoman for the IIASA said that Britain’s attitude was now ‘much more
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