9 - Kraar referred to the past again and the fact that being international isn't new. Burlingame said past attempts were unsuccessful; largely because of the question of mission international people viewed their market as everything outside the U. S. and turned away the U. S. product interest; whereas U. S. businesses saw their mission as including free entry into all markets. The role of the international component is to catalyze and help make a different kind of change in mind takes a period of time, five to ten years for Cordiner's decentralization; hopes to get this done faster. There followed here a discussion of the personality of GEC, what's changing and what shouldn't change. Burlingame noted that the fundamental ethical structure and credibility of the Company must not change and noted that one of the constraints throughout the Company is its core of standards having to do with people, their relationships and how they work. #####