10090 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 H.R. 6294. A bill for the relief of Jesus PETITIONS, ETC. 91. Also, Petition of Andrew Cha.ndo and Rajas-Vasquez; to the Committee on the 76 other correction officers at the Annandale Judiciary. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions Youth Correctional Facility, Annandale, N.J., H.R. 6295. A bill for the relief of Simon and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk relative to protection for law enforcement Relles-Hernandez; to the Committee on the and referred as follows: officers against "nuisance suits,.; to the Com­ Judiciary. 88. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Wllllam mittee on the Judiciary. H.R. 6296. A bill for the relief of Jesus F. Southers and others, Tampa., Fla.., rela­ 92. Also, Petition of William J. Solomon Avina-Almanza; to the Committee on the tive to protection for law enforcement offi­ and others, Lorain, Ohio, relative to protec­ Judiciary. cers against "nuisance suits"; to the Com­ tion for law enforcement officers against By Mr. REUSS: mittee on the Judiciary. "nuisance suits"; to the Committee on the H .R . 6297. A bill to authorize R. Edward 89. Also, Petition of Capt. W. M. Clements Judiciary. Bellamy, doctor of philosophy, a retired of­ and others, Macon, Ga.., relative to protection 93. Also, Petition of Richard Osborne and ficer of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. for law enforcement officers against "nui­ others, Tallmadge, Ohio, relative to protec­ Public Health Service, to accept employment sance suits"; to the Committee on the tion for law enforcement officers against by the Canadian Department of Agriculture; Judiciary. "nuisance suits"; to the Committee on the to the Committee on the JudiclaJ'y. 90. Also, Petition of Paul E. White, Jr., Judiciary. By Mr. RODINO: and others, Snow Hill, Md., relative to pro­ 94. Also, Petition of Ea.rl L. Mease and H.R. 6298. A b111 for the relief of Augusto tection for law enforcement officers against others, Steelton, Pa.., relative to protection dos Santos Nunes de Matos; to the Commit­ "nuisance suits"; to the Committee on the for law enforcement officers against "nUisance tee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. suits"; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

EXTENSIONS OF RE'MARKS WHAT PATRIOTISM MEANS Americans who have committed themselves historical papers at a memorial library to our country. at the University of Georgia in Athens. In recent weeks we have watched the Mr. Calhoun was finance director in our HON. WILLIAM H. HUDNUT III triumphant return o.f our P.O.W.'s on tele­ fundraising efforts, and did an outstand­ OF INDIANA vision, We wm never know what type of commitment was required of them but to­ ing job. lN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES day we are reminded of our thankfulness for I ask unanimous consent that there be Wednesday, March 28, 1973 what they have done. printed in the RECORD as an extension of Every American worthy of the name loves my remarks, an article from the Savan­ Mr. HUDNUT. Mr. Speaker, last Mon­ his country and respects the flag. But patriot­ nah Morning News, as well as the cita­ day, March 26, I had the privilege of ism is more than a. feeling. It is a. willingness tion on Mr. Calhoun's award. presenting a flag flown over the Capitol to serve America, to put the nation's welfare There being no objection, the article to the Mary Evelyn Castle Elementary above his own. Now some of us may not be called on to and citation were ordered to be printed School in Lawrence Township, in Indian­ in the RECORD, as follows: apolis. There were some 700 children serve in Viet Nam or to serve as politicians there, each one bedecked in a red, white, or leaders. But we can do our part by making CALHOUN NAMED TOP SUGAR MAN the very best of our talents and abll1ties. Lawton M. Calhoun, retired executive of and blue piece of finery of his or her own Our country and our family and each of us Savannah Foods and Industries Inc. has re­ making-a bow tie, a hat, a straight tie, individually is best served when we do our ceived the Dyer Memorial Award of "Sugar a necklace and so forth. We sang the best at whatever we do. No matter what it is, Man of the Year" for 1972. "Star-Spangled Banner" and some other to do it to the best of our a.b111ty is part Considered the most prestigious honor in songs. Some of the children read poems of our responsibility to our country. the U.S. sugar industry, the award is given about the meaning of the flag. The school So let toda.y's presentation remind us of for "significant and meritorious service" to our responsiblllty as American citizens to the industry. principal, Mr. Thomas D. McClain, and keep America. great and strong-that should other dignitaries spoke. The parent-fac­ Calhoun, who retired last year as chair­ be our commitment. man of the board, president and chief execu­ ulty organization presented the school tive officer of Savannah Foods and Indus­ a standard for the new flag to hang from. tries, received a. giant silver bowl, a. symbol And after I made the presentation, one of the award, at a. luncheon in New York City of the students, Diana Mutz, responded. THE DYER MEMORIAL AWARD TO Monday. This was indeed a thrilling occasion, LAWTON M. CALHOUN AS "SUGAR The presentation was made by John B. the highlight of which was this young MAN OF THE YEAR" Bunker, president of Holly Sugar Corporation fifth grader's response. I am pleased to of Colorado Springs, Colo. who was chairman insert her remarks in the RECORD for the of the three-man judges' panel. Other judges were James H. Marshall, benefit of my colleagues, because they HON. HERMAN E.. TALMADGE president of the California. and Hawaiian reflect an idealism, a commitment, a OF GEORGIA Sugar Co. of San Francisco, Calif., and Rob­ faith, and a hope, that all Americans IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES ert M. Armstrong, president of Imperial Su­ should possess; and they represent, in gar Co. of Sugarla.nd, Tex. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 my opinion,- an extraordinary insight, The citation for the 15th annual presen­ for one so young, into the meaning of Mr. TALMADGE. Mr. President, one tation of the award noted that Calhoun dur­ patriotism. of the State of Georgia's most distin­ ing his nearly 40 years in the industry served for a. period as chairman of the Sugar Asso­ Her rP.marks are as follows: guished citizens, Lawton M. Calhoun, re­ ciation Inc. and was instrumental in orga­ WHAT PATRIOTISM MEANS tired president and chairman of the nizing the International Sugar Research John Adams, the second President of the Board of sa·vannah, Ga., Foods and In­ Foundation, a worldwide bcdy dedicated to United States once told his wife, "There are dustries, Inc., has been awarded the Dy­ initiating and conducting investigations on only two kinds of people in this world who er Memorial Award as "Sugar Man of sugar and disseminating the results. really matter-those who are committed and the Year" for 1972. The "Sugar Man of the Year" award was those who require the commitment of This is indeed a high honor for Mr. established in 1958 as a. memorial to the late others." B. W. Dyer, founder of B. W. Dyer and Co., As those of you know who have seen the Calhoun, and well-deserved recognition sugar economists and brokers of New York musical "1776," John Adams was reminded of his outstanding leadership in our Na­ City. of his statement when he had all but given tion's sugar industry over a period of Calhoun joined the Savannah office of up hope of achieving American independence sume four decades. I congratulate Mr. Lamborn and Co., general brokers for the from the British. It was the commitment of Calhoun on this award, and also com­ Savannah Sugar Refining Corporation, in his wife that gave him the courage to con­ mend him for service he has rendered for 1934. In 1940 he accepted a. job as assistant tinue his fight and to win it later on that the State of Georgia and our Nation. sales manager for the sugar refinery. same month. It is of interest to the Senate that Mr. Because we all become discouraged and Calhoun is a member of the board of DYER MEMORIAL AWARD "SUGAR MAN OF THB sometimes forget, it is important to be re­ YEAR 1972" TO LAWTON M. CALHOUN, CITA• minded of our commitment to freedom and trustees of the Richard B. Russell TION FOR SIGNIFICANT AND MERITORIOUS to the principles of the United States. A flag Foundation, Inc., which was orgatllzed SERVICE TO THE SUGAR INDUSTRY presentation is a. physical symbol of the following our beloved colleague's death For his significant and meritorious serv­ commitment of thousands and thousands of to preserve the late Senator Russell's ice to the sugar community during his nearly March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10091 40 years in the industry, Lawton M. Calhoun Mr. Speaker, my concern stems not a means of crime control are readily com­ 1s hereby commended. only from the constitutional implications municated among the participants. The As Chairman of The Sugar Association, of Executive impoundment, but also from Inc., he early recognized that sugar must be emerging role of the institution as an in­ actively promoted as a wholesome, nutritious the great harm dealt our cities and tegral part of the community and the source of food energy. States due to the failure to expend funds State organization is enhanced by the in­ As Chairman of The Association's Ad Hoc for much needed programs. As a Repre­ teractions of those leaders who are so Committee, he was instrumental in organiz­ sentative from the State of California, closely identified with the problems of ing the International Sugar Research Foun­ which would greatly benefit from these delinquency. dation, a world-wide body dedicated to ini­ programs, I understand in very real I take pride in saluting this outstand­ tiating and conducting investigations on terms the hardships this policy has in­ ing conference and with it every success sugar and disseminating the results. flicted. Active in directing the affairs of the United in the future. States Cane Sugar Refiners' Association, his In 1970, Congress approved $394 mil­ knowledge of the industry and his integrity lion for the Federal Government's pub­ made him as welcome in the hallowed halls lic housing program, and at the close of of Congress as he was among his peers in the fiscal year 1971, only $201 million had MINORITY STAFFING REFORM commercial and civic worlds. been expended. During the same year, More than his accomplishments was the Congress appropriated $1.2 billion for man, possessing the highest integrity with urban renewal programs, and at the end a great appreciation of human relationships HON. JOHN B. ANDERSON and understanding of other individual's of fiscal year 1971 $200 million remained OF ILLINOIS problems. unobligated. In 1971 and 1972, Congress IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES His wise counsel and farsightedness are appropriated $700 million for water and appreciated by a grateful industry which sewer construction, and at the end of the Wednesday, March 28, 1973 long will remember his outstanding contribu­ most recent fiscal year more than $490 Mr. ANDERSON of illinois. Mr. tions in its behalf. million remained unobligated. Again in Speaker, I am today introducing on be­ fiscal year 1972, the President refused to half of myself, the gentleman from spending over $300 million in ma.ss tran­ Florida (Mr. GIBBONS), the gentleman CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL FOR sit appropriations. from New Hampshire

a very fascinating and correct observa­ Taxable interest 1 ______------·- ____ =_ ====o=====o=====o====o===$=1= 50=, =00=() tion on the recent Supreme Court deci­ Otherincome______20, 001 20, 001 20, 001 20,001 20,001 sion relating to obscenity. Other deductions and personal exemptions ______20, 000 20, 000 20, 000 20, 000 20, 000 The article follows: Taxable income ______------15-0.-0-01 OBSERVATIONS This week, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 1 $2,000,000 at a 5-percent tax-exempt yield equals $100 ,000.$2,000,000 at a 7.5-percent taxable yield equals $150,000. 6 to S unsigned decision ruled that a "lewd Note: See following table: and obscene" word (blank) published in an underground university newspaper by a girl Joint retum editor was not sufilcient reason for her being tax with expelled from the university. Year 5 averaging. Chief Justice Burger held that the decision was "bizarre" in that the majority of the Averageable __ ----______------______. ____ . ______$15!J, 000 $39, 402 judges declined to spell out the foul language Base amount_ ____ ------·--·______1 ______. __ in question. In each instance, the word in question was deleted by (blank). TotaL ------··-·------·------··------~-5-0,-00_l ______-__-_- __ -__- _-__ Now what nasty word could a. girl pub­ Less taxes ______·-·- ____ --••••• ___ ---- ______._ .. __ ·-·- __ • __ ._ 39, 402 39, 402 lish which none of the six majority judges TotaL ______·-______110, 599 . ______dared to repeat? Aren't you a bit curious? Or After tax income is about $10,600 more than when invested in tax-exempt bonds. the amount of time attorneys for and against March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10095 It is disturbingly unfair that such ma­ lence and bloodshed over the congres­ of trials while witnesses are still avail­ nipulations and double windfall benefits sional right of free debate that the able, memories are still fresh, and the are only available to those who are al­ sJ,:;eech or debate clause was adopted defendants themselves are under closer ready wealthy. The taxpayer usee in my without discussion or dissenting vote. supervision by law enforcement author­ example gained $10,600 by using this And to their credit, no such blemish ities. double tax benefit. on the history of the United States has Speedy trials would unquestionably To correct this inequity in the law I ever erupted. Yet, even though acts of benefit the public interest, the victims of am today introducing legislation which violence between branches of the gov­ crime, and the defendants themselves. requires that tax exempt income be add­ ernment are completely foreign to the When the time between arrest and trial ed back into the average base period for United States, the protection of congres­ is delayed for long periods of time, purposes of computing the current year's sional free speech should be no less scru­ as it often is, defendants remain free to averageable income. pulously preserved. commit additional crimes, witnesses are I will attempt to see this bill adopted For this reason, I favor legislation subjected to lengthy periods of uncer­ into the tax reform act that is presently which would redefine the speech or de­ tainty and inconvenience, and the in­ pending before the Ways and Means bate immunity, in light of recent Su­ nocent languish in jail only to await Committee. preme Court decisions which seemingly either an acquittal or a dropping of the allow the President to impede by indirect charge. methods the ability of Members of Con­ Mr. Speaker, on February 27 of this gress to perform vital legislative activ­ year, 12 of my colleagues and I intro­ FREEDOM OF SPEECH VITAL TO ties. duced in the House a bill to guarantee ALL CITIZENS While a Congressman is still free to the implementation of speedy trials. This say what he pleases in floor debate and bill, H.R. 4807, would accomplish the HON. ANTONIO BORJA WON PAT in cQJllmittee, the Government can har­ following objectives if enacted into law: ass the sources of his information and It would require the trial of all crimi­ OF GUAM those who attempt to privately republish nal defendants within 60 days of arrest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a Congressman's utterances for wider or a filing of information, whichever Wednesday, March 28, 1973 circulation. While a Congressman's leg

Increase<+> or Increase(+) or decrease (-), decrease (-), appropriations appropriations Budget compared with Congress and session Budget compared with estimates Appropriations estimates Congress and session estimates Appropriations estimates

79th Con g., 1st sess., fiscal year 86th Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 1946 and prior fiscal years ______$68, 941, 364, 648 $67, 545, 660, 880 -$1,395,703,768 79th Con g., 2d sess., fiscal year 1961 and prior fiscal years______$84,010,398,836 $83,799, 241, 957 -$211, 156,879 1947 and prior fiscal years ______87th Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 35, 153, 239, 093 33, 571, 494, 011 -1, 581, 745,082 1962 and prior fiscal years______101, 185, 574,673 96, 194,946,610 -4,990,628,063 80th Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 87th Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 1948 and prior fiscal years ______36, 725, 853, 652 34, 159, 097, 708 -2,566,655,944 80th Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 1963 and prior fiscal years______107,203,876,735 102,661, 536,812 -4,542,339,923 1949 and prior fiscal years ______88th Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 41, 053, 346, 713 38, 282, 717, 957 - 2, 770, 628, 756 1964 and prior fiscal years______110,270,774,856 103,798,631,671 -6,472, 140, 185 81st Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 88th Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 1950 and prior fiscal years ______45, 524, 384, 067 43, 708, 265, 798 -1, 816, 118, 269 81st Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 1965 and prior fiscal years ______1110,204, 088, 176 2106,070, 110,056 -4, 133,978, 120 1951 and prior fiscal years ______89th Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 80, 172, 585, 565 72, 200, 190, 841 -1, 972, 394, 724 1966 and prior fiscal years ______s121, 719,754,896 4 119, 310, 113, 527 -2,409,644,369 82d Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 89th Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 1952 and prior fiscal years ______)02, 449, 917, 037 97, 729, 806, 397 -4, 720, 110, 640 1967 and prior fiscal years ______& 144,812,809, G86 e 143,883,626, 282 -929, 182,804 82d Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 90th Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 1953 and prior fiscal years ______91, 205, 894, 252 82, 596, 777,411 -8, 609, 116, 841 83d Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 1968 and prior fiscal years ______7162,988,905,929 8156,917, 115,912 u -6, 071,790,017 1954 and prior fiscal years ______90th Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 73, 976, 821, 699 61, 942, 992, 897 -12,033, 828,802 1969 and prior fiscal years ______lo 209,439,260,996 u 196,537,244,324 -12,902,016,672 83d Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year Consisting of: 1955 and prior fiscal years ______57, 422, 327, 386 54, 812, 457, 263 -2, 609, 870, 123 Trust funds ______(54, 012,887, 000) (54, 012,887, 000) ______84th Con g., 1st sess., fiscal year All other (Federal funds) __ (155, 426,373, 996) (142, 524,357, 324)( -12,902,016, 672) 1956 and prior fiscal years ______62, 030, 092, 195 59, 954, 284, 321 -2,075, 807,874 84th Con g., 2d sess., fiscal year 91st Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year 1957 and prior fiscal years ______1970 and prior fiscal years ______12 210,843,237, 215 13 207, 248,470,494 -3, 594,755,721 68, 587, 724, 820 68, 330, 229, 608 -257,495, 212 Consisting of: 85th Cong., 1st sess., fiscal year Trust funds______(60, 619,823, 000) (60, 619, 823, 000) ______1958 and prior fiscal years ______73, 113, 555, 340 68, 070, 096, 556 -5,043,458,784 85th Con g., 2d sess., fiscal year All other (Federal funds) __ (150, 223, 414, 215) (146, 628, 658, 494) ( -3, 594, 755, 721) 1959 and prior fiscal years ______91st Cong., 2d sess., fiscal year 81, 737, 060, 999 81, 119, 818, 276 -617, 242, 723 1971 and prior fiscal years ______14 217,605,978,434 u 232,139,894,882 +14, 533,916,448 86th Con g., 1st sess., fiscal year Consisting of: 1960 and prior fiscal years ______83,452,687, 259 81, 572, 357, 732 -1, 880, 329, 527 Trust funds ______(65, 381,174, 000) (65, 381, 174, 000) ______All other (Federal funds) __ (152, 224, 804, 434) (166, 758,720, 882)( +14, 533,916, 448)

1 Includes $225,000,000 requested in 1965 for fiscal year 1966. 13 Totals adjusted to exclude $13,915,525,000 !If !nterfund and intergovernmental t~ansac.tions­ 2 Includes $75,000,000 appropriated in 1965 for fiscal year 1966. see par. 4, "Compilers' Notes", p. 3. Appropnat1ons mclude $214,000,000 appropnated m 1970 3 Includes $937,500,000 requested in 1966 for fiscal year 1967. for 1971. 4 Includes $926,000,000 appropriated in 1966 for fiscal year 1967. tc Totals adjusted to exclude $18,232,767,000 of !nterfu~d and intergovernmental transac.tions­ 6 Includes $900,000,000 requested in 1967 for fiscal year 1968. see par. 4, "Compilers' Notes", p. 3. Budget estimates mclude $188,011,000 requested m 1971 e Includes $875,000,000 appropriated in 1967 for fiscal year 1968. for 1972. 1 Includes $1,055,000,COO requested in 1968 for 1969. '~Totals adjusted to exclude $18,232,767,000 of _interfund and intergovernmental t~ansac_tions­ 8 Includes $995,000,000 appropriated in 1968 for fiscal year 1969. see par. 4, "Compilers' Notes", p. 3. AppropriatiOns mclude $150,000,000 appropnated m 1971 u Does not reflect additional reductions in controllable obligations effected pursuant to Public for 1972. Law 90-218 (H.J. Res. 888) estimated at $3,400,617,000 on June 30, 1968. Reserves established $6,075,520,000; reserves subsequently released, $2,674,903,000; reserves remaining$3,400,617 ,000. Note: Concept of "budget estimates" and "appropriations" as used in the above tabulations, (See pp. 278-282 for detail.) beginning with the 90th Cong., 2d sess., differs to some limited general extent _fr~m previous 10 As in tables IV and IVa, VIlla, and Vlllb, these totals are adjusted to exclude $12,800,000,000 tabulations and significantly differs in respect to inclusion of trust fund appropnat1on-amounts of interfund and intergovernmental transactions-see par. 4, "Compilers' Notes", p. 3. Budget not included in this tabulation prior to the 90th Cong., 2d sess. See explanation, par. 4 "Compilers' estimates include $2,895,000,000 requested in 1969 for 1970. Notes", p. 3. Also, beginning with the 85th Cong., 2d sess. (fiscal year 1959), figures exclude u As in tables IV and IVa, VIlla and Vlllb, these totals are adjusted to exclude $12,800,000,000 amounts relating to refunding Internal Revenue collections and sinking fund and other debt of interfund and intergovernmental transactions-see par. 4, ' Compilers' Notes", p. 3. Appro­ retirement funds. priations include $1,965,814,300 appropriated in 1969 for 1970. 12 Totals adjusted to exclude $13,915,525,000 of interfund and intergovernmental transactions­ Source: S. Doc. 91-122. see par. 4, "Compilers' Notes", p. 3. Budget estimates include $1,651,000 requested in 1970 for 1971. CHART 2.-COMPARISON OF U.S. GOVERNMENT ANNUAL BUDGET DATA ON THE UNIFIED BUDGET CONCEPT AND THE FEDERAL FUNDS BASIS AND PUBLIC DEBT OUTSTANDING AT FISCAL YEAR END, 1954-73 (In millions of dollars)

Unified budget concept 1 Federal funds budget basis 1 U.S. Gov- Unified budget concept 1 Federal funds budget basis l U.S. Gov- ernment ernment Surplus or Surplus or public Surplus or Surplus or public Fiscal year Receipts Outlays deficit(-) Receipts Outlays deficit(-) debt' Fiscal year Receipts Outlays deficit(-) Receipts Outlays deficit(-) debt I

1954 ______67,719 70,890 -1,170 62,790 65,924 -3,134 270,790 1960 ______- 92,492 92,223 269 75,650 74,865 785 286,065 1955 ______65,479 68,509 -3,041 58,112 62,279 -4,167 273,915 1961______94,389 97,795 -3,406 75,179 79,336 -4,157 288,862 1956 ______74,547 70,460 99,676 106,813 -7,137 79,703 86,594 -6,891 298,212 1957 ______4,087 65,376 63, 761 1,606 272,361 1962_------79,990 76, 741 3,249 68,768 67,142 1, 626 270,188 1963_ ------106,560 lll, 311 -4,751 83,550 90,414 -6,591 306,099 1958_ ------79,636 82,575 -2,939 66,580 69,731 -3,151 276,013 1964_ ------112,662 118,584 -5,922 87,205 95,761 -8,556 312,164 1959 ______79,249 92,104 -12,855 65,827 77,071 -11,244 284,39 1965 __ ------116,833 118,430 -1,596 90,943 94,807 -3,764 317,581 10100 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973

Unified budget concept 1 Federal funds budget basis 1 U.S. Gov­ Unified budget concept 1 Federal funds budget basis 1 U.S. Gov­ ernment ernment Surplus or Surplus or public Surplus or Surplus or public Fiscal year Receipts Outlays deficit(-) Receipts Outlays deficit(-) debt2 Fiscal year Receipts Outlays deficit(-) Receipts Outlays deficit(-) debt'

1966 __ ------130,856 134,652 -3,796 101,427 106,512 -5,085 320, 102 1972 (estimate) __ 197, 827 236,610 -38, 783 137,788 182,519 -44,731 446,022 1967------149, 552 158, 254 -8,702 111, 835 126,779 -14,944 326,571 1973 (estimate)_. 220,785 246,257 -25,472 150,617 186,784 -36,167 481,878 1968 ___ ------153,671 178,833 -25,161 114,726 143, 105 -28,379 350,743 1969 _____ ------187,784 184,548 3, 236 153,236 148,811 -5,490 356,932 Cumulative 1970 _____ ------193,743 196, 588 -2,845 143, 158 156,301 -13,143 373,425 deficit 1971_ ------188,392 211,425 -23,033 133,785 163,651 -29,866 399,475 (1954-73)_ ------159, 768 ------225,543 ------

1 The unified budget concept includes both Federal funds and trust funds for receipts and out­ survivors insurance, disability insurance, health insurance, unemployment, Federal employees lays. Federal funds correspond roughly to the old administrative concept used by the Federal retirement, railroad employees retirement, and the highway trust fund. Government prior to fiscal year 1969. Federal funds are those which the Government administers as 2 Since the Second Liberty Bond Act of Sept. 24, 1917, the U.S. Government gross public debt owner as distinguished from those administered in a trustee or fiduciary capacity (the trust funds). has been subject to a statutory ceiling or maximum limit. Public Law 92-5, Mar. 17, 1971, estab­ Historical functions of Government, such as National Defense, Veterans' Benefits, Commerce, lished a debt limit of $400,000,000,000 and temporarily increased the limit to $430,000,000,000 Labor, Agriculture, interest on the public debt, and others are paid from Federal funds (tax revenue through June 30, 1972. Since 1954 there have been 211egislative measures increasing or extending and borrowed funds). Income taxes (individuals and corporations), most excise taxes, estate and the public debt limit. During this period the debt limit has been raised from $275,000,000,000 to gift taxes, customs duties, and miscellaneous receipts are paid into the Federal funds accounts $430,000,000,000. New legislation as expected in the immediate future to raise the public debt from which all Federal funds expenditures are paid. All trust funds receipts are paid into the limit above the current level of $430,000,000,000 so as to permit financing of the current budget specific trust fund accounts for which the revenue is earmarked. All trust fund payments are made deficit. from the specific trust funds accounts. Trust funds surplus receipts are invested in Federal securi· ties (public debt or Federal agencies obligations). At the end of fiscal year 1971 the trust funds Sources: U.S. Office of Management and the Budget (selected budget documents). U.S. Treasury owned $96,000,000,000 of public debt securities. Major Federal trust funds are: old-age and Department (selected Treasury reports).

With the tremendous growth in the in this process until it starts to consider deliberation. This seems incongruous in Federal budget, Congress has lost more the budget as a plan for action which light of the many thousands of hours of and more of the control it should right­ makes basic choices between competing thought and work which goes into indi­ fully exercise over the budget. A review categories. Aaron Wildavsky, author of vidual pieces of legislation which creates of the total budget is an activity in which "The Politics of Budgetary Process," de­ the programs the budget later funds. Congress no longer participates. If Con­ scribes several different uses for the In the last 5 years Congress has found gress required itself to establish an over­ budget. He states that it is a financial it necessary to pass 29 supplemental all limitation on expenditures, this situa­ document, a plan of "intended behavior," appropriations bills. These represent sev­ tion would change. Setting such a limita­ eral midyear corrections in Federal tion would require Congress to consider a statement of goals, a choice mecha­ spending policy. However) they also rep­ the economic state of the country at the nism, and a contract. In recent years resent a serious deficiency in congres­ beginning of each budgetary cycle. It Congress has worked from the Presi­ sional budgetary planning. In the last 9 would encourage Congress to establish a dent's budget exclusively so that its ad­ fiscal years we have appropriated almost comprehensive plan for Federal budget justments have been made without ref­ $10 billion a year through supplementals. priorities. erence to an overall congressionally es­ Chart 5 presents a record of supplemen­ We have heard a great deal of rhetoric tablished spending plan. The roles in tal appropriations since 1964. Chart 5A lately 81bout changing the Nation's prior­ the budget which include planning and presents the cost of these supplemental ities, but Congress cannot have a hand evaluation are lacking in congressional measures for each fiscal year since 1964:

CHART 5.-A RECORD OF SUPPLEMENTAL RESOLUTIONS, FISCAL YEARS 1964-72 (SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS)

Reported in Reported to Number of bill Reported Passed House Senate Passed Senate conference Date approved Law No.

Fiscal year 1964: 1. H.J. Res. 875 (HEW>------Dec. 14 (63) Rept. 1401. ______Dec. 19, 1963 Dec. 20, 1963 Dec. 21, 1963 (I) Feb. 10, 1963 88-268, 1963. Fiscal year 1965: 1. H.R. 12633------Sept. 17 (64), Rept. 1891______Sept. 22,1964 Sept. 29, 1964 Oct. 1, 1964 Oct. 1, 1964 Oct. 7, 1964 88--£35. 2. H.J. Res. 234 (Agriculture>------Jan. 26 (65), Rept. 2 ______Jan. 26, 1965 Feb. 1, 1965 Feb. 3, 1965 Feb. 8,1965 Feb. 11, 1965 89-2. 3. H.R. 7091 (2nd>------Apr. 2 (65), Rept. 224 ______Apr. 6, 1965 Apr. 23, 1965 Apr. 27, 1965 Apr. 28, 1965 Apr. 30, 1965 89-16. 4. H.J. Res. 447 (Defense) ______------May 5 (65), Rept. 286 ______May 5, 1965 May 5,1965 May 6, 1965 NJA, 1965 May 7, 1965 89-18. Fiscal year 1966: 1. H.R. 10586 (Labor, HEW)------Aug. 19(65), Rept. 818 ______Aug. 24,1965 Sept. 2,1965 Sept. 7,1965 Sept. 7, 1965 Sept. 23, 1965 89-199. 2. H.R.ll588 ______Oct. 13(65), Rept.ll6L ______Oct. 14,1965 Oct. 19,1965 Oct. 20,1965 Oct. 20, 1965 Oct. 31, 1965 89-309. 3. H.R. 13546 (Defense>------Mar. 11(66), Rept.1316 ______Mar. 15,1966 Mar. 17, 1966 Mar. 22, 1966 (2) Mar. 25, 1966 89-374. 4. H.R. 14012 (2d)------Mar. 25(66), Rept.1349 ______Mar. 29,1966 Apr. 25, 1966 Apr. 27,1966 May 3,1966 May 13,1966 1!9-426. Fiscal year 1967: 1. H.R. 1838L------Oct. 14(66), Rept. 2284 ______Oct. 18,1966 Oct. 19,1966 Oct. 20,1966 Oct. 20,1966 Oct. 27,1966 89-697. 2. H.R. 7123 (Defense)------Mar. 13(67), Rept.119 ______Mar. 16,1967 Mar. 17,1967 Mar. 20, 1967 (3) Apr. 4,1967 90-8. 3. H.R. 9481 (2d)------Apr. 28(67), Rept. 217 ______May 3,1967 May 17,1967 May 19, 1967 May 23,1967 May 29,1967 90-21. Fiscal year 1968: 1. H.R.14397______Dec. 12(67), Rept. 1037------Dec. 12,1967 Dec. 13, 1967 Dec. 14, 1967 Dec. 14, 1967 Jan. 2,1968 90-239. 2. H.J. Res. 1268 (highways and claims).------May 9(68), Rept. 1373 ______May 9,1968 June 12, 1968 June 13, 1968 N/A June 19, 1968 90-352. 3. H.R.17734 (2d)------June 7(68), Rept. 1531. ______June 11,1968 June 19, 1968 June 26, 1968 June 27,1968 July 9,1968 9i>-392. Fiscal year 1969: . 1. H.R. 20300 ______Oct. 7 (68), Rept. 1953 ______Oct. 9, 1968 Oct. 9, 1968 Oct. 10,1968 Oct. 10,1968 Oct. 21, 1968 90-608. 2. H.J. Res. 414 (unemployment compensation) ______~-- Not available ______Feb. 6,1969 N/A Feb. 7, 1969 N/A Feb. 9, 1969 91-2. 3. H.J. Res. 584----·------Mar. 24 (69), Rept. 91-112 ______Mar. 25,1969 Mar. 26, 1969 Mar. 27, 1969 N/A Apr. 1,1969 91-7. 4. H.R. 11400 (Second>------May 15 (69), Rept. 91-252 ______May 21, 1969 June 11, 1969 June 19, 1969 June 24, 1969 July 22, 1969 91-47. F1scal year 1970: • 1. H.R. 15209·------Dec.11 (69), Rept. 91-747.______Dec. 11, 1969 Dec. 17, 1969 Dec. 18, 1969 Dec. 19, 1969 Dec. 26, 1969 91-166. 2. H.R. 17399 (Second>------Apr. 30 (70), Rept. 91-1033 ______May 7,1970 June 8, 1970 June 22, 1970 June 23, 1970 July 6, 1970 91-305. F1scal year 1971: 1. H.R. 19928·------Dec. 9 (70), Rept. 91-1688 ______Dec. 10,1970 Dec. 11, 1970 Dec. 14, 1970 Dec. 15, 1970 Jan. 8,1971 91-665. 2. H.J. Res. 465 (Labor>------Mar. 15 (71), Rept. 92-40 ______Mar. 16, 1971 Mar. 16, 1971 Mar. 16, 1971 N/A Mar. 17, 1971 92-4. 3. H.J. Res. 567 (Urgent>------Apr. 22 (71), Rept. 92-144 ______Apr. 22, 1971 Apr. 23,1971 Apr. 23, 1971 N/A Apr. 30, 1971 92-11. 4. H.R. 8190 (Second>------May 6 (71), Rept. 92-187------May 12,1971 May 13, 1971 May 19,1971 May 20,1971 May 25,1971 92-18. Fiscal year 1972: 1. H.J. Res. 915 (Labor>------Oct. 6 (71), Rept. 92-550 ______Oct. 6 ,1971 Oct. 7,1971 Oct. 8, 1971 N/A Oct. 15, 1971 92-141. 2. H.R. 11955·------Nov. 30 (71), Rept. 92--£89 ______Dec. 2, 1971 Dec. 2,1971 Dec. 3, 1971 Dec. 6, 1971 Dec. 5, 1971 92-184. 3. H.J. Res. 1097 (Second>------Mar. 9 (72), Rept. 92-909 ______Mar. 14,1972 Mar. 14, 1972 Mar. 15, 1972 N/A Mar. 21, 1972 92-256. 4. H.R. 14582 (Second>------Apr. 24 (72), Rept. 92-1015 ______Apr. 26, 1972 Apr. 27, 1972 May 1, 1972 May 3,1972

t Senate agreed to House amendment to Senate amendment Jan. 29, 1964. Source: The Final Calendar for each Congress, 88th-91st, and the Calendar of May 3, 1972 of 2 House agrees to Senate amendments Mar. 23, 1966. the 2d sess., 92d Cong. Supp,lemental resolutions and their legislative history are included in a • House agrees to Senate amendments Mar. 21, 1967. table for each .session titled 'Status of Major Bills" at the back of the Calendars. Note: N/A-Not available. March 28, 1973 -EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10101 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BILLS, 1964-72 manner will we be truly facing up to the sportsmanship, and moral character to entire question of authority over that bring hours of great basketball to Fiscal year- budget. Reading. 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 Total

4 READING IDGH BASKETBALL: A FLYING PRIEST HONORED 3 3 4 4 4 29 TRIDUTE TO THE RED KNIGHTS CHART 5A.-TOTAL DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR SUPPLEMENTALS HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO FISCAL YEARS 1964-72 1 HON. GUS YATRON OF NEW YORK Fiscal year and Public Law: OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1964:88-264 (total) ______$289, 688, 000 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 28, 1973 1965: Wednesday, March 28, 1973 88--£35------1, 117, 196,068 Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, the Rev­ 89-2------1, 600, 000, 000 Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, I would erend Joseph H. J. Fox, chaplain of Our 89-16------2, 227,563,977 700, 000, 000 like to share with my colleagues in the Lady of the Skies Chapel at Kennedy Air­ 89-18. ------House of Representatives the remark­ TotaL______5, 644,760, 045 port in New York, was recently honored able performance of the Reading High at a luncheon sponsored by the Air In­ 1966: School basketball team-the Red dustry. The recognition of Reverend Fox 89-199______1, 223,181,500 89-309______4, 741,644,602 Knights. was well deserved and he has made many 89-374.------13, 135, 719, 000 The Red Knights completed their sea­ friends during his service as catholic 89-426 ______2, 788,143,303 son with a 28-2 record last Saturday chaplain since the founding of the Tri­ TotaL ______21,888,688,405 night as General Braddock High School Falth Chapel at Kennedy Airport in spoiled my alma mater's second attempt 1966. 1967: 89--£97------5, 025,264,579 at a Pennsylvania Interscholastic The following article which appeared 1 Athletic Association championship with in the March 11, 1973, edition of the New ~gjc::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~: l;~: ~~~: ~~~ a 63-62 win in Harrisburg. York Daily News contains some interest­ TotaL ______19,419,715,996 Reading's Red Knights won more bas­ ing facts about Reverend Fox's distin­ ketball games this year than any other 1968: guished career and I commend it to my 90-239------1, 842, 923, 790 team in the history of the school. The colleagues in the House: 90-352______50,980,863 Reading five included among their FLYING PRIEST AT JFK WINS WRIGHT PRIZJ: 90-392______6, 295, 831,498 championships the Central Penn League (By Arthur Mulligan) Tota'------8, 189, 736,151 title, the district 3, PIAA championship, The Rev. Joseph H. J. Fox, chaplain of 1969: 90--£08______446,688,727 and the Eastern Pennsylvania PIAA Our Lady of the Skies Chapel at Kennedy Air­ 1969: class A championship. port, was honored Tuesday at an Air Indus­ Therefore, despite their loss Saturday, try's Awards luncheon for "humanitarian ~~~=:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 36, 000,000 goodwill." Those that know him among the 91-7------1, 000, 000,000 the Red Knights have more than proven 91-47------4, 352,357,644 themselves in Pennsylvania. I would like thousands of employees at Kennedy would to express my pride in the team's ac­ certainly agree that the choice was an excel­ TotaL------5, 835, 046,371 complishments and to congratulate these lent one. 1970: The Rev. Fox has been Catholic chapla·in 91-166______278,281,318 outstanding athletes, their coach, Mr. at Kennedy ever since the new Tr1-Faith 91-305______6, 021,535,005 James Gano, and Reading High School Chapel was inaugurated in 1966. He 1s an for earning the respect and admiration honorary chaplain of the New York City Fire TotaL______6, 299.816.323 of Pennsylvanians everywhere. Department and chaplain of the Fire Depart­ 1971 This fantastic season was the result ment's Emerald Society. He has dedicated his ~1--£65. ------1, 853, 372, 792 of outstanding coaching, excellent team­ lite to aiding firemen who risk their lives in 92-4______50.675.000 performing their own "humanitarian good­ 92- 11_ ------1. 037. 872.000 work, and use of the full potential of Will." 92- 18------7, 028. 195. !173 Reading High senior, Stu Jackson. Stu Airport chaplains are often referred to as TotaL______9, 970,115,765 finished the season with 1,563 career sky pilots and, in the case of the Rev. Fox, points-13 short of Reading's all-time the title is most apropos. Soon after h1s ad­ 1972: 92-141.------270, 500, 000 scoring record-by setting a new PIAA vent at Kennedy, he learned to pilot a plane 92-184.------3, 406, 385, 371 class A championship scoring record and obtained a private pilot's license. Since 92-256------957, 476, 059 Saturday night with 38 points. then he has received a commercial pilot's li­ (In conference>------4, 347,698,270 While Stu Jackson's abilities con­ cense. TotaL------8, 982,059,700 tributed to the team's excellent perform­ WEEKLY FISHING FLIGHT ance, the fine athletic abilities of Mike He borrows a friend's plane about once a 1 These figures represent new budget-obligational-author­ week and hops out to Montauk or up to Nan­ ity, not budget expenditures-budget outl~ys--;-which in. a~dition Garman, Perry Wentzel, Cliff Durham, to expenditures from new budget authonty mclude b1lhons of tucket to go fishing. He said he can't afford dollars of expenditures from carryover balances of appropri~­ and Stan Cooper must not be forgotten. a plane of his own. tions made in previous years, and also expenditures from certam Also, substitutes Bob Van Buskirk, Bob As to his Fire Department aftlliations, he so-called permanent appropriations, such as interest on the public debt and a number of trust funds which Congress is not Sakin, Jeff Giddens, Don Brown, Pete has received numerous awards for his brav­ required to act upon at each session. Neither were release of Pasko, John Covington, and Elwood ery at multiple-alarm fires. He shrugs these reserves counted. Davis will be back next season, along off with the remark, "If you come out all Source: Congressional Record-end-of-year tables titled with Cooper, to continue the legacy of right, apparently it wasn't so dangerous." He "New Budget (Obligational) Authority in the Appropriation Reading's basketball team. says he has never done anything that any Bills, fiscal year -" and general discussion on the supple­ other fire chaplain wouldn't do. mental bills themselves. Coach Gano and his assistants, Mark Braun and Mike Eckenroth, deserve Back in December 1960 he was at the scene We are dealing then with a complex of dual disasters, the plane collision over much credit for the success of the 1972- Brooklyn and the aircraft carrier Constella­ problem and one that Congress must ad­ 73 Red Knights, as does Trainer Hoby tion fire, also in Brooklyn. He boarded the dress itself to immediately. The Mahon Geesaman for keeping the team in tip­ Constellation and administered last rites to bill begins that process by addressing it­ top condition. a dozen men below decks who were burned self to the important question of im­ Mr. Speaker, I would like to extend or suffocated. poundment. But we must realize that my sincere congratulations and best CRAWLED TO TRAPPED PAIR more than the question of impoundment wishes to the Red Knights, Reading High On another occasion he crawled into the 1s involved. We speak in terms of return­ School, and the five graduating seniors-­ cellar of a burning factory building in Brook­ ing authority, of returning the powers Jackson, Wentzel, Hahn, Garman, Dur­ lyn after the collapse o! upper :fioors trapped of the purse to the Congress. Yet simply ham, and their combined career points two firemen. He stayed with them until res­ reasserting its control over the budget totalling 3,422. cue squads dug them out. by tightening up on the practice of Presi­ At the luncheon, held at the International The memory of this extraordinary Hotel, the Rev. Fox was one of four recipients dential impoundment is not the whole team will linger in Pennsylvania for of the second annual Bishop Milton Wright answer. Not until Congress truly deals many years to come and I wish every Awards, named 1n honor of the Methodist with the Federal budget in a responsible success to all who combined their talent, bishop who was father of the Wright Broth- 10102 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 ~rs. The other recipients were astronaut Expanding population is one of the factors ready taken over more than half of the mar­ Frank Borman, retired Port Authority execu­ contributing 'to increased demand. One ket. After World War II, the low cost of nat­ tive director Austin J. Tobin, and Igor Sikor­ Census Bureau projection estimates that our ural gas made it increasingly attractive. Now, sky, the last a posthumous award. population will increase by 37 million be­ natural gas represents 52% of the primary The nonsectarian awards were established tween 1970 and 1985. energy used for residential purposes. a year ago by the Chapel Council of the This population increase is further com­ It is estimated that the cumulative use of Protestant Chapel at the airport. pounded by an increase~ the concentration energy in the residental sector will be 47% of people between the ages of 20 and 35, for greater in 1985 tha.n in 1970. it is in this age group that the greatest The final major market, the second largest PROJECTED U.S. ENERGY REQUIRE­ amount of buying is done. and the fastest growing, is that of the elec­ MENTS AND THEffi RELATED Rapid economic activity wlll be required tric utilities. By 1985, it is expected 'to be the to satisfy their needs, and much energy will largest of the five majo1" markets. PROBLEMS be necessary to "fire" that economic activity. Per oapita consumption of electricity more The importance of increased population than doubled between 1955 and 1970, and it HON. DOMINICK V. DANIELS becomes even more evident when we con­ is expec'ted that the rise will be even greater sider that the per capita use of energy has in the next fifteen years. OF NEW JERSEY doubled within the last thirty years. It is Large quantities of electricity will be re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES expected to continue at an even faster rate quired for environmental purposes such as Wednesday, March 28, 1973 in the future. recycling, waste treatment, and enriching Improving environmental quality and fur­ uranium fuels for power plants. Mr. DOMINICK V. DANIELS. Mr. thering the social and economic welfare of In 1970, approximately 49% of the primary Speaker, during this session of Congress, the underprivlleged wm also be important fuel for utlllties was coal; 24% natural gas; the House Committee on Public Works elements in this increased per capita use. 15% hydroelectric; 11% oil; and 1% nuclear. created a new Subcommittee on Energy. It has been estimated that by 1985, per In 1985, coal's role is expected 'to decrease capita energy consumption may be nearly 'to 8%; gas' role to decrease to 11%; hydro­ The new chairman is Representative two-thirds greater than in 1970. electric to decrease to 8% ; while otl's role JAMES J. HOWARD, of New Jersey, with There are five major markets for primary is expected to increase to 17% and nuclear whom I have had the pleasur.e of serving energy sources. An analysis of these markets to rise 'to 35%. Thus, by 1985, nuclear power with for the past 8 years. wlll give an indication of where projected is expected to emerge as the primary fuel Congressman HowARD chaired ad hoc demand increases are expected. for power plants. hearings into the energy crisis last year The first major market is transportation. on was the largest source of primary en­ and has been a leader in the House try­ The automobtle is perhaps the greatest in­ ergy in 1970, and it is expected to continue strument of mobiUty in our society, and that 'to be the largest source because its versa­ ing to resolve this problem which is, un­ mob111ty has brought with it a great many tlllty allows it 'to be used in all five major questionably, one of the most serious benefits. But also a great many automobiles! markets. Of the over-all growth of the na­ problems facing our Nation today. Multiplying like mechanical rabbits, it is es­ tion's energy needs between 1970 and 1985, Recently Mr. HowARD addressed ana­ timated that four-fifths of the nation's oil alone is expected to accommodate half tional energy forum here in Washington. households now own at least 1 car, and near­ of the increased demand. I have had an opportunity to read his ly one-third own two or more. To accommo­ The five major markets (transportation, speech and because of its importance to da'te the nation's expanding needs for trans­ industry, commercial, residential, and util­ this portation, the 'total number of trucks and ities) vary substantially in size; however no Nation, I urge all Members and all buses is likely to rise by 40% . single one can be considered more important persons who read the RECORD to take a Jet travel will also be on the up-swing. than the others. All are essential. None can few minutes to ponder on the question The Federal Aviation Administration esti­ be denied an adequate supply of energy raised by the able chairman of the Sub­ mates that jet fuel demands will double be­ without impairing the nation's economy and committee on Energy: tween 1972 and 1982. its standard of living. PROJECTED u.s. ENERGY REQUIREMENTS AND Therefore, the growth in the transporta­ The obvious conclusion then, is that de­ THEIR RELATED PROBLEMS tion market is going to be great; its energy mand is going to rapidly increase, but the requirements demanding. To be prepared for degree of increase cannot be adequately de­ (Remarks of Representative JAMES J. this growth, there will be a great need for termined until supply projections and their HowARD, before the National Energy Forum, planning, mass transportation, and more problems are considered. Washington, D.C., March 19, 1973) efficient engines. We must consider how 'to supply this in­ Energy is the life-blood of our society. Just To a major degree, the high standard of creasing demand; or, in the alternative, how as nothing lives without the sun, nothing living achieved in the United States re­ 'to effectively equalize this demand with operates without energy. Strictly speaking, flects the nation's productivity. I:Q.dustry's available supplies, without seriously dam­ anything with the inherent ab111ty to per­ enormous output of goods and services could aging the environment or disrupting the form work may be considered energy. not possibly be accomplished without the use economy. Today our primary energy sources are coal, of vast amounts of energy. One of the most fundamental problems oil and natural gas, with electricity as a At present, the industrial In81rket uses ap­ of determining the extent of our resources secondary source. Human labor, once the proximately 32% of the too.l energy market. is the rellablllty of supply projections, es­ mainstay of production, now provides energy By 1985, this is expec'ted to decrease to 26%. pecially since great reliance is placed on them for less than 1% of 'the work performed in This decrease could be somewhat misleading, in determining future policies. factories, refineries and mills. however, as the shift wlll be mainly from In the past, supply projections have been Because energy is absolutely essential 'to dependence on the primary fuels of coal, oil misleading, and the significance of tempo­ the welfare of the Uni'ted States, the contin­ and natural gas, to increase use of electricity. rary shortages misunderstood. The East Coast uing availabiilty of an abundant supply of This shift is partially the result of natural black-out of 1965 was really no indication of energy is a matter of vital importance. gas shortages and partially for convenience. supply problems, since its cause was a. me­ Properly, all consumers--business and Thus, industrlaJ. demand is expec'ted to be chanical !allure-not a fuel shortage. private, large and small-should be con­ 25% greater in 1985 th.a.n in 1970. Much o! In 1966, a White House study optlmistl­ cerned. It is the obligation of the admin­ this increased demand will be filled by in­ ca.lly concluded that "the nation's total en­ istration, the legislature, and rela'ted indus­ creased dependency upon electricity. The ergy resources seemed adequate 'to sa,tisfy tries 'to accord the highest priority to the problems that this poses will be taken up expected requirements through the re­ matter of energy supply. later in this discussion. mainder of the century, at costs near present The core problem, then, is how 'to provide Another sec'tor making increased energy levels." an abundant supply of energy to all. Our demands is the commercial market. It is the As recently as three years ago, a Presiden­ growing wisdom dictates resolution of this smallest market constituting approximately tial Task Force predicted that the Untted problem with minimal environmental de'te­ 5% of the total energy demand. States would have 'to import no more than rioration. Further complicating the problem For the most part, the primary energy 27% of its oil by 1980; but we have already is recognition that energy is as necessary for source utilized in the commercial market is reached that level. the poor as it is for the rich. Therefore, for space heating. Other commercial require­ Projections such as these should make us energy must be available at a cost which is ments are satisfied almost exclusively by wonder if the present supply-demand projec­ reasonable. electricity. By 1985, the commercial market's tions are perhaps as overly pessimistic as the Resolution of the problem must begin with use of primary energy will be nearly 75% past projections were optimistic. a knowledge of the facts. The facts are these: grea'ter than in 1970. Consequently, projecti.ons which don't in­ Of the total amount of energy consumed As was true in the commercial market, the spire absolute faith are part of the problem. in the Uni'ted States, both in primary form residential market also uses the primary Perhaps an independent organization should and as electricity, approximately two-thirds fuels, especially on and gas, principally for be commissioned by Congress to reassess our is used for business-related purposes, and space heating. However, more than one-third supply needs on the basis of the most recent one-third for a.U priva'te, non-business needs. o! residential energy requirements a.re sati.s­ technology. The total amount of electricity currently fied by electricity. Further, revealing studies, at times, seem generated is consumed in approximately the As recently as 1940, wood still satisfied over to be lost in the shuftle, or so it appeared same proportions. 25% of residential needs, but coal had a.l- with a more recent Presidential Task Force March 28, 197'3 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10103 Report recommending that the oil import facturers of energy related products from in ten years. Yet, with concentrated effort program be abandoned. megawatt generators to toasters to produce and great financial investment, it was ac­ Surely, it would have been in the public rellable and efficient products. They must complished. interest to have published the report so that work with environmentalists at the onset of A similar policy can and must be pursued its merits could have been discussed and projects with openness and sincerity so that with respect to energy resources. Not only evaluated openly before action or non-action any necessary compromises with regard to, do we possess the physical resources neces­ was taken by either Congress or the Ad­ say, power plant siting, emission standards, sary, but we also possess the scientific brain­ ministration. coal mining, or oil pollution, can be arrived power to accomplish such a program. I often It is quite possible that Congress, in order at without resulting in serious delay. think of what the brother of that great man to acquire universal acceptance of the ex­ However, I am not implying, nor do I in­ said: "Some men see things as they are and tent of our problem, wm consider allocating tend to imply, that the responsib111ty for say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never funds or specifically directing the Depart­ solving the problems of the energy challenge were and say, 'Why not?'" I believe in that. ment of Interior to compile a completely in­ lies solely with the energy industry. I hope you do, too. dependent study of our existing, probable Government, too, must play a crucial role. One of the more serious problems of the and possible energy resources. A comprehensive Federal energy program is on-coming supply deficit involves our foreign At present, the American people are not necessary. This is somewhat impossible while policy. Our shortages come at a time when convinced that the energy industries are Federal responsibility is dispersed through­ we may have to compete with Europe and commensurately concerned with satisfying out some 64 different Federal agencies. Fed­ Japan for Middle Eastern oil. This could lead their responsib111ty to the public interest as eral coordination of responsibility and inter­ to international cooperation as well as in­ they are to their stockholders. agency cooperation will be absolutely essen­ ternational strife. There is serious doubt as The energy industry must be on notice that tial to meeting the energy challenge. to the soundness of creating a massive bal­ its responsibilities to the publlc interest are Last August, I had the privilege of chair­ ance of trade deficit. Furthermore, the Mid­ going to increase. It is hoped that it w111 not ing hearings inquiring into the problems dle East is not a politically sound area upon be necessary to legislatively educate com­ causing the energy challenge for the House which we can always depend. panies in the duties of public utilities and Committee on Public Works. We were re­ There are also many problems associated public ut111ty suppliers to the public interest. peatedly told that although the delays in with the transportation of oil from the Mid­ If companies fall to make their requests for power plant construction were frequently dle East. The question of superports and higher prices, etc., within the bounds that caused by environmental difficulties, the most supertankers and the possibility of "super" the public can absorb without a change in frequent problem seemed to be the bureau­ oil spills; the increased cost of imported oil; lifestyle, then the recent action of the Cost cratic red tape associated with obtaining the vast expense of superports. of Living Council in denying their price construction and operating permits. Taken together, serious consideration must increases may become more common. But this This problem has been most evident with be given to whether it is really wise to invest would not be necessary if, for example, com­ respect to nuclear power plants. When we such vast sums externally, or whether the panies, in seeking price increases, would be consider that they are being depended upon majority of governmental and private in­ as responsive to the public interest as they to fill the supply gap caused by diminishing vestments should be made internally, bearing are to their stockholders. reserves of oil and natural gas, this is in mind the fact that beyond the year 2000, For years, it was almost universally be­ especially disquieting. A way must be found the world supply of oil may be relatively lieved (with the possible exception of the to bring power plants to the production line exhausted. oil interests!) that if something was good quickly, while adequately considering and Those of us concerned with preserving the for the oil companies, it was bad for the solving environmental problems. environment will also be presented with country. Whether this "intuition" was true Whet her it be one-stop siting, an environ­ serious decisions in the future. Coming from or not, and I am by no means implying that mental arbitration board, or something else, the shore area of New Jersey, I know the it was, the important fact is that a credibil­ progressive action must also be taken to re­ beauties of this country. As a member of the ity gap exists between the oil companies and lieve utilities of the burden of needing the House Public Works Committee, I have seen the public. This constitutes a serious under­ approval of some 60 Federal, State and local the destruction that can be wrought by large lying problem in working out the d11Ierences agencies before a power plant can begin to oil spills such as Torrey Canyon and Ocean among industrial, governmental, and en­ operate. Eagle. vironmentalinterests. I might also mention that during our hear­ In the years ahead, there may be a need for As an example, although there is a grow­ ings, the problem of changing emission some environmental compromises. But we ing recognition of the energy challenge, standards was repeatedly mentioned. The must remain steadfast in our determination there seems to be a concurrent increase in testifying electric companies expressed a to develop an abundant supply of energy that the number of people who wonder whether sincere willingness, though it involves great is compatible with safeguarding the en­ or not the shortage is real, and, if a shortage expense, to meet emission standards. How­ vironment. does exist, whether or not it was caused, ever, they pointed out that in the last few The time is now for near-, short-, and long­ fostered, or permitted by the petroleum in­ years, emission standards have been changed range programs to meet the energy challenge terests. so frequently that a generator, for example, at each stage of its development. The chal­ The veracity of this attitude is not rele­ selected for use in 1970, would not meet lenge is not only to our physical and mental vant to this discussion. What is relevant is standards in 1973. resources, but also to our ability to unite that in order to •overcome the energy chal­ Serious and reasonable problems such as all interest groups to a common goal. lenge, we must work together for the com­ these must be given prompt consideration by Only through the development of sound mon cause of an abundant supply of low­ both Congress and the Administration. programs can we continue to enjoy an ad­ cost energy available to all with minimal Another problem is the serious inadequacy equate energy supply. Only with such a co­ environmental deterioration. Yet our work of energy research and development funding. operative approach can we meet our energy would be for naught of the intended bene­ Setting aside the possibillty of increased in­ needs without sacrificing our environmental ficiary of that work, the public, does not be­ centive for oil and gas exploration and devel­ aspirations. Only then can we insure that lieve we are working in its best interest. opment, greater funds must be appropriated prices will be held to a reasonable level. Moreover, any type of distrust could seri­ for energy research ranging from the fast­ This is the goal of the Congress. It must ously undermine the cooperation necessary breeder reactor to geothermal energy. also be the goal of the Administration, of among industry, government, and consumer. Prominent on the list of research possi­ the related industries, and of the environ­ I want to point out that "low cost" is rela­ billties are coal gasification and coal desul­ mentalists and consumers as well. tive. Low cost fiows from paying a reasonable furization. This country is very' rich in coal Working together, balancing the interests price that affords a reasonable profit--not a deposits; coal desulfurization and gasifica­ of all as equitably as possible, with serious windfall to the seller. When the public is and coordinated energy, economic and en­ tion could reduce the supply problem while vironmental planning, this country must fully aware of the cost to the producer of filling the gap left by diminishing reserves what it is buying, it is willing to pay a price again be united. It must be united as our of domestic oil and natural gas. pioneer families were united-each member that includes a reasonable profit. It is part The President's recent budget message of our way of llfe that the laborer is worthy of the family sacrificing a little for the well­ called for a 20% increase in Federal spend­ being and happiness of all. of his hire. I suggest, therefore, that if the ing for energy research and development and producers were more open with the publlc, it is questionable whether this increase wm letting the publlc see in black and white, be sufficient to implement the wide range of simply and clearly, what their true costs are, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, AEROSPACE research necessary. INDUSTRIES JOIN IN EFFORT TO the public will pay. If what has to be paid In the past, the greatest percentage of re­ cannot be afforded by some, it will then be search and development funds has been de­ BREACH ffiGHWAY TRUST FUND up to the government to assist them. voted to the nuclear field, especially for fast­ So this distrust of producers and the prob­ breeder development. Although this is an L. lems it creates will be best quelled by com­ important area for research, the federal pro­ HON. JOE EVINS plete sincerity on the part of energy related gram should be far broader in scope in order OF TENNESSEE industries. They must make avaUable the to carry us through the problems associated IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES foundation of their reserve estimates. They with near and short term demands. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 must encourage the American people to con­ Not so long ago, a great man was consid­ servation of energy rather than increased ered by some a bit light-headed for suggest­ Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speak­ consumption. They must encourage manu- ing that we could put a man on the moon er, we can all recall, I am sure, the bit- 10104 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 ter clash between environmentalists who sound advice," said a spokesman for one of nations from relatives in Western coun­ were opposed to construction of a super­ the companies. "Sit tight for now, and main­ tries. sonic transport plane, and the aerospace tain a very low profile." The source of the Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that the ad~ice appears to be the Nixon administra­ industry which strongly supported tl;le tion's Transportation Department, which Soviet authorities are anxious to over­ supersonic project. supports opening the trust fund. come U.S. congressional resistance to a In a current issue of the authoritative One reason for the industry's reluctance to bill which would accord the Soviet Union Congressional Quarterly, it is reported speak publicly is the beating it took in trying most-favored-nation status in trading. that now the environmentalists and the to save the SST. "Aircraft companies leave a · There is every indication that the Soviets aerospace industry are now working bad taste in peoples' mouths," an industry do not intend to repeal the exit tax reg­ in official stated. "The anti-SST people did a hell hand hand in an effort to breach the of a job on us. We're working with them to­ illation but merely to suspend it. highway trust fund and siphon ofi some day, but I have to congratulate them. They Until and unless this exit tax is com­ proceeds from the fund into municipal did a beautiful job." pletely abolished, I am against any and transit projects. For the aircraft industry, cooperating with all concessions to the Soviet Union for Because of the interest of my col­ the environmentalists now means working trade preferences. For those Jews who leagues and the American people in this with groups such as the Sierra Club, Friends wish to remain in the Soviet Union, we most important subject, I place in the of the Earth, and the League of Conserva­ must insist that they be permitted the RECORD herewith excerpts from the ar­ tion Voters. "In this business," the industry if spokesman said, "you can be fighting some­ right to live, they so desire, a-ecord­ ticle in the Congressional Quarterly: one tooth and nan and the next day you're ing to Jewish religious and cultural BUSTING THE HIGHWAY TRUST: AN working together. . . . We add something tradition. UNLIKELY ALLIANCE that they can't provide-solld business In a bitter lobbying contest only two years support." ago, environmentalists clashed with the aero­ The current focus of the battle in the space industry over construction of a super­ House 1s the Roads Subcommittee of the THE PRAEGER REPORT ON THE sonic transport plane. The environmental­ Public Works Committee. Last year the sub­ WEST FRONT OF THE CAPITOL ists won, and the SST never got off the committee voted 1Q-3 against an amend­ ground. ment by Glenn M. Anderson (D-Calif.) to Now the environmental lobby is working open up the trust fund. There is one differ­ HON. J. EDWARD ROUSH equally hard to open the highway trust fund ence this year: Chairman John c. Kluczyn­ OF INDIANA for mass transit projects. If they win, one ski (D-TII.) has changed his mind and now big reason w111 be the help they are getting favors it. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from their old enemies-the aerospace "The problem on Public Works," said one Wednesday, March 28, 1973 people. mass-transit lobbyist, "is that those people That sounds like a strange alliance, but are all rural. They're all country boys, with­ Mr. ROUSH. Mr. Speaker, in view of consider what has been happening to the out any major industrial centers in their dis­ the fact that the House of Representa­ aircraft industry in recent years. The decltne tricts. We aren't too optimistic about them." tives will probably soon be asked to de­ in the U.S. space program and the expiration If they are unsuccessful on Public Works, cide the fate of the west front of our of plane production contracts has left the which seems likely, the mass-transit advo­ Capitol Building, I believe that the fol­ aircraft companies in poor condition, forcing cates will attempt to get the amendment many of them to lay off employees and approved on the House fioor. But to do so lowing letter which introduced the re­ bringing recession to the communities that they may need a favorable decision from the port to the then Acting Architect of the depended on them for economic survival. Rules Committee, which must clear the high­ Capitol from the firm of Praeger-Kava­ Their pleas for help have been met by the way blll for floor consideration. nagh-Waterbury on that subject would argument that they could again prosper by In 1972, the Rules Committee, by an 8-7 be instructive. converting their aerospace technology to the vote, sent the highway blll to the floor under The Praeger firm of New York City production of surface transportation equip­ a complicated parliamentary procedure was asked to perform a feasibility study ment. which prevented a House vote on the Ander­ Five years ago, that was conjecture. Now son amendment. The pro-transit forces hope to determine whether in fact the west it is much more. Rohr Industries, a Cali­ to avoid an entanglement this year. front central wall of the Capitol could fornia firm whose business was more than be restored, and to estimate the cost of 90 per cent aerospace in 1967, has won two such restoration. I am unable to include multim11lion-dollar contracts to build sub­ the complete report on this matter be­ way cars for new transit systems in Washing­ SOVIET JEWISH EMIGRATION TO cause of its length, but I refer those who ton, D.C., and San Francisco. Boeing has sub­ ISRAEL would like to read the report in its en­ mitted the low bid for $230-m1111on worth ot surface cars in san Francisco and Boston. tirety to the entry of Senator PROXMIRE "The need is greater than the entire in­ HON. ROBERT N.C. NIX in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, VOl. 118, dustry could fill if it were to drop everything part 7, page 9039. The aforementioned else tomorrow," a spokesman for one aero­ OF PENNSYLVANIA letter follows: space company told Congressional Quarterly. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PRAEGER-KAVANAGH-WATERBURY, But he acknowledged that the demand Wednesday, March 28, 1973 NEW YORK, N.Y., December 21, 1970. doesn't equal the need; cities don't have the Re restoration of the west central front, U.S. money to rebuild their aging transportation Mr. NIX. Mr. Speaker, recent informa­ Capitol, Washington, D.C. systems. tion would indicate that Soviet author­ Hon. MARio E. CAMPIOLI, That is why several aerospace companies ities had lifted all major restrictions on Acting Architect of the Oapitol, U.S. Oapitol, are working actively in behalf of efforts to emigration to Israel. However, the U.S. Washington, D.O. open up the highway trust fund. As of now, DEAR MR. CAMPIOLI: Submitted herewith 1s the $6-b11lion fund can be used only to fi­ Embassy in Moscow has said that it had our report on the feasibutty of restoring the nance roads and bus lanes. Transit support­ yet to receive any official confirmSJtion west central front of the United States Cap­ ers in the House and the Senate want to let from the Soviet Government that the itol. Included are descriptions of our inves­ state and local officials spend their share of education taxes for emigrants had been tigations, analyses, cost estimates and con­ the money on streetcars and subways if they suspended indefinitely. clusions. would prefer that to more highways. It has been estimated that at least Prior to undertaking the investigation of On March 14, the Senate passed a compre­ 1,000 Jews who have sought permission the existing condition of the wall, we held hensive highway bill with an amendment al­ discussions with you and your associates lowing $850-millton of trust fund money to to emigrate to Israel were refused visas, concerning various details of your experience be spent on rail mass transit. Similar legis­ regardless of the status of the education related to construction and maintenance of lation is now being considered in the House, tax. the Capitol. We exaxntned photographs, draw­ and although the highway forces are stronger The Soviets contend that 90 percent ings and sample materials of the wall; made there, mass transtt people feel they have a of Jewish applicants for emigration had a detalled inspection of the interior and chance to win. been granted visas and that only a small exterior of the structure, and carefully read To help things along, several of the com­ percentage of intellectuals were being and studied the reports of Thompson & panies now moving from aerospace into mass barred for state considerations. Lichtner and Moran, Proctor, Mueser & Rut­ transit have formed a loose-knit organiza­ ledge. tion to coordinate their efforts. Rohr, Boeing The exit tax depends on the immi­ We also studied histories of the construc­ and LTV are involved, as are General Electric grant's degree of education-as much as tion of the Capitol and the major changes and Westinghouse. $40,000. The few who manage to raise made over the years, the printed delibera­ They have not mounted a publlc lobbying such sums did this either by means of tions of the Commission for the Extension campaign. "We're operating on some very loans from their families or through do- of the U.S. Capitol, the reports in the Con- March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10105

gressional Record concerning the project, On March 25 the Byelorussian-Ameri­ no simple answer to these questions. We and numerous other historical documents. can Association, Inc. sponsored a com­ are all in search of a definitive state­ As part of our study, a detailed structural memorative program in New York City. ment on where we are today, of some­ analysis was made of the walls and floor sys­ thing that will translate the bureau­ tems. Stresses in the walls and other compo­ The association is headquartered in nent parts of the building, as well as in the Flushing, N.Y., with a branch office in cratic edicts and regulations into a read­ foundation sons, were determined. Jamaica. I would like to insert in the able form. In addition, plans and speclflcations were RECORD at this point, the text of my re­ This need has been most ably filled, prepared, proposals were invited and a con­ marks prepared for delivery at the com­ I believe, by the National Association of tract was awarded to perform on-site tests of memorative program: Housing and Redevelopment Officials' various techniques to strengthen and repair REMARKS OF HON. JOSEPH P. AnDABBO Journal of Housing. I am inserting into the walls. This research work included drill­ the RECORD in three installments their ing holes into the exterior wall; injecting I am pleased to share with you the com­ materials into these holes to fill voids, using memoration ceremonies observing the 55th February article, "Housing and Com­ neat cement, sand cement, epoxy and mono­ Anniversary of the proclamation of independ­ munity Issues Looming for 1973-White mer grouts; and drilling test cores of the ence of the Byelorussian Democratic Repub­ House/Congressional Debate." I am sure grouted walls. The work also included re­ lic. It was on March 25, 1918, that Byelorus­ every Member of the House will find the moving exterior paint from typical wall areas sia announced its independence. Just 10 article of great value: months later the Byelorussian people found and applying stone preservatives. Test bor­ HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Is­ ings were made and samples of soU adjacent themselves under the rule of the Bolshevic expansionists living in a puppet state con­ SUES LOOMING FOR 1973 WHITE HOUSE/CON­ to the wall were recovered for laboratory GRESSIONAL DEBATE testing. trolled from the outside by powers in Mos­ The contract for this exploratory work was cow. (By Miss Mary K. Nenno, director, NAHRO awarded to Layne-New York Company, Inc., Each year Americans of Byelorussian de­ Policy and Research Division, and John and work progressed over a period of 10 scent commemor~te the proclamation of in­ Maguire, staff director, NAHRO Informa­ weeks. During this period our office super­ dependence as a reminder of those precious tion Center for Community Development) vised the work with a full-time resident en­ months of freedom in 1918. Each year during The Nixon Administration, in the early gineer and assistant. Senior personnel from those ceremonies, Members of Congress and weeks of 1973, initiated a series of fiscal and our New York office made frequent visits to other government leaders join in expressing budgetary actions and offered a set of pro­ the site to observe and direct the work. their hope for the day wht.n Byelorussians posals designed to curb federal spending and One of our staff architects visited England to wlll once again taste the fruits of freedom. to accomplish the President's program of research restoration projects there. This year the 55th Anniversary of the proc­ "New Federalism," i.e., a restructuring of the The firm of Woodward-Moorhouse & Asso­ lamation of independence makes the occa­ federal system, a reorganization of the na­ ciates, Inc., was retained to conduct labora­ sion more important as landmark anniver­ tional government, and a redirection of pub­ tory tests of soil samples, and the National saries often are considered more not worthy. lic decisionmaking away from the federal Bureau of Standards prepared laboratory The historical background of this day has government to state and local government. tests of grouts, stonework and preservatives. been told and retold many times but as times In the housing and community development Mr. A. J. Eickhoff and Mr. JayS. Wyner were change the lesson of Byelor.ussian independ­ field, these actions included: consulted on painting and paint removal ence does not really change. That lesson is An 1R-month moratorium on new commit­ techniques. Mr. Norman Porter, Geodesist, that freedom once attained must be preserved ments for subsidized housing programs, effec­ was retained to prepare a detailed survey of and maintained. Oppression is bitter and tive in January; control points which had previously been set must be guarded against with all the energy A termination of all community develop­ in the west wall, and Mr. Thomas W. Fluhr, at our command. ment programs, effective June 30, 1973, to be Engineering Geologist, surveyed the Aquia Americans pride themselves on living in replaced in part by a Community Develop­ Creek Quarry and reported on both the qual­ the land of the free and they are sympathetic ment Special Revenue Sharing Program, ity of stone and the feasibtlity of developing to the hopes for liberty held by those who whose effective date would be a year later, the quarry as a source of stone for restora­ are less fortunate. No case is more deserv­ July 1, 1974; and tion work. ing than the Byelorussian people who have The impoundment of nearly 1.25 billion Our studies indicate that while the Capitol lived under oppression and outside domina­ dollars of fiscal year 1973 appropriations anti is over one hundred and fifty years old and tion since that 1919 Soviet takeover. During Congressionally-approved contraot author­ has been exposed to many adverse condi­ these past 54 years the people of Byelorus­ ity for housing, urban development, and tions, it survives in relatively good condi­ sia have been the victims of a deliberate plan rural development programs (see Table 1). tion, attesting to the excellence of its build­ of cuitural genocide. The Soviet regime has The blueprint for the Administration's new ers and to the concern of those responsible tried to destroy any hope for freedom based domestic strategy is set forth in a series of for maintaining this, the national monument on the traditions, culture, or background of Presidential statements issued since the first to our Republic. the Byelorussian people. But that hope wlll of the year: the second inaugural address, Based upon a detailed investigation of the not die. the State of the Union message, the budget west front walls, we conclude that under con­ Hope can be a powerful weapon and the proposal for fiscal year 1974, the 1973 Eco­ ditions indicated in the report, restoration Byelorussian people have not given up. They nomic Report, and the January 8 announce­ of the west central front of the Capitol is cling to their hope and one day, if we are ment of an 18-month housing moratorium. feasible. Further, the restoration can be ac­ patient and continue to support their desire These policy directions are summarized in complished within the general guidelines set for liberty, they wtll achieve the freedom a terse opening paragraph of the budget forth by Congress as a directive to the Com­ they so briefly tasted in 1918. That is why we message sent to Congress on January 29: mission for Extension of the Capitol. participate in these ceremonies marking the "The 1974 budget proposes a leaner federal I would like to thank you and your staff 55th Anniversary of the proclamation of In­ bureaucracy, increased reliance on state and for your assistance and cooperation in this dependence in Byelorussia. That is why gov­ local governments to carry out what are endeavor. Your congenial interest has been ernment and Congressional leaders join in primarily state and local responsibillties, and an appreciated contribution to the comple­ these ceremonies and why the world spot­ greater freedom for the American people to tion of this report, and your genuine concern light focuses today on the oppressed people of make for themselves fundamental choices for the safety of this important structure, Byelorussia. about what is best for them." which has been entrusted to your care, has The keystone of the fiscal year 1974 budget made a profound impression on me. is a 268.7 billion dollar spending ceiling and Respectfully submitted, the maintenance of a 250 b1llion dollar ceiling E. H. PRAEGER. HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVEL­ for the current fiscal year. The President's OPMENT ISSUES firm intention to maintain these ceilings is based on a belief that this decision will HON. RICHARD T. HANNA result in improving the nation's economic BYELORUSSIAN INDEPENDENCE picture. As further detailed in the 1973 OF CALIFORNIA COMMEMORATED economic report, the "268.7" figure is de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES signed to preclude the necessity for new taxes, to reduce inflation to an annual rate HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO Wednesday, March 28, 1973 of 2.5 percent, to lower unemployment to OF NEW YORK Mr. HANNA. Mr. Speaker, almost a 4.5 percent rate, to accelerate national eco­ nomic growth to a 6. 75 percent figure, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES every Member of this body has received complaints about the moratorium on to cut the federal deficit in half, to a. 12.7 Wednesday, March 28, 1973 billion dollar level. housing programs and inquiries as to the While the 268.7 billion dollar spending Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, this week extent of the moratorium, as well as on ceiling does represent an 18.7 billion dollar Congress observes the 55th anniversary what the near future holds for housing. rise over estimated fiscal year 1973 spending, of the proclamation of independence of As every Member who is fa.mlliar with increases in "uncontrollable" items (e.g. in­ the Byelorussian Democratic Republic. our housing programs knows, there is terest on the national debt and Increased 10106 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 social security payments) mean that other programs or their substitution by special the budget document indicates that the full programs must be terminated or curtailed revenue sharing would mean a. reduction in fiscal year 1973 appropriation wlll be com­ to achieve this spending maximum. The the federal bureaucracy, another goal of mitted during the fiscal year (950 million budget, therefore, proposes a termination of "New Federalism." In short, the President dollars for regular Title I programs and 510 over 70 programs and severe spending reduc­ summarized his philosophy in a radio ad­ mlllion dollars for disaster assistance) . For tions for dozens more. Likewise, the budget dress of January 28, telling Americans that fiscal year 1974, 137.5 mil11on dollars is pro­ also reveals the extent of fiscal year 1973 the purpose of his new program was "to get posed but this amount will not support new impoundments necessitated to maintain this big government off your back and out of activity. The funds for 1973 must cover year's 250 billion dollar level and proposes to your pocket." existing activity in urban renewal projects, stretch other fiscal year 1973 appropriations The President's Philosophy: An analysis including NDPs, until the effective date of through the end of fiscal year 1974. of "New Federalism" as contained in the special revenue sharing. The appropriations In addition to the housing and commu­ Presidential messages and documents reveals request for 1974 covers 127 mlllion dollars nity development areas cited above, the five undercurrents in the philosophy that for conventional projects and 10 million dol­ budget also would terminate such programs underlies it. lars for NDPs and is intended only to ac­ as: the public service employment program: First, the President's domestic priorities celerate the close-out of existing projects, Hill-Burton hospital construction; federal are clearly economic, not social. Curbing in­ as well as to "preserve the capability" of library construction grants; regional medical flation is given a higher priority than re­ local agencies (e.g. provide administrative research and treatment centers; and train­ building cities. In fact, controlling the costs) over the year so that they will be in ing programs for medical and scientific re­ economy becomes the chief federal domestic a position to participate in any special re­ search personnel. The budget also proposes to function, with the solution of social prob­ venue sharing for community development phase out federal support for local mental lems relegated to state and local govern­ effective on July 1, 1974. health programs; to curtail or to eliminate ment for action. During a January 28 radio address, the various education and manpower programs, Second, the Administration firmly be­ President cited urban renewal a.s one of the including a. drastic reduction in "impacted" lieves that many existing categorical grant programs that needs replacement. He stated: aid to local school districts; and to reduce programs are not working and, therefore, "[Urban renewal programs] have cost us federal spending in the environmental field. should be eliminated, reevaluated, or re­ billions of dollars, with very disappointing Ironically, the budget does call for increases placed. Housing and community develop­ results. And little wonder. How can a com­ in certain areas, such as a 5.7 billion dollar ment programs fall within this category, mittee of federal bureaucrats hundreds or increase in defense and smaller increases for as noted below. thousands of miles away, decide intelUgently law enforcement, housing and community Third, the "economy first" argument is where building should take place? This is a development research, and mass transit. being used to kill or cripple a number of job for people you elect at the local level. The President also proposes that federal programs that have always been unpopular people whom you know, people you can talk special revenue sharing be substituted for with conservatives. The dismantling of OEO to." many of the programs in the fields of man­ is one prime example of this undercurrent. An additional 20 milUon dollars is made power, education, and community develop­ Fourth, there is a belief that the shifting available under the 312 rehabilitation pro­ ment. H1s budget proposes four such cate­ of responsibility to state and local govern­ gram, bringing the amount available for fis­ gories of special reven ue sharing--commu­ ment in certain areas will improve efforts cal year 1973 to 70 million dollars; this ad­ nity development, education, law enforce­ to cure social problems. This "grass roots" ditional funding will be used for loans to ment, and manpower. These programs, sim­ philosophy is evidenced in the special rev­ facilitate the closing out of urban renewal ilar to those proposed two years ago by the enue sharing proposals. A corollary to this projects. A total of 72 million dollars still President, but not enacted by Congress, would feeling is that state and local government remains impounded and the 117 code en­ allocate federal money to state and local will be strengthened by the shifting of re­ forcement program is not reactivated. governments to be used within these broadly sponsibility to them and that the citizen will Model cities funding will be used to sup­ defined areas. However, in some cases the be better served by local decisionmakers. plement programs in effect as of June 30, special revenue sharing would result in less Fifth, there is a distrust of the present 1973. It is estimated that the funds Will be federal money than is currently being spent federal bureaucracy composed, to a large sufficient to provide localities, on the aver­ and in others (community development) degree, of men and women believed to be age (except for planned variations cities), would not be activated until 12 months after more sympathetic to the philosophy of the new funds a.t a. rate of 55 percent of the the existing programs were terminated. Pro­ Democratic party than to Republican goals. current grant level, from February 1, 1973 posals for two other special revenue sharing Because of civil service protection, many to July 1, 1974, with no additional funds programs--transportation and rural develop­ middle management staff and professionals thereafter. Not all cities will be funded at ment-are dropped from this year's legislative remain within the bureaucracy, having en­ the average rate but funds will be with­ package. tered into federal service during the Ken­ drawn from poor performers and reallocated The President's justification for termi­ nedy and Johnson years. The President may to better performers. According to the Ad­ nating programs and proposing special reve­ feel thwarted by these bureaucrats and, ministration, model cities "does not have a nue sharing is summed up in his State of hence, see a major governmental reorganiza­ significant enough impact on social and eco­ the Union message: "The time has come tion and restructuring as the only means of nomic problems nationally to justify con­ when we must make clear choices--choices accomplishing his objectives. tinued funding as a separate program." between old programs that set worthy goals The fiscal year 1974 budget also antici­ but failed to reach them and new programs HUD 1974 APPROPRIATIONS REDUCED BY 37 pates the termination by June 30 of the that provide a better way to realize those PERCENT community development training and fel­ goals; and choices, too, between competing Appropriations requests to Congress for lowship programs funded a.t a 1973 level of programs--all of which may be desirable in the Department of Housing and Urban De­ 3.5 million dollars and the new community themselves, but only some of which we can velopment for fiscal year 1974 total 2.7 bil­ supplementary assistance program funded afford." lion dollars: a net reduction of 1.6 billion in 1973 at 7.5 million dollars. Implicit in these messages, moreover, is dollars, or 37 percent, from the 4.3 billion The largest increase in the HUD appro­ the President's determination to bring about dollars appropriated for fiscal year 1973. Ac­ priations, other than for housing payments, a restructuring of the federal bureaucracy. tual HUD outlays in 1974, however, will in­ is for research and technology, with a new It is expected that his executive reorgani­ crease from 3.4 million dollars to 4.8 billion dollars, reflecting the momentum of past level of 71.5 Inillion dollars, up 18.5 mil­ zation proposals to create four new super­ lion dollars over last year. This is largely a cabinet posts will again be sent to Congress. commitments. The principal area for reductions is com­ result of the addition of 13 million dollars Pending Congressional action, the President for research and demonstration efl'orts for­ has moved to accomplish much of this re­ munity development, where the appropria­ tions request is over 2 billion dollars less merly performed by the Office of Economic organization through administrative action. Opportunity. The balance of the increase (5 For example, Housing and Urban Develop­ than approved in fiscal year 1973, a drop of over 90 percent. This reduction reflects the million dollars) will be used to maintain ment Secretary Lynn has already been the level of HUD research activity attained named community development counselor termination of all new community develop­ ment activity for seven categorical grant in 1973. A major emphasis of HUD research to the President and, as such, is to coordi­ and technology will be in housing manage­ nate all federal programs in the fields of programs by June 30, 1973 (urban renewal, model cities, water and sewer, open space, ment ( 11 million dollars) ; housing allow­ housing, transportation, and community de­ ances ( 11.6 million dollars) ; other research velopment, not just those administered by neighborhood facilities, rehabilitation loans, and public facility loans) . To replace them to support national housing programs (9.4 his department. In a related move, the million dollars). In addition, a. range of re­ to the budget anticipates Congressional pas­ budget proposes dismantle the Office of sage of urban community development spe­ search activities ( 17.8 million dollars) will Economic Opportunit y and transfer its cial revenue sharing legislation, to be ef­ focus on environment and utility service functions to various other departments. fective on July 1, 1974. The budget document technology; patterns and trends of national (The community action programs would be projects an annual level of 2.3 blllion dollars growth; and delivery, equity, and quality of terminated but could continue at the local for fiscal year 1975 for community develop­ local government services. For the first time level by using general or special revenue ment under new legislation. since 1969, no funds will be allocated to Op­ sharing funds.) Finally, the elimination of In terms of the urban renewal program, eration Breakthrough. March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10107

TABLE 1.-Amount of fiscal year 1973 appro­ and community development (382) pro­ SGT. RENEE L. BROWN OF YOUNGS­ priated funds and congressionally-ap­ grams as a result of the projected reduced TOWN, OHIO, RECEIVES FREE­ proved contract authority currently workload. The full impact of these staff re­ DOMS FOUNDATION AWARD impounded ductions is shown in "functional" areas. Sal­ Appropriated funds for com­ aries and expenses for housing production munity development and and mortgage credit are reduced from 15.7 HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY other HUD programs im­ million dollars in 1973 to 5.3 million dollars OF OHIO pounded: in 1974, the result of the cut of over 1500 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Water and sewer grants __ $490,175,000 employees in this area. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 Section 312 rehabilitation Appropriations requests for all other HUD loan fund • ------­ 72,320,000 activities remain at basically the same levels Mr. CARNEY of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, Nonprofit sponsor loans the Freedoms Foundation recently and grants ______6,686,000 as in 1973. For further detail, see Table 3. Open space grants ______50,050,000 second installment. awarded the George Washin,"ton Medal Public facility loans• ____ _ 20,000,000 of Honor to Sgt. Renee L. Brown, the Interstate land sales pro- TABLE 2.-APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTED FOR THE DEPART­ son of Armand and Geneva Brown of tection program ______2,341,000 MENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT: HSCAL 7487 Salinas Trail, Youngstown, Ohio. YEAR 1974 Sergeant Brown is currently serving [In thousands of dollars) Subtotal ------551,572,000 with the 511th MI Battalion of the U.S. Army in Europe. Estimated Appropria­ The award was presented to Sergeant Congressionally approved appropria· tions contract authority with­ tions: request: Brown for his essay entitled: "The Fis­ held: 1972-73 1973-74 cal Aspects of American Freedom.'' Un­ Section 235 homeowner- fortunately, neither of his parents was ship ------221,000,000 able to attend the award ceremonies due Section 236 rental assist- Housing Production and Mortgage to a serious illr..ess in the family. ance ------171,500,000 Credit : Nonprofit sponsor fund... 1, 000 ••.•..••.•.• Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this Rent supplements ______38,600,000 ------College housing ______10,200,000 TotaL...... 1, 000 • .••••..•.•• opportunity to congratulate Sergeant ======Brown for his outstanding achievement. Housing Production and Mortgage Credit-GNMA: I insert his essay in the RECORD at this Subtotal ------441,300,000 Restoration of capital-special time: · assistance funds .••.. _•. • ...• ••.••••.•• . 95, 647 Participation sales insufficien· THE FISCAL ASPECTS OF AMERICAN FREEDOM Farmers Home Administra­ cies • • .•....••.•..•.• • •.••. 26,054 24,931 (By Renee L. Brown) tion funds impounded: Rural water and waste TotaL .•..... •..•.••..••• 26,054 120,578 I am the Chairman of the Board of Direc­ disposal grants ______120,000,000 tors of that venerable institution American Housing for domestic farm Housing Management: Freedom, Inc., the manufacturer and sole distributor of the most highly revered brand labor ------­ 2,947,000 Houst~M~~~~~~~- ____ . . • ..• 1, 214, 500 1, 305, 000 Mutual and self-help hous- College housing...... 11, 500 19,000 of freedom in the world: the American brand. The purpose of this letter is to clarify a few ing ------832,000 Rent supplements...... 122,000 164,000 Rural housing insurance Sec. 235 (homeownership). 340, 000 412,000 points which have been raised in the recent Sec. 236 (rental)...... 112,000 200,000 controversy about the price of our product. funds ------133,000,000 ------TotaL...... 1, 800,000 2,100,000 As you know, there are some Americans who think that they are paying too much for Subtotal 256,779,000 Community Planning and Manage· what they are getting in return. Perhaps ment: they are unaware of the unequalled high Comprehensive planning grants quality of our product. Total ------1,249,651,000 (701) .•....•.....•..•.. ..•• 100, 000 1 101, 000 At the risk of sounding boastful, I would ComJ!l~nity development • Includes balance available from loan re­ trammg...... 3, 500 ------·-- like to make known, once and for all, that payments. New community assistance American Freedom, Inc., takes a back seat grants •.•.••••••.•••.••.••.___ 7_, 5_o_o_ ._-_-_··_·_-._._._- . to no one. Our freedom is the best in the A significant shift in direction, although Total...... 111,000 110,000 world, bar none. But do we rest on our related only to an increase of 10 million ======laurels, on our past accomplishments? Do dollars in appropriations, is in the "701" Community Development: we become complacent? Never! The quality comprehensive planning program. In the Urban renewal programs . ..•••• 21, 450,000 3 137, 500 control people at American Freedom, Inc. past, the majority of this funding was made Rehabilitation loans (312)...... 70, 000 •••...••••.. Model Cities...... 500,000 ••••••.•.•.• factories work 365 days a year in an effort to directly to cities for comprehensive plan­ Neighborhood facilities grants.. 40,000 ------make the best freedom known to man even ning. Beginning in 1974, grants will be made Open space land programs..... 100,000 .•..••...••• better. Granted, our product has flaws and only to states, with governors expected to imperfections., but fewer by far than anyone make sub-allocations to local governments TotaL ...... 2, 160,000 137, 500 else's freedom. And as I said before, our and other eligible recipients in accordance quality control is constantly working on with state priorities. The Administration in­ Federal Insurance Administration: getting rid of them. But, alas, this takes tends to propose legislation to broaden this National flood insurance •...••.•• 10, 000 20,000 time, money, and a great deal of effort and program into "a more flexible instrument of Interstate Land Sales Registration ••• 885 1, 100 patience on the part of everyone concerned, community development planning and man­ Research and Technology .••.•••••• 53,000 '71, 450 and is reflected of necessity in the price of agement assistance, which will support all our freedom. There's just no other way. Un­ aspects of government management includ­ Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. 9, 489 9, 850 less, of course, you would be satisfied with Department management: ing the application of development re­ General management, admin- a second- or third-rate product, which we sources." istration, staff services •••• • • 25,048 6 29,325 assure you, a discriminat ing American, Appropriations for the Federal Insurance Regional management and would not. So we are obliged to ask for services •••. •. • •.••.•.•.•• • 22,991 20, 200 your tax dollars in order to keep in full op­ Administration's national flood insurance Salaries and expenses, tunc- -program will be doubled, from 10 million tional programs ....•••.•.••• 72, 041 5 64, 300 eration our main factory in Washington, . us that "blessed is the nation where God MAN'S VIEW is the Lord." As a nation whose motto is "In God AMENDMENT TO PERMIT We Trust," we have, in less than two HON. JAMES C. CLEVELAND VOLUNTARY PRAYER centuries, grown to be the mightiest and OF NEW HAMPSHIRE freest and greatest Nation in the history IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the world. These two facts cannot. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 HON. WILMER MIZELL in my estimation, be reconciled as merely Mr. CLEVELAND. Mr. Speaker, at OF NORTH CARO~A coincidental. a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES If we are to do God's work and serve time when the pulpits of many of our churches have become forums for criti­ Wednesday, March 28, 1973 His purpose in this Nation, Mr. Speaker, we must preserve the right to call upon cism of U.S. involvement in South Viet­ Mr. MIZELL. Mr. Speaker, I am today God publicly and seek His guidance nam, and war critics have sought to stake introducing a joint resolution for a con­ openly and confidently, not covertly and exclusive claim to the moral side of the stitutional amendment to permit vol­ not in fear of legal reprisal. question, I have been encouraged to find untary prayer in America's public For any other situation to prevail to more reflective and reasoned views ex­ schools and other public places. this country is a travesty of the first pressed by a prominent clergymar.. in my I have offered this same amendment amendment to the Constitution, rather congressional district. in both the 91st and 92d Congresses, than a fulfillment of it. The Rev. Chandler H. McCarty, rec­ Mr. Speaker, and we have come closer to That amendment guarantees the right tor of St. James Episcopal Church, passage each time we have reintroduced to free exercise of religion. But the series Keene, N.H., in a sermon on the cease­ the measure. of court decisions I mentioned has called fire January 28, sought to render no final I recall particularly the keen disap­ that right into question, and the amend­ judgment on our conduct in Southeast pointment I felt when this resolution ment I am proposing is intended to re­ Asia. As to justification, he said: was defeated narrowly in the House assert the right to call upon God how­ No one can say for certain and that must during the last Congress, and I recall ever, whenever, and wherever one be lett for future historians to decide. as well the disappointment felt by my chooses. But his historical perspective reminds constituents in North Carolina's Fifth I urge the expeditious consideration us that the great evil of war has none­ Congressional District and by millions of this resolution, and I look forward theless served on occasion in times past of Americans throughout the Nation on with millions of Americans to its passage to preserve from extinction the inherit­ that occasion. and ratification. ance of cultural and ethical values we I believe the membership of the House cherish today. These values underlie our in this 93d Congress will provide the reverence for life and abhorrence for margin needed for victory in this cause war. They also inspire our dedication to which I, and many of my distinguished MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN­ freedom in which these values fiourish colleagues, have fought for so long. HOW LONG? and our willingness to defend them for As I have said on several occasions ourselves and others. in the past, Mr. Speaker, I am person­ I commend to my colleagues the text ally convinced that the authors of the HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE of the Rev. Mr. McCarty's sermon which Constitution had no intention of for­ OF IOWA follows: bidding public prayer, or of abridging IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CEASE-FmE IN VIETNAM any religious freedom. This is the true Wednesday, March 28, 1973 The hearts and minds of all Americans this meaning and purpose of the first day are filled with gladness and gratitude amendment, as I read it. Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, for more over the signing of the Vietnam cease-fire But the courts have disagreed with than 3 years, I have reminded my col­ agreement. It has been a long and frustrating this opinion in a series of decisions be­ leagues daily of the plight of our pris­ conflict which has taken a heavy. heavy toll. ginning 10 years ago. In 1971, for ex­ oners of war. Now, for most of us, the It has been a devlsive, polarizing experience ample, the local school board in Leyden, war is over. Yet despite the cease-fire tor our nation. tor as the frustration of agreement's provisions for the release of Americans mounted, we found ourselves 1n Mass., passed a resolution providing for our impatience inclined to think in terms of a 5-minute period of voluntary prayer all prisoners, fewer than 600 of the more extremes. The desire to conclude hostilities before school classes began. The State than 1,900 men who were lost while on and bring American soldiers home led many supreme court struck down that resolu­ active duty in Southeast Asia have been to believe that there were only two possible tion as unconstitutional, and the U.S. identified by the enemy as alive and ways of accomplishing this. Supreme Court on October 12, 1971, re­ captive. The remaining 1,220 men are One was to pull-out without further regard fused to disturb the lower court's still missing in action. to whatever commitments had been made by A child asks: "Where is Daddy?" A our nation, and without further concern for decision. the people of South Vietnam or Southeast The courts have said the authors of mother asks: "How is my son?" A wife Asia. The other was by a massive exercise the Constitution did not approve of pub­ wonders: "Is my husband alive or dead?" of force which would bring the enemy to his lic prayer, despite the fact that at the How long? knees 1n surrender. Constitutional Convention of 1787, every Until those men are accounted for, The intensity with which Individuals and session was begun with a public prayer, their families will continue to undergo group held to these conflicting convictions as suggested by Benjamin Franklin. the special suffering reserved for the rel­ has left scars and divisions which will be atives of those who simply disappear long in healing. However. the policy our gov­ The courts have said that the invoca­ ernment committed itself to follow was to se­ tion of God's blessing through public without a trace, the living lost. the dead cure a peace without victory and without; prayer is not consistent with our herit­ with graves unmarked. For their fam­ surrender. This mlddle course ha.s now re­ age of religious freedom, despite the fact ilies, peace brings no respite from frus­ sulted in a cease-fire agreement and 1t 1s that not one of the 37 Presidents of the tration, anxiety, and uncertainty. Some our hope and prayer that we may not know a United States has assumed the "splendid can look forward to a whole lifetime time of lasting peace when perhaps the misery" of that Office without first call- shadowed by grief. dream of Isaiah wlll finally be fulfilled. March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10113 At such a time as this it is the inclination time has come when the vision of the prophet tion in the arts to enhance the quality of of many to believe that war never accom­ Isaiah will finally be fulfi.lled. "The day would life. plished anything. War is the great evil in the come," Isaiah said, "when men would beat It is the responsibillty of the Arts Depart­ world, but there have been times when it was their swords into plowshares and their spears ment to involve in some phase of the arts a necessary evil. Some wars have been decisive into pruning hooks, when nation would no every federated club and every member of for all that has followed after. longer rise up against nation, and there that club. Involve yourself and include the One such war took place in the fifth cen­ would be no more war." May we as a. nation arts as an integral part of your llving ex­ tury B.C., when a small army of Greeks, most do all within our power to make this dream perience. of them from Athens and Sparts, turned back come true in our time. As a clubwoman, seek out programs that the hordes of invading Persians who had Will develop a better understanding of Amer­ swept across Asia and into Europe intent on ica's rich cultural heritage. absorbing Greece into the oriental Persian Promote and support professional talent Empire. Many men fought and died 8lt Mara­ ARKANSAS ARTIST USES TALENTS whenever possible, placing special emphasis thon and Thermopylae and Salamis and they TO RECORD HISTORICAL STEAM­ on encouraging the talents of youth. Attend prevailed. If they had not, there would have their concerts and recitals, they need an ap­ been no Plato or Aristole or Socrates. The BOATS ON CANVAS preciative audience. Show civic pride to that whole tradition of Greek culture with its in­ which is unique or interesting about your sistence on freedom of mind and spirit would town. Study your town, your state, your have been extinguished by an oppressive des­ HON. BILL ALEXANDER country. Take pleasure in becoming an ex­ potism. OF ARKANSAS pert on local history, customs and people. Another such event took place in the third Be aware of our country and state contribu­ and second centuries B.C., when Romans IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions to all forms of art. were engaged in the Punic Wars in Carthage. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 It has become my opportunity during the carthage in North Africa, was a colony of past few years to study and paint a part of the Phoenicians and it was in these wars Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, we in our history that could only occur here in that Hannibal, the great Ca.rthagenian gen­ the delta country of Arkansan have long America.. There are many rivers in the earth eral, crossed the Alps with his elephants in been aware and proud of our history and that resemble the Mississippi family, but one CYf the most remarkable military feats of of the contributions the people of the none of them was being intensively developed all time. He invaded and occupied Rome for Mississippi River region have made to at the same time as the American invention a number of years, but finally the Romans of steam power. No other nation had the the development of our Nation. I am overwhelming urge to settle so vast an area were victorious. afraid, however, that all too often there If Rome had not prevailed, the world of in such a short time. So, the steamboat and the Western Mediterranean would have been are certain things that we take for the destiny of Ameriman, now a steamboat oriental in culture and institution. The granted and which may be forgotten history are firmly locked in history and each Roman Republic of Caesar, Cicero and Pom­ with the passing of time. That is why depended on the other for its eventual suc­ pey would not have existed. There would as the tricentennial celebration of the cess. have been no Roman law to serve as the Mississippi River approaches, I would "A Steamboat" by George Fitch is an en­ foundation of our legal institutions and the bring to your attention a woman with gine on a raft, with $11,000 worth of jigsaw Greco-Roman culture on which western an unusual talent. work around it. Steamboats are built of civilization has been built would have been wood, tin, shingles, canvas and tWine, and suppressed and extinguished. Mrs. Marion S. Bradford of Harris­ looks like a bride of Babylon. A steamboat A third such event took place in the eighth burg, Ark., paints steamboats-those must be so built that when the river is low century A.D., when an army of gallant colorful and infamous boats which toted and the sandbars come out for air, the first Frenchmen under the lee.dership of Charles cargo, gamblers, and river'boat queens mate can tap a keg of beer and run the Martel opposed invading hordes of Moham­ and which meant so much to the growth boat four miles on the suds. SteamboatS medans who had already swept a.cross North and success of many of the towns up were once the beasts of burden for the great Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic, had en­ Middle West. The city which could not ~ gulfed Spain and were now intent on the and down the river as well as to the reached at low water by a steamboat with conquest of the remainder of western Eu­ economy of the entire country. Mrs. two large, hot stacks, twenty-five negro rope. If Charles Martel and his French sol­ Bradford recognizes the importance of roustabouts on the bow and a gambler in diers had not stopped the Mohammedan in­ art in preserving the local history, cul­ the cabin, Withered away in infancy. The vasion, Western Europe would probably not ture, and customs of a region and her most decorative part of a great river is a be Christian today, for everywhere they con­ paintings are not just for the esthetic tall, white steamboat with a. chime whistle quered they put Christianity to the sword, value. Working with a researcher, she and a fi.a.shing wheel in the far foreground. and in most of the areas where they con­ Perhaps you would like to know how this records on canvas accurate and detailed interest in painting steamboats ca.me about. quered; it has never revived. descriptions of the steamboats of the In our own time, who of us can forget the The one that most people enjoy is that one sacrifice of thqse who stopped the advance of 1900's and 1920's. These paintings are of the first steamboats up the Arkansas River Hitler as he launched a. madman's attempt presently being recorded on microfilm was the Robert Thompson. My grandfather's to plunge the whole world into a new dark and will be available to libraries all over name was Robert Thompson and perhaps a age of brutality and barba.rtsm? We can't the country. reincarnation of a. steamboat. The more conceive what life today would be like if Recently, Mrs. Bradford spoke at a logical reason is a love of boating on the Hitler had won. rivers in northeast Arkansas, where my Dad meeting of the Osceola Progressive Club and I spent many happy hours boating and So although war is the great evil in the where she spoke of the role of the arts world, we cannot claim that no war has ever fishing. When I started painting, a towboat accomplished anything, for again and again and of her experiences in painting river builder asked me to do commissions for hiS throughout history only armed might has steamboats. I share that discussion witb company. A retired riverman, now a steam­ preserved the institutions of freedom and my colleagues at this point: boat historian, heard of my work and sug­ justice. gested that I try painting steamboats and Mas. BRADFORD BRINGS RivER BOAT PAINTINGS help get this important part of history on Perhaps only the historian of the future (By Emma Nell Prance) canvas. There are few artist who can or will be able to say With certainty whether our involvement in Vietnam was a tragic Mrs. Marlon Bradford, painter of river want t.o spend the necessary time to draw the mistake from start to finish in which we steam boats, of Ha.rrtsburg, Ark. gave the intricate details of steamboats, and my endeavored to impose our will and prevent program at the March meeting of the Osceola friend was worried that the coming genera­ the majority of those people in that divided Progressive Club last week. Mrs. Bradford a tions would not have a record of many of country from determining their own destiny, member of the Harrisburg Federated Wom­ the steamboats. There are many steamboat or whether as others claim, we have pre­ en's club, has twenty paintings of river photographs, but many of them even as late vented a. totalitarian, anti-Christian Com­ steamboats on display this month at Mis­ as 1900's and 1920 were not photographed. munist conspiracy from conquering all of sissippi County Library. Since working with my friend we have re­ Southeast Asia in a step toward world domi­ Mrs. H. L. Veasman, Art Chairman of the corded many of the boats from his descrip­ nation. Who can say, but if the latter should Osceola Club, introduced Mrs. Bradford who tion following research. These are being re­ prove to be right, then perhaps our involve­ talked on "The Arts-GFWC 1973-1974". Fol­ corded on microfilm and will be available in ment in Vietnam w1Il have been as important loWing is the text of the talk: Ubrarles over the country. The present proj­ as the Greeks combating the Persians or the "GOALS-Develop respect for our rich, cul­ ect is of special interest to this area as it Ls Romans the carthagenians. turally divergent heritage-nurture reverence the history of the Lee Line out of Memphis. for all forms of art--share the responsiblUty In February, 1972 the steamer, Delta No one can say for certain and that must of passing on to future generations the abil­ Queen made history for the State of Ar­ be left for future historians to decide. Our ity to create family and ethnic arts and kansas that was noted all over the world. task now is to heal our differences within our crafts, thus assuring the endurance of cus­ She made her first trip up the new Arkansas own nation and deal With our former enemies toiil&-involving the youth and the elderly, River navigation system to Little Rock to in a Christian splrlt of forgiveness and recon­ challenging their creative a.b111ties-encour­ race the excursion boat Border Star. It was c111ation. We must work and pray that the a.ge creativity, appreciation, and participa.- my privilege to make this excursion. The 10114 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973

Cincinnati office of the Delta Queen had ers to decorate the tables carrying out a St. State Police and the University of Mary­ given me special permission to exhibit on Patrick Day theme. Serving with Mrs. Nichol land. But the high cost of purchasing board during this excursion and told me were H. F. Ohlendorf, Mrs. R. B. Bolthouse, in take the paintings on board with me in Mrs. Leo Schrleck, Jr., Mrs. Joe Rhodes, Sr., new helicopters is a serious obstacle Memphis. My husband and I were carrying Miss Ruth Richmond and Mrs. J. B. Seltz. widespread application of that program. the paintings on and were suddenly assisted Other guests in addition to the speaker If the Pentagon's surplus vehicles were by a very tall, distinguished looking gentle­ and Miss Gant were Mrs. Dick Cromer, Miss freed for civilian use, our highways man who introduced himself as Mr. Quinby. Julie Mae Morrison, Mrs. Lorene Gibbons, would be safer and thousands of lives As we were spreading the work out in the Mrs. Charles Wildy, and Mr. Elton McCann, would be saved. An added benefit is that lounge as requested the tall broad.shouldered Junior High Counselor in the Osceola school thousands of retUTD.ing Vietnam veter­ Capt. Ernest Wagner came lumbering down system. ans could be employed across the coun­ from the Texas Lounge and over to where we were. try. operating and servicing the heli­ He was closely followed by the Head Stew­ copters. CIVILIAN USE OF SURPLUS On March 23, an editorial in the Sara­ ard, Mr. Miles and the First Mate, Oapt. Don HELICOPTERS Sanders. Immediately thereafter five more sota Herald-Tribune of Sarasota, Fla., gentlemen joined us and we were introduced expressed support for civilian use of to none other than two former owners of HON. HENRY S. REUSS these surplus helicopters. The text of the boat, two pllots who first brought the OF WISCONSIN that editorial follows: boat from New Orleans to Cincinnati on its PUT USEFUL "CHOPPERS" To Woax first trip up the Mississippi and "Mr. River" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wis.) put for­ Capt. Fredway, Jr., who was responsible for Wednesday, March 28, 1973 the Delta Queen getting from Sacramento ward a fine idea last week, when he sug­ around through the Panama Canal and up Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, on February gested that the military should release for to New Orleans. He is also a noted author of 15, I wrote to Secretary of Defense civllian use more than 1,400 surplus heli­ many books on steamboating. Well I was Elliot L. Richardson urging that surplus copters being stored on American bases. llke a kid in a candy store, but I suddenly military helicopters be made available "Since the Vietnam ceaseftre, most of these realized the importance of this creditque and helicopters have been declared in excess of felt that 1f they liked my work and it "pass­ for use in civilian medical rescue pro­ the requirements of the United States air ed" then I would continue painting steam­ grams and requesting a summary of the services," Reuss said in his statement. "The boats. Reaction gave me reason to do so, as number and types of vehicles now in Pentagon has authority to make them avail­ there was only two changes suggested. storage. able for clvUian use. But st111 they remain I am sure many of you have traveled and During the Vietnam conflict, thou­ ln storage, deteriorating and unused, when had much more sophisticated experience sands of lives were saved by using air­ they could meet civllian needs." than those we had on this trip, but having borne evacuation to provide prompt The usefulness and effectiveness of hell­ talked since then with other passengers who copters for transporting the crltlcally lll and were on the same historic excursion, we have medical treatment. Helicopters could injured, and for assisting in pollee work, has felt that there could not have been a more serve the same purpose in domestic traf­ been demonstrated in many parts of the enthusiastic steamboat passenger list at any fie accidents and natural disasters, and country. time. We have since learned of nearly all the would be of additional value in law en­ Manatee County's Sheriff Weitzenfeld, has passenger's interest in steamboating, and we forcement, traffic control, and fire pre­ put in a request for a helicopter, but so far feel it would make a good story. vention and control. the funds have not been available. Probably There were movies being made by a Cali­ On March 13, I received a response Sheriff Hardcastle of Sarasota, and other fornia movies making company, the Presi­ from Joseph P. Cribbins, Director of pollee and public safety agencies, would like dent of the Overseas Airways and his Swedish to have these aircraft, if they didn't have to Wife joined us to add to the celebrity list Aviation Logistics for the Department pay the relatively high initial cost of pur­ but there were small amusing incidences of the Army, listing 1,459 military heli­ chasing them. that add to the enjoyment of anyone's trav­ copters currently in storage, most of Another advantage of having these hell­ els. Such as the first night at dinner. them at the Military Aircraft Storage copters released is that they could provide We found after about a forty minute con­ and Disposal Center at Davis-Monthan good jobs for the hundreds and hundreds of versation that c·ur table had been bugged and Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. Mr. Crib­ Vietnam veterans who were trained to top we had been included in the filming. We proficiency as helicopter pilots, but cannot bins conceded that the Pentagon has fl.nd jobs in civil life because of the rela­ immediately tried to recall what had been received "many requests from Federal, said, and was amused to remember the con­ tively low number of helicopters in use. versation was how the city of 011 Trough got State, and local agencies for loan, trans­ In the aftermath of World War II, millions its name. The bear oil was sent down the fer, or sale of helicopters to be used for of dollars' worth of bulldozers, electric gen­ river in a tree trough. The next night we medical evacuation and other purposes," erating plants, and every conceivable type of had forgotten this incident, I joined three and he acknowledged that the Pentagon equipment was destroyed, frequently by other ladles at the table and conversation has been testing a medical evacuation dumping from barges into the Pacific. started with how nice it was not to have to program-military assistance to safety The theory was that if this equipment wear a girdle with some of the long dresses. were returned to the United States it would and traffic-MAST-at several military cut down on the manufacture of new equip­ We later again found out that our table was bases since 1970. However, Mr. Cribbins bugged, so we began to think about what ment and reduce the number of jobs. we were going to say before going to dinner. said that the Pentagon has decided not We just do not buy this theory, but in­ The Border Star and the Delta Queen to expand the program at the present stead feel that 1f the surplus helicopters were raced again last month and we had great time. put into the market, their use would stimu­ fun participating in it. My son rode the Most of these 1,459 vehicles are sur­ late the production of spare parts, the cre­ winner-Delta Queen and my husband and I plus to the requirements of the military ation of overhaul centers, and ultimately en­ rode the Border Star. We are looking for­ service, and the Pentagon has the au­ courage more communities and businesses to ward to the race again next year when the purchase newer, more modern versions. thority, under laws such as the Federal Probably manufacturers have some hesi­ Border Star is going to beat the Delta Queen. Property and Administrative Services How about this having "steamboat races" tancy about the helicopters being released in this atomic age. Among steamboat circles Act of 1949, to make 4;hem available for bearing their brand names, since there has the races at Louisville each year is not the civilian use. But the Pentagon keeps been an unusual rash of suits against air­ Kentucky Derby but the one between the them in mothballs, when they could craft manufacturers, with juries tending to Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen. meet urgent civilian needs. hold the manufacturers responsible, even Mrs. Bradford closed her talk by expressing Many of the people injured in high­ though it was never proved whether the thanks to the club for inviting her and said accident bringing on the suit was caused by way crashes die needlessly or are per­ a pilot or mechanical failure. she hoped t hat something from the talk manently disabled because they do not would make the exhibits of her steamboats However, as these helicopters are in United in the library more meaningful to those receive prompt and proper care. A re­ States government hands, there must be who came to view them. cent report by the Center for the Study some way to interpose the government's sov­ Mrs. E. M. Beatty gave the invocation at of Trauma at the University of Mary­ ereignty between the manufacturers and the the luncheon. Miss Nellie Gant , an employee land says that "for every 30 minutes users. To date, the FAA, apparently cooper­ at the Mississippi County Library played that lapse from the time of injury to ating with manufacturers, has declined to issue civil airworthiness certificat es for the violin m usic accompanied at the piano by the time of definitive care, the mortality helicopters. Mrs. H. L. Veasman during the time the rate increase threefold." Unquestionably some of the surplus heli­ ladies were having lunch. Since 1969, Maryland has had a civil­ copters are not readily suitable for civllian Mrs. Benny Nichol was ch airman of host­ ian program of emergency medical evac­ use, but since they range from small, two­ esses who used arrangements of spring flow- uation, operated jointly by the Maryland place, scout machines to medium transport March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10115 hellcopters, many of them would surely be A Vietnam veteran who had his leg am­ eight veterans withdrew from Grossmont of great help to the publlc 1n a variety of putated at his hip would sutfer an even College. Many of them, and I am unable to roles. greater benefit cut from a grateful Nixon ad­ give you the exact number, were forced to Rep. Reuss has a good idea, and we hope ministration-from $275 a month to $106. drop out because of the lack of funds. that a way can be found to get around the And if he were lucky enough to have had his The same complaint continues to arise­ red tape. What better use could there be for leg amputated only at mid-thigh, his bene­ payments from the V .A. have not arrived. surplus m111tary equipment than providing fits would be reduced to $77 a month, from I am fully aware that the veteran himself jobs for veterans, and for saving civllian the $179 he receives under present schedules. often contributes to this problem, but never­ llves? This benefit reduction, recommended by theless many veterans are unable to buy the President's VA chief, would save Mr. books and supplies, are unable to pay fees, Nixon $160 milllon of the $277 m1llion cut to pay rent, to buy food, and in many cases, ON CHISELING THE VETS he has proposed for the Veterans Adminis­ to support families whlle checks are being tration. held by the V .A. Other cuts would be 1n veterans' educa­ I now have 1n my omce a young Vietnam HON. LIONEL VAN DEERLIN tion benefits, employment programs and era veteran who is married, has chlldren, and work-study programs (which could provide o:r CALIFORNIA who has not received a penny from the V.A. soo jobs for veterans at our own Southwest­ since he filed his papers last November. He IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ern College, alone) . is withdrawing from school today in order Wednesday, March 28, 1973 The cuts for the disabled were justlfied. to look for work. Now, he wlll not receive by Mr. Nixon's VA bossman, Donald Johnson, benefits, he has no job, and he has to repay Mr. VAN DEERLIN. Mr. Speaker, ar­ on grounds that, thanks to new prosthetics borrowed funds, as well as pay rent and care ticulate voices have been raised in the and fewer jobs requiring manual labor, being for his family. San Diego area---a part of which I rep­ disabled isn't such a handicap any more. Can anyone really believe that he and hta resent--to protect the shabby treatment Mr. Johnson, of course, is not disabled. famlly are not becoming embittered? returning Vietnam veterans are receiv­ The cuts, he said, "just reflect our abUity And now, may I ask four important and to spend prudently and wisely." pertinent questions? tnz at the hands of a government that We do not think it is either prudent or 1. In view of all of the rhetoric from the seemingly no longer cares. wise to cut the benefits of Vietnam veterans; Veterans' Administration, the President and These expressions, I think, are an indi­ if anything, in the face of infiation and the numerous poUticians, when is the V .A. going cation of the nationwide concern over agonizing readjustment problems all vet­ to streamline its procedures so that veterans the plight of these veterans. I am sure erans face in returning home from an un­ can receive the services and benefits to which that all our colleagues have been seeing popular war, the benefits should be in­ they are legally entitled? and hearing plenty on this score from creased. 2. When is the V .A. going to publish guide­ But that's the human way of ,looking at it. lines and implement that portion of Public their own districts. Mr. Nixon, however, looks a,t things differ­ Law 92-540 relative to "work study" allow­ I w111 include at the end of these brief ently. He believes in the phllosophy of "self­ ances for veterans? remarks an editorial and a letter, both help" (even if you're lacking an arm or a 3. When is the V .A. going to publish guide­ published originally in newspapers serv­ leg.) lines to implement advance payments to vet­ ing the San Diego suburbs. That's why he's slashing the antipoverty erans who have returned to college, as the . The editorial, which appeared last program and cutting back on aid to the dis­ publlc law now provides? week in the Chula Vista Star-News, is a advantaged, the hungry, the Ul-educated and 4. When are educational funds for veterans, lltany of the injustices perPetrated on the poor. No longer, under the Nixon Doc­ approved and signed into law under the so­ trine, should the unfortunate feed at the called "Cranston Amendment," to be released these former service men and women. government trough. and made avallable? The letter was carried a few days earlier The fortunate, however, will continue to And now, I would Uke to make two sug­ in the El Cajon Daily Californian; it doc­ munch there happlly. For there is noth.ing gestions: uments the desperate circumstances in in Mr. Nixon's budget that cuts fat subsidies 1. San Diego is urgently 1n need of a re­ which many veterans who are attempt­ to defense contractors or subsidies in the gional oftlce of the Veterans• Administration, ing to attend school under the OI b111 form of tax loopholes to oll companies and if only on a temporary basis, 1n order to speed now find themselves. mlllionaires who get away with paying llttle up services to thousands of veterans in the Both documents follow: or nothing in taxes-whlle Mr. Nixon cries area. Money has seldom been an obstacle to budgetary poormouth and takes it out on the pursuit of war. Why should it now prove CHISELING VIET VETS the hides of the disadvantaged, veteran and to be an obstacle when serving its veterans? Whatever one's views on the United States' nonveteran alike. 2. At a time when most public and private intervention in Vietnam, it was not the fault Mr. Nixon's proposed VA budget makes schools and colleges are being forced to re­ of those who served there. The rank-and-file the Vietnam serviceman a second-class vet­ duce their budgets, they are also being asked members of our armed forces. did not make eran-with far fewer benefits than for vet­ by the V .A. to take on a greater and greater the decisions that dragged us into the war; erans of America's prior wars. (Indeed, the clerical task in the processing of veterans• that was the doing of the Presidents and the benefits for the disabled from earlier wars benefits. Grossmont College is a prime exam­ Pentagon generals and the admirals who would remain the same). ple of such a squeeze. fight wars from safe positions, llke from Perhaps Mr. Nixon felt he could get away In April, 1972, we received a check from the 10,000 miles away. with this poUtically because Americans re­ V .A. in the amount of $5,464 to compensate Our servicemen, rather, were the war's vic­ garded Vietnam as a second-class war. for services to 1,888 veterans who, according tims, like the people of Vietnam and those Johnny did not come marching home to to V.A. records, were attending this ~stitu­ Americans whose consciences compelled them brass bands and cheering throngs, and only tion as of Oct. 31, 1971. This amount scarcely to leave their homeland rather than be a minority of Americans viewed the war as pays the salary of a full-time clerk, and does forced to fight in an enterprise they con­ an heroic enterprise. not compensate for services rendered to: sidered odious. But that is all beside the point. For a. Several hundred veterans whose papers All of our servicemen in Vietnam lost America owes a debt to its Vietnam veterans were processed earlier, but (who) withdrew something-if only some of the best years of not because of the merits or demerits of the from school before Oct. 31. their lives. More than 50,000 lost life itself. war, not because of what the war accom­ b. Hundreds of additional veterans who en­ And a quarter of a million have lost part of plished or did not accomplish, but simply rolled, and were fully processed by our staff, themselves-a hand ... a foot ... an eye because it's right and it's fair. during the spring semester. . . . or the abllity of a part of their body to Our servicemen in Vietnam paid a high c. Hundreds of veterans who attended properly function. price for a governmental decision; rightly or summer session and who had to be processed Yet the Nixon administration, which is wrongly, the American people supported by our staff. long on rhetoric about the "great debt" we that decision, or at least passively accepted d. Hundreds of inquiries, problems and owe our Vietnam veterans, wants to chisel it. Therefore the government and the Amer­ complaint s that come to our desk during the down their benefits. ican people should compensate our Vietnam year. Incredibly, at the same time the last Amer­ veterans. At the same time, our staff, with a pay­ ican troops are being withdrawn from Viet­ We hope t:aat Mr. Nixon's callous cuts in ment from the V.A. of $5,464 for the entire nam and a relieved nation is welcoming Vietnam veterans' benefits are fully restored year, is being asked to form a veterans' club; home its POWs, Mr. Nixon has presented to by Congress. help find jobs for veterans; make loans; pro­ Congress a budget that slashes over a quarter vide special counsel11ng; attack the drug of a billion dollars from the Veterans Ad­ ministration for benefits to veterans. COLLEGE VETS ARE DROPPING OUT abuse problem; provide special classes; im­ Much of the cut in the VA's proposed An open letter to Veterans' Administration, provise tutorial services; and many other budget would be in aid for disabled Vietnam Regional Office, Federal Bullding, 11000 things while experiencing severe budget veterans. Thus, a serviceman who lost five Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024. problems of our own. fingers in Vietnam would have his benefits Gentlemen : If these services are to be rendered, and cut in half-from $212 a month under the During the month of February, 1973, the if we are to recruit and keep veterans in existing benefit schedule to $106. first month of our current semester, eighty- school, then we need more funds for those 10116 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 services. If they aren't forth-coming, then House which obviously does not quite dom from bondage and tyranny observed there ts not much we can do for those "free­ know how to handle an ally protesting the 55th anniversary of the founding of dom loving," "patriotic," veterans of whom a treat to the gravy train. News from President Nixon said on Oct. 24, 1971, "It the Byelorussian Democratic Republic. ls to our veterans that we owe the final debt Frankfurt, Germany, however, mav I am happy to join with my colleagues in tor America's greatness, and we intend to pay show a turning. Crowds there demon­ the House in paying tribute to the brave that debt." strated the other day against the U.S. Byelorussians. mllitary presence in their city and de­ The Byelorussians were forced to live manded its withdrawal. Perhaps, with under czarist rule for several centuries BRING THEM HOME our dollars no longer in high esteem, we until they seized the opportunity af­ shall hear again that ''Yankee, Go forded by the Russian Revolution of 1917, Home!" cry which echoed so widely a and proclaimed their independence on HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS generation ago. March 25, 1918. They formed their own OF PENNSYLVANIA It was disturbing to me to read re­ democratic government in their capital IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cently that the White House is using our city Minsk, and began to rebulld their Wednesday, March 28, 1973 troops in Europe and Japan as bargain­ wartorn country. Unfortunately, the ing chips to get trade concessions. This Byelorussian independence of 1918 was to Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, with the surely is an abrupt departure from the be short lived. In December 1918, the Red return of our prisoners from Indochina, original purpose of sending them there. Army seized Minsk and established a the time certainly is here for a major The President was overheard by news­ government of military revolutionary effort of Congress, backed up by a strong men as he told NATO Commander Gen. committees. Today, there is no real free public opinion, to bring home, too, those Andrew J. Goodpaster: • and independent Byelorussia. They are thousands of other captives of our past The problem of trade wlll be interesting under a Communist regime imposed on illusions. and sometimes difficult with our European them by the Soviet Union. However, the I speak of the 300,000 Americans wast­ allies and Japan. We can't overlook the fact desire of the Byelorussian people for ing good years in Western Europe, the that all this is tied into security arrange­ their national freedom has not perished. • 50,000 in Japan, and the approximately ments we have with Europe and Japan. The fight for Byelorussian independence 50,000 still manning the watch towers Thus the President, in words certainly is the fight of all the captive nations. Let along the historic truce line in Korea­ meant to be overheard, warned the Eu­ us continue to hope for the day when all supposedly safeguarding the freedom ropeans and Japanese that, unless they these courageous people can truly say of peoples over there. stop clobbering us with unfair trade they are a free nation just as they were We know by now how unfair, if not practices, we will cut the strength of our for those few moments in 1918. totally absurd, have been the policies security forces in their countries. An end which placed them there. They are com­ to the dollar drain of these forces, I pelled to make the sacrifices of standy might add, would make the need of such soldiers in foreign lands when those concessions less urgent. A BILL TO EXTEND UNEMPLOY­ lands have ample men and means to pro­ If we bring home our men, then what MENT BENEFITS tect themselves. And against whom are shall we do with them? This question al­ they standing ,guard? The old cold war ways is raised in some justification for enemies long ago lost their fearsomeness, keeping them away. But I say that, if HON. JEROME R. WALDIE at least to our protected allies, and today they cannot be returned and readily ab­ OF CALIFORNIA are claimed to be our friends. sorbed in private employment, they still IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Our role abroad has been an injustice can be kept in uniform here and doing Wednesday, March 28, 1973 to those personally caught up in it and tasks more meaningful to their own a damaging factor to the U.S. economy. country than they are doing now. And Mr. WALDIE. Mr. Speaker, major re­ The cost of maintaining the overseas their support money and their own ductions in the employee levels of Fed­ troops is estimated at $17 billion a year spending would be retained in the domes­ eral agencies, layoffs in private industry, with the figure expected to go up another tic economy, providing, indeed, a $17 bil­ inadequate public services, and rising billion next year. And yet we insist on lion shot in the arm which the economy prices make it very clear that Congress paying this enormous bill despite the well could use. must now respond vigorously in order to widening trade balance against us, two So, I say, let us bring them home from deal with the existing problems of un­ recent devaluations of the dollar, the un­ Europe, Japan, and other places too and, employment. manageable Federal deficits and the cruel with them home, give full attention to I am introducing today a bill to neglect, because we lack the money to protecting our own Nation from its real extend unemployment insurance bene­ meet them, of urgent needs at home. enemies of inflation, urban decay, pollu­ fits for an additional 13 weeks beyond We are persisting in this insanity for tion, disease, crime, drugs, traffic pile­ the current 26-week period in States only one reason. With all good inten­ ups, and so forth. It is ridiculous, in my which have an insured unemployment tions, we allowed ourselves to get trapped mind, to raise the fears that, if we did rate of more than 4 percent. Essentially, in it while failing to foresee its in­ this, the Russians and the Chinese sud­ the provisions of this bill eliminate the evitable consequences--that, once in and denly would turn aggressive and that our "on" and "off" trigger mechanism in the .established, we would find it extremely allies, rather than using their own 1970 Federal State Extended Compen­ hard to get our troops out. So we let swollen treasuries and their own forces sation Benefits law. This would thereby them stay. to protect themselves, would quickly lie extend unemployment benefits to work­ Our forces have meant a steady multi­ down and accept the chains of unspeak­ ers, now jobless, in over 20 States. blllion :flow of U.S. dollars for their able tyranny. This is so overdrawn as to In my State of California, unadjusted maintenance into the countries where seem silly to us now. And, still, it was unemployment figures for January of they are posted. These dollars have had this very kind of scare thinking which this year show that 5.9 percent of the heavy impact on the West German pros­ first led Uncle Sam into trying to protect, work force is unemployed--over 500,000 perity and the good times generally L11 with our men and resources, the whole people. Over the last 4 years California's Europe and in Japan. Now, joined by free world. unemployment rate has risen from 4.5 those hoarded from our giveaway pro­ to 7 percent in 1971, and preliminary grams and newly gained in trade profits figures for 1972 indicate an annual un­ against us, they have so clogged up ir. BYELORUSSIAN INDEPENDENCE employment rate of 6 percent. the world's money channels that their Mr. Speaker, I do not feel that Con­ value is lessened sharply. Still, we con­ gress should allow the administration to tinue as the "Great Defender," paying HON. MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS on the one hand force massive reduc­ with our buffeted dollars what other­ OF :MICHIGAN tions in employee levels in Government wise would be the normal defense costs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agencies in the name of "cost-saving" of "partners" abroad and letting them and in the other hand continue to allow enjoy the benefits! Wednesday, March 28, 1973 corporations to escape paying their fair Every try to bring our men home has Mrs. GRIFFITHS. Mr. Speaker, on share of taxes. stirred up the "globalists" in the State March 25, Americans of Byelorussian Government must be responsive to the Department and fretted the White descent and all those who cherish free- needs of all citizens--especially those March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10117 who suffer as a result of Government in­ could not overcome the handicap of war­ champions for the first time. It is my action. If the President is so insensitive time devastation coupled with political privilege to represent each of these fine as to continue avoiding the implementa­ infiltration by Russian Bolsheviks backed schools in this Congress. tion of policies to create jobs and sta­ by the Red army. Ultimately the Bye­ Kentucky is a basketball State. The bilize prices, the Congress must assume lorussian national government was quality of play and the enthusiasm of leadership for the interests of all Amer­ forced into exile and the remaining state, the fans is not surpassed anywhere in icans who want to and need to work, but after a new period of Polish control, un­ the country. It is a true achievement to who cannot due to the failure of the ad­ derwent the ignominy of a Russian­ make it through the tough regional ministration's economic policy. Polish settlement that partitioned Bye­ competition to become one of the 16 The costs of implementing this bill lorussian's territory. A new struggle just teams in the final playoffs. The cham­ cannot be considered :fiscally unsound or to restore its geographic dimensions had pion which emerges from this "sweet 16" inflationary, because the costs would not, to be coped with by the Byelorussian Bol­ is the best of the best. in fact, be an item of expense to the shevik Government. Both teams in the final game were Federal Government. Actually, the plan During the Soviet new economic po­ outstanding examples of the quality would be entirely financed out of taxes licy-NEP-period from 1921 to 1929, the basketball played in Kentucky. Male, levied on employers which are paid into Byelorussians were among the most ar­ coached by Jim Huter, and Shawnee, trust funds administered by the Federal dent defenders of their cultural iden­ coached by James Gordon, amassed im­ Government. tity and independence. In fact, the veri­ pressive victory records durin.g the reg­ Mr. Speaker, responsible leaders of table groundswell of literary and nation­ ular season and their play throughout Government cannot turn a deaf ear to alistic activity that developed helped the the tournament reflected championship the needs of those they represent. To Byelorussians to jointly resist collectivi­ style. those now exhausting their regular 26 zation and socialization efforts. Indeed, It was a long road for the players and weeks of unemployment benefits, as under the NEP guidelines they quickly coach of Shawnee from the first game many as 4,000 per week in some States, established a reputation as hard-work­ of the season to the last seconds of the we cannot turn back. I urge the Mem­ ing, industrious people in a free enter­ championship game in Louisville's Free­ bers to give this bill their careful and prise sector that continued to exist in dom Hall. thoughtful consideration. deference to their fierce independence. Each step of the way was paved with Unfortunately, the Byelorussian S.S.R., hard work, dedication, and personal already stripped of any real political au­ sacrlflce. I am honored to take note of tonomy, subsequently lost the educa­ the rewards of their efforts here in the BYELORUSSIAN INDEPENDENCE tional and cultural freedom that existed Congress of the United States. DAY in the 1920's. Once Stalin was firmly in control of the Soviet Union's central authority, HON. JOHN W. WYDLER Byelorussian independence of mind and OF NEW YORK AMENDING THE FISHERMEN'S spirit came under a concerted attack. PROTECTIVE ACT OF 1967 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The result was a level of suffering ex­ Wednesday, March 28, 1973 ceeded only by that in the neighboring Ukraine. This campaign waged by the Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, at a time HON. DAVID C. TREEN Kremlin to liquidate Byelorussian na­ OF LOUISIANA when world attention is drawn to the tionalism could not succeed, but it did difficulties of those in the Soviet Union severe damage. Nearly 15 percent of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who wish to emigrate but are faced with peasants were deported, as much as 5 Wednesday, March 28, 1973 either harassment or prohibitive fees, I rise to call attention to an entire nation percent of the population died of star­ Mr. TREEN. Mr. Spea.ker, I have co­ that exists bound and confined within vation, the church was looted and razed, sponsored legislation with several of my the Soviet Union. March 25 marked the political and cultural leaders were ar­ distinguished colleagues to insure the 55th anniversary of Byelorussian Inde­ rested and removed by execution or de­ safety of U.S. commercial fishing vessels, pendence Day, and I am proud to add portation. crews, and equipment against illegal har­ my voice to those of my distinguished The determined Byelorussians, once assment and seizure. colleagues who help commemorate what again victims as before in their history, I am disturbed by recent incidents 1n should be a joyful time for over 9 million have weathered this and subsequent on­ which the Governments of Ecuador and slaughts and continue to demand recog­ Peru have seized American ships in what Byelorussians. nition of their right to liberty and free The contrary is true, however. It is a the United States regards as internation­ sad commentary on the condition of per­ expression. We can only feel saddened at al fishing waters. The problem is that sonal freedom and national liberty in the fate history has assigned these several nations are seeking to extend the Soviet Union that we in the United forthright people, yet we marvel at their their boundaries to include all waters up States must never forget that the Soviet resolute championship of their right to to 200 miles from their shores. These new leadership persists in perpetuating a stand unbound alongside the commu­ limits would exclude other nations' fish­ myth when it maintains that the Byelo­ nity of free nations on this earth. We ing vessels from some of the most pro­ russian Soviet Socialist Republic is a free must applaud every gain made in their ductive international fishing waters in and wi111ng member in a federal union struggle toward real freedom, and it is the world. with this in mind that I urge everyone It is obviously not equitable for Ameri­ of autonomous national groups. Nothing to not ignore this nation's plight. could be further from the truth. can fishermen to be confined to the tradi­ Byelorussia suffered greatly under two tional 12-mile limit off our own shores, centuries of Tsarist Russian rule-two while having to respect 200-mile limits centuries that had been preceded by cen­ for other nations. turies more of Polish domination. This KENTUCKY STATE BASKETBALL I understand that the State Depart­ nation of proud and industrious people, TOURNAMENT ment is attempting to negotiate treaties which at one time in the middle ages with several of the nations involved; but formed one of the most progressive and until some equitable agreement is vital states in East Europe, found itself HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI reached, we should all respect the exist­ literally fighting to withstand countless OF KENTUCKY ing rules and traditions of international attempts at cultural assassination and IN THE HOUSE 0~ REPRESENTATIVES law. Our resolution would convey to for­ oppression from both Poles and Russians. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 eign powers the message that the United Finally, events surrounding the disin­ states is prepared to protect its fisher­ tegration of the czarist empire during Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, each year men. The resolution authorizes the Pres­ World War I permitted creation of a new for the last 56 years Kentucky has held ident to use Navy and Coast Guard ves­ Byelorussian state founded on rapidly a statewide basketball tournament. In sels, as well as air and sea surveillance of developing Byelorussian nationalism. this year's final game Shawnee High the contested waters, to protect Ameri­ The Byelorussian National Republic, vi- School of Louisville defeated Male High can ships from illegal harassment and brant with new found pride and liberty School of Louisville to become State seizure. 10118 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 The resolution follows: to understand how a major newspaper WAR ON POVERTY Housz JoiNT RESOL'UTION 370 can get so far o1f base--if any base can Joint resolution amending the Fishermen's remain in the wake of such judicial Protective Act of 1967 to insure the safety pronouncement. HON. HERMAN BADILLO of United States commercial fishing ves­ The Post article follows: OF NEW YORK sels, crews, and equipment against megal harassment and seizure. WHO'S AFRAm OF A BIG BAD WORD? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas the Governments of Ecuador and Even the majority of the Supreme Court Wednesday, March 28, 1973 Peru recently harassed and seized United could not bring itself to spell out m ____ f ____ , States commercial fishing vessels whfie such as it ruled that its use in a university news­ Mr. BADn.LO. Mr. Speaker, President vessels were carrying out fishing operations paper should not be suppressed and there Nixon has apparently decided to give a in international waters and subsequently is a certain logic in this simultaneous bow to new twist to the war on poverty-he levied fines against such vessels; good taste as well as to good law. Taking demolished the Office of Economic Op­ Whereas such Ulegal acts against United our cue from the court, we wm identify The portunity and declared war on the poor. States veSS'els by the Governments of Ecuador Word no further ourselves, other than to As a result, our cities, already suffering and Peru as well as by other foreign nations note that it is a word with which chfidren have become more and more frequent; and from Harlem, Watts and Hough have been from our lopsided national priorities that Whereas, atthough Federal law presently punctuating their sentences for years. It countenance an increase of the defense provides financial relief to the victims of is also one which some black units used as a budget, but cannot sustain efforts to as­ such mega! acts, it is imperative that meas­ password in World War ll because neither sist the elderly poor, are further deprived ures be taken to prevent the perpetration of the Germans nor white Americans could of the tools to help themselves. Com­ such acts in the first instance: Now, there­ pronounce it properly. And, lately, it has been munity Action Agencies, which have fore, be it taken up by the radical white left to scan­ acted as catalysts in mobilizing the Resolved, by the Senate and House of Rep­ dalize whomever it ls they are always trying strengths and resources of their com­ resentatives of the United, States of America to scandalize and to express their disdain in Congress assembled, That the Fishermen's for almost anything. And that ls how The munities shall, by executive fiat, now no Protective Act of 1967 (22 U.S.C. 1971-1977) Word finally got to the Court. longer be funded. Programs which were ls amended by adding at the end thereof It seems that Miss Barbara Susan Papish, designed to allow the have-nots to be­ the following new section: a graduate student in journalism of Uttle come part of the action, which were in­ "SEc. 10. The President is authorized and visible academic accomplishment, but of high tended to advocate the cause of those directed to use vessels and aircraft of the polltical visibfiity, was selling a paper on the who thus far have not been heard, are Coast Guard or of the United States Navy, University of Missouri campus one day and now expected to become part of the es­ or of both, in such manner as he deems the paper contained The Word. The admin­ tablishment through that panacea for appropriate to insure the safety of any istration of the University decided that in United States commercial fishing vessel and selling the paper containing the expletive all our ills--revenue sharing. Localities, its crew and equipment whne such vessel in question, Miss Papish had violated the already slicing the meager pie of reve­ ls carrying out fishing activities in waters General Standards of Student Conduct, re­ nue available to them into more and recognized by the United states as interna­ quiring students "to observe generally ac­ more pieces are expected to pick up the tional waters. In order to carry out the pur­ cepted standards of conduct." After due tab for the poverty programs. poses of this section, the President ls fur­ process had been observed, Miss Papish was Mr. Speaker, all of us know that this ther authorized and directed to provide for expelled from the university for the infrac­ cannot be done and, I believe, all of us the implementation of appropriate air and tion. She promptly went into the federal suspect that this was not intended to be surface surveillance of those waters recog­ courts seeking an injunction on the ground nized by the United States as international that her First Amendment freedoms were done. Having used to the utmost the waters in which United States commercial infringed by the university's action. She lost spinoff authority of the Director of the fishing vessels have been, or are likely to be, in the trial court and in the Court of Appeals O:tnce of Economic Opportunity to dele­ subjected to harassment or seizure by for­ and then appealed to the Supreme Court. gate programs and having turned that eign nations." She won there six to three, with Justice office from an office of advocacy into an Powell joining the pre-Nixon justices and o:tnce of research and development, the with Mr. Nixon's other nominees dissenting President determined to use the power MISTAKEN PERMISSIVISM vigorously. The majority rested its decision of the budget to terminate programs on the principles that a university campus which by congressional mandate have is not an enclave "immune from the sweep of the First Axnendment" and that "the mere been reserved for the Office of Economic HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN dissemination of ideas-no matter how of­ Opportunity alone. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE fensive to good taste--on a state university Only concerted congressional action IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES campus may not be shut off in the name has any chance of saving these pro­ alone of 'conventions of decency.'" grams--of salvaging at least a viable Wednesday, March 28, 1973 The Chief Justice thought otherwise and remnant of the structure which we must Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, the mis­ said so forcefully. He suggested that a uni­ have if we intend to assist the poor to taken and misguided view of the Con­ versity is a place where, among other things, "individuals learn to express themselves in regain control over their own destinies. stitution's first amendment as conferring acceptable civfi terms." He also chided his We must continue to have an OEO. For absolute license to say anything one colleagues because he thought their resort this reason, I have supported all the wishes, anywhere at any time, given in the opinion to capital letters and dashes efforts that have been made to employ sanction in judicial decision, has done was inconsistent with their conclusion. Mr. various and sundry means to thwart the great damage to our country. A reason­ Justice Rehnquist thought, among other President's intention to end the war on able measure of restraint in matters such things, that limitations on the authority poverty. I sincerely hope that our efforts as obscenities or libel and slander is a of university administrators, such a.s that will prevail. imposed by the Court might lead to wide­ public necessity. spread "disenchantment" with the system I do believe, however, that the present Recently a State university sought to of tax-supported colleges and universities. setup of the O:tnce of Economic Oppor­ discipline a student for willfully dis­ We think the majority was quite right. The tunity, its very location in the Executive tributing on campus obscenities in central purpose of a university is the encour­ o:tnces, makes it too vulnerable to un­ printed form. "Unconstitutional" held a agement and perpetuation of the freest pos­ due reorganizations and removes it too bitterly divided Supreme Court. sible flow of ideas and information. Although conveniently from direct congressional Applauding the decision as "free we do not suggest that this particular ex­ control. For this reason I have intro­ speech" is the Washington Post. Its edi­ pression is a necessary, or even particularly duced on February 20, H.R. 4343, a bill torial states the rationale of extreme per­ useful, addition to the language, the idea making OEO an independent agency and that First Amendment notions of freedom missivism in a nutshell. Those· who be­ of expression can be subordinated on uni­ terminating its director's spinoff author­ lieve our Nation needs reasonable re­ versity campuses to other interests such as ity. I am today reintroducing that meas­ straint and not more license deplore this "the conventions of decency" strikes us as ure with 19 cosponsors and hope that it mistaken expression of approval of de- profoundly pernicious and threatening to will receive the support of those inter­ fiance of the attempt of a university to the essence of a university as well as to free ested in the continued efficient operation control obscenity on campus. It is diffi.cult speech everywhere. of the Office of Economic Opportunity. March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10119 For the information of my colleagues, According to a report in confidential pollee who introduced heroin courier Roger De­ I am inserting here the list of cospon­ files, "his largesse toward the unfortunate of loutete into the French secret service and this mountain locality is priceless. He has wrote to French Defense Minister Michel sors: contributed his own money for the supplies Debre in his behalf. LisT OF COSPONSORS of the commune, restoring squares and streets In 1961, Intrabank applied to open a Hon. Wlllia.m J. Green. and contributing to the refurbishing of the branch in Parts. The French Banking Con­ Hon. Parren J. Mitchell. parish church." trol Commission recommended against it. Hon. Benjamin S. Rosenthal. In 1952, Francisci was involved in the at­ But then Finance Minister Valery Giscard Bon. Shirley Chisholm. tempted .swindle of a gambling house in Aix­ d'Estaing reversed the decision of the board Bon. Melvin Price. en-Provence, in southern France. Because of and granted permission. Lobbying d'Estaing Hon. Edward R. Roybal. this the minister of the interior issued a de­ for the bank were Interior Mlnister Roger Hon. Antonio Borja Won Pat. cree Feb. 28, 1952, barring him from all gam­ Frey (head of the French national police) Hon. Michael Harrington. bling houses in France for life. In 1966, Fran­ and French Deputy Jacques Baumel, who at Hon. Joseph Addabbo. ctsci bought the Club Haussmann gambling that time was secretary-general of the UDR. Bon. Robert F ~ Drlnan. casino in Paris. He told a respected French Shortly afterward, Intrabank gained in­ Hon. Robert L. Leggett. journalist that he had been able to buy the direct control of a materials company called Bon. Bertram L. Podell. casino because of the intercession of his old CEMA, which in turn, under Intrabank direc­ Hon. John Moakley. and good friend, a high-school classmate, tion, took over France's second largest ship­ Hon. Jonathan Bingham. Jean Buzzi, at that time deputy to the in­ buiding firm, Chantiers Navals de la Ciotat. Bon. Henry Helstosk1. terior minister. And, according to a confidential French In­ Bon. Charles J. Diggs. In June, 1964, Francisci's brother, An­ terior Ministry report obtained by Newsday, Hon. George E. Brown, Jr. toine, returned to his home in Corsica one Francisci suddenly emerged as a major stock­ Bon. Charles Rangel. evening to discover that his wife, Simone, holder in both CEMA and the shipbuilding Hon. Gerry E. Studds. had a lover on hand. Antoine shot the lover firm. through the throat, rendering him speech­ In 1966, Intrabank got into :financial less for life. Franclsci then took away the trouble. And the U.S. government became couple's only son, Jean-Francais, while An­ one of its creditors, as did Lebanon, Qatar MARCEL FRANCISCI AS "MR. toine spent a few months in jail. The mother and Kuwait. Each country, including the HEROIN" went to the courts, who ordered the police U.S., has a representative in Beirut oversee­ to find the boy. They didn't. ing the casino operations to protect the out­ But the child was discovered by pollee in standing loans. As a result, Francisci, who HON. MORGAN F. MURPHY October, 1964, when they raided the villa that has been named as a top heroin operator by OJ' ILLINOIS housed the heroin lab of Joseph Cesar! in two U.S. congressional committees, has the Aubagne, near Marseilles. The people run­ gambling concession in a casino that is under IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ning the lab with Cesari were baby-sitting partial u.s. guardianship. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 for the child because Franclsci was busy in Paris. The pollee, despite the outstanding Jack CUsack, fomier European chief Mr. MURPHY of Dlinois. Mr. Speaker. court order, gave the child back to Francisci of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and in the March 15 RECORD, I noted that and his brother. This fact was casually men­ Dangerous Drugs, did not make many Marcel Francisci issued a defamation ac­ tioned by the distinguished French re­ friends within the French Government tion against Congressman RoBERT STEELE porter Jacques Derogy in a story on drugs in during his years there. Cusack refused and myself for mentioning in our May L'Express on Oct.14, 1968. to be optimistic about French coopera­ 1971 World Heroin ~eport Francisci's "Two nights later," Derogy recalls, "I got tion with U.S. efforts to curtail drug a phone call at home at about midnight from role in the French Connection, the heroin a Corsican journalist who is a friend of mine. traffic. He indicated on more than one pipeline to the United States. He said that Francisci wanted me to meet occasion that huge bank balances pro­ Francisci figured prominently in a him in Fouquet's immediately. My friend tected France's top heroin traffickers Newsday series, The Heroin Trail, which said that he thought that it might be dan­ and guaranteed special favors from fi­ labeled him "Mr. Heroin." Newsday sen­ gerous for me 1! I didn't go. I got dressed nanciers and politicans alike. ior editor Robert W. Greene and fellow and went to the restaurant. Franclsc1 was at ~ck vvas tulceremoDctously replaced reporters exhaustively researched the a special table with some friends eating as a result of French Government pres­ multimillion-dollar heroin business dur­ oysters and sipping champagne. He asked me sure. Reports of French cooperation now to sit down. ing a 3-month stay in France last fall. "Then," Derogy said, "Francisci started pour in daily. Cusack incidentally was The entire investigation involved 9 complaining. It was a very Corsican thing. mentioned by Francisci in his defama­ months of persistent digging. He said that he could take other things that tion action against Congressman STEELE The title of the February 15 Newsday I might write about him, but that I had gone and myself. article, "Marcel Francisci's Good Life: too far when I wrote about his brother's Cusack's comments on special favors Heroin and Champagne Do Mix," apt­ wife trouble-family affairs. He said that I have been directed toward Marcel ly describes the man in question. Refer­ was not to write about such things again. Francisci. Leaders of France's ruling The way he looked at me, I knew that he ences to Francisci's financial and politi­ really meant it. Then, about the kid being Gaullist political party often intercede cal connections as well as family ditli­ in the laboratory, he said it was a big mis­ on behalf of Francisci. There is a logi~ culties are worth quoting at length: take, not his fault. He said that he had left cal explanation for such "strange bed~ A retired federal narcotics agent who served someone watching the boy, who had turned fellows." In the late 1950's, President de in France told us: "Everytime we mentioned the boy over to someone else. That's how he Gaulle enlisted tulderworld figures to as­ the name Francisci to the French police, they got to the lab." sist the Gaullists in their conflict with froze. You could tell they didn't want to In 1954, as part of his cover for frequent the Secret Army Organization-OAS­ hear anything about him, much less work on trips to Beirut, Francisci took control of the in Algeria. The racketeers kept their end him. He was a no-no. In this country we Casino de France, which has the games con­ would have gotten him on a conspiracy a cession at the Casino du Liban. The Casino of the bargain and government indiffer­ long time ago." du Liban, which owns the building, was ence to their criminal activities today People who know Francisci say that he is owned at the time by a · huge Beirut-based amotu1ts to compensation for past deeds. a tireless campaigner for the UDR in Corsica. banking conglomerate known as Intrabank. Dominic Venturi, a close associate of Even the police records reflect it. For ex­ The banking concern, headed by Youssef Francisci, is a leading supporter of Gas­ ample, in 1958 Francisci was called in front Beidas, was heavily backed by the govern­ ton Deferre, the mayor of Marseilles and of the public prosecutor of Ajaccio to explain ments of Lebanon, Kuwait and Qatar. a leading Socialist. Venturi is, according why he and his brother Jean had offered The chairman of the executive commJ.ttee money to the head of a family with 15 voters of the bank until 1967 was H. E. Sheikh to the Newsday series, "operating direc­ to vote for Francisci's old mob friend Jean Suleiman Bey Al-Hamad Al Suleiman, former tor of the Francisci heroin syndicate." Colonna. Francisci said it was an a joke. The finance minister of Saudi Arabia. And Dominic's brother, Jean, married a Ca­ case was dismissed. And when he first ran Sheikh Suleiman was the Arab world repre­ nadian citizen and is largely responsible for his own seat as the Gaullist counsel gen­ sentative buying guns from the French sur­ for establishing heroin smuggling routes eral from Zicavo, Corsica, in 1967, his oppo­ plus arms company owned by industrialist into the States via canada. nent won. Francisci overturned the election, Gilbert Bea.ujolm and his partner Col. Roger charging vote fraud. Barberot. These two men have long operated The defamation action filed by Fran­ Francisci still maintains a villa in Zicavo, parallel intelligence agencies for the Gaullist cisci against us Congressmen includes and he is very good to the people of the area. government of France. And it was Barberot those newspapers which reproduced por- CXIX--639-Part 8 10120 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 tions of our report--Le Monde, Journal pie but their elected representatives as (b) No ------77 du Dimanche, France-Soir, L'Humanlte, they strive to represent the best interests 12. Should the U.S. have either sociallzed Parisien Libre, Valeurs Actuelles. The of their constituents. medicine or national health insurance for all deposition further names radio stations I include a copy of the Rochester Jay­ citizens? which broadcasted news of our report. (a) Should have sociallzed medicine____ 57 cees' questionnaire so that my colleagues (b) We should have national health An article published in L'Express dur~ can see for themselves how comprehen­ ing September 1971, gave a seeemingly sively this survey covered the major insurance for all------96 balanced view of Mr. Francisci. The ar­ topics of current national concern: (c) ~either ------54 ticle quoted liberally Francisci himself LEGISLATIVE PIPELINE who alleged that he "came out white as 1. Should there be legislation or a consti­ white" as a result of a 1957 inquiry of tutional amendment against forced busing? DREAMING OF ISRAEL his activities prior to assuming owner­ (a) 1tes ------150 ship of the exclusive Haussmann Club. (b) No ------44 He noted further: 2. Should the death penalty be mandatory for certain crimes? HON. ALPHONZO BELL I don't have any enemies. OF CALIFORNIA (a) 1tes ------140 The same article stated that. the men~ (b) ~0 ------57 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion of Francisci as an illicit heroin traf~ 3. If your answer in 2. is yes, for what Wednesday, March 28, 1973 ficker surprises Corsicans. The article crimes (circle as many· as apply) . continued: (a) KUling of a policeman or fireman Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, the tragic ondutY------119 situation which confronts Russian Jews The SOO inhabitants of his village of Ci­ (b) Aggravated rape______52 amannacce, in the Taravo Valley, praise his wishing to emigrate to Israel is exempli­ generosity, and also his pity. M. Marcel has (c) Murder ------116 fied by the transcript of a telephone (d) Skyjacking ------80 paid out of his own pocket for the re-sur­ (e) Assassination of a public official ____ 108 conversation between a 34-year-old Jew facing of the cemetery road. On hollday, from Leningrad possessing those desires (f) Other ------12 when he leaves the family yacht in Ajaccio 4. The following deal with federal spend- and one of my constituents, Stuart Lot­ Harbor and the hubbub on the terrace of ing and taxes (circle as many as you feel win. the "Nord-Sud," he cUmbs up on a Sunday apply). The transcript of the January 14,-1973, to the vmage with his wife and daughter. (a) American money should be used to To attend Mass. conversation was forwarded to me by Mr. rebutld North and South Vietnam____ 40 Lotwin, who spoke with Daniel Teitel­ (b) American money should not be used Mr. Francisci has succeeded in dup~ in North Vietnam ______102 baum, married, father of two, and a can­ ing his fellow Corsicans. It is my inten­ (c) Program like OEO (Office of Eco­ didate of technical sciences. In it, Mr. tion to see that the-deception stops there. nomic Opportunity) should not be cut_ 85 Teitelbaum relates the numerous pro­ (d) Taxes must not be raised even 1f cedural difficulties which have been en~ some federal programs must be cut out. 80 countered by his family and friends in ( e} Persons over 65. should have some their efforts to obtain exit visas from the LEGISLATIVE PIPELINE PROJECT substantial property tax relief !rom Soviet Union in order to reach freedom congress ------158 in Israel. (f) The President should not cut funds for pensions to disabled veterans____ 135 Mr. Speaker, I should like to insert HON. WILLIAMS. BROOMFIELD (g) Other _:______3 this conversatioztt in the REcoRD in the OJ!' KICHIGAN 5. Wage and price controls. hope that we may see the end to such IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (a) Wa.ges are controlled, but prices are needless persecution of Russian Jews and Wednesday, March 28, 1973 the realization of their dreams to have (b)not The ------5.5% maximum wage increase 99 a safe arrival in Israel: Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I is too low------99 PLIGHT OF DANIEL TEITELBAUM would like to take this opportunity to (c) Wage and price controls should be commend the Jaycees of Rochester, strictly applled ______105 Telephone conversation between Stuart (d) Neither wages nor prices should be Lotwin, Los Angeles, California and Daniel Mich. for their continued interest in and Teitelbaum, Leningrad, USSR on January controlled ------15 support· for various public and commu­ (e) Special legislation should be passed 14, 1973: nity service programs. to control rising food costs ______115 S.L. Shalom, Friend Teitelbaum. The most recent example of this com~ 6. Does the Supreme Court have the au­ D.T. 1tes, Yes. mitment was the legislative pipeline proj­ thority to make the decision they made in tbe S.L. Is that you? This is your friend Stuart ect initiated by the Jaycees in order to abortion case? Lotwin calling from America. D.T. I understand, I understand. survey the opinions of citizens on a wide (a} 1tes ------96 S.L. 1tou understand; well listen to me range of important national issues. (b) NO------98 and we'll converse. My name is Ellezer and Approximately 200 surveys were dis­ 7. Should a federal law be passed to re­ strict the ava1lab111ty of handguns? I am speaking to you because Mr. Lotwin tributed at random at two local shopping does not speak 1tidd1sh. centers. The results were forwarded to (a) 1tes ------147 D.T. I understand. (b) No ------47 me and along with the many spontan~ 8. What should be done to draft evaders S.L. He is a friend of Lev Lerner who 1s eous comments volunteered by the re­ who wish to return to the U.S.? now 1n Tel Aviv. Do you understand? spondents they represent a valuable (a} They should be required to serve a D.T. I understand. measure of the concerns and attitudes of jail term______54 S.L. I want to ask whether you have any (b) They should be given amnesty, with news to convey to us. And I'll allow you to my constituents. Many people, who for talk as long as you please. no restrictions ------26 one reason or another, might have been D.T. Good! Good! Well we have no con­ reluctant to write their Congressman (c) They should be given amnesty, pro­ vided they perform S years' crete (hard) news. With us it is very hard. were given an opportunity to express national service ______lOS Things are very tough in Leningrad. S.L. Hard? their views. (d) Other------14 The results indicated a very strong op­ 9. Should there be a reduction of troop D.T. In the last days we have had bad position to forced busing, a growing con­ strength in Europe? answers. cern· over the escalation of prices and (a) 1tes, unconditionallY------66 S.L. Bad answers? particularly food prices and a desire for (tl} 1tes, if the Soviets carry out a simi- D.T. Refusals! lar reduction ______101 S.L. Refusals I I understand. stift'er penalties for many criminal of~ D.T. They refuse us, the reasons are ridic­ fenses. In this latter category, a surpris­ (c) No, under no circumstances______27 10. Should the U.S. aid Laos and Cam­ ulous, smy. ingly large number of people volunteered bodia? S.L. I understand. their concern that drug pushers should (a) Yes, with funds, supplies, and D.T. With one the refusal is on account of receive longer jatl sentences. bombing strikes______15 "secret work." Mr. Speaker, it would be dlmcult to (b) 1tes, with funds and suppltes, but S.L. What is the name of the one that overestimate the value of this legislative no bombing______57 was refused on account of "secret work?" pipeline project. The Rochester Jaycees (c) No aid should be provided______77 D.T. Chernoch. He has tried 4Y2 years and 11. Should Congress make safety equip­ still he 1s refused. And another Bert, a should be commended for initiating this ment for automobiles mandatory? woman whose daughter works on secret program which benefits not only the peo- (a) 1tes ------112 work, but daughter does not want to leave, March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10121 only the woman who is 60 years old and D.T. Again. c. No opinion. she cannot leave. S.L. Do you have enough food? d. Other alternative. S.L. Tell u8 about yourself. D.T.Again. IV. Now that there is a cease fire in Viet­ D.T. We have been waiting for two years. S.L.Food? nam and the U .8. prisoners are being re­ S.L. And you're refused? D.T. Food, No! We st111 have food. turned should those persons who have de· D.T. I submitted my documents last time S.L. How about clothing? serted from the armed forces or evaded the in October. Already 3 months and some days, D.T. But I want to tell you this. It is very draft during the Vietnam War be granted and yet not received answer. We rode to Mos­ hard for us. Most of us are unemployed. We some form of amnesty? cow and there we were told that we would have families where neither husband nor a. Now. be getting answers. First they said November wife work. b. Sometime in future. and then December. They promised us. And S.L. Clothing? Warm clothing? c Never. now in January. You understand? D.T. Yes, we~ave although you could help d. Equivalent service. S.L. I understand each word. Continue to us with that. e. No oplnlon. talk. S.L. Tell me-have you ever heard of cer- f. Another alternative. D.T. Good, good. They had lied to us. Now tificates to Vneshposyltl.rg stores? V. Even if it might result in higher taxes there is a commission in Leningrad. The Min­ D.T. I received them once. to you, would you favor substantial federal ister was here. S.L. Do they help-the cert11lcates? incentives in the form of federal grants, tax S.L. What is his name, the Minister? D.T. They help. I want to tell you that incentives and strong federal controls on in­ D.T. Sholahov. our greatest hopes depend on you, only on dustry and state and local governments tore­ S.L. Speak, speak. you. duce air, water, land and other pollution? D.T. We have written to every place pos­ S.L. We assume the burden. We promise a. Yes. sible. To Chief of police, the government, the you that. b.No. Kremlin and all the time we get one answer. D.T. We're putting great hopes 1n your c. No opinion. We have to get our documents at the Lenin­ Congress. d. Other alternatives. grad ovm. S.L. We, too, are putting our hopes 1n our VI. Should access to and use of marijuana S.L. Please walt a minute I I must ask you Congress. Give our love to your wife and son be treated in the law much the same as al­ several questions. We well understand your and daughter. Be well-we wm talk to you cohol now ls? situation, but we must have certain informa­ again. a. Yes. tion in order to be able to help you. What is D.T. Good, good. b.No. your wife's name? S.L.Shalom. c. No oplnlon. D.T. Margaret is her name. D.T. Shalom. d. Other alternatJves. S.L. How old is she? SL. L'Hltraot. VII. Do you thllik the federal government D.T. 33 years. D.T. L'Hltraot. should provide a medical insurance pro­ S.L. Is she working? S.L.Shalom. gram to everyone, even if it meant higher D.T.No. taxes to you? S.L. What was her work? 1. It you answered yes above, how would D.T. At a factory. you finance it? (Select One) S.L. Factory? SEEK CONS~NTS' OPUUONS a. Social Security taxes. D.T. Where they make ships-a shipyard. b. Income taxes. She does not have a higher education. She is c. National Sales Tax. a typist-a copter. HON. WENDELL WYATT d. Other alternatives (Please describe). SL. I understand-she operates a type- OF OREGON 2.No. writer. Do you have children? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 8. No opinion. 4. Other alternatives. D.T. Two children. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 SL. Boys or girls? What are their names? VIII. In order to slow inflation should the D.T. A boy, 6 years, Illa; a girl, 4 years, Mr. WYATT. Mr. Speaker, each year Federal Government Sonia. since I first entered Congress in 1964, I a. Continue the present program of wage S.L. Good. Are you now working? have sent a congressional questionnaire and price controls pretty much as the Ad­ D.T. I was working before I submitted my ministration is now doing. papers. to my constituents requesting their opin­ b. Increase Taxes. S.L. What were you working as? ions on the serious issues confronting c. Reduce Federal Expenditures. D.T. How do you call it-yes-Senior Scien­ our Nation. d. Place stronger controls on: tific. I am presently in the process of mall­ 1. Wages. SL. What was your work? I don't under­ ing my 1973 questionnaire, and would 2. Prices. stand it completely. like to share the text of this document 3. Profits. D.T. A Scientist-an electrical engineer. with my colleagues. I consider the re­ e. None of the above. S.L. Were you employed where secret work f. Other alternatives. was done? sults of this opinion poll to be extremely IX. Do you feel that there should be some D.T. No, nothing secret. informative, and I am anxiously await­ legal constitutional constraint by Congress S.L. Well, I want to tell you this. We are ing the response of the people of the on the President's power to commit U.S. with you 100%. We want to help you. We First District of Oregon. troops outside the U.S. to hostile actions? will help you. Nothing wlll deter us until The questionnaire follows: a. President should be llm.lted to commit­ you get permission to leave. Do you under­ I. Do you feel the President should be ting troops to hostile action for only sixty stand? able to impound federal monies which the days unless specifically approved by Congress. D.T. Yes, I understand. U.S. Congress has already approved for b. No change should be made in the pres­ S.L. And above all, I want to tell you that spending? ent powers of the President to commit troops we will not forget you. I speak not only Yes. to hostile action outside the U.S. for myself but for a whole group of people. If Congress .approved. c. Other alternatives. And now I'll tell you some news from here. No. X. What legislative programs or policies Two days ago I heard from my Senator. He No opinion. should Congress pass or change? knows your name already. He has spoken Other alternative. about you to our Department of State, Sec­ II. Should the Social Security Tax be ab­ ondly, the largest newspaper in the Western sorbed into the Federal Income Tax struc­ United States, here in California., knows of ture? THE FUTURE OF OUR EARTH LIES you. Perhaps in several weeks your name Yes. BEYOND "Z"EBRA will appear in that paper. No. D.T. I understand. Change in some other way. S.L. Now I want to ask you. Are there No opinion. any English speakers in your family? Other alternative. HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE D.T. I know several who speak English but III. Should members of the press (news­ OF TEXAS not very good. I can give you their telephone papers, magazines, radio and TV) be pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES numbers. tected by law from having to disclose their S.L. Don't bother. I want to talk with you. sources of information even if a court, legis­ Wednesday, March 28, 1973 Do you want letters in English or Yiddish? latures, or executive branches of government Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, It is all the same to us. feel that they should disclose their informa­ D.T. It is i.mmatertal to me. I know a. little tion sources. I feel privileged to insert in the REcoRD English. I don't speak but I read and trans­ a. Yes (Newsmen's sources should be pro­ the speech delivered by one of our dis­ late. tected). tinguished astronauts, Mr. John L. Swi­ SL. Now I want you to answer three ques­ b. No (Newsmen should be forced to dis­ gert, before the Colorado Bankers Asso­ tions. First, do you have enough food? close). ciation in Colorado on February 19, 1973: 10122 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 SPEECH BY JOHN L. SWIGERT, NASA ASTBONA'O'l' content of the soU .... Whether he has Nation wm be placed in a highly vulnerable It's good to be home again, and I'm very vigorous or autng crops and even the degree position. The supply of on could be halted pleased that you asked me to come here and of crop disease or insect infestation. . . . • by a governmental action, by sabotage, or by address the members of the Colorado Bank­ Where there is useable land that lles untllled mllitary confiict between nations. Even a ers Association. and actually even what kinds of crops will brief interruption of the supply can have a In my search for remarks that might in­ grow there.... The location of uncut tim­ severely damaging impact on this Nation's terest you today, I rejected the idea of talk­ ber or underground water that is waiting economy. ing about Apollo 13 because it is almost three to be tapped, and the existence of geological The energy crisis threatens the American years into the history books. In fact, our faults suggesting mineral deposits or on way of ll!e---e.t least the Ufe that means to last Lunar flight, Apollo 17, is also history fields. Let me show you pictorially in a few you color television, frostless freezers, elec­ now. But the data collected by our Apollo of these slides. tric blenders, knives, grllls, and the myriad of 1llghts is not history. This treasure of new A single spacecraft can sensl every corner o_ther ways we enjoy life. To depend upon un­ data will keep scientists busy for years and of the world every 18 days, and do it for certain foreign sources for such a high pro­ wm provide new insight into the world in months or years. Imagine what could be portion of this Nation's oll supply would which we llve. But it is a remembered in­ accomplished by a system of spacecraft, each make no more sense than to expect foreign spiration, also, to the whole world, recorded feeding its data into a central computer countries to provide for this Nation's defense. forever ln history that ln 1969 Americans complex. At a single Instant of time the The second event to make national news first landed on the moon. As Americans, you exact status of the whole world's agricultural recently was a proposal by Wtlliam Ruckels­ can indeed be proud, for Apollo was your output would be known. Tillable land all haus, head of the Environmental Protection program. over the world that 1s unused could be Agency, to ration gasoline in the Los Angeles I would like to begin these remarks with planted with the needed kinds of crops. area in an effort to decrease air pollution some words from a book by a doctor with From determining snow depths, spring run­ there. We are taking the first tentative steps whom some of you may be famlliar-Dr. offs and floods could be predicted. We would toward a new national goal-the remaking Seuss. Although these words come from a know whether to expect short falls or bumper of our environment. Pollution will be a con­ children's book, there is meaning in them crops of grain in both the northern and tinuing problem because it is a product of for us all: southern hemispheres; whether potato blight congestion-both population and industrial. "Said Conrad Cornelius O'Donald O'Dell, is about to break out ln Maine or coconut There will be efforts to escape it by leaving my very young friend who is learning to wilt in Kerala. We would be able to adjust it behind. . . . To mtnlm1ze it by dispersal spell, the "A" is for Ape and the "B" ts tor planting schedules to plant more corn Jn or by overly restrictive controls or the re­ Bear. The "C" is for Camel, the "H" is for the southern hemisphere 1f drought had location of economic activity. The cost of our Hare. Through to "Z"-"2}" is for Zebra, I taken its toll six months earlier in the north­ environmental efforts wm be enormous. The know them all well, sayeth Conrad Cornellus ern countrie!>. projection by W1111am Ruckelshaus 1s a O'Donald O'Dell. From beginning to end, The pressures of population growth and phenomenal $105-btlllon over a five-year pe­ from start to the close, because "Z" is as far world hunger are real. Because we believe riod. For a comparison, the Apollo Lunar as the alphabet goes. Then he almost fell in the dignity of man, it is Innate within us Landing Program, from the moment Presi­ fiat on his face on the floor when I picked that people should never be allowed to starve. dent Kennedy announced the goal until up the chalk and drew one letter more. In But sometimes the impact of starvation gets Nell Armstrong stepped on the moon, cost the places I go, there are things that I see, lost when it happens to people on the other $24-billlon. that I never could spell if I stopped with side of the wortd . . . or to people in the The cost incurred ln applying current tech­ the "Z"." year 2000. In a world where everyone does nology and developing new technology to As the command module pilot on Apollo not have adequate food today, it is well es­ clean up our environment will eventually be 13, I have been privileged to be one of 24 tablished that hungry people make ideal tar­ passed on to the consumer in the form of astronauts who have had a long, far away gets for political systems that ferment un­ higher prices for everything from food to look at this earth on which we live. When you rest in their efforts to dominate the world. toys. For the money spent on pollution abate­ see our whole world, all at once, on a scale What are the chances for a lasting peace 1! ment controls and fac111ties doesn't con­ where you can cover it with your hand, the there are no provisions to provide food for tribute to productivity.... And productiv­ beauty and awe of this new perspective can­ the increased population? Will your chil­ ity is the essential ingredient of growth . . . not help but infiuence your thinking. Every dren or their's be called on to fight more wars and growth means jobs. Harold Scott, Assist­ astronaut who has returned from the moon that might be prevented 1! we expand our ant Secretary of Commerce, put it even more has said it has changed his outlook at llfe. planning beyond the "A" to "Z" of today? bluntly: "You begin to cost our environmen­ Imagine yourself far away from earth, look­ Two recent isolated news events have fo­ tal solutions and you find that many of our ing back on a colorful sphere silhouetted cused our attention on problems which are industries are going to be priced out of the against the black vastness of space. You interrelated in their solutions. During the world market." see no boundaries between nations ... no recent cold spell, schools and factories in An editorial of the Indianapolis Star races ... no dtlferent religions ... no oppos­ many states could not open for lack of fuel pointed out the effect of foreign competition ing political philosophies. Just one small to provide heat. The oil rationing ln some already: "Bendix Corporation recently an­ planet inhabited by some 3%-billion varied eastern states is another indication that the nounced that it is closing a manufacturing individuals . . . all seeking about the same energy crisis is upon us. This entire nation automotive plant and moving it to Mexico­ thing from llfe. You see the world not from of 200-mllllon people burns more energy than too much competition. Westinghouse has de­ the concern for an individual or a group or all the people in Japan, Great Britain, Ger­ cided to get out of the small appliance busi­ a city or a nation, but from a concern for all many, and the Soviet Union combined. ness-foreign competition. Remington Rand mankind. Just last year our 109-million cars used and Royal Typewriters are discontinuing If this earth 1s a closed system, represent­ 90-blllion gallons of gasoline; our 2,000 jet­ U.S. production. Motorola has said that it ing, in Doctor Seuss' fashion, from "A" to liners more than 1-blllion gallons of jet fuel; is getting out of the portable radio and tele­ "Z", then an Apollo mission is truly a trip and our 3,400 power plants 1-bnlion barrels vision business. B. F. Goodrich is closing up "beyond zebra." You understand, when you of oil, 4-billion cubic feet of gas, and 300- its footwear business-the competition from view the world as a small sphere, that if mlllion tons of coal. Coal mines and on and abroad is too much." this closed system where all resources have gas fields don't reproduce--every time one This all seems contradictory. Does the fu­ a Umlt is not managed with new imagination, 1s drllled or mined there is one less to go! ture mean that in order to maintain a com­ then there may also be a limit to the time Even today we consume more energy in this petitive international economic position, we of man on earth. All of us-and particu­ country than we produce. The cost of im­ must reduce our efforts to obtain clean air larly those in positions of leadership in gov­ ported petroleum amounted to 4-blllion dol­ and clean water? How does this nation go ernment and industry-must plan new solu­ lars last year. By 1985 economists predict about achieving the economic growth that tions for problems that must be solved with­ that more than half our oil and gas will come wm not just halt the loss of jobs but will In the next 30 years. Today, I want to stir from imports, increasing the balance of pay­ provide the necessary 20-million new jobs for your thoughts beyond the usual. ... I want ments deficit in petroleum to 30-b111ion dol­ our future population in the next 20 years? tou to Join me on a trtn "Beyond Zebra." lars. Because the supply of natural gas will And, how dces this Nation sustain the high Turn your thoughts ahead to the year be insufficient to fulfill this nation's future standard of living for its people without the 2000 when the population of this planet will needs, oil will be in even greater demand. energy for its enormous productive capacity? have doubled and there will be 7-b11lion And the great bulk of the supply of both And, how do we obtain this energy without rubber and organic chemicals is derived also depending on foreign supplies or burning people. This means that we have less than from petroleum. 30 years to double or triple this nlanet's high polluting materials such as high sui• In 1985, this Nation's on and gas supply­ food production which has taken centuries phur coal? and our standard of living-may well depend This complex problem has a single solu­ to develop. Agriculture will find the space on how we are getting along with countries tion in an imaginative and entirely feasible program an indispensable tool in meeting this such as Libya, Algeria, Nigeria., Saudi Arabia, application of space technology. Instead of challenge. and the Soviet Union. Many of these foreign trying to control pollution by curing the Sensitive sensor systems onboard a space­ producing areas have long been the scene symptoms, why not cure the disease by de­ craft can tell more than a farmer now knows of strife and turmoil. As the dependence upon veloping a new source of pollution-free about his own plot of land-the moisture foreign sources of supply increases, this energy? The enormous consumption of this March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10123 planet's energy sources and the chemical by a management of crisis rather than Jnall­ the war was going full force, and even dUring and nuclear wastes associated with power agement of society. Look at some of the ex­ the phased withdrawal, the returning sol­ generation could be alleviated by placing amples that have occurred during your life­ diers understandably came back in sllence. power generating stations in space. Large time. We reacted to the crisis of the depres­ This is the first war I can recall where the orbiting solar collectors would convert sun­ sion. . . . to Pearl Harbor. . . . and to the prisoners, not the main bulk of the army, light into electricity which would then be crisis of Sputnik. get the welcome. I wish we had reserved some changed into microwave energy and beamed It is rare, however, to find historical ex­ for the nonprisoner wounded. to earth, where it would be collected by an amples of long-range plans designed to avoid To be proud of their returning prisoners, antenna and converted back to electricity. probable or even certain crisis. . . . or long­ a people must at least have come to terms In There is a solution both to the energy crisis range plans designed to provide for the well­ their own minds with the war they fonght ln. facing our Nation and to the pollution of being of a future generation. OUr approach The way the war is ending makes that pos­ our environment if we start thinking "be­ to national problems today is characteristic sible now. I! the United States had ended the yond zebra." of our ind11ference to approaching crisis. I! war unilaterally, as some proposed-if there To apply space technology to these and you listen carefully, most of the argument were no political settlement, only an ex­ future problems of mankind in any practical about current national problems centers change of prisoners-the whole national cli­ sense, the cost of placing payloads into orbit about how much tax money should be spent mate would have been d11ferent. You would must be reduced. It doesn't make much sense on the "A" to "Z" to make the symptoms have returned amid bitterness from every to discard expensive spacecraft after just of problems less noticeable. There is little direction. What makes me happiest is the one use. The Space Shuttle-NASA's next discussion about putting some of this money current climate of your return. You make us major space program-is a combination air­ to work "beyond zebra" or curing the dis­ feel better about how the war ended, and craft and rocket that will achieve its eco­ eases that produce these symptoms. how the war ended makes us feel better nomic savings by reuse again and again. As the problems of the world become more about you. Space Shuttle is a multipurpose vehicle the.t complex. the time to solve them becomes We like the coolness and sel!-discipllne you wlll be our workhorse in space in the decades greater. To protect our freedom, it took only showed in the camps. Por years to come, I ahead. It can perform scientific missions of four years after Pearl Harbor to turn 'l;his suspect, you will look back at your prison­ its own or it can be used to launch or re­ Nation into the greatest m111tary power tn camp days, not with pleasure but with some­ trieve malfunctioning satellites and bring history. But it required almost a decade to thing better than pleasure-With self-respect them back to earth for repair and relaunch. achievE: a dominance in space after the crisis tinged with awe at what you and your fel­ In its 15- x 60-foot cargo bay could be carried of Sputnik. You cannot suddenly materialize lows endured, how your morale survived, how the equipment to assemble power generat­ trained scientists and engineers overnight. A you organized for study, exercise and de­ ing stations in space or to launch unmanned world-wide system to conserve and manage bate, the kind of fellowship you achieved. probes to other planets to increase man's this planet's limited resources cannot sud­ That cracked cup or plate you brought back knowledge of the universe. It could also be denly be put into operation when starving with you, that bent spoon-they wlll bring used to perform a military mission if that billions and warring nations signal its need. back memories that the rest of your life ma7 should ever be required. Nor can power generating stations be never match. There are many eloquent spokesmen­ quickly placed in space to provide ecological Yes, there must have been quarrels, re­ writers, academicians, and some prominent solutions to our dying lakes and rivers or criminations, divisions among you. How could political figures-who maintain that we must the needed energy to maintain our standard there fail to be, since you grew to manhood reorder priorities ... that we should spend of living. These require long-range deci­ 1n an individualistic society? There must less on space and other technological pro­ sions, planning and organization of govern­ have been some who broke discipline by grams and more on the social problems that ment and industry, and a commitment of making e.ntiwar statements !or their captors, exist in our country. They would divert the human and economic resources. not under duress, against the orders o! their 1% cents of each Federal tax dollar now The future must be given more considera­ own commanding senior ofllcers. Whatever spent on space to the 45 cents we are spend­ tion if there's going to be any kind of life their act-and it was shabby-there isn't ing on our social programs. I do not deny for your chlldren or the succeeding genera­ much point in dragging it up now. They that there are pressing social needs, but even tions. We must think beyond the finite. . . . may have felt they were speaking out of con­ if that 1% cents should accomplish the im­ We must see "beyond zebra".... For only science: Leave them now to their own con­ possible and solve all of our social problems, then can we open this closed system we call sciences and their own memories. what is the risk of this "A" to "Z" phllosophy earth. That doesn't mean a total close-mouth to our Nation and the world-in the future. policy about the camp experiences. The Pen­ There must be a continuing stimulus to tagon has kept a watch over you since your our economy that wtll provide employment DEAR POW: WELCO:ME BACK return. Untll all the remaining prisoners are for the continually increasing work force back, it makes sense not to rake up the em­ and also keep this Nation competitive in in­ bers of resentment. After that we must take ternational trade. The space program is that the lld off. We need to know more, 1n depth, stimulus-because it has set the pace for HON. BOB WILSON about the behavior in the camps-whether science and technology in this country, forc­ OF CALIFORNIA the old Rules Manual needs revising, how ing an advance that had only previously oc­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deep the quarrels were, what kind of per­ curred in wartime. The space program accotn­ sonality took it best or worst, what belle! pU.shed the same end in peacetime and, 1n Wednesday, March 28, 1973 and what value structure kept a man's spirit that sense, could be termed a "moral sub­ Mr. BOB WTI..SON. Mr. Speaker, as sustained. We can know it only if we use a stitute for war." It is science and technology we welcome back our returning prisoners research approach, not a publlc relations one. that holds the key to the solution of major Waiting it out must have been an eternity problems facing this country and wm also of war and rejoice ln their health-both tor you, especially since you were unsure provide the needed employment and the mental and physical-we cannot help but about what was happening in your society. economic expansion to finance future social marvel at the strength which saw them You missed those you loved-parents, women, programs. Many Americans today seem much through their captivity. I would like to chlldren. For most of you there was some more interested in how to divide up the share with my House colleagues the fol­ inner assurance about them, for others a available wealth than in how to create new lowing "Dear POW" letter by Max Ler­ gnawing doubt. You had a lot of time to wealth. It is not a matter of choice between ner, published in the Daily Californian, think about things. Not all the thoughts social programs and something else; it is a could have been comforting. choice between social programs and the El Cajon, Calif.: One thing you bring back to the United ab111ty to support social programs. Obviously, DEAR POW: WELCOME BACK States that was badly needed-e. willingness the economy cannot be made self supporting CHICAGO, III.-Dear POW: Welcome home to speak out about what was thought to be 1f the economy is not a generator of goods, to what remains the only fabulous country. square 1n the whole past decade-love of for without generators of wealth there can With few exceptions, Americans are proud country. I! you didn't bring this back with be no social programs. of you and of how you behaved in your long you, how could you endure the memory of I, for one, strongly believe that the two­ ordeal of imprisonment. Don't let anyone tell your ordeal? We at home had almost begun space and social programs-are not mutually you differently. Here in Chicago and 1n Flor­ to despair about something so elementary exclusive.... And must exist together, ida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, where I have and elemental. As with love between people, each with its own importance. For 1n our been traveling, I have felt this outflowing it should be deserved, but it must also out­ haste to solve our present difilculties, we of pride and warmth toward you. last imperfections and inadequacies on one cannot neglect our youth and generations You have expressed surprise at it because side or the other. You have kept it alive unborn. Arthur Clarke, a noted writer, has you heard in your camps about the antiwar and have shown that it need not be llnked said: "A Nation which concentrates on the demonstrations. Yet it shouldn't surprise with hatred of other countries and systems. present wm have no future. In statesmanship you. This has been ~ war without heroes You will come to know more about this as in everyday life wisdom lies in the right probably the least popular war in American society you have come back to-about the division of resources between today's de­ history. convulsions through which it passed, the mands and tomorrow's needs." Nonetheless, the hero-hunger is there­ scars it sufi'ered, some old values weakened The histories of English speaking democ­ for a chance to welcome heroes home. You and others renewed. racies are almost universally characterized and your fellows fulfill that hunger. While You have lost some good years of your '10124 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, ·1973 :. life-was it four,1lve, seven?-but were they honors Service and his colleagues without lute control of the mainland and when they really lost? You have had something many ascertalnlng the facts. The Washington Post found that the communists were Stalinist of us lack-time to think things out. Your practices poor journalism when it parrots this totalitarians, not the democratic reformers talent need not have rusted: It may only distorted version of history without checking described by Service, there was strong criti­ . have deepened. If you can escape getting the record. cism of Service's reports and policy recom­ · ·rlgid in your reaction to what you have mendations. found on your return, the years ahead may The advertisement published by Accu­ However, John Stewart Service would prob­ prove the 1lower1ng of the years you have racy In Media includes five letters the ably never have been fired on the basis of , endured. Washington Post ·refused to print. I wish his misleading reporting alone. What got him to share this material with my colleagues, into hot water was the fact that it was found and insert it into the RECORD at this time: that in 1946 he wrongfully gave copies of some 18 classified State Department docu­ AIM FIGHTS PRESS BIAS LETTERS THE EDrroa OF THE WASHINGTON POST REFUSED To PaiNT ments to Phlllp Jaffe, the editor of Amerasia, a pro-communist publication. He has ad• The following letters have been submitted to mitted this serious violation of security, and HON. PHILIP M. CRANE the Post by Accuracy ln Media for the pur­ there is no doubt that it weighed heavily in OF n.LINOIS pose of correcting inaccuracies or mislead­ the judgment of the Loyalty Review Board. ing information published in the Post and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The American Foreign Service Association other papers. The editor has declined to does no credit to its own reputation when Wednesday, March 28, 1973 publish these letters. Since AIM believes it honors Service and his colleagues without that the readers of the Washington Post first ascertaining the facts. The Washington Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, too often, really do have a right to know, we are pub­ Post practices poor journalism when it par­ the press publishes material which is not lishing them at our own expense: rots this distorted version of history without .. only misleading but, in many instances, JOHN STEWART SERVICE checking the record. untrue. This situation is even more pro­ AMNESTY nounced with regard to the electronic Sm: In reporting on a luncheon given at the State Department to honor John Stewart FEBRuARY 9, 1973. " media, such as television, and the result Sm: Haynes Johnson's recent article on the · has been a public which has found it Service and other "old China hands" of the 1940's, the Post described the recipients of issue of amnesty (2/4/73) suggests that there difficult to differentiate between truth this honor as "the men who were persecuted is a need to clear up the serious misunder­ . and falsehood, between reality and the and dismissed for sending news their coun­ standing that has arisen about the actions . one-sided analysis of those in positions try did not want to hear." This statement and attitude of Abraham Lincoln toward de­ of influence. was apparently based on an uncritical ac­ serters and draft evaders. Johnson and others ' Fortunately, the public interest is be­ ceptance of an assertion made by Mr. William have discussed Lincoln's policies without ing protected by a watchdog organiza­ C. Harrop, Chairman of the Board of Di­ drawing a clear distinction between his offer rectors of the American Foreign Service As­ of amnesty to those who had rebelled against tion which has been formed for the spe- the Gt>vernment of the United States and . ciftc purpose· of correcting errors in the sociation, the sponsor of the luncheon. In a letter announcing the luncheon, Mr. fought for the Confederacy and his policy media. This group, Accuracy In Media, Harrop said: "The facts they reported were toward those who deserted from the Union . 1s a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization . unwelcome at home. Many of these officers -forces or evaded the draft. The distinction is which investigates charges of serious fac­ suffered harsh domestic criticism and were an important one. tual errors and omissions in news report­ unable to continue their careers/' Lincoln 1ssued an amnesty proclamation on ing. As a result of its acivities, to cite Mr. Harrop has admitted in private con­ December 8, 1863, while the war was still in one example, the American Broadcast­ versations that he had never made any sys­ progress. It provided that members of the ing .Co. issued a statement correcting five tematic study of the reporting of the foreign Confederate forces below the rank of colonel service officers whose reporting his associ­ and others who were supporting the Con­ errors in its news documentary,-'"Arms federate cause, with certain exceptions, would Is ation was honoring. Nor was he able to cite and Security ... How Much Enough?" any study that would confirm that Service be exempted from any punishment if they In many instances, however, the media and his colleagues suffered because they took a loyalty oath. The purpose of the refuses to correct its errors, and even to reported factually and objectively informa­ proclamation was to encourage desertion permit those who challenge the accuracy tion that was "unwelcome at home." from the Confederate forces. It did not apply of their presentations to be heard. Ac­ to those who were already prisoners of war, An analysis of the reports from China sub­ and Lincoln made it clear that it was "not curacy In Media has faced such a ''news mitted by John Stewart Service in 1944 sug­ for those who may be constrained to take blackout" and has responded by publish­ gests that Mr. Service was fundamentally (the oath) in order to escape actual im­ ing paid advertisements in various news­ wrong in his judgments about the philosophy prisonment or punishment." papers and magazines. and intentions of the Chinese Communists. It is most misleading to confuse this tacti­ The washington Post of March 7, 1973, For example, a report of his dated Septem­ cal move by Lincoln to encourage enemy ber 28, 1944, said; "The Communist political desertions with Lincoln's policy toward de­ contains an advertisement which in­ program is simple democracy. This is much cludes excerpts from letters to the edi­ serters from his own forces. The standard more American than Soviet in form and punishment for desertion during the Civll ~ tor, written by Accuracy In Media to the spirit." In the same report, Mr. Service as­ War was death, and although Lincoln com­ Post, which the Post refused to print. sured Washington that it was wrong to think muted many death sentences, many such One letter discusses the report in the that Mao wanted to bring socialism to China. sentences were carried out. As the war neared Post of a luncheon given at the State He said: "The next stage in China's advance its end, on March 11, 1865, Lincoln issued a Department in honor of John Stewart must be capitalism." proclamation offering a conditional pardon to Service and other old China hands of the Mr. Service's analysis of the Chinese com­ deserters. The condition was that they re­ 1940s. The Post described the recipients munists was dead wrong, but it is incorrect turn to their units and serve out their en­ to say that it was unwelcome in Washington. listment, adding time for the period of their of this honor as the men who were per­ On the contrary, this kind of analysis was desertion. The proclamation stated that those secuted and dismissed for sending news very popular in the United States in 1944. who failed to turn themselves in or who fied their country did not want to hear. Mr. Service was simply one voice in a loud to avoid the draft would be deemed "to have Accuracy In Media, in its letter, stated chorus that was telling America that the voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their that-- true democrats in China were the commu­ rights of citizenship" forever. Lincoln clearly An analysis of the reports from China sub­ nists and that we should support them, not took a very firm stand toward deserters and mitted by John Stewart Service in 1944 sug­ Chiang. That chorus was largely successful draft evaders, a fact that has been badlY gests that Mr. Service was fundamentally in getting American policy changed, and obscured in much of the current discussion. wrong in his judgments about the philosophy the policies recommended by Service and his Post readers might also be misled by and intentions of the Chinese Communists. colleagues were to a large extent adopted. Haynes Johnson's discussion of Truman's For example, a report of his dated September Those historians who are now rewriting pardoning of some selective service violators 28, 1944, said: "The Communist political pro­ history would have us believe that Wash­ after World War II. Johnson says that Tru­ gram is simple democracy. This is much more ington ignored Service and Davies and gave man granted amnesty to 1523 violators, but American than Soviet in form and spirit." In unstinting support to Chiang Kai-shek. That he fails to say that 90 per cent of the selec­ the same report, Mr. Service assured Wash­ is not true. The policies followed in the crit­ tive service violators whose cases were con­ ington that it was wrong to think that Mao ical postwar years were essentially those sidered by Truman's amnesty board were not wanted to bring socialism to China. He said: that these experts recommended. We actu­ pardoned. Nor does he say that the pardons "The next stage in China's advance must be ally withheld vitally needed arms from were not extended to deserters. None of those Chiang for a whole year while we tried to pardoned by Truman were excused because capitalism." force him into forming a coalition govern­ they sympathized with the Nazi cause and The letter concluded that-- ment with the communists. had moral scruples about fighting them. The American Foreign Service Association When America later discovered that these Mr. Johnson advocates that an amnesty does no credit to its own reputation when it policies had helped bring about Mao's abso- board be established "to determine those March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10125 cases that merit pardon on grounds of moral tioiiS ot controversial issues of public im-­ to withdraw -funds. This method of with­ objections to the war." These would not be portance. drawal removes the inconvenience to a persons who could quallfy for conscientious ELECTION CAMPAIGN LAW VIOLATIONS depositor of having to personally present objector status because of opposition to all FEBRUARY 19, 1973. war, but persons who objected to this par­ a passbook in order to withdraw his sav­ Sir: On February 13, the Associated Press ings. Further, NOW accounts are avail­ ticular war. There is no precedent in Ameri­ sent out a story which began this way: "The can history (or probably the history of any General Accounting OfHce reported today able only to individuals and are not of­ country for forgiving deserters and draft that the ca.mpaign organizations of Presi­ fered for commercial purposes. evaders for such a reason. dent Nixon and Senator George McGovern One issue that has been raised is TV BIAS failed to report within 48 hours a series of whether all financial institutions should FEBRUARY 14, 1973. large contributions received in the last 12 be granted the same right to offer· this Sm: By coincidence, George Will's article days of the 1972 Presidential ca.mpaign." The service to their customers. The bill which arguing that TV bias does not matter ap­ story proceeded to say that no legal action I have introduced seeks to make clear peared in the Post at the same time as an was being recommended because "neither that Federal banking statutes do not pro­ article in TV Guide demonstrated that TV the new law nor the regulations were suf­ hibit federally regulated financial insti­ bias matters very much. ficiently explicit on these matters," accord­ wm contends that the networks are indeed ing to the Comptroller General. tutions from offering depositors negoti­ biased but lacking in power to influence This report was a very accurate account able order of withdrawal services in con­ public opinion. Therefore, we need not worry of the GAO press release on this subject. nection with interest-bearing deposits. about the distorted view of the world that The Washington Post carried a story about The text of the bill follows: comes over the tube. the GAO release under the headline: "GAO H.R. 6226 Bays Nixon Funds Unit Violated Spirit, In­ TV Guide's article, "The Black Eye That A bill to extend certain laws relating to the Won't Go Away," shows that the city of New­ tent of Law." The headline was a summary of the Post's lead paragraph. It was not until payment of interest on tin:ie and ·savings burgh, N.Y. is sttll sUffering today from the deposits and to make clear that Federal unfair negative image that it was given by the reader penetrated to the sixth paragraph of the Post story that he learned that the banking statutes do not prohibit deposi­ an NBC documentary aired over ten years tory institutions from offering negotiable ago. The mayor of Newburgh 1s quoted as GAO had "also reported apparent violations by the campaign organization" of Senator order of withdrawal services in connection blaming the difHculty experienced in attract­ with certain interest-bearing deposits ing industry to his city on the unfavorable McGovern. The Post story then reverted to impression that was created by the NBC pro­ the Nixon campaign funds, describing how Be it enacted by the Senate and House of gram. large contributions had been divided among Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section Was the NBC portrayal of Newburgh ac­ numerous committees so that each amount would be under the $5000 floor for contribu­ 7 of the Act of September 21, 1966 (Publ1c curate and fair? The people of Newburgh Law 89-597), is amended by striking out don't think so. The local newspaper de­ tions that had to be reported within 48 hours. scribed the program. as "a hatchet job on the Nothing was said about the fact that the "1973" and inserting in lieu thereof "1974". McGovern campaign organization was re­ SEC. 2. Section 19(i) of the Federal Re­ city." It asked for an apology from NBC, but serve Act (12 371a) is amended by no apology was ever made. The TV Guide ported by the GAO to have followed the same u.s.a. practice. adding at the end thereof the following new points out that because of the NBC docu­ sentence: "Nothing in this paragraph shall mentary the local media are extremely dis­ The GAO criticized the Nixon committee trustful of the national press, both print and for its handling of funds totaling over $1 be construed as prohibiting payment of in­ broadcast. mlllion. It criticized the McGovern commit­ terest on a deposit With respect to which tee for its handling of funds totaling over the bank may require the depositor to give The Newburgh case is only one of many notice of an intended Withdrawal not less that could be cited to show that TV has a $150,000. Is it the difference in the amounts that justifies the difference in the way the than thirty days before the Withdrawal is stronger influence on public opinion, for made, even though in practice such notice is good and 111, than Mr. Wlll seems to believe. Post reported the criticism of the two com­ mittees? Does that wipe out the fact that not required and the depositor is allowed MORE TV BIAS the GAO criticism was directed evenhandedly to make withdrawals by negotiable instru­ FEBRUARY 15, 1973. at both committees? ment for the purpose of making payments Sm: In a recent speech the president of to third persons or otherwise." NBC, Julian Goodman, charged that "some SEc. 3. Section 18(g) of the Federal De­ Federal Government ofHcials are waging a CONGRESSMAN DRINAN SUPPORTS posit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1828(g)) is continuing campaign aimed at intimidating "NOW" ACCOUNTS amended by adding at the end thereof the and discrediting the news media." Singling following new sentence: "Nothing in this out an ofHcial who recently charged that subsection shall be construed as prohibiting there was bias in TV network news, Mr. payment of interest on a deposit with respect Goodman said: "He did not say how we are HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN to which the bank may require the depositor biased." OF :MASSACHUSE'r.l'S to give notice of an intended withdrawal not Accuracy in Media, Inc. has spelled out in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES less than thirty days before the withdrawal detail many specific cases of TV network is made, even though in practice such notice bias. Many of these involve NBC, and Mr. Wednesday, March 28, 1973 is not required and the depositor is allowed Goodman knows of them. He misleads the Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, I have in­ to make Withdrawals by negotiable instru­ public when he implies that charges of bias tr'lduced today a bill which attempts to ment for the purpose of making payments are lacking in documentation. protect a newly developing practice to third persons or otherwise." In the AIM Report for February 1973, we SEc. 4. Paragraph (13) of section 107 of cite the following cases of bias in NBC News within the banking community. The bill the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. programs in recent months. which I have introduced today has been 1757) is amended to read as follows: 1. An attack on private pension plans in previously introduced in the other body "(13) in accordance with rules and regula­ America in a documentary called "Pensions: by Senator THoMAs J. MciNTYRE of New tions prescribed by the Administrator, (A) The Broken Promise." The program was very Hampshire and is numbered s. 1008. to sell to members negotiaple checks (includ­ one-sided. In recent months, mutual savings ing travelers checks) and money orders, 2. An attack on private health care sys­ banks in Massachusetts and New Hamp­ and to cash checks and money orders for tems in a documentary called "What Price members, for a fee which does not exceed the Health?" Another one-sided presentation. shire have established a new type of savings account which permits deposi­ direct and indirect costs incident to provid­ 8. A documentary on San Francisco's ing such service and (B) to allow its mem­ famed Chinatown based entirely on the tors to receive interest on accounts from bers to make withdrawals from their share carping criticisms of two radical youths which they may draw by using negoti­ accounts by negotiable instrument for the whose sympathies for Mao Tse-tung came able instruments of withdrawal. This purpose of making payments to third persons through loud and clear. practice has been sustained by the Su­ or otherwise; and". 4. A documentary about the drug tramc in preme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. SEc. 5. The last sentence of section 5 (b) ( 1) Southeast Asia transmitting the views of Negotiable order of withdrawal ac­ of the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 (12 those who wanted to portray America and counts-NOW accounts--while similar to u.s.a. 1464) is amended to read as follows: its Southeast Asian ames in a bad light. At "An association may allow holders of savings the same time, NBC did not report the testi­ checking accounts, are distinct from con­ accounts to make withdrawals from such ac­ mony on the other side that was given by ventional checking accounts. A negoti­ counts by negotiable instrument for the pur­ Marine General Lewis W. Walt before the able order of withdrawal is drawn on a pose of making payments to third persons or Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. demand deposit as is a check, but it is otherwise as long as the association retains It is not the government that is discredit­ drawn on an interest-bearing account the right to require the advance notice re­ ing the networks. The networks are discredit­ and in effect is a replacement for the ferred to in the third sentence of this para­ ing themselves by their one-sided presenta- need of presentbng a passbook in order grapn.•• 10126 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1973 OBSCENE RADIO BROADCASTING­ country-i.e., that such cases, when they a. regular basts. According to the ln!ormatton vm occur, are not necessarlly reported to your we have received, there have been a total ot offi.ce in Washington. 15 defendants involved in cases arising under In view o! this !a.ct, I want to sa.y respect­ 18 U.S.C. 1464 !rom and lncluding Fiscal Year fully that I !a.11 to see how it is possible for 1969 through January, 1973. Cases involving HON. JAMES V. STANTON the United States Attorney General to siX defendants were disposed of on pleas of OJ' OHIO achieve a. uniform enforcement policy around gullty or nolo contendere; seven defendants IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the country with respect to Section 1464 were convicted. Three convictions were at­ Wednesday, March 28, 1973 1! certain !acts that might prove useful to firmed on appeal and one was reversed; and you a.re not reported to you. cases against two defendants were dismissed. Mr. JAMES V. STANTON. Mr. Speak­ It indeed there a.re gullty pleas being made The paucity o! cases arising under this er, over the last several weeks I have in­ to violations of Section 1464, wouldn't you statute mustra.tes the diffi.culties involved in serted into the REcoRD several items re­ want to know what accounts for your suc­ enforcing the Federal obscenity laws. As lating to controversial broadcasting by cess in each case? Wouldn't such knowledge these laws have been interpreted by the Sup­ suggest to you strategy for action with re­ reme Court, tnaterial, to be obscene, must station WERE in Cleveland, Ohio, and spect to new complaints a.s you receive them? (1) have as its domtna.nt theme an appeal on how this appears to be part of a na­ In other words, wouldn't the circumstances to a prurient interest in sex, (2) otfend con­ tional trend in programing by radio. under which you might be achieving success temporary community standards in the rep­ Members of this body who have a simi­ in one area prove instructive to you with resentation o! sexual tnatters, and (3) be lar problem in their own congressional respect to other parts o! the country? utterly without redeeming social value. Con­ districts might wish to check the REc­ Again respectfully, I would like to sug. sequently, speech which has as its domlna.nt ORDS of February 5, 6, 7, 8, 21, 26, and 28 gest that you c1rcula.r12le your United States theme a discussion of a.n issue or presenta­ for material leading up to the insertion Attorneys across the Nation, asking them to tion of an idea., howeve:t;. controversial or report to you a.ll prosecutions a.nd disposi­ otfensive that idea. may be, is protected by I am making today. tions in recent years under Section 1464. the First Amendment aga.tnst a charge of The latter 1s an exchange of corre­ It could be that such information would be obscenity. Needless to sa.y, most radio broad­ spondence between me and the Depart­ ot particular value to Mr. Coleman in Cleve­ casting falls into this category. ment of Justice, which is self-explana­ land, who is considering whether to institute We have reviewed certain investigative re­ tory. For purposes of clarity, I am insert­ proceedings against Station WERE there. ports prepared by the Federal Bureau of In­ Ing these letters in the RECORD in chron­ As your superior, President NiXon, asserted vestigation concerning the activities o! Ra.dlo on October 24, 1970: Station WERE. Whlle certain of that sta­ ological order, starting with my original "So long a.s I a.m in the White House, there communication to the Attorney General tion's programs focus upon discussion of sex­ wlll be no relaxation o! the national effort to ually oriented topics, we do not believe the of the United States and concluding, control and ellm1nate smut from our national programs could be considered violative of finally, with the most recent letter I have life • . . Pornography ca.n corrupt a society 18 U.S.C. 1464 for the reasons set forth received from his office, dated March 23, and a civilization. The people's elected rep­ above. Nevertheless, because these programs and my reply to that, which is dated resentatives have the right and obligation are certainly controversial and undoubtedly today. The letters follow: to prevent that corruption ... The Supreme otfensive to some individuals, we are re­ Court has long held, a.nd recently rea.ffi.rmed, questing the Federal Bureau of Investigation WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 1973. that obscenity is not within the area of pro­ Hon. RICHARD G. KLEINDIENST, to furnish the Federal Communications tected speech or press. Those who attempt to Commission with the results of its investi­ Attorney General of the Unttecl States, break down the barriers against obscenity Washington, D.O. gation of this station so that agency may and pornography deal a. severe blow to the determine whether or not this programing DEAR MR. KLEINDIENST: Because o! a.n very freedom of expression they profess to acute problem relating to otfensive radio is in the public interest. espouse." I trust this satisfies your inquiry. It I ca.n programming in Cleveland, Ohio, I have I am certain that you want to have in written letters to the United States Attor­ be of further assistance, please contact me. etfect the kind o! enforcement policy that Sincerely, ney !or the Northern District o! Ohio, to the implements the President's !eellngs on this Ped.eral Commun1ca.t1ons Commtssion a.nd HENRY E. PETERSEN, matter. Therefore, I would appreciate your Assistant Attorney General. to the Legislative Counsel of the House o! comments not only on this letter but also Representatives. I enclose copies o! those on the three others which I enclose. communications for your perusal, since Kindest personal regards. WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 1973. they dea.l with a.n Issue over which the Jus­ Sincerely, Hon. RICHARD G. KLEINDIENST, tice Department has jurisdiction. JA.MllS V. STANTON, Attorney General of the Untte4 Statet, I have made inqulries pertaining to your Member of Congress. Washington, D.O. enforcement o! Title 18, United States Code, DEAR MB. KLEINDIENST: On Ma.reh 28, 1973, Section 1464, which states: "Whoever utters l>BPAKTMENT OF JUSTICE, Mr. Henry E. Petersen, the Assistant Attorney any obscene, indecent, or profane language Wash~ngton, D.O., March 2, 1973. General in charge of your crimlnal division. by means of radio communication shall be Hon. JAMES B. STANTON, replied to my February 7, 1973 letter to you fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned Home of Representa.ttves, pertaining to obscene radio broadcasting a.nd not more than two years or both." Washtntgon~ D.C. the policy of the Department of Justice as to From the Congressional Research Service, DEAR CONGRESsMAN: Your letter to the At­ en!!or~ment of Title 18, United States Code, I received this report about your activities: torney General of February 7, 1973, concern­ section 1464. "There are apparently a. number of unre­ ing otfensive radio transmissions has been As you know, that letter was critical of ported decisions involving indictments un­ referred to this offi.ce for reply. your policy, a.nd, in it, I asked questions a.nd der sec. 1464 but the precedent value o! these We are presently compiling statistical in­ made suggestions. In his reply to me, Mr. proceedings seems to be limited. The General formation concerning the number of pros­ Petersen wa.s hardly responsive to the sub­ counsel's Offi.ce of the FCC indicated that ecutions arls1ng under 18 U.S.C. 1464. Upon stantive points raised in my letter. Therefore, when a. case is referred to the Justice De­ receipt of this information, we will corre­ I am enclosing herewith a copy of my original partment !or criminal prosecution under spond with you in detail concerning the letter, and I ask tha..t you personally review lt sec. 1464 the Department may not prose­ subject matter of your letter. and respond to it, since your assistant-­ cute where it appears that the language in Sincerely, despite his high rank and responsib111ties­ question would be protected under the First l~EYRY E. PETERSEN, eviden·tly chooses to evade the Issues involved. Amendment. The FCC General Counsel's of­ Assistant Attorney General. A perusal of my letter wm indicate, I am fice explained, however, that local U.S. Dis­ sure, that I did not ask !or a. statistical re­ trict Attorneys, under community pressure, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, port, which, as it turns out, is all I received ma.y obtain indictments a.nd that the de­ Washington, D.O., March 23, 1973. from Mr. Petersen. However, I a.m happy to fendants often plead gullty to these indict­ Hon. JAMES V. STANTON, learn, from the second paragraph of Mr. ments. The Justice Department, according House of Representa.ttves~ Petersen's letter, that Section 1464 is not to the FCC, does not rely upon these pro­ Washington, D.O. exactly unenforceable. This is a. fact that I ceedings as precedents." DEAR CONGRESSMAN: This is in further re­ find encouraging, at a. time when I a.m urging­ In conversations with officials of the Fed­ sponse to your letter of February 7, 1973, to both the Department of Justice and the Fed­ eral Communications Commission a.nd your the Attorney General concerning certain pro­ eral Communications Commission to adopt own Justice Department, I was able to con­ graming on Radio Station WERE, Cleveland, a. more aggressive policy. firm that what the Congressional Research Ohio. Again, I would appreciate hearing cllrectly Service reported to me 1s indeed true. I The statistical information referred to 1n from you on the points raised in my original learned also from these conversations that my letter to you dated March 2, 1973, con­ letter. your Department does not keep track of cerning this subject, has now been compiled. Sincerely, guilty pleas and that may have been entered United States Attorneys are required to fur­ JAMES V. STANTON, in various Federal trial courts around the nish the Department with caseload reports on Member of Congress. March 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10127 THE EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH ACT quakes happening along the fault or 1n nent, full-time members !or the term of the OF 1973 its vicinity. research effort. The function of the Board Is The recent visit Russia by President to set guidelines for the distribution of re­ to search effort and funding, Insure that the Nixon produced among other newsworthy spirit of the guidelines is being followed, and HON. DICK S.. OUP items with profound importance to our to make certain that the research results are 01' MONTANA country, the intended exchange of scien­ reported to the President, the Congress, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tific information related to earthquake the Public in a. timely manner. The Board. prediction as a specific area of Interna­ shall have the authority to review and Wednesday, March 28, 1973 tional interest. SUch attention amid the evaluate major program efforts, esta.bltsh spe­ Mr. SHOUP. Mr. Speaker, scientific weighty items of arms control and mis­ cific research goals, and accept or reject the suitability of proposed research, engineering, knowledge about the physical conditions silery appears as a clear indicator of the and development efforts. within the earth is at a stage of develop­ necessity to enter into such a worthy Membership of the Board, which may in­ ment in the United States where our e1fort. clude temporary members with expertise in ability to predict the occurrence of de­ Mr. Speaker, the time to act against areas of particular need during the progress structive earthquakes appear imminent. earthquakes is now. Between the United of the program, shall also Include at all times The strong theoretical and applied re­ States and the other countries of this at least one seismologist, one solid-earth geo­ search expertise developed in Govern­ physicist, one geologist, one seismological world, we now have the basic knowledge engineer, and one Instrumentation engineer. ment-sponsored programs supporting to act in a very positive way. There is Compensation and administrative support for seismology and related sciences is at the no reason for not providing our citizens the members shall be at a. level appropriate threshold of having sufficient under­ such basic protection as advance warn­ to equivalent responsibllties in the private standing of earth processes to accom­ ings from natural disasters such as sector. plish this end. The national need for this earthquakes. This protection could be Recommendations for membership on the capability has been clearly shown in re­ provided with the right equipment and Board shall be accepted from the Congress, cent years in Montana, California, Al~s­ tools. Legislation which provides this National Science Foundation, National Acad­ ka and Missouri where the destruction emy of Sciences, Department of Interior, Na­ protection would be important to all the tional Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agen­ of 'property and tragic loss of life have people in areas of high seismic risk. cy, Department of Defense, and professional been severe. Mr. Speaker, I ask that the text of my societies with ca.pa.b111ty and interest in In this year of centennial for one bill, in its entirety, be printed at this earthquake prediction. All members of the major Montana earthquake, which point 1n the RECORD. Thank YOU. Board shall be appointed by the President. wreaked considerable destruction in the H.R. 6277 The Earthquake Research Board shall se­ west-central part of the State, it is very lect appropriate public entities and organi­ appropriate to consider the possibility A bUl to provide a. sound program !or the zations, foundations, and private entitles and development and a.ppltca.tton of physical orga.ntza.ttons for the conduct of a. program that such unannounced disasters be theory and operational systems !or predict­ to predict earthquakes which shall include-- either controlled, or at the very least, ing damaging earthquakes in the United (1) heavy instrumentation within areas predicted. As Congressman from Mon­ States of high seismic risk to obtain detailed rec­ tana it is also impossible for me to over­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House ords of data. useful in developing an earth­ look the fact that over $4,000,000 in dam­ of Representatives of the United States of quake predicting ca.pa.b111ty; age occurred in 1935 in the State capitol America in Congress assembled, That (2) establishment of facilities !or the col­ and surrounding region-in 1935 valued (a.) this Act be cited as the "Earthquake lecting and computerized reduction, analy­ Research Act of 1973 ". sis and interpretation of the data. fiow !rom dollars-and that the Hebgen Lake such Instruments; Earthquake of 1959 in the southwestern (b) The Congress hereby finds and declares that certain regions within the United States (3) supporting procedures !or field, lab­ part of Montana took one of the highest oratory and related theoretical studies di­ tolls 29 have been identified as subject to high risk of life, some persons, of any in terms of destructive earthquake potential; rected toward description of predictive earth­ earthquake occurring in the United that a. significant part of the population of quake phenomenon; States up to that time. The entire west­ the United States lives within serious danger (4) development and field testing of addi­ ern region of Montana lies within the of loss of life and property from the unpre­ tional Instruments which are useful in con­ nection with the foregoing provisions of this highest or nearly the highest seismic risk dlcted occurrence of destructive earthquakes section; and regions of any part of the country, and in those regions; that scientists in other countries have issued earthquake warnings; (5) design and utilization of !a.cllittes and the active earth processes in this region, methods for the timely distribution of re­ which are announced by a continuous that Russian and Chinese scientists have begun systematic studies of premonitory search and development results to the scien­ !flow of reports of small earthquakes earthquake phenomena; that the need for tific and other concerned communities, in­ being felt by the Montana citizens, tnterna.tlona.l transfer of pertinent scientific cluding the exchange of useful information clearly indicates the potential for fur­ with the International earthquake research information is clearly indicated; and that community. ther destruction. seismic research ca.pa.bllity in the United Japanese seismologists have recently States is sufilciently advanced that an earth­ The Board shall also Insure that no more quake prediction competence may be than one-half of the funding provided by reported changes in tilting and eleva­ this Act is distributed to a. single agency, tion of the ground in the vicinity of large achieved with an earthquake research pro­ gram. To minimize loss of life and property entity, or organization, and that approxi­ earthquakes prior to the energy release in damage, the Congress hereby declares that mately one-quarter of the funding be dis­ the main large shock. Russian scien­ it is its purpose to establish a. specific pro­ tributed to university research through ap­ tists have also noted a distinct change propriate distribution, grant, and contract­ gram of research and development in the ing agencies. The specific intent of this re­ in the velocity ratio of two common United States to provide for the collection, quirement is to aid in bringing all possible seismic waves within the earth near the analysis, and interpretation of seismic and national ca.pa.billties to bear upon the prob­ earthquake focus prior to the earthquake related data., and to provide supporting field, lems of successfully predicting destructive itself. Chinese scientists are reported to laboratory, and theoretical studies leading earthquakes in the United States. have undertaken a major program in to the goal of predicting destructive earth­ SEc. 3. (a.) The Earthquake Research quakes within the United States. Board is authorized to establish and carry out earthquake prediction. This followed the (c) For the purposes of this Act, those almost total destruction of a moderately a. program to review and assess the current regions identified as "high seismic risk" in­ state of knowledge on earthquake prediction large village. Utilizing the observations clude places where·destructive or fatal earth­ and earthquake warning systems, and to• de­ made there as well as others, such as the quakes ha. ve occurred and in which seismic fine plans which are needed to reduce pri­ long term monitoring of ground water activity continues, such as areas within the mary and secondary losses !rom earthquakes. levels which may respond to changes in States of Alaska, Washington, Montana., Such a. review and assessment shall include: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada., and Cali­ ( 1) a. forecast of the problems expected the earth of premonitory character, the fornia; in Missouri, Tilinois, West Virginia., Chinese are making important advances. to be associated with the issuance of earth- . Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, and South quake warnings to the population residing Seismologists in California have also Carolina.; and In the States of New York, in high seismic risk areas; reported similar changes in ground water Maine, Massachussetts, and Connecticut. (2) an analysis, prepared prior to the oc­ conditions in the vicinity of the famed SEc. 2. (a.) There shall be est ablished an currence of an earthquake, of the behavioral Sari. Andreas Fault, but it is not yet clear Earthquake Research Board, which shall con­ and psych ological effects of an earthquake; sist of no less than five and no more than ( 3) an analysis, prepared prior to the is­ as to the direct relationship to earth- seven members, and with at least five perma.- suance of earthquake warnings, of steps 10128 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 29, 1973 which should be taken to make such warn- contracts, agreements, or other appropriate tiona for or reactions to earthquakes or ings effective, and how to make a decision arrangements with the National Academy of earthquake warnings. to issue such warnings. Sciences, public entitles and organizations, SEc. 5. (a) For purposes of section 2 of (b) The Board will be responsible for dis- and private entities or organizations to pro­ this Act, there is authorized to be appro­ semination of the results of the research vide the· necessary scient1f1c advisory serv­ priated for the fiscal year ending June so, efforts for preparation of high seismic risk ices as may be required to carry out the 1975, the sum o! $15,000,000 and for each of areas for the occurrence of earthquakes, par- purposes of this section. the next following six fiscal years the sum ticularly for the purposes of defining emer- - SEc. 4. The Earthquake Research Board of $12,000,000. gency community planning, insurance needs, shall make information developed pursuant (b) For purposes of sections 3 and 4 of architectural and engineering goals, and to the Act available to the President, the this Act, there is authorized to be appro­ other such studied applications which would Congress, Governors of States 1n high seismic priated for the fiscal year ending June 30, serve to protect life and property. risk, and other government and private orga- 1975, and for each of the next following six (c) The Board is authorized to enter into nizations which are concerned with prepara- fiscal years, the sum of $400,000.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, March 29, 1973 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. The message also announced that the on April 1, 1789. This coming April 1, Rt. Rev. Zoltan Beky, bishop emeri­ Senate insists upon its amendment to 1973, marks the 184th anniversary of the tus of the American Hnngarian Reformed the bill (H.R. 2107) entitled "An act to first meeting of this august body. Church, offered the following prayer: require the Secretary of Agriculture to April 1, Mr. Speaker, has traditionally Almighty God, Father of all nations, carry out a rural environmental assist­ been known as April Fool's Day. we stand before Thee in humble rever­ ance program," disagreed to by the House; agrees to the conference asked ence as leaders, chosen representatives, BASKETBALL CRISIS and lawmakers of this great Nation. by the House on the disagreeing votes of We invoke Thy gracious blessing upon the two Houses thereon, and appoints (Mr. BELL asked and was given per­ this great assembly. We confess that we Mr. TALMADGE, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. HUDDLES­ mission to address the House for 1 min­ are unable to carry the heavy responsi­ TON, Mr. AIKEN, and Mr. YOUNG to be the ute and to revise and extend his re­ bilities of our enormous tasks without conferees on the part of the Senate. marks.) Thy help. Give us Thy guidance and wis­ The message also annonnced that the Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise this dom. Our entire world is in turmoil, di­ Senate had passed a bill of the following afternoon to alert my colleagues to a vided as it is, needs Thy deliverance. title, in which the concurrence of the terrible crisis facing our Nation which Make us all instruments in Thy hand House is requested: we in Congress must confront squarely. to bring about a better and more peaceful S. 1136. An act to extend the exp1r1ng au­ I am referring to the dreaded basket­ world. thorities in the Public Service Act and the ball crisis, which has gradually taken We pray for our beloved conntry, the Community Mental Health Centers Act. hold in the United States. "Land of the free, and the home of the This crisis culnunated in the conquest brave.'' THE RIGHT REVEREND by the team of the University of Cali­ We give Thee thanks for our great her­ ZOLTAN BEKY fornia at Los Angeles of the NCAA Na­ itage that is ours in this Nation. tional Basketball Championship for the We thank Thee that by Thy spirit (Mr. PATTEN asked and was given seventh time in a row. Thou hast kindled-the longing for free­ permission to address the House for 1 UCLA also vanquished its 75th straight dom in the hearts of men. minute and to revise and extend his opponent last Monday night. On this day we remember the noble remarks.) Some political commentators have people of Hnngary who so gloriously at· Mr. PATTEN. Mr. Speaker, the Right warned that this situation constitutes tempted to achieve a free and independ­ Reverend Zoltan Beky, who has just said "five-man rule." ent nation 125 years ago. the prayer, for many years has been and Whatever it may be, we in West Los Lord, Thou knowest that their dreams is head of the American Hnngarian Fed­ Angeles realize it is certainly demoraliz­ and aspirations have not been ful:fllled eration. They have their own buildings ing to all those basketball players and yet. - out on New Mexico Avenue and have over fans in America who have chosen a team We beseech Thee to hear their pray­ 1 million members. other than UCLA as their own. ers and mercifully grant freedom to all This is a great group. I want the Mem­ Since I represent the UCLA five in this enslaved nations on earth. bers here to know that the administra­ Congress, I have been given advance We pray for our President and all tion of the American Government does word that the administration is plan­ Members of the Congress. Give them Thy not have any more loyal supporters in ning to send to the Hill very shortly a wisdom and Thy strength to serve Thee any phase of American life than this special basketball revenue-sharing bill. and our conntry in Thy name. Amen. group, whose conntry is overrun and con­ The Better Dribbling Act of 1973, which trolled by a foreign army, whose people would allocate fnnds to each State's uni­ cry out for freedom. versities to provide for expanded basket­ THE JOURNAL These Hnngarians who are now Ameri­ ball facilities and training. The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam­ cans support the foreign policies of our The sharing formula will exclude Cali­ Government to preserve freedom all over fornia entirely as a fnnd recipient. ined the Journal of the last day's pro­ the world. They are great Americans. I ceedings and annonnces to the House his This is certainly one plausible ap­ think it is wonderful that we have Bishop proach. approval thereof. Beky here today bless us with the Without objection, the Journal stands to Whatever course of action this Con­ opening prayer. I thank him ever so gress in its wisdom elects to follow, Mr. approved. much. There was no objection. Speaker, I am sure that the record of the UCLA team, led by Coach John Wooden, THE 184TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE Bill Walton, Tommy curtis, Larry Farm­ MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE FIRST MEETING OF THE HOUSE er, Larry Hollyfield, Greg Lee, and Keith A message from the Senate by Mr. Ar­ OF REPR:Ef:)ENTATIVES Wilkes will stand unchallenged for a long time to come. rington, one of its clerks, announced