sentences:  Meanwhile, the leaders of some of South America's Mercosur countries - Presidents Frei of Chile, Cardoso of Brazil, and Menem of Argentina - discussed their desire to build S&T capacity at a summit meeting in the fall of 1997.Each president was approaching the end of his term, and they all agreed that they would try to leave as a legacy of their terms the basis for strengthened scientific capacity in their countries and the broader Southern Cone region.The Science Advisor to the President of Chile was, by coincidence, a part-time Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.