Congressman GILMAN: I might mention that at the Glen Spey hearing, there was some good coverage locally but nothing in the New York metropolitan papers, and we were hoping that we would have picked up something in the New York metropolitan papers. But, for the southern part of New York State, we had some good regional coverage. Can I ask where do we go from here? Dr. MACE: Well, that's what this meeting is all about. Where we go from here is very largely up to the members of the Commission. Where I would like to see us go from here is to complete our Oral History Project, do a bit more research, hold more hearings, but within the next couple of months we are going to have to start doing drafts of a report, and the way I would like to do this, with your permission—as you can see we now have word processors, which means it is very easy to change things-is to come up with a tentative draft, certainly take input from you, both individually and collectively, but to draft various sections and then send them to each of the commissioners to read over and see if there is anything they ob¬ject to, something they feel should be pointed out which we haven't pointed out in the initial draft I think it's time we have to start drafting sections of the report, and that's going to become our major priority. Congressman GILMAN: What's the life of our Commission? When do we expire? Dr. MACE: By law, we have to present a report to Congress by April 22, 1988, so we have less than a year as of now. We officially go out of existence 60 days after the presentation of that report. I know some of the public members have wondered about the possibility of extending the mandate beyond that without asking for further funds. I have no idea that the consensus of members are regarding that possibility. Congressman GILMAN: Well, I know that we have budgetary constraints, so I wouldn't be too optimistic. I think our gentlemen— Dr. MACE: No, I think that what the public members, or at least a few of them, were suggesting was an extension of the legislative mandate without an appropriation of further funds, since the Commission is empowered to solicit and accept private funds. Ambassador DOUGLAS: The time to address that is probably in January of 1988 when we know somewhat, you know, what the quality of the work product is going to be. When we were discussing a few moments ago, and, unfortunately, I'm going to have to leave to go to another meeting on money for universities, that the variable press coverage that you get, certainly as it relates to the southwest and the comment about Chicago, I've been aware all along of the tugs and pulls on the Commission. You cer¬tainly want to get the story of the famine out, particularly, in its human aspect. But, the people are peculiar in this way, that they will loan you their attention, some¬times for prolonged periods of time, if they can associate it with something that is more contemporary or that happens to be closer to them. For me, because of my work with overseas assistance and refugees and famine in Africa and elsewhere, I have been deeply concerned and interested in the extraordi¬nary historical significance of the pattern of the techniques that the Soviet regime, that