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NO FOREIGN DISSEMC-O-N-F-1-3-E-N-T-I-..-LPage 9 of 12 PagesCS-311/07089-6839. As of mid-1966, Dr. Llanio was conducting a study of thousands of his own cases of laparoscopy in general, gynecologic laparoscopy, and laparoscopy in pediatrics. dis assistants were Dr.. Oscar Garcias, and Dr. Arcadio Soto Escovar, also employed as instructor of the Department of Internal Medicine, Havana University Medical School.40. In August 1966, the ground floor of the institute contained the most modern radiological equipment in Cuba, including X-ray machines and fluoroscopes; each of the machines had a seriografo and occupied a square room measuring about four meters Square. There two rooms for laparoscopic examinations and four c. five wards with a total of approximately 50 beds. On the ground floor there were also eight small rooms (4 x 2 reters) for biliary drainages and gastroquimogramas, the Department of Electrophoresis, a conference hall, a laboratory of pathological anatomy, a clinical laboratory, three or four bedrooms for resident physicians, two waiting rooms for out-patients, and the Department of Coloprotologia (Proctology?), headed by Dr. Oscar Garcia, Cuba's best proctologist, who is also Vice Rector of Havana University and Vice President of the MINSAP Scientific Council. The second floor contained a library for which volumes were beginning to be received, and several rooms still unequipped that would be used for research to be conducted by Dr. Llanio ir person.41. Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute. The Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute functions at two separate installations. Its headquarters is located in the former building of the Governing Board of the Calixto Garcia Hospital, which also contains the Department of Psychiatry of the Calixto Garcia Hospital. This building contains the neurosurgical installations of the institute, consisting in three splendidly equipped operating rooms, two or three rooms containing radiological equipment, a laboratory of pathological anatomy, out patient examination rooms. conference room, library, filing room about 70 beds, and bedrooms for residents and interns. The building was totally rebuilt in 1965 and equipped with U.S. $100,000 worth of new instruments and equipment.42. The Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery (formerly the Medical-Surgical Center), located on 29th and D Streets, Vedado, Havana City, also belongs to the institute. Dr. Razon Estrada, Director of the Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, is Professor of Neuroanatomy, was trained in the United States and is described as extraordinarily able; he maintains a degree of medical rivalry with the Director of the Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute, Drl Filiberto Ramirez Corria, that makes the hospital an autonomous organization although it functions ia coordination with the institute. The hospital has about 275 beds and is a modern class "A" hospital; residents in internal medicine must spend three months in intensive study at this hospital.43. Physiopathology Institute. The Institute of Physiopathology was in the process of organization. It will probabi. be headed by Chilean biochemist Dr. Mora (fnu) who, until abowi October 67, held thepost of director of post-graduate scientific training (responsable de superacion cientifica) of the CNIC, and who is now head of the Department of Biochemistry, CNIC. Dr. Mora and Dr. Ruth Urba, another Chilean microbiologist, introduced into Cuba the modern concepts of medical biochemistry and created a model Department of Medical Biochemistry at th Victoria de Giron Institute of Basic Sciences. Urba, who left Cuba some time ago, Mora, and Yamil Kouri vere the brains ce