31132 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 Relations. Condemns the Soviet Union's fail­ Relations. Condemns North Korea for its con­ Relations. Condemns North Korea for its con­ ure to observe the spirit of existing interna­ tinued acts of treachery culminating in the tinued acts of treachery culminating 1n the tional conventions to which it is a party, ax murders of two American omcers and the ax murders of two American omcers and the especially the restriction respecting the de­ wounding of five others. wounding of fl ve others. livery of parcels. H. Res. 1486. August 24, 1976. Rules. Directs H. Res. 1495. August 25, 1976. House Ad­ H. Res. 1480. August 23, 1976. International the House Committee on Armed Services to m1nistration. Increases the gross salary of an Relations. Calls for a termination of speci­ make a. study of recent North Korean vio­ official reporter of debates or an o11lclal fied maritime agreements between the U.S. lations of the armistice agreement. reporter to Committees by an amount equal and U.S.S.R. unless the U.S.S.R. ceases .to H. Res. 1487. August 24, 1976. Rules. Directs to 5 percent of his per annum gross rate deny the nation-flag vessels of the United the House Committee on Armed Services to of pay. Makes such reporters eligible for States the right to carry an equal share of make a. study of recent North Korean vio­ compa.ra.blllty adjustments in Federal statu­ the ocean-borne commerce between the two lations of the armistice agreement. tory pay systems. countries. H. Res. 1488. August 24, 1976. Rules. Directs H. Res. 1946. August 25, 1976. Sets forth H. Res. 1481. August 23, 1976. District of the House Committee on Armed Services to the rule for consideration of H.R. 14844. Columbia. States that the House of Repre­ make a. study of recent North Korean vio­ H. Res. 1497. August 26, 1976. House Ad­ sentatives disapproves of the Firearms Con­ lations of the armistice agreement. ministration. Authorizes the Sergeant at trol Regulations Act of 1975 passed by the H. Res. 1489. August 24, 1976. Sets forth Arms to employ a special counsel to repre­ Council of the District of Columbia. the rule for consideration of H.R. 14578. sent the Sergeant at Arms in all civil pro­ H. Res. 1482. August 24, 1976. International H. Res. 1490. August 24, 1976. Sets forth ceedings relating to the pending action en­ Relations. Condemns North Korea for its con­ the rule for consideration of R.R. 15194. titled Larry Pressler against William E. tinued acts of treachery culminating in the H. Res. 1491. August 25, 1976. Rules. Directs Simon, et. al. ax murders of two American omcers and the the House Committee on Armed Services to H. Res. 1498. August 26, 1976. International wounding of five others. make a study of recent North Korean viola­ Relations. Condemns North Korea for its H. Res. 1483. August 24, 1976. International tions of the armistice agreement. continued acts of treachery culm1nating 1n the a.x murders of two American officers Relations. Condemns North Korea for its con­ H. Res. 1492. August 25, 1976. Rules. Di­ tinued acts of treachery culminating in the and the wounding of five others. rects the House Committee on Armed Serv­ H. Res. 1499. August 26, 1976. Rules. Di­ a.x murders of two American omcers and the ices to make a study of recent North Korean rects the House Committee on Armed Serv­ wounding of five others. violations of the armistice agreement. ices to make a study of recent North Korean H. Res. 1484. August 24, 1976. International H. Res. 1493. August 25, 1976. International violations of the armistice agreement. Relations. Condemns North Korea for its con­ Relations. Condemns North Korea for its H. Res. 1500. August 30, 1976. House Ad· tinued acts of treachery culminating in the continued acts of treachery culminating in ministration. Authorizes the expenditure of ax murders of two American omcers and the the ax murders of two American officers funds for the further expenses of spec11led wounding of five others. and the wounding of five others. investigations conducted by the House Com­ H. Res. 1485. August 24, 1976. International H. Res. 1494. August 25, 1976. International mittee on Standards of 011lcia.l Ce>nduct.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SENIOR CITIZENS' GARDENS "GOOD "Gardening always has been my hobby ment. Myrtle already had frozen 30 quarts FOR THE POCKETBOOK AND and it's a. hobby with monetary value. Have of peas. The tomatoes are coming on fine. GOOD FOR THE SOUL'' you watched the price of tomatoes and corn There always are cukes to pick and insects in the stores?" asked Charles Hall, 70. "Be­ to battle. Later there wm be the rutabagas, sides, it is good exercise." turnips and spaghetti squash. "It's a. lot of HON. TOM HARKIN These enthusiastic gardeners all are res­ work, but it certainly helps," says Mrs. idents of Jan's Manor Apartments, a. low­ Darnley. OF IOWA rent housing complex for senior citizens, on Charles Hall, the hobby-gardener, has done IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the west edge of Indianola.. Max McCord, all of the work in their plot this year, even Thursday, September 16, 1976 owner of Jan's and nearby low-rent Robin canning 25 jars of green beans and some pick­ Ma.nor Apartments, provides about five acres led beets. His wife, Veda, 71, ls recovering Mr. HARKIN. Mr. Speaker, the De­ of garden space for his residents. He has the from knee surgery. partment of Agriculture has taken the la.net plowed, limed and disked and then the Hall grows about every vegetable Iowa soil lead in disseminating information on gardeners take over. will produce-including Swiss chard, which part-time farming and gardening. In GARDENS WELL-TENDED he doesn't like to eat, "but it looks nice There are between 40 and 50 plots. Each growing." He has 160 hllls of potatoes. "What addition, through its office of communi­ we can't eat, we give a.way." His garden is cations, it provides information on such gardener is provided as large a space as he or she wants. The Darnleys' garden is a large 50 by 70 feet and includes 75 tomato plants. related activities a-s canning and pre­ one-55 by 100 feet. All are well-tended, neat GOOD EATING serving foods. as a pin and enough to make many a younger For John Sorenson, 77, and his wife Daisy, The House will soon consider the con­ gardener sit up and take notice. 73, it ls their third year with a garden at ference repcrt on the farmer-to-con­ The gardens and the two housing com­ Robin Ma.nor. Besides all of the good eat­ sumer direct marketing bill, H.R. 10339, plexes command a breath-taking pastoral ing ("There ls no taste in the world like a of which I am a cosponsor. This bill ex­ view of Warren County, with green rolling home-grown tomato") . Sorenson, a retired pands the role to the Department to hills, lush trees and cornfields in the dis­ Des Moines TV repairman, says he just likes technical assistance to communities tance. Occasionally a deer comes up for a to watch all of the things grow. "It certainly look over the white rail fence. beats sitting a.round," says Mrs. Charles which desire to start a farmers market. McCord believes the garden work ls good Vance, 66, another "fa.rm girl." Of the doz­ In Iowa, the part-time farmers who own therapy for his residents. But the residents en rows of corn, the melons, carrots and all small garden plots will find these mar­ don't call lt therapy. They call it fun. of the other good things to eat, she and her kets extremely useful in expanding their Mrs. Allee Foust, 69, a widow, has 30 to­ husband like the ground cherries best. incomes. mato plants, onions, peas, beets, cucumbers, "There is nothing like them." In addition to a money-making proPo­ peppers, potatoes and "yo·t name lt." She They enjoy planting things you seldom sition, part-time farming in many areas says her garden is "good for the pocketbook see in grocery stores. And they let their two and good for the sO'Ul. And it keeps me out of granddaughters, Sheryl Turner, 9, and Shelia, has become a social event. I wish to share trouble." A daughter, Maxine Robinson of 11, have a row to plant all their own "for the with my colleagues the following article Knoxville helps her mother can and freeze experience." from the Des Moines Sunday Register: vegetables, and stores them for her. Gardening ls something of a social event SENIOR CITIZENS' GARDENS "Goon FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO SHARE there, too. "I have met and become friends POCKETBOOK. AND Goon FOR THE SOUL" As do many of the other gardeners, Allee with a lot of folks down here at the garden," (By Patricia Cooney) considers it a privilege to share some of her remarked Susan Laughlin, the gardener­ produce with the elderly folks there who philosopher. "I've gardened since I was 10 years old," "Just getting out in the fresh air is won­ says Mrs. Susan Laughlln, 70. "It's a way of cannot get out and garden themselves. derful," she says. "And no one oould hate life with me. I'd die ofr without a garden to Darnley, a retired ra.llroad engineer from anyone while working in a garden. It's re­ work in." Boone and known a.round the place as "Old warding 1n mental and splritual ways. I think "We haven't bought any vegetables all No. 8," says he and Myrtle, so far, have won about a lot of things while I'm out here. summer," says Harold Darnley, 79, ''And in their battle with the ;raccoons who love the "Another thing, most of us have had winter we eat what we freeze and what we sweet oorn. They have covered each ear with homes of our own," says Susan, a widow. can from the gard'en. But Mom does most of a brown paper bag. "A garden is something you can call your the work." ''Mom" ts Myrtle Darnley, 66, "a The spicy aroma of dill pickles in the own. People need something that is just fa.rm girl." making came from Darnley's garden apart- theirs." September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31133 JOBS AT DECENT WAGES FOR ALL whatever wages wlll induce business to hire the pregnant adolescent girl does not fit UNDER FULL EMPLOYMENT them. into the traditional picture of American Lowering or eliminating unemployment family life, our society is not as well compensation and removing the minimum wage for teenagers and other such measures equipped as it should be to help these HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS are standard elements of these full employ­ girls. As a consequence many of the OF CALIFORNIA ment proposals. The proposal of the Federal babies born to teenage mothers do not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Reserve chairman, Arthur F. Burns, to em­ get the best possible start in life and the ploy the jobless "at a rate of pay somewhat mothers are not helped to be the best Thursday, September 16, 1976 below the minimum wage" and fund the pro­ parents they can be. Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, one of gram by reductions in unemployment com­ The Life Support Centers Act of 1976 the critical elements of a full employ­ pensation and other social programs is illus­ is intended to deal with the difficulties ment program is the level of wages. In trative. faced by pregnant adolescent girls, many This "full employment" program would order to have a positive net effect. a com­ have the paradoxical consequence of in­ of them unmarried. The bill authorizes prehensive full employment program creasing poverty even as it increased em­ grants to State agencies and nonprofit must aim at the development of jobs at ployment. The comparisons critics have made organizations to establish or continue fair rates of compensation. Fair wage to the medieval workhouse a.re not unfair. programs for coordinated medical, social, levels for all is one of the important goals The other concept of full employment is and counseling services to pregnant teen­ of the Full Employment and Balanced recognizable as a. genuine liberal reform. For agers before and after childbirth. The life Growth Act of 1976 (H.R. 50). H.R. 50 is the labor movement and church and social support centers would offer: Health care greatly needed in order to insure that as action groups supporting the Humphrey­ to the mother, including nutrition pro­ Hawkins b111, full employment means jobs we reduce the numbers of those persons a.t decent wages. Rather than accepting the grams; health care to the infants during on the welfare rolls, and those receiving currently avallable jobs and the resulting their preschool years; referral services to unemployment compensation, we do not distribution of income as inevitable, the other agencies if necessary; social serv­ increase, but rather decrease, the num­ progressive vision of full employment insists ices including educational, vocational, bers of those living in poverty. The New that it is the proper function qf government legal, and social counseling; and funds to York Times, on July 17, 1976, contained to modify the free market if that is necessary provide adoption services for adolescent an article on this subject, written by to provide a. minimum level of decency for mothers who are considering placing Andrew Levison. The article follows: every American. their babies for adoption. While this strategy does require a more WHERE'S THE DILEMMA? FuLL EMPLOYMENT equitable distribution of income, it need not I believe that this legislation, which I MUST MEAN JOBS AT DECENT WAGES FOR ALL entail inflation. At the simplest level, fund­ have cosponsored, is an important step (By Andrew Levison) ing the entire program by a progressive tax in helping to hnprove the physical and ATLANTA.-The most notable feature of con­ increase would avoid any general inflationary social well-being of a sizable group of gressional debate over the Humphrey-Haw­ consequences. young pregnant girls, mothers and chil­ kins Full Employment & Balanced Growth The Humphrey-Hawkins bill is undergoing dren. If their health is improved and Act has been the 1ukewarm response of liberal revision, probably to include additional anti­ their ability to cope with the responsi­ economists. Although the bill's goal-reduc­ inflation measures and a. modification of the bility of family life is improved, then the ing adult unemployment to 3 percent by prevailing wages section. But whatever form chances of the mothers and children 1980-makes it the first major employment the final version takes, the debate reveals legislation since the mid-1960s, it has not that employment without inflation can be leading decent, constructive lives is gained the political or intellectual support achieved. The issue is whether it should be greatly enhanced. that the goal of overcoming poverty and done by forcing the unemployed to take low­ Not incidentally, the availability of achieving social justice did ten years ago. wage jobs, using the whip of accepting re­ services specially tailored to the needs of The stumbling block remains inflation. To duced unemployment compensation, or by teenage girls will be an important and many, the bill, sponsored by Sen. Hubert H. recognizing that a fairer distribution of in­ attractive alternative to abortion. Girls Humphrey (D-Minn.) and Rep. Augustus F. come must be part of the overall adjustments who know there is a place where they Hawkins (D-Calif.), simply amounts to an needed to provide a job at a decent wage for can receive medical assistance and coun­ aggressive choice of the inflationary facet of all Americans. the trade-off dilemma between unemploy­ If a dilemma. is a. choice between two seling may be encouraged to have their ment and inflation, and not a solution to the equally distasteful alternatives, then for the children. problem of stable full employment. But the millions of Americans who have not given presence of a serious legislative proposal has up the hope for a just society there is no focused the debate on the central practical dilemma. If full employment is to be a MEXICO CELEBRATES 166 YEARS OF issue: wages and full employment. social advance, rather than a retrogression, INDEPENDENCE Charles L. Schultze of the Brookings Insti­ it must mean jobs a.t decent wages for the tution in Washington, for example, cited as mllllons seeking work. the bill's inflationary Achilles' heel the pro­ HON. LARRY McDONALD vision that the pay for any specially created OF GEORGIA government jobs be at prevalling wages. LIFE SUPPORT CENTERS ACT OF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "The 'dilemma,'" said Mr. Schultze, "is that if you pay low enough wages so as not 1976 Thursday, September 16, 1976 to attract many people from their exlsting jobs, you have a very unattractive program. HON. JOSEPH L. FISHER Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the . . . If you set the wage somewhat higher people of Mexico today are celebrating . . it will still exceed the wages of many OF VIRGINIA 166 years of independence. On Septem­ people in private industry. If so, it wlll begin IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ber 16, 1810, Father Miguel Hidalgo pro­ to ca.use an exodus from private industry and Thursday, September 16, 1976 claimed Mexico's independence from drive up wages and prices." Spain, and the Republic was established But what this indicates in fact is that full Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, lately a lot on December 6, 1822, after the War for employment involves a profound social of attention has been given to changes in Independence. choice. The issue of wages divides two pro­ American society which are leading to a As we too are celebrating our inde­ foundly difrerent conceptions of full employ­ loss of a sense of family a~d community. ment and what kind of society would result pendence in this our Bicentennial Year, from it. I believe that the family is the corner­ it is appropriate to call attention to the The first, which might be called "laissez­ stone of a responsible and compassion­ many values and goals shared by the faire full employment," is subscribed to by ate society. The future of our society de­ people of Mexico and the people of the the economic advisers to the Ford Admin­ pends on the well-being and aspirations United States. Both fought valiantly for .lstration, the major business organizations, of our young people. While recognizing their independence and established new and defended in The Wall Street Journal. that basic strengthening of the family nations that became leaders in the prog­ Its central notion is that full employment as an institution must come from within ress of Western civilization. The progress ought to be achieved by workers accepting each family, I think that there are some whatever work is avallable, a.t whatever wages of both nations was well served by the and conditions that are offered. Viewing the steps that the Federal Government can people's common adherence to the prin­ unregulated operation of the free market as take to lend support to families. ciples of individual liberty, Christian In some sense "right,'' this approach carried One social phenomenon which is a ethics and private property rights. And to its logical conclusion aims at essentially problem in this context is the growing although our two nations were once at forcing the unemployed to accept jobs at number of teenage pregnancies. Because war, these common values have been the 31134 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 basis of the cordial relations and mutual to vote for them. His ca.use has not ma.de was to have an up-and-down vote on a pa.y him the House's most popular member. increase,'' says Grassley. So he readied a.n respect between our two peoples for the Gra.ssley thinks the law's a scandal, and amendment to bar use o! any funds for the past 100 years. he has been saying so ever since Congress next congressional pay boost, due Oct. 1. Thus I would like to join the people of approved it. In particular, he ha.s been try­ That was 1n late May. Then things began to Mexico in celebrating their independence ing to head off the approaching Oct. 1 pay change. and wish them good fortune and success hike, which would Utt the salaries of sena­ SCORING POINTS in defending their liberty in the future. tors and representatives to $46,800 from For one thing, the Republican platform $44,600. incorporated a call for repeal of the auto­ Until recently, no one paid much atten­ matic pay boost !or lawmakers. Next, Demo­ CONTINUED WORK AGAINST AUTO­ tion. Then, in what Grassley calls a "resort crats began finding their opponents were MATIC ANNUAL PAY RAISE to thievery," congressional Democrats ca.me scoring points against them 1n the primaries down with a severe case of pre-election jit­ by calling attention to their support of the ters, appropriated Grassley's pa.y freeze as pay hike. Then, the same day Grassley filed HON. LARRY PRESSLER their own, and rammed it through Congress. his amendment, House Democratic leaders OF SOUTH DAKOTA RISKY VOTES decided to file an almost identical one. Grassley heard about it first from a reporter IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES So Grassley will get his pay freeze, but for NBC News. the Democrats are taking the credit for it. Thursday, September 16. 1976 "They wanted him (Gra.ssley) to appear And, as he admits, "a lot o! the pressure on the morning Today show to argue against Mr. PRESSLER. Mr. Speaker, in the has gone out" of the drive to repeal the la.w the pay increase, along with a Democrat who past year I have worked closely with my itself, which will continue these pay raises was for it," recalls an aide to the Iowa law­ colleague CHARLES GRASSLEY, to prevent in the future. maker. "We were thrilled. We'd been trying automatic pay raises for Members of There a.re sound arguments on both sides. for months to focus attention on the issue. The law's proponents say it ls simply too Then this reporter called to sa.y the Demo­ Congress. Our efforts were culminated risky !or poUticians to vote themselves pe­ crats had decided that they were against the recently by the House and Senate ac­ riodic pay raises; it makes them vulnerable pay boost too. We were flabbergasted.." NBC tions preventing the congressional auto­ to demagogic attacks by their opponents. called off the debate. matic pay raise connected with the cost­ Congress in fact, hasn't been able to directly The final irony was that the House voted of-living raises for members of the ex­ vote itself a. salary boost since 1969, and the overwhelming for a. Democratic proposal to ecutive and judicial branches. cost o! Uving ha.s risen considerably since freeze the Oct. 1 pay boost, and the basic However, there is much misunder­ then. automatic pa.y mechanism remained intact. standing about this recent vote--tax­ But several yea.rs ago, Congress voted to The Senate followed suit la.st week; the give high-level executive-branch officials and !ate of the salary increases for judges and payers are told it will prevent a raise for Federal judges automatic cost-of-living ad­ top officials remains to be ironed out. the next year. Not true, because the justments, and no one balked at that. So So Grassley, whose target is the payboost Quadrennial Pay Board is now meeting last year, in a. maneuver that may have set mechanism, goes back to tilting at wind­ and will undoubtedly include a healthy a legislative speed record, both houses voted mills. "I suppose it's sort of a compliment $10,000 to $12,000 per year increase for to make lawmakers eligible !or the automat­ when someone steals your idea.", he says. Congressmen January l, 1977. This in­ ic pay boosts, which are tied to the Labor "But I can't help but believe a lot o! that crease will go forward automatically un­ Department's Consumer Price Index. support wm dlsa.ppea.r after the election." less Congress strikes it down. "A BAD EXAMPLE'' I have filed a lawsuit to declare the Grassley and the 83 cosponsors of his re­ automatic nature of congressional pay peal blll, however, insist that the law vio­ PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO S. 22 raises unconstitutional. Next Tuesday, lates an unwritten promise to the voters September 21, I shall argue the consti­ that a congressman should not raise his pay 1n the term to which he wa.s elected. In ad­ HON. GUS YATRON tutional questions before a three-judge ciltion, says Grassley, "it sets a ba.d example court. It is my contention that our Con­ !or us to get a raise when our constituents OF PENNSYLVANIA stitution, plus Madison's notes, clearly are suffering from unemployment and in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES raises. I am not opposed to Congressmen flation and the nation is running huge def­ Thursday, September 16, 1976 being well paid, but I contend that the icits." He, 15 other House members, and elaborate automatic pay machinery this 8 senators have all returned their cost-of­ Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, the Sub­ Congress has set UP--including two pay living pa.y hikes to the Treasury. committe on Courts, Civil Liberties, and boards-is misleading to the public, and Critics say Grassley 1s exploiting the pay the Administration of Justice of the issue to enhance his re-election prospects, House Committee on the Judiciary is to more importantly, in violation of our and there's no question he's locked in a Constitution. The language of our Con­ tough battle to hold the seat he won with less be highly complimented on their dedi­ stitution, plus Madison's notes, clearly than 51 percent of the vote two years ago. cation and perserverance in revising the prohibit automatic pay raises for Mem­ The lone Republican left in Iowa's congres­ copyright law extending over a period of bers of Congress. sional delegation, he's a. lanky, plain-speak­ many years. Nevertheless, because of in­ Mr. Speaker, the National Observer ing farmer who helped support his wife and consistencies and inequities in the pro­ commended my colleague, Mr. GRAssLEY, five children through 16 yea.rs in the state pased treatment of cable television sys­ legislature (salary $5,500 a year) by working tems and the public they serve, it is es­ for his work. I am proud to say that l on a factory assembly line. "Public service,'' was an early cosponsor and supporter he says, "sometimes involves a little sential that the bill be amended in five of his efforts. sacrifice." important particulars. I would like to share with you this ex­ The theory of the legislation is that APPEAL FOR COSPONSORSHIP only distant nonnetwork programs are cellent article written by Mark R. Arnold, A lot o! people didn't think he was serious which was published for the week end­ about his repeal campaign a.t first. Hls first subject to a royalty fee. The definition ing September 18, 1976. Mr. Arnold is to Dear Colleague letter-an appeal for co­ of "local service area of a primary trans­ be commended-he is one of the few sponsorship o! his repeal blll-was sent to mitter" attempts to distinguish between journalists who dug into the real facts the 213 lawmakers who originally opposed local and distant signals. Amendments concerning the recent vote. The article the automatic pay boost for members. Only are offered to implement and carry out 10 agreed to back the legislation. Though the laudable purposes of the bill. follows: 83 eventually signed on-most of them Re­ (From the National Observer, Sept. 18, 1976) In addition, the bill discriminates publicans-many members still regard his against nonmetropolitan areas in con­ SINCEREST FLATTERY-How A GOP LAWMAKER cause as an exercise in grandstanding. "By LOST AN lSS'01!: gosh," Grassley says, "one fellow even stopped tinuing to limit the number of independ­ me in the cloakroom and said "This kind o! ent stations to a smaller number than (By Mark R. Arnold) those authorized for large papulation For more than a year, first-term Rep. thing ls a.11 right !or home consumption, but Charles Grassley o! Iowa has been tlltlng at you're overdoing it." centers. It also assesses higher fees for Gra.ssley continued to "overdo" it. When the increased use of distant signals in windmills, playing the part o! a Republlca.n hearings weren't called on the blll, he wrote Don Quixote armed only with a batch o! nonmetropolitan areas. the committee cha.lra:nan to inquire why not. The remaining three amendments "Dear Colleague" letters and a conservative's He wrote President Ford asking !or support, standard rhetoric about fiscal responsiblllty. a.nd when he got no answer, he wrote again deal with the standmR: of broadcasters Grassley, 43, wants to repeal a 1975 law only to be told the President would take no to sue in situations in which they have that allows Congress to receive automatic position on the issue. no interest; the jurisdiction of the Copy­ pay increases twice a year without having So he tried another tack. "The basic thing right Royalty Commission to adjust the September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31135 percentage of gross receipts and tne The provisions of the bill, as presently THE PRO-AMERICAN PANAMANIANS freezing for copyright purposes of the drafted, would chill any attempts by SEEK TO OVERTHROW RED RULER Federal Communications Commission's the Commission to modify the syndicated rules on syndicated and sports program and sports exclusivity provisions of its exclusivity. rules in the public interest. Moreover, HON. GENE SNYDER The :first of the amendments proposed this provision will subject cable systems OF KENTUCKY is to provide that the royalty fees paid to additional unknown and indetermin­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by all cable systems for the privilege of able fees because of a total lack of stand­ Thursday, September 16, 1976 carrying distant signals, include a mini­ ards by which to adjust such rates. The mum number of signals in order to in­ Congress has never considered the pol­ Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, for about sure a basic complement of service to all icy questions involved in the Commis­ 2 weeks now, the situation in the Repub­ of our citizens. This will avoid discrimi­ sion's authority or treatment of the sub­ lic of Panama has been rapidly deterio­ nating in favor of the metropolitan or ject. It seems highly improper for legis­ rating. The anti-Torrijos student riots first 50 markets. lation to be recommended by the Judi­ have been confirmed. It appears that It is, therefore, proposed to insert on ciary Committee involving this sensitive Colonel Garcia and Colonel Flores are page 35 of S. 22, line 9, a new paragraph regulatory matter without having given on top; Noriega is on the bottom and which will guarantee to all sections of the Commerce Committee an opportunity General Torrijos is somewhere in be­ the country a minimum of three inde­ to conduct hearings and determine the tween. Much of what I hear and believe pendent stations so far as copyright lia­ impact of these provisions on national is difficult to confirm. However, I com­ bility is concerned. communications policy. Consequently, mend the following article to my col­ The second amendment replaces the an amendment is offered to eliminate leagues from the September 27, 1976, arbitrary definition of "local service area section 801 (b) (2) CC). issue of the Spotlight: of a primary transmitter" with an ac­ I have given these proposed amend­ PRO-AMERICAN PANAMANIANS SEEK To OVER­ curate definition which will have the ef­ ments careful thought and I believe each THROW RED RULER fect of converting the arbitrary defini­ of them is essential to carry out the pur­ WASHINGTON.-A national protest--in col­ tion with a realistic definition which car­ poses of the bill to impose a reasonable laboration with an effort to oust Gen. Omar ries out the valid purposes and theory royalty fee on each system for the priv­ Torrijos from office-has crippled Panama. of the bill to distinguish between actual ilege of retransmitting truly distant sig­ The move to oust Torrijos is undertaken distant signals and local signals. The nals. It is only fair that each system by patriots determined to replace the com­ munist dictator with a pro-American gov­ definition proposed will avoid use of the should have a minimum complement of ernment. The new government would favor several different definitions of local sig­ signals for such fees. In short, these continuation of the present Panama Canal nals by the Commission in its rules as amendments will eliminate the discrim­ Treaty instead of giving title to Panama. of April 15, 1976, to accomplish other ination inherent in the bill which, I am The canal itself is undisturbed by the re­ regulatory purposes. sure, was unintended. Moreover, the volt in Pana.ma. Outside the Canal Zone, Neither of these amendments en­ amendments will strike the provision everything is at a standstill in Panama. croach upon the regulatory authority of granting standing to broadcasters to sue Elements in the Panama National Guard Finally, are poised to stage a coup at the right mo­ the Commission. They merely establish where they have no interests. ment. The moment will come when $200 the royalty fee and leave the communi­ the amendments will eliminate the pro­ milllon which Torrijos secretly shipped out cations regulatory aspects for resolu­ vision for subsidizing copyright owners of the country to locations in the U.S. is tion by the appropriate committees of by maintenance of their constant dollar recovered. Torrijos has been hiding the Congress, and the Commission. return and effecting communications money at the rate of $50 million annually. The third amendment eliminates the policy by the adjustment in rates if the Waiting to step into office after Torrijos ls standing given to any broadcaster to sue Commission changes its Rules on syndi­ booted out is Arnulfo Arias, the pro-American his cated and sports program exclusivity. who was elected president in Panama's last for an infringement in service area free election eight years ago. Torrijos over­ whether or not he has any rights to vin­ Each of these amendments will rem­ threw Aria.s's legally elected government dicate. The elimination of this provision edy what I consider to be serious defects after 11 days. will, in no way, weaken the enforcement in the bill and perfect what is otherwise Panama's prospective new government is provision of the bill or limit the appro­ excellent legislation: eager for America. to retain sovereignty over priate remedy to either the copyright AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTERS 1, 5 AND 8 OF THE the Canal Zone. They point to the $235 mil­ owner or the legitimate interests of the AUGUST 6, 1976 COMMITTEE PRINT OF S. 22 lion in annual "direct benefits" that the broadcasters. No useful purpose is served Page 35, line 9, insert a new paragraph as Panama share of the tolls generates. by providing broadcasters with the ca­ follows: They also expressed fear that, if Torrijos (v) Where the community of the cable sys­ remains in power and the Ford ad.ministra­ pacity to harass cable system operators tion succeeds in giving the canal to Panama, when they have no proprietary rights tem is not, in whole or in part, within the local service area. of three independent sta­ the waterway would be nationalized under involved. tions and one noncommercla.l educational control of the Soviet Union through Cuba. The fourth amendment eliminates the station, the royalty fee imposed under para­ Torrijos has joined Fidel Castro in "ex­ authority of the Copyright Royalty graph (i) above shall include payment for a porting" the Soviet brand of communism Commission to adjust the rates-per­ sufficient number of additional independent "throughout Latin America" as the Cuban centage-of gross receipts to reflect na­ stations or a noncommercial educational sta­ dictator has loudly boasted over the years. tional monetary inflation or deflation tion to provide the above complement of sta­ The Soviet Union is seeking military dom­ tion signals to such cable system. inance of the high seas and has passed the or changes in the average rates for basic U .s. in warships. The canal 1s of vital mlli­ service. The use of a percentage of gross Page 48, strike lines 14 through the word "authorizations" in line 24 and substitute tary and economic value. receipts as the basis for cable television the following: Although the strike and coup campaign royalty fees rather than of a fixed sum The "local service area of a prtma.ry trans­ has been suppressed in the American press, was originally suggested to provide a mitter" 1n the case of a television broadcast it has been confirmed by sources both with­ :flexible return to the copyright owner station, for the purposes of this Title, com­ in Panama and inside the U.S. State Depart­ tied to inflation, deflation, and increase prises the area 1n which the primary trans­ ment. The State Department officials said mitter can be or 1s received by the direct in­ there was cooperation with the movement revenues. As a result, there is no need to from the American government. give the Copyright Royalty Commission terception of a free space ra.dlo wave emis­ sion by such broadcast television station, Source said that the "heavy majority" of any jurisdiction to alter the rates be­ Panamanians oppose the canal giveaway. cause royalty fees will, by use of per­ provided such television station antenna ts Pressed to estimate the margin of sentiment, centages, automatically adjust for the located within 120 miles from the community one source put it at "far more than 75 per of the cable system. cent," another at "more than 90 per cent" various factors. Page 114, line 22, strike all of clause (11) The fifth amendment is offered to and all agreed that the great mass of Pan­ subsection (d). amanians outside communist circles oppose a eliminate the authority of a Copyright Page 141, line 18, strike all of subparagraph return of the canal. Royalty Commission to make adjust­ (A) on page 141 and page 142, lines 1 through Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, long ments in the rates-percentage-in the 20, and reletter subparagraph (B) as (A) and a cbJampion of ithe effort to give a.way the event the Commission changes its rules subpa.ra.gra.ph (D) on page 144 as (B). canal, was kept ignorant of the efforts to oust regarding syndicated and sports pro- Page 144, line 14, strike all or subparagraph Torrijos until the strike began on Sept. 14. gram exclusivity after April 15, 1976. (C). Since the "Red-led riots" of 1964, ithe ne- CXXII--1963-Part 24 31136 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 gotia.tions to surrender U.S. sovereignty in ing of the blacklist until today it is esti­ their scheme no longer enjoys tacit, if tie Oa.nal Zone have been defended on mated that more than 1,500 American not explicit, American support. But grounds that it is necessary to prevent businesses and individuals are effectively there are several grounds for optimism violence. that the disruption of trade would be Kissinger and his a.ides have loudly argued excluded from trade with the Arab that the canal cannot be defended against States. We have been left to wring our neither severe nor long term. terrorist attacks, which they darkly predict hands as our appointed policeman, the First, the longstanding and generally will happen if the canal is not surrendered. Commerce Department, has become a amicable commercial relations between Sources in Panama and in Washington in­ willing bystander, if not an accomplice, this country and the Arabs have survived sist that, rather than riot, most Panamanians to the evasion of U.S. policy. earlier political vicissitudes. Iraq cur­ would celebrate. In connection with its responsibility rently offers a fine example where radi­ Torrijos was informed that a military coup to oversee the operations of the Com­ cal rhetoric and divergent political phi­ was being planned on Aug. 24, when he was merce Department, the Government Op­ losophies have not interfered with a in Colombia.. Torrijos switched landing ~ites on returning to Pana.ma and jailed Col. Man­ erations Subcommittee on Commerce. thriving American business relationship. uel Noriega., head of the National Guard's in­ Consumer and Monetary Affairs, which I The Arabs have become used to the high telLigence wing. Torrijos has been seen only chair, held hearings this June on the quality goods and services which only once since then-in a brief TV appearance. pervasiveness of American compliance this Nation can provide in such abun­ The impending coup has been planned for with Arab boycott demands. dance. Any major shift in commercial four years. The subcommittee found that banks dealings would, I believe, work an unac­ Panama's embassy in Washington at first are the principal enforcers of the Arab ceptable hardship upon the Arab busi­ denied the national strike or coup plans. boycott-that virtually all banks doing ness community and its customers. Then a spokesman acknowledged "some ru­ mors" a.nd that "people are talking" but said international business handle letters of Second, numerous Arab businessmen they had "no official information." credit containing restrictive boycott con­ have expressed private misgivings about The spokesman said "no positive answers ditions directed against U.S. firms. There the operation of the boycott. They feel it had come from Pana.ma. Asked if the em­ banks exact compliance with the boy­ unnecessarily restricts their dealings with bassy had ma.de inquiries in Pana.ma., the cott as the price for payment to the blacklisted companies. It also alienates spokesman consulted with other embassy American exporter. executives of other companies who re­ officials at length and then asserted that According to the most recent figures "nothing wa.s happening." sent being questioned about their com­ A news dispatch from Prague quoted the released by the Commerce Department pany's business relations or who find it Communist Party a.s warning Torrijos that to the subcommittee, during the period morally repugnant. No fewer than 22 "the right wing is getting ready to ca.use him from April 1 through June 30, 1976, 131 large American firms have recently problems." U.S. banks reported that they had en­ pledged not to comply with Arab boycott A high American official said the strike was gaged in 8,026 transactions involving 15,- demands. These include American led by students enraged at Torrijos because 392 requests to enforce restrictive trade Brands, Beatrice Foods, El Paso Natural of the economic problems created by his pro­ practices. The total amount involved in Gas, General Motors, Greyhound, Ken­ communist government. This official dis­ these transactions was $479 million. necott Copper, G. D. Searle, Texaco, agreed with the sources saying it was a total Equally troubling, the number of trans­ Textron, and U.S. Gypsum. Typical of national strike but predicted it would esca­ late to that point within hours. An employee actions conditioned on compliance with this pledge was that of the chairman of of the Panama. Canal Co. in Washington the boycott had grown by over 25 per­ General Motors, T. A. Murphy, who said: concurred with the U.S. official's version. cent from the immediately preceding 4- General Motors has received occasional "Nobody can stay in power long in these month period. requests from Arab countries that it agree conditions," a Pana.ma. source said. He ex­ Based upon statistics such as the not to participate in future dealings with pressed hope that the coup would be accom• above, the Los Angeles Times recently Israel or with Israeli companies ... Gen­ pllshed within a. week. eral Motors has made no such agreements and Meanwhile, the U.S. military garrison in made a dire prediction: would not make any such agreements. the canal Zone, the Panama National Police Not too many years in the future, the Na­ and the National Guard have been placed tion could have two kinds of auto com­ Third, Arab companies have demon­ on the alert. panies, steel makers, trading firms and strated in past dealings that an objection banks: those that deal with the Arabs, and to a boycott request would not necessarily those that don't. If that happened, the two lead to a termination of relations. When groups would be hampered by the black list the Commerce Department in November in their dealings with each other. Imagine EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT the effects on the Nation's economy, its 1975 outlawed compliance with requests AND THE ARAB BOYCOTT sense of nationhood, its integrity. involving discrimination on ethnic or re­ ligious grounds, banks were forced to Opponents of the antiboycott pro­ reject letters of credit containing objec­ HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL vision, before you, make two arguments. tionable language. Morgan Guaranty They allege that it would interfere with testified before my subcommittee that in OF NEW YORK Arab internal policies and that it would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 23 of the 24 instances where the bank hurt American business. The first argu­ refused to process such letters of credit Thursday, September 16, 1976 ment is highly disingenuous. The second the offensive boycott language was vol­ Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the is unsubstantiated. untarily stricken by the Arab or other House is scheduled to consider tomorrow This bill says nothing about the direct foreign banks involved. There is consid­ the Export Administration Act amend­ Arab boycott of Israel. That is the con­ erable reason to believe that Arab coun­ ments, H.R. 15377. This is an excellent cern of the Arab governments. They can tries would waive boycott conditions piece of legislation and I commend it to refrain, if they wish, from doing business rather than deprive themselves of vital my colleagues. I wish to focus my re­ with Israel, its companies and its na­ American goods and services. marks, however, on the provisions of this tionals. But it is an interference with Fourth, it is by no means clear that all bill which would prohibit American com­ vital American interests when these European and developed countries would pliance with the Arab boycott. Arab governments force their boycott welcome compliance with the Arab boy­ My feelings on the urgent need for upon American businesses--when they cott as a price of additional Arab trade. legislation to end our participation in tell American industry that it cannot Indeed, some developed countries appear the boycott is set forth at length in my trade with a longstanding friend of to have taken a harder line against boy­ supplemental views to the International the United States. This is extortion and cott compliance than the United States. Relations Committee report on the bill an affront to American principles and While no one can predict to a certainty (H. Rept. No. 94-1469). In summary, I prerogatives. No foreign government has the impact on United States/Arab trade wish to point out that the Congress, in this right. relations of antiboycott legislation, the 1965, made cooperation with foreign boy­ The claim that American business will above evidence suggests any trade diver­ cotts against U.S. policy and gave the suffer if this bill is passed is simply not sion would be small and short-lived. Commerce Department far-reaching au­ supported by the facts. I would be naive These remarks are long but I feel com­ thority to implement this policy. For 12 if I did not admit some risk in the course pelled to make the strongest possible case years, we have waited vainly for the De­ of action embodied in this bill. There for the favorable consideration of the partment to take strong action. During could be some short-term diversion of bill in general and the antiboycott pro­ this time, we have witnessed the swell- trade as the Arabs express anger that visions in particular. Our Nation can no September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF IIBMARKS 31137 longer acquiesce in the shameful, extor­ tlon just for the use of the foreign press. He New York and Washington to assist them in tionist pressures of the Arab boycott suggested lt to his superiors and they not covering the election night returns. which offend American principles of free only bought the idea but also put Elliston By giving all of these journallsts a place trade and fair play and which are having in charge. to hang their ha.ts, type up their stories, ob­ a destructive, diviSive, and anticompetl· He tried it for the first time at the Dem­ tain speech texts quickly and transmit their ocratic National Convention last month in reports smoothly by telephone or telex, Ellis­ tive effect upon American business. New York a.nd, looking back on that experi­ ton said, he is enabling them to avoid the ence now, he regards it as a smashing suc­ pitfalls of retiring to their hotel rooms and cess. covering the convention from what they see The center wlll be even more useful here, on T.V. This was not an uncommon practice USIA PROVIDES HOME AWAY FROM he said, because virtually all of the visiting in past conventions, he said. HOME FOR FOREIGN JOURNALISTS foreigners do not know their way around The USIA is not the only organization tak­ Kansas City as many do New York. ing pains here to make the foreign press The foreign press convention center covers welcome. The states of Missouri and Kansas HON. DAVID C. TREEN 561 square feet (he had asked for 600) and have provided hospitality rooms for them OF LOUISIANA ls one of only two such areas in the audito­ above the Golden Ox restaurant near Kem­ rium enclosed by wooden partitions (the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES per Arena, with teletypes and telephones. other is that of the New York Times). Complimentary coffee and snacks also are Thursday, September 16, 1976 Inside are tables with 12 typewriters for being offered there. the correspondents' use; two color television The Chamber of Commerce rushed to the Mr. TREEN. Mr. Speaker, it was re­ sets; a Xerox ma.chine; a table with back­ rescue earlier this month when it discovered cently my privilege to serve as cochair­ ground information on American politics that the Republicans had placed some for­ man of the subcommittee which forged a a.nd history, data. about Kansas City and eign correspondents in hotels without TVs, foreign policy plank for the Republican press releases a.nd the texts of speeches de­ telephones, air-conditioning units or combi­ Party at the Kansas City Convention. In livered or about to be delivered a.t the con­ nations of these three conveniences. It ar­ that capacity, I was frequently aware of vention; U.P.I. telex "A wire,'' which clicks ranged for new housing for all who needed the large number of foreign journalists off the nuts-and-bolts data about the con­ it. vention, and two water coolers. As Elliston explained the USIA service, covering that convention. There were, in Downstairs within easy access are Western fa.ct, Rena.to Macha.do and Sll1o Boccanera, for­ several hundred of them, sending Union and I.T.T. facllitles for transmitting eign editor and correspondent, respectively, stories back to newspapers in nearly 40 their words to their home offices. Ten tele­ for the Jorna.1 Do Brasll of Rio de Janeiro, countries. phones are positioned in the press center for volunteered their observations about the set­ They were aided greatly in their ef­ their use if they wish to reach their offices ups. forts by officers of the U.S. Informaition more quickly (calling collect, of course) . Boccanera, who had covered the Demo­ Agency. USIA provided a fully equipped If a. correspondent from Switzerland or cratic convention, said that because of the press room in Kemper auditorium, com­ Japan wants to know who lost the 1920 elec­ USIA service he was able to obtain a copy of tion and by how many votes or how to spell Jimmy Carter's acceptance speech two hours plete with typewriters; telephones, tele­ Sen. Roman Hruska's last name, one of the vision sets a Xerox machine and a table in advance. Machado was on the other end of USIA staffers present wm gladly look it up the line in Rio then, saving space on Page 9 laden with ready reference materials. for him. for the entire text. Their deadlines were such Agency officers were on hand to assist When Elliston covered the conventions for that the 2-hour advantage enabled them to with unfamiliar terminology and equiP­ the USIA, he had only the vaguest idea print the speech in the following morning's ment, to interpret or explain as needed, where what he wrote would appear in print. newspaper. His copy would be sent to United States In­ and to help the journalists provide full formation Service (USIS) offices in embas­ and timely coverage to their local papers. sies around the world and would be made The Agency did an outstanding job, ava.lla.ble to the news media. in those coun­ CANDIDATE CARTER AND FEAR OF and I ask unanimous consent that the tries free of charge. Some used it. Some "PUBLIC WORKER STATE" full text of an article which appeared in did not. the Kansas City star be printed at this Now Elliston is available to help between HON. BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. point in the RECORD: 400 and 450 foreign journalists from at least 38 countries who are trickling into Kansas OF NEW YORK (From the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, Aug. 16, City this week. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1976) The countries now known to be repre­ HOME AWAY FROM HOME PROVIDED FOR sented here next week by foreign journalists Thursday, September 16, 1976 JOURNALISTS OF 38 NATIONS are: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, a mys­ (By Harry Jones, Jr.) Bulgaria, Canada, the Republic of China (but not the People's Republic of China), terious columnist, known as the "Cul­ The United States Information Agency peper Colonel," who writes for the Cul­ (USIA) has taken on a new responsibll1ty Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Great Brit­ this year which, logic suggests, should re­ ain, France, the Federal Republlc of Ger­ peper News, down in a place appro­ sult in the U.S. receiving a slightly better many, the German Democratic Republic, priately known as Culpeper, Va., has press abroad for its Democratic and Republi­ Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, written a column about candidate Jimmy can conventions than in the past. the Libyan Arab Republic, Luxembourg, Carter and the South, which makes The USIA is sponsoring a foreign press Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, The Nether­ good reading for us Republicans. I com­ convention center and it will be in full op­ lands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Af­ mend this column, attached herewith, eration here convention week in the Exhibi­ rica, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, to the attention of my colleagues: tion Hall of Municipal Auditorium. the U.S.S.R., Venezuela and Yugoslavia. Elliston reports no real difference in the CANDIDATE CARTER AND FEAR OF "PuBLIC Thomas Elliston, who carries a title he WORKER STATE" regards as too stuffy-federal election co­ foreign correspondents and their American ordinator-remembers the exact date the counterparts-"There are nic;e guys and (By Culpeper Colonel) idea took shape in his mind. It was Aprll 29, there are pa.ins in the ..." he said. Most people, including the Colonel, figured 1975, and he was sitting in the foreign press Most, he noted, a.re professionals who are that Jimmy Carter would romp through the center in Washington chatting about election among the best in their countries because South. Most people prob.ably figure the same they would not have been assigned such thing now, but the Colonel has begun to have coverage. Elliston covered his first political a beat if they were not good. Once in a while, convention in 1948 for the USIA and since some very serious doubt.s about it. then has covered seven others, always by he said, someone comes in and starts de­ Republicans have latched on to a column manding this and that and saying how im­ by Neal Peirce, whose field ls the problems of himself. portant he is, but Elliston treats such a per­ "Covering one of these conventions can cities and states. The column, which Repub­ son just as he would an American with the licans and conservative Southern Democrats be confusing for an American," he said "but same attitude. "I show 'em the door," Ellis­ for a foreign correspondent, it can be are having duplicated and distributed, raises ton said. the specter of this country becoming a public chaotic." Before the conventions Elliston took Untll this year the foreign newsmen have worker state. He asks the question: are gov­ groups of 20 U.S.-based foreign correspond­ ernment employees, their ranks swollen to pretty well had to cover the conventions on ents on trips to cover the primary cam­ their own, usually in unfam111ar cities and record highs, and now led by increasingly paigns in New Hampshire, Florida and Cali­ militant unions, gaining so much power without the conveniences most of the U.S. fornia. After the G.O.P. convention he will press enjoys. within a dominant Democratic party that no start planning two trips for 40 foreign news­ political force could be their ms.tch for years It struck Elliston what a convenience it men each with the Democratic and Repub­ to come? would be for the foreign journalists if the lican nominees as they campaign around In Washington the feeling is that if Carter USIA opened a press room at each conven- the country. Then he wm set up fac111ties in is elected, as the odds indicate he wlll be, one 31138 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 of the first drives will be to repeal or sharply ber of last year, the embargo was lifted administration has unwisely removed. dilute the Ha.tch Act. This is the law which by an administration-backed measure The possible use of the 6th Fleet in the prevents federal employees from engaging 1n which I most decidedly oppased. I do not Aegean Sea is yet another threat which partisan political politics. Once this law is repealed then govern­ believe that recent Turkish actions-or could be used to support the Greek ment employees become a vibrant, perhaps nonaction-warrant any kind of support position. even domineering political force in this by the United States. Following the hos­ But the end result must be an end to country. tile action on Cyprus, Turkey has made hostile actions such as the Turkish oc­ Barry Goldwater has been devoting many absolutely no attempt to remedy the re­ cupation of Greek territory. The admin­ of his recent speeches to wha.t he describes sultmg problems. Over 180,000 Greek­ istration's hope that the problem will as the effort of organized labor in this elec­ Cypriots remain under appalling con­ simply go away if it is ignored long tion year to "deliver a killing blow to the ditions in Turkish controlled refugee enough is totally unrealistic. America is two-party system." As Goldwater sees it "labor aims at a knockout of the Republican camps, and Turkey has given no assur­ the world's linchpin of democracy, and party, and a virtual end to the two-party ances that any continuing aid would not it is up to us to demonstrate by our ac­ system as we have known it." be used against a fellow NATO member, tions and alliances that we mean to keep One way this is happening is labor's use which Greece happens to be. a lasting peace. of its three mill1on dollar computer, using The Republican administration tells us voter lists from about 45 of 50 states. The that lifting the ban on military assist­ Senator claims that the use of this com­ ance to Turkey is essential to prevent puter and other campaign help, both direct further Turkish action against U.S. mil­ HENRY IN THE PULPIT and indirect, will total between 40 to 60 million dollars this year. itary installations which would jeopard­ How, then, does all of this sit with voters ize U.S. and NATO security interests. HON. LARRY McDONALD And, they tell us that the suspension of in the South? OF GEORGIA That is what the Colonel has been wonder­ the embargo will be effective only as long ing about, and why he has moved from the as Turkey observes the Cyprus cease fire IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES opinion th81t the South will rally behind and does not increase its forces on the Thursday, September 16, 1976 Jimmy Carter simply because he ls from island. Perhaps then, we are told, the Georgia. Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, as our Turks will take a few steps toward a set­ Secretary of State shuttles off into the Can geography overcome the fea.r of a tlement of the difficulties. unionized federal government? Or of a African night in his attempts to re­ shifting of power from the White House to While I would hope that the admin­ arrange everyone's life in Rhodesia and the big building directly across from La­ istration's rather simplistic point of view South Africa, it is appropriate to con­ Fayette PMk where George Meany holds might prove to be correct, I can find no sider the position from whence Mr. Kis­ forth as President of the AFL-CIO? reason in the realm of reality to believe singer speaks. Patrick J. Buchanan re­ The caution a.bout Cairter's Southern it will be so. chances are compounded by something else cently whote a column in which he con­ Turkey has refused to make any con­ cluded that Mr. Kissinger's skirts are that few if any campaigners have gotten cessions 1n Cyprus, and the only chance around to talking about: Carter owed his not clean and his policy is not consistent success in the primaries to being the "most for progress lies in strong American pres­ as regards interference in the internal moderate,'' even, perhaps "the most con­ sure on Turkish leaders in Ankara. And affairs of other nations. The column as servative." In the tough fights-Michigan the issue is not simply black and white it appeared in the Richmond Times­ for example-it was Caa.-ter against a cam­ on Cyprus, but goes farther than that, Dispatch of September 12, 1976 follows: paigner who said, "I am the Liberal." Mo into such disputes as oil drilling and ex­ Udall. And Udall lost. ploration rights on the Aegean Sea's con­ HENRY IN THE PuLPIT Carter was generally regarded as much tinental shelf, and other territorial dif­ (By Patrick J. Buchanan) more conservative than the most conserva­ ferences, of which Cyprus is only the COPENHAGEN .-"South Africa's internal tive of the liberal front-runners, Henry structure is incompatible with any sense of Jackson. most urgent and most visible. human dignity." Once the nomination had been secured There is a move afoot in Congress, In our time, the remark is unexceptional. Carter was no longer the moderate, conserva­ which I fully support, to defer action on But the author and the tim.1ng were indeed tive candidate. a pending bill1on dollar aid package to noteworthy. According to the International Which Ca..rter wm the voters in the South Turkey, until the Congress is also ready Herald Tribune, the comment came from be voting for? to act on a $700 million military aid pack­ Henry Kissinger on the very eve of negotia­ or against? age to Greece. The Greek Government of tions with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa. Premier Constantine Karamanlis has in­ The prime minister reacted angrlly, as well dicated it is willing to meet some sort he might. For the remark of the U.S. secre­ of compromise. The Greek economy has CYPRUS: AMERICA MUST STAND tary of state was gratuitous, foolish, incon­ been damaged, social and economic pro­ sistent and hypocritical. FAST grams have been impeded, and scarce Foolish, because if one ls genuinely seek­ governmental resources have been wasted ing South African assistance in resolving the in attempts to meet the Turks half way. Rhodesian-South-West Africa problems, one HON. JOHN M. MURPHY The United States cannot afford to does not insult their prime minister on the OF NEW YORK endanger its all1ance with Greece. The eve of discussions. Indeed, one recalls that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Kissinger was gracious to the point of being Turkish policy of expansion would be obsequious toward Minister Le Due Tho prior Thursday, September 16, 1976 disastrous for NATO. Therefore, the to negotiating the Paris Accords, foflowing Mr. MURPHY of New York. Mr. Speak­ United States must not produce a situa­ which both won the Nobel Peace Prize and er, the current situation in the Aegean tion whereby the Turkish Government is the North Vietnamese won the war. receiving a massive amount of aid, which The insult to South Africa was inconsistent Sea is much more distressing than a mere could easily be diverted to anti-Greek because Kissinger has himself preached loud­ "disagreement," as some have called it, est the lesson that alternations in the in­ and its roots go much farther back than purposes, while the assistance to Greece ternal structures of foreign powers are no1i the Turkish seizure of the northern half is held up by the administration. the business of American diplomacy. of Cyprus just 2 years ago. There is, in The Greek Government will negoti­ The remarks were hypocritical because ate-but we cannot allow them to ne­ South Africans should not be required to sit this conflict, the distinct danger of war. still for a lecture on morality 1n politics from While Mr. Kissinger flits about among gotiate from a position of weakness. If this administration permits the crisis to the man who persuaded. President Ford not the capitals of the world, and the admin­ to see Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lest the visit istration fumbles with a lack of a sound deterioriate to the point of hostility, and give otfense to the moral and pollttcal heirs foreign policy in the Aegean, the Con­ if the Turks should become even more of Joseph Stalin. gress is attempting to keep the pressure unreasonable in their demands, we could Our Secretary of State's credentials as a on Turkey to resolve the problems it very well witness the demise of yet an­ lecturer on International mora.Uty are not other of our allies. especially impressive. created by its seizure of Cyprus. Indeed, how does one ber&te South African The U.S. Congress placed an embargo That cannot be allowed to happen. segregationists after being photographed on military assistance to Turkey 1n Washington must maintain a stand of beaming ha.pplly in the presence of the lat.e February 1975, halting the allocation of strength. The Congress has already im­ Mao Tse-tung, one of the genuinely great $101 million for that :fiscal year. In Octo- posed embargoes on assistance, which the mass murderers of this bloodiest of all cen- September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31139 turles? Wlh&t are the sins of Vorster to com­ I believe we must a void this needless of Representatives to act in a fashion which pare with those of the late Chou En-lal, and destructive confrontation. In re­ would tend to restrict press freedoms. For responsible for the deaths of millions of solving this unfortunate situation, we this reason, and for the rea.rons mentioned Chinese and thousands of Americans in above, we urge your Committee to allow Mr. Korea, who was accorded by Kissinger a must insure that Congress does not es­ Schorr to protect his sources of information deference that might have been justlfl.ed tablish any precedent which will damage without any threat of punishment. perhaps for Mother Teresa of oaJ.cutta? the public's right to know. For that rea­ Thank you for your consideration in this Has anyone anywhere heard Henry Kis­ son, wisdom dictates that any effort to matter. singer, on the eve of a flight to Mosoow for cite Mr. Schorr for contempt be resisted. Sincerel}', negotiations, declare, "The Soviet Union's Mr. Speaker, I was encouraged to read Bella S. Abzug, John B. Anderson, James internal structure ls lncompatable with any in this morning's paper that a majority C. Corman, Robert F. Drinan, Dante sense of human dignity?" of the members who serve on the Ethics B. Fascell, Gilbert Gude, Micha.el Har­ Never. rington, H. John Heinz ill, Berkley But if Vorster ls to be chastised publicly Committee will oppose reporting a con­ Bedell, for his nation's Sins, then let us hear Kis­ tempt resolution against Mr. Schorr to Christopher J. Dodd, Don Edwards, Don­ singer lecture the Saudi king on anti-Semi­ the full House. I deeply hope this re­ ald M. Fraser, Mark W. Hanna.ford, tism; let us hear our secretary of state pro­ mains the committee's final position Ken Hechler, James M. Jefforru., Helen fess publicly his abhorrence of the police­ when all the votes are counted. If a con­ S. Meyner, Norman Y. Mlneta., Charles state methods sometimes employed by our tempt resolution does reach the floor, A. Mosher, good friend, the shah. however, I will ask my colleagues to join James L. Oberstar, Edward W. Pattison, Don't wait up for these lectures, however. me in waging a vigorous fight against its Patricia Schroeder, Stephen J. Solarz, For it ls almost axiomatic that the more Morris K. Udall, Charles W. Whalen, powerful, ruthless and autocratic the ruler passage. Jr., Joel Pritchard, Edward I. Koch, in whose presence Henry finds himself, the For my colleagues' benefit, the text of Edward Mezvlnsky, bigger the grin that wreathes his face in the letter that 36 Members of the House Parren J. Mitchell, Stephen L. Neal, the official photograph. sent to Chairman FLYNT in regard to Richard L. Ottinger, Benjamin S. This ls no brief for apartheid. But the this matter follows. I am also including Rosenthal, Paul Simon, Fortney H. racial segregation in South Africa is hardly for the RECORD a factsheet on the News­ Stark, Henry A. Waxman, Michael T. the worst situation in the world. And we paper Guild's activities in support of Blouin, Phillip Burton. Americans who held slaves for almost our Daniel Schorr•s first amendment rights, entire first century and practiced official the text of a statement by Guild presi­ PACTSHEET DlsTRIBUTED BY NEWSPAPER GUILD segregation for most of our second a.re really The following petition was circulated na­ not in an especially formidable position to dent Charles Perlik, as well as several tionally during the past week by The News­ be lecturing other countries on how to letters and telegrams expressing concern paper Guild a.nd some Locals of the Ameri­ handle race relations. over the consequences this episode may can Federation of Television and Radio In salvaging South Africa for the benefit have for a free press: Artists: of his black audience in Philadelphia and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, "To the House Ethics Committee: his buddies in Georgetown, Kissinger was Washington, D.C., September 14, 1976. "We, the undersigned, oppose the sub­ indulging in that "selective moral indigna­ Hon. JOHN J. FLYNT, Jr., poenas by the House Ethics Committee of tion" which has become the trademark of Chairman, Committee on Standards of Offi­ Daniel Schorr, CBS correspondent Clay the United Nations, against which Daniel cial Conduct, U.S. House of Representa­ Felker, editor of New York Magazine and Pa.trick Moynihan inveighed so eloquently. tives, Washington, D.C. editor-in-chief of The Village Voice; Shelly As it has become in the nation's interest DEAR CHAIRMAN FLYNT: On September Zala.znlck, senior editorial director of New to have the United Nations relocated out­ 15th, Daniel Schorr will testify under sub­ York Magazine, and Aaron Lathan, contribut­ side the United States, so it ls increasingly poena to the House Committee on Standards ing editor to New York Magazine. in the na.tlon's interest to have some pub­ of Official Conduct. Mr. Schorr's testimony "We believe these editors and reporters lisher oome forward and advance Kissinger wm be a part of your Commtitee's continu­ have every right to refuse to disclose the the $2 mllllon he ls said to be asking for ing investigation into the unauthorized source of the Pike Committee report that his memoirs, so that he may retire from publication of a report prepared by the House dealt with the activities of the Cent ral In­ public life, begin his writing and instruct Select Committee on Intelligence. telllgence Agency. us all on the lofty moral principles that have While we are aware of the need to discover "The right to freedom of the press is being guided his conduct of foreign policy lo, how a report which the House voted to keep jeopardized by this Congressional hearing. these many years. confidential ca.me to be published in The We urge that the committee's investigation Village Voice, we believe that the House must into these reporters' and editors' confiden­ not abridge the privileges and prerogatives tial news sources be stopped." of a free press in the course of this investiga­ Total number of signatures collected as of PRESERVING A FREE PRESS tion. Because we believe that government September 15: 5,742. must not impinge upon the ablllty of the Some of the newspapers and television of­ professional news media to gather informa­ fices where signatures were collected, with HON. H. JOHN HEINZ III tion, we think it ls particularly important total signers in parentheses: OF PENNSYLVANIA to respect the journalist's duty to treat his Time Magazine (113); Sports Illustrated relationship with certain sources confiden­ ( 23) ; San Francisco Examiner ( 100) ; New IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVF.S tially. Only in this way can we help preserve York Times (231); Long Island Free Press Thursday, September 16, 1976 the public's "right to know." (50); San Francisco Chronicle (53); Mem­ In light of our concern in this matter, we phis Press-Scimitar (35); New York Post Mr. HEINZ. Mr. Speaker, CBS news­ speclfl.cally ask that you extend to Mr. (101); Associated Press (66); Minneapolis man Daniel Schorr testified yesterday to Schorr the protections due him as a mem­ Star and Tribune (108); Cleveland Plain the House Committee on Standards of ber of the journalistic profession. It ls our Dealer (58); San Juan Star (30); ABC-TV Official Conduct. In the course of his ap­ firm hope that Mr. SChorr will not be forced (6); El Dia.rlo, N.Y. (41); Wisconsin State pearance, Mr. Schorr declined to say to testify under duress or threat of punish­ Journal (32); Mutual Black Network (9); how he came into possession of a report ment if he chooses to exercise his preroga­ Modesto Bee (31); NBC News (13); Provi­ tives not to reveal his sources. dence Journal (200); Philadelphia Daily by the Select Committee on Intelligence, The First Amendment to the Constitution News (13); Detroit Free Press (129); Chi­ asserting his prerogatives under the first establishes a free press as a cornerstone of cago Sun-Times and Dally News (209); amendment protection of a free press. American liberty. While the courts have dif­ Washington Star (35) . As a result of his refusal to reveal h1s fered on whether the freedom of the press Telegrams have been sent to the House sources, Mr. Schorr has been warned protects the confidentiality of the journal­ Ethics Committee (with copies to the Schorr that he faces a contempt of Congress ist's relationship with his sources, we believe defense) by the following individuals: citation. that the public ls best served by a vigorous (Copies are in news packet) press that can provide the American people Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, Barbara Earlier this week, 35 Members of the with access to the truth. In this case-like Walters, George Meany, Roger Mudd, Rod House joined me in asking Chairman any other involving the Bill of Rights-we Steiger, Gore Vidal, Norman Lear, David Rin­ FLYNT to allow Mr. Schorr to protect his must side with Justice Black in his state­ tels (Pres., Writers Guild of America), Henry sources of information without any ment that: The only conclusion supported Fonda, Jane Fonda, Carl Reiner, Lee Grant. threat of punishment. If the committee by history is that the unqualified prohibi­ Some of the signers of the petition include chooses to disregard our advice and votes tions laid down by the framers were intended the following: to cite Mr. Schorr for contempt, we may to give liberty ... the broadest scope that Howard K. Smith (ABC), Tom Pettit soon witness a potentially disastrous could be countenanced by an orderly society. (NBC}, Catherine Machin (NBC), Wllliam While the courts continue to deliberate Randolph Hearst III (Reporter, San Fran­ constitutional confrontation between the on the prec1Se impllcations o! the constitu- cisco Examiner); James Naughton (New freedom of the press and Congress• right tional protections of a free press, we believe York Times); Thomas Ross (D.C. bureau to investigate. it would be a grave mistake for the House chief, Chica.go Sun Times); Robert Hatch 31140 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS September 17, 1976 (Exec. Editor, The Nation); Michael B . it poses to a free and unrestricted press. we Los Angeles did and as other reporters have Howard {Editor, Rocky Mountain News); think it contains a clear message to the and wm. Charles Balley (Editor, Minneapolis Trib­ committee: Drop the investigation of a re­ Keep the faith. une) ; David Nimmer (Managing Editor, porter's confidential sources before it leads With highest personal regards, Minneapolis Star) ; Megan Rosenfeld (Wash­ down a trail none of us wants to see thiS GEORGE GRUNER, ington Post); Thomas Lask (New York country tread. Managing Editor. Times); David Binder (New York T imes); Schorr and the others are scheduled to JAMES H. BoRT, Jr., Seymour Hersh (New York Times); Jacque­ appear before the committee tomorrow. This Ombudsman. line V. Jones (Editor, Mutual Black Net­ afternoon, immediately upon the conclusion JoE Hos.A.To, work); Joe Rosenthal (photographer, San of this conference, we plan to take these Reporter. Francisco Examiner); Grace Schulman petitions upstairs to the committee and leave (poet ry editor, The Nation); Peter Stoler them for its consideration. UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, (Assoc. Editor, Time); Landon G . Jones We cannot believe they will be disre­ New York, N.Y., September 10, 1976. (Assoc. Editor, People Mag.) ; Peter Lisagor garded. Hon. JOHN J. FLYNT, and Willia.m. Eaton {Chicago Daily News); Chairman, House Ethics Committee, James Hoge (Editor, Chicago Sun-Times), Hon. JoHN J. FLYNT, JR., Washington, D.C. and the Fresno Four. House Committee on Standards of Official DEAR Ma. CHAIRMAN: The Society of Pro­ Conduct, Rayburn House Office Building, fessional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, STATEMENT BY CHARLES A. PERLIK, JR., PRES­ Washington, D.C. strongly protests efforts by the House Ethics IDENT, THE NEWSPAPER GUILD, AT PREss Deeply regret that schedule will not permit Committee to compel CBS correspondent my presence at tomorrow's news conference. CONFERENCE OF THE SCHORR DEFENSE Daniel Schorr to reveal how he obtained a I wholeheartedly support all efforts to pre­ copy of a report by the House Intelligence The summer of '76 appears to be open sea- vent the infringement of first amendment son on journalists. Committee on the Central Intelligence rights which the House Ethics Committee Agency. In Fresno, Calif., four reporters and edi­ hearing represents. tors are serving an open-ended sentence on The Society, representing more than 30,000 WALTER CRONKITE, journalists and journalism students, believes a prison farm for their refusal to transgress CBS News. the ethics of their profession and disclose reporters have an obligation as well as right to inquire into the operations of such agen­ a confidential source. This telegram was sent by Barbara Walters Here, at the opposite end of the country, cies as the CIA and their tremendous influ­ and was read to us by her office in New York: ence on national policy. Daniel Schorr and three editors of New York Message from Barbara Walters-ABC News magazine face the possib111ty of a similar The Society also believes reporters have fate for the same adherence to principle. (To the House Ethics Committee). every right to refuse to disclose their sources We'd like to think it unthinkable that Con­ Daniel Schorr's insistence that he not be of information. Otherwise, many news gress would vote to put Dan Schorr behind required to reveal his confidential sources is sources would refuse to talk for fear of re­ bars-but Congress did the unthinkable at in the tradition of American journalism. I prisal, depriving Americans of information lea.st once before, in 1857, when it impris­ urge that you not press this natter because they urgently need to evaluate their govern­ of the ultimate negative effect on a free oned a New York Times reporter for 19 days ment's performance. for refusing to tell a House committee h1s and independent press, radio and television. The Society had hoped that Watergate sources. If a free press is to have meaning, reporters would forever erase any question as to the We want to make sure that doesn't hap­ must be free from harassment by the Govern­ public's right to know. It apparently has pen to Dan Schorr or the editors of New York ment and free to gather and disseminate not, meaning that reporters and editors must magazine, and because of that we undertook information. be constantly vigilant against actions, how­ what wm probably go down as the most fre­ BARBARA WALTERS, ever well meant, which tend to undermine netic petition campaign in recent history. ABC News. that principle. Just 11 days ago, we malled out hundreds We believe your committee could take an of petitions to The Newspaper Guild's U.S. Telegram sent today to Congressman Flynt. important step toward upholding freedom of locals, asked them to circulate them for sig­ "I respectfully but emphatically want to add information by quashing the subpenas nature among their members in the two or my voice to the others who oppose the House against Daniel Schorr and the three other three days' time available and get them back Ethics Committee subpoenas of Daniel Schorr journalists involved in publication of the re­ to us here today. and the editors of the Village Voice. I support port by the Vlllage Voice. Here's how the petition reads: the right of those under subpoena to uphold Sincerely, "We, the undersigned, oppose the sub­ the ethics of their craft and to refuse to dis­ GRANT DILLMAN, poenas by the House Ethics Committee of close their journalistic sources. I speak Chairman, Freedom of Informat1.on Daniel Schorr, CBS correspondent; Clay Fel­ not for NBC News but as a concerned citizen." Committee, Society of Professional ker, editor of New York Magazine and editor­ JOHN CHANCELLOR. Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. in-chief of The Village Voice; Shelly Zalaz­ nick, senior editorial director of New York AFL-CIO President George Meany today Hon. JOHN J . FLYNT, Magazine; and Aaron Latham, contributing sent the following telegram to Chairman House Ethics Committee, editor to New York Magazine. John Flynt of the House Ethics Committee: Washington, D.C. "We believe these editors and reporters "Any attempt by Congress to force Daniel I oppose the subpoenas issued to Daniel have every right to refuse to disclose the Schorr or other reporters to reveal their Schorr et al in the Ethics Committee inves­ source of the Pike Committee report that sources would, in my opinion, constitute an tigation of the Pike report. dealt with the activities of the Central In­ attack on the constitutional protection of telligence Agency. Every editor and reporter ls guaranteed cer­ freedom of the press. Therefore, I urge that tain constitutional protections and one of "The right to freedom of the press is being the Committee not consider contempt-of­ jeopardized by th1s Congressional hearing. them is protection against disclosing con­ Congress citations based on their anticipated fidential sources. We urge that the committee's investigation refusal to identify sources." You are free to into these reporters' and editors' confiden­ The committee's pursuit of Schorr et al is make this public at tomorrow's press jeopardizing freedom of the press and I urge tial news source be stopped." conference. Given the near-zero time avallable, we that the committee's interrogation of them ALBERT J. ZACK, be cancelled. would have been gratified to receive hun­ Director, Department of Public Relations. thousands, from newspaper, magazine and RoGER MUDD, dreds of signatures. But we have received Washington, D.C. broadcasting offices across the country, DEAR DAN (Schorr). We four Fresno Bee crammed with signatures from reporters, edi­ newsmen, now serving an indefinite term in The following was sent to the Honorable tors and others. In addition, messages of the Fresno County Industrial Farm for re­ John J. Flynt, House Committee on Stand­ support for Schorr have been sent to us and fusing to reveal a confidential news source, ards of Official Conduct, Room 2360, Ray­ the House ethics committee by dozens of applaud you in your stand. burn Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20515. prominent individuals and organlzations­ Sooner or later, we must make judges, the Writers Gulld of America, the Society of congressmen and others in official positions, The Associated Press Managing Editors As­ Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi), aware that newsmen, like lawyers, doctors sociation Freedom of Information Commit­ the Associated Press Managing Editors Asso­ and clergymen adhere to professional ethics tee has consistently opposed efforts to com­ ciation, among others. The na.mes and num­ which we cannot ignore. pel journalists to reveal confidential news bers are all set forth in the fact sheet you The public's right to know what their sources. While lt 1s impossible for me to will find in your press kits. government is doing is of paramount con­ canvas the entire committee at this ti?ne, I think the incredible speed and volume cern in a free democracy and the need for as its chairman and as an individual news­ of the response generated by this one-week confidential sources ls an important tool of paper man I would urge you to reconsider campaign 1s a measure of the deeply felt our profession. your declslon to subpoena Daniel Schorr a.nd concern journalists and others feel about We sincerely hope that you will not wind the other Journalists involved in the con­ the House committee's inquiry and the threat up in jail as we have and as Blll Farr of troversy over the news of the Pike committee September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31141 report for the purpose of compelling dis­ acquire another human attribute, the right Shall we say that discarding laboratory­ closure of news sources. A free and independ­ to life? grown embryos is a matter solely between a ent press cannot serve the people as a watch­ The Supreme Court has decreed that at no doctor and his plumber?" dog over Government without obtaining in­ poi nt are fetuses "persons in the whole But for now the issue is abortion, and it formation from confidential news sources. sense." The constitutional status of fetuses ls being trivialized by cant about "a woman's WARREN LERUDE, is different in the third trimester of preg­ right to control her body." Dr. Kass notes Executive Edtior, Reno Evening Gazette nancy. States constitutionally can, but need that "the fetus simply is not a mere part of and Nevada State Journal, Reno Nev. not, prohibit the ktiling of fetuses after a woman's body. One need only consider "vla.bility" (24 to 28 weeks), which the whether a woman can ethically take thalid­ The following individual telegrams were Court says is when a fetus can lead a "mean- omide while pregnant to see that this ls so." sent this date to John J. Flynt, Chairman, ingful" life outside the womb. (The Court Dr. Kass is especially impatient with the ar­ House Committee on Standards of Official has not revealed its criterion of "meaning­ gument that a fetus with a heartbeat and Conduct by the individuals listed below: fulness.") But states cannot ban the killing brain activity "is indistinguishable from a "I believe that Daniel Schorr, Clay Felker, of a viable fetus when that is necessary to tumor in the uterus, a wart on the nose, or a Shelly Zalaznick, and Aaron Latham as edi­ protect a woman's health from harm, which hamburger in the stomach." But that argu­ tors and reporters have every right to refuse can be construed broadly to include "dis­ ment is necessary to justify discretionary to disclose the source of the Pike committee tress." The essence of the Court's position is kllllng of fetuses on the current scale, and report. The right to freedom of the press is that the "right to privacy" means a mother some of the experiments that some scientists jeopardized by your congressional hearing." (interestingly, that is how the Court refers want to perform on live fetuses. Lee Grant, Actress; Carl Reiner, Per­ to a woman carrying a fetus) may deny a Abortion advocates have speech quirks that former, Director, Producer; Barry Far­ fetus life in order that she may lead the life may betray qualms. Homeowners klll crab­ rell, Writer; Rod Steiger, Actor; Henry she prefers. grass. Abortionists klll fetuses. Homeowners Fond.a, Actor; Haskell Wexler, Pro­ Most abortions klll fetuses that were ac­ do not speak of "terminating" crabgrass. But ducer, Director; Abby Mann, Writer; cidentally conceived. Abortion also is used Planned Parenthood of New York City, which Gore Vidal, Writer; Robert Wise, Pro­ by couples who want a child, but not the evidently regards abortion as just another ducer, Director; Bud Yorkln, Producer, one gestating. Chromosome studies of fetal cells taken from amniotic fluid enable pre­ form of birth control, has published an abor­ Writer; Phyllis Kirk, Actress; Marilyn tion guide that uses the word "klll" only and Alan Bergman, Composers; natal diagnosis of genetic defects and dis­ eases that produce physical and mental han­ twice, once to say what some women did to Michael Jackson, Radio Broadcaster; themselves before legalized abortion, and Phylis Kirk. dicaps. Some couples, especially those who already have handicapped children, use such once to describe what some contraceptives diagnosis to screen pregnancies. do to sperm. But when referring to the kill­ STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT, ing of fetuses, the book, like abortion advo­ Rayburn House Office Building, ABORTION AS ALTERNATIVE cates generally, uses only euphemisms, like Washington, D.C. New diagnostic techniques should give "termination of potential life." I applaud the current efforts of the Stand­ pa.use to persons who would use a constitu­ Abortion advocates become interestingly ards of Official Conduct Committee to formu­ tional amendment to codify their blanket indignant when opponents display photo­ late and enforce for the House Standards of opposition to abortion. About fourteen weeks graphs of the well-formed feet and hands of Ethics of which we can all be proud. It is after conception expectant parents can know a nine-week-old fetus. People avoid correct with regret however that I note that this with virtual certainty that their child, if words and object to accurate photographs current state of activity is focused upon an born, will die by age 4 of Tay-Sachs disease, because they a.re uneasy about saying and attempt to extract information regarding having become deaf, blind and paralyzed. seeing what abortion ls. It is not the "ter­ confidential sources from a number of na­ Other comparably dreadful a.ffiictions can be mination" of a hamburger in the stomach. tionally prominent reporters and editors. In detected near the end of the first trimester my view this seriously jeopardizes the first or early in the second. When such suffering THE DEGRADATION OF :MAN amendment rights of these individuals and is the alternative to abortion, abortion is And the casual manipulation of life ls not therefore of all U.S. Citizens. It might even not obviously the greater evil. harmless. As Dr. Kass says: "We have paid affeot the credibility of the committee itself. Unfortunately, morals often follow tech­ some high prices for the technological con­ I urge your most careful attention to the nologies, and new diagnostic and manipula­ quest of nature, but none so high as the in­ enforcements of our constitutional rights. tive skills will stimulate some diseased tellectual and spiritual costs of seeing nature NORMAN LEAR, dreams. Geneticist Bentley Glass, in a presi­ as mere material for our manipulation, ex­ 5752 Sunset Boulevard, dential address to the American Association ploitation and transformation. With the Los Angeles, Calif. for the AdV'ancement of Science, looked for­ powers for biological engineering now gather­ ward to the day when government may re­ ing, there will be splendid new opportuni­ quire what science makes possible: "No par­ ties for a similar degradation of our view of ents will in that future time have a right to a man. Indeed, we are already witnessing the DISCRETIONARY KILLING burden society with a malformed or a ment­ erosion of our idea of man as something ally incompetent child." . splendid or divine, as a creature with free­ WHO MUST DIE? dom and dignity. And clearly, if we come to HON. HENRY J. HYDE At a 1972 conference some eminent scien­ see ourselves as meat, then meat we shall become." OF ILLINOIS tists argued that infants with Down's syn­ Politics have paved the way for this degra­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVF.S drome a.re a social burden and should be killed, when possible, by "negative eutha­ dation. Meat we already have become, at Thursday, September 16, 1976 nasia," the denial of aid needed for survival. Ypres and Verdun, Dresden and Hiroshima, Auschwitz and the Gulag. Is it a coincidence Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, in the con­ It was the morally deformed condemning the genetically defective. Who will they condemn that this century, which 1s distinguished for tinuing dialog on abortion, the follow­ next? Old people, although easier to aban­ science and war and totalitarianism. also ls ing article by George F. Will appears in don, can be more inconvenient than un­ the dawn of the abortion age? the September 20 issue of Newsweek. wanted children. Scientifl.c advances against As usual with Wills writing this article degenerative diseases will enable old people makes a signifioant contribution to the to (as will be said) "exist" longer. The ar­ PRICE DISCLOSURE: THE CONSUM­ discussion and I urge my colleagues to gument for the discretionary killing of these ERS RIGHT TO KNOW read it carefully. burdensome folks will be that "mere" ex­ istence, not "meaningful" life, would be DISCRETIONARY KILLING ended by euthanasia. (By George F. Will) HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL The day is coming when an infertile wom­ OF NEW YORK It is neither surprising nor regrettaible an will be able to have a laboratory-grown that the abortion epidemic alarms many embryo implanted in her uterus. Then there IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thoughtful people. Last year there were a will be the "surplus embryo problem." Dr. Thursday, September 16, 1976 milllon legal abortions in the U.S. and 50 Donald Gould, a British science writer, won­ million worldwide. The kll1ing of fetuses on ders: "What happens to the embryos which Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, we are this scale is a revolution against the judg­ are discarded at the end of the day-washed facing a revolutionary change in the re­ ment of generations. And this revolution in down the sink?" Dr. Leon R. Kass, a Uni­ tail food industry, a change that has favor of discretionary killing has not run its versity of Chica.go biologist, wonders: "Who much potential for good but contains a course. decides what a.re the grounds for discard? threat of much harm to consumers and, That life begins at conception is not dis­ What if there 1s another recipient available putable. The dispute concerns when, if ever, who wishes to have the otherwise unwanted I believe, to the industry itself. abortion is a victimless act. A nine-week-old embryo? Whose embryos are they? The wom­ The industry is planning to spend some fetus has a brain, organs, palm creases, fin­ an's? The couple's? The geneticists? The ob­ $400 million over the next few years to gerprints. But when, if ever, does a. fetus stetrlcla.n's? The Ford Foundation's? ... install automated checkout systems in 31142 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 supermarkets. At the heart of the sys­ of price marking. The study told them price markings on individual items on tem is the universal product codes, the the same thing we have been saying all grocery store shelves. now familiar line markings that appear along. It is not the greatest thing since The legislation also deals with another on the majority of packages in the stores. sliced bread. and equally important aspect of price The new system is intended to speed The section on store loyalty showed marking: unit pricing. Because it is often up checkouts, make them more accurate, that in a 6-week period, 47 percent of confused with item pricing, let me briefly improve inventory efficiency, and gener­ the customers at computer-scanner describe the differences: unit pricing is ally reduce costs to retailers. Unfor­ stores switched while only 31 percent of the price per pound, per quart, or similar tunately, in the words of one veteran ob­ the shoppers at conventional stores measure; under H.R. 4551 it would ap­ server of the grocery industry, the "drive switched. This 16-percent loss must be pear on the product itself or on the shelf toward front-end automation is moti­ devastating for the proponents of secret where the product is displayed. Item vated more by the 'almost endless' div­ price codes. pricing is the price for the entire pack­ idends it will reap than by consideration In these times of high inflation and age, regardless of size; and this bill man­ for the consumer." unemployment, we must do everything dates that the item price must be on the Ironically, the industry in its preoc­ possible to give the consumer the tools product itself. cupation with increasing profits has needed to maximize the value of each As the person who introduced one of been remarkably silent about passing any dollar. The elimination of item pricing is the first unit-pricing bills ever before of these dividends on to consumer in the inconsistent with that goal. the House of Representatives, I consider form of lower prices. It would make virtually impossible the this a fundamental anti-inflationary Along with the promises this system consumer's tallying of purchases while measure that is essential to the con­ holds is the threat of needless confron­ shopping. It also prevents shoppers from sumer's effort to combat the tide of ris­ tation with consumers. This is because of comparing prices in the store and previ­ ing prices. the industry's apparent insistence on re­ ous purchases at home. In addition­ Unit pricing is long overdue and much moving price markings from individual and this is probably what appeals to re­ needed. It permits shoppers to make pre­ packages as part of its computerized con­ tailers most-it reduces the all-impor­ cise price comparisons among the multi­ version. tant consumer consciousness of food tude of sizes and varieties of the same Mr. Speaker, I think the conversion to prices and price increases. product, and select the one that most universal product codes and computer­ Retailers contend shelf labels will be economically fits his needs. ized checkouts is potentially one of the able to take the place of item pricing. One manufacturer's output of a single best things that ever happened to groc­ That is absurd. Shelf pricing has been product like soda pop or breakfast cereal ery shoppers, if the savings are shared notoriously sloppy and would require or tea bags or beans often comes in a with consumers and not just used to platoons of stock clerks to keep packages half-dozen or more sizes. It is hard swell profits. But using it as an excuse to and prices together. enough choosing which among them is remove item prices could well be one of Repeated studies have shown that the best buy, let alone comparing all of the worst hoaxes ever to happen to con­ shelf markings are not a good substitute them to the packages of another brand. sumers. for item pricing because they are such And then there's the difficulty of select­ Individual price markings are some­ an inaccurate source of information. An ing among the various forms in which thing consumers already have-and investigation by the Government Ac­ foods may be available-fresh, frozen, or use-and are infinitely more impartant counting Office found that between 17 in cans. Even a math whiz with a pocket than any savings that would accrue by and 50 percent of the shelf labels in 100 calculator would have to make dozens of their removal-even if those savings stores surveyed may have been unusable computations for each selection. were passed on through lower prices, by the consumer. All too often, Mr. Speaker, opposition something, I doubt would ever happen. There are no safeguards that shelf to unit pricing is a shield behind which Industry figures estimate that the dif­ labels will be accurate or kept from slid­ many ripoffs are concealed. No honest ference between price marking and re­ ing around in their slots. Anyone who businessman should be unwilling to tell moval is about $225 a week per store. A has ever gone shopping can tell you that his customers just how much he is really major confrontation with consumers merchandise does not stay neatly stacked charging for any given producit. hardly seems worth such a small sum for throughout the day and that it is vir­ Many enlightened supermarkets al­ a store with over $60,000 a week in re­ tually impossible to memorize the price ready have adopted unit pricing on their ceipts. on every item in the grocery cart. own and are to be commended. And a Before greed gets the best of them, I Once the customer gets ready to check number of State and local governments, urge the grocery industry to think twice out, he probably will discover that sev­ including New York City, have mandated about price removal. Half-hearted trade eral of the registers have been closed unit pricing. The latter situaltion con­ association endorsements of price mark­ because the store has found that auto­ fronts many retailers with a maze of ings frankly appear designed to make mation allows a fewer number of clerks potential conflicting regulations they this legislation look unnecessary, and I to handle the same number of customers must observe. Enactment of this legisla­ predict that if this bill is allowed to die, in the same amount of time as before. tion will aid both industry and consum­ industry's pledge to continue item pric­ For the customer, that means the wait ers by establishing a consistent and uni­ ing will die with it. will be just as long. And when he finally form system of unit pricing, and I urge Legislation is necessary because it gets to the counter, the speed of items its adoption. provides consistent, clear standards, and being passed over the optical scanner We hear industry spokesmen piously offers both oversight and enforcement. It and their prices being flashed on the testify that they are not opposed to item is written down for all to see and cannot visual terminal will hardly allow him pricing or unit pricing. They tell us they be abrogated by a trade association or time to check the price. have the consumer's best interest at simply ignored by those who dislike it. One of the greatest potential abuses heart and want to defeat this legislation I am pleased, Mr. Speaker, that my in the new system comes when the latest 1n an effort to defend the consumer's own State of New York is one of those price is entered on the computer before "freedom of choice." which have taken the lead in mandating it gets marked on the shelf. A typical True freedom of choice does not mean clear and visible price markings on re­ 10,000-item supermarket may have 300 denying vital information. It means mak­ tail food packages. price changes a week. A store manager ing all the information available-in this When the trend is toward greater dis­ whose sales are lagging might be reluc­ case, individual item pricing markings closure, as exemplified in laws mandat­ tant to post promptly newer and higher and retail unit prices-and letting con­ prices that already are registered in the sumers choose for themselves what use ing truth in lending, truth in advertis­ computer. Or he might just be too busy they wish to make of that data. ing, and so on, what the grocery indus­ to get to it right away. I am tired of hearing big business tell try proposes would be a giant step back­ To protect consumers against such us just how great it 1s and how all its ward to the days of customer-be­ abuses and to protect their right to new innovations are there just because damned. know, I have introduced H.R. 4551, the we consumers demanded them. I wonder The industry recently paid $75,000 for Price Disclosure Act. This bill, cospan­ who the miracle makers of Madison Ave­ a study of consumer reaction to com­ sored by more than 60 of our colleagues, nue were listening to when they fulfilled puterized checkout and the elimination would require the retention of visible our every wish by giving us Pam aerosol September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31143 cooking spray, 5-day deodorant pads, them jobs bills or what you will-do Oh, I'm fully a.ware that such suggestions sugar-coated cereals like Frute Brute, we stop of ten enough to think about the border on the heretic. But are they that all­ ballpoint pens that write in butter and "jobs ethic?" fired far fetched? I don't think so. And not only could' the streets be cleaned, under water, feminine deodorant sprays, As I said on the floor of the House but there a.re all sorts of municipal services fiavored shampoos, squeezably soft and last February 19, in taking out a spe­ that could be rendered. by our welfare re­ scented toilet paper, artificial potato cial order on the subject of jobs, we cipients-and rendered better than now be­ chips and aerosol cans of artificial cheese must somehow reverse the process and ing done. to spread on artificially flavored crackers. pattern of Federal assistance without a The possibllities of a. work-!or-!ood swap Another aspect of this "freedom of work requirement. Moreover, we pointed are endless: guarding our schools during choice" myth is that customers who do out then, earning one's livelihood is con­ nonschool hours; rebuilding the nation's deteriorating railroads; manicuring the me­ not like UPC and the removal of item ducive to pride and character; to na­ dians a.long our highways; cleaning the gov­ prices will bring the industry to its knees tional backbone, when considered na­ ernment center; washing city-owned auto­ by shopping elsewhere. tionally. mobiles-yes, the list is endless. This is a fraud perpetrated by an In the September 12 edition of the And' this swap-out program could be tail­ oligopolistic industry. As the current Sunday Ledger-Enquirer in Columbus, ored. at all levels of government----city, county, FTC antitrust case against several large Ga., my good friend Paul Timm, the dis­ state, national. Perhaps it is not the utopian supermarket chains indicates, a select tinguished Sunday editor of that news­ answer, but certainly it deserves some con­ handful of big grocery chains dominate paper, wrote a most convincing and re­ sideration. vealing column on this very subject. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the many metropolitan areas. The choice generation gap is all that great ... I thi~ simply is not there. And neither is the Paul Timm's editorial column reflects that there would be a lot more people who competition. my thoughts on the subject exactly, for would rather sweep a. street for a living than One supermarket executive said that he believes, as I do, that the goal of pub­ sit idly by with hand and palm outstretched. customers at his automated stores who lic service as an alternative to welfare Think about it! want prices marked on the products they has a great deal of merit. In order that pick up can do it themselves and he will my colleagues might have the benefit of supply the crayon. He is my candidate his thinking, I place in the RECORD Paul for the Marie Antoinette award for pub­ Timm's Sunday column on "Regaining GET SET TO EXPORT TWICE AS lic understanding. Dignity": MUCH MEAT Opponents of item pricing like to refer REGAINXNG DIGNITY: A BETTER WAY to it as "duplicate pricing." Let us clear (By Paul A. Timm) HON. TOM HARKIN up that fallacy right now. For those of OF IOWA us who do not own million dollar optical The As.sociated Press transmitted a photo early last week showing hundreds of workers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES scanners and computers, the choice is in Bangladesh carting dirt from a canal ex­ between pricing and not pricing. We are cavation in small baskets on their heads. Thursday, September 16, 1976 not asking for duplicate pricing. We want The accompanying caption explained that Mr. HARKIN, Mr. Speaker, the Amer­ the price marked just once-right there the canal 1s being bullt to help control the ican cattle producer has suffered severe on the package we are buying. disastrous monsoon :flooding in that coun­ try. Further, in an effort to reduce out and economic hardship during the past 3 Those much-touted "descriptive" reg­ out food handouts by the government, the years. Low cattle prices have resulted ister tapes also are a farce. With space workers are trading their labors !or wheat. primarily from excess supply. While the for only a dozen computerized characters, The going rate is one ton of dirt moved in supply of beef worldwide seems to be ex­ they can hardly tell the name of the return for a single pound of wheat. cessive, foreign nations will demand product, the brand, the size, and the other At first glance it seemed preposterous. One more and higher quality beef as incomes information consumers need to make wonders how many trips, and of what length, rise around the globe. price comparisons in the home. In fact, it takes a worker to move a. ton ot dirt. All The demand for meat has resulted in those tapes are so incomplete as to be for one single pound of wheat. a number of nations initiating programs misleading in many cases. This was effec­ Suddenly the reallza.tion struck home­ tively demonstrated in the testimony of these people were working for a. living. Even to expand meat production. The U.S. Mr. Walter Davis of the Retail Clerks at that exorbitant rate of exchange, it would Feed Grains Council has worked closely be safe to assume that the bread they work with other nations and individuals in this International Association and his ex­ tor will taste better than any bread which effort because expanded livestock num­ amples of tapes recording purchases of is given. bers abroad mean stable and large mar­ different varieties or sizes of identical Reminiscent in many ways of the 1930s-­ kets for American feed grain. However, items, but failing to distinguish among bread lines, apple vendors, the WPA, PWA, should the meat be produced in the them. CCC. Most people a.re not too proud to humble United States, the same quantity of Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4551 is designed to grain would be used and the American protect and preserve the consumer's basic themselves and work for a living as opposed to accepting a dollop ot welfare. Of course farmer would reap the economic return right to know the price he is being a. few will continue to take and take and take charged for the food he buys. This is of converting grain to the valued meat without ever giving, but most people would products which American consumers especially important in these days of rather work. often take for granted. high inflation and constant food price That evening after seeing the picture of fluctuation. the Ba.nglad.eshians (or whatever people from The principal obstacle to expanded Without mandatory price marking, it Bangladesh are called) toting baskets of beef and pork exports is foreign protec­ is altogether conceivable that prices earth on their heads for wheat for their bel­ tive tariffs and quotas. Hopefully, the could go up between the time the cus­ lies, I passed a street cleaner here in Colum­ newly formed U.S. Meat ExPort Feder­ bus. ation will help reduce these barriers. The tomer picks an item off the shelf and the It was one of those gray monstrosities that time he gets to the checkout counter, and have brushes whirling in different directions Foreign Agricultural Service has wisely he would never know it. and planes, all topped off by water to keep contributed $200,000 to the $100,000 put We must not permit this to happen. down the dust. And as I watched it trying up by member producing and processing vallantly to clean the curb side of the street associations. it struck me that it wasn't doing a particu­ I feel the enclosed article from the REGAINING DIGNITY larly good job at that. September Farm Journal outlines the It was keeping one man busy, but the challenge: streets weren't really being cleaned. Maybe [From the Fann Journal, September 1976) HON. JACK BRINKLEY the old ways were better. OF GEORGIA One wonders how many on welfare would GET SET To ExPORT TwICE AS MUCH MEAT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES jump at the chance to swap street olea.ntng The United States can double meat eXipOrts hours for food stamps, or clothing, or lodg­ in five years and become the world's largest Thursday, September 16, 1976 ing, or whatever. meat exporter 1n ten. Who says so? Darwin Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, we have It might just solve a lot of problems-­ Stolte, president of the U.S. Feed Grains heard a lot about jobs in the past sev­ cleaner streets, more work for a living, less Council. eral months. But as we ponder the many welfare, a resurgence of human dignity and Stolte extolled this idea at the recent azr proposals to put people to work-call pride. nual convention of the American Feed 31144 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 Manufacturers Association in New Orleans. the Foreign Agricultural Service last spring. tute which you offer on the floor on behalf of "We have the productivity, processing and Its 20 members put up $100,000, and FAS is the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Com­ marketing capability," he declares. The vi­ adding $200,000. Members include American mittee during the consideration of H.R. sion he has, based on an enviable record of Meat Institute, American National Cattle­ 12112 include the changes made by the at­ shuttling feed grains around the world, war­ men's Association, National Independent tached amendment. The suggested changes rants a look whether you produce beef or Meat Packers Association and the National are substantively identical to those our Com­ pork. Pork Producrs Council. mittee recommended to the version reported The demand for your product is there. "It's What if we don't push exports? Stolte says by the Committee on Science and Technol­ appalllng to see the stature that red meat is other countries would continue to develop ogy. gaining even in countries yOl\l WIOuldn't ex­ livestock economies. "IDtimately you'll face As you know, the Committee on Ways pect to be markets," says world traveler what we've seen in the grain industry-new and Means has taken no position on the Stolte. "Look at Indonesia--population 140 production will turn around and become various versions of H.R. 12112 except inso­ million, per capita annual income a.round world surplus. It will compete with us at far as they deal with matters within our $110. The government there is putting prior­ every doorstep." Committee's jurisdiction. I! the changes in ity on development of e. beef industry!" Consumers here could throw up a howl the attached amendment are included in the He thinks that's ridiculous. It would be about meat exports as they did with grain. Commerce Committee's substitute, it wm much more economical for such a country But if Lyng is right, "we will all be better off have the same standing relative to the items to import meat from the United States. in the long run. Exports could increase meat in the Committee on Ways and Means' Juris­ "We've proven the economics of bringing prices here in the short run. But if we get diction as does the Teague substitute which livestock and processing to the centers of the price up some, it will increase production was published in the Congressional Record grain production," he says. and we will add wealth all along the line," he of August 26, 1976. The Committee on Ways Here's the big question: Is the industry notes. and Means has taken no position on the willing to consider changes essential to a Last year, our limited meat exports totaled relative merits of the Commerce Committee meat export program? Three areas he sees as about $1.8 bllllon-about one tenth of farm and Teague substitutes. crucial: exports. That's a long way from the $5 bil­ Sincerely, We must establish an export image. We're lion export market for corn and milo. But AL ULLMAN, considered importers now. The value of meat Lyng shares Stolte's feelings that we can Chairman. imports last year exceeded exports by $207 double meat exports in five years. million. --JOHN RUSSELL. .AMENDMENTS We stlll need commitment from every­ Page 108, line 36, strike out "(s) and (v)" one-cow-calf men, feeders, financiers, mar­ and insert in lieu thereof "and (u) ". keters. "We must motivate the market to Page 109, line 37, strike out "(y), and (z)" identify and serve our commitments to ex­ SYNFUELS AMENDMENTS SUB- and insert in lieu thereof "and (y) ". ports," says Stolte. "The grain industry's Page 123, beginning on line 6, stl"ike out marketing structure is equaled by none. All MI'ITED IN RESPONSE TO RE­ QUEST BY CHAIRMAN ULLMAN "The Secretary of the Treasury" and all that we need to do is add meat commodities to follows down through "such notes or obli­ the list of products." gations." on line 11. We must learn to think of what foreign Page 123, line 13, strike out "All redemp­ consumers want-not what we happen to HON. JOHN D. DINGELL tions," and all that follows down through have to sell. OF MICHIGAN line 15. Important to him: "A labor market ad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Page 124, strike out line 32 and all that vantage is returning to the United States-­ follows down through line 8 on page 125. just look at Volkswagen," he reasons. Thursday, September 16, 1976 Page 125, line 9, strike out "(t) (1)" and The meat industry can learn from feed­ insert in lieu thereof " ( s) ( 1) ". grain experience, Stolte believes. Feed-grain Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, our col­ Page 126, line 6, strike out "(u)" and exports totaled only $650 mlllion in 1960. league, Mr. ULLMAN, chairman of the insert in lieu thereof "(t) ". "We were so busy complaining about the House Ways and Means Committee, has Page 126, line 11, strike out "(v)" and lack of government supports we failed to requested that a series of amendments, insert in lieu thereof "(u)". look at overseas potentle.l,'' he says. "Then substantively identical to those recom­ Page 126, line 14, strike out "(w)" and one day we addressed the subject. Last year, insert in lieu thereof "(v) ". we exported $6.5 bllllon worth of feed mended by that committee in its report on H.R. 12112, be included in the amend­ Page 126, line 23, strike out "(x)" and grains." insert in lieu thereof "(w)". It takes a dedicated, unified effort, he af­ ment offered by the Interstate and For­ Page 126, line 32, strike out "(y)" and firms. "The feed industry must support a eign Commerce Committee during con­ insert in lieu thereof "(x) ". meat export policy because it has most to sideration of H.R. 12112. I have informed Page 127, line 1, strike out "(z) ( 1) (A)" gain next to meatmen," Stolte told the feed­ him that we will be happy to accede to and insert in lieu thereof "(y) (1) (A)". men. his request. and on September 15, 1976, Page 133, insert after line 8 the follow­ Trade barriers wlll thwart our efforts. Pro­ ing new title: ducers in other countries don't like imports I inserted the necessary amendments in any more than you do. "The European Com­ the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. They appear TITLE IV.-AMENDMENT TO INTERNAL munity persists with an agricultural policy on page 30558. REVENUE CODE OF 1954 that supports small and inefficient farmers," Chairman ULLMAN'S letter goes on to SEC. 401. TAXABn.rrY OF INTEREST ON CERTAIN observes Dick Lyng, president of the Amer­ make clear that the Ways and Means FEDERALLY GUARANTEED OBLJ:GA­ ican Meat Institute. "I think foreign con­ Committee has taken no position on any TIONS. sumers and taxpayers will grow tired of of the various versions of H.R. 12112. ex­ Part II of subchapter B of chapter 1 of that." cept insofar as they deal with matters the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating Variable levies on meat there now range to items specifically included in gross in­ from 50c to $1.25 per pound. "Add the.t to within the jurisdiction of the Ways and come) is amended by adding at the end the wholesale price and you can see why we Means Committee. More particularly, thereof the following new section: can't move meat there even if they didn't Chairman ULLMAN states that the Ways "SEC. 85. CERTAIN FEDERALLY GUARANTEED OB­ have other barriers regarding animal health and Means Committee "has taken no LIGATIONS. and disease,'' he says. position on the relative merits of the "(a) In General.--Gross income includes An improving trade bale.nee already is Commerce Committee and Teague sub­ interest on any obligation of any State or helping. Japan cut its livestock production stitutes." local govern.ment- drastically in 1973 and 1974 because of the This statement may be of particular in­ " ( l) the interest or principal (or both) high cost of raw material imports. A meat of which ls guaranteed in whole or in part shortage resulted and a clamor arose. Now terest to Members of the House who are under section 19 of the Federal Nonnuclear consumers are getting more. under the impression that the Ways and Energy Research and Development Act of We shipped $17 mlllion worth of pork to Means Committee has endorsed the 1974, or Japan in 1974, says Robert Mannion, For­ Teague substitute. "(2) the payment of the interest or prin­ eign Agricultural Service (FAS). That Chairman ULLMAN'S letter follows: cipal (or both) of which 1s to be supported jumped to $97 m1111on in 1975. In the first COMMITI'EE ON WAYS AND MEANS, by tax payments to such government which three months of this year, exports were up Washington, D.C., September 15, 1976. are guaranteed in whole or in part under 200 % over the same period in 1975. Hon. JOHN D. DINGELL, section 18 of such Act. A new organization to develop meat ex­ Chafrman, Subcommfttee on Energy and "(b) State or Local Government Defined.­ ports should speed market development. "We Power, Committee on Interstate and For purposes of this section, the term 'State hope the new U.S. Meat Export Federation Foreign Commerce, U.S. House of Rep­ or local government' means a State, a pos­ (MEF) will resemble the U.S. Feed Grains resentatives. session of the United States, any political Council," says Lyng. DEAR JoHN: The purpose of this letter is subdivision of any of the foregoing, and the MEF signed a cooperator agreement with to request that the amendment or substi- District of Columbia.." September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31145 SEC. 402. 'l'EcHNICAL AND CLERICAL .AMEND­ bered among its full-time staffers which Basker Vashee--of the TN! in Amsterdam MENTS. it terms "fellows" and part-time staff­ appeared last Friday as a featured speaker in (a) Section 103(f) of such Code ls amended ers-"associate fellows"-assorted ter­ a Congressional conference organized by the by striking out the period at the end of rorists, Communists of several tendencies Fund for New Priorities. During the con­ paragraph (23) and inserting in lieu there­ ference, Va.shee was identified as a "member of"; and", and by adding at the end thereof and factions, and other supporters of of the national executive" of a Marxist ter­ the following: revolutionary violence. Among them have rorist organization, the Zimbabwe African "(24) Certain federally guaranteed obliga­ been- People's Union, operating against Rhodesia tions, see section 85." r. F. Stone--long the publisher of a pro­ and supported by the Soviet bloc. (b) The table of sections for part II of communlst newsletter who was cited by the Tariq All-another IPS/TNI employee, is subcha.pter B of chapter 1 of such Code ls Senate Internal Security Subcommittee 20 the head of the British section of the Trot­ amended by adding at the end thereof the years ago as one of the eighty-two most typi­ skylte Fourth International, an interna­ following: cal and active sponsors of Communist fronts. tionally active communist organization in­ Stone wrote an incredible book in 1952, The volved in terrorism and revolutionary vio­ "SEC. 85. CERTAIN FEDERALLY GUARANTEED OB­ Hidden History of the Korean War, in which lence in many countries. Tariq All's Interna­ LIGATIONS." he claimed that the Korean War was the re­ tional Marxist Group has provided both man­ SEC. 403. EFFECTIVE DATE. sult of South Korean aggression against the power and logistical support to the Irish The amendment made by this section shall North Korean communists and their Red Trotskylte "urban guerrllla." terrorists of apply to taxable yea.rs ending after the date Chinese allies. During the 1960s and 70s, Sa.or Eire. of the enactment of this Act. Stone joined with the New Left 1n support of the Communist tyrannies 1n Cuba and One of the Institute for Policy Studies' North Vietnam. As an "independent" revolu­ more recent projects has been to set up tionary, Stone has played with the Trotskylte a national network to coordinate social­ RADICAL THINK TANK COORDINA­ communists of the Socialist Workers Party, ist-oriented public policies being pro­ TION OF NEW LEFT PUBLIC OFFI­ endorsing activities of its anti-Vietnam posed at the State and local level by New front, the National Peace Action Coalition, CIALS and recently being instrumental 1n obtaining Left appointed and elected officials. House Press Gallery credentials for the The National Conference on Alterna­ Militant, the SWP newspaper. tive State and Local Public Policies­ HON. LARRY McDONALD Andrew Kopklnd-a known Weather Un­ NCASLPP-operates from room 204 in OF GEORGIA derground supporter, was arrested and con­ the headquarters of IPS at 1901 Q Street, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES victed in 1969 of offenses in Chicago during NW., Washington, D.C. 20009 (202/234- the Weatherman "Days of Rage" riots. Kop­ Thursday, September 16, 1976 9482). This operation, also called the Na­ kind was later active with Rennie Davis's tional Conference Coordinating Center Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the Mayday group which, using a scenario devel­ oped by !PS, staged a week of protests in on Alternate State and Local Public Pol­ Institute for Policy Studies-IPS-is a Washington in 1971. icies and Legislative Clearinghouse, consortium of Marxists New Leftists Robert "Bo" Burlingham-of the Cam­ states: working for the destruction of the exist­ bridge Institute's Working Papers for a New This new network has been established to ing American society and imposition of Society was indicted in 1972 by a federal strengthen the programmatic work of the a new revolutionary system-one in grand jury with other members of the Left. It should end the sense of isolation which the elitist bureaucrats of IPS will Weathermen on bombing conspiracy charges, felt by elected and appointed ofHclals, or­ be major functionaries. In his 1971 book, (the charges were dropped because most of ganizers and planners who share a populist "Think Tanks," Paul Dickson wrote of the other defendants went underground and or radical outlook. Its further goal is to en­ IPS: have successfully a.voided arrest). In 1974 large the base committed to policies for a Burlingham said, "I don't feel that I've par­ restructured America. The Institute for Policy Studies ls attempt­ ticularly changed my attitudes • • •.I don't ing to lay the groundwork for the new so­ think an equitable, fair, free, democratic The ''restructured America" is IPS's ciety that will replace the present collapsing world order is going to happen any other way decentralized, socialist, communal sys­ one. It has not only dedicated itself to usher­ than through violence." tem. It is noted that IPS prefers to speak ing in the new society by inquiry and experi­ Ivanhoe Donaldson-was a leader of the of and work for ''alternatives" rather mentation but it is also doing what it can to Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commit­ hasten the demise of the present one. tee (SNCC), a violence-prone, extremist or­ than communism and socialism. ganization. In 1969, as chairman of the New The national director of the NCASLPP The Institute for Policy Studies and York SNCC chapter, Donaldson accompanied is Lee Webb of the Greatwood Campus its spinoffs have more than matched that SNCC head Stokely Carmichael to Puerto of Goddard College, Plainfield, Vt. 05667 description. Rico where a "protocol of agreement" be­ (802/454-8531). A graduate of Andover IPS has spawned several subsidiary tween SNCC and the Cuban-controlled, and Boston University-1963, Lee Webb New Left think tanks. These include the Marxlst-Lenlnst MPI (now Puerto Rican So­ was 1963-64 national secretary of SDS. in cia.list Party) was signed. Cambridge Policy Studies Institute Michael Klare--an IPS/TNI fellow is a He was active with the SDS economic re­ Massachusetts; the Bay Area Institute in long-time leading member of the North search and action project--ERAP, and San Francisco; the Institute for South­ American Congress on La.tin America the Chicago-based Jobs or Income Now­ ern Studies in Atlanta; and the Institute (NACLA), named by SDS leader Carl David­ JOIN. In 1968, Webb worked with Tom for Women's Policy Studies in Washing­ son as the "intelligence gathering arm" of Hayden and Rennie Davis to organize ton, D.C. With the organization of the the New Left. CIA defector Ph111p Agee the National Mobilization Committee Transnational Institute, which has of­ credited the production of his "expose" to "representatives of the Communist Party of which with considerable Communist fices in Amsterdam but which remains Cuba" and materials gathered by NACLA. It Party, U.S.A., logistical support effec­ firmly under the control of the parent is noted with interest that NACLA materials tively disrupted the 1968 Democratic Na­ IPS, the institute moved overtly into the are printed by Prompt Press, the in-house tional Convention with a 5-day riot in area of international politics. publishers of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Chicago. Subsequently Webb became IPS has the fnnding and manpower and that Cuban publications frequently cite Washington, D.C., "bureau chief" for the to develop a variety of tactics to imple­ NACLA studies of U.S. defense matters. Michael Klare of IPS/TNI and NACLA has Guardian, a Marxist-Leninist newspaper ment the "new world order." These aca­ taught seminars on U.S. arms policies 1n and remained active in the anti-Vietnam demic study projects on the development Havana. movement of the 1970's. Webb has long and use of "antimilitary movements and Roberta Salper ls a member of the General been associated with !PS-related projects resistance within NATO armies"; a sort Committee of the U.S. Zone of the Castrolte as an "activist-organizer." of "subversion from the top" in which Communist Puerto Rican Socialist Party. PSP While Webb works from the Goddard IPS attempts to gain influence in Con­ leaders have openly supported the terrorist campus, IPS has two other stafiers work­ gress through direct contacts with staff FALN which evidence indicates is the armed ing on NCASLPP in its Washington of­ aides and legislators, and direct com­ branch of the PSP. A Cuban-trained Puerto fices: Ann Wise and Barbara Bick, who munity agitation through such long­ Rican terrorist, Flllberto Ojeda Rios, is being sought for the FALN bombing of the Fraunces serves on the staff of IPS's Political standing institute-controlled projects as Economy Program Center and its project the Adams-Morgan Organization-AMO. Tavern. Paul Jacobs-publicly admitted some yea.rs on alternate State and local public pol­ The Institute for Policy Studies has ago while a witness in a court suit that he icies, NCASLPP's parent project. never discounted the role of violence and was a member of the Communist Party, U.S.A. The first NCASLPP conference was terrorism in what it terms "social Since that time he has been active in Cas­ held in Madison, Wis., in June 1975. Sev­ change." Since the 1960's, IPS has nwn- trolte circles. eral regional followup meetings were 31146 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1916 held in the fall. A claimed 1,200 people threat. Salvador Allende's minoritv re­ the state a.nd local activists' group fits into gUne in Chile had only one-third of the that analysis is a question to be pursued at in toto attended at least one meeting. a winter meeting. NCASLPP's Marxist intentions are popular vote and his Marxist coalition clear despite the euphemistic rhetoric was composed of a number of leftist The conference participants placed used. The NCASLPP has described its parties-Socialist, Communist, Radical, considerable emphasis on the need for areas of interest in the following terms: et cetera. more leftists to run for the so-called Politically, we are seeking for political One of the most objective mass media minor State and local offices in which and programmatic ways that the questions reports on the Austin meetings was by campaign expenses are very small. The of the maldlstribution of power and wealth Ellen Hume, a reporter for the Los activities of Florence McDonald, the in America can be addressed by activist state Angeles Times, June 21, 1976. She wrote: Berkeley, Calif., auditor, were cited as and local political movements. While we are They insisted that the "system" had not an example of the "reform" uses to which interested in responding to the requests of such offices could be put. public officials for information on alternative co-opted their old New Left convictions: "If legislation in such "non-controversial" areas there's one thing I've learned, year in a.nd The NCASLPP organization states it such as utility regulation, election reform, year out," said Justin Ravitz, Detroit's ir­ has two goals: a.nd educational financing reform, we a.re reverent Marxist judge, "it's that I've got to A. To learn of and study the concrete pro­ particularly interested in intiatives involv­ get more radical. Because the system's even grams and policies of local governments, and ing the control of capital, ta.x restructuring worse than I believed it was the year before." in some cases national governments in other and the control of governmental institutions One of the purposes of the conference countries, in areas such as banking, public themselves. ownership, land and tax policy, housing, was to exchange practical experience in transportation, decentralization, natural re­ Although IPS/NCASLPP claims that "bringing down the system through the sources and other areas. The best ideas and an invitational letter and draft agenda system," as William Kunstler calls it. proposals would then be publicized through were sent to some 4,000 persons it believes The Hume article cites an anonymous our publications, our conferences, a.nd our share "a populist or radical outlook," a Berkeley activist as saying: National Clearinghouse for discussion and mere 450 officials and observers, many of In Austin for four days, the conferees introduction by local a.nd state public of­ them local students and activists, turned taught each other "how to use establishment ficials in the United States. tricks to get a.t the establishment. B. To learn and study the character of up at St. Edwards University in Austin, political organization of radical and progres­ Tex., for the second annual conference She reported oddly that West Virginia sive parties at the local level in other coun­ on June 10-13, 1976. State Senator Si Galperin "hopes his tries to offer experiences, examples, and Hosted by Austin Mayor Jeff Fried­ constituents would not find out he was models to state and local activists in the man, the conference was organized with consorting with 'radicals,'" and con­ United States who want to build issue ori­ the assistance of his office. Among the tinued: ented local political organizations. well-known figures from the leftist Someone said it seemed like a National THE CUBAN CONNECTION movements of the 1960's taking a leader­ League of Cities meeting, except for that spe­ According to Lee Webb, the NCASLPP ship role were Tom Hayden, who was de­ cial ideological twist: everyone was talking has three projects for 1976, all of them feated in the California Democratic pri­ about "greater public control" of the econ­ related to NCASLPP's program to de­ mary; District of Columbia City Council­ omy and the government. But unlike the velop "connections between internation­ man Marion Barry, a former SNCC rhetoric-mad days of the '60s, this gathering al questions and American movements" leader; Vermont Director of Occupa­ avoided such words as "radical" and "social­ and in offering as "models" foreign "rad­ tional Health and Safety John Froines, ist." ical and progressive parties." The • • • Robb Burlage, a fellow of the In­ one of the Chicago 7 defendants; De­ stitute for Polley Studies who in 1962 had NCASLPP projects are: troit's Marxist-Leninist Judge Justin helped Tom Hayden found the Students for 1. To deepen our contact and understand­ Ravitz; and several recent travelers to a Democratic Society, • • • looking across ing of alternative programs and political or­ Communist Cuba-Texas Zavala County the grass at the mix of socialists, populists, ganization in Canada.. Our contracts with Judge Jose Angel Gutierrez; Madison, Democrats, Marxists and progressives at the the New Democratic Party and the Montreal Wisconsin Mayor Paul Soglin, and his as­ conference, lamented the disunity of the Citizens Movement are signifl.ca.nt. American left. "We've been so purged . . . 2. To initiate contacts of American local sistant, Jim Rowen. public officials with Cuba, particularly con­ Approximately 40 workshops were we've lost a.ny sense of how to reintegrate," he said. centrating on structure and function of local held which dealt with such topics as pub­ government. Mata.nzas would be a. key site lic ownership of utilities, public control of James Rowen, one of the NCASLPP's for the visit. Jim Rowan, Assistant to the natural resources, growth control strat­ more active "resource people," wrote a Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, and son-in­ egies, public control of capital, public glowing account of the Austin confer­ la.w of George McGovern, received a.n initial control of development and growth, and ence which appeared in the August issue inquiry from the Cubans about the National Conference and an expression [of interest) "issue community organizing." of the Progressive: in a. possible delegation. The mass media extensively covered The National Conference itself, working 3. To open up contacts with local govern­ the alternatives conference. An article closely with the Institute for Policy Studies ment and political officials in Europe, par­ in the New Republic, July 3 and 10, 1976, in Washington, D.C., has produced, in one ticularly England, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, reported comments by former National year, draft bllls concerning utlllty ownership and some Eastern European countries, aimed Moratorium Committee Organizer Sam and management, occupational health a.nd at studying specifl.c local programs for com­ Brown, now Colorado State treasurer, safety, a.nd national cooperative banking. It munication to local public officials in the prints and distributes a national newsletter United States. and Paul Soglin of Madison on New Left and regional reports. It has also published political hopes: a Left-oriented analysis of the Federal budg­ Here we have a leading figure of tlie Brown and Paul Soglin a.Lso insisted that et, and assisted in the publication of the Institute for Policy Studies casually not­ [the campaign of Democratic Presidential eighty-two page "Cities' Wealth" program for ing that his new project has been ap­ candidate] Carter should be regarded as an progressive change in Berkeley. • • • proached by Cuban agents who want .>pportunity. "If he keeps his promises to the State and national administrations which left, explicit or implicit, the opportunities preach • • • having government "do" less contacts with New Left U.S. officials, are great. If he turns out to be as conserva­ and private citizens (a.nd corporations do who then follows this statement with the i;ive as some people fear," Brown said, "Ollr more • • • cannot be expected to champion notation that he hopes to "Open up con­ work becomes stlll more important because public enterprises which expand the role of tacts" with officials of the Soviet satel­ the only people out to change things in the government into areas traditionally ruled lites in Eastern Europe to provide long run a.re in this room." by the private sector. • • • "models" for local U.S. officials. Sam Brown's comment is a rather • • • Hayden proposed a new national The FBI has been harshly criticized for coalition with two balanced "wings"--one its interest in the Institute for Policy damming admission-that radical alter­ made up of the growing domestic movements natives to America's economic and polit­ Studies. Ignorant bureaucrats refused to for consumer power and environmental pro­ defend the investigation, although clear­ ical institutions have virtually no sup­ tection, and the other composed of foreign port among the American people and policy-minded veterans of the antiwar move­ ly vast amounts of information on the that only a relatively small New Left ment. "We have to prepare ourselves to run institute's connections with foreign ter­ clique is working to take over from the our country," he said, and many many per­ rorists, domestic terrorists, and hostile top. However, the size of the movement sons felt that national conditions in 1976 Communist governments was available. is not the best indication of its potential compelled them to do nothing less. Just how I call upon my colleagues to join with September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31147 me in demanding a full and continuing c. There ls no present prospect for obtain­ and in his roles as party leader and tempo­ investigation of the Institute for Policy ing required local cooperation. rary convention chairman. And he has given Studies and its subsidiaries. I believe, however, that existing Army pol­ his support to opposition measures when he icy should be followed. This policy would thought they were best for the party or the reclassify the project a.nd permit it to be country. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS considered as a candidate for dea.uthoriza.­ He is a rough and tumble campaigner whose tion under Section 12 of Publlc Law 93-251. sarcasm and biting remarks a.bout Jiil:nmy MOVES TO DEAUTHORIZE Sincerely, Carter may grate some of those who think LAFAYE'ITE LAKE CHARLES R. FORD, politicking should be a nicey-nice business. For VICTOR v. VEYSEY, But from the time he was first elected to Assistant Secretary of the Army the Kansas Legislature when he was 26 HON. FLOYD J. FITHIAN (Civil Works). years old and still a student in Washington OF INDIANA University Law School. Dole has never lost IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an election. And conservative Kansas voters are not known to sufl'er long fools in public Thursday, September 16, 1976 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR VICE oftlce. Mr. FITHIAN. Mr. Speaker, I am grat- PRESIDENT After a stint in the state legislature. Dole 11led by the Army Corps of Engineers de­ was elected to four terms as a county at­ cision not to oppose H.R. 13689, the bill torney, then to a seat in Congress, all from HON. JOHN J. RHODES an area where he was well known. to deauthorize the Lafayette Lake proj­ When his Congressional district was com­ ect in Indiana's Second District. OF ARIZONA bined with another district to form a huge Within the next 2 weeks, I will offer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES new district, he had his :first problem with this bill as an amendment to the Water Thursday, September 16, 1976 name recognition, and his campaigners trot­ Resources Development Act of 1976. The ted out the Dole pineapple juice. Army Corps of Engineers announced Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, the fol­ The gimmick worked and Dole won a tough lowing editorial comment w'as forwarded campaign. In 1968 Dole ran for the U.S. Senate that "there appears to be no basis to op­ and faced an uph111 battle as a Western Kan­ pose the bill," and cited three reasons for to me by a concerned citizen of Kansas. It is a heartening account of one town's san, relatively unknown in the far more pop­ this decision: ulous and more liberal eastern part of the 1. Governor Bowen withdrew State support feelings toward a fellow citizen as well state. He won again. for the project; as good insight into the character of the The odds seem even greater against the 2. Community sentiment is opposed to the Republican Party's candidate for Vice Ford-Dole ticket. project; and President. After his nomination as vice presidential 3. There 1s no prospect for obtaining local (From the Veneta (Oreg.) West-Lane News, candidate television commentators could not cooperation for the project. Aug. 26, 1976] seem to mention Dole's name without adding EDITOR'S CORNER a phrase about "his loyalty to President Unfortunately, the Army Corps of En­ Nixon almost to the end." gineers would like to see deauthorization (By Joe Cannon) What they didn't say, or know, ls that take place under the provisions of Pub­ Will the nation have to be subjected to a while Haldeman and Ehrlichman were still lic Law 93-251, section 12, which requires bath of pineapple Juice before its voters rec­ being hailed publicly for the efficiency with that projects can be deauthorized if they ognize the name of Robert Dole? which they were running the White House, have not received funding for 8 consecu­ The pineapple juice gimmick worked ill Dole had broken with them and told inti­ Kansas when Dole twice overcame a name mates of his fears for the presidency and for tive years. I disagree with this pasltion. recognition problem, once to win a U.S. his own position as Republican party chair­ It is neither fair nor just to ask the House of Representatives seat in a. new dis­ man because he had dared to cross them. Lafayette community to wait 8 years for trict and again to win his U.S. Senate seat. At the post convention barbecue la.st week deauthorization under Public Law 93- I'm not ordinarily guilty of the common in his hometown of Russell, Kansas, Dole 251. Deauthorization would permit State vice of name dropping, but before anyone cried when he arose to talk to the homefolk. and local authorities to pursue alterna­ figures out that it's because I Just don't have Cynics might think it was a. bit staged. tives such as a State park or recreational many names to drop, let me explain that I believe Dole's thoughts as he stood before Robert Dole is probably the only political his friends and neighbors, went much further area or other uses. Several alternatives figure of national stature that I've met, in­ back than his gllttering career in politics, are closed to them until after the corps terviewed and photographed many times back to dark days during World War II. project is removed from authorized sta­ while I was in newspaper work in Kansas. News accounts since his nomination have tus. In addition, homeowners are pres­ He has my respect and w11l have my vote told how the battle decorated infantry officer ently prevented from acquiring building come November. Contrary to the views of was severely wounded in Italy and spent 39 permits if they live in the area authorized many political columnists of national fame months in hospitals. for this project. who are deriding President Ford's selection A little-known pa.rt of that story, however, Mr. of Dole as his running mate, I look on it as is that at one point, Dole was wasting away I include the letter from Victor V. an a.ct of political honesty that compares from the effect of his wounds, down to 120 Veysey, Assistant Secretary of the Army well with Ronald Reagan's bold but losing pounds and apparently near death. for Civil Works, in the RECORD for the gamble in picking the liberal Richard At that time streptomycin had not been benefit of my colleagues in the House: Schweiker as his choice for a vice president. sumclently tested for acceptance by the mili­ DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, OFFICE Reagan represents the wing of the Repub­ tary doctors, but was avallable elsewhere. OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, lican party which supposedly will not com­ The Russell townspeople staged their own Washington, D.O., July 19, 1976. promise its principles, and yet the nod to fund drive, rounding up about $5,000 to se­ Hon. FLOYD J. FITHIAN, Schweiker was an obvious move to swing cure the new wonder drug and some ad­ House of Representatives, some badly-needed uncommitted delegates vanced surgical techniques to help save the Washington, D.O. lnto the Reagan camp and with little life of the young war hero. DEAR MR. FITHIAN: Thank you for your re­ thought to the succession to the presidency I think that's where Dole's thoughts were cent letter and views on H.R. 13689, to deau­ should Reagan not live out his term. when, at the peak of his political career, thorize Lafayette Lake. And those who believe Schweiker's state­ he stood before those same friends and The Committee on Public Works and ments that he would have carried out Rea­ neighbors more than 30 yea.rs later. Transportation, House of Representatives, gan's conservative policies in the event he Bob Dole knows what it means to fight has referred a copy of H.R. 13689 to the De­ would have to step in as president should long odds, both personal and polttical. partment of the Army with a. request for also go into the forest and expect to find leop­ --JOE CANNON our views. Our response to the Committee's ards combing Grecian Formula into their request is receiving sta.ft' consideration given fur to change their spots. to all requests of this kind. Dole, on the other hand, is in the image of Although we have not yet completed re­ the President in political philosophy, and FARM BuREAU RATINGS view of the matter, there appears to be no isn't that what the voters have a right to ex­ basis to oppose the bill for the following pect when they choose a president, that the reasons: mandate will be left in the same philosoph­ ical ca.mp? HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK a. Governor Bowen of Indiana. unequivo­ OF OHIO The country could be in a far worse posi­ cally withdrew State support for the project IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on 22 April 1976. tion for leadership than having Bob Dole in the wings as president should Ford's term be Thursday, September 16, 1976 b. Sentiment in the immediate locality, as cut short. evidenced by individuals and locally elected Dole has shown an ab111ty to comprom1se­ Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the Im­ omcia.ls, is strongly opposed to the project. and to work compromises in both the Senate portance of the farmer to our Nation 31148 EXTENSIONS OF R.£MARKS September 17, 1976 cannot be overstated. He is one of the of payments." The b111 passed by a vote o1 of a "super agency" is not good government most productive individuals in the world. 287 yeas to 130 nays. as it "would become an enormous roadblock The American farmer not only feeds the ( 5) Farm program: Michel amendment-­ in the administrative processes of govern­ An amendment offered by Representative ment," and the provision that exempts labor people of this country but also produces Robert H. Michel (R., Ill.) to the farm pro­ disputes from the agency's jurisdiction much for export. gram blll (H.R. 8860) which contained Farm "makes it clear that this bill does not con­ In the Congress I have supported legis­ Bureau's proposed revisions for an orderly stitute a balanced evenhanded approoch t o lation to help agriculture and opposed transition to a market oriented farm program the issues involved." The bill passed by a other legislation that only would harm for· wheat, feed grains, and cotton. Farm vote of 293 yeas to 94 nays. it. I have fought for reform of the estate Bureau strongly supported a yea (Y) vote. (14) Federal land use.-A vote on a rule tax law. In its present form it has result­ The proposed amendment was rejected by a which in effect was a vote in support of, or ed in hardships for many farm families. I vote of 220 nays to 186 yeas. in opposition to, federal land use planning. also have pushed a successful amendment (6) Banning food stamps to strikers-An Farm Bureau supported a nay (N) vote be­ amendment by Representative Wllliam L. cause of its opposition to the federal control to remove criminal penalties from the Dickinson (R., Ala.) to the farm program bill features of the blll (H.R. 10294). The vote agricultural census. Unfortunately, the to ban food stamps for strikers. Farm Bureau o! 211 nays to 204 yeas killed the rule and Senate has not yet acted on this bill. supported a yea (Y) vote as "workers on in effect kllled the land use planning bill. These are only two of many activities. strike should be ineligible to receive food ( 15) Banning food stamps to strikers.­ The American Fann Bureau Federa­ stamps in order to avoid placing the govern­ An amendment by Representative William tion is our country's largest organization ment on one side of a labor dispute."The L. Dickinson (R., Ala.) to the Agriculture amendment passed by a vote of 213 yeas to appropriations bill (H.R. 15472) to deny food of farmers. Unlike so many organizations, stamp eligibility to striking workers. Farm it is really grass roots oriented. Most or­ 203 nays. (7) Target price concept--Fa.rm program Bureau supported a yea (Y) vote in favor of ganizations like unions or activist con­ blll (H.R. 8860) providing a new target price the amendment to avoid placing the govern­ sumer groups become what the leaders and compensatory payment concept, thus ment on one side of a labor dispute. The want them to become rather than the substituting political pricing for market amendment failed by a vote of 169 nays to rank and file. A good example is that prices. Farm Bureau supported a nay (N) 147 yeas. most rank and file union members are vote. The bill passed by a vote of 226 yeas to On only one vote did I disagree with against busing and against gun control 182 nays. (8) Fa.rm program: final vote-Final vote the Fann Bureau and that was on the but the leadership speaks out 1n favor Trade Refonn Act. In my opinion this of both. Local councils really have an on a four-year government farm program blll (S. 1888) following Senate passage of a bill contained some weak provisions and input of policy and national leaders of conference report on House-Senate versions. it did not adequately protect American the Fann Bureau reflect that common The blll provided for the new target prlce­ interests including those of the farmer. sense, conservative thinking. In its most compensa.tory payment concept; no mention Too often the American farmer does recent analysis of votes 1n Congress, was made of banning food stamps to striking not get the credit that is his due for being Fann Bureau listed 15 of the most cru­ workers. Farm Bureau supported a nay (N) responsible for the most productive cial issues. I am pleased, Mr. Speaker, vote and sought a temporary extension of agricultural system in the world. that again, as in the past, I find myself the Agricultural Act of 1970 with modifica­ in virtually total agreement with Fann tions. The bill passed by a vote of 252 yeas to Bureau, 14 of 15 on this latest rating. 151 nays. (9) Expanded export controls-A bill (H.R. The analysis of the 15 votes follows: 8547) to increase the President's authority JAMES M. MCSWEENEY ANALYSIS OF 15 VOTES to control exports of materials and agricul­ (1) REAP-The Bill (H.R. 2107) required tural commodities. Farm Bureau supported a the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a. nay (N) as its passage would likely result in HON. JOSEPH D. EARLY rural environmental assistance program "a loss of some hard-won markets due to OF MASSACHUSETTS (REAP), including the spending of all funds shattered faith" on the part o! foreign buyers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES appropriated in fiscal 1973. Fa.rm Bureau in the dependabillty of the U.S. as a source of supported a nay (N) vote because the legis­ farm commodities, and would discourage Thursday, September 16, 1976 lation failed to offer any opportunity for U.S. farmers from increasing production. The "timely and necessary" constructive review Mr. EARLY. Mr. Speaker, James bill passed by a vote of 220 yeas to 133 nays. "Mac" Mcsweeney was born in Killarney, and revision of the REAP program; it also (10) Overriding minimum wage veto-By a expressed concern over the "far-reaching vote of 259 yeas to 164 nays-23 short of the County Kerry, Ireland in 1898. He moved fiscal implications, including the forced two-thirds majority required-the House to Worcester, Mass.-via Halifax, Nova spending aspect." The bill passed by a vote of sustained the President's veto of the bill Scotia, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 251 yeas to 142 nays. (H.R. 7935) raising the minimum wage from and Montreal-in 1924. Since that (2) Overriding rural-sewer-water veto-By $1.60 to $2.20 an hour by steps and extend­ year there is not a handball player in a vote of 225 yeas to 189 nays---51 short of ing minimum wage coverage to additional Worcester who does not know his name, the two-thirds majority required-the House workers. Farm Bureau supported a nay (N) sustained the President's veto of a bill (H.R. and few who have not learned everything vote as "the net effect of expanded overtime they know about the game from Mac. 3298) to mandate spending of $120 million coverage and higher minimum wages would of the $150 million appropriated by Congress be detrimental rather than helpful to the You can find him today-as you would for rural water and waste disposal grants in economy and to those intended to be have found him in 1924-at the Green 1973, and to spend $300 m11lion for the pro­ benefited." Hill Park courts in Worcester. gram over the next three yea.rs. Fa.rm Bureau ( 11) Trade reform-A tmcle reform bill On Sunday, September 12, the hand­ supported a nay (N) vote not to override the veto in the interest of "achieving price (H.R. 10710) providing the President with ball courts at Green Hill were renamed level stab111ty through control of infiation additional authority to enter into effective the James M. Mcsweeney Handball without a federal tax increase. trade negotiations. Farm Bureau supported a Courts. It is a well-deserved tribute to (3) Minimum wage: Erlenborn substi­ yea. (Y) vote as "American agriculture has an Mac Mcsweeney and it is truly an honor tute-A motion by Representative John important stake in a high level o! mutually for me to include in the RECORD, at this Erlenborn (R., Ill.) to substitute a bill to advantageous world trade." The b111 passed by a vote of 272 yeas to 140 nays. time, the colorful biography of James M. stretch out the proposed increase in the Mcsweeney written with love by his close minimum wage, retain all existing exemptions (12) CPA substitute.-An amendment of­ from overtime, eliminate new coverage of fered by Representative Clarence J. Brown friend JOHN DuRKIN. To JoHN's remarks government workers and household domes­ (R., Ohio) in the nature of a substitute b111 I want to add my personal thanks to Mac tics, and set reduced minimums for teen­ providing for a consumer protection agency for his energy, his enthusiasm and his agers. Farm Bureau supported a yea (Y) with limited authority. Farm Bureau urged devotion to Worcester, and to it.s young vote in favor of the Erlenborn substitute. a yea. (Y) vote as it opposed the establish­ ment of any consumer agency or council people, and to the game of handball. It was rejected by a vote of 218 yeas to 199 The biography follows: nays. having other than advisory powers . The (4) Minimum wage: final vote-The bill amendment !ailed by a vote of 223 nays to MAC (H.R. 7935) provided a sharp boost in the 176 yeas. Everyone calls him Mac and he still hi ts minimum wage rates and expansion in mini­ (13 ) Consumer Protection Agency.-A bill that little black ball hard and low into mum wage coverage. Farm Bureau supported (H.R. 13163) providing for creation of a the corner of the court a.t Green Hill Park. a nay (N) as the proposed changes "would "super agency" with power to intervene in He ca.n't bend as low, or run as swiftly as he exert upward pressures on costs and prices, actions and proceedings, formal and in­ used to, but it's little wonder when you con­ increase unemployment of those least skilled, formal, of virtually all other government sider that the kids he competes with today and adversely affect our position in world agencies on behalf of "consumers." Fa.rm are the grandsons of those he played and beat commerce, international trade, and balance Bureau supported a nay (N) vote as creation back in 1924. That's when he came to Wor- September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31149 cester. Oh, but then he was as swift as the "died" and Mac came south to Callfornia. He IMPROVING OUR RAIL SERVICES deer, and had the eye of an eagle, and there said you couldn't even buy a job there so were few to match him at his beloved game­ Mac, with whatever few dollars he had, left Handball. and headed back to Worcester in 1932 when Born in the town of Killarney in County things would get brighter. Roosevelt got HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM Kerry, Ireland before the turn of the cen­ elected that year, and things began to look OF NEW YORK tury he worked as a young lad on the farms up. He had jobs delivering coal, working in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of his native county, and adjoining counties meathouses, and eventually back into the of Ford and Limerick. His widespread knowl­ consolidated railway which eventually be­ Thursday, September 16, 1976 edge of the countryside was a great asset to came the Worcester Bus Company and from Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, as one the insurgent army when the troubles came, which he retired. and the LR.A. were in combat with the who has long supported upgrading of rail After his many wanderings, he did eventu­ services to the southern -Lier of New York Forces of the Brown, and trying to establish a ally settle down and married a Donahue girl free state after 700 yea.rs of servitude. from his native County Kerry and has one State, I read with great interest the lead Though not a. member of the I.R.A., he did daughter, Virginia. He bought himself a article in Monday's Wall Street Journal sterling work carrying dispatches through house at 15 Forbes Street where even 1f the entitled "ConRail Hope to Post Profit the enemy lines. Due to his remarkable re­ car doesn't start he can stlll walk to his be­ May Be Derailed by Local-Service Pleas." semblance to Tim O'Leary, an LR.A. leader loved handball court. He speaks of the big The Journal piece properly notes the who was featured in the movie "Ryan's one 30 feet high and 60 feet long which was concern of many Members who represent Daughter" he was picked up ma.ny times, blown down in the hurricane of 1938. This drllled and interrogated, but managed to New York, Connecticut, and other re­ was replaced by the wooden double court gions which have suffered the inattention come through unscratched. which lasted tm 1965 and was not replaced When the truce was signed in 1921, he tm 1968 during which time he visited Ma­ of ConRail officials. The southern tier turned down the offer of Civic Guard as the loneys field many a time and oft. I asked him of New York State is one of these regions; Irish Police are called under the new free why did they build the new one so short and we have endured cutbacks of rail freight state Government because his loyalty was so low, and he said "Maybe they knew I was services while ConRail pursues profits with the Republican side, and he like them getting old and couldn't hit the ball so far elsewhere. These rail services are vital to wanted a. full and complete Ireland of 32 anymore." But the real reason was "They the transportation·needs of the southern counties free from the center to the sea. He didn't know any different. I told them what New York State region, genera).J.y, and often speaks of the dark days of the Civil the specifications should be. I could tell them War, when brother fought brother, and the "Specs" of every outdoor court in New New York City's harbor, speci:fica).J.y. father fought son, and when I ask him why England, but do you think they'd listen?­ There is a pressing need for ConRail to did that happen he said simply "There were No, they went to Mac Ben's and got a book, maintain, if not improve their services those who were satisfied with partial free­ and they ignored the old man. I did feel to this region, lest the area suffer still dom, and there were the others of us who bitter about that, but at la.st they did build more economic hardship. If ConRail fails were not". one that the vandals couldn't destroy". They to address these needs, it can only fall In the summer of 1923 Mac and a friend steal and smash the benches, but Mac gets went to a football game in Dublin where to New York State officials and the U.S. concrete blocks and old planks and improves Congress to step in once again and they met a. man looking for help to herd the benches. He picks up the beer cans and sheep in Canada, so very shortly thereafter the Utter, and watches the youngsters play, remedy the weaknesses in the rail sys­ he found himself on a boat bound for Ha.U­ and coaches and guides quite a few. He can tems which link the eastern seaboard. fax, Nova. Scotia. and after docking, he was quickly spot the ones with potential, and I commend the thoughtful Wall Street on a train bound for Calgary, Alberta, which the others that don't have it, and he is a Journal piece to colleagues' attention: he reached after a stopover for a short while father to them all. CONRAIL HOPE TO POST PaoFrr MA y BE in the wheatfields of Manitoba.. To the youngsters Mac must seem as age­ DERAILED BY LOCAL-SERVICE PLEAS Living out on the prairie with 2 dogs and less as the old man of the mountain. They 28,000 sheep for company was not Mac's idea (By Harry B. Anderson) think of him and handball with the same PHILADELPHIA.-When Congress created of life for a young man, so pretty soon he breath. He drives his daughter to work in wa.s bound for Montreal, and one day shortly Consolidated Rail Corp. to take over and re­ the morning, and on his way back stops to juvenate the Northeast rail system, it had before Ohristmas of 1923 he and his com­ pick up the litter of the night before, and panion crossed into the U.S.A. at the Derby visions of a privately run, money-making tidy up the place, and I'm sure some of the concern. Line, and walked through the snow for seven kids must think he actually lives there or 1s hours. He boarded a train at Orleans, Ver­ ConRa.11 was to become a "financially self­ assigned the duty of ta.king care of the place. sustaining ... for-profit corporation," the mont for Boston. On the advice of a man To those of us who know him better he's they met on their trip they paid a couple of lawmakers said, and not a government agen­ been a wonderful neighbor all through the cy, despite its $2.1 blllion of federal funding. dollars extra for a sleeping berth and were years. When your car breaks down or you not disturbed by the immigration officials need a ride to the auto body shop or the But less than six months after ConRa.11 be­ who come aboard all the southbound trains registry, it's always Mac and you don't call gan operating, its plans for financial inde­ to fiush out the lllegal immigrants, and so his house--no you head for the handball pendence are colliding with politicians' Mac duly arrived in Boston, and a little later court and you always find him and he's al­ quite-different priorities. These Congressmen at Salem Square in Worcester where he lived ways available. Maybe he is ageless and will and state officials, troubled by some of Con­ and worked tlll 1929 mostly for the con­ be there forever, but some of us won't and Rail's early decisions, now believe that Con­ solidated railway which began to lay off the before we get any older we would like to Rail intends to pursue profits at the ex­ help as the banks began to fall and the stock dedicate the Green H111 Handball Court to pense of rail freight service in their regions. market came tumbling down. him, to be known henceforth as the "Jim So they are pressing ConRall-dropping Before he left Worcester again, he helped Macsweeney Handball Court". It is indeed a hints about congressional hearings and new to lay the 16 inch steel main on South small tribute to a man who has played all state regulations, for example-to make the Qu1ns1gamond Avenue in Worcester and also the outdoor courts of New England and upper railroad think less about money and more the length of May street for the Worcester New York State in the various tournaments, about local service. Gas Light Company. Then the digging was and has held in his time the singles cham­ Connecticut officials want ConRail to done all by hand. When Mac left Worcester pionship of "L Street" in south Boston which spend M; least $6.9 m1111on to repair a he was one of the few Irishmen to own a ca.r, might be considered equivalent to the World burned-out bridge at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to which he drove to Chicago, south to Indiana, Series in baseball, or the Stanley Cup in restore an important rail link to their st ate. through Kentucky, into Missouri to Kansas hockey, or the Golden Gloves of the boxing New York State officials, convinced ConRail to try for a job in the wheatfields. One farmer world-God Bless You Mac. is slighting a line in southern New York, are told him even if he fed himself, he couldn't We would like to have every kid you ever pressing the railroad to sell it, perhaps even pay him 2 dollars a day, so Mac drove through coached and every player you ever played to to the state itself. Pennsylvania officials want Nebraska into the Dakotas, but no work. He sign this, but that wouldn't be possible. Some extra rail service that they believe would had an address somewhere in the region are gone on the long journey and those that spur industrial growth in sparsely developed north of Bismark, North Dakota, of a rela­ are not are scattered over the face of the areas. Officials in Massachusetts, Maryland tive who had a farm, but when he got to earth, but I'm sure when their thoughts and Delaware are applying similar pressures. Bismark he had lost the address so he headed drift back to home and Greenhill Park, they west through Montana into Idaho, and on to think of the tall skinny guy who could hit KEY TO THE FUTURE? another address which he did have in Oregon equally well with right or left hand, and Although some of this pressure seems to where he did find a job to tide him over for whom they all tried to emulate. To be re­ involve mere pork-barrel disputes, the is­ a while. membered in the minds of so many with sues may hold a key to ConRa.il's future. Considering the roads and ava.llabiU.ty of pride, fondness and respect is indeed the How such issues are resolved, ConRail watch­ gas stations and many other hazards, it was greatest tribute. How many men have a ers say, will help determine whether t he new a. remarkable journey and eventually the car thousand or more sons. railroad operates essentially as a regulated 31150 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 utility or as the hard-nosed, privately man­ ern New York state, which fs served by the The dispute involves a bridge spannlng aged corporation it wants to be. old Erie Lackawanna llne that the Chessie the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, which ''If the dam is broken,'' warns a Washing­ would have acquired under the original plan. used to be a. major gateway for the old New ton lobbyist for a competing railroad, "Con­ This line, one of three primary ea.st-west Haven Railroad. In 1969, the New Haven was Rail Will become fully politicized and give ConRall routes, complements one that runs merged into the newly created Penn Central up all hope of profit." through northern New York and another Railroad, and the Pennsy, to cut costs, be­ U.S. Transportation Secretary William T. that goes through southern Pennsylvania. gan routing tra.tnc away from the bridge. Coleman agrees that local pressures "obvi­ But the southern New York line ls in rela­ On May 8, 1974, the bridge was badly dam­ ously pose a threat" to ConRail's financial tively bad repair, contains several steep aged by fire, and service over it was ended outlook. He notes that federal transportation grades and hlsrtorically has carried less traf­ altogether. Because nearly all traffic to and planners expect the railroad to operate at a fic than the other two routes. from Connecticut now ls routed through loss untll 1979, but thereafter he declares, As a result, New York officials allege, Con­ Springfield, Mass., Connecticut shippers are "the publlc shouldn't have to subsidize Rall ls trying to downgrade service on the vexed by delays of a day or more. freight movements that aren't profitable." southern New York route to enhance Its own Penn Central ignored pleas of Connecticut But some local pollt1c1ans d1sagree. "We financial outlook. They contend, for instance, officials to repair the bridge. However, the care :fla.r less about (ConRall's) profitabllity that ConRall had deferred rehab111tatlon state believed It would have to wait only than service," says Peter Metz, Massachu­ along the route. They also cite ConRail's un­ untll the government's rail plan took effect. setts' assistant transportation secretary in successful attempt to get permission from Connecticut expected the bridge would be Massachusetts. He says the state never be­ the Interstate Commerce Commission to drop repaired and once again become an impor­ lieved ConRail bad much cha.nee of ma.k­ the route's piggyback service-the transport­ tant rail link to New England, this time ing money anyway. ing of truck trallers on rail flatcars. through connections with the Chessie Sys­ BATTLE JUST BEGUN ConRa.il's Mr. Jordan denies any plans to tem. Thus far, ConRail hasn't buckled noticea­ de-emphasize the southern New York line. But the Chessle plan fell through, of bly under the pressure, perhaps partly be­ He says ConRail sought to abandon the course, and ConRall now says it doesn't want cause the protesters are just beginning to piggyback service because it's "totally un­ to foot the estimated $6.9 million repair blll unite for a concentrated attack on its poli­ profitable." Otherwise, ConRall ls offering for the bridge. It cites a. federal study show­ cies. Edward G. Jordan, ConRall's cha.1r­ "equal or improved local service" to com­ ing that restoration of bridge traffic could man, says he llkes to think ''we're smart munities previously served by the Erie, he complicate its route structure 11.nd damage enough and sensitive enough" to derail any asserts. Its overall finances by forcing it to spend unreasonable demands. Nevertheless, the WATCHDOG COMMITTEES additional money, beyond the repair cost, protests seem to be picking up steam, and Even so, New York officials aren't taking for capital Improvements to the route. Not surprisingly, Connecticut officials are Mr. Jordan was adamant when he testlfled any chances. They have established watch­ in June before a House wbcomm1ttee on dog commlttees--made up of labor officials bitter. State transportation commissioner transportation: and shippers, among others-to keep tabs on James Shugrue charges that ConRa.il "is be­ "I want to emphasize my concern," he the quality of service. If these groups don't ing run by the same Penn Central people told the lawmakers, "that ConRall not be like what they find, says an otncia.l of the who turned Connecticut Into a. few branch forced to make decisions against the busi­ state transportation department's railroad lines." ness interest of the corporation because of bureau, ConRa.11 may face some bothersome OTHER THREATS concerted polltical action." state regulatory actions--suspenslons of pro­ To soften ConRall's opposition, Mr. Shu­ To understand why some pollticlans a.re posed intrastate rate boosts, for example, grue ls urging his New England counter­ angry, consider what Congress had origi­ and increased opposition to any schedule parts to band together on the issue. And In nally envisioned In Its Northeast rail reor­ changes it proposes. Washington, Connecticut's congressional ganization plan. That plan called for two The dispute ls generating pressure at the delegation ls threatening other reprisals, big, solvent railroads, the Chessle System federal level, too. Just recently, several New such as stepped-up opposition to any sup­ and the Southern Railway, to acquire large York Congressmen proposed legislation that plemental federal appropriations ConRall chunks of trackage In Con.Ra.ll's service would require ConRall to keep intact for one may request. St111 further, Connecticut Rep. area and provide competition to the govern­ year the southern New York line and all other Toby Moffett, a Democrat, ls seeking congres­ ment-sponsored line. lines originally intended for other railroads. sional hearings aimed at determining The Chessie would have gained access to This would give New York and similarly whether ConRaU ls providing adequate rail New York City and southern New England affected states time to find a buyer that then services, says Deborah Gottheil, a legislative via the old Erle Lackawanna main llne run­ could compete With ConRall. As a last resort, assistant. ning along the New York-Pennsylvania bor­ a state itself could acquire a line. Such a move is backed by New York Re­ der. The Southern would have gained access The proposed legislation has received sup­ publican Rep. Hamilton Fish, whose home to potentially lucrative chemical tram.c in port from some other states. Delaware is a district includes Poughkeepsie. The hearings northern Dela.ware by extending its system strong backer, mainly because it still wants would help in "keeping the heat" on Con­ north over the Delmarva Peninsula, com­ the rail service across the Delmarva Peninsula Rail, he says. Arthur Shenefelt, transporta­ prising Dela.ware and parts of Maryland and that Southern Railway would have provided tion adviser to Pennsylvania. Gov. Milton J. Virglnla.. under the original reorganization plan. And Sha.pp, a long-time ConRall foe, adds that UNSOUGHT MONOPOLY New York Commissioner Schuler testified ConRall officials "would get tired of going that all 16 states served by ConRall had to hearings." Mr. Shenefelt has been press­ Burt la.st Feb. 12, the Chessie and South­ "formally endorsed" the measure. Mr. ing for beefed-up rail services in a Uttle­ ern, unable to reach satisfactory labor Schuler also says he has received a positive developed B.>rea of northea.stel'n Pennsylvania agreements, pulled out of the plan. ConRall response to a. New York proposal that the 16 that he believes 1s ripe for lndustlra.l expan­ was forced to acquire nearly all of six bank­ states seek representation on ConRa.il's board. sion. rupt ra.llroa.ds, and therefore practically a For its pa.rt, ConRail seems to recognize monopoly in the mid-Atlantic and southern TEMPORARY VICTORY For the time being, ConRall seems to have political realities. It believes its best defense New England states. As a. result, routes th&t ls to cooperate with politicians whenever would have been vita.I to the Chessle or the beaten back the proposed legislation. The blll ls bottled up in a. subcommittee headed possible. ConRail's Mr. Sweeney says some Southern because they provide access to the actions, such as the legislation now hung up Northeast aren't so important to ConRall, by Rep. Fred Rooney, a Pennsylvania Demo­ crat and ardent ConRall supporter who at­ in Rep. Rooney's subcommittee, "have to be which has the choice of several routes in the resisted." But on issues like the Poughkeep­ region. Thus local officials believe that Con­ tributes the dispute to election-year politics. But New York officials say the battle won't sie bridge, "By God, everybody's right," he Rall wm downgrade service on lines origi­ adds. And what ConRail must do ls to dem­ nally earmarked for competitors, and that lo­ end there. "I don't intend to sit idly by and see my onstrate that its "rightness serves the most cal rail service may suffer. people,'' he says. "This will mean a la.ck of competitive region suffer economically,'' declared Demo­ equality for many of the region's businesses," cratic Rep. Stanley Lundine, who represents Raymond T. Schuler, New York state com­ a district in the southwestern part of the missioner of transportation, says. "It will state. Mr. Lundine acknowledges that Con­ inhibit plant expansion and the a.blllty to Rall's Mr. Jordan "has a responsiblllty to ST. JOSEPH CHURCH, KAMALO, attract new businesses, and could ultimately operate a railroad which is at least self­ MOLOKAI, HAWAII cost jobs and tax revenues." sufficient. But he also has a public responsl­ ConRall's Mr. Jordan acknowledges local­ bllity, and dammit, I intend to see he dis­ charges his responsibillty, at least Within my service problems, but Insists the railroad will district." HON. PATSY T. MINK be "responsive" as long a.s Its fina.ncla.l per­ OF HAWAII formance isn't threatened. He adds that he Meanwhile ConRall is fighting still another never wanted a monopoly in the flrsrt place. political battle, one that John L. Sweeney, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "The politlca.l turmoil in which we find our­ ConRall's vice president for governmental Thursday, September 16, 1976 selves today fs in It.sell suftlclent reason for affairs, calls a "classic" conflict between the not advocating" one, he declares. legitimate concerns of state officials and Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, the St. Much of the turmoll swirls around south- those of the new railroad. Joseph Church in Kamala, Molokai, September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31151

Hawaii, will be celebrating their centen­ GREAT GREAT RAFT RACE Engineers, and the Tulsa County Com­ nial anniversary on September 26, 1976. Tulsa's Great Raft Race No. 4 couldn't mission. The lOOth anniversary of any institu­ have been better unless there had been free Over 200 individuals, in connection tion is, indeed, an auspicious occasion, watermelon. It was a great day for all the with the following organizations, coop­ providing oppQrtunity for recall of its :float-freaks, Huck Finns and sun-soakers erated in safety and security operations: who like to pretend they're cruising on the proud history and reminiscing over sig­ Mediterranean. Tulsa Chapter of the American Red nificant events of the past. The weather was beautiful, and the traf­ Cross, Tulsa Central Ambulance Co., U.S. In the case of the St. Joseph parish, it fic situation was greatly improved by shut­ Coast Guard Auxiliary, Tulsa Ham Re­ is even a more cherished day as they tle-busing. The crowds were family-type and peater Organization, Tulsa Fire Depart­ honor and memorialize the founder and friendly; the Arkansas was close at hand and ment, Tulsa Police Department, Tulsa builder of the church, the late Father provided a perfect setting for this kind of Auxiliary Police, Oklahoma Highway Damien who left a legacy of selfless fling to end the summer vacation season. Patrol, Sand Springs Police Department, service in aiding those suffering from One thing we noticed; the rafts are get­ Sand Springs Fire Department, and the ting fancier. The race is bringing out the leprosy. His long and dedicated service :floating artists and craftspeople. The race is U.S. Navy. to the people of Kalaupapa, which was developing into a kind of parade with­ I join with the many participants in established more than a century ago as permit the expression-floating :floats. this year's KRMG Great Raft Race in a treatment center, has led to proceed­ To the surprise of some, the pedestrian thanking those responsible for this out­ ings for his beatification by the Catholic bridge held about as many people as could standing event and in looking forward to Church. crowd on it. And that other scientifl.c proof continuation of this community activity. Kalaupapa, Molokai, may be known to was reestablished; Beer helps people :float my colleagues through discussion of leg­ in the sun. islation I have introduced to establish a All in all, a fine, wholesome outing-we congratulate all the sponsors and partici­ JUDGE HARRY T. ALEXANDER national historical park to preserve the pants. Let's get started, now, on those rafts area for its unique historical si.gn:fi­ for next year. RETffiING cance, mainly encompassing the efforts of Father Damien and his work there. While some of the crews were only Father Damien established and built interested in a leisurely ride down the HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY the St. Joseph Chapel shortly after ar­ river, others raced on to victory. The OF MISSOURI riving on Molokai in 1873. The church overall speed award went to the John IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Zink Co. raft, which clocked a time of w_as eventually completed in 1876, and is Thursday, September 16, 1976 one of the four that Father Damien suc­ 58 minutes, 50 seconds. Winners in the cessfully established on the island while remaining categories were as follows: Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, the distin­ serving the people of Kalaupapa. St. double hull, one or two persons, Pilot guished Judge Harry T. Alexander is re­ Joseph, although not located in the Jim Staves, time 1:23:50; double hull, tiring from judicial o:fiice. I would like settlement area, stands as a living mem­ three or four persons, Pilot Larry Friese, to share his o:fiicial media statement with ory of his divine work and his tireless time 1: 34; double hull, five or more my colleagues: efforts on the east end of Molokai, and is persons, Pilot Bruce Murray, time 1:39: MEDIA STATEMENT OF JUDGE HARRY used for services about three times a 40; single hull, one or two persons, Pilot TOUSSAINT ALEXANDER year on special designated days. Dan Creel, time 1:21:14; single hull, Upon reconsideration of my earlier posi­ The neighboring St. Sophia's Catho­ three or four persons, Pilot Bob Thorne, tion and following prolonged deliberation, I lic Church congregation will be spon­ time 1: 16:35; single hull, five or more have, on this date, advised the President of soring the day's celebration with Mr. persons, Pilot Don Jones-C-E NATCO, the United States of my retirement from time 1: 25: 44; rubber Raft, Pilot Ray judicial omce effective November 2, 1976. I Steve Petro as chairman. A Hawaiian have also, on this date, instructed the Dis­ feast called a luau will be included as English, time 1 :41 :29; kayak, Pilot Tom trict of Columbia Commission on Judicial part of the festivities following morning Sutmebeem, time 1: 40: 20, and paddle­ Disabilities and Tenure to withdraw my mass which will be conducted by Bishop wheel, Pilot Dave Henderson-TELEX. declaration of candidacy for reappointment John J. Scanlan of Honolulu, Hawaii. time 1:25:15. to the Superior Court of the District of Co­ To a large degree, the observance Trophies will be presented on Septem­ lumbia. My lovely wife and wonderful chil­ ber 16 at Woodland Hills Mall. dren concur in what is for our family a might be referred to as a "Father dimcult decision. Damien Day," dedicated to the immortal Fifteen trophies will also be presented Primarily because of financial reasons, and work of the "Holy Man of Molokai." to outstanding rafts which took part in a desire to speak out on today's issues, un­ His deeds are a part of our proud history the Great Raft Race Parade, an event restricted by the judicial robe, I have chosen and must be cherished with dignity and of September 4. Two of the more out­ not to seek reappointment for a second term reverence. It is with this in mind that standing rafts singled out by the judges on the Bench. The decision, however, is not St. Joseph celebrates its lOOth anniver­ include a styrofoam raft carved to re­ without mixed emotions. sary. semble the U.S.S. Enterprise from the The past 10 years on the Superior Court bench bave been for me a unique and fulfill­ television program Star Trek and a ing experience. My 1949 application for ad­ horse-drawn, covered wagon raft. The mission to Georgetown Law School stated THE KRMG GREAT RAFT RACE U.S.S. Enterprise raft, piloted by Lael that I hoped to effect changes in the legal Latta, won the largest number of awards, system. Of course, momentous legal prece­ HON. JAMES R. JONES and the covered wagon raft, piloted by dents most often result from appellate ac­ Ron Grecco, won the best original design tion, rather than at the trial judge level. OF OKLAHOMA prize in the Bicentennial category. But 1D. hundreds of large and small ways, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the daily operations of a trial court deter­ The success of this year's parade and mines the quality of justice administered for Thursday, September 16, 1976 race is due to the cooperation of a large the people. Mr. JONES of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, number of community organizations and I am therefore grateful to have had the for the past 4 years, residents of my dis­ individuals. As usual, the KRMG staff, opportunity to have made the following con­ trict and the surrounding area have cele­ including Executive Vice President and tributions toward improving the quality of General Manager Ron Blue, Program Di­ justice in the District of Columbia: brated Labor Day by participating in the (1) The appointment of free counsel to fun-filled KRMG Great Raft Race. rector Jerry Vaughan, News Director Ed indigents in Small Claims and Landlord and This year, 3,500 raftsmen floated down Brocksmith, and Raft Race Coordinator Tenant Branches; the Arkansas River from Sand Springs Paula Kennedy, did an outstanding job. (2) The elimination of unnecessary racial River City Park to the pedestrian bridge Other participants contributing time designations in court documents; in Tulsa, Okla., in 600 rafts of every size and energy to the events include the (3) The expungement of unjust arrest rec­ and description. The cheering crowd lin­ Service and Community Action Team, ords; (4) The curtailment of retaliatory prose­ ing the 9.3-mile course was estimated at Steve McKim of Lease-a-Plane, Erwin cutions against those who complained of po­ 150,000. Phillips of the Sand Springs Park and lice brutality; The following editorial from the Tulsa Recreation Department, the Tulsa River (5) The exoneration of numerous pollce Daily World gives a colorful description Parks Authority, the Southwest Power omcers wrongly accused of brutality; of the event: Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of (6) Insisting that all perscns appearing in 31152 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 my courtroom be treated with dignity, re­ been my guidling lights; my refuge in the Negotiations on a second strategic arms quiring that all citizens be addressed as "Mr." storm, my comfort in the hours of darkness. agreement have been stalled for 10 months and "Mrs." She and He have been the rock and the statf. because of a conflict over inclusion of a new (7) Ending the practice of police officers In looking back, I believe that what I most Soviet bomber, called Backfire by the At­ sitting in the jury box rather than with enjoyed in being a judge was the opportunity lantic all1ance, and of United States cruise other witnesses, and to help the steady flow of people who came missiles. (8) Increasing the facilities for treatment to my chambers during the pa.st 10 years Existence of the new Soviet regional mis­ of alcoholics. seeking help in their frustrations with the siles was disclosed last month in a report to I want publicly to express my affection for administration of justice. This multitude of Congress by President Ford. the many people who encouraged me. Among small victories over inequality meant the The new missile is identified by United these ~allant people, too numerous to men­ world to me. States authorities as the SS-X-20, an inter­ tion, are my wonderful wife and family who It is my intention to continue to work to­ mediate-range modification of the SS-X-16, sustained me over many years; my Chief ward the elimination of discriminatory prac­ which is classified as an intercontinental Judge, Harold H. Greene, and Chief Judge tices and effecting equal justice under law. ballistic missile. The SS-X-20 is said to em­ Gerard D. Remy, from whom I could seek I shall do so through teaching, publications, ploy the first two stages of the SS-X-16 and counsel; the courageous lawyers who volun­ is reported to be mobile. teered to represent me and my high ideals, the private practice of law, and through our the late Civll Rights Advocate Frank Reeves, political machinery, until equity and equal­ In its intermediate-range version, the new the late Honorable David G. Bress, James H. ity are indeed realities, and all people are missile is considered to have a range of less free to enjoy their God-given constitutional­ than 3,000 mlles. Cobb, Esq., and Ralph Temple, Esq., the law ized rights. firm of McDaniel, Burton, Daniels and Brady, Commenting Aug. 4 on the Ford report, Claude Roxborough, Esq., B. Franklin Kersey, President Kennedy once said, "A journey Konstantin Georgiyev wrote in Pravda., the IV, Esq., Jan Peterson, W111iam McLain a.nd of a thousand miles must begin with the first Soviet Communist Party dally, that there my friend and counsel, Benton L. Becker, step." For the pa.st ten years, in some small was no foundation for the suggestion that Esq. measure, I have ta.ken that first step. With the Soviet Union's activities in missile devel­ My sincere gratitude must, of course, be God's help, I shall continue. opment represented a change in strategic extended to Xavier University of New Orleans, arms policy. Louisiana, and Georgetown University which Mr. Ikle, in a speech in Los Angeles before prepared me for my legal career; but fore­ the Town Hall of California, declared that most for my phllosophy of life. Nothing could WHY WE MUST NOT RUSH INTO the Soviet Union's "strength in regional nu­ have been more tmportaint than the latter. SALT II clear bombers and missiles grows like a tow­ To the late President John F. Kennedy, and ering dark cloud over Europe and Asia." his brother, the late Honorable Robert F. Mr. Ikle added: Kennedy; the Honorable Herbert J. Brow­ "What ls the military mission of their new nell, the late Honorable Leo A. Rover, the HON. JACK F. KEMP medium-range ballistic misslle? Why are Honorable Oliver Gasch, the Honorable David OF NEW YORK they adding to this arsenal? What--we must A. Acheson, the Honorable Nicholas J. Kat­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ask with deep concern-is the possible polit­ zenbach, I extend my debt of gratitude for ical purpose?" their affording me the opportunity of rep­ Thursday, September 16, 1976 Mr. Ikle recalled that the Soviet Union's resenting the greatest government in the Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, Dr. Fred negotiating position in the strategic-arms world, in several Circuits, in the District of talks demanded restrictions on United States Columbia, across many cities and in Puerto Ikle, Director of the Arms Control and medium-range nuclear forces but without Rico. Disarmament Agency, has brought to agreement to comparable restrictions on the To Chief Judge David L. Bazelon, and our attention Soviet deployment of a Soviet side. Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States new ballistic nuclear missile-the mobile Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia SS-X-20 with multiple, independently Circuit, to the late Judge Alexander Holtz­ targetable warheads. Dr. Ikle called the hoff, Judge Burnita S. Matthews, and Judge Soviet expansion of the new missile as HOW AMERICA IS BECOMING A John J. Sirica, and other judges who taught "massive, unwarranted and unex­ REGULATED SOCIETY me the majesty and dignity of the courtroom, and the necessity for skilled and quality ad­ plained." vocacy, on the trial as well as the appellate Dr. Ikle points out that the possible level, I am eternally grateful. But certainly, mission by the Soviets of this new missile HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT no one did more for my legal career than the raises questions which must be carefully OF MARYLAND saintly Honorable Andrew J. Howard, who examined by the administration and by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nurtured me early as an Assistant United the Congress and publicly aired. We Thursday, September 16, 1976 States Attorney, and administered to me the must be careful that the Soviets do not Oa.th of Office on three separate occasions. use SALT negotiations to distract our Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, recently, our To the late Civil Rights President Lyndon colleague from Idaho, Mr. SYMMS, was B. Johnson, and the Honorable Ramsey attention from Soviet achievement of re­ Clark, I extend my heartfelt appreciation for gional military superiority. As Dr. Ikle featured in an article which appeared in affording me the privilege of judicial office; says, the Soviet Union's "strength in re­ Government Executive magazine. I have but first that of First Assistant United States gional nuclear bombers and missiles had the privilege to know and work with Attorney. grows like a towering dark cloud over STEVE SYMMS since 1973. Though only a My expressions of gratitude would not be Europe and Asia." second-term Member, he is already the complete without mentioning Mr. Justice ranking minority member on the Forests Douglas who not only expressed his empathy, I am inserting the New York Times Subcommittee of the House Committee but sympathized with b:iy persona.I struggles report by David Binder in the September on Agriculture. His leadership in pending in his 1973 dissent in Palmore v. United 1 issue in the RECORD at this time: States. His understanding wlll forever be ap­ legislation, the Forest Management Act (From the New York Times, Sept. 1, 1976] United States Congress be, and Total assets------33,730 hereby is, ID.eID.oria11zed to take affirmative foreign meats would not be allowed to action and pass House Resolution No. 12365, LIABILITXES dominate the American market and the McDonald School Bill . .House ID.ortgage ------­ 7,400 threaten their livelihood. We should live That copies of this resolution be distrib• Dei:nand note ------­ 3,750 up to that promise and expedite passage uted. to the Oklahoma Congressional Delega· Mlscellaneous personal bills------1,850 of this noncontroversial bill. With the tion. court's blocking the administration's ef­ Total Uabllities ------13, ooo forts to help the American cattlemen, Estinlated net worth______20, 730 relief can only come through speedy con­ RELOCATION OF MILITARY BASES My joint tax statement for 1975 is sideration and passage of this emergency summarized below: measure. I urge the Ways and Means HON: CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR. G-ross incoID.e ------$25,968 Committee to give this bill priority con­ OF MARYLAND Less: business expenses______1, 033 sideration and bring the bill to the House IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Adjusted gross incoID.e------24,935 floor under suspension of the rules in Deductions (interest, local truces ~ime to allow the other body to also give Friday, September 17, 1976 and contributions) ------3, 489 Federal incoID.e tax______4, 154 its approval before adjournment. Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. President, the new N.Y. State income taX------1, 220 section 612 to the military construction authorization bill, provides a way for the I have always believed that public of­ Congress to exercise appropriate over­ ficials should be open to absolute scrutiny OKLAHOMA SENATE ENDORSES sight of major changes in the size or lo­ and I hope that this financial disclosure McDONALD SCHOOL BILL cations of military installations. With will contribute to that objective. this amendment, a proper constitutional b.alance will be struck between congres­ HON. LARRY McDONALD s10nal oversight of major base realine­ FOREIGN MEAT IMPORTS 01' GEORGIA GLU'ITING MARKET ments the prerogative of the Chief Ex­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ecutive to make such moves. HON. JOHNY. McCOLLISTER Friday, September 17, 1976 Further, this amendment can provide Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the a way in which local communities to OF NEBRASKA be affected by military moves will be in­ Oklahoma Senate has passed a resolu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES formed early of the actions that are tion endorsing H.R. 12365, my bill to planned through their Senators and Friday, September 17, 1976 restrict the jurisdiction of the Federal Congressmen who serve on the Armed Mr. MCCOLLISTER. Mr. Speaker, to­ courts with respect to forced school Services Committees. It is the local com­ day, I am introducing legislation to put a attendance. This is just one more exam­ munity, after all, which is most directly halt to the flow of millions of pounds of ple of the overwhelming opposition to affected by such changes and which beef entering this country through the forced busing in our public schools that needs adequate advance warning to pre­ free trade zone of Mayaquez, Puerto Rico. exists at the State and local level. pare for a readjustment. Right now, frozen beef and veal from It is an interesting coincidence that My own State provides examples of Australia and New Zealand are being this resolution was passed on May 10, the need for this amendment. The Naval shipped at an alarming rate into the 1976, the same day I filed a discharge

TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY it wants to hear, but saying plainly and government a capable servant and not a med­ simply what you mean and meaning what dling master. you say. Let's get down to cases. HON. CHARLES E. WIGGINS Let's talk about jobs. OF CALIFORNIA President Ford has earned that trust Today 88 million Americans are gainfully by his actions not only in the last 2 years, IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES employed-more than ever before in our his­ but during his entire public career. Mr. tory. But that's not good enough. Friday, September 17, 1976 Speaker, I insert the text of the Presi­ My immediate goal 1s two and a half mil­ Mr. WIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, 200 years dent's speech at this point in the RECORD: lion new jobs every year with emphasis on TEXT OF REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT DE­ our youth, especially the minorities. Not de­ ago today, on September 17, 1976, the meaning, dead-end jobs paid for out of the Continental Congress approved a plan of LIVERED AT CRISLER ARENA, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MICH., SEPTEMBER Federal Treasury, but permanent jobs with a treaties outlining American foreign com­ 15, 1976 future generated by the demands of a healthy mercial interests. John Adams, in his economy. I have come home to Michigan to share Can we do it? We have done it. autobiography, considered the document with you my views of America in 1976 and my "one of the most important transac­ We proved once and for all that you can hopes for America in the next four years and cut inflation in half and add four million tions that ever came before Congress." beyond. new jobs in just 17 months. We did it with A student of the American Revolution During the last two years, in the aftermath tax cuts that allowed Americans to spend has recently suggested that Congress, of a difficult war and a painful ordeal of eco­ more of their own money. We did it with tax fully aware of the balance of power con­ nomic adversity and political crisis, we incentives that encouraged job production. cept, conceived the treaty "as an instru­ reached a critical turning point in America's We did it by letting our free economic sys­ history. tem do what it does better than any other ment to play the European balance of Throughout most of your 1ives, America has power for their own advantage." system in the world-produce! faced turmoil. Some of our most beloved But I won't be satisfied until every Ameri­ The plan of treaties served, with a few leaders have been assassinated. There was can who wants a job can find a job. modifications, as the model for the treaty a war we could not either win or end. There I am particularly concerned that there are of amity and commerce signed with were destructive riots on our streets and campuses. We suffered runaway inflation and too many young Americans who cannot find France in 1778, and for nearly all the the worst recession in 40 years. We were be­ a good job, or get the training and experience other treaties of the United States prior trayed by corruption at the highest levels of they need to find a good job. to 1800. government. Americans have long since recognized the Through all of this, we found in ourselves importance of assuring that every high school a basic strength which has proven mightier graduate who ls willing, able and qualified than all our armaments, more precious than be able to go to college. We have done so PRESIDENT FORD'S REMARKS AT through grants, loans and scholarships. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICillGAN our great store of national wealth, and as enduring as our Constitution. I believe we can apply this same principle As I said on taking the oath of office as to a program for young people who choose President two years ago, "our long national not to go to col1ege, but want a job at which HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL they can learn a trade, a craft or practical OF ILLINOIS nightmare is over." In the last two years, the United States of America has made an in­ business skills. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES creadible comeback-and we're not through Let's put America.-all of America-to work! Friday, September 17, 1976 yet. In 200 years as a free people, much has Once a good job is secured, it's an Ameri­ Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, "The changed in our Nation but America's basic can tradition to put some of those earnings American people are ready for the simple goals remain the same: toward a family home. But nowadays, with truth, simply spoken, about what the Americans want a job with a good future. interest rates too high, down-payments too Americans want homes in decent neigh­ high, and even monthly payments often too Government can do for them and what it high-home-ownership is not within the cannot and should not do." These are borhoods-and schools where our children can get a quality education. reach of many Americans, particularly young President Ford's words at the kickoff of Americans want physical security-safety Americans beginning a career or· marriage. his campaign' on Wednesday in Ann against war and against crime, safety against My goal is home-ownership for every Amer­ Arbor, Mich. I believe these words form pollution in the water we drink and the a.tr ican family that wants to own a home and the crux of this year's Presidential and that we breathe. is wil11ng to work and save for it. congressional elections. We want medical and hospital care when Here ls how I will meet that goal: First--! For too long the people have been told we are sick, at costs that will not wipe out will continue to pursue economic policies, "trust me." Jimmy Carter smiles and our savings. including tight control of unnecessary Fed­ We want the time and opportunity to en­ eral spending, which wm hold infiation says "trust me." When this Congress ap­ large our experience through recreation and down, reduce interest rates, cut your taxes, proved President Ford to assume the travel. increasing your purchasing power and mak­ Vice-Presidency, Jerry Ford did not say We Americans are a proud people. We cher­ ing more funds available for home mortgages. "trust me." Both the House and the Sen­ ish our inalienable rights: the right to speak Second-It's time we did something more ate, Democrats and Republicans alike, our minds-the right to choose the men and about the down-payment requirements which demanded specifics and examined the women who enact and enforce our laws-the so many people can't afford. I wm recom­ performance of Jerry Ford's long record right to stand equal before the law, regard­ mend changes tn the FHA law to reduce less of sex, age, race or religion-the right down-payments on lower- and middle-price of service to the American people. And as a farmer, businessman, worker and con­ houses, by up to 50 percent. after the most thorough examination of sumer to bargain freely in the economic mar­ Third-I will direct the Department of the life of any public official in our Amer­ ketplace-the right to worship as we choose. Housing and Urban Development to acceler­ ican history, Jerry Ford received your It all adds up to the "American dream". ate implementation of a new federal guar­ overwhelming approval. These are the goals which every politician anty program to lower monthly payments in Do the American people in 1976 not de­ and every citizen has for America. They are the early years of home-ownership and grad­ not some mystic vision of the future. They ually increase them as the family income serve more than smiles and promises? goes up. Do they not deserve decisive and proven are the continuing agenda for action today. And so, the question in tills campaign of A good job. A good home. Now let's talk leadership? 1976 ls not "who has the better vision of about the good health we must have to ap­ In closing his spech at the University America." The question is "who will act to preciate both. My goal is an America where of Michigan, President Ford defined the make that vision a reality." health care is not only the best in the trust that all Americans expect from The American people are ready for the world-but ls both accessible and afford­ their leaders: simple truth, simply spoken, about what the able. But raising Federal taxes by 70 b1llion It ls not enough for anyone to say "trust government can do for them and what it can­ dollars a year for a government-dominated me." Trust must be earned. not and should not do. They w111 demand national health insurance program ts not Trust is not having to guess what a candi­ specifics-not smlles; performance-not the way to do it. That path leads to more bu­ date means. smiles; performance-not promises. reaucracy, more fraud, more taxes and sec­ Trust is leveling with the people before the There are some in this political year who ond class medical care. election about what you're going to do after claim that more government, more spending, That's wh-at I'm against. Here's what I'm the election. more taxes and more controls on our lives for: Trust is not being all things to all people, will solve our problems. As our first priority, I have recommended but being the same thing to all people. More government 1s not the solution. Bet­ protection against the costs of a ca.ta.stroph­ Trust 1s not cleverly shading words so ter government is. ic or prolonged illness for the aged, and the that each sepa.ra.te audience can hear what It m time we thought of new ways to make disabled-insuring that never again wm they CXXII--1964--Part 24 31160 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 have to pay more than $750 for medical ca.re in building a structure for a more lasting of public servants. We should accept nothing in any year. People should not have t o go peace. less. broke just to get well. We have worked for peace with the Soviet As we enter the last seven weeks of this Next, I proposed to the Congress last Union, not only in resolving our many con­ national election, a new poll indicates that spring, a major reform in federal health pro­ flicts, but in building a world where nuclear as many as 65 million Americans will not grams. We should combine sixteen overlap­ armaments are brought under control. vote in November. ping and confused Federal heal th programs-­ We are working for peace in Europe, where Some peoople have said that they are not including the scandal-ridden Medicaid pro­ the Armies of two major coalitions confront excited about any of this years' candidates. gram-into one $10 billion program that dis­ each other. Let them be excited about America. tributes the federal funds more equitably We will continue to build our relationship Let them be excited about their own among t he states and insures that those with the People's Republic of China, which capacity to grow and change-about our who need these services get first class care. contributes importantly to peace and sta­ Nation's capacity to grow and change-and America is still awaiting action by the bility in the world. even about the evolution, with their help, of Congress on this urgently needed legislation . Now, in the face of a new challenge, we the candidate of their choice. Now let's turn to an area of special con­ are embarked on a mission for peace in In this year of 1976, I stand before you cern t o t his audience--education. southern Africa. as the last President of America's first 200 One of the most urgent problems is to This ls the first Administration in Amer­ years. But with your help, I also intend to create a climate in every classroom where ica's history to develop a comprehensive, be the first President of America's new teachers can teach and students can learn. affirmative African policy. This policy has generation of freedom. Quality education for every young Amer­ won respect and trust on that troubled con­ Working together we can build an America ican is my Administration's goal. Major re­ tinent. that does not merely celebrate history, but forms are necessary in the relationship be­ At my direction, Secretary Kissinger is writes lt--that offers limited government tween the national, state and local units of now engaged in an intensive effort to help and unlimited opportunity that concerns it­ government so that teachers can spend their all the parties--black and white-involved self with the quality of life-that proves time teaching instead of filling out Federal in the mounting Cll"isis in southern Africa, individual liberty is still the key to mutual forms. Federal aid is necessary, but Federal find a peaceful and just solution to their achievement and national progress. aggravation should stop. many and complex differences. And when the history of this era is written, Nine months ago, I proposed to the Con­ The African parties in the very grave and future generations will look back at America gress that we replace 24 paper-shuffling, edu­ complicated problems of Namibia and Rho­ in 1976 and say-yes-they were two hun­ cational bureaucracies with a single federal desia have encouraged us to help them in dred years old-but they had really only jus11 program, which would provide 3.3 billion the search for peace an~ justice. We are begun. dollars in direct aid to elementary and sec­ also backed in our efforts by our European ondary schools. Allies with traditional bonds to the Afirican They have not acted. Once again this Con­ Continent. In particular we are working in OPPOSITION TO CLEAN AIR ACT gress has shown itself to be sitting dead in close collaboration with the United King­ AMENDMENTS OF 1976 the water-addicted to the status quo. The dom which has an historical and legal re­ Amerlc<:1.n people deserve better representa­ sponsibility in Rhodesia. tion that that! They will demand it on No­ Success will depend fundamentally on the HON. JOHN Y. McCOLLISTER vember 2. cooperation of the parties directly con­ OF NEBRASKA cerned. We will not and we cannot impose We must ensure that low-income students IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES h ave access to higher education. solutions, but wm depend upon the good­ We must also find ways through the tax will and determined efforts of the African Friday, September 17, 1976 parties themselves to achieve negotiated set­ system to ease the bua.-den on famllies who Mr. McCOLLISTER. Mr. Speaker, I choose to send their children to non-public tlements. schools and to help families cope with the We seek no special advantage for ourselves am taking this opportunity to go on rec­ expenses of a college education. In my Ad­ in these negotiations. We do share with the ord in opposition to the Clean Air Act ministration the education needs of Amer­ people of Africa these fundamental objec­ Amendments of 1976 as passed by the ica's middle-income families wlll neither be tives: a peaceful outcome; a future of ma­ House. Like everyone else in this body, I forgotten nor forsaken. jority rule and minority rights; a prospect am concerned that we enact effective leg­ Education Ls the key to a better life. The of widening human dignity and economic progress; and a unified and an independent islation which protects the American prevention of crime is essential to making public from environmental hazards. The - our lives secure. Africa free from outside intervention or The Constitution demands that we ensure threat. Federal Government has a positive role domestic tranquility, and that is what I The path that leads to these goals is not to play. In achieving our national goal of called for in my cl'ime message to Congress. an easy one. The risks are great. But Amer­ clean air, however, it is essential that we Most crimes are committed by hardened ca­ ica's interests and America's moral purpose not jeopardize the attainment of other reer criminals who know no other life than summon our effort. national priorities. I believe this bill, H.R. the life of crime. The place for those people Despite the rigors of a great national elec­ tion, I have persisted in carrying out this new 10498, would, indeed, be a step forward is not on the streets, but in jail. The rights in meeting national clean air standards. of a law-abiding society, the rights of the policy toward Africa-not because it is ex­ innocent victim of crime, must be fully pro­ pedlent--because it is right. But it would also represent a giant step tected. I pledge to you that under my Administra­ backwards in our attempt to achieve And finally, we must give Americans the tion, American foreign policy will serve the other national objectives. chance to enjoy America. I have outlined interests of our country and our people­ In recent years, nearly every adult a 1.5 blllion dollar program to expand and it wm be true to our great heritage of the American has come to appreciate fully improve our national park system over the past, fulfill our purposes in the present, and the vital need of energy independence next ten years. This means more national contribute to our best vision of the future. and full economic recovery, especially in parks, more recreation areas, more wildlife It is not enough for anyone to say "trust sanctuairies, more urban parks and historic me." Trust must be earned. light of the impact on jobs. This bill does sites. Let's make this America's Bicenten­ Trust is not having to guess what a candi­ not strike an appropriate balance be­ nial birthday gift to all of our future gen­ date means. tween these concerns and the need to erations. Trust ls leveling with the people before the clean up the air. In my view, the propo­ Today America enjoys the mo.st precious election about what you're going to do after nents of the bill are engaging in "tunnel gift of all: we are at peace. No Americans the election. vision." They are not looking around a.re in combat anywhere on earth, a.nd none Trust ls not being all things to all people, themselves, not even ahead of themselves but being the same thing to all people. are being drafted-and I wlll keep it that as to what the potential consequences way. Trust is not cleverly sha.d.ing words so that We wm be as strong as we need to be to each separate audience can hear what it will be. We should not be so blind. This keep the peace, to det~ aggression, and to wants to hear, but saying plainly and simply bill will have far-reaching social, eco­ protect our national security. what you mean and meaning what you say. nomic, and energy implications beyond But if our foreign policy is to have public I am proud of the maturity of the Ameri­ the requisite standards to clean up the support, it must represent the moral values can people who demand more honesty, truth­ Nation's air. of the American people. fulness and candor of their elected repre­ The fact that the House Int erstate and What ls more moral than peace with free­ sen tatlves. Foreign Commerce Committee, on which dom and secm"ity? The American people, particularly its As the leader of the free world, America young people, cannot be expected to take I serve, spent 22 sessions alone to make has a special responsibility to explore new pride--or participate-in a system of gov­ up the bill is a good indication of the paths to peace for all mankind. It ls a re­ ernment that is defiled and dishonored­ complexity and controversy that sur­ sponsibility we have not shirked. We have in the White House or in the halls of Con­ rounds it. Without question, it is one of been a force for peace in the Middle East, gress. the most difficult and complex issues not only in promoting new agreements, but Personal integrity is not too much to ask brought before the Congress in years. In September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31161 fact, the complexity of this year's bill is not. This section will simply prevent over the period 1975 to 1980, and by $14.1 a direct refiection of our naivete in pass­ States from achieving national air stand­ billion in 1990. For the average household ing the original Clean Air Act in 1970. ards that best suits the economic, social, the costs between 1975 and 1990 will be Hopefully, the emotionalism which re­ and environmental needs of its citizens. refiected in a $457 cost increase. I do not sulted in several of the ill-conceived por­ And if States want to redesignate either think these figures represent "small" in­ tions of the act which this bill hopes to class II or III areas, certain difficult and creases as the proponents of the bill correct will have abated in the last 6 time-consuming procedures need to be would have us believe. years. By no means is this simply a vote followed. Preparation of health, environ­ Not that the bill is all bad. Some re­ for or against clean air. As responsible mental, economic, social, and energy im­ medial measures have been included. I legislators, we should not let the emo­ pact statements, public hearings and ap­ would like to compliment the Rogers sub­ tionalism of the issue obscure the need proval by State legislatures or local gov­ committee particularly for rectifying a for objective analysis. ernments are some of the burdensome gross error in the 1970 version of the act Section 108 of H.R. 10498, "significant procedures necessary before redesignat­ regarding the performance warranty. It deterioration," is perhaps the most con­ ing an area. And all of this is subject to is a tribute to the diligence of the sub­ troversial issue in the entire bill. This "review" by the EPA. As my colleague committee in examining this issue, that provision would require State imple­ from Florida says: section 209 of this bill, including the cor­ mentation plans to restrict deterioration It will become a bureaucrat's dream come rective language, was accepted unani­ of air quality in areas of the country true. mously by the full Interstate and Foreign where the air quality is already better Another section that equally disturbed Commerce Committee. than the national standard. Imple­ me was section 203 dealing with auto­ Briefiy stated, the problem is the anti­ mentation would be through the estab­ mobile emission standards. This section consumer and anticompetitive monopoly lishment of Federal zoning classifications represented another unrealistic ap­ situation which would result when one of clean air areas: Class I, in which vir­ proach. I support the Dingell-Broyhill­ of the two automotive warranties re­ tually no deterioration would be allowed, train-amendment as a necessary quired in the original act was imple­ and class III, in which additional deteri­ balance between clean air and energy mented. The House Small Business Com­ oration would be permitted. conservation and am pleased the House mittee in the 93d Congress studied this This section would have a considerable agreed to adopt this amendment by a matter thoroughly and concluded that impact in the clean air States of which 55-vote margin. This amendment con­ the length of the performance warranty my State, Nebraska, is one. The provision tains the same st.rict auto emission should be reduced while the protection apparently would guarantee air quality, standards as presently proposed in H.R. of the production warranty, requiring but at the expense of future development 10498. The difference is that the stand­ the manufacturer to produce an emis~ and growth. Even if sources of pollution ards in Dingell-Broyhill are gradually sions systems which will last for 5 years use the best available technology, indus­ phased in over an extended period of 2 or 50,000 miles, should continue· un­ trial development will be severely limited changed. This would prevent what the in many areas. For the average man, this years in order to minimize the potential adverse impact on the auto industry. committee found would be an emerging translates into fewer jobs, postponement Government-mandated monopoly for of full economic recovery and c·ontinued This amendment is critical to the mil­ lions of auto-related jobs in America. dealer's shops and a squeezing out of the reliance on expensive foreign oil due to marketplace for independent garages and restrictive controls on energy explora­ Automotive related employment ac­ counts for approximately one out of parts manufacturers. To correct this tion. every five jobs in the country. And as we problem, the bill provides a reduced term The potential adverse, indeed dis­ for the performance warranty to 18 astrous, effects on unemployment and on recently saw with the oil embargo, the health and vitality of the auto industry months or 18,000 miles, encouragement energy consumption merit serious and of a voluntary parts certification pro­ objective analysis. Before such a far plays an integral part in the health of the national economy. gram and calls for a study of the poten­ reaching proposal is implemented, we tial monopoly by the Federal Trade Com­ need to have more conclusive answers. The adverse consequences of section 203 would have been staggering. As Mr. mission. If the FTC finds no significant To date, the proponents have not been diminution of competition would result able to answer these questions ade­ DINGELL reported, Government experts in the EPA, the Federal Energy Administra­ from a 5-year warranty, that finding quately. Ther~ is no concensus as to what tion and the Department of Transporta­ would automatically trigger a return of will happen if section l

DEMANDS OF THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Another group, more militant and aggres­ MEDICAL EVALUATION OF THE SPE­ A former Secretary of Defense was quoted sive, is the "Gray Panthers." There are nu­ CIAL SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PRO­ as stating that "what is good for General merous others. GRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND Motors is good for the country." No one in According to federal figures, an estimated CHILDREN public administration is likely to make any 26 million of the 86 million who voted in 1972 were 55 and older, about 30 per cent such statement today, yet there ls full recog­ 0 nition in the United States of the impact of of the total voting population. The June­ HON. GEORGE MILLER regulatory decisions upon industry. The EIA July issue of "Modern Maturity" notes that makes its views and market forecasts known "Older citizens tend to vote in a higher per­ OF CALIFORNIA to the FCC in all matters concerning mobile centage than do the young." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Perhaps the presidential campaign man­ radio. The pending decision to expand the Friday, September 17, 1976 CB radio spectrum could have an unusually agers are too young to remember the "Town­ large and favorable impact upon the mobile send Plan" that sprang up during the De­ Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speak­ communications equipment industry in the pression years of the 1930s. A California er, I am submitting into the RECORD to­ United States and in Japan, and could more physician proposed a monthly pension of $150 for everyone over 60. Townsend clubs day a copy of recent testimony by Dr. than double the size of this market in only Joseph C. Edozien, of the Department of one or two years. To what extent should this appeared throughout the nation and be­ stimulus to the consumer electronics indus­ came an overnight sensation-and that in Public Health, University of North Caro­ try be weighed by the FCC in making this a period when the aged constituted an in­ lina-Chapel Hill-which was present­ decision, and in future decisions? . . . significant percentage of today's vast and ed to the Subcommittee on Elementary, more assertive older population, and senior Secondary, and Vocational Education. power was unheard of. That subcommittee, of which I am a I do not mean to imply that the older gen­ member, has been conducting a series of eration votes as a bloc, that there is no di­ SENIOR CITIZENS AND THEffi versity of political judgment or that all its very profitable hearings on the school GROWING POWER demands are valid and practical. But it is lunch and other feeding programs. true that, as one ages, one's interests and ac­ Dr. Edozien informed the committee tivities tend to become more narrowly fo­ of the results of a survey he conducted HON. RI CHARD L. OTTINGER cused on such basic survival needs as heatlh which was designed to evaluate the merit OF NEW YORK and security. Thus, seniors could be the larg­ of the women, infants, and children pro­ est single cohesive voting bloc. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gram, which provides nutritioliS food If an astute candidate were to find and supplements to pregnant women, lactat­ Friday, September 17, 1976 exploit a common denominator that would ing mothers, and children up to the age attract this great, growing segment of the Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, Harry voting population, imagine the effect on the of 4 years. Schwartz, a resident of my congressional outcome of the election in November. This Dr. Edozien's test group included over district, is devoting his retirement years is not meant to imply that the only or most 41,000 women and children who were to studying the problems of senior citi­ important issue is the problems of the aged; examined every 3 months during preg­ zens. He recently wrote an excellent rather, to call attention to the fact that our nancy, and periodically after delivery. He series of articles on older Americans for seniors are the largest potential voting bloc reported conclusive results that the seg­ one of our local newspapers. Among and that they are becoming increasingly ment of the population which was finan­ aware of their potential political clout. cially eligible for WIC was receiving sub­ these was an article on the growing po­ Every other major political problem fac­ litical influence of seniors as their num­ ing the nation can be argued pro and con. normal nutrition, because of inadequate bers increase and they become more and Our defense needs could be revised by chang­ income. The results of this poor diet more aware that through political action ing world conditions. The tax structure could included lower birth weights, slower in­ they can obtain much-needed relief in be modified by fluctuating economic condi­ fant growth, and higher infant mortality. the struggle to survive on limited re­ tions. Employment could be modified by fluc­ Participation in the WIC program, in sources. tuating industrial activity and planning. Dr. Edozien's opinion, produced "meas­ These and other issues are subject to differ­ urable improvements in the nutritional I insert this particular article into ences of opinion, opportunism, evasion of the RECORD, since I think it is most ap­ rhetorical obfuscation. status and health of the participants." propriate in an election year: But the astute candidate will face the He concludes that- [From the Mamaroneck (N.Y.) Daily problems of the aged forthrightly and The WIC program is one of the most im­ Times, Aug. 26, 1976] sq,uarely. He will bring to the attention of portant and successful of the food assistance POTENTIAL CLOUT AT POLLS-A GROWING the electorate the social and economic chaos programs. POWER that will develop if we fall to deal with these The WIC program is one of the out­ (By Harry Schwartz) problems. Harry Truman had the foresight and guts standing Federal programs which really With the national political conventions to grapple with such problems. In 1950, he works which perhaps makes it a unique behind us, it is time for the candidates to called a meeting of hundreds of persons from Federal program, too. It would work even develop straightforward plans to deal with all over the country to develop guidelines for better if the Federal agency with respon­ the problems of the elderly. And it is up to the next 10 years. This effort was the fore­ sibility for its development, the Depart­ the elderly, who are becoming increasingly runner of the 1965 "Older Americans Act" aware of the power they can wield at the ment of Agriculture, would encourage its and other related legislation. growth, rather than doing everything in ballot box, to make sure that the candidates I offer the following blueprint for a develop such plans and follow through on "knock-out" punch in the forthcoming cam­ the power of Secretary Butz to restrict them. paign: the program. One example of older Americans organiz­ A commitment to deal with the problems I would like to share the results of Dr. ing to achieve their purposes occurred in of the aged as top priority. Edozien's survey with my colleagues who, Port Chester earlier this summer. A small Immediat..e study and action to improve by reading his conclusions, may gather but determined group of seniors forced a the welfare of the elderly in the fields of an idea of a beneficial program which reversal of Port Chester's official decision to health, nutrition and housing. many of their constituents are not able to fl.re the popular director of the nutrition Appointment of a planning commission of program for the elderly. utilize because of the administration's highly qualified persons of unquestioned in­ opposition: "We are picketing for what we want and tegrity and investigative ability-people of will settle for nothing less," said 81-year­ the caliber of Ralph Nader, Morris Abra.ms MEDICAL EVALUATION OF THE SPECIAL SUPPLE­ MENTAL FOOD PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, IN­ old Sarah Mcintyre, the leader of the and Archibald Cox. I would also appoint group. This was Senior Power in action. some members of Congress whose records in­ FANTS, AND CHILDREN There are other instances throughout the dicate long and diligent interest in the sub­ (By Joseph C. Edozien, M.D.) country of older Americans organizing to ject. The Special Supplemental Food Program achieve their purposes. The movement is Elimination of waste and skulduggery in for Women, Infants and Children (WIC pro­ gathering momentum and emerging as an Medicare and nursing homes. gram), authorized by a September 26, 1972 effective political force. For instance, the Development of a master plan for the next amendment (Public Law 92-433 :86 Stat 724) American Association of Retired Persons, 10 or 20 years. to the child nutrition act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. headquartered in Washington, has a paid Study of the present proliferating old-age 1786), provided cash grants to state health membership of eight million and is growing programs, which have the potential to de­ departments and approved local health clin­ rapidly. It is becoming a potent factor in velop into an unresponsive, labyrinthine bu­ ics for the purpose of providing special asserting the rights of older persons. reaucracy. nutritious food supplements to low income September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31179 pregnant and lactating women, infants and ferrin (PSAT), plasma complement 3 (C3), infants and children than expected below the children up to four years of age who are nu­ plasma immunoglobulins A, G and M (IgA, tenth percentile for weight and height and tritional risks. The program is administered IgG, IgM), plasma albumin, total plasma pro­ about twice the expected percentage below by the Food and Nutrition Service of the tein, plasma cholesterol, and plasma folacin. the 10th percentile for head circumference. United States Department of Agriculture. Blood was collected by finger or heel stick 3. The reported birth weights of the en­ Under the program infants under one year from all participants and at all visits. rolled infants and children indicated that of age were allowed iron-fortified formula., The women were examined at the time of 10.5 % were of low birth weight (i.e. had iron-fortified cereal and fruit juices while enrollment and thereafter approximately birth weights less than 5.5 lbs.). one to three year old children and women every three months until the time of delivery. 4. The infant mortality rate was estimated were provided milk, eggs, iron-fortified cereal Each woman was also examined once after at 32.5 infant deaths per 1000 live births; this and fruit juices. The food packages were thus delivery usually between four and eight figure ls more than 50% above the national designed to correct known inadequacies of weeks postpartum. The indices selected for level. iron, vita.min A and vitamin C in the diets their evaluation were: 5. Anemia (i.e. blood hemoglobin con­ of low income individuals in the country. 1. Vital statistics (abortion and miscar­ centration below llg/100ml) was highly In order to fulfill the congressional man­ riage rate, st1llbirth rate, prematurity rate, prevalent. About 26% of the infants and date to assess the benefits of the WIC pro­ low birth weight rate and infant mortality) . children beyond the age of three months gram, the Department of Agriculture con­ 2. Medical complications of pregnancy were anemic. The anemia rate for ages 3-5, tracted, on November 28, 1973, with the (edema, proteinuria, hypertension, convul­ 6-11, 12-23, 24-35 and 36-47 months were University of North Carolina at Chapel Hlll sions). 31%, 31% 33%, 21% and 16% respectively. for the Department of Nutrition, School of 3. Weight gain during pregnancy (total It was higb,est among black and American Public Health to perform a detailed medical amount as well as the rate of gain). Indian children followed closely by Spanish­ evaluation of the program. The study was 4. Birth weight of the baby. American children and then white children. carried out between November 28, 1973 and 5. Dietary intakes. Dietary data were ob­ 6. The energy intakes of the pregnant/ June 1, 1976. tained from half of the participants initially lactating women were generally lower than Participating in the detailed medical eval­ and from the same participants at all follow­ suggested by the recommended dietary allow­ uation were 19 projects located in 14 states. up visits. ances, but appeared to be adequate for the The projects and states were: Alabama 6. Biochemical indices. The parameters of needs of the women. However, the diets were (Coffee County); Arizona (Cocoino County interest were: hemoglobin, hema.tocrit, mean of inadequate quality since they provided the and Pima County); Connecticut (Stamford); corpuscular hemoglobin concentration women with less protein, several minerals Indiana (Indianapolis); Minnesota (Minne­ (MCHC), total plasma iron, plasma trans­ and several vitamins than the amounts apolis and Bemidji); Mississippi (Sharkey­ ferrin, percent saturation of tra.nsferrin required for optimal pregnancy outcome. Issa.quena County) ; Missouri (Kirksville) ; (PSAT), plasma complement 3 (C3), plasma 7. Initially, 13.4%, 28.7% and 26.8% New Jersey (Newark); New York (Nena immunoglobulins A, G and M (IgA, IgG, an respectively, of women pregnant for <17 Health Council); Ohio (Cleveland and Day­ IgM) , plasma albumin, total plasma proteins, weeks, 17-28 weeks and >28 weeks and 23.3% ton); South carolina (Lancaster County); plasma cholesterol, plasma vita.min A, plasma of postpartum women were anemic, i.e., had Texas (Robestown near Corpus Christi, carotene, plasma vitamin C and plasma Cameron County, Hidalgo County); Ver­ hemoglobin concentration less than 11.0g/ folacin. Blood was collected from a.II partic­ lOOml if pregnant or <12.0g/lOOml if post­ mont (statewide) and Wisconsin (Great ipants at all visits. Lakes Intertrlba.l Council, Lac du Flambeau). partum. Well-established and standardized survey, It ls of special importance that for several Two of the projects (Kirksv1lle and Dayton) laboratory and statistical procedures were indices measured in the study, the dividing provided data only for infants under one used to collect and analyze the data. These line between "high" risk and "low" risk year of age while one other project (Be­ are presented in detail in Volume 1 of the midji) provided data. for infants and chil­ groups was not at an income poverty ratio WIC report (Medical Evaluation of the of 1.0 but at a ratio of about 1.5. The findings dren of all ages (o-48 months) but not for Special Supplemental Food Program for therefore support the contention that the women. The locations of the projects a.re Women, Infants and Children (WIC): shown in Figure 1. income levels currently used to define poverty Volume 1, Study Design, Methods and Per­ do not provide sufficient money to enable The participants lived mostly in urba~ lo­ formance Data by J. C. Edozien, B. R. Switzer cations; 91.6% were urban, 2.6% rural fa.rm families to purchase enough food for optimal and R. B. Bryan. Published July 15, 1976 and nutrition. and 6.0% rural non-farm. They came pre­ obtainable from Department of Nutrition, dominantly from very low income households The wrc program produced measurable School of Public Health, University of North improvements in the nutritional status and having an average yearly after-tax income of Carolina., Chapel Hill, N.C.) $3,757. The average household size was 4.6 health of the participants. The principal con­ In the course of the evaluation a total clusions can be summarized as follows: persons. About 66.1 % of the households fell of 41,330 infants and children were examined. below the OEO Income Poverty Guideline 1. The wrc program was associated with Eleven thousand three hundred and ninety an acceleration of growth in weight and which is widely used to classify low-income of these participants were re-examined after families for eligibillty for various welfare pro­ height. An increase in head circumference six months of receiving food supplements and occurred in infants enrolled within one grams. At least 84.2 % of the households were 6,256 after eleven months in the program. A found to be eligible for food stamps when the month of birth. return rate of 49.1 % was achieved for the 2. There was a consistent increase in the USDA "Food Stamp . . . Eligibility Require­ six-month evaluation and 43.9% for the 11- ments" were applied to them. mean blood hemoglobin concentration of month ·visit. The participants were approxi­ participants in the program and a reduction The basic operational plan was to obtain mately 21 % white, 34% black, 42% Spanish information on selected measures of the nu­ in the prevalence of anemia. The ma.in effect American and 3 % American Indian. Also in­ occurred during the first six months of tritional status of the study population, ini­ vestigated were 9,867 pregnant/lactating tially and after participation in the program participation. women, including 4,125 with completed 3. Pregnant women who participated in for a specified interval. Comparisons of the pregnancies. After the initial examination, results of measurements ta.ken before and af­ the wrc program gained more weight during the women returned for 5,417 revisits at an pregnancy than women in the initial popula­ ter program participation provided an esti­ estimated compliance rate of 40%. They were mate of the impact of the program. tion. The maximum difference of about 2 kg mostly young women with a mean age at (4 lbs., 6 oz.) occurred in women who were The infants and children were examined enrollment of 23.1 5.7 years. They were at the time of enrollment and after receiving ± pregnant for 24-31 weeks. food supplements for six and eleven months. 24.5% white, 38.6% black, 33.8% Spanish 4. The wrc program was associated with The indices selected for their assessment Americans and 2.5 % others. an increase in the mean birth weight of were: While the results did not reveal any clinical babies. The impact of the program was 1. Growth. Weight, Height and head cir­ cases of nutritional deficiencies similar to greater on black and Spanish American babies cumference were the body measurements those which are commonly seen it! developing than on white babies. taken. A weight/height (Nutritional) index countries, they provided conclusive evidence 5. There was an increase in mean hemo­ was calculated as weight in kg/height in that a substantial segment of the American globin concentration and a reduction in the anemia rate in women who were pregnant for ems 1 . 11 x 10 '· This ratio was used to monitor population represented by the recipients of weight for height changes associated with the the WIC foods were receiving less than more than 28 weeks and in postpartum program. optimal nutrition mainly because of inade­ women. 2. Dietary intakes. Dietary data were ob­ quate income. For examples: In summary, the WIC program is one of tained on 25% of the infants and children 1. The average birth weight of the infants the most important and successful of the initially, and from the same subjects at the and children was about 3,225 grams (both food asl'listance programs. It insures the size time of their 6 month and 11 month revisits. sexes) and this was a.bout 125 grams less than and health of the infants at birth as well as 3. Biochemical indices. The parameters of the average birth weight of babies of well­ their normal growth and development after interest were: hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean nourished economically privileged women. birth. corpuscular hemoglobin concentrations 2. After birth, the infants and children The eligibility criteria can be simplified (MCHC), total plasma iron, plasma trans­ continued to be slightly retarded in growth; and the certification process speeded up by ferrin, percent saturation of plasma trans- there were, for instance, about 50 % more eliminating the requirement for medical evi- 31180 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 17, 1976 dence of the need for food supplements. The on the cost and availability of consumer will be forced out of business. Moreover, en­ results of the medical evaluation indicate credit. trepreneurs attempting to establish new re­ that inadequate income is sufficient justifi­ tail firms without proven financial and serv­ cation. It should not be neces.sary to diagnose Further, questions have been raised as ice records are likely to encounter greater malnutrition first in order to justify that to how the rule will impa..!t on a new ·barriers to market entry. WIC is a medical program in the same way business' ability to get credit and to t hat it is unnecessary to wait for an epidemic what extent the rule may foreclose to The Board indicates that it also fears or to diagnose an infectious disease to prove consumers with marginal credit records, that consumers may soon be feeling the that vaccination is a legitimate medical the less expensive types of commercial adverse impact of this FTC rule. It states responsib11ity. credit, thereby forcing them to patronize that it has received reports that some The program can also be made more flex­ lenders are cutting their loan maturities ible by increasing the number of approved the more expensive finance companies. food items. There is ample evidence that Questions have also been raised as to and are even putting pressure on retail­ most of the anemia found among WIC par­ whether the Federal Trade Commission ers to shorten product or service war­ ticipants was iron-related, i.e., the anemia followed the proper procedures in pro­ ranty periods in an attempt to decrease was associated with biochemical evidence of mulgating this rule. their exposure to possible consumer iron deficiency. This does not, however, nec­ The Consumer Protection and Finance claims. If this does indeed happen to any essarily imply that dietary iron intake was Subcommittee, on which I s~rve as rank­ great extent, certainly the consumer is inadequate. Acute infections can produce low plasma iron values by causing iron to ing minority member, recently held 2 not well served by the FTC's rule. disappear from the circulation. The results days of hearings-August 26 and 31-on Because of the many questions which of the medical evaluation also suggest that this subject. At these hearings, we heard have been raised a.bout the rule, I re­ infections and other stresses which induce not only from representatives of the Fed­ cently joinec.. two colleagues (Mr. BROY­ the acute phase response can interfere with eral Trade Commission and various con­ HILL and Mr. JOHNSON of Pennsylvania) iron transport by elevating plasma trans­ sumer groups but also from several bank­ in cosponsoring legislation on this sub­ ferring concentration. A recent study has ing organizations and from groups repre­ ject. The bill, H.R. 15082, would suspend further shown that in the rat, hemoglobin the effect of the rule until we have a concentration and MCHC are significantly senting reta ilers and automobile dealers. related to the level of dietary protein. While The Federal Reserve Board also sub­ clearer picture of how it will impact on therapeutic doses of iron may have an im­ mitted comments generally criticizing the the credit market. I am most disturbed, pact on iron related anemia which ls not due FTC's rule. I believe that these hearings that the Commission, after more than 40 to inad'equate dietary intake of iron, the re­ clearly showed that the FTC has little States have already successfully ad­ sults of the detailed medical evaluation in­ appreciation for the problems and uncer­ dressed this subject, would issue a rule dica.te that the amounts of iron provided in tainties that its rule is causing. resulting in so much unnecessary chaos dietary supplements are ineffective. Hence, and confusion. When the Congress the emphasis which the program placed on In anticipation of these hearings, I dietary iron supplements may not be en­ wrote to a number of bankers across the granted the FTC rulemaking authority, tirely justifled. There is need !or additional State of Nebraska soliciting their com­ we did not foresee nor did we intend that studies on this aspect of the program. ments on the FTC's rule. Frankly, the it would be used in such a fashion. response I received from these bankers Frankly, if the holder-in-due-course is extremely troubling. Almost without rule typifies the kinds of rules which the exception, the Nebraska bankers opposed FTC will be issuing in the future, I, for HOLDER-IN-DUE-COURSE RULE the FTC's rule. Further, my survey in­ one, would strongly urge that the Con­ dicated that the rule very well may have gress reconsider the wisdom of granting an adverse impact on consumers, since the Commission authority to issue these HON. JOHN Y. McCOLLISTER 66 percent of the bankers who responded kinds of quasi-legislative rules. I have OF NEBRASKA and who indicated that they buy paper long argued that this kind of substantive IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES also indicated that they planned to rulemaking authority was inappropriate Friday, September 17, 1976 tighten up their policy in this regard. in the hands of the FTC. The Commis­ Mr. McCOLLISTER. Mr. Speaker, in Further, a substantial number indi­ sion, with its holder-in-due-course rule, November 1975, the Federal Trade Com­ cated that they believed the FTC's rule is living up to my worst fears. mission issued a trade regulation rule on will have an adverse impact on small I hope that the Members of the House preservation of consumer claims and de­ businesses and new businesses. Further, will support H.R. 15082. If, however, it is fenses-the holder-in-due-course rule. these effects of the rule are not unique too late in the session for Congress to act The rule which went into effect on May to Nebraska. Surveys conducted by the in this area, it is, I believe, a question 14, 1976, provides that it is an unfair Independent Bankers Association of worthy of Congressional attention early practice within the meaning of the Fed­ America and the American Bankers As­ in the next Congress. eral Trade Commission Act for a seller sociation indicate that a number of banks have curtailed their lending due to negotiate a consumer credit contract to the FTC's regulation. or accept the proceeds of a purchase NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE money loan unless the contract evidenc­ Although I recognize that it is prob­ ing the indebtedness includes a provi­ ably too soon to have reliable informa­ sion preserving the consumer's right to tion on what impact the FTC rule is HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER having on the cost and availability of assert against the creditor any claim or OF NEW YORK consumer credit, these preliminary find­ defense the consumer may have against IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the seller. Under the terms of the rule, ings indicate that the FTC's rule, as a as it is now in effect, only the seller has consumer protection device, may be back­ Friday, September 17, 1976 an obligation to insure that notice of firing. Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, Morris preservation of claims and defenses is in The Federal Reserve Board has been Stern is a constituent of mine in the the contract. However, in a proposed a strong critic of the FTC's holder-in­ city of Mount Vernon, N.Y. Three amendment to the rule which was pub­ due-course rule pointing out that the years ago he discovered that he is suf­ lished at the same time thn.t the original FTC in its zeal to protect consumers fering from an incurable form of cancer. rule became effective, the Commission may have been somewhat shortsighted Though the disease has now drained him has proposed to extend the effect of the as to what impact the rule will have on of much of his energy and most of his rule to creditors. affected businesses. In a statement sub­ financial resources, he continues to wage The Commission argues, in justifying mitted to the subcommittee, the Board a lonely battle in support of relief for the rule, that the lender is in a better points out: those who suffer the economic conse­ position than is the consumer to assess The more stringent standards being ap­ quence of a catastrophic illness. plied by lenders apparently have led them to the ability or willingness of a seller to end business or referral relationships with Recently an article about Mr. Stern's stand behind the goods which he sells. some sellers; the affected firms consequently struggle to call public attention to the However, a number of questions have have had to turn to less preferred sources of need for national health insurance ap­ been raised since the rule went into ef­ finance, presumably at higher cost. It seems peared in local papers in my district. I fect as to what effect the rule may have likely that, over time, some marginal firms insert this into the RECORD as further September 17, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31181 evidence of the need for the Congress beyond what Medicare, Medicaid, or their ended the rise of infl.atlonary expectations to enact legislation of this type. I fear personal savings will cover. which make full employment impossible that the 94 th Congress will not now go Currently Medicare, for which Stem pays without intolerable acceleration of inflation. about $140 a year, has no provision for peo­ And we would not have solved the problem down in history as establishing a com­ ple affiicted with incurable illnesses. of shortages, because we would have sup­ prehensive program of national health The most widely discussed of the bills pressed the free price movement which, by insurance. I can only express the wish dealing with the problem is one sponsored attracting production and discouraging use, that the 95th Congress will take that by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who would help to cure shortages. vital step to relieve the emotional anxiety favors near-total comprehensive national which adds such a burden to the lives health insurance. Dr. Stein declares that-- of those who contract tragic diseases that But an aide to Congressman Richard Ot­ The essential point ls that comprehen­ rob them of all financial security. tinger, D-Westchester, who has mentioned sive planning will lead to comprehensive The article follows: Stern when speaking about catastrophic controls. health insurance on the floor of the house, It 1s necessary for American business, [From the Mt. Vernon (N.Y.) Daily Argus, says prospects for passage of such legisla­ Aug. 23, 1976) Dr. Stein points out, to make the case tion soon are dim. for free enterprise clear to the American CANCER VICTIM FIGHTS FOR INSURANCE Stern has promised to keep at it. "If I can public. He notes that-- (By David Copithorne, Staff Writer) see this go through, I'll know I will have I believe it will be essential for business Morris Stern is waging a lonely campaign. done something else in my life,'' he says. "Sometimes a little man beats a big drum to take a consistent stand against govern­ The retired plumber from Mount Vernon ment planning and controls. Business must has been, as he puts it, "banging my :b.ead and if he can beat it long enough and loud enough, people will hear." not be in the position of opposing all con­ against the wall" to drum up support for a trols except those that it thin.ks beneficial federal insurance progam aiding people with to business or to some segment of business. incurable lllnesses. The record 1s not good on this. He's got company, of course, among those who are pushing for a national health Insur­ THE CASE AGAINST ECONOMIC Free enterprise is the only form of ance program. PLANNING economic organization which is consist­ Sympathetic legislators have put forward ent with freedom in other areas of life. proposals for all kinds of aid to people with Those who advocate national planning cancer, respiratory diseases, kidney ailments HON. PHILIP M. CRANE and other catastrophic illnesses. OF ILLINOIS would, whether they knowingly seek to But in one respect, Morris Stern's cam­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES do so or not, give Government vast new paign ls among the loneliest a man can face. powers which would challenge our tra­ Three years ago, he found out he has lym­ Friday, September 17, 1976 ditional liberties. phoma, incurable cancer of the lymph nodes. Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, more and I wish to share with my colleagues the The disease has drained him of his more politicians have been speaking in article, "The Case Against National strength, so much that at times he must recent days of the need for what they Planning," by Dr. Herbert Stein, which rest as he walks from his kitchen to his liv­ was originally delivered at a conference ing room. call "national economic planning." But it hasn't drained a defiant spirit and It is the thesis of such spokesmen that sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Com­ a determination to do what he can to see a free enterprise is chaotic and unplanned merce, as it appears in the August 1976 day when others will be able to avoid at and that we must have governmental in­ issue of Nation's Business and insert it least the financial hardship that cata­ tervention in and planning of the econ­ into the RECORD at this time: strophic illness brings. omy in order to make it rational. THE CASE AGAINST NATIONAL ECONOMIC He has written letters to public officials and The fact is that free enterprise em­ PLANNING the press, he has visited city councilmen (By Dr. Herbert Stein) and state legislators, and he has exchanged bodies the best economic planning pos­ letters with Mount Vernon's representative sible, that made by each individual and Interest in planning as a solution for na­ in Congress. businessman. Every day economtc plan­ tional economic problems is always latent in the United States, like interest 1n astrology, "I'm willing to continue hitting my head ning takes place. Americans decide whether to spend their money or save it, and for the same reasons. against the wall," Stern says. "If I loosen The persistence of this interest does not one brick, I'll be happy." whether to invest it in real estate or the reflect any successful experience or convinc­ Stern knew from the beginning how ex­ stock market. Businessmen determine ing analysis, because there has been none. It pensive monthly chemotherapy treatments what to produce on the basis of what simply rests on intuition and hope and on can be, along with all the other attendant American consumers wish to purchase. continuing faith in the possibility of beating medical costs. In reality, free enterprise is simply the odds. But the real financial costs weren't driven democracy applied to economics. Each SPURRED BY SETBACKS home to him until early this year, when union pension benefits that had covered citizen votes with his dollars for the This latent interest in planning comes to many of his expenses ran out. products he wishes to purchase. the surface from time to time, usually when "The costs have been phenomenal,'' Stern Those economic systems which are the economy does not seem to be performing says, citing rates he has paid for compre­ planned by Government are those in as well as It might. hensive hospital care that have averaged which the individual citizen has nothing The poor performance of our economy, be­ as much as $300 a day. to say about his own economic well­ ginning in the fall of 1974, heightened inter­ Al though he has no specific figure on how est in planning again. Unemployment was being. These range from the rapid de­ rising sharply and would reach a peak much much he has spent over the years, he has clining socialist economy of England, to used up thousands of dollars of his life higher than in any earlier post-war recession. savings. the stagnant planned economy of the Also, we were still near the highest peacetime Soviet Union, in which collective farms inflation rate of our history. "Do you realize how many thousands of The combination seemed to lend support people in the U.S. this affects? The elderly, fail to produce enough food to eat and the young, from one day old to 100 years old. in which such standard consumer items to the idea that something different had to as automobiles, television sets, and air­ be done. As a remilt, a new drive for national And don't forget, a lot of them can't speak economic planning got under way last year. up for themselves,'' he says. conditioners are luxuries for the select There was also a special aspect to the eco­ Stern, a 67-year-old who Insists on main­ few. nomic situation of 1974-the appearance of taining a vigorous pace in spite of fatigue, For the United States, which under shortages on a scale which seemed unusual is capable of speaking for them. free enterprise has produced more wealth and which the private market did not foresee His shoulders are rounded and he walks for more people, to even consider a step or forestall. Energy was the leading case. with a slight limp, but he ls a convincing in the direction of national planning is One tangible result of this interest was speaker. Recently, he prompted Mount Ver­ that Congress last year passed a law creating non's City Council to send a resolution to hard to understand. Under national planning, writes Dr. a commission to study material shortages. the New York State legislature, Congress This was evidence of a tendency to view and the President voicing its support for a Herbert Stein, one of our most distin­ the oil problem as representative of the gen­ federal catastrophic health insurance pro­ guished economists- eral state of the economy. In addition, It gram. The economy would become more infla­ showed a tendency to dismiss the possible Meanwhile, Congress has been mulling a tionary, less free, and less efficient. Mean­ role of the free market as a problem-solver, number of pieces of legislation that would while, the unemployment problem would not and not to do so after careful thought, but provide for people whose medical bills go have been solved, becaU:Se we wouJ.d not have without any comprehension of the issues. 31182 EXTENSIONS OF &£MARKS September 17, 1976 It also showed a tendency of some legisla­ would make sure that all the executive agen­ tionary, less free, and less efficient. Mean­ tors to enact laws and create new agencies cies act in conformity with the plan. He while, t he unemployment problem would not as if the legislators were millionaires passing would also encourage state and local gov­ have been solved, because we would not have out $100 tips at a fancy hotel. ernments and the private sector to conform ended the rise of intlationary expectations Perhaps of most relevance to the 1975 to the plan. The participation of state and which make full employment impossible planning movement is the fact that, al­ local governments and of private leaders is without intolerable acceleration of inflation. though the movement relied heavily on the also to be sought at various stages in the And we would not have solved the problem shortages as an argument for a national eco­ formulation of the plan. of shortages, because we would have sup­ nomic planning system, the planning pro­ BLANK CHECK FOR PLANNERS pressed the free price movement which, by ponents gave no recognition of the existence attracting production and discouraging use, To describe the implications of all this would help to cure shortages. of the commission created to study the with certainty is impossible. The bill is problem. vague or ambiguous at key points. It does not PLANNING MEANS CONTROLS The planning drive was promoted by a pri­ tell what objectives are to be sought, but The essential point is that comprehensive vate group, the Initiat ive Committee for Na­ only lists some of the matters for which ob­ tional Economic Planning. planning will lead to comprehensive controls. jectives are to be stated. It does not tell in Many proponents of economic planning argue TOKEN BUSINESSMEN . what detail the plan is to be drafted, or give that they merely seek to have the govern­ Among the committee members were any other hint as to what the plan would ment do ·better, with more information and enough token businessmen to permit the look like-would the plan be more like a foresight, what it is doing already. argument to be made that there is nothing 1,000 by 1,000 input-output table or more In this sense, there can probably be little radical or antibusiness about t he proposal, like a State of the Union message? The bill disagreement with the case for planning. since it is supported by "leading" business­ does not tell how forcefully the President is But the planning bill would direct a gov­ men. Such an argument is often wrong, even to "encourage" conformity with the plan. ernment agency to make plans for things the when the businessmen involved are much In a sense, the bill is a blank sheet of pa­ government does not now control to achieve more numerous and much more "leading" per on which any of a variety of pictures objectives the government does not now have. than in the case of planning. could be drawn. But I think we can esti­ This makes no sense, if an extension of the Members of the Initiative Committee as­ mate pretty well what kind of picture would area of government control is not intended. sist ed members of congressional staffs in be drawn. There would be a picture of how And whether intended or not, extension of drafting the Balanced Growth and Economic the economy should operate, drawn by plan­ the area of government control is almost cer­ Planning Act of 1975. The legislation was ners who are confident of their abillty to tain to be the result, because there will be introduced ·in the Senate on May 21 , 1975, outdo the market, in an environment of pub­ a. natural tendency to try to correct devia­ and in the House two weeks later. The best­ lic opinion which neither understands nor tions of performance from the plan, by con­ known sponsors of the bill, which is listed values the market process very highly. Also, trols if necessary. as S. 1795 in the Senate, are Sens. Hubert H. there would be an atmosphere of political MAKING MATTERS WORSE Humphrey (D.-Minn.) and Jacob K . Javits competition in promising the economic bene­ (R.-N.Y.)-which makes it nonpartisan. fits to be delivered by the government. There is probably no need to elaborate on the evils that would result from further sig­ Hearings have been held on the blll by the RESULTS; MORE SPENDING Joint Economic Committee. nificant extension of government controls Similar planning principles are written What results would the planning process over the economy. into a later bill, the equally controversial lead to, if such a blll were passed and taken We have a well-developed theory which pre­ Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act seriously? dicts that a free market system will deliver of 1976. Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D.-Calif.) Goals for government policy that do not efficient and expanding production of things introduced H.R. 50 in the House and Sen. now exist, or more ambitious goals than now the population wants. That prediction has Humphrey sponsored the same bill, known as exist, would be increasingly advanced. They been brilliantly realized, in our experience. S. 50, in the Senate. would represent the views of the politicized The other side of this coin, the limited Both the Humphrey-Javits bill and the experts who would run the Economic Plan­ competence of government, even in areas Humphrey-Hawkins bill would institute na­ ning Board, the relevant congressional staffs, where its responsibility is inescapable, has tional economic planning. The basic con­ and the staffs of the private national organi­ also been amply demonstrated. cepts of both bills are similar. However, S. zations that would constitute the advisory How shall we prevent a greater and greater 1795 spells out in more detail the goals, or­ layer. extension of government controls? ganization, and procedures envisioned by the The goals ostensibly would not determine First, we should take actions which will latest movement. And while some of the orig­ policy, but they would lead policy in the help convince the American people of the inal goals and trappings of the planning ad­ direction of more government spending and merits of the market system. vocates have been submerged in the later more government controls. These actions would be of two kinds. First bill, the Humphrey-Javits bill remains the Management of the existing economic in­ would be actions to make the market system most specific picture of the path they would struments of government would be increas­ work better. Second would be actions to dem­ have us take. ingly supervised by the Executive Office, to onstrate that advocacy of the market system S. 1795 would create an Economic Planning the derogatlon of the departments and agen­ and opposition to government intervention Boa.rd in the Executive Office of the President. cies, and would be addressed to the central is not simply a cloak for the protection and This board would draw up an economic plan goals, rather than to the more limited objec­ subsidization of special, perhaps monopo­ to achieve objectives, which it would also es­ tives which may have originally led to the listic, interests. tablish, with respect to the goals of economic creation of the instruments. With respect to improving the operation of policy. FplST ASK, THEN ORDER the market system, we have to recognize that, GOALS GALORE Estimates would be made of required pro­ even in the most free market system we can The board would be charged with "paying duction and investment in some key sectors conceive of, the government would have im­ particular attention to the attainment of of the economy-meaning sectors in which portant functions. Performing these func­ the goals of full employment, price stabiUty, the firms are large, because it is easiest for tions well is essential to the survival of the balanced economic growth, an equitable dis­ government to deal with them-and these free market system. This may seem paradox­ tribution of income, the efficient utilization requirements would be compared with fore­ ical. But as long as the public generally turns of both private and public resources, bal­ casts. The government would try to correct to government to solve its problems, we anced regional and urban development, sta­ the deficiencies that the comparisons reveal. should try to minimize problems, if we want ble international relations, and meeting es­ Initially, it would do this by talking to the to minimize government. entia.l na.tional needs in transportation, en­ firms involved, but increasingly, it would WHAT GOVERNMENT CAN DO ergy, agriculture, raw materl°als, housing, ed­ rely on incentives of various kinds in order One area in which the government has a ucation, public services, and research and to achieve the results. clear responsibility is the stabilization of the development." High-pressure goals for employment, economy. This is an area in which perform­ These are only the goals to which particu­ growth, and public services would cause more ance has been poor. It is this poor perform­ lar attention is to be paid. and more infiation, leading to repeated efforts ance, as much as anything else, which ac­ The plan would be reviewed by a Council at income policies, which would seem more counts for the current interest in economic on Economic Planning, composed of most of congenial to the system as it became more planning. the cabinet-level people in the administra­ planned. However, the l:ncomes policies would It is continued poor performance which tion. Thereafter, the President would submit yield no durable results. would be most likely to cause a major step the plan to the Congress. The plan would be Uncertainties about government policy in­ toward more controls, in the form of price referred to the Joint Economic Committee, creasingly would depress private investment, and wage controls. which would receive and evaluate comments requiring more and more government incen­ I think one can fairly say that much of from all the other committees of the Con­ tives to stimulate such investment. At some the economic instab1Uty of the past decade gress. Then, the Joint Economic Committee point, the government would become unwill­ was due to the unusual shocks that the econ­ woUld report the original or revised plan to ing to pay private businesses to do what it omy suffered. One can also say that the in­ the Congress, which would approve, reject, could order them to d,o. The system of incen­ adequacy of our policy responses to those or revise it. tives would yield to the system of command. shocks was due in part to public misunder­ Once a plan is approved, the President So the economy woUld become more infla- standing and: political shortsightedness. Also, September 20, 1976 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 31183 one must attribute part of our failure to The idea that an economy can be efficiently ness to take a consistent stand against gov­ the fact that we-specifically, I mean we and equitably organized by the spontaneous ernment planning and controls. Business economists-do not know enough. interaction of private individuals is itself must not be in the position of opposing all For one thing, we do not know enough difficult to comprehend. It becomes difficult controls except those that it thinks beneficial about the past behavior and present condi­ to believe if it seems to imply that 200 mil­ to business or to some segment of business. tion of the economy. Much good work goes lion lambs can safely lie down with 500 lions The record is not good on this. on in statistical agencies, in and out of the in the form of large, monopolistic corpora­ WHERE BUSINESS ERRS tions. federal government. But relative to our needs, Throughout most of our history, for ex­ COMPETITION IS THE KEY our economic statistics are inadequate and ample, businessmen have been the main sup­ unreliable. And it becomes incredible when the ser­ porters of government interference with free­ NEEDEl>; BETTER INFORMATION mon is preached by the lions. dom of international trade. There are many The federal government could do a great What makes the system legitimate and s1Inilar examples--such as business support deal to improve the statistical base with acceptable is competition. It is competition of regulation of entry into the transporta­ which we all work. It could do less, but still that makes the system safe for the lambs. tion and banking industries, the ceilings do something, to promote econoIIlic research There are, of course, arguments that com­ on interest rates paid and the wholesale sub­ on questions relating to economic stability. petition sometimes impairs efficiency. sidization of the housing industry. I think the fed'eral government should de­ It can also be argued that much of the governmental effort to maintain competi­ Business is not less consistent and not vote more money and effort to each of these more guilty of a gap between professed prin­ fields. tion is petty and more disruptive than use­ ful. One can also maintain that competition ciples and practice than other groups in the Business's attitude toward the improve­ will assert itself without the need for gov­ society, such as intellectuals, journalists, ment of economic statistics will be impor­ ernment enforcement. labor leaders, and politicians. tant, because business will be the source of In my opinion, these arguments are insig­ But the advocates of the free market have much of the needed !:-.formation. nificant as against the necessity to cling to a difficult case to make. It is easily repre­ However, the action needed from business competition as the element of the system sented as being the special pleading of the to make acceptance of the free market sys­ which keeps it from being chaotic and rich and powerful. tem probable is much bigger and more im­ exploitive. If businessmen are going to carry this ban­ portant than this attitude toward statistics. Also, I believe it will be essential for busi- ner, they will have to be beyond reproach.

SENATE-Monday, September 20, 1976 The Senate met at 12 noon and was THE JOURNAL out all after the enacting clause and in­ called to order by Hon. DALE BUMPERS, a sert the following: Senator from the State of Arkansas. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the read­ Section 1. (a) Subsection (g) of section ing of the Journal of the proceedings of 1902 of the Social Security Act and subsec­ PRAYER tion (1) of section 1903 of such Act are re­ Friday, September 17, 1976, be dispensed pealed. The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward with. (b) The amendments made by subsec­ L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ tion (a) of this section shall take effect as prayer: pore. Without object1on, it is so ordered. of January 1, 1976. As the seasons come and go, be with us, TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 Lord our God, to keep us faithful to TITLE II-MEDICARE-MEDICAID ANTI­ the command of the Master, "Seek ye WAIVER OF CALL OF THE FRAUD MEASURES first the kingdom of God and his right­ CALENDAR Sec. 2. Short title. eousness and all these things shall be Sec. 3. Office of Central Fraud and Abuse added unto you".-Matthew 6: 33. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, Control. Spare us from attempting to build the I ask unanimous consent that the call of Sec. 4. Prohibition against assignment by the legislative calendar for unobjected­ physicians and others of claims for kingdom of God without the King. May services. to Thy presenc~ pervade all that we think measures be waived under rules VII Sec. 5. Disclosure of ownership and financial and do. In the contests of these tense and VIII. information. times may we separate the expedient The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ Sec. 6. Penalty for defrauding medica.re and from the eternal and give our loyalty to pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. medicaid programs. that which endures. Be Thou our Guide Sec. 7. Amendments related to professional and Judge that we may be steadfast and standards review organizations. SHORT TITLE true until the evening comes and our MEDICARE-MEDICAID ANTIFRAUD work is done and we rest at peace with AMENDMENTS SEC. 2. This title may be cited as the Thee. Amen. "Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud Amendments Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, of 1976". I ask unanimous consent that the Senate OFFICE OF CENTRAL FRAUD AND ABUSE CONTROL proceed to the consideration of a bill that SEc. 3. (a) Section 702 of the Social Secu­ APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESI­ rity Act is amended- DENT PRO TEMPORE has been cleared on both sides of the aisle, Calendar No. 1176, H.R. 12961. I do ( 1) by inserting " (a) " immediately after The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk this at the request of Mr. TALMADGE. "SEC. 702", and will please read a communication to the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ (2) by adding at the end thereof the fol­ Senate from the President pro tempore pore. The bill will be stated by title. lowing new subsection: (Mr. EASTLAND). The legislative clerk read as follows: "(b) There shall be established, within the The legislative clerk read the following Department of Health, Education, and Wel­ letter: A bill (H.R. 12961) to amend the Social fare, an Office of Central Fraud and Abuse Security Act to repeal the requirement that Control. Such Office shall have the overall U.S. SENATE, State's plan for medical assistance under PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, responsib111ty for (i) directing, coordinat­ title XIX of such act include a provision ing, monitoring, and establishing policies Washington, D.C., September 20, 1976. giving consent of the State to certain suits To the Senate: with respect to the undertaking of activities brought with respect to payment for in­ which are designed to deal with fraud and Being temporarily absent from the Senate patient hospital services. on official duties, I appoint Hon. DALE BUMP­ abuse, at all Federal organizational levels ERS, a Senator from the State of Arkansas, to The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ of the various programs, established by or perform the duties of the Chair during my pore. Without objection, the Senate will pursuant to titles V, XVIII, and XIX, and absence. the renal disease program established by proceed to its consideration. section 226, (11) 1n1tlating and conducting JAMES 0. EASTLAND, There being no objection, the Senate President pro tempore. investigations With respect to alleged, actual, proceeded to consider the bill, which had or potential fraud or abuse in any such pro­ Mr. BUMPERS thereupon took the been reported from the Committee on grams, and (111) assisting State agencies, at chair as Acting President; pro tempore. Finance with an amendment to strike their request, in the establishment and op-

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