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17810 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 11, 1976 Removes the authority of the Commission to authorize mergers of carriers when deemed nal Procedure promulgated by the Supreme on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Sal to be in the public interest. Reaffirms the Court. aries to review salaries of Members of Con authority of the States to regulate terminal H.R. 13819. May 17, 1976. Interstate and gress. and station equipment used for telephone Foreign Commerce. Reaffirms the intent of H.R. 13808. May 17, 1976. Post Office and exchange service. Requires the Federal Com Congress with respect to the structure of Civil Service. Amends the Defense Depart munications Commission to make specified the common carrier telecommunications in ment Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel :findings in connection with Commission ac dustry rendering services in interstate and Practices Act to revise the salary structure tions authorizing specialized carriers. foreign commerce. Grants additional author for teaohers in the Department of Defense's H.R. 13814. May 17, 1976. Public Works and ity to the Federal Communications Com overseas dependents' schools. Allows such Transportation. Amends the Urban Mass mission to authorize mergers of carriers teachers to take a sabbatical leave. Transportation Act of 1964 to require that when deemed to be in the public interest. H.R. 13809. May 17, 1976. Merchant Marine any mass transportation system receiving Reaffirms the authority of the States to regu and Fisheries. Amends the Merchant Marine Federal assistance under such Act comply late terminal and station equipment used Act, 1936, to provide that any citizen of with specified notice and hearing require for telephone exchange service. Requires the the United States may apply to the Secre ments before the establishment or change of Federal Communications Commission to tary of Commerce for aid in developing and any fare or service which substantially af make specified findings in connection with constructing a nuclear ship for operation in fects the community. Commission actions authorizing specialized the commerce of the United States. H.R. 13815. May 17, 1976. Public Works and carriers. Requires tha,t all ships whose development, Transportation; Interior and Insular Affairs. H.R. 13820. May 17, 1970. Ways and Means. construction, or operation is aided by this Terminates the authorization for the Tocks Amends the Ta.riff Schedules of the United Act shall be constructed in a shipyard with Island Reservoir project in New Jersey, New States to increase for a 5-year period the in the United States. York, and Pennsylvania. Requires that prop customs duty on certain hand tools. H.R. 13810. May 17, 1976. Ways and Means erty acquired by the Secretary of the Army H.R. 13821. May 17, 1976. Banking, Cur Amends the program under the Social Se pursuant to such authorization be trans rency and Housing. Amends the Federal Fire curity Act of Grants to States for Unem ferred to the Secretary of the Interior for Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to au ployment Compensation Administration to management by the National Park Service. thorize the Administrator of the National require States to prepare and implement Requires relocation of a. national highway Fire Prevention and Control Administration contingency plans to insure that unemploy to minimize adverse environmental impact to make grants to volunteer fire departments ment benefits will be promptly paid in on the area. which a.re unable to purchase necessary fire periods of high unemployment. H.R. 13816. May 17, 1976. Interior and In fighting equipment because of the increased H.R. 13811. May 17, 1976. Interstate and sular Affairs. Increases the amount author cost of such equipment as the result of Foreign Commerce. Amends the Solid Waste ized to be appropriated to establish, equip, inflation. Disposal Act to prohibit the issuance of solid operate, and maintain a metallurgy research H.R. 13822. May 17, 1976. Ways and Means." waste management regulations with respect center on the Fort Douglas Military Reserva Amends the Internal Revenue Code to ex to the sale or distribution o! beverage con tion, Utah. empt nonprofit volunteer :firefighting or res tainers at Federal facllities. H.R. 13817. May 17, 1976. Interstate and cue organizations from the excise tax on H.R. 13812. May 17, 1976. Government Op Foreign Commerce. Reaffirms the intent of sales of special fuels, automotive parts, erations. Requires, under the Office of Fed Congress with respect to the structure of the petroleum products, and communication eral Procurement Policy Act, that Federal common carrier telecommunications indus services. agencies pay interest at an ainnual ra.te of try rendering services in interstate and for H.R. 13823. May 17, 1976. Ways and Means. at least 12 percent on any payment which eign commerce. Reaffirms the authority of Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow is overdue by more than two weeks on a the States to regulate terminal and station members of volunteer firefighting organiza contract with a small business concern. equipment used for telephone exchange serv tions to deduct the cost of :firefighting H.R. 13813. May 17, 1976. Interstate and ice. Requires the Federal Communications rela. ted clothing expenses. Foreign Commerce. Reaffirms the intent of Commission to make specified findings in H.R. 13824. May 17, 1976. Interstate and Congress with respect to the structure of the connection with Commission actions author Foreign Commerce. Amends the Communi izing specialized carriers. cations Act to allow for voters' time during common carrier telecommunications indus which broadcasters must make the networks try rendering services in interstate and for H.R. 13818. May 17, 1976. Judiciary. Delays available for presentations by qualified eign commerce. Grants additional authority the effective date of specified rules and Presidential and Vice Presidential candi to the Federal Communications Commission amendments to the Federal Rules of Crimi- dates. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SECRETARY KISSINGER ON HUMAN man beings a.re the subjects, not the objects, The obscene and atrocious acts systemati RIGHTS of public policy; that citizens must not be cally employed to devalue, debase, and de come mere instruments of the state. stroy human life during World War II vividly This is the conviction that brought mil and ineradicably impressed the responsible HON. ROBERT P. GRIFFIN lions to the Americas. It inspired our peoples peoples of the world with the enormity of to fight for their independence. It is the the challenge to human rights. It was pre OF MICHIGAN commitment that has ma.de political freedom cisely to end such a.buses and to provide IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES and individual dignity the constant and moral authority in international affairs that cherished idea.I of the Americas and the envy Friday, June 11, 1976 a new system was forged after that war: of nations elsewhere. It is the ultimate proof globally, in the United Nations, and re Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. President, Secre that our countries a.re linked by more than gionally, in a. strengthened inter-American geography and the impersonal forces of system. tary of State Kissinger spoke to the Gen history. eral Assembly of the Organization of The shortcomings of our efforts in an age American States, which· is meeting in Respect for the rights of man is written which continues to be scarred by forces of into the founding documents of every nation intimidation, terror, and brutality fostered Santiago, Chile. The subject of his re of our Hemisphere. It has long been part of sometimes from outside national territories marks was human rights. the common speech and daily lives of our and sometimes from inside, have ma.de it I ask unanimous consent that the text citizens. And today, more than ever, the suc dramatically clear that basic human rights of Dr. Kissinger's Santiago speech be cessful advance of our societies requires the must be preserved, cherished, and defended printed in the RECORD. full and free dedication of the talent, energy, if peace and prosperity a.re to be more than and creative thought of men and women who hollow technical achievements. For techno There being no objection, the speech are free from fear of repression. was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, logical progress without social justice mocks The modern age has brought undreamed humanity; national unity without freedom as follows: of benefits to mankind-in medicine, in is sterile; nationalism without a. conscious STATEMENT BY THE HONORABLE HENRY A. technological advance, and in human com ness of human community-which means a KISSINGER, SECRETARY OF STATE, ON HUMAN munication. But it has spawned plagues as shared concern for human right.s-refines RIGHTS well, in the form of new tools of oppression, instruments of oppression. One of the moot compelling issues of our as well as of civil strife. In an era charac We in the Americas must increase our in time, and one which calls for the concerted terized by terrorism, by bitter ideological ternational support for the principles of action of all responsible peoples and na contention, by weakened bonds of social co justice, freedom, and human dignity-for tions, is the necessity to protect a.:tid extend hesion, and by the yearning of order even at the organized concern of the community of the fundamental rights of humanity. the expense of liberty, the result all too often nations remains one of the most potent The precious common heritage of our West has been the violation of fundamental weapons in the struggle against the degrada ern Hemisphere is the conviction that hu- standards of humane conduct. tion of human values. June 11, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17811 THE HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGE IN THE of government. But there a.re standards infringement of certain fundamental rights AMERICAS below which no government can fall without in Chile has undergone a quantitative reduc The ultimate vitality and virtue of our offending fundamental values--such as gen tion since the la.st report.