July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22311 NOTICE CONCERNING NOMINATION James J. Gillespie, of Washington, to file with the committee, in writing, on or BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON be U.S. attorney for the eastern district before Monday, July 18, 1977, any rep THE JUDICIARY of Washington for the term of 4 years, resentations or objections they may wish Mr. EASTLAND. Mr. President, the vice Dean C. Smith, resigned. to present concerning the above nomina following nomination has been referred On behalf of the Committee on the tion with a further statement whether it to and is now pending before the Com Judiciary, notice is hereby given to all is their intention to appear at any hear mittee on the Judiciary: persons interested in this nomination to ing which may be scheduled.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS MRS. JEANETTE WILLIAMS, WIFE by the drumbeat of a. new civil rights move make programing which is fully accessible ment of disabled people who have come to to deaf persons available. OF SENATOR WILLIAMS, GIVES Washington and to the State capitols to peti The responses of commercial and public EXCELLENT COMMENCEMENT AD tion the government for their long-overdue television stations ha.s been encouraging in DRESS basic rights. putting on interpreted news or captioned It ha.s brought people forward to speak news. out a.nd educate society a.s to what must be And in 1976, for the first time in history, HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH done. the Presidential debates were given this type OF WEST VIRGINIA And today, the civil rights of those who of treatment. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES live with disabilities-with deafness, with I do not think our advances will stop here. blindness, and with other physical disa.b111- Additional legislation has already been in Monday, July 11, 1977 ties-ha.ve been recognized and will be pro troduced to meet tihe needs of the deaf-leg tected. islation to lower the cost of long-distance Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, re phone calls by TTY-and to equip all Fed cently the able chairman of the Senate We have accomplished much at the Federal level. eral agencies and Congressional offices with Committee on Human Resources, Sena In 1971 Senator Williams created the Sub TTY's so that the deaf will have quick access tor HARRISON WILLIAMS, planned to de committee on the Handicapped: the first one to their elected officials. liver the commencement address at the in the Senate history to focus attention Recogru.tion is coming in other ways as Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf well. solely on the legislative needs of the handi Just last Sunday night, the National Thea in West Trenton, N.Y., on June 10. capped. Sena.tor Willia.ms is proud of his tre of the Deaf won a. National TONY a.ward Senator WILLIAMS' presence was re authorship of legislation which wa.s enacted for dra.ma.---a.n important recognition of that quired here during our deliberation of the into law in 1973 prohibiting discrimination troup's ta.lent a.nd also of its artistic value. Clean Air Act. The Senator's gracious against people on the be.sis of their handi La.st year's Academy Awa.rd to Louise cap. wife, Jeanette, came to the rescue and These provisions of the Rehabilitation Act Fletcher for her magnificent performance in delivered the speech. Mrs. Williams also of 1973 ba.n discrimination in all programs "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", which delivered a message in sign language wa.s accepted in sign language for her deaf receiving Federal financial assistance. pa.rents was incredibly important for our from Senator WILLIAMS in opening and And if you think a.bout it, that includes National awareness. closing remarks. most health, housing, education, transporta A National Center for Law and the Deaf I ask unanimous consent that the ad tion, and other social service and Jobs pro has been established to work on the unique dress, as delivered by Mrs. Williams, be grams. legal problems which deaf people face. printed in the RECORD. Federal contractors are required to ta.ke Based on the Ga.lla.udet College campus, affirmative action to employ and promote per this Center has already represented the in There being no objection, the address sons with disabilities. was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, terests of the deaf in two major cases--pro And discrimination is prohibited in Fed tecting the confidentiality of an interpretor as follows: · eral employment, and ea.ch Federal agency in a criminal action and in a pending case REMARKS BY THE HONORABLE HARRISON A. must ha.ve a.n affirmative action pla.n to pro to vitiate a. prohibition of the U.S. Depart WD..LIAMS, JR., DELIVERED BY JEANETTE Wn. mote employment for persons with disabili ment of Transportation against deaf persons LIAMS AT THE MARIE H. KATZENBACH SCHOOL ties. driving trucks in interstate commerce. FOR THE DEAF, WEST TRENTON, N.J., FRIDAY, These programs reaffirm wha.t ma.ny of us All of tihese events mark the emerging rec JUNE 10, 1977 ha.ve been saying for a long time: it is not ognition of deafness and other physical dif Sena.tor Willia.ms regrets so much tha.t the disability tha.t counts, but the abilities ferences throughout our communities and votes on the Clean Air Bill in the Sena. te of the person. the recognition of the unique abilities and keeps him from being with you. Disability should ha.ve no bee.ring on Job potentials inherent in this segment of our It is my plea.sure to Join you this afternoon performance and potential. population. to salute the gra.dua.ting class of 1977 a.nd to They will also assure that persons with They mark the beginning of a. full under she.re with you Sena.tor Willia.ms' thoughts disabilities will not be treated differently standing of what it means to be deaf or dis a.bout the future. tha.n other persons-in fringe benefits, in abled in the United States today. The Sena.tor's favorite quote from Walden's insurance coverage, and in wages and bene This recognition comes none too soon Thoreau is: fits. from your perspective and from mine. "If a. ma.n does not keep pa.ce with his The Congress ha.s also enacted legislation Over the yea.rs as Vietnam and Watergate companions, perhaps it is because he hears which reinforces the right of ea.ch child to froze our consciousness, it was difficult for a. different drummer. an education based on his needs. us to focus on or take up healthy new a.p "Let me step to the music which he hears, This la.w-the Education for All Handi proadhes for dealing with the needs of our however measured or fa.r a.way." capped Children Act which Sena.tor Willia.ms people. For ma.ny of the pa.st 10 yea.rs, this Nation authored-requires tha.t ea.ch State makes Sena.tor Williams as Chairman of the Sen ha.s virtually ignored those who listen to the a.va.ila.ble the teachers, interpreters, and fi ate Human Resources Committee, watched as sound of different drummers. nancial assistance necessary to assure every our programs to put a.n end to poverty, to During the long period of unrest a.nd pa.in deaf child and every other child with a. dis educate our children, to provide decent of the Vietnam wa.r, those who sounded the ability a.n appropriate and adequate educa health ca.re and adequate support for our call age.inst our military involvement were tion. workers were diverted and undercut. for a. long time ignored a.nd later, harshly Fight as we did to keep these programs criticized for their dissenting views. On another front, through pressure from going-and they a.re still opera.ting-we ac In the period lea.ding up to the Wa.terga.te the deaf community, their friends and the complished little more than survival. investigation a. similar attitude prevailed. Congress, the Federal Communications Com As a result, the very same National prob And, too ma.ny of us ha. ve chosen to ignore mission has ordered a.11 TV broadcasters to lems we faced yea.rs a.go a.re no closer to solu the lifestyles a.nd needs of those a.round us make emergency broadcasting available both tion now than they were then. who ha.ve different abilities. orally and visually so that the deaf and hear We see a. Nation in whioh 7 million work We have, a.s a. Nation, a.11 too often ignored ing impaired community wm have access to ers-325,000 of them in New Jersey-are with the uniqueness a.nd great potential of per vita.I information. out jobs while another 3 million more work sons with various physical differences. And finally, the FCC was persuaded to re only pa.rt-time. You might sa.y tha.t their questions a.nd serve line 21 on the TV screen for caption We ha.ve come through a winter in which wishes ha.ve fa.Hen upon our "dea.f" ears. ing of television so that the communica a record cold ca.used tremendous hardships But times a.re changing. tions and entertainment media. will be a.va.11- because of energy shortages, and yet, we still The la.st severe.I yea.rs ha.ve brought a.n in a.ble to deaf persons. do not have an energy policy which will en credible a.wakening throughout our Nation. It is striking to think that for the cost of sure that these hardships will not occur This a.wakening ha.s been brought a.bout a little more than $25,000 any station can a.gain. · 2'2312 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 our urban centers continue to deteriorate class action device was an eff'ective con who can often tell more a.bout what caused and have become centers of crime and pov sumer remedy compared to small claims death than what would preserve life. erty-conditions which go hand-in-hand. courts, consumer arbitration panels, and In common with most of you, I have par Millions of Americans cannot afford ade ticipated in discussions of this kind for a quate health ca.re or live in a.rea.s where it is other consumer redress mechanisms long time. We a.re well a.ware that large law a.va.ila.ble. which operate essentially at the local suits are not the major problem of Amer Countless Americans do not even have a. level. ican justice. They tend to take ca.re of them family physician. Because of my concerns in this area, selves-at great expense of course, especially I could go on, but you know many of the I was interested in a recent speech made in this day of high legal costs-and the liti problems a.swell a.s I do. by Chief Justice Warren Burger at the gants, whether satisfied or not, can a.t least I would not underestimate the magnitude National Conference on Minor Disputes vent their hostilities on each other. I do not of the problems which we face. minimize the potential contribution of some But I also would not underestimate our Resolution given at the Columbia Uni kinds of "large law suits" to improve the ability to deal with these problems. versity Law School in New York City and quality of life in our society, although I con I remain confiden.t that we have the ta.lent, sponsored by the American Bar Associa fess that the longer I live, the more I sense the ingenuity, and the sense of National pur tion. Chief Justice Burger points out that the futility of much of the ga.rga.ntua.n-sized pose to fashion the solutions which a.re many consumer disputes just do not be litigation that is carried on. The thought will demanded. long within the formalistic bounds of our not go away, that there must be a better But, if we a.re to succeed, we cannot afford judicial system. As the Chief Justice way to do some of these things. Apa.rt from any policy which discriminates or fails to a.11 other factors, judges are just not a.11 that use the potential of every individual in this points out-- wise. Nation. The consumer with $300 in controversy for Perhaps some may disagree, but certainly We need your help! car repairs or a dispute on a defective roof there ought to be a clear consensus on the We need your energies; we need your ing job or a malfunctioning home appliance proposition that the complex procedures, re talents; we need your determination. prefers a reasonably satisfactory resolution fined and developed for certain types of more A new day is dawning for the handicapped. to the protracted legal proceedings that are complex cases, are inappropriate and even But, countless other Americans still only characteristic of courts. counter-productive when applied to the res face the dark nigh ts of despair. Frankly, I believe we do consumers a olution of the kinds of disputes which a.re Every time we fail to give a child an appro cruel injustice by passing this legislation the focus of our attention today. priate education; every time we fail to pro which will return to them only a fraction What is beginning to emerge, through the vide a job for an able-bodied man or woman; of what they have lost and this after fog, is that we lawyers and judges-aided every time we ca.st someone into the life and a.betted by the inherently litigious na style cycle of poverty, we inflict upon them a several years of litigation. ture of Americans-have created many of handicap that is every bit a.s real as the I believe that a number of my col these problems. physical handicaps which other people face. leagues will find of interest the Chief It may be that even if we disciples of the We cannot tolerate these conditions and Justice's remarks with respect to the ap law do not invent new problems, we have we will not tolerate them. propriateness of the legal system in re done far too little to solve them or channel I see here today the spirit that is needed solving minor consumer disputes. The them into simpler mechanisms that will pro in this Nation if we are to progress. Chief Justice's speech fallows: duce tolerable results. So, I ask your assistance-you, who have If we are completely honest, we must a.t striven so mightily and so successfully, in REMARKS OF wARREN E. BURGER, CHIEF Jus least consider whether we a.re not in reality, your own behalf. TICE OF THE UNITED STATES somewhat like Pogo, the brainchild of that I ask you to share your priceless talents As the discussions at this conference have philosopher-humanist, Walt Kelly, who pro with all Americans so that together, we can shown, lawyers and judges, and social sci claimed "We have met the enemy, and he fashion an America that fulfills the promise entists and philosophers, have pondered for is us." of our National dream for all people. generations the problems arising from what I do not suggest in fact the "enemy" we Goodbye, I love you. we call minor, but vexing, disputes between have met is <;he legal profession. But the private parties and those between citizens "enemy" may be our willingness to assume and government--usually local government. that the more complex the process, the more NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON One year ago we sought again to probe un refined and deliberate the procedure, the MINOR DISPUTES resolved problems in this area, on the occa better the quality of justice which results. sion of the 70th anniversary of Roscoe But this is not necessarily so. My submis Pound's classical analysis of popular dissat sion is that we continue to engage in some HON. JAMES T. BROYHILL isfaction with the administration of justice. ruthless self-examination and inquire OF NORTH CAROLINA This conference is a very important fol whether our fascination with procedure, with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . low-up of the 1976 Pound Conference. Pres legal tests-now often evolving three or four Jdent Justin Stanley and the American Bar tiers deep-has not led to a. smug assumption Monday, July 11, 1977 Association deserve the thanks of multitudes that conflicts can be solved only by la.w Mr. BROYHILL. Mr. Speaker, this of Americans who are involved in these mi tra.ined people. It is possible tha.t--beca.use nor but often painful disputes with their of our training-we have tended to ca.st a.11 week the House is scheduled to consider fellow human beings or with government, for disputes into a. legal framework that only H.R. 3816, amendments to the Federal which few adequate, cost-effective remedies legally trained professionals can cope with, Trade Commission Act. One of the pro are now available. I use the phrase "minor and in traditional legal ways. If that is so visions of this legislation would create a disputes" as you have in a sense as a term a.nd I put it a.s a question-we a.re in a. private right of action for violations of of art. Because we described some problems vicious cycle. FTC trade regulation rules and cease and and disputes as minor for statistical pur I do not suggest this has been the purpose desist orders. These suits could be poses does not mean they are unimportant or objective in the minds of lawyers, judges, brought as class action lawsuits but to the individuals involved, or easy to re and law professors, a.s we have developed and solve. In fact, thanks are due to dedicated refined legal theory and procedures, but it under more relaxed procedural rules than judges in small claims courts, and to arbitra may be the effect of our preoccupation with those governing other class actions as tion · systems, which recognize that "minor legal theory, orderliness and formalism. set out in the Federal Rules of Civil Pro disputes," if not disposed of in some reason As I pondered these matters in recent cedure. This authority would, of course, ably acceptable manner, can create fester years, two experiences came into focus, one be in addition to the authority which we ing social sores and undermine confidence in recent and one long past--one almost flip gave the FTC, just 2 short years ago, to society. From what I have been told of your pant and one serious. bring suits on behalf of consumers in deliberations of yesterday and this morning, One of my mother's many grandchildren jured by an unfair or deceptive trade I gather that some of our preconceptions a.t about age four suffered outbreaks of pain may be shaken. That, of course is the pur ful body rash. The family physician finally practice. pose of this gathering of a. select group of gave up and sent the patient to a. renowned Proponents oft.his provision argue that thoughtful professionals, who a.re interested specialist in dermatology. For weeks the child class actions are needed in order to pro in "people problems." My criticism of legal was examined, treated, given injections and tect consumers. I have some doubts, how educe. tion beginning when I tried to teach X-ra.yed. All clothing and bedclothing was ever, whether this is really an eff'ective law long, long a.go was that it was good on burned and replaced, as multiple medicines consumer protection device or merely a principles and not good about people. The were employed. One day, the pa.rents being law in its broadest sense is not an end in occupied, the child was ta.ken to the derma "get-rich-quick" scheme for plaintiff' itself-it is a. tool-a. means to a.n end. And tologist by Grandmother. As usual, the child lawyers. When the Subcommittee on that end is justice a.s nearly a.s fallible hu was disrobed, placed on the examining table Consumer Protection and Finance and mans can achieve it-for people and their where the first time she saw the condition. later the full Commerce Committee con problems. And we must not exalt the means With some hesitation she said, "Doctor, if sidered this legislation, there was ab a.t the expense of the ends. We in the law you will excuse me for saying so, this child solutely no discussion of whether the have been too much like the pathologists isn't sick; he just should not eat eggs-he's July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22313 allergic to them." The astonished specialist, sion-ma.kers must be trained or na.tura.1- a.void the frustrations, tensions, and hostili having ma.de no progress for weeks, was sensi and practical-psychologists, with an abun ties that often flow from unresolved con ble enough to agree to a.ct on Grandmother's dance of the milk of human kindness and flicts. We do not need to call on psychiatrists diagnosis. The result of a. no-egg diet was a. patience. or clinical psychologists to tell us that a. complete recovery in a. matter of days! There is a. notion a.broad in our times sense of injustice rankles and festers in the That experience, now more than thirty especially since the 60's and early 70's which human breast and the dollar value of the con yea.rs pa.st, ca.me to my mind when the Chief I hope will pass-that traditional litiga.tion flict is not always the measure of tension and of State of a. developing but by no means beca.use it has been successful in some pub irritation produced. A landlord who delays poverty-stricken country visited the United lic areas-is the cure-all for every problem unduly in repairing a defective radiator or States and I had occasion for some extended that besets us or annoys us. Litigation is in refrigerator can produce unhappy chain re conversations with him a.bout the problems deed the cure for many problems and con actions on children and adults. A defective of his country. He told me he had read that flicts and is inescapable when new rights a.re roofing or siding job on the home, defective I had been working to make improvements evolving and new remedies being sought. And work on the family car or the television set in our system of justice and wanted to dis our profession can take pride in the role of sometimes can produce serious consequences cuss what his country should do to modern the law in improving the quality of life for comparable to those of a major illness. ize its judicial processes. the disadvantaged, in righting historic wrongs Only the most effective small claims courts I hastened to tell him our progress was very suffered by minorities, in assuring true free are dealing effectively with such claims. The slow and that a.t best some of our programs dom in fact to those for whom freedom was volume of claims has gone beyond the had begun to turn the tide somewhat. He once only a. promise. But the role of law, in capacity of many of those courts--as is true asked me to explain what I meant and I re terms of formal litigation, with the full of all courts today. And when the injured sponded that our system as a. whole was a. panoply of time-consuming and expensive party must make more than one trip to the bit like a. country that was trying to double procedural niceties, can be overdone. court because he or she was not advised its production of coal and iron while con The consumer with $300 in controversy for of the kind of evidence or witnesses needed, tinuing to use 19th century methods and car repairs, or a. dispute on a defective roofing or when the injured party learns there is no equipment. Not rea.lizint: the truth of what job, or a malfunctioning home appliance, pre way to enforce his ler6al victory, the ten I said, he put my appraisal of progress to fers a reasonably satisfactory resolution to the sions multiply and insult is added to the in modesty and he went on to describe what protracted legal proceedings that are charac jury. Traditional courts or even specialized he called the primitive system of justice in tertistic of courts. I suggest that most peo small claims courts cannot always cope real his country, especially dealing with small ple will prefer an effective, common since istically with such problems. disputes in the rural areas. He said in his tribunal of non-lawyers, or a mix of two non The recent experience with no-fault insur country, as in so many underdeveloped coun lawyers and one lawyer, rather than the tradi ance is encouraging, even though those sys tries, ea.ch village had a.n informal body of tional court system to resolve his modest tems needed time to develop. We must re respected elders to whom the villagers took but irritating claim. member how long it has ta.ken traditional their disputes. Their claims were resolved The small claims courts which began early legal systems to evolve-and how far they under something resembling our process of in the century have served a very useful fall short, after generations or even cen final arbitration-with no appeals and no function and many continue to do so. But turies of experience. review-and of course no lawyers, for they you, who have taken the time from busy Innovations toward solving the problems had none in rural areas. He said that their lives to attend this conference, need not be you are considering a. t this conference will studies showed most disputes were disposed told that changing conditions have made take time, but the patterns of centuries of of with rough justice but that he wanted to some of those courts less than adequate as experience with informal and formal arbi modernize the system to make sure that true problem solvers. tration strongly suggest that this is one key justice was done for the people of his co1,1n My early reference to the informal, neigh area to explore. Whether we look to the his try. borhood-type mechanisms long used-and tory of great institutions like the American It had been suggested to him that a. team stil~ used by both underdeveloped and some Arbitration Association or the International of American legal experts might be enlisted to very advanced societies--points to what I am Chamber of Commerce, or that of labor survey their problems and recommend a. plan sure you have been considering. By what unions_ with grievances in an industrial or system of courts and improved legal edu ever name we call it-arbitration, or media plant, we can see their procedures, which are cation, and he asked what I thought of the tion, or conciliation-or a combination of all simple and informal when compared with idea.. I told him the story of the Grand three-centuries of human experience un traditional litigation, have ma.de incalcul mother and the derma. tologist and said my dergirds these informal kinds of procedures. able contributions to commerce and trade honest answer to him-at least for the pres The labor movement, beginning in Europe and labor peace-to society as a whole. ent-was to let well enough a.lone. I did not more than a century ago, developed informal The 45 years of experience with the Jewish say, for fear he would think it foolish flat dispute resolution which today settles a. vast array of difficult, tension-producing conflicts Conciliation Board, an extra-legal commu tery, but I confess it occurred to me that nity court, here in New York, suggest that a. team of American legal experts, combined in industry and which helped make this country the great producer that it is. Great potential litigants are willing to submit dis with social and political scientists, might putes to laymen they trust, and that such well tour the towns and villages of his coun credit is due to the practical working men who devised the early grievance procedures informal tribunals can reduce conflicts and try. They might well, as social scientists have tensions in a community. Indeed, the past in studying primitive countries, learn les employed by labor unions. The American Ar bitration Association and the International ten years proves there can be successful sons that would be useful in such confer resolution of disputes without even resort ences as this dealing with minor dispute Chamber of Commerce have demonstrated, resolution. on another level and on a. larger sea.le, the to arbitration. The success of the Action Line value of arbitration methods, less formal and and Hot-Lines throughout the country con I do not want to be understood as endors firms this. I am told that an Action Line in ing Shakespeare's observation that to improve less rigid tha.r traditional litigation. Count less variations and permutations have evolved Los Angeles has been receiving over 1,500 things, the first step is to "kill all the la.w complaints each week. Not only do they as yers"-indeed I categorically reject that to deal with lesser disputes than those Shakespearean slander-but I must also re great organizations are concerned with, the sist in resolving specific disputes but they ject the idea that we lawyers have all the well-known Philadelphia. plan being a. prime are also attempting to educate consumers answers. We do not. It is often pointed out example. to prevent many such disputes. Indeed, the that the United States has more practicing The complexities of our social structure to sponsoring radio station (KNBC) trains con lawyers per 100,000 population than any so day a.re placing unacceptable tension-pro sumers how best to initiate complaints. That ciety in the world-14 times the ratio of mod ducing burdens in two areas: first, the eco station has been responsible for compelling ern Japan, which is also a. highly complex, nomics of law practice, with hourly rates manufacturers to change labels on nationally highly developed society. Sometimes this is be,zinning at $35 or more, make it unrealistic sold products and has helped draft new said to make a. point favorable to our pro to have lawyers involved in minor disputes, consumer sta. tutes.1 fession and sometimes to disparge it. unless they are subsidized by government. The notion that most people want bla.ck What some critics overlook is that we have That, of course, is an increasing reality, but robed judges, well-dressed lawyers, and fine a very complex social and economic system even with budgets running into the millions, paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve and, happily, we afford individuals more it is doubtful that lawyers can be supplied their disputes is not correct. People with rights and provide more remedies than most to everyone. Even government-financed problems, like people with pains, want relief, other societies. To maintain that standard neighborhood law offices find it difficult to and they want it as quickly and inexpen will always require a. great many people- deliver legal services at much less than $15 sively as possible. Even those who do not many of them lawyers, some of the new breed to $20 an hour. More important, fully trained grasp the meaning of cost-effectiveness know of para-legals, numerous decisionma.kers, and litigation lawyers are not needed to resolve the difference between total frustration and then some others as yet unidentified. some kinds of conflicts and, except for pa.rt tolerable satisfaction. OverwhelmiJ?gfy they I cannot escape a. feeling that people with of the decision-ma.king process, they may be will settle for a tolerable solution. Interdis the kind of problems we a.re concerned a.bout a handicap. ciplinary-comparative research is bearing are more likely to go to a local neighbor The second factor is that there are many this out. hood tribunal including not more than one conflicts that fall into today's classification lawyer surrounded by two non-lawyers, than as minor disputes, which no one is solving 1 Earl Johnson, Valerie Kantor & Eliza.beth a. blackrobed Judge. Such people-the deci- and which ought to be resolved if we are to Schwarts, outside the Courts, page 73. 22314 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 If there a.re a.ny here who ca.me looking Last week, Mr. Kilpatrick did an ex of any member of the Court, but he wrote for a. perfect solution, I fear they are doomed cellent piece on the Supreme Court and to full-blown dissenting opinions to support to disappointment. There are few, lf any, his objections. perfect solutions to human problems and Lewis Powell and I ask unanimous con sent that it be printed in the Extension The pattern that emerges Is essentially a conflicts and none I know of in the kinds pattern of order. Mr. Justice Powell is an of conflicts you are considering. I do not of Remarks. orderly ma.n. His sense of personal reserve know what Judge Learned Hand said about There being no objection, the article constantly is reflected in his view of the arbitration and other informal means of was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Judicial function. judges holding life tenure, resolving disputes, but I recall what he said as follows: he insists, have no business impo.sing their a.bout traditional 11 tigatlon : RISE OF MR. JUSTICE POWELL own social or moral views upon either Con "I must say that as a litigant I should gress or the States. Even to prohibit the bru dread a lawsuit beyond almost anything else (By James J. Kilpatrick) tal paddling of a disruptive pupil, the Eighth short of sickness tand death." 2 WASHINGTON .-The Supreme Court wound Amendment must not be twisted out of con I do not know what Judge Hand would up its October term on June 29, after nine text. He is not much for reading between think about those who seem to regard litiga months of labor that produced no remarkable the lines of a. statute; his task, as he con tion as one of the essences of life, a.nd who surprises. Among the developments that strues it, is to figure out what the lines actu scorn any solution short of the tra.d~tional, came ca.me as no surprise a.t all is the rise of ally sa.y. but the harsh truth is that unless we de Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. At 69, after only It is too early to sa.y if Mr. Justice Powell vise substitutes for the courtroom proc six years on the bench, he has emerged as ultimately wm rank among the great Justices esses-and do so quickly-we ma.y be well on the intellectual strong man of the Burger of the Court. He is no phrase-maker. His our way to a society overrun by hordes of Court. opinions tend to lose cruising speed because lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of This expanding reputation surely wm not of their footnote be.Ila.st. There is some truth Judges in numbers never before contem startle those who have followed Mr. Justice in the observation that he stands out so con plated. Powell's career both in the law and in public spicuously because he sits as a. Virginia Lawyers and Judges have ma.de and are service. I freely confess my own persona.I cardinal among a Court of wrens and spar making great contributions to achieving a affection for the Virginia. Jurist-the first rows. In any event, let us forgive Richard fair and humane society. Properly employed, Virginian to serve on the Court, incidentally, Nixon at least some of his sins by thanking since Peter V. Daniel more than a. century him for this much: He put Lewis Powell on with their experience and talents channeled, a.go. they can be the healers. Unrestrained, they the Court. A court reporter described Mr. Justice ca.n aggravate the problem. As with most Powell the other day as "the Virginia aristo experts a.nd specialists, they are splendid crat." Certainly the Virginia part is true BIASED REPORTING OF NEWS servants but terrible masters. Their place enough. Born in Suffolk, Va., in 1907, he re in the resolution of minor disputes is more ceived his first law degree from Washington likely as fact-finders and decision-makers and Lee {his second came from Harvard), and HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY than as advocates. settled down to the practice of corporate la.w OF MISSOURI James Marshall, a thoughtful student of in Richmond in 1932. But we knew him in IN THF,: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES legal systems, touched on what it ls we are Richmond as much more than a top lawyer trying to grapple with in the closing quarter in the state's most prestigious law firm. We Monday, July 11, 1977 of the 20th century-and what you have knew him as chairman of the city school come to this conference to study. He wrote: board, then as member and president of the Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, the newspaper "Because law has not developed its own State Board of Education, and as a. tireless industry in this country is a fascinating experimental discipline, it has the respon worker in every civic enterprise that came business. Their professed dedication to sibility to test its own 'make believe' doc along. the unbiased reporting of news is some trine by whatever scientific methods are When I first met the gentleman in 1946, times open to question. The protection of available and then adjust those doctrines he was Colonel Powell, Just returned from the printed page by our Constitution is insofar as it can-to reality. If the law can the war with the Legion of Merit, a Bronze one of our great assets. Howe.ver, news not achieve this within the traditions of Star and the French Croix de Guerra. with persons are expected to show some sense the courtroom, then it would seem that sub Palm. His continuing interest in mllltary aif stitute legal institutions should be provided fa.irs was manifested many years later in his of social responsibility and devotion to that are better suited to reality. What is re service on Nixon's Blue Ribbon Panel to the ideals of this Nation under whose flag quired, is social invention in the law based study the Department of Defense. they are allowed to operate. on findings of the social sciences." Mo.st of his reputation, of course, results I would not permit any newspaper to I agree. not from education or defense, but from the be denied its right to formulate its own I commend the American Bar Association law. He served in 1964-65 as president of the editorial policy. The St. Louis Globe and this conference for being venturesome American Bar Association; he pioneered in Democrat and the Post-Dispatch are the and imaginative in seeking new ways to re the study of legal services to the poor; and in two most widely distributed St. Louis duce social irritations a.nd tensions with October 1971, Nixon nominated him to suc ceed Hugo Black on the Court. newspapers. Because they are so much ' minimum delay, complexity, and prohibitive at variance on major issues, I want to expense to those who ca.n least afford it. I It has proved a. remarkably happy ap hope we will see concrete experiments and pointment. A few Nixon-haters, knowing share with my colleagues the separate accomplishments as your work proceeds. nothing of Powell's integrity, leaped to a.n editorial treatment of the same subject immediate conclusion that the nominee by these paper giants. I think you will would function as a. rubber-stamp, doctri agree that the Globe-Democrat has a RISE OF MR. JUSTICE POWELL ne.ire conservative. They were swiftly dis- value system that appears to go beyond . abused. In his six terms on the Court, Mr. Justice Powell has indeed sided most fre the boundaries of what is considered fair HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. quently with Burger, Rehnquist a.nd Black and prudent. These two reprints ap OF vmGINIA man, but his growing eminence derives not peared in the St. Louis Journalism Re from ideology, but from scholarship and view and is one of the more outstanding IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES reason. examples of the consistency with which Monday, July 11, 1977 In the term Just ended, Mr. Justice Powell the Globe-Democrat distorts and colors Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi wrote 5 of the Court's 142 signed opinions, the news events of the day: dent, Virginians are proud of the excel matching Rehnquist and White in majority [From the St. Louis Journalism Review) output. He caught some of the toughest cases EDrrORIALS--IS THERE A DIFFERENCE? lent record being made on the Supreme of the yea.1·. In the Arlington Heights case, in Court of the United States by Mr. Jus volving charges of racial discrimination in NoTE.-The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the tice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. zoning law, he cleared new ground in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat may have a Joint Yes, Virginians are proud of Mr. Jus Court's emerging emphasis upon th& inten publishing agreement, which in the words of tice Powell but those of us who have tions of public officials. In the Mia.ml pupil the late Sena.tor Ph1111p Ha.rt ts a.kin to known him through the years are not at paddling case, he braved a. liberal fire.storm "profit-sharing," but there a.re innumerable to assert that the Eighth Amendment does examples that editorial diversity remains, all suprised by the splendid record he is witness these two editorials. making. not apply to disciplinary measures in the public schools. In the abortion cases on June One who has known him long and well 20, he reasoned cogently that the Constitu [From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is the able national syndicated column tion secures no automatic right of abortion. April 16-17, 1977] ist, James J. Kilpatrick. In other cases, Mr. Justice Powell dealt HU114AN RIGHTS FOR THE FBI with wiretapping, with obscenity, with labor 2 The spectacle of 300 FBI a.gents gathered "Deficiencies of Trials to Rea.ch the Heart law, and with lllegltimate children, lllegal on the steps of the federal courthouse in New of the Matter", November 17, 1921, published alleris, voting rights, double Jeopardy, the York in support of a former colleague facing in Lectures on Legal Topics, page 105, line taxation of insurance companies, a major prosecution should ca.use serious soul-search 3, by Association of the Bar of the City of antitrust case, and a stubborn grandmother ing by an Administration professes deep com New York. in Ohio. He dissented only 14 times, the least mitment to human rights around the globe. July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2'2315 Who ca.res about the human rights of John But Mr. Bell's answer should not be to stop With the increased flexibility in re J. Kearney, a retired FBI supervisor who has the prosecution of Mr. Kearney and other sponse offered by the neutron bomb, we been indicted of charges of illegal mall FBI agents, against whom there is evidence openings, wire tapping and conspiracy for of law violation, but to order the prosecution increase the chances of avoiding full trying to cope with the menace of the radical of CIA agents against whom there ls simi scale nuclear war if attacked in Europe Weatherman Underground from 1970 to 1972? lar evidence. As for FBI morale, the bureau's or elsewhere by conventional forces. With a heart-warming show of strength esprit de corps should not be boosted by However, the existence of this weapon the 300 FBI agents who came from as far continuing to wink at its violations of the does not relieve us of the necessity of away as Baltimore and Buffalo to cheer law, as those in authority did for 20 years. vastly improving our conventional mili Kearney showed that they care. Finally, now that the FBI agents• First tary posture. Increased quality and FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley showed Amendment right to demonstrate has been quantity of hardware and increased size that he ca.res by seeking a review of Kearney's respected (as it should have been), perhaps case by Attorney General Griffin B. Bell. the agency will be a little more understand and readiness of our Reserve Forces are Kelley, conscious of the serious effect on ing of citizens' desires to exercise their First extremely high-priority national secu FBI morale, and aware that CIA agents were Amendment rights. rity matters. not prosecuted for similar violations, has The outcome of the Senate debate on promised to use every means open to him for the neutron bomb has even deeper and a fair resolution of Kearney's predicament. THE NEUTRON BOMB IN more general significance. Great con Sensible Americans who appreciate that the fusion exists in all parts of the world FBI has conscientiously endeavored to pro PERSPECTIVE tect them from terrorist bombers should join with the administration's decisions to Director Kelley and the agents in defending withdraw troops from Korea, to "nor Kearney. At the worst it appears he may have HON. HARRISON "JACK" SCHMITT malize" relations with Communist China committed technical violations of the law OF NEW MEXICO and Cuba, to cancel production of the while on the trail of the Weatherman IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES B-1 bomber, to give up "bargaining radicals. Monday, July 11, 1977 chips" at the SALT talks before the Kearney is charged with directing a squad negotiating begins, to get tough with of New York City FBI agents to rob mail Mr. SCHMITT. Mr. President, the traditional allies such as Israel, to an boxes, steam open and copy personal letters Senate debate on the so-called neutron tagonize Latin American, African, and and eavesdrop on telephone calls. The alleged bomb highlights the terrible paradox offenses were against individuals suspected Asian nations, and to back away from of being in contact with the fugitives. in national and world security. With this long-term solutions to world energy and In order to have a solid case against Kear paradox, we must continue to be stronger economic problems. To counter this con ney the government should have to prove than any other nation, but we must con fusion we must begin to send consistent that someone suffered serious harm as a tinue to insure our strength is never and positive signals to friend and poten result of the FBI tactics. Otherwise Kearney tested by an enemy. tial friends and foes, alike. is being made a sacrificial victim for doing We must continue to create weapons The production of the neutron bomb, his duty in a manner that was intended to against which no potential enemy can protect Americans in general from untold along with the cruise missile, can be the violence. defend itself so that no weapons will first positive signals that the leader of Attorney General Bell would do well to ever be used by anyone. the free world is back in control of its intervene in the Kearney case and drop This paradox must be maintained. It national security. As the only Nation prosecution. Americans are not in the mood is a product of the invention of weapons with both the idealism and the power to to see an FBI hero made a martyr. In his of mass destruction and that only min protect freedom on this planet, we have concern for human rights, President Carter utes are required for those weapons to no other choice. should be mindful that he has an obligation be used. No longer can free men wait to protect the FBI from unreasoned abuse. to be attacked before they prepare their The dignified appearance of the 300 FBI agents who gathered in behalf of Kearney defense. This is a fact of survival in our TOO MUCH MIDDLE EAST TALK speaks volumes. These were not dirty, foul third century of national existence. mouthed radicals shouting obscenities or The neutron bomb is not some new disturbing the peace. They were quiet, reso death ray. It is an extension of the HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI lute, patriotic, fearless, dedicated public technology of the hydrogen or H-bomb. OF ILLINOIS servants who put their lives on the line We can now produce small H-bombs in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES every day to protect their fellow Ameri which radiation in the form of neutrons cans against external and internal dangers. Monday, July 11, 1977 And they were exercising their fundamental is enhanced over the effects of blast and Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the right to assemble peaceably to seek redress heat. We have "dissected" the H-bomb, Carter administration has been in office for a grievance. not created some new weapon. All nu for 6 months, and I believe the Presi clear weapons are terrible in their ef dent has received the necessary time to [From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 17, fects. All have radiation, blast, and heat. develop flrm international and domestic 1977) All will kill and destroy. The neutron policies. He was entitled to a prolonged LESSON FOR THE FBI bomb kills but destroys less than exist ing nuclear weapons of comparable size. honeymoon period, but I believe that time Passersby at the federal courthouse in New has ended. York City a few days ago were presented It is in Europe that we find the great The administration's international pol with the unusual spectacle of more than 300 est political significance of this neutron FBI agents congregated on the steps and ap bomb. There, we have fallen far behind icy is especially replete with contradic plauding one of their former colleagues who in balancing the conventional forces of tions, and it is difficult for anyone to was about to be arraigned on charges of il troops, tanks, artillery, and planes now trace a pattern in the Carter adminis legal mail-opening, wire-tapping and con tration foreign policy. spiracy. The demonstration was ironic for deployed against us in Eastern Europe. This foot-in-mouth poli'.::Y is addressed two reasons: first, the FBI has been known The bomb offers a means of countering in an editorial appearing in the Chicago to conduct surveillance operations against these large concentrations of troops Tribune of June 30, which I wish to in citizens who engaged in demonstrations, and, with minimum damage to civilian popu second, the law enforcement agents seemed lation and property. In our necessarily sert it at this time: to be saying that the law should not be en defensive situation in Western Europe, Too MUCH MIDDLE EAST TALK forced against one of their own. this minimizing of damage to civilian If the Carter administration has a single A further sign of FBI support for a double to flaw more serious than others, it ls the ten standard of law enforcement was provided life and property is very important dency of too many people to say too many by a statement from FBI Director Clarence our NATO allies. things about sensitive matters. The adminis Kelley asking Attorney General Griffin Bell The overall deterrent effect of the neu tration aroused a nest of hornets this week to review the case of former FBI supervisor, tron bomb will be to give the West in by saying that Israel should withdraw from John J. Kearney, who had just been indicted creased flexibility in limiting our re occupied territory on the West Bank of the in New York, presumably with the objective sponse to large-scale attack by conven Jordan River, in the Sinai Desert, the Golan of having Mr. Bell stop the prosecution. Mr. tional military forces against which we Heights, and the Gaza Strip as a means of Kelley said the Kearney indictment, the first achieving peace. ever of an FBI agent, had seriously affected have no other adequate defense. It be It no doubt took some guts to say this in FBI morale, and the director argued further comes an equalizer we would be willing a country with a powerful and vocal Jewish that CIA agents had been let off the hook to use if attacked, but which would make community, which was stirred to predictable for similar wrongdoing. a nuclear response by the East politically anger. It is equally certain that peace will in On the latter issue, Mr. Kelley has a point. unacceptable short of global war. fact require a substantial withdrawal. But 22316 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 neither guts nor accuracy are substitutes for We are faced in Montgomery County unauthorized public disclosures. In his dis wisdom, and it is hard to understand why with a unique problem. For over 20 years missal notice, he was told that " ... his ac the statement was issued even before Presi a reputable and responsible private con tions have not only compromised the Office dent Carter and Israel's new Prime Minister of Investigations, but have unjustifiably con Menahem Begin had their first talk. Mr. cern has been selling gravel and other tributed to the continuation of oublic doubt Begin is to arrive in Washington July 18. construction materials to the county for concerning the int egrit y of ail GSA em As former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ro1d construction and for coverings in ployees, and, if condoned, would certainly implied, an American statement would have playground and and park areas. These lead to administrative and management been more appropriate after the meeting sales took place with no one really aware chaos." than before. of the potential health risk present in the Robert Tucker lost his Civil Service appeal An indignant Israeli government has in stone. Only recently have county, State, and has filed suit against GSA and the Civil effect denied that there was any basis for and Federal agencies been active in de Service Commission for reinstatement and the implication that Mr. Begin's hard-line $500,000 damages. Robert Sullivan is still leadership is unwilling to discuss the Gaza fining the problem and working on awaiting the decision of CSC's Appeals Re Strip and the West Bank at peace negotia solutions. view Board. tions. If such a response was the statement's Several of the recommendations sent intent, it appears the Carter administration to the county by the EPA called for re has created a lot of trouble merely to es paving or removal of the rock in road FRANCE AND WEST GERMANY tablish what might have been thought ob ways and play areas throughout the vious : At peace negotiations, you negotiate. LEA VE THE UNITED STATES BE county. The county government e3timates HIND The statement could in fact hurt negotia that the cost for these recommendations tions by making both sides more intransi gent-the Israelis in order to show that they will be between $3 and $7 million. I am will not bow to U.S. pressure and the Arabs o.ff ering this bill because this is a problem HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE because they think we are committed to that was no one's fault and because the OF TEXAS supporting all of their demands. county is trying to meet all of the EPA's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES On one part of the statement, it seems recommendations. The major impedi to us, needed to be uttered: "We believe ment in the way is money. Due to the Monday, July 11, 1977 strongly that progress toward a negotiated p1rticipation of the Federal Government, Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, on Tues peace in the Middle East is essential this day, July 5, France and West Germany, year if future disaster is to be avoided." Al I feel it is proi:er for the Federal Govern though the Israelis objected to this state ment to provide financial aid. along with other Western European ment, too, as a form of pressure, there can nations, finalized agreements to work be little doubt that it is true. It is essential jointly in further development and for President Sadat of Egypt, one of the WHISTLE-BLOWERS HALL OF FAME: eventual commercialization of breeder more moderate Arab leaders, to produce a. ROBERT TUCKER AND ROBERT technology. satisfactory peace soon. His economic trou SULLIVAN The French and West Germans have bles continue to mount, and he could easily be replaced by someone less kindly disposed been working on these negotiations for toward negotiation. HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER 2 years. The result is an intensive Euro Former Secretary Kissinger achieved his OF COLORADO pean effort which the French believe will successes by serving as a middle man, a. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES give them 15 operating breeders by the relayer of messages, and, by that effort, a. year 2000 and the Germans perhaps one- catalyst. We'd be better off-in the Middle Monday, July 11, 1977 third that number. · East ai., in Africa-if we were to return to Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, to I wish to submit the New York Times, our earlier effective role as a quiet catalyst. day's article wraps up my series on July 6, account of the breeder agree whistle-blowers in the RECORD . I hope ment for my colleagues consideration as FEDERAL ASSISTAN0.E FOR ASBES my colleagues have found the articles we prepare to decide the fate of the TOS CONTAl\lf!NATION IN MONT informative of what the conscientious Clinch River breeder reactor and the GOMERY COUNTY whistle-blower is up against. U.S. breeder program. It is obvious to The following tale of Robert Tucker many that the United States is not and Robert Sullivan is from the Project changing anyone's mind about def erring HON. NEWTON I. STEERS, JR. on Official Illegality of the Institute for breeders, but rather that the rest of th€ OF MARYLAND Policy Studies, 1901 Q Street, NW., world is leaving the United States be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Washington, D.C.: hind. Monday, July 11 , 1977 ROBERT TUCKER AND ROBERT SULLIVAN The article follows: Robert Tucker, a General Services Admin EUROPEAN NATIONS SIGN ACCORDS ON DEVEL· Mr. STEERS. Mr. Speaker, today I am istration electrical engineer, went to the FBI OPING BREEDER REACTORS introducing a bill that would authorize in 1974 because he believed he had uncov the Secretary of Transrortation to pay (By Jonathan Kandell) ered a widespread pattern of contract abuses PARIS, July 5.-France, West Germany and not more than $4.5 mil1ion to Mont at his agency. Tucker found that GSA offi several other Western European nations to gomery County for the purpose of con cials in the Boston region were improperly day signed accords here for further research trolling asbestos contamination of the awarding no-bid cont racts to firms that had and development of nuclear breeder reactors ambient air. contributed to certain Republican candidates. and their eventual sale abroad. I have already introduced one bill that He requested that the FBI investigate, and Both Western European and United States would order three Federal agencies to he gave the documents to the Boston Globe. officials interpreted the agreements as a re The FBI conducted an investigation and is jection of President Carter's call for at least promulgate standards that would protect sued a report which found no basis for crimi the public health from asbestos con a temporary moratorium on breeder devel nal prosecution. They th1: n turned over all opment to avoid the spread of nuclear weap tamination of the ambient air. This is a documents to GSA officials, disclosing ons. problem that has first surfaced in Mont Tucker's identity. (He though he had gone The fuel used by the breeder reactor is plu gomerv County, Md. We should all be to the FBI in confidentiality) . Shortly there tonium, a material that can also be used for aware that several recent scientific pres after, Robert Tucker was fired for the meth the production of nuclear weapons. The entations have indicated that asbestos o:is he used in pressing his charges. breeder theoretically creates more plutonium mineral deposits are located up and down The General Services Administration con than it burns, and has thus gathered support the east coast as wen as parts of the ducted its own investigation of the matter among governments worried over the possi upon receipt of the documents. Their inter bility of a shortage of uranium. country west of the Mississippi. nal audit substantiated Tucker's charges. There is persuasive, but not fully com Earlier this year, President Carter said Robert Sullivan, a GSA in•.•estigator, read he opposed the use of plutonium as fuel in plete information that asbestos contami the audit and felt that Tucker had been the United States. But lobbying by the nu nation in differing quantities and con treated unfairly. He believed that GSA offi clear power in'iustry has kept alive the possi centrations can lead to mesothelioma a cials were not going to do anything about bility that funding for a demonstration fatal cancer of the chest cavity; or asbes the matter, and aft er consulting his priest breeder in Clinch River, Tenn., may be ap tosis, a nonmalignant tumor that can also and the government's Code of Ethics, he sent proved by Congress. a copy of the audit report to the Boston be fatal. A combination of smoking and Globe. The Globe printed a series of stories DISPUTE WITH BONN AND PARIS RECALLED absestos contamination is especially dan on the contract abuses, and the situation The United States has already clashed with gerous even though the affliction will not was subser:.uently cleaned up. France and West Germany over their plans manifest itself for 20 to 30 years. Robert Sullivan was also fired for making to export uranium reprocessing equipment. July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22317 The French have held back on a deal to sup domestic protests have led to public debate Conceived and Directed by Micha.el A. Del ply the technology to Pakistan, and a.re ex on breeders. Protest movements have also Medico. pected to announce this decision publicly added uncertainty in the Netherlands, Production Supervisor and Sound: P. after the military coup today. The West Ger Belgium and Italy. Bra.ndstein. mans have refused to rescind commitments Production Sta.ff: Joy Lilly, Nancy Ploeger, to supply Brazil with enrichment equipment. and Diana Dela Cuesta. President Carter's objections to these two Reception: Immediately following the per deals were based on the fa.ct that reprocess MICHAEL DEL MEDICO CAPTIVATES fortnance, Whittall Pav111on. ing of spent uranium fuel produces plu AUDIENCE AT LIBRARY OF CON Michael A. Del Medico has appeared in tonium, unusable as a fuel in conventional GRESS many stage, film, and television productions. reactors, but capable of being diverted for On and off-Broadway he has performed in use in weapons. The objections to breeders The Disenchanted, Inherit the Wind, Burn a.re essentially the sa.me--they produce plu HON. FRANK ANNUNZIO Me to Ashes, Cicero, Line, and I Dwelt in tonium. OF ILLINOIS Bloomingdale's. He appeared in the premiere The accords signed today a.re of two kinds. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and subsequent ta.ping for television of The first calls for cooperation between France Tombstone and played a lea.ding role in and West Germany in research and develop Monday, July 11, 1977 Children's Ga.me, a film shown at the Venice ment. The other accords create a company, Mr. ANNUNZIO. Mr. Speaker, I would Film Festival. As Director of the Action including French, West German, Dutch, Bel like to call to the attention of my col Theatre Repertory, he wrote and directed gian and Italian interests to market breeders. What A Day!, which was presented at Lin A number of prototype breeders a.re under leagues that Michael A. Del Medico, an coln Center and The Cloisters, and then construction or in operation in Western Eu Italian-American playwright, actor, and toured the country under the sponsorship of rope. France has a 250-mega.wa.tt breeder director, recently appeared at the Library CBS-TV. Appearing annually as Guest Artist that operated for a.bout 16 months, then of Congress as the Russian author, at Lehigh University, he has directed Gorky's closed down for half a year because of tech Maxim Gorky, in the world premier of Lower Depths and played Prospero in The nical problems, and recently resumed its his play, "This Italy of Yours." Tempest and the title role in Macbeth. Mr. operation. The French have decided to move The play, which was most successful Del Medico created M. Gorky: A Portrait, in a.head with a commercial 1200-mega.wa.tt and well-received, was brought to Wash which he opened at the Vandam Theatre off breeder. ington by the Italian American Founda Broadway. He has appeared in Portrait on SOVIET NOT A PARTY TO ACCORDS tion, and a news release by the founda the Soviet cruise ship T/s Ma.ksim Gorki, at West Germany, together with the Nether the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, and in tion on the play as well as a copy of the the Cooperstown Concert Series. Scenes from lands and Belgium, is constructing a 200- Library's program of the event follows: mega.watt prototype breeder. The British Portrait were televised as part of the Theatre GORKY IN ITALY MONODRAMA DAZZLES in America series on PBS-TV. Mr. Del Medico have two research breeders opera.ting in AUDIENCE AT LmRARY OF CONGRESS Scotland. The Soviet Union, which was not has been honored by a special exhibit of a party to today's accords, has a 350-mega. WASHINGTON, D.C.-A remarkable portrayal memorab11ia. and photos of his program at watt breeder that is also used for desalting of the great Russian literary giant, Maxim the Oorki Museum in Moscow. La.st sea.son of seawater, and is building a 600-mega.wa.tt Gorky in Italy, stunned and dazzled an over he repeated Portrait at the Vandam Theatre, reactor. flowing crowd at the Library of Congress and has toured widely to great acclaim. Mr. Europeans tend to defend breeders for recently. Michael Del Medico's virtuoso per Del Medico now appears at the Library of variety of reasons, including the following: formance as Gorky in "This Italy of Yours" Congress in the first production of "This brought cheers and a few tears in this amaz Italy of Yours," his new program covering There a.re few secure sources of energy ing performance by this br1lla.nt young actor. the years 1906-1913 which Gorky spent in for most Western Eurooean countries, which Del Medico not only starred in the vehicle Italy. must import most of their oil, coal, gas and but also conceived and directed this world The Italian American Foundation, With uranium. The breeder reactor, by producing premier. The play was sponsored Jointly by which the Library cooperates in this pres more fuel than it consumes, thus becomes an The Italian American Foundation and the entation, is a non-profit, independent attractive source of energy. Library of Congress. agency in Washington, D.C., which coordi A corollary of this argument is that the The one man show in which Del Medico nates nationwide programs having impact United States can afford to take a stand became the famous author who penned "The on Italian Americans and affirms the cultural against the potential hazards posed by Lower Depths" as well as other plays and heritage of Italian Americans. breeders because it has large reserves of novels, weaved tales of his stay in Italy be coal, uranium, oil and gas, and what Euro tween 1906 and 1913. Del Medico, alone on peans view as a strong relationship with almost a ba.re stage, dominated the audi Middle Ea.st oil producers, particularly the torium with his sure presence and with a COMMENDING THE GOLDEN RAIN Saudis. voice whose range and power communicated NEWS Another argument made in favor of breed an intimate portrait of a truly great writer ers is that Western Europe holds a tech who loved Italy and brought the Italy of the nological lead over the United States. Of early 20th Century to life. HON. MARK W. HANNAFORD ficials say the Americans will probably come A stunning performance. OF CALIFORNIA around to accepting the inevitability of Italian American Foundation Chairman, breeders and Europe should be prepared to Jeno F. Pa.ulucci and Executive Director, Paul IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVF.S meet its needs and seize a share of the ex J. Asciolla. brought the play to Washington Monday, July 11, 1977 port market. to emphasize the cultural heritage of Ameri cans of Italian descent. The Italian American Mr. HANNAFORD. Mr. Speaker, I EUROPEANS DISCOUNT HAZARDS Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit, independent would like to bring to your attention the Europeans have tended to discount the po agency in Washington, D.C. Its purpose is special Memorial Da:v edition of the tential hazards posed by the creation of to promote, publicize, monitor and coordinate Leisure World News, the official publi large amounts of plutonium, and have said programs on the nation~! level \'vith· an im that it is possible to create strict safeguards pact on Italian Americans. cation for residents of Leisure World in against its use for weapons. Seal Beach, Calif. A distinguished audience composed of peo 1 With the Europeans see potential long ple from all walks of life included: Con .The May 26 issue paid high tribute to ra.nge economic benefits in breeders, their gressman and Mrs. Robert Giaimo, Congress those who so selflessly made the ultimate construction costs run into the billions of man Joseph Adda.bbo, Msgr. Geno Baroni sacrifice for their Nation. Members of dollars. If the European economies continue Foundation President and Assistant Secretary the Leisure World community shared in to show sluggish growth, an expensive of HUD and Al Stern Special Assistant to the the production of this fine paper by breeder program could be a prime candidate White House for the Arts and Humanities. in a budget cut. contributing wartime photographs which Domestic opposition to nuclear energy got PROGRAM brought back to me a flood of memories started later in most Western European In 1906, Maxim Gorky was an author in of comrades who shared my own war countries than the United States, but it exile from Czarist Russia. After a brief stay experiences. Some of them returned with has now burgeoned into an effective move in America, the internationally famous and me, and others did not. ment and breeder reactors a.re a likely target. highly controversial Russian writer, humani Mr. Speaker, I would be happy to make In West Germany, legal victories won by tarian, and revolutionary went to live in available copies of this Memorial Day opponents have slowed plans to have 30 Italy. His next seven years were spent liv commemorative for the asking. nuclear power reactors in operation by 1985. ing and writing among his "beloved Italians." In France, opposition is being mounted In 1913 (Gorky left Italy. But he would I am proud to represent the people of against the 1,200 megawatt Superphenix return.... Seal Beach Leisure World, and I am breeder even before the start of construc "This Italy of Yours," andante from the life proud of their own substantial contribu tion. In Brita.in, both economic costs and and writings of Maxim Gorky. tion to American journalism. ,
22318 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 THE BREATHLESS COTTON pensate its victims, American businessmen cotton and the myriad products into which it WORKERS and health officials were still insisting that could be m '.:l.de. While unions had been the disease did not exist, at least among bolstered by the brick and mortar of picket cotton mill workers in the United Shtes? lines .a nd strikes in the North, another type HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS And why is it that while the disease has of structure had been hammered into being OF CALIFORNIA been acknowledged in America for almost in the South and Sout hwest-the cotton a decade now, industry's irresponsible ways textile industry's version of the company IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have yet to be adequately checked by gov town. These towns were isolation wards where Monday, July 11, 1977 ernment? nothing entered or exited except by company The symptoms of byssinosis are easily ob edict; but company heads in Fayetteville, Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, the Oc servable and detectable, even in the early North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; cupational Safety and Health Adminis stages of the dise.rne. The chest tightness of Prattville, Alabama, and the like were self tration, having just concluded hearings "Monday fever," which foiled the flute play righteous: They were providing work for on its proposed cotton dust standards for er and bicyclist, signals the onset of trouble; "their people"-native, white, "un-Bolshe the textile industry, is now reviewing the it occurs as a kind of shock reaction on the vized" former farmers and mountaineers; public's input and preparing a final first day one returns to work after an ab- they were restoring a devastated land. standard. Byssinosis, or "brown lung , sence in a relatively dust-free environment. Today the chambers of commerce of these Then, if exposure to cotton dust is not cur towns claim they have diversified, but there disease," afflicts thousands of American tailed, the bronchial tubes constrict, and are still such places as Easley, South Caro textile workers who breathe cotton dust, later these airw3.ys may permanently nar lina, which boasts [even large cotton mills and the current standard of 1,000 micro row. Next a chronic cough, phlegm-filled or (two owned by a Dan River subsidiary, the grams per cubic meter of air is a shame otherwise, develops along with increased rest by Alice Manufacturing) , many other ful indicator of disregard for employee breathlessness. A paroxysm of coughing often textile processing plants, and a slogan, "What health. The proposed 200-microgram ends with vomiting. Easley Makes, Make Easley." Just as the standard, a significant and long overdue In time, the chest becomes barrel-shaped monotonous rows of company-built house3 and fixed in elevation, as though one is stuck are hardly obscured by additions and shrubs, reduction, will still induce a serious in in a deep inhalation, and the disease often the intangible vestiges of that repressive era cidence of lung disorders and hopefully ushers in bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, can still be perceived t here and elsewhere in will be lowered even further as tech and other lung disorders. Finally, there may the Cotton Belt. Only 10.5 per cent of all nology permits. be total disability and, and uncommonly, textile workers, for example, are organized, An article in the current issue of the death, since byssinosis places undue strain making textiles the least unionized industry Progressive provides an interesting back on the heart and thus may lead to coronary in the country. ground to the cotton dust debate, and I failure. In Gre3.t Britain, on the other hand, cotton urge my colleagues to familiarize them Cotton dust, on the other hand, is not so workers have been among the most strongly easily characterized. It ranges in size from organized groups of wage earners since the selves with this issue: particles resembling ashes or gray snow 1870s. Until World War I, British cotton THE BREATHLESS COTTON WORKERS flakes, large enough to see with the naked workers' unions were the only ones organiz (By Jeanne Schinto) eye, to those so small they cannot be seen ing women effectively: In 1910, the cotton even under .an optical microscope. Never unions' female membership was 150,000- Bernardino Ramazzini, "Treatise on the 70 per cent of all unionized women. And in Diseases of Tradesmen" ( 1705) : 'Tis a sor homogeneous, cotton dust may contain soil, fungi, bacteria, pesticides, ground-up plant 1958, a six-month stoppage at a Rochdale mill did profit that's accompanied by the de not only achieved the reinstatement of a struction of health. matter ( called "trash"), and other contami nants grown or harvested along with the union representative whose dio: charge had A textile worker in Ulster once played in a occasioned the strike, but also the dismissal flute band. During the first day of work fol cotton. The finer aspects of the cause-effect rela of the manager responsible and the reorga lowing a summer vacation he felt "stuffed nization of the firm. up," so he skipped band practice that eve tionship between the dust and the disease have baffled some scientists. The confusion The unions gave British cotton workers ning, but promised the band leader he would the power to demand that byssinosis be attend the weekly practice the following has been used by both industry and govern men t--first to deny the existence of bys checked, while much of t he re,t of the Monday. During the rest of the week, the world-including the U.S. Cotton Belt-was worker's health seemed good. Come another sinosis and later to delay its prevention. Long after the prevalence of byssinosis here still laboring under the old common-law Monday, however, he noticed the chest theory that employes must run all work tightness again. He attended practice but had been confirmed, American cotton com pany scientists were chasing enzymes, track related health and safet y risks. In 1932, the had to leave early because playing was such British government, for the first time any an effort. On Tuesday and for the rest of ing histamines, and testing the relationship between smoking and dust diseases, claiming where, officially recognized byssinosis as an the week he felt fine, but every Monday he occupational disease. Five years later, there felt breathless. Finally, he had to g1ve up all the while that they could not begin to solve the problem until they properly scruti were more reforms; under the Factory Act the b i nd entirely, because the band leader of 1937, the British mandated medical in wouldn't let him play on weekends if he nized it for at least another few years. Similarly, government contended that it spections of workplaces, compulsory report didn't practice on Mondays. ing of industrial diseases, and compensation A worker in another Ulster mill bicycled could not expect industry needlessly to over of disease and disabled workers. to and from work. On Mondays, however, he protect its workers-in its scheme of things, In sharp contrast, the U.S. Public Health noticed that breathing was difficult. He "sol that would be wasteful; so it, too, bided its Service concluded in two 1933 reports that diered on" during those days rather than time in the labs. dust concentrations in American cotton mills quit early, but on Monday evenings, he In a society in which profits did not take were too low to imoair worker health. In couldn't pedal uphill. Soon he got into the precedence over people, however, the finer 1945, a U.S. Depart~ent of Labor report habit of having his son meet him on those points of byssinosis would have been con stated that byssinosis was not a problem nights, to help him wheel his bike home; sidered tangential long ago and the road to in the nation's cotton mills. Even as recently and in time, the son met him more and more its prevention would now be clear. Better air as 1961, health officials here were insisting often. Fini lly, back at the mill after a vaca filtration systems would have been installed that while byi;: sinosis might affect British tion, "the man was so breathless all the time and other capital expenditures made. But in textile workers, somehow it did not affect that he had to give up his job. At rest he was the United States, where society is tuned to our own . symptom-free, but any exertion started him .a different chord, the present delay over pre Government has explained the discrepancy wheezing and coughing. Once off the job, he ventive measures, like the oblivion which by a feeble argument based, predictably, on gradually recovered. The only setback came preceded it, is rooted not in science and technology. Recently the Labor Dep~rtment one morning when he visited friends at work. technology but in economics and politics magnanimously lauded the British scientists' After a while, his chest felt tight, and once in the callous traditions of the cotton indus early efforts and concluded on its own behalf: home, he had another attack of what he try and in government's compromising ways. "The current prevalence of byssinosis among described as "the oul trouble." Though the cotton industry began in New American textile workers may be due to These medical case histories, recorded by England when water supplied the power and the shift to mechanical harvesting of cotton Dr. James A. Smiley in Northern Ireland in boatloads of immigrants constituted the following World War II and the resultant in the late 1950s, were routinely reported in work force, it began moving south in the creased amounts of trash and soil in the March 1960 to the British government. They 1880s, when water's industrial role w.as wan raw cotton." document certain stages of byssinosis or ing and immigrants began organizing. Soon There is no mention of the possibility of "brown lung disease," which afflicts textile after, it spread westward to take advantage technological backwatering-the laboratory workers who inhale cotton dust just as an of sources of cheap labor in Texas and Cali politics of delay; no mention that, for cen thracosilicosis, or "black lung disease," fornia. By 1925, most of the spindles in the turies, textile workers have been known to visits 00::.11 miners who inhale coal dust. country were bobbing and whizzing in the suffer from respiratory di-eases of one sort How did it happen that while the British cotton-growing states. or another; no mention that, in company government had already identified byssinosis Inside the coast-to-coast girdle of the in towns in the U.S. Cotton Belt, unionless and was attempting to control it and com- dustrial Cotton Belt, life was defined by workers were kept docile and naive about July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22319 the connection between their ailments and the National Institute for Occupation Safety work force. Annually, they will produce work condition by company-paid teachers, and Health, has said is still unsafe. over 6 million barrels of Schlitz beer. ministers, nurses, and doctors. "No environmental limit of cotton dust will I am proud to recognize with apprecia Since a breakthrough in 1968, Federal of prevent all adverse effects on worker health," tion their confidence in central New ficials have been pressured by labor and social NIOSH has, in fact, stated, and even OSHA activists-the Textile Workers Union of must admit to this. In its own 1976 study, York, in the new community of Radis America and the North Carolina Public In OSHA determined the following: If 129,000 son, and in the natural and personal re terest Research Group among them-finally workers were exposed to the current legal sources that abound in our area; and to do something about byssinosis. What gov level of cotton dust exposure, over a period of am privileged to salute Daniel F. Mc ernment has done, however, has been sorely time 23,497 would be likely to become bys Keithan, chairman of the board, and inadequate, and so is what it proposes to do sinotics; at the proposed 500 ug/ m 3 level, Peter L. Stammberger, Syracuse plant in the future. the number would be 21,452; at 200 ug/ m 3, manager, on the occasion of the brew Almost a decade ago, a team led by Dr. it would be 15,626; and even at 100 ug; m a, Arend Bouhuys of Yale found f , high in the level for which labor leaders are pressing, ery's official dedication. cidence of byssinosis at cotton mills run by OSHA could predict 8,223 probable cases of inmates at the Federal penitentiary in the disease. What will be decided as OSHA Atlanta, prompting adoption of a cotton sets the new standard, then, is Just how far dust exposure limit under the Walsh-Healey the compromise on worker health will be AMBASSADOR YOUNG SPEARHEADS Act. However, the limit--1,000 micrograms allowed to go. RADICAL CHANGE IN U.S. FOREIGN of total dust per cubic meter of air, which is Industry has, of course, been compelled to POLICY written 1000 ug/ m:i...... covered only Federal abandon its previous denials that byssinosis employes, and besides, it was soon proven to exists. Since the early 1970s, it has conceded be much too lenient. that there ls a problem. But it would not like HON. LARRY McDONALD Since enactment of the Occupational to see OSHA set anything lower than the OF GEORGIA Safety and Health Act of 1970, little has 500 ug/ m 2 standard-a level which could be changed. Although private-sector cotton achieved, according to one OSHA spokesman, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES workers are presently covered by the law, at no cost to industry. "It represents noth Monday, July 11, 1977 which adopted the 1000 ug; ma standard, en ing more than a new way of measuring the· forcement has been a charade and a new, dust," the OSHA spokesman said. "It's just Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, on more stringent cotton dust standard has yet a new way of bookkeeping." And as OSHA's January 25 I testified in opposition to the to be set. Furthermore, this situation persists own 1976 study shows, the difference between confirmation of the Honorable Andrew J. even though six years have gone by since the 1,000 micrograms of total dust and 500 Young as U.S. Representative to the Occupational Safety and Health Administra micrograms of respirable dust in terms of United Nations. In that testimony given tion (OSHA) itself declared cotton dust to be disease prevention is negligible. The differ before the Senate Committee on Foreign one of the five most dangerous of 22,000 toxic ence between 23,497 cases by byssinosis out Relations, I pointed out that Mr. Young substances present in American industry of 129,000 workers exposed, and 21,452 cases today. out of the same, is only 1.3 per cent. had for many years been an articulate Initially, OSHA appeared to be floundering Furthermore, even if the lowest standard and highly partisan spokesman for per because of inadequate funding and the usual being con..c;idered-200 ug/m3-..does go into sonally held convictions "that are at snafus that encumber a budding bureauc effect, industry will have seven years to com variance with long-standing U.S. policies racy. However, Watergate investigators later ply and then there will still be all the trials and which are also at variance with the discovered that OSHA's sluggi!:hness had been of enforcement--an area in which OSHA has beliefs of the great majority of Ameri politically maneuvered. In 1974, they found not exactly distinguished itself. cans." a memo written by OSHA's first administra Predictably, Secretary Marshall has asked tor, George C. Guenther, which stated that that those who push for full use of the OSHA Indeed, since his confirmation to the the agency would table action on "highly powers give him time-"a little breathing U.N. post, Andrew Young has served to controversial standards" (cotton dust, pre space," as he put it. With reference to spearhead radical alterations in U.S. for sumably, included) during the 1972 Presi byssinosis, however, his choice of words is eign policy, alterations which are mani dential campaign. It also suggested that more ironic than metaphorical. And in view festly against the best interests of this Richard M. Nixon's fund raisers would do well of the absence of strong cotton worker labor country and of the free world. Specifi to stress the advantages of four more years leadership, the still formidable power of the cally, these alterations are a policy of of softpedaling with OSHA under the Re cotton industry, and the fact that strict publicans. That was called a "sales point." government policies seem to be the byssinosis appeasement of the Soviet Union, its As we dig out from under the Nixon-Ford victim's only real hope right now, the irony satellites and third world allies by ac years, OSHA's abilities-and sensibilities ls greater still. tively supporting making Africa a "So seem to be improving somewhat. President viet sphere of influence" and by agreeing Carter's Labor Secretary, Ray Marshall, to actively participate in the undermin citing OSHA's "neglect" and "chaos," has said JOSEPH SCHLITZ BREWING CO.'S ing of the countries of southern Africa he intends to ''change the agency's direction." NEWEST PLANT LAUDED which happen to be white-ruled, but in However, if Marshall means the OSHA's past which people of all races enjoy more bias toward business will be adjusted, as it absolute freedoms than in the rest of should be, toward workers, then the agency's HON. WILLIAM F. WALSH black-ruled Africa combined. so-called economic feasibility studies and OF NEW YORK statements challenge his good intentions. Some columnists and broadcast com "Although OSHA's first and prime respon IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mentators have tried to discount the U.N. sibility ls to assure employes safe and health Monday, July 11, 1977 Ambassador's headline-making state ful places of employment," OSHA has Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, last week, ments by suggesting Mr. Young was recently written about itself, "feasiblity is a either making quips or speaking casually legitimate factor to be considered in the the newest and one of the largest of our setting of occupational safety and health economic good neighbors-the Joseph without preparation and that therefore standards." Sustained company profits, at Schlitz Brewing Co.-celebrated the for his statements did not express what he the continued expense of worker health and mal opening of their facility at Radisson, really meant. I disagree totally with that safety, are worth the price, a hazardous Job in the Town of Lysander, Onondaga view, for in all the time Andy Young ls better than no Job, the statement implies, County, N.Y. served here with us as the Representa as did Marshall himself when he recently tive of the Fifth District of Georgia no termed unemployment a larger concern than Starting with a spectacular public dis play of fireworks on the evening of July one ever accused him of taking a position occupational health and safety. he did not personally believe in. Accordingly, since the new OSHA is still 4-a community event watched by more unwilling to make the about-face turn re than 200,000 persons-Schlitz has been As is well-known, overall direction of quired to render workplaces hazard-free, still opening its doors, and its corporate U.S. foreign policy has been placed in the reluctant to penalize industry heavily, we heart, to the people of the area in which hands of the Vice President, and many are presented with expensive but virtually they chose to build their newest brewery. of his former Senate aides and political meaningless symbolic actions such as this: The economic stimulation provided by allies now hold key policymaking and Although the long-promised cotton dust evaluation posts in the Department of standard hearings are finally under way, Schlitz to the Syracuse area and the OSHA is contemplating an "economically 33d Congressional District began with State and National Security Council. feasible" limit--somewhere between 200 and the start of construction in 1973, and The United Nations Ambassador works 500 micrograms of re.spirable dust per cubic will continue as over 600 central New with these anti-Africa activists in meter of air-which OSHA's technical arm, Yorkers become part of the permanent formulating the actualities of America's ,
22320 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 sellout not only of the white ruled coun aids in collapsing South Africa and Rho Marxist-Leninist terrorist movements tries of southern Africa, but also soon of desia, then all the slaughter will be over who took over these former Portuguese our remaining friends in black-ruled relatively quickly. colonies in 1975 following a leftwing miii Africa. I would again draw attention to the tary coup in Portugal. Tanzania is an Concrete indications of a drastic fact that these terrorist "national libera other Marxist-Leninist dict1torship change in U.S. African policy came last tion movements" whose leaders were which under its President Julius Nyerere summer with the completion of a U.S. trained in. strategy by the Communist has moved from allegiance to Peking's AID study not on whether, but on how superpowers have always deliberately "Mao Thought" to alliance with the So the United States, anticipating an armed made the civilians, black and white, on viets who have a shorter supply line. And takeover of Rhodesia, Southwest Africa farms and rural villages, their main tar the current principal adviser to Zambian and eventually South Africa by the "na get for butchery so that the survivors Pres~dent Kenneth Kaunda is the KGB tional liberation movements," would would be demoralized if not into coopera "apparatchick" serving as the Soviet supply food, technical assistance and tion with the terrorists, then into non Ambassador in Lusaka. other logistical aid to the regimes set up opposition. ZANU, ZAPU, and SWAPO Ambassador Young has himself em by these Marxist-Leninist, Soviet-backed have been particularly active in this sort phasized that his "controversial" activist terrorist groups in expectation that all of terrorism. A SWAPO member called positions in favor of the terrorist move agriculture, mining and social services F. Nangolo was executed on May 30. De ments are in fact the new foreign policy would be destroyed by fighting and the scribed by SWAPO as a "political prison of the administration. On June 24, in an death or flight of technically advanced er," this "freedom fighter's" "fight interview on WETA-TV, the local Wash white population. against oppression" consisted of murder ington affiliate of the taxpayer-funded On the evening of January 25, follow ing a black woman and child on one farm Public Broadcasting System, Ambassa ing that day's confirmation hearing, the and a white farmer and his wife on an dor Young listed several nations on the CBS network televised a recorded inter other. African continent which had "achieved view with Ambassador Andrew Young Returning to the January 25 CBS in their independence through armed strug conducted by Dan Rather on its "Who's terview, Rather asked Young: gle." The three countries he specifically Who" program. First Mr. Young argued But isn't an armed, protracted guerrilla mentionea, Algeria, Angola, and Mozam that a bloodbath in southern Africa could warfare a'ready assured with the presence bique, actually attained "independence" be prevented only if the United States of the Cubans and the Soviet Union's in in the form of a Marxist dictatorship fol joins in support of the "national libera fluence in that part of the world? lowing a prolonged campaign of terrorist tion movements." To this, Ambassador Young replied: atrocity. Ambassador Young continued In light of the over 15-year record for No, it's not assured. In fact, there's a sense stating: terrorist violence compiled by the "lib in which the Cubans bring a certain stability * * * even in those situations, there was eration movements," it is difficult to un and order to Angola, for instance, in that the F, strong negotiating component. Now, the derstand how Mr. Young can believe that enemy all over the world I think is chaos. United State,:; is trying to be that negotiat the "liberation movements" would be less * * * I have no question in my mind but ing component for the transfer of power with savage if we helped them take over. The that we could negotiate very successfully a a minimum of violence and destruction [in withdrawal of Cuban troops from southern southern Africa]. fact remains that the African National Africa. Congress-ANC-o!' South Africa, the He continued: Southwest Africa People's Organiza The "stability" brought to Angola by And I think if you look at some of the tion-SWAPO-and the Zimbabwe Afri the Soviet Union's Cuban surrogates is things that were controversial about my com can People's Union-ZAPU-in Rhodesia the "stability" of the most oppressive, ing into this job four months ago, they're no profess Marxist-Leninist totalitarian brutal and systematic form of totalitar longer controversial. It's a fait accompli. ideologies, are sponsored and supported ianism ever developed in this world, And the policy that I started talking about in southern Africa, [that] policy is a policy by the Soviet Union and were receiving Marxist-Leninist communism. What is of the Pre~ident, the Vice President, the Sec such support long before the creation of significant is that communism's rigidity retary of State, the National Security Coun the Organization of African Unity. The is offered as the alternative to "chaos." cil, everybody. Pan Af ricanist Congress of South The Cuban troops in Africa have been And it's not that it was my policy, but it's Africa-PAC-and the Zimbabwe African performing invaluable services for the that the people coming in with the Carter National Union-ZANU-espouse the Soviet Union ·not only in conquering a Admini"tration l'lad a commitment to doing Maoist variant of Marxism-Leninism substantial portion of Angola but in re something about the problems of southern and are sponsored and supported by Africa, and they understood that to be criti training and equipping the Katangan cal to the credibility of the United States Peking. guerrillas and sending them against amongst the majority of the nations of the Since Mr. Young is a personal friend Zaire and now in large numbers moving world. And I knew that was going to be of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, the found into Ethiopia to aid and "advise" the the policy before I took the job. er and leader of the Pan-Africanist Con revolutionary Marxist military regime gress whose terrorist arm is called Poqo, in that country strategically located on It will be recalled that just after his he might be expected to be aware of the the Red Sea. appointment to the United Nations posi Maoist stance of the PAC which states it Since the Cuban military forces are tion was announced last December, Mr. is waging a "people's war" that is ac proving such valuable assets for Soviet Young said, "We need a strong Vietnam," tually only the usual terrorism. expansionism in Africa and appear to and speculated that "Vietnam could de Or indeed, since Andrew Young was a be essential to the success of any major velop into an independent Communist Member of this House last summer, he armed action against the southern Afri nation like Yugoslavia and be a buffer might be expected to know about the can countries, the price for their removal against China." This spring a Presiden statements made by the spokesmen for from Africa in any "negotiations" would tial delegation was sent to Hanoi to get the southern African "liberation move not only be U.S. collusion in causing the the Communists' assurances that they ments" at a conference held in the U.S. collapse of the southern African coun are holding no American POW's despite Senate by the Fund for New Priorities in tries via economic and arms embargoes, the evidence to the contrary. Continuing America. There the PAC spokesman but doubtless also include assurances United States-Vietnamese Communist joined with his fellow terrorists to state that only the Soviet-controlled terrorist contacts have been established. Mr. that whites living in southern Africa movements would take power and not Young told his WETA/PBS audience: should not be permitted to emigrate in those sponsored by Red China. I knew essentially what the policy would be on Vietnam. When the Secretary of State the event of a takeover because they On his African trips, Ambassador said it a week before I did, nobody made owed a "blood debt'' to the "liberation Young has met repeatedly with the any fuss. A week later I said that within movements" which they clearly intend to leaders of the terrorist movements, as ninety days we'd probably have some dis collect. well as with the rulers of the so-called cussions going with Vietnam. I think it took Perhaps in Mr. Young's terminology, a "frontline" states which border South maybe forty-five days.; and those discussions "bloodbath" is a long drawn out process, Africa and Rhodesia. Of these, Angola continue. so that if the United States joins in sup and Mozambique are Communist dicta Andrew Young also had some interest porting the "liberation movements" and torships ruled by the Soviet-backed ing comments on how he believes the July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22321 press controversy has aided the admin beine abandoned to the Soviet and Red ing us for a 5 mill or 12 % property tax raise. Chinese superpowers. The state is dickering for l % more sales tax istration's radical changes in American and 2 ¢ gasoline tax ( 22 % raise) . foreign policy. He said: In my January testimony against the What I'm saying to you is this, "I'm getting The thing is Jimmy Carter got elected on a confirmation of Andrew Young I warned po:; rer the more I make. I have a few more kind of anti-establishment campaign. I mean what the selection of Mr. Young as a dollars but I'm worse off b3cause the dollars they [the press and the public] interpreted principal instrument of American for are worth less and less." it as anti-Washington. It wasn't anti-Wash eign policy must signify. I based my pre I'm also t ired seeing the starving poor buy ington; it was anti-status quo, see. dictions on his actions and statements ing new cars and color televisions while I buy Now, when the press attacks me, they are during his 15-year public career. I their food stamps, pay their rent, light, heat, the establishment, see. And what they've etc. I'm be-ing milked by Washington and I'm done is they've built up a tremendous na pointed out that in repeated instances, getting mad. (Sorry, but I get carried away tional constituency for me and the things I Mr. Young had collaborated with Marx when I think about the injustice Washington stand for. ist-Leninists and militants in causes re creates.) Where is the incentive to make more So, while it has hurt me personally some lating to Africa, Asia, and La tin America. money? times to see my ideas distorted, that very I would again remind my colleagues that Anyhow, I guess I've made my point and distortion has made ordinary people come to on Apj.il 13, 1970, on an ABC-TV news hope you see it and agree. my support. production on the Black Panther Party, What Mr. Young is saying is that the Mr. Young said: 201 YEARS OLD TOMORROW press attacks on him have brought peo Western technology and western militarism ple to his personal support without their has so interfered with the right of-the pos checking to find out what he actually sibility of, say, democracy in Latin America, HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI said or what are the full implications of or real freedom in Africa and Asia, that it OF ILLINOIS may take the destruction-and this of course the policies Mr. Young and the adminis is Panther ideoloe-y-that it may take the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tration are advocating. destruction of western civilizaticn to allow Monday, July 11, 1977 I find it interesting that for example in the rest of the world to really emerge as a regard to Andrew Young's January 25 free and brotherly society, and if the white Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, as the CBS interview, conservatives and anti west is incapable of brotherhood with colored Members return to Washington from the communists were most concerned with peoples then this small body of colored peo 4th of July district work period, I com Mr. Young's acceptance, indeed welcome, ples, black people within the white west, may mend their attention to a 4th of July of Cuban troops in Angola and other be the revolutionary vanguard that God has article appearing in one of the local pa African lands, while the liberal press ordained to destroy the whole thing. pers in my district. This column was chose to take out of context his remark Then in response to the question, originally written by Dennis Wheeler, that "communism has never been a "Would you support the destruction of editor of the Orland Park Star Herald., threat" when in fact Andrew Young was Western civilization if you were con in 1975, and has been updated for this expressing a number of complex ideas in vinced that the rest of the world would year's Independence Day observances. a long and involved paragraph.* thereby be liberated?" Mr. Young re I feel that this is an expression of real The controversy in the press has served plied, "I probably would." grass roots Americanism, and I wish to to obscure the fact that a new foreign The legislative branch also plays a role insert it at this point: policy is being instituted by this admin in the determination of U.S. foreign and ... 201 YEARS OLD TOMORROW istration, a foreign policy in which not domestic policies. We must be prepared (By Dennis Wheeler) only Africa but the Asian mainland is to exercise our oversight and other func When I was born, most political observers tions to serve as an effective brake on in the world said I would be dead within a *Mr. Young's comments came after Justi the wildly careening administration year. fying the presence of the Cuban troops in coach. But I fooled them and lasted through a Angola by noting that South African forces bloody revolution. had initially invaded a strip of Angolan ter Then there was a period of uncertaint y, during which my own countrymen weren't ritory to defend a hydrcelectric facility. He THE TAX BURDEN continued: sure whether there sb.ould be one of me or "And I must say that I share the kind of 13. Finally, in 1789 (when I was still a child total abhorrence to racism which I think is of 13), they decided I would be exclusive in HON. DOUGLAS WALGREN this nation. They wrote- a Constitution that characteristic of two-thirds of the world. Most IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES colored peoples of the world are not afraid made that fact clear. of communism. Maybe that's wrong, but com OF PENNSYLVANIA Since then I have been through some good munism has never been a threat to me. I Monday, July 11, 1977 times and some bad times. have no love for communism. I could never There have been some times of shame and be a commurust. I could never support that Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, I would wme times of triumph. There have been system of government. But---it's never been like to bring to the attention of my col moments when I have been a symbol of hope a. threat. Racism has always been a threat- leagues the letter of a constituent ex around the world. Also times when I have and that has been the enemy of all of my life been an object of derision. pressing his frustration regarding the I have been saluted, talked about with deep and, and everything I know about life." tax burden he and many others are This ls actually a consistent statement if respect, folded carefully and ironed religi Mr. Young means that it is racism by whites being forced to accept: ously, rushed out of bad weather because I that he finds abhorrent, not racism by brown, THE TAX BURDEN was loved, given to mayors by Congressmen black and yellow people such as the repres I'm writing to express my concern for the to be flown in small towns, draped over the sion of the national minorities in China by ever rising tax burden I and many others in caskets of dead heroes. the Han Chinese, or the animosity between my income bracket are forced to accept. I have also been intentionally soiled, Malays and Chinese in Singapore and Ma Someone in Congress has conveniently set thrown on the ground and trampled upon, laysia, or the mass deport:ition of ethnic East $20,000 as the lower end of middle income. torn down from in front of foreign emb:1s Indians from Ug-anda. As such, every new law, rule, or regulation sies, burned by angry citizens who believed Again, it would seem that Mr. Young does excludes those above this income from any I had lost my meaning. not count the black Marxist-Leninist regimes easement in the tax load. There have been moments when I was not in Angola, Mozambique, Guine:1.-Bissau, This policy is unfair as is the fact that proud of the uses to which I have been put Ethiopia, Tanzania, and so on as being "com one's tax load rises sharply above $20,000. Some of my people have used me as one of munist." Clearly the black-run regimes are The federal government has reaped a bonanza their excuses for unjust or self-serving ac only "nationalist" to Mr. Young who declines from inflation because no adjustments have tivity. to make an obiective analvsis of the concrete been made in tax rates, even though you For example, back in the 1800's they said conditions in those countries which would people know better than anyone that the the things I stand for were good reasons show their adherence to "snientific social additional income due to inflation really for invading :rvrexico and for going back on ism"-a euphemism for communism. And it leaves people worse off. So "Uncle" com treaties with the red men in the West and for would appear that his abhorrence of the pounds our misery with a bio-ger tax bite. in+entiona.lly stirring up a fi!!h.t on the north white-dominated countries of southern Since 1971, my income we11t uo $9.096 or ern border of Maine in order to take over Africa is such that he would prefer to have 66 % . Income taxes went up $1,916 or 107.6% . some disputed territory from the British. new An~olas and Mozambiques est::i.blished I have 1ust been awarded an increa.c:e of 27 % Later, in 1898, it was auestionable to me throughout southern Africa. property assessment. The county is prepar- (and still is to many historians) whether or CXXIII--1405-Part 18 2232'2 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 not I should have been carried by super Jean. The anniversary of the Polish Constitution pa.triotic types up hills in CUba. and into har Despite the awful times, like when some of of 1791 is particularly relevant this year. As bors in the Philippine Islands. I suspected a.t my leaders-Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, we reflect on our proud two centuries as a the time that the real reason for a.ll that was Kennedy-were needlessly murdered by fel free nation, it seems evident that it is our a. belief among my country's leaders that our low Americans, I remain proud of my mean constitution and the principles of justice, nation had a. duty to become the policeman ing. liberty and equality which are the essence of our hemisphere. In spite of Haymarket Square, the Ku Klux of our heritage. The Polish Constitution was Just a. few yea.rs a.go, in the 1960's, the Klan, Joseph McCarthy, My La.i, Watergate, based on the same principles. Its adoption same questions were raised a.bout my sym the 1968 Democratic convention, the ouster amounted to a revolution, a truly dramatic bolism. This time, the debate grew so bitter of the Bonus Army, Birmingham, Selma and break with the past--different in form, but that some of my own countrymen-many of George Wallace in the Doorway, I remain not in spirit, from our American Revolution. them pa. triotic in their own way-sea.red my proud of my meaning. The central theme of today's Polish' Con threads with flames in a desperate effort to My meaning was and is that people, not stitution Day centers around "human argue that I ha.d no business being in fa.r kings or despots, should rule. rights." Today the Soviets are marching on off Viet Nam. My meaning is that all persons should Red Square for less "human rights," while Others have mistreated me over the yea.rs, have the same chance to succeed. the Poles in Greater Cleveland are marching not a.lwa.ys in a. physical way. My meaning is that the laws of the people down Fleet Avenue for more "human rights" Politicians, some later proven to be crooks, a.re the alternative to the edicts of the few. throughout the world. The "human rights" have for yea.rs pointed to me with apparent And that the laws of the people may be embodied in that first Constitution adopted pride a.nd extolled my virtues. Some of these changed for the better by the people. in Poland in 1791 do not exist in today's ha.d a.ctua.l little regard for what I stand My meaning is that the revolution in Poland. for. In fa.ct, some tried to use me as a.n ac which I was born 200 years ago is an ongoing The Carter Administration in its first few complice in suppression-suppression of dis phenomenon. That change and improvement weeks, has spoken out strongly against the sent, suppression of debate, suppression of are built into the system through the use lack of "human rights" in Poland and other ra.cia.l and religious freedom. Eastern European Nations. On August 1, of voting booths. 1975, the United States, the Soviet Union, But these low moments in my incredibly My meaning is that people can speak their exciting 201-yea.r life have been few. For and 33 other nations signed the Helsinki minds. pray in freedom, be tried for crimes Pact. This pa.ct was supposed to allow more most of my life, I have been so proud I have by their peers. often thought I would unravel. "human rights" in Poland and other coun There wa.s the night I was seen in the Above all, my meaning is that a very ad tries dominated by the Soviet Union. The terrifying flashes of a sea. wa.r by a ma.n vanced degree of personal freedom is possible Russians have consistently violated the named Key. The sight of me in that fear even in a complicated society as long as there "human rights" aspects of the Helsinki Pact. Through the efforts of Congressman Millicent ful moment moved the ma.n to write majestic is the people's law. Tomorrow, I'll be 201. Fenwick, the U.S. Congress passed the music in my behalf. I am proud that I still "watchdog legislation" to monitor the hear this music often. I am also proud that All over the nation, people _will fly me in "human rights" sections of the Helsinki most of my countrymen stm sing the words front of their homes. · Pact. The Russians, however, have refused to to the music with as much pride as I feel. I hope the same people will also pause to allow this "watchdog committee" to enter A little over one hundred yea.rs ago, my consider anew my meaning. That way, I'll the Eastern European Nations to determine country was temporarily torn in two. One live at least another 201 years, no matter if the· Russians are conforming to their of my brothers flew in half the country a.nd what comes. agreement. It is also my understanding that we were both wrenched by it. When the dis the Ohio Di vision of the Polish American ruption was over, I a.gain became the only Congress, Inc., played a leading national role one of a. kind and this was accepted de HUMAN RIGHTS PARADE in getting the U.S. Congress to pass the spite consuming post-war bitterness in our "watchdog legislation." Your public affairs southern areas. director Casimir Bielen played a central role It is with deep pride that I ca.n report the in this campaign. Each senator and key rep bitterness has ebbed a.nd unity has returned. HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR resentative was contacted. In fact, many think I a.m treated with more OF OHIO President Carter is championing "human aplomb a.nd dignity in the areas that once IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rights" throughout the world. The Presi rebelled than in the northern places where dent's strategy is to keep the Soviet Union it is possible I a.m ta.ken sometimes for Monday, July 11, 1977 on the defensive. Carter has seized the ideo granted. logical initiative with his human rights cam In 1917, I was carried across cratered fields Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, the Polish paign. Moscow is worried and is hitting back in France, where my presence undoubtedly American community is a vibrant part of hard. Moscow is accusing the United States did much to save freedom in Europe. I am Cleveland's community. The following is of "interfering in their domestic affairs." Our prond of that. a statement made by State Auditor answer should be that the Soviet Union has The same is so a.bout my adventures over Thomas E. Ferguson as the principal been sowing distrus,t in American hearts for seas some 25 yea.rs later. That was a. few speaker at Polish Constitution Day ob many years. It has violated agreements with years after some men filled with hatred held servance sponsored by the Ohio Division us regularly. President Carter said, "I a.m me up to scorn and tried to turn me into an of the Polish American Congress, Inc., firmly committed to more 'human rights' not object of disgust. I was in on the glory of only as it deals with the Soviet Union but the world's salvation from these men a.nd Casimir Bielen, general chairman, 6821 all other countries." some of the most threatening and inhuman Fleet AYenue, Cleveland, Ohio, telerhone All of this is in striking contrast to the ideologies the world has ever known. 641-6056. This event was held on May l, position taken on the subject of human There is· one memory in particular I will 1977, in Greater Cleveland, Ohio. A large rights by Presidents Nixon and Ford and by always treasure. You've seen pictures of it. "Human Rights Parade" preceded the ,Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The It was whe_n my soldiers pushed me up on formal program held in front of the clearest example of the unwillingness of the top of a mountain in Iwo Jima. Grown men Alliance of Poles, 6968 Broadway Avenue, U.S. to involve itself in the internal affairs cry when they look at the pictures. Cleveland, Ohio. of the Soviet Union during thait period came Possibly '"he thing I am most proud of is with Ford's refusal, on the advice of Dr. that I a.m the oldest of my kind in the world. STATEMENT Kissinger, to meet with Alexander Solzhenit syn the Russian exiled writer. Now that he One of my cousins lived only a few weeks Reverend clergy, honored guests, officers in 1917 in Russia. a.nd members of the Ohio Division of the is out of office, Ford says this refusal was an Polish American Congress, and friends: error. Another stayed alive only three years in It is a great honor to be granted the oppor The Carter Administration position on Czechoslovakia before he was slain by Com tunity to address you on this the most impor "human rights" should be applauded. It is munists. tant of Polish holidays, the anniversary of long overdue. Later, in the same country, a distant the Constitution of the Third of May. Polish While Soviet Leader protest against U.S. cousin was clanked into the pavement by history is rich with moments of glory and policies on human rights and arms control, tanks from the Soviet Union. The same thing heroism as well as times of trial and i:orrow. the Carter Administration is going ahead happened to another brother a few years The Polish people could have chosen the date with yet another move sure to anger the earlier in Hungary. of any one of their great victories in battle, Kremlin. Relatives of mine have gone up and gone their revolutions against foreign tyranny or The Administration is pushing for a sharp down in various places around the world. the mourning of a great tragedy to elevate to steo-up in U.S. efforts to broadcast news to But only here in America has a Constitu the po,;;ition of foremost national day. Yet, the peoples of Russia and Eastern Europe. tional form of government preserved one of they chose in,;;tead to honor the anniversary Preer or a gladhander. He has none of that Our structure of government rests upon Mr. TFAGUE. Mr. Speaker, it has been slow, easy charm that $eems to ~en so well two fundamental principles. One is the sep my privilege to know the Honorable on Capitol Hill. He hat es small talk and is aration of powers, which has no bearing here. James R. Schlesinger for a number of said to abhor cocktail part ies. The other is federalism, which is directly at How does he do it? Witl:l the facts. Facts. issue. years. At the present time my dealings He pounds t'"'em in. mak!na as manv as 30 This well-intentioned but misguided bill with him as chairman of the House Com of what lobbyists call " personal contacts" would create a new Office of Youth Camp mittee on Science and Technology have with congressmen-either by phone or in Safety within the Department of Health, brought me rather close to him. person-on a given day. His favorite method Education and Welfare. The director of this There have been manv individuals in is "one on O"le," a auiet give-and-take -Yith office, with the assistance of an advisory the Washington arena who have been the a member that might produce that extra council, would promulgate rules and regula subject of writers describing their traits vote. tions having the force and effect of law. These and characteristics; but I do not believe How well is :t>e doing? Tt deoends whether rule!'; would be binding upon the estimated you talk to his friends or his enemies-over 10,500 youth camps across the nation. any can match the description of Mr. the years Schlesinger has acquired a number The director's authority would include, but Schlesinger as written by Mr. Fialka of of each. According to his enemiec;, none of it would not be limited to: "personnel quali the WEishin~ton Star. Mr. Ffallca hac; whom wanted to be auoted, Schlesinger has fications for director and staff; ratio of staff caught Mr. Schlesinger in all of his many been guilty of oversell. to campers; .!'anitation and public health; positions of public service, of which "He can be a pain in the asc;, " said one personal health, first aid and medical serv there are many. He is truly a public serv committee chairman. "He pushes too god ices; food handling, mass feeding and cleanli damn hard. Sometimes he wears you a little ness; water supply and waste disposal; water ant, dedicated to this country and to his own personal beliefs. and I would like to thin. He keens boring in and boring in. He safety, including use of lakes and rivers; keeps pestering and bothering you." swimming and boating equipment and prac include at this point in the RECORD, the tices; firearms i:,afety; vehicle condition and article by Mr. Fialka: "I enjov the exchange with him," said a operation; building and site design; equip younger House Democrat. "The thing about HE PLAYS EACH GAME BY ITS OWN RULES Schlesinger, what's nice, is if you make a ment; and condition and density of use." "So far, war has been the only force that The committee report gives lip service point with Schlesinger, he absorbs it. From can discipline a whole community, and until that point on he's ad.1usted his argument but no more than lip service-to the thought an eouivalent discipline is organized, I be that these are primarily state responsibili to accept the point that you've made." ties. The general idea is that the states are lieve that war must have its wav."-William "He has better raoport with younger mem to be encouraged to enact their own laws James, 'The Moral Equivalent of War'." bers than older ones," the congressman embodying at lea.<;t the minimum standards (By John J . Fialka) added. " It's funny. I'ieologically, he is closer laid down by the federal office. But (and this The comm.and center for President Car to the chairmen than the younger members. is the first hooker), any state that failed or ter's "moral equivalent of war"-the effort to It's a mixed bag." 22326 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 Just what will come out of this "mixed trimming $6 billion from Pentagon budget hemently on the side of the military calling bag" this fall, when the energy package may requests. the cut s "deep, arbitrary and capricious." be completed by Congress, is uncertain. "I suddenly realized he was a remarkable Underneath the dispute, according to some There have already been heralded victorie:: young man" recalls Laitin, who was a Bu who were involved in it, was Ford's feeling and defeats, but "this is the first inning of reau of the Budget press aide at the time. that Schlesinger was being haughty and a nine-inning ball game," as one Schlesinger "I decided that some of the people around arrogant to him and to key members of Con aide noted. town ought to get to know him." gress. Schlesinger is said to have had a way HE'LL BE AN ENERGY CHIEF WITH CZAR-LIKE Among "the people" Laitin knew were po of not looking at Ford during Cabinet meet QUALITIES litical columnists and a few veteran report ings, addressing his remarks only to men ers. Schlesinger later proved to be a valuable whom he considered to be his intellectual What is certain is that when the fruit of contact for them because wherever h e went his work, the new Department of Energy peers, like Kissinger. he had a tendency to make waves. "I don't think President Ford was ever (DOE), comes into being, with an estimated After being named the head of the AEC $10.5 billion annual budget and nearly 20,- comfortable with Jim," explained one Schles in 1971, he held a meeting of nu:::lear power inger aide. 000 employes (making it the 7th most ex industry executives-members of an indus pensive federal agency), the nation will have Ford's successor, Jimmy Carter, on the try accustomed to extremely friendly deal other hand, is believed to be a man who is its first "energy czar" with some truly czar ings with the AEC-that "you should not like qualities. very comfortable with Jim Schlesinger. Dur expect the AEC to fight industry's political, ing the fall campaign, Schlesinger was in Since Schlesinger signed on last winter social and commercial battles." as President Carter's chief energy adviser, vited to come to Plains to brief Carter after Later, Schlesinger confounded nuclear Schlesinger's return from a trip to China. the press has had only a few glimpses of critics by bringing his wife and two of his him. The most memorable one was on April daughters to Amchitka Island in the MANY SIMILARITIES FOUND BETWEEN HIM AND 20 after Schlesinger and his staff had spent CARTER two months of seven-day weeks, struggling Aleutians to witness the test of a nuclear warhea d that the critics charged would harm During a four-hour meeting, Carter's first to meet Carter's deadline to send the energy the island's environment. meeting with Schlesinger, the president-to-be package to Congress. In late 1972, Schlesinger became one of a discovered that the two shared a number of The deadline was met·. Schlesinger was similarities. ready to explain the package's complexities handful of Nixon administration officials who escaped the widening vortex of Watergate Both are cold and analytical-not ideo to more than 300 reporters who jammed an by walking around its edges, fl.Hing the logues-in their approach to politics. Both Old Executive Office Building auditorium for vacancies created· by it. are religious. Carter is a Baptist lay preacher. a background briefing. Everything was in or Schlesinger, a Jew, became a Lutheran after der except for a lone reporter in front who JOB HE PRIZED MOST ; SECRETARY OF DEFENSE leaving Harvard and is known to read theol wanted to ask a question before Schlesinger He replaced Richard Helms as director of ogy during his leisure hours. had completed his presentation. the CIA and tore into the agency's "old boy" Both have considerable knowledge of and "We'll run this thing," Schlesinger said. clandestine services operation. A thousand respect for the powers and the dangers of glowering at him. The questions came when of the agency's 15,000 employes were dis nuclear weaponry. Both are hard-liners when they were supposed to come, at the end of missed or scheduled for early retirement. it comes to dealing with the Russians. the briefing. On May 10, 1973, Schlesinger was given the In April 1976, in a lecture at Harvard, A little thing, but little things like this one job he prized among all others in Wash Schlesinger argued that "the focus of repres add up during a public career as long as ington, he became secretary of Defense when sion, Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, has .. . once Schlesinger's. The 20 or so people interviewed Elliot Richards·on was shifted to the Justice again reminded us of the totalitarian nature for this story all admitted that Schlesinger Department to replace Richard G. Klein of the Soviet state," in a speech that seemed often seems kind of arrogant. dienst. to anticipate.Carter's "human rights" thrust HIS BEST FRIENDS ADMIT HE'S AN ARROGANT At Defense he implemented a profound at Soyiet internal policies. MAN change in the nation's nuclear weapons Although they have been described as fiscal Even his best friends will tell you this·. strategy, switching from the theory of an conservatives, both are pragmatic in their "Goddamn right, it's arrogance. And it's not all-out "assured destruction" rain of mis approach to economic policies. "He sees the a kind of arrogance, either, it is arrogance," siles that would obliterate major cities of the concept of a free market as a useful tool," exulained Joe Laitin, currently the too press Soviet Union in the event of a nuclear attack said one Schlesinger confidant, "but it is not aide at the Treasury, and one of Schiesing on the United States or its allies. an altar." er's longest friends in Washington. Arguing that the devastation of such an One difference between Carter and Schles It is not, Laitin added, that Schlesinger attack might inhibit the United States from inger, a difference that may grow during the goes out of his way to antagonize people. using its nuclear capability if the Russians legislative struggles over the energy package, "He wants to make damn sure that people decided to attack Western Europe, Schles is in the area of nuclear proliferation. Carter respect him for his mind. It would just kill inger advanced the strategy of a "limited believes that the international trend toward him ·to think that peo_!)le would like him for nuclear war," changing missile targeting so the use of plutonium as a nuclear fuel will his charm. He'd feel defeated-." that the first waves of missiles could fall on present severe security risks because a eroup In February 1969, when Schlesinger first military targets such as major oil facilities of terrorists or a small, unfriendly nation arrived in Washington as assistant director er missile silos. could use the fuel to make a nuclear weapon. of the Bureau of the Budget, it seemed clear The theory, as Schlesinger once explained MAy BE LESS PESSIMISTIC ON PLUTONIUM ISSUE to Laitin that here was a man with the it to a Senate Foreign Relations subcommit Schlesinger, who has written a number of credentials to go far. As an undergraduate, tee, was that if it was clear to both sides that scholarly articles on the subject, is said to Schlesinger was summa cum laude at Har urban centers were not being hit "when the be much less of a pessimist on the subject. vard. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics existential circumstances arise, political In an article written 10 years ago for the there is 1956. leaders on both sides will be under p owerful "Yale Review," Schlesinger asse·rted that After four years as an assistant professor pressure to continue to be sensible." Knowing there was an "enormous gulf" between the of economics at the University of Virginia. the United States had the ability to make a threat of having a primitive nuclear weapon Schlesinger produced a book, "The Political limited response, he argued, would lessen and the threat of being able to deliver it with Economy of National Security," which chal the temptation for the Russians to take a a sophisticate1 delivery system. lenged a number of strategic assumptions limited step toward war. " . .. A question aris,es whether the actual of the day, including the assumption that "HE INSPIRES LOT OF PEOPLE BY PROVIDING dimension of the threat merits the note of there would be enough oil to go around in INCENTIVES de:\peration that has occa~ionally crept into time of war. public discussion," the article asserts. The book impressed· the RAND Corp. and, One former Defense Department official, who knew Schlesinger during his Pentagon During the recent battles over whether to in 1963, Schlesinger became a senior staff build the plutonium-producing Clinch River member of the California research company. days, said Schlesinger had difficulty relating to large numbers of people and preferred to breeder reactor, Carter has attacked the de Later he became RAND's director of strategic vice because of the danger in the widespread studies. work with a small staff of favorites. "He runs these large organizations some use of plutonium fuel. Schlesinger, on the A man who has described himself as a other hand, has tended to play down that "moderately conservative fellow," and an how by force of personality. He inspires a lot of people, partly by providing incentives, theme, concentrating instead on the argu admirer of the late Republican leader Sen. ment that the Clinch River project is not cost Robert Taft, Schlesinger was deemed to have partly by intimidati-on. A lot of people three the right political stripe for the Nixon ad times removed think they're working for him. effective. ministration. (Former Secretary of State Henry A.) Kis The interplay between the two men has singer could also do that. He (Schlesinger) is shaped much of the energy package. Carter TOOK ON THE PENTAGON AS THE CHIEF OF OMB a leader, not a manager." launched it in a burst of idealism, using a. Once installed at the Bureau of the Budget, Jn November 1975, then-President Gerald phrase Schlesinger borrowed from an earlier Schlesinger prom'!)tly took on the Pentagon, R. Ford fired Schlesinger after a series of in professorial type from Harvard-William asserting that it had "drowned itself" in ternal disputes over a White Hou<:e move to James, an American philosopher, who wrote poorly analyzed information from Vietnam. cut $10 billion from the Pentagon's fiscal the essay "The Moral Equivalent of War" in He also attacked major weapons programs, 1977 budget. This time Schlesinger was ve- 1910. July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22327 The essay is a strident defense of pacifism, AMERICAN APPEAL FOR THE Rights and the Helsinki Agreement that it arguing that the time may come when men POLISH WORKERS bas endorsed and by the relevant articles of will willingly make sacrifices for peaceful do the Polish Constitution. As a first step toward mestic goals with the same passion that they the implementation of the rule of law, we exhibit during wartime. call upon the leaders of the Polish People's As used by Schlesinger, the theme means HON. MILLICENT FENWICK Republic to release immediately the impris that the energy question is one that will OF NEW JERSEY oned members of the Workers Defense Com need the commitment and social unity of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mittee. wartime, although it will not necessarily re Sponsored by: quire a wartime economic footing. Monday, July 11, 1977 Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Laureate, Depart ment of Economics, Harvard University. THE ENERGY PACKAGE : IT WAS "QUICK AND Mrs. FENWICK. Mr. Speaker, about 1 William Lipscomb, Nobel Laureate, Depart DmTY" year ago, on June 26, the Polish Govern ment of Chemistry, Harvard University. Despite its lofty beginnings, the energy ment acknowledged that its announced George Wald, Nobel Laureate, Department package has its faults, partly because it is a food price increases did not have the of Biology, Harvard University. package of extraordinarily complex proposals, support of the Polish people. Severe any one of which might take years to design worker riots throughout Poland con properly and pass through Congress. For po vinced the Government that the price VOLUNTEERISM: A DUAL MEAN litical reasons, however, Schlesinger and Car ING ter decided the package had to be slapped rise should be withdrawn. Many of the together and sent to Congress within two workers who demonstrated were arrested months. at that time, leading to the creation of a HON. THOMASJ. DOWNEY "It was quick and dirty, if you want to put Workers' Defense Committee. it that way, but it had to be. Any delays The Workers' Defense Committee has OF NEW YORK would have meant that Congress would have come under attack by the Polish Gov IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES put it over until next year, an election year, ernment in recent weeks and 11 mem Monday, July 11, 1977 and that would have caused prolonged de bers of the committee and their lays," explained one Schlesinger aide. sympathizers were arrested in May 1977. Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, volun Schlesinger already has taken some lumps Members of the committee arrested teer. As a noun or verb, this word has trying to sell the package. (Rep. Ken Hol were: Miroslaw Chojecki, Jacek Kuron, been synonymous with service. land, D-S.C., recently told Schlesinger dur It has another meaning. however, that ing House Ways and Means Committee hear Adam Michnik, Antoni Maciarewicz, and Piotr Naimski. Friends of the committee is sometimes obscured. It also means ings that the lack of any apparent real commitment-to an idea, an issue, a sacrifices in the energy plan meant "we are who were arrested were: Sewerin dropping a moral equivalent of a water Blumsztajn, Wojciech Arkuszewski, Jan cause. Citizenship. balloon.") Litynski, Wojciech Ostrowski, Jan Josef In remarks before Long Island's Nas But nobody ever said lobbying would be Lipski, and Hanna Ostrowska. Two of t~e sau-Suffolk Volunteer Conference, easy. Schlesinger is working the Hill nenly sympathizers were released in June be Harry Chaoin, a bri1liant artist and con every legislative day now. It is a new role cause of ill health, but the others remain cerned citizen. sooke of the dual mean for him, but he has been around a long time. in prison. Dr. Edward Lipinski, an 88- ing of volunteerism. As excerpted in He has acquired powerful friends (among year-old e ·onomics professor and mem Newsday on July 3, I would like to share them Sen. Henry M. Jackson, chairman of ber of the committee, demanded on May Mr. Chapin's comments with my the Senate Energy Committee) and he has colleagues : never been known to give up easily. 25, 1977, that the committee be released "because we are convinced that they did THE SATISFACTIONS OF BEING A VOLUNTEER And, rhetoric aside, when it comes down (By Harry Chapin) to arguing the specifics of the package, there not commit any crimes." are not too many people around who can Mr. Speaker, I would like to bring to We are all searching for a positive affirma keep up with Schlesinger because he tends tion of our existence, some indication that it the attention of the House an appeal matters whether we are alive. to carry his briefcase around in his head. sponsored by three American Nobel "The preparation you have to give Schlesin Extraordinarily enough, people do not real ger is just minimal compared to other peo laureates from Harvard University in ize that t J:, e best way of f!etting t h is is by ple," says Fred Hitz, Schlesinger's top legis behalf of these human rights activists dealing with people around them on a posi lative aide. who are in prison because of their tive basis. We need to be in touch with peo ple. We need to reach out and see their eyes "He doesn't need a flotilla of swamis run political views: APPEAL and hear what thev are saving. ning around and slipping him pieces of The satisfactions that I have received in the paper." MAY 31, 1977. To Henryk Jablonski, Chairman of the State last few years are not from gold records, or MORE IMPORTANT THINGS THAN HOLDING Council of the Polish People's Republic. album succec:ses, or even money I have INTERVIEWS To Stanislaw Gucwa, Speaker of Parliament earned, but from being involved with the The press may not see much of tbe selling of the Polish People's Republic. meaningful issues that attract the good peo of the energy package, though, because the To Piotr Jaroszewicz, Prime Minister of the ple. As Pete Seeger calls them, "the people chief lobbyist prefers to work behind the Polish People's Republic. with the live hearts, live eyes and live heads." scenes. Accused by one questioner of "stone To Edward Gierek, First Secretary of the I don't get caught on the word "volunteer." walling the press," Schlesinger stood recently Polish United Workers' Party. I just say we are in a participatory democ at the National Press Club, complacently racy, where we are all supposed to be arm On September 23, 1976, a number of con chair experts on hunger, economics, defense puffing his pipe, trying to tell them, in his cerned Polish citizens set up in Warsaw the fashion, that holding a lot of interviews and ecology-all the various fancy things Workers Defense Committee to provide legal, that the supposed experts are telling us would be an endless t"sk and that he has medical and financial assistance to workers more important things to do. about. If we do not get involved to that de victimized during and after the June 1976 gree, then we are not doing what the Amer He did it with what he said was a quote price riots. from Sir Robert Walpole, an 18th century ican system was set up to do. Its members were subjected to harassment The genius of America is a collective English statesman: "Gratitude is the lively and intimidation by the police, and to death expectation of favors about be con genius-all of us working together on things. to threats from anonymous callers. Recently, We are all supposed to be arguing in our ferred." (Actually, the auote is "The grati after having received such threats, Stanislaw schools, homes, churches, streets and taverns tude of place-expectants is a lively sense Pyjas, a student actively working for the about all these things; and whenever we have of future favours.") Committee, was killed in unexplained cir seen two or three people get in a room to In this aspect, Scblesinj!'er has no apolo cnmstances. In connection with Pyjas' fu make decisions for us-we see it get gists. "He does have a problem." admits neral, six members of the Committee, Cho screwed up. Laitin, who was press aide for Schlesinger at jec1"1, Kuron, Lipski, Maciarewicz, Michnik Volunteerism is a right, and we volunteers the Pentagon. "As a profei:sor be did not and Naims1'-i were arrested and are now in are carrying out the heritage of this country. like dull students. He does not like dull re prison pending the investigation of their I, therefore, challenge the people here not to porters. I've tried to get him not to look at cases. be passive or just pat ourselves on the back the press as a group." We deolcre the escalation of repression in and say what nice people we are. Rather than "He's one of those stand-up guys, a good Poland against people whose only crime con saying bow wonderful we are, the whole job player," says another Schlesinger supporter. sists i"l defending basic human rights of is to get more people to go out and do it--not "Nobody says you have to have an easy per others. We urge that the Polish government only because volunteering is rewarding, but sonality to be good." abide by the Universal Declaration of Human because it ls our responsib111ty. 2'2328 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 All too often volunteers are considered as that this is what we are saying to the people So I thought of that scene when I read "softies and liberal dogooders." The whole we have brought into the world. the other day that former state Sen. Mike concept of women being second-class citizens We cannot rely on the politicians to solve LoPresti Sr. had died at age 68. because they volunteer is also in need of our problems for us. As a friend once said, His death is noted here because he was change and must be attacked. I challenge "The politician is one who is adept at riding unia_ue among the flamboyant and often you to be more aggressive and remember that waves ... Let us not be naive about what windy East Boston and North End pols. It is we are the American dream. We who volun our responsibility is. Our responsibility is to teer are saying that there is something im a tough district to represent, because the make waves." need and want are there a nd anybody who portant enough for me to do, no matter if We must all go that extra mile. We must I'm getting paid or not because life gets down knows anything about Boston will recognize be aggressive in the sense of challenging that fact. to ideas, as well as guns and butter, and others and making them realize that the mean national income and balance of trade His political battles with then Sen. M9rio American dream implies that all of us must Umana were slam-bang-drag'em-out brawls, and how much money we have in our pockets. be actively involved. We have seen so many people from the but they eventually ended up as old and dear We all have the potential to move the friends. middle class on up in our society basically world . . . and the world is ready to be end up lost because they have put all their moved. Now there is no intention here of canon stake in life into money, and they have seen izing Mike LoPresti, because he still looked how shallow it is. So what I'm saying is when out for himself pretty good and probably you volunteer, you are doing something that cut a few corners aloru6 the way just like means enough to you to do it for no money TRIBUTE TO STATE SENATOR any other pol. and you are doing something that is really Lo PRESTI But his quiet and unassuming approach life-oriented. was still different and his word was good Without volunteers in our society, the and that was the most important part. So quality of life would immediately drop. How HON. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR. he got respect. ever, we must get at our problems by treat OF MASSACHUSETTS He grew up poor and went to gramm- r and ing the causes and not just the symptoms. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES high school nights and eventually graduated Our job is not just to clean up the dirty linen from Suffolk Law School. Mike got a job that other people create. If we are willing to Monday, July 11, 1977 back in the old days working as a secretary commit our time for no money, we should Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, I would for then U.S. Rep. Tom Flaherty and had damn well make sure that other people are like to take a few moments to pay tribute a big role in handing out jobs. not just creating horror shows that we are That is probably when the phrase started supposed to clean up because we are "nice to the former State Senator Michael in the North End and East Boston and people." LoPresti of East Boston, who passed away Charlestown: "You better see Mike." Through So the job for volunteers is really to be on June 11, 1977. In Michael LoPresti's the years a lot of people went to see Mike sophisticated enough to realize when we are passing the people of East Boston have LoPresti for helo. being asked to do cleanup tasks and when we lost a truly dedicated and hard working He served in the Senate and took a couple are really being asked to do something about public servant. of shots at congressional seats but lost both solving the problems. There has been some Michael LoPresti thoroughly enjoyed times to now House Speaker Tip O'Neill . . . controversy regarding the merits of "service the political and legislative process and but the hell with all that. Almost everybody oriented volunteers" as opposed to "change in Boston knows about his political career. oriented volunteers." conscientiously and affectionately de The years went by and Mike and Anna I do not believe it is a cut-and-dried issue. voted himself to voicing the concerns and LoPresti raised a nice family of two son::i However, if certain forces are creating hun needs of his constituents. Respected by and two daughters. He and Lucky Boorstein ger and all that we are doing is feeding his colleagues in the Senate, Michael Lo had started a concession stand years ago a't hungry people without treating the causes of Presti served his constituents of East the old East Boston Airport and when the that hunger, we are being silly and we are Boston and indeed the whole Common aviation boom started they were in good not taking our time and effort seriously. All shape. we are doing is putting a Band-Aid on a bad wealth with distinction. Though quiet and reserved in personality. his word was They formed Skyline Enterprises and for situation. So the minute we make the com 27 years operated the Logan Airport food mitment to volunteer, we are telling our alwavs golden; and acts of loyalty to his and drink concessions. LoPresti made a lot selves: "We are serious people; we really want f.amily, friends, and constituents were of money, but it all ended abruptly last to do something." At that point, we have to the guiding norms of conduct in both his March when a 10-year lease expired and be sop his ti ca ted enough to find the p' aces public and personal life. Massport awarded the new contract to a where our effort will really make a differ I call to the attention of my colleagues lower bidder. ence. LoPresti quietly said after the Massport The greatest lost resource in our society and submit for the RECORD two articles that more fully describe the character of vote: "I just saw 27 years go down the today is the elderly. The whole concept of drain." Some of his friends claim he actually putting old people away is obscene in every the late State Senator Michael LoPresti: died of a broken heart. sense of the word. When old people are liv [From the Boston Globe, June 22, 1977] The wake was held the other night over at ing on fixed incomes in a society faced with THEY WON'T FORGET LOPRESTI IN E. BOSTON, the Rapino Funeral Home near Maverick inflation and increases of the cost of liv NORTH END square in East Boston, and you had to wait ing ... and you have people who have to (By Jeremiah V. Murphy) 45 minutes to get in the door, because the buy a room and some heat . . . and some crowd was so large. light and the telephone . and then some A few years ago old Mike LoPresti left food-it's no wonder you find they're eating his home over in East Boston on an election There were former Govs. Foster Furcolo only one meal a day. And when you find they day and was driven in a Cadillac to the North ·and John Volpe and former Reps. John have worked 20 or 30 or 40 years; earned a End to campaign for his son in his successful Toomey_ of Cambridge and Tim Mcinerney decent retirement, and they are eating only state senatorial race. of Roslindale and Angelo Berland! and Mike one meal a day-that is an indictment He was a 65-year-old short and balding Nazzaro, both from the North End. There against all of us. guy who felt right at home in the Italian was former Senate president Johnny Powers The sad thing is that we only react when North End, because he had grown up on and current president Kevin Harrington and people howl. These old people are not radi ChJrter street and got into politics as a scores of others. cals. They are very conservative. They do young man and eventually served in the But most of all, there were maybe thou not want to accept food stamps. They do Senate himself. sands of just plain everyday people, and per not want to go on welfare; they have too But that morning he was in the North haps they remembered when Mike was al much pride. They do not want to go through End looking for votes for his son, so there he ways good for a double sawbuck to tide the humiliation. was working Hanover street and greeting old them over until payday, the man you went And, if we do not address ourselves to those friends by their first names. Now you have to when your son needed a job or when silent people, then we are really indicting to understand that he didn't come on strong your landlord was giving you a bad time. ourselves. And I would like to think that we and buttonhole people. That just wasn't People remember and it really doesn't have sharp enough eyes to see through the LoPresti's style. make much difference if you're talking about walls where those lonely people live. They He stood there and quietly passed the families in Bennington street tenements in are slowly dying in the most degrading situa time of day and when somebody told Lo East Boston or in red brick townhouses on tions possible. Presti that he had just voted for his son, old the right side of Beacon Hill. If their roots As Bob Dylan said, "He who is not busy Mike would hold out his right hand and are there, they will remember all right. being born is busy dying.'' Those of us who softly say, "Thank you.'' That's all. They remembered Mike LoPresti the other are playing ostriches are in fact saying that But the thing that got to me that morning night, because he didn't change when he we don't give a damn. What we are saying, was the obvious respect LoPresti received became a big pol or later when he made a then, to our kids is that all we are doing is from the North End people. It wasn't that barrel of money. He was the same old Mike trying to hold on until our old age-and if back-slapping style you see around many and helped out even when he was out of the world should fall apart, that's fine-be other old pols. It was respect for an old office. cause we have lived our lives. I hate to think friend. He had earned their respect. July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22329 [From the Post-Gazette, June 22, 1977] As an article in the London Times of "Do not teil the police you have spoken to June 17, 1977, indicates, conditions are us", the man with the moustache said "or MICHAEL LOPRE.5TI they wil, throw us out." It was a hot after The death of a person be it a mother, not easy even for those who were not noon and the viL-age square was empty ex father, brother, sister, a relative or friend is forced to evacuate. cept for my parked car. I asked whether the always a sad occasion. I ask the other Members of Congress Greek Cypriots wanted to stay in the village But when one loses a man of the calibre of to join me in expressing their humani or whether-as the Turkish Cypriot authori former Senator Michael LoPresti of East tarian concern on this anniversary : ties often claim-they wanted to leave for Boston, it is a tragedy. POLICE AND BARBED WIRE GUARD ONLY SIZABLE the south of the island. Michael LoPresti brought hope where there GREEK ENCLAVE LEFT BEHIND TuRKISH " We want to stay," the man said. "Why was none, he brought love where it was nec LINES IN CYPRUS should we lea.ve? Our homes are here and essary and gave a helping hand when it was we have nothing else. Our farms are here. needed. (From Robert Fisk, Rizokarpaso, Northern Cyprus June 16) Sometimes the Turks try to take our ani-nals. While in public office as Senator, he learned I tie my goats to my bed at night to stop his lessons well and passed his knowledge There are 1,510 Greek Cypriots living in the the Turks stealing them. They want our on to those in need. How many in public of remote village of Rizokarpaso, 70 miles be home3 but we do not want to give them up. fice have this quality? They are few and far hind the Turkish lines in Cyprus. They Sometimes the police tell us we cannot work between. · subsist on tiny, poor farms, surrounded by our fields. The police are no use in protecting Turks in a township ringed by barbed wire It is a matter of record that most politi us." cians when they lose an election or leave pub and Turkish Cypriot soldiers. The man paused, looked over my shoulder lic office voluntarily they forget their con Some of them cooperate with the local at the square and said: "Police-do not tell Turkish Cypriots, trying as best they can stituents and forget those who assisted in them l have talked to you." Walking to their endeavors. Not so with Michael Lo to show the Turks that they want to live in peace with them. Others, particularly the old, wards me across the square was a young man Presti! His heart and soul stayed with the in sunglasses wearing a red teeshirt. public even when he was out of public office. are f~ightened people, living under police surveillance and expecting any day to be As he came closer, the Greeks huddled "Mike" as he was affectionately known, found round a table and turned on a radio loudly. the time to always be there whether it was evicted from their homes. Rizokarpaso is almost inacce,sible to for "Welcome," the young man said to me, ex for his buddies that he served with at the tending his hand. "Can I help you?" When I State House, his former constituents, chari eigners. The Greek inhabitants-the only substantial Greek Cypriot community still asked him who he was, he said simply: "I'm table organizations or his beloved family. the police." What more can one ask of a man. His breed in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus-have not left the few square miles around their Why had I come to Dipkarpass-the Turk is hard to come by. ish name for Rizokarpaso---be wanted to He left a legacy which will long be remem homes for three years. To the Turkish Cypriots they represent a know. What did I want? Had I talked to the bered and go down in political history. He villagers? The Greek Cypriots watched us in understood the qualities of mercy and he community in need of physical protection whos~ members elect, in increasing numbers, tently as they tent over their radio. practiced them. He was strong of mind and The policeman with the red teeshirt was character, yet he never abused these quali to jom their families in the south of the island. To the Greek Cypriot Government to become an almost permanent feature of ties. He only used them for the good of the the landscape. He stood outside the little human race. He knew well the meaning of they are hostages, harassed by the Turkish authorities and under constant threat of concrete police station with its Turkish flag "forgive" and "forget". With former Senator and watched me as I walked to the Turkish LoPresti the quality of mercy was important. losing their homes and posses"ions. ~he Turkish Cypriot authorities normally coffee shop near the church. Yes, one of the It was the key to the future of this state and insist th·at journalists wishing to visit Rizok Turks there said, they were friendly to the yes, if you will, the future of America. arpaso are accompanied by a government offi Greeks but many Greeks had left the village His principles were above reproach. He was cial. This week, however, driving a Turkish of their own accord. a "giver" not a "taker". His quiet, unassum Cypriot car and brandishing a Turkish tour Statistics show that 3,151 Greek Cypriots ing manner will leave its mark on mankind, ish map of Cyprus at the three roadblocks lived in Rizokarpaso before the division of for this was one of the qualities of this man outside the village, I travelled to Rizokarpaso the island in 1974. Only two Turks lived that got results for him, his family and his on my own and spent three hours talking to t:11~re ~hen. There are more than 400 today, constituents when he served the common Greek and Turkish Cypriots. l1vmg m what were Greek Cypriot homes. wealth. For much of the time I was watched by two Just opposite the police station stands What else can you say about a man who plain-clothes Turkish Cypriot policemen. "Louis's fre3h fish restaurant" although the was a '. 'super" human being in every shape, Many of the Greek Cypriots I approached Greek Cypriot owner-"Mr. Louis" to the manner, and form? said that they were too frightened to talk to villagers-explained that he no longer had Yes, we will miss Michael LoPresti for the me. Some said they regarded the Turks as the food to r,m a restaurant. "I've been here good he imparted will be most difficult to their friends. Others appeared terrified of the since 1974," he said, "but we have to make forget. police and complained that local Turkish Cy the best of life under the circumstances." June 11, 1977 was a black day because o! priots had stolen their farm animals and As we talked he moved farther and farther his passing and that date will be hard to wanted to take over their homes. away, sweeping the verandah of his house forget. The road to Rizokarpaso runs through pen with a broom and eventually turning the insular hills, through the village of Yialousa corner of his house so that we could no longer which is now almost totally occupied by continue the conversation. CYPRUS-3 YEARS LATER Turks, and along a three-mile track whose I saw him later entertaining several Turks surface is so pitted with holes that a motor to coffee, including a Turkish policeman. ist is forced to drive at only five miles an Even the Greek muhtar has a portrait of HON. DALE E. KILDEE hour. Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish OF MICHIGAN Along the route, Greek Cypriot churches state, hanging on the wall of his office. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lie deserted, their doors frequently forced open ·and their ornaments and chandeliers Monday, July 11, 1977 smashed on the stone floor. Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, on July 20, Rizokarpaso is a neat little village. The THE MINUTEMAN III PRODUCTION we shall pass the third anniversary of whitewashed church, cared for by two elder ly priests, stands to the north of the little LINE SHOULD NOT BE SHUT DOWN the tragic events in Cyprus. On that day square around which are three coffee shops. Turkish troops, using American-supplied Two are Turkish and one-a converted weapons, began their occupation of slaughterhouse where the Greek Cyptiot HON. JOHN J. LaF ALCE Cyprus. There are still over 25,000 Turk muhtar (village headman) has his office-is OF NEW YORK ish troops on the island, and I feel that Greek. When I reached the village there were IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 12 Greeks sitting on wooden chairs under the we have a responsibility to express our Monday, July 11, 1977 continued concern over the lack of prog verandah of their coffee shop. ress toward reaching a settlement on One of them, a man in his sixties with a Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, on July 6 Cyprus. bushy moustache and fluent English, nodded the Department of Defense announr.ed The pathos of the situation has been when I approached. "Who are you?" he said, its plans to terminate production of the and when I told him I was a journalist he Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic increased by the thousands of people who glanced over my shoulder and asked if I had have been displaced from their homes. come alone. missile. The Soviet Union has five ICBM's These people often live in wretched con He introduced me to the other 11 Greeks. in production at this time, while the ditions and are unable to support them Most were retired farmers, who owned live Minuteman III is the free world's only selves. Justice demands that these victims stock and lived in small bungalows, while two ICBM in production. have their homes and property restored others were young men who worked the fields. A modernized replacement for the to them. All said they would not tell me their names. Minuteman III, presently called the 22330 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 "M-X", is in the early research and de stitute saving five-sixths of the funds. Quite WASHINGTON LETTER REVIVING MIDWAY velopment stages and could not be ready the contrary. Long lead-time items and AIRPORT termination penalties result, we are in (By Rep. Morgan F. Murphy) for deployment until the mid-1980's, as formed, in a situation where only $60 million suming everything goes well. of the $265 million will remain if the con A survey of air passi!ngers last November As you know, Mr. Speaker, the Stra tracts are terminated after delivery of the showed that Midway airport has the poten tegic Arms Limitation Talks-SALT first 10. Put another way, the first ten mis tial to service one out of three persons flying got off to a shaky start earlier this year, siles will cost the taxpayers $20 million each, in and out of Chicago. Some 32 per cen~ of while the other 50 have a unit cost of only those surveyed said they would use Midway if and there is no assurance yet that an there were enough flights. The survey was acceptable extension of the SALT agree $1.2 million. 3. Abrupt termination of the contracts conducted by the Midway Reactivation Task ments will be negotiated with the Rus would have a devastating effect on employ force, which solicited the views of 11,000 sians. Indeed, there are strong reasons to ment in a number of acres, including our passenger3 on p·lanes scheduled to leave from believe the exact opposite. For this and own Western New York region. 'Ihe contrac O'Hare airport. other reasons which I articulated in a tors would have no chance to seek alterna It is not hard to understand why so many letter to the President late last month tive programs and massive lay-offs would be people want the airport revived. For one the text of which follows these remarks unavoidable. thing, Midway is a more convenient drive ! believe it is very unwise and imprudent The Minuteman III production team is than O'Hare for persons leaving from the to propose terminating this production highly skilled. They have built the world's South Side and the South and Southwest most accurate and reliable strategic missile Suburbs. Midway is also a welcome alter line. under conditions totally free of financi3.l or native to O'Hare's congestion. For the har The Defense Department's action, if it other scandals. Because it might Jeopardize ried air traveller, O'Hare's parking lots can is to remain effective, must be sustained our SALT negotiations, because completion fill up fast, resulting in long walks, parking by Congress by approval of a rescission of the remaining fifty missiles will cost, per tickets and missed flights. proposal. These funds were duly author missile, about 1/ 20 of the unit cost thus far In addition, Midway would generate much ized and appropriated by the Congress of the first ten missiles, and because of the needed business for Chicago's South Side. last year and, therefore, represent the potential effects on regional economies That is one reason why the Chicago South collective judgment of both Houses of around the country, we urge you to instruct Chamber of Commerce is pressing for the air the Department of Defense to carry out these port's reactivation. Congress. The burden of proof for elimi contracts to completion. There are some hopeful signs that Midway nating these funds is and must be on the Thank you for your attention to this im may be in store for a revival. Although the administration. portant matter. major airlines have refused to transfer flights I am convinced that this action is an Sincerely, from O'Hare to Midway, a number of smaller improper and unwise course to take. I in JOHN J. LAFALCE, airlines have asked the Civil Aeronautics tend to fight this decision every step of HENRY J. NOWAK, board's permission to begin short-haul, low the way, and I urge my colleagues to Members of Congress. fare flights at Midway. join me in this important effort. One applicant, Midway (Southwest) Air Mr. Speaker, at this point I respect way, has proposed daily and weekend flights REVIVING MIDWAY AIRPORT at fares ranging from 24 to 53 per cent less fully request that the text of my letter than standard coach fares. Another airline, of June 28 to the President be inserted in Midway Airlines, has proposed daily round the RECORD: HON. MORGAN F. MURPHY trips at similarly reduced rates. Other appli HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF ILLINOIS cants include: Delta Airlines, Chicago Air Washington, D.C., June 28, 1977. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lines, Trans World Airlines, Northwest Air Hon. JIMMY CARTER, lines, North Central Airlines, Ozark Airlines, President of the United States, The White Monday, July 11, 1977 '\-/right Airlines, Southern Airways, and House, Washington, D.C. Mr. MURPHY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, Continental Airways. DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We are advised that If the CAB permits low-fare service at the Secretary of Defense is reviewing the the revitalization of Midway Airport was Midway, some of the bigger airlines may be Minuteman III ICBM program and that he the key topic of discussion at a recent lured into competition. Since 1970, the major will very shortly make a recommendation luncheon attended by Illinois Represent airlines have considered a return to Midway to you concerning the future of that pro atives and members of the Chicago to be unprofitable. They point to their esti gram. Last year Congress authorized pro South Chamber of Commerce. I and mated $35 million loss when they tried to duction of an additional 60 Minuteman III other members of the Illinois congres revive the airport seven years ago. But if the missiles, and approximately $265 million was sional delegation, along with Represent smaller airlines are successful, the larger appropriated to carry out this procurement. ative GLENN ANDERSON of California, told ones may decide to switch some of their Earlier in the month the Air Force an long-haul flights from O'Hare to Midway. nounced contracts implementing the pur the chamber we strongly support re What are the prospects for Midway's re chase of the 60 new missiles. newed service at Midway. vitalization? No one knows for sure. The As we understand it, the Secretary is con Re-presentative ANDERSON, chairman CAB is presently entertaining the applica sidering two options: t 1) to fulfill the Con of the House Aviation Subcommittee, tions of 11 airlines that want to provide low gressional authorization in full, permitting announced to chamber members that he fare service at Midway. In order to keep the the contracts to continue for purchase of the plans to hold hearings on renewed serv Midway case manageable, the CAB has de 60 missiles, or (2) to recommend that the ice at Midway in the near future in Chi cided to consider only the six largest air contracts be terminated after delivery of cago. travel markets proposed by the applicants. the first 10 new missiles. Option 2 would re The cities under consideration for service quire Congressional approval under the Speakers at the luncheon cited a num from Midway are: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Budget Act. ber of compelling reasons for reactivat Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Kansas City, We hope that the Secretary chooses option ing Midway, including: Traffic conges and Pittsburgh. 1, and we are sending him a copy of this let tion going to and at O'Hare Airport; the But even with this narrowing of the case, ter to encourage him to make that choice. convenience of Midway to persons living the proceeding will probably take a long However, we felt we should contact you as on Chicago's South Side; wasted fuel and time. Hearings may not begin for two to well and urge you to reject any recom time caused by airplanes waiting to land three months, after which the CAB could mendation that Congress be asked to approve at O'Hare; and the potential for gener very easily take a year or more to make a termination of this program at this time. ating business in South Chicago. ruling. And of course, there is no guarantee Our rea::ons follow: that the CAB will rule in favor of Midway 1. Until we have a new SALT agreement Jack Bowen, deputy commissioner of service. with the Soviet Union, it wo.uld be imprudent aviation for the city of Chicago, and Some might say the chances for a favorable to shut down the free world's only ICBM Robert Swaney, president of the Chicago ruling are against the odds. Historically, the production line. The Russians have five such South Chamber of Commerce, also ad CAB has not been receptive to new entries lines in operation, and in the event no agree dressed chamber members on the need into the air service market Since 1939, when ment on arms limitations is reached, we for reviving Midway. the present airline regulatory structure was should be in a position to do whatever is Mr. Speaker, I would like to draw my created, the CAB has turned down virtually necessary to assure our defense. Re-starting every new air carrier that has applied for a. line that has been shut down will be ex colleagues' attention to an article I have long-haul routes. tremely difficult, time-consuming and very written on Midway Airport, formerly the Nevertheless, the mere fact that CAB ls expensive. world's busiest but now a virtual ghost co,,sidering applications to service Midway is 2. Termination of the contracts after de town. The article appeared in the South encouraging, given its history of opposing livery of the first 10 missile:- does not con- town Economist on June 22, 1977: new entries. Moreover, the Carter admints- July 11, 19 7 7 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22331 tration, the Department of Transportation, Northwest. Then came a steady hammering ulate you and the members of the Surface and the Justice department have all come on congressmen's doors. Trapsportation Subcommittee for your fore out in support of renewed service to Mid This sudden threat to the established folk sight and initiative in scheduling and hold way. ways of the region would mean, according to ing this serie3 of hearings on the vital prob If the CAB should rule against Midway some of the timbermen, upheaval a.nd social lems of surface transportation and to thank service, the issue of airline deregulation will collapse. Towns would be left destitute, chil you for giving us this opportunity to appear take on new importance. Some argue that dren would go hungry and crime rates would before you. the present regulatory system should be re soar ( except, of course, for the crimes of Before processing further with my re placed with a more flexible one that makes fraud, collusion and violation of the anti marks on the substance of the hearings, I it easier for new airlines to enter the air trust statutes). Confronted with this dire would like to describe briefly in the structure service market. Even the CAB has told Con prospect, Congress is acting fast. and objectives of the Congressional Rural gress to change its charter so the govern Corrective legislation to restore ora.1-that Caucus. Somewhat more than one hundred ment can gradually get out of the business is, collusive-auctions in the Northwest has members of the House from both parties of telling airlines where they may fly and already cleared the House Agriculture Com formed the Caucus five years ago. Our de what fares they may charge. mittee. Things also look pretty good in the cision to organize into an ad hoc caucus Not everyone, however, is convinced that Senate Agriculture Committee, which shares stemmed from our concern that the rural airline deregulation is a good idea. The major jurisdiction with the Energy and Natural areas of this nation-more particularly, airlines (except United) fear that the re Resources Committee. The cause of com those communities with populations of moval of regulatory controls would create munity preservation and economic together fewer than 50,000-simply were not receiv chaos in the economically troubled industry. ness rests in good hands. ing their fair share of Federal expenditures. Labor groups believe that increased competi We were concerned particularly with trans tion would reduce major airline flights a.nd [From the Fresno Bee, June 2, 1977] portation, housing, education and other high priority issues. throw thousands of employes out of work. KEEPING TIMBER SALES HONEST Accordingly, we structured ourselves into But all this is down the road. For now, We hope Rep. John Krebs, D-Fresno, suc the future of Midway airport is in the hands the following substantive committees: agri ceeds in his efforts to keep sealed bidding as culture, energy and natural resources; com of the CAB. Let us hope that the decision the way for selling most government-owned is in favor of a revived Midway airport. munications and transportation; education, timber in the West. human resource3 and vocational education; Kreb3 cosponsored a 1976 law to require environment; public works and related fa the sealed bid procedure, but a. bill to a.mend cilities, water and waste disposal; financial that law a.nd return to oral auctions has resources and rural development; health; SEALED BIDDING FOR TIMBER cleared the House Agriculture Committee. housing; legislative oversight; and rural dis SALES If it does, Krebs says he will fight it on the advantaged. The respective chairmen of House floor. these committees comprise the Executive A number of timber industry representa Committee, which also includes the Caucus HON. JOHN KREBS tives don't like sealed bidding. They assert Chairman, Honorable John Breckinridge. OF CALIFORNIA it allows outsiders to win timber sales con So that the Caucus may remain currently tracts away from local communities. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES informed on substantive issues affecting our They prefer oral auctions, under which rural communities, each committee is linked Monday, July 11, 1977 purchacers have the option of raising bids in to an advisory team whose members are in public competition. This, they contend, gives close touch with rural residents and juris Mr. KREBS. Mr. Speaker, it is ex local bidders a better chance. dictions. pected that sometime in the near future We think their fear of local harm is exag As an example, I have the privilege of H.R. 6362, to repeal the sealed bidding gerated. A Justice Department survey showed serving as Chairman of the Committee on requirement in the sale of timber from that out of 234 recent sealed bid timber sales Communications and Transportation, and it national forests, will be before the full in the Pacific states, only 19 went to firms is in that capacity that I present the views House. This bill cleared the House Com opera.ting outside the normal sales areas. of our committee today. The advisory team ,mittee on Agriculture on May 23, 1977 by Under the sealed bid system, each bidder to the CRC Committee on Communications a vote of 22-20. can submit only one bid corresponding to his and Transportation consists of persons repre interest in a given sale. It reduces the pos senting such organizations as the National As background for this upcoming vote, sibility of bid rigging, a.nd helps insure the Association of Counties, the Council of State I thought it might be useful to share with government will be fairly compensated for a Governments, the National Rural Center, my colleagues two recent editorials; one publicly owned resource. National Association of State Departments from the California-based McClatchy Severa.I criminal investigations of bid rig of Agriculture, Public Technology, CB Maga papers, and the other from the Washing ging under the oral auction system are un zine. ton Post. Both of these editorials speak der way in three states, including one in If I had to define the overriding purpose for themselves: the Sierra National Forest. There is enough of the Caucus, I would answer that it is to question about the system to give another [From the Washington Post, June 26, 1977) improve the quality of life in our rural areas. method-sealed bidding-a chance to be Too frequently the voice of the rural areas How To BUY A TREE tried. is completely drowned out by the voice of the Consider the social value of collusive bid As Krebs says, it is premature to repeal a urban areas where equally grave problems ding. Think, for a moment, of all the ways section of the law before its effect has been admittedly exist. The needs of our urban in which the wink, the nod and the pre conclusively determined. Sealed bidding areas are generally painted in more dramatic arranged price can serve to strengthen com ought to be given a fair chance. terms because of the sheer numbers of people munity ties and local values. Perhaps you involved, but that does not mean that our thin. : we're kidding. But Congress isn't. The rural citizens are any better off. Rural people Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Com CONGRESSMAN GILLIS W. LONG need jobs just as badly as urban people do, mittee ha.s just voted, 11 to 3, for collusive URGES HOUSE PANEL TO CON and the corresponding needs for better hous bidding on those grounds. The 11 senators SIDER TRANSPORTATION NEEDS ing, better education, better health facilities take a deep and abiding interest in com OF RURAL AMERICA and better transportation systems are just munity traditions. as great. La.st year, without giving it much thought, The CRC Committee on Communications Congress passed into law a provision designed HON. GILLIS W. LONG and Transportation has assessed some of -all too effectively-to end collusion in the these needs as they affect tho3e two sub bidding for the right to cut timber in fed OF LOUISIANA stantive areas included in the name of the eral forests. The new law merely required IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee, and we have identified the prob sealed bids instead of oral auctions. Sealed Monday, July 11, 1977 lem of obsolete and deteriorated highway bidding has been the practice in most of bridges on the Federal Aid System, nearly one the country. The exception was the Pacific Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, That is because without an adequate net Northwest, where the rigging of timber auc I submit for the consideration of my col work of safe bridges, such areas as schooling, tions was becoming notorious. leagues testimony that I recently gave commerce, postal service, agriculture and the Collusive auctions permit the insiders before the House Public Works and like become moot. It is universally admitted the companies regularly working an area. Transportation Subcommittee on Sur that our highway system is our economic to divide up the sales among themselves and and social lifeline, but without safe bridges hold down the payments to the government. face Transportation on behalf of this that lifeline cannot be sustained. Equally important, it permits them to band . Nation's rural citizens. There is little need here to recite the dreary together to keep out the outsiders. When the The text follows: bridge statistics of which you are so well new law went into effect, the first response Mr. Chairman, the Congressional Rural aware. By now, all those interested in the was a loud and steady yowling from the Caucus would like to commend and congrat- highway system know that of nearly 250,000 22332 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 bridges on the Federal Aid Sytsem, nearly one 3. That an immediate inventory be made Administration. In announcing its in in five (or about 40,000) have been classified of bridges that are likely to be classified as tention to ban saccharin, the FDA said: by the Federal Highway Administration as deficient between now and 1930. so that we Saccharin is the only artificial sweetener either structurally unsound or functionally can have some estimate of the accruing needs currently approved for use in the United obsolete. We are aware also that this does on bridges during this period, in addition Sta.tes. At least five million pounds a year not take into consideration the tremendous to the existing inventory of backlog needs. are used in food, about three-quarters in diet problem of the 65,000 bridges off the Federal 4. We further believe that the states no roias anr1. the remainder in dietetic foods and Aid System which also can be categorized as longer can afford to match federal dollars as a table top sweetener in place of sugar. deficient or obsolete. And of course no one on a one-to.-three basis for a program of who has been following these hearings can this magnitude. We therefore recommend A ban on saccharin would fall espe fail to be impressed by the cost estimates of that the matching ratio be changed to at cially hard on diabetics. Donald Corning, the Federal Highway Administration for cor least 80 % federal and 20% state or local chairman of the board of the American rection of these problems-at least $12.4 bil in order to relieve the states of some of their Diabetes Association, testified that the lion for the replacement of the bridges on matching fund problems, and one of our the Federal Aid System and an estimated m embers, Congre.:ssman Mike McCormack, ban would "cause a disastrous change in $10.6 billion for replacement for those off strongly advocates a 90-10 ratio. the control and lifestyle of the diabetic." the Federal Aid System. 5. Since even this program addresses itself The justification for the proposed ban, Of even greater concern to the Rural only to the 40,000 bridges on the Federal Aid moreover, is extremely tenuous. The Food Caucus is the slow pace at which this prob System, we further recomme'11 that s,eme and Drug Administration did not, as you lem has been and continues to be addressed. percentage of the funds each year be granted would think, conduct its own separate The special bridge replacement program to the states for inventorying the bridge investigation into saccharin. Instead, it was established by Section 204 of the Federal problem off the Federal Aid System. While relied upon tests conducted on rats in Highway Act of 1974, and funds were au we recognize that there are significant philo Canada. thorized for FY '72 and FY '73. Section 204 sophical questions as to whether federal of the Federal Highway Act of 1973 con funds should be used for the reconstruction And how those rats were treated. tinued the program by authorizing funds or rehabilitation of bridl!'es off tl"e system, we They were given the equivalent of the for fiscal year 1974, 1975, and 1976. And Sec do recognize as a federal responsibility the amount of saccharin that would go into tion 202 ( 5) of the Federal Highway Act of measurement of the magnitude of the prob 800 bottles of diet drinks a day. Even the 1976 extends the program by authorizing lem for the off-system highways. most ardent saccharin user falls well funds for FY '77 and FY '78. In 1976, the 6. Finally to implement the recommenda below such tremendous usage levels. fifty states submitted 16,452 applications for tions for the billion dollar program, full In summary, a ban on saccharin would federal aid funds for the replacement of utilirntion of t '~ e public employment, the be extremely unwise. Congress should these deficient bridges. public works and manpower programs to in move immediately to protect the right And yet, what have we been able to ac crease opportunities for veterans and youth complish? With one out of five bridges in the should not be overlooked in our battle for of Americans to freely use saccharin. It Federal Aid System being classified as de the repair and rehabilitation of rural bridges. is time to call a halt to this unnecessary ficient or obsolete and with 33,000 bridges More meaningful employment for rural and unwarranted governmental intrusion that are posted for less than legal loads, we youth in particular cannot be found in any into the personal lives of our citizens. have replaced or are in the process of replac ether field. ing under the Emergency Bridge Act only 978 Mr. Chairman, we thank you for the O!) bridges! portunity to present this testimony and HONOR ROLL OF SUPPORTERS OF At this rate it is no wonder that the num would be glad to answer any questions you THE NATIONAL CONSUMER CO ber of deficient and obsolete bridges reported might have. OPERATIVE BANK ACT, H.R. 2777 each year by the states to the Federal High way Administration continues to incerase. For example, compared with the 40,000 HON. FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN bridges reported in the 1976 report to Con NO BAN ON SACCHARIN OF RHODE ISLAND gress, a year earlier there were only 34,700 bridges in this category. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES So while we continue to take one step Monday, July 11, 1977 forward to correct the problem, we slip back HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK two steps each year with more and more of OF OHIO Mr. ST GERMAIN. Mr. Speaker, the the bridges on our highway systems inade IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES National Consumer Cooperative Bank quate to handle the traffic required of them. Act has strong support throughout both In the face of this ever growing problem, Monday, July 11, 1977 Hou.c::es and both political parties. therefore, the Communications and Trans Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, during We now have more than 100 cospon portation Committee of the Rural C.9.ucus the past several decades the Federal sors in the House and 35 in the Senate. would like to recommend certain positive, corrective actions: Government has rapidly grown in size, In addition, Mr. Speaker, this legislation 1. We believe that the authorization con cost, and complexitv. Along with this is supported by one of the broadest coa tained in Section 144 of Title 23 of the U.S. growth the Federal Government has in litions to ever appear before the Bank Code for the replacement of bridges on the truded more and more frequently into the ing, Finance, and Urban Affairs Com Federal Aid System should be expanded to personal lives of its citizens. mittee. This includes urban groups, also provide authorization for the rehabilita The proposed ban on saccharin is one rural organizations, all consumer or tion of bridges. It seems only prudent that, of the latest and most blatant examples ganizations, State and local officials, wherever possible, some portions of the of unnecessary governmental interfer reJ.igious organizations, labor and com structures should be retained and repairs ence. If the Food and Drug Administra munity development organizations. made that will bring them up to safe, modern standards. As a matter of fact, this is prob tion has its way, saccharin in foods and Mr. Speaker, I want to place in the ably what would be done in actual ryractice beverages will be prohibited. RECORD at this point a list of the spon by the states anyway, but an amendment to I am absolutely opposed to such a ban. sors in the House and the Senate of H.R. Section 144 would allow for the utilization of I strongly support efforts to prevent the 2777 and S. 1010. This legislation will be federal funds in this more economical pro prohibition on saccharin from going into on the Floor of the House on Wednes gram. effect. To do otherwise would be a fla day. 2. If any meaningful results are to be grant violation of the freedom of choice HousE CosPONSORs OF CONSUMER Co-OP achieved in the solution to this problem, BANK AND BILL NUMBERS more funding must be made available to the of Americans. As most Americans are aware, sac Clifford Allen (Tenn) 3694. states. This is a critical problem, the solu Frank Annunzio (Ill) 3692. tion to which cannot wait. We believe that charin is an important food additive. It Les AuCoin (Oregon) 6540. an authorization and appropriation of at i'.'3 used as a sugar substitute by millions Herman Badillo (N.Y.) 3692. least $1 billion per year for the next twelve of diabetics and overweight persons. In Alvin Baldus (Wis) 3693. years is the minimum that should be ap fact, an estimated 10 to 12 million per Max Baucus (Mont) 3694. prove1 and even at this rate we will be able sons in the United States rely upon it as Edward Beard (R.I.) 3692. to take care of only the problems that are a sweetener. To now outlaw this ingredi Jonathan Bingham (NY) 6540. evident today. Obviously, during the next ent would work a major hardship on the James J. Blanchard (Mich) 3694. ten years additional bridges will become Mrs. Lindy Boggs (La.) 3692. deficient or obsolete and the backlog of work people who depend on saccharin. Richard Bolling (Mo.) 3692. will continue to build up. Therefore, we The importance of saccharin is appar David E. Bonior (Mich) 6540. also recommend: ent from the words of the Food and Drug William Brodhead (Mich) 6540. July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22333 George E . Brown, Jr. (Cal) 3692. SENATE COSPONSORS OF CONSUMER CO- Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, has John L. Burton (Cal) 3693. OPERATIVE BANK BILL: S. 1010 1 given 2 years a.s chairman of the New Phillip Burton (Cal) 6540. Wendell Anderson, Minnesota. Jersey Republican State Finance Com Bob Carr (Mich) 6540. James Abourezk, South Dakota. mittee, served two terms as president of Shirley Chisholm (NY) 3694. Birch Bayh, Indiana. the Chamber of Commerce of the John Conyers (Mich) 3692. Edward W. Brooke, Massachusetts. James C. Corman (Calif) 3692. Quentin N. Burdick, North Dakota. Oranges and Maplewood, has received Baltasar Corrada (P.R.) 3694. Clifford P. Case, New Jersey. many citations and ~itizenship awards, Norman D'Amours (N.H.) 3694. Frank Church, Idaho. not learl of which was a commendation George E. Danielson (Cal) 6540. Alan Cranston, California. from the Brotherhood of Christians and Ronald Dellums (Calif) 3692. John C. Culver, Iowa. Jews for bringing about better under Butler Derrick (S.C.) 3693. John A. Durkin, New Hampshire. standing. He has worked with a New Charles Diggs, Jr. (Mich) 3693. Thomas E . Ea.gleton, Missouri. Christopher Dodd (Conn) 3693. Jersey home of disabled soldiers, served Mike Gravel, Alaska. as president of the N~w York City Ki Tom Downey (N.Y.) 6540. Gary Hart, Colorado. Robert F. Drinan (Mass) 3693. Floyd K. Haskell, Colorado. wanis, and done just far too many more Robert Edgar (Pa) 3692. Mark 0. Hatfield, Oregon. things to recount here. Don Edwards (Calif) 3694. Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota. Another interest, however, is spot Allen E. Ertel (Pa) 6540. Henry M . Jackson, Washington. lighted today: that is Stringfellow's de Walter Fauntroy (D.C.) 3694. Jacob K . Javits, New York. votion to the memory of Edison and to Donald Fraser (Minn) 3693. J. Bennett Johnston, Louisiana. Richard Gephardt (Mo.) 3694. the Nation's high esteem of that great Edward M . Kennedy, Massachusetts. genius. Recently I joined in cosponsoring Mark Hannaford (Calif) 3693. Patrick Leahy, Vermont. Michael Harrington (Mass) 3692, 6540. Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Maryland. a resolution akley (Mass) 3'392. Monday, July 11, 1977 not dimmed his memories of the man who Toby Moffett (Conn) 6541. invented the incandescent electric light and John Moss (Cal) new bill. Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I have the brought one-half of the world out of dark W1lliam S. Moorhead (Pa.) 3692. privilege to reintroduce to the collective ness forever. Robert N. C. Nix (Pa) 4365, 6541. memory of this distinguishec body today Stringfellow, closely associated with Edi Richard Nolan (Minn) 6541. a living link with one of the towering son during the last eight years of the in Mary Rose Oakar (Ohio) 6541. heroes of our American culture, indeed, ventor's life, rose to become executive vice James Oberstar (Minn) 3693. president of the company. Richard Ottinger (NY) 3693. of the world. As an active associate and Today, he is a director of crippled children Leon Panetta (Calif) 6541. friend of Thomas Alva Edison during the and cancer societies. He also is a director of Jerry M . Patterson (Cal) 6541. last 8 years of that great man's life, an appliance company. He is a past imperial Claude Pepper (Fla) 6541. George E. Stringfellow, himself one of potentate of the Shriners. Melvin Price (Ill) 6541. the Nation's dedicated servants, remains He still drives an automobile, but he Charles Rangel (NY) 3692. forever closely tied to our Nation's his prefers to walk. "The parts of the body rust Henry S. Reuss (Wis) 3692-2777. tory. out faster than they can wear out. A long Frederick Richmond (NY) 3694. As an active senior citizen of 85 time ago, I decided I wasn't going to sit Peter Rodino (N.J.) 3692. around and let them rust out," he says. Benjamin Rosenthal (NY) 3694. years, George E. Stringfellow was born So, every other day, he walks the four Edward Royb":1.l (Cal) 3693. in Virginia, where he has now returned. fmiles from his Arlington, Va., home to Fernand J. St Germain (RI) 2777; 3592-3- Along the way he spent much valuable Washington, D.C., and there he meets and 4; 6540-41. effort in the State of New Jersey, where chats with friends. His favorite topic: Thom James Scheuer (NY) 3692. Edison had appointed him sales manager as Alva Edison. Patricia Schroeder (Colo) 6541. of the Storage Battery Division in 1923. Stringfellow hopes that his telling stories John Seiberling (Ohio) 3693. After 40 years of dedicated service to that about the inventor might "inspire future Paul Simon (Ill) 3692. milestone company, he was able to re Edisons." Neal Smith (Iowa) 6541. For instance, Stringfellow relates that Stephen Solarz (NY) 6541. tire as senior vice president, and has when the boy Edison learned that balloons Gladys Spellman (Md) 3693. since devoted himself to his many civic fly when filled with gas, he persuaded an Fortney (Pete) Stark (Cal) 6541. and charitable interests. At one time or other boy to take a triple dose of a powder Newton Steers (Md) 3694. another, George E. Stringfellow has been that fizzes when it comes in contact with Paul Tsongas (Mass) 3692. involved a.s president of the New Jersey water. Edison's reasoning was that this Morris Udall (Ariz) 3694. division of the American Cancer Society, would fill the boy's stomach w1 th gas, and he Bruce Vento (Minn) 3693. of which he is an honorary life member, too would fly. Henry Waxman (Cal) 3693. The result: no flight, one stomach ache. James Weaver (Oregon) 3692. serving on the board of that distin Years later, Edison perfected an electric Tim Wirth (Colo) 6541. guished organization; he has also been vote-recording machine. He tried to sell it Chalmers Wylie (Ohio) 2777; 3692. made an honorary life member of the to Congress but was told that such a device Robert Young (Mo) 6541. was the Ia.st thing congressmen wanted. Said Leo Zeferetti (N.Y.) 3692. 1 Republicans in italics. one: "It takes 45 minutes for a roll call. In 22334 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 that time, we can trade votes. Your machine Although Stringfellow remembers Edison as adopted a number of resolutions at their would make that impossible." having little interest in the financial end The young inventor decided: "I will never of his enterprises, a scrapbook filled with yel annual conference held in June, which again invent anything which nobody wants." lowing, handwritten memoranda from the I wic:;h to insert into the RECORD a,t this He kept his word, Stringfellow notes. invent:>r himself testifies to a man who did point. These resolutions are self-explana Among Edison's 1,097 inventions were the not keep his mind solely on test tubes and tory and properly rehect the views or tne fluorescent lamp, the phonograph, the fuse, induction coils. Hispanic community. the mimeograph machine, the microphone, "Stringfellow," reads one of the memos The resolutions follow: motion pictures, gummed tape and waxed from 1924, "I have not been under any delu RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE CARTER AD pa.per. And there were all kinds of sockets, sions as to our sales force. Every sales mana switches, conductors, wiring circuits, meters MINISTRATION'S RELAXATION OF RELATIONS ger we have has been a mental moron and WirH CUBA WITH A VIEW TOWARD RECOG and generators--out of which have grown I have kicked for years. I am glad you are the electronics and wireless communications NIZING THIS TYRANNICAL REGIME WHICH changing and letting go the dead beats and WILLFULLY VIOLATES THE HUMAN RIGHTS industries. are forming a well organized sales force." Invention did not come easy to Edison. OF ITS CITIZENS Another memo followed quickly when Wherea~. The Republican National Hispanic "Genius is 99 per cent perspiration and 1 per Stringfellow made a decision without con cent inspiration," he explained. A$sembly is totally opposed to violations of sulting Edison on a now-unremembered mat human rights; and Edison foresaw the atomic bomb: "There ter. "Stringfellow," reads the hac;tily scrawled will one day spring from the brain of science note, "I suggest that as I have about $20 mil Whereas, The Republican National Hispanic a machine or force so fearful in its poten lion worth of past experience that a proposal Assembly denounces the inherent inhuman tialities, so absolutely terrifying that even be put to me that has been suggested to ity of the communist totalitarian system of man, the fighter who will dare torture and ascertain if I know any reason why it Fidel Castro known for torturing and execut death in order to inflict torture and death, shouldn't work. Edison." . ing its political prisoners; and will be apoalled, and so will abandon war Stringfellow knew a hint when he saw Wherea", The Republican National Hispanic forever. What man's mind can create, man's Assembly further denounces the little pub one. At the bottom of the note there ap licized fact of the imprisonment of more character can control." pears thi'> appendage, followed by Edison's The first half of Edison's prediction al than 1,000 political dissentors by the Cuban initials: "This is a good idea, and will be dictatorship; and ready has come true, Stringfellow points out. done in the future." Because the inventor was able to see be Whereas, The Republican National Hispanic yond so many horizons on earth, it somehow The bright young assistant is now an old Assembly violently objects to Castro's pub seems necessary to pay more than passing man him'>elf, and earnestly he spi':l s hie; stor lic acknowledgement that t1'e ri~ht of a free attention to his final vision. On Oct. 18, 1931, ies from the comfort of his office in an elegant press will never be permitted in Cuba; and from a large canopied bed in his West 11th floor apartment in Arlington. There are tales of a practical joke played on the in Whereas, the Castro dictatorship is actively Orange, N.J., home, Edison, dying at 84, engaged in acts of armed intervention in murmured these last words to his physician: ventor when he wac; working around the countrie3 throughout the world, and is un "It is very beautiful over there." clock inventing the phonograph. A breakfast eauivocally committed to intervention and of ham and eggs was ordered around 3 a.m., the support of armed revolution in other [From the Washington Post, Feb. 11, 1977] but the inventor fell asleep before it arrived. countries: and His as"ociatec;, Stringfellow said, substituted ARLINGTON MAN, 85, RFCALLS LEGENDARY a dirty but empty plate for the full one in Whereas, the Castro dictatorship's expro INVENTOR EDISON front of him. When Edison awoke, Stringfel priation of more than $2 billion from United (By Lynn Darling) low reoalled, Edison looked at the plate, States corporations and citizens without due compensation. constitutes willful violations of Sittinl? in his sm"'ll Crystal City office lined rubbed his stomach, and said, "All right, international laws; and with fading photo~raohs, George E. String boys, let's go to work." fellow is miles and years away from West Whereas, despite these blatant violations In 1928, toward the end of Edison's life, of human rights and international laws, the Orange, N.J., where he worked for Thomas Stringfellow recalled, he asked the inventor Alva Edison during the last eight years of democratic administration of President Car to write an article for the company's news ter is presently e-gaged in promoting normal the inventor's life. letter. "I'm feeling so bad that my mind re The "old man," as his 85-year-old former ize. tion of relations with this tyrannical fuses to function," came Edison's written regime. associate calls him, died in 1931, and today reply. "Write what you think it should say mnks the 130th anniversary of Edison's and send it over." Therefore, be it resolved, that The Re birth. But the years roll back easily for Stringfellow realized then, he said, that it publican National Hispanic Assembly con Stringfellow as he recounts the carefully was "time to extra.ct everything I could from demns the Castro dictatorship, its inhu stored stock of anecdotes in the ho!)es that hi.s mind" for use after Edison died. Every mane treatment of many of its citizens, its his stories "will inspire future Edisons." Saturday, he said, he sent Edison a list of armed intervention in the affairs of other Glimmers of the man who disdained the questions to answer for use in future emer countries, its attempts to export the Marxist title of scientist and called himself a "com gencies when the inventor wouldn't be there ideology in the Western Hemisphere and mercial inventor" show through as String to answer them in person. throughout other countries of the world; and fellow, dressed in a blue suit with the dia One of the questions Stringfellow asied mond pin that identifies him as a p~st im Edison was to "describe the effects upon the Be it further resolved, that this Hispanic perial potentate of the Shriners, recalled the Assembly considers these actions as being life of the Edison cell (battery) due to the contrary to the best interests of the United first day he met Edison in 1922. presence of the following impurities." About Althoul?h Stringfellow had worked in States; and 40 elements are listed on the sheet still in Be it further resolved, that The Republi Washington as the mana~er of the district Stringfellow's possession. The only one to re office of Thomas Edison, Inc., since 1918, he ceive the clipped answer of "Don't know" was can National Hispanic Assembly committed had yet to meet Edison when a call came to zirconium. to the American beliefs of freedom, liberty report to headquarters in West Onnge. "I'd and the pursuit of happiness, considers the never seen Edison," Stringfellow said. "He The answers proved invaluable, Stringfel Carter Administration's admitted intention was just a name to me." low recalled, six years after Edison's death. In to normalize relations with Cuba, a blatant When he did meet the inventor of the in 1937, the company received a e.hipment o:t blunder in U.S. Foreign Relations, which is candescent electric light, Stringfellow re iron ore that contained a quantity of nickel inconsistent with his Administration's called, he saw a 73-year-old man "who hadn't for use in storage batteries. Stringfellow went policy on human rights. shaved in several days, wearing an acid to the vault where he kept the questionnai.res e3.ten duster and looking at me with those and there wac; the answer: Nickel would cause bright blue eyes of his." The inventor of a no harm. If it had, the plant would have had RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE TERMINATION thousand modern day necessities "took a to close temporarily. OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO THE TRADI squint at me," Stringfellow said, "and I TIONAL, FRIENDLY ALLIES OF THE UNITED stood at attention." It was then that Edison STATES, THE COUNTRIES OF LATIN AMERICA offered him the job of general sales manager Whereas, The Republican National His- of the storage-battery divi~ion. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL HISPANIC panic Assembly of the United States be "I told him I wasn't sure I wanted the ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS lieves that the United States should acknowl position," Stringfellow said. "I said to him, REFLECTING THEffi VIEWS edge and give strong support to its tradi 'Mr. Edison, you fire men q_uite frequently tional allies and friendly nations; nations and at my age (28 at the time) I can't af which have proven their friendship and sup ford to say that I'd been fired by Mr. HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI port over the years; and Edison.'" Whereas, the Re~ublic of Nicaragua tradi Stringfellow thought it over that evening, OF ILLINOIS tionally has been friendly and has voted and however, and the next morning, having re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES supported United States foreign policies in ceived assurances of relative job security, he Monday, July 11, 1977 all international forums and has done much took the position. He remained with Edison, for the betterment and uplifting of the Inc., for 38 years, he said, rising to executive Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the human welfare of its people within the vice president. Republican National Hispanic Assembly framework of constitutional government and July 11, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22335 a two party system which prevails in that techniques of genetic manipulation is these groups review the proposed re country; and called, has been under examination as a search protocols and determine whether Be it therefore resolved, that The Re potential public policy issue for several the recombinant research should pro publican National Hispanic Assembly is in years and is finally being addressed in ceed. Research guidelines very similar to total disagreement with the recent action of the Appropriations Committee of the proposed Federal legislation. It is clear the guidelines developed by our National Congress of the United States in the termi that the policy implications are not go Institutes of Health are utilized to pro nation of a.11 military assistance programs ing to be resolved easily. vide direction. As in the United States, to such proven friendly nations as Nica DNA recombinant molecule research except for Government-funded research, ragua., a country that offers great promise is being encouraged by proponents for participation by submittal of projects for in uplifting the welfare of its people; and the potential benefits it appears to offer, review and acceptance of the guidelines Be it further resolved, that The Republi such as the biological production of a is mostly voluntary. The Netherlands and can National Hispanic Assembly expresses its support for whatever appropriate action pure form of insulin and other drug Sweden are considering the need for spe should be taken by the Carter Administra products, for its potential contribution to cial legislation just as we may be required tion and the Congress of the United States basic biological knowledge, and for other to decide here in the ~ouse in the near to immediately re-establish all military as practical applications in agriculture and future. The United Kingdom is taking ac sistance programs that have been recently industry. At the same time, a potential tion to secure legal compliance with reg suspended to the traditionally friendly na risk to the public health and the envi ulations established by its Health and tions in the Western Hemisphere. ronment, as well as philosophical prob Safety Commission. In all of these ac lems dealing with the social aspects of tions, the Western European nations are RESOLUTION SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS BUT the technique, are being cited by oppo watching our proposed legislative activity OPPOSING COMMUNIST OPPRESSION with great interest. Whereas, The Republican National His nents of the research. panic Assembly of the United States ls op The fact that there are so many un It is important that we all realize that posed to the violation of basic human rights known factors which must be estimated the DNA recombinant research issue can under any circumstances and by any groups means that society, and the Congress, not be dealt with in isolation from the of "liberation fronts" or official institutions; must exert a considerable effort to main rest of the world. Just as it is necessary and tain a high level of awareness about the for the Congress to evaluate the relative Whereas, the Assembly denounces vigor DNA recombinant molecule issue and to merits of permitting potentially different ously the constant violation of human rights be prepared to take the best actions sets of State and local regulations to by the various Marxist-revolutionary fronts in the various countries of the world, specifi determined to be necessary. My state emerge as contrasted with Federal pre cally in Latin America and Africa, where ment today is in part a request that the emption of State and local option, the without any justification the so-called "free Members become familiar with this issue VVestern European nations are beginning dom movement forces" a.re attempting to before it reaches the House for con to see the international implications of overthrow the existing governments, what sideration in the form of legislation. different national rules and guidelines. ever the nature of those governments, to Few developments in biological re Scientific research capabilities are no impose their own brand of totalitarian dic search have aroused such widespread and longer confined within national barriers. tatorship, and in so doing are perpetrating The international diversification of our some of the most horrendous crimes against truly international debate as the DNA humanity, such as kidnapping, assassina recombinant molecule research issue. I large commercial firms, particularly the tions, blackmail, extortion, torture, execu noted this fact during a recent official drug firms, has eliminated such limita tions against representatives of what they visit to France when the topic became a tions if indeed they ever existed. We need call the Establishment. part of our policy discussion. I believe to evaluate the information being made Be it therefore resolved, that it must be that the Members of the House should available from the debates in this coun recognized that these Marxist-revolutionary be aware that most of the nations in try and abroad and determine the full movements, led by Cuba in the Western Western Europe are engaged in the same implications of any of our decisions be Hemisphere and in Africa., affect the secu rity and the rights of other countries to live task with which we are struggling in the fore we enact legislation in this area. in peace and for their people to live normal United States; namely: How are we to Fortunately, these debates on genetic lives without the constant threat of these permit the continuation of biological re manipulation are occurring in the form so-called "liberation movements". search using DNA recombinant tech ative stages of public policy. We have a Be it further resolved, that the United niques which scientists tell us offers unique opportunity to make sound deci States should denounce vigorously Marxist such great potential benefits to society sions if we can muster the attention to orlented efforts to overthrow established and at the same time insure that applica detail required to sort out the facts from governments, particularly when those gov tions of this new knowledge do not place the conjecture. The House Science and ernments a.re guaranteeing the safety and our citizens or the environment in some Technology Committee, Subcommittee the rights of life of their people. At the same time the United States should pro unexpected jeopardy? Should Federal on Science, Research, and Technology mote respect for basic human rights of the regulation preempt local regulation? has already devoted a series of hearings people of all countries. How should responsibilities be assigned? to the science policy implications of this What form should the regulating body issue, and the record of these hearings assume? How much regulation is re will soon be available for your study. INTERNATIONAL INTEREST IN quired? What authorities need to be as I believe that the DNA recombinant GENETIC RESEARCH signed by legislation? molecule research issue has many impli There are now at least five major or cations for science policy which extend HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE ganizations trying to coordinate this beyond the immediate task of regulating OF TEXAS international debate. These include the a specific type of genetic manipulation. World Health Organization-WHO; the I urge the Members to become familiar IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES International Council of Scientific with this issue before we must make a Monday, July 11, 1977 Unions-ICSU; the European Molecular decision on any legislation which may Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, it may Biology Organization-EMBO; the Eu come before us. The House Science and soon be necessary for the Members of ropean Science Foundation-ESF; and Technology Committee has had prepared this body to consider the need for en the European Commission of the Eu an informative background report for the actment of legislation on an issue which ropean Economic Communities. Members which can be obtained by con has aroused an unusual degree of con Some sort of advisory or voluntary or tacting the committee for copies-Ge troversy in both scientific and public dis ganizational structure for review of DNA netic Engineering, Human Genetics, and cussions. The new ability to manipulate research now exists in most Western Eu Cell Biology. Evolution of Technological experimentally the basic genetic mate ropean countries, and Canada, Australia, Issues. DNA Recombinant Molecule Re rial of a cell-known as deoxyribonucleic and Japan are involved in these deba.t~ search [Supplemental Report II] De acid or DNA-has produced a science Some of these countries, as in the United cember 1976. The Congressional Re and public policy issue of considerable Kingdom, have established formal or search Service has prepared an issue importance. DNA recombinant molecule ganizations such as their Genetic Manip brief which is available on this topic and research, which is what one of these new ulation Advisory Group-GMAG-and which they can provide on request. Their 2·2336 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 1977 issue brief provides current information postpone development of the breeder, which Great Lakes College in Detroit, Mich., on the status of legislative actions being producen its own fuel, until at le~st the where he earned the degrees of B.A. and year 2025. B.D. on June 1, 1946. During that period, considered in the Congress and cites And, the study concludes, that delay could other sources of information. I offer the be made without any severe impact on the three s·ons-Roman, Zenon, and Ivan services of my office to any Member who nation's economy or on the development of were born to William and Doris. desires additional information and I as breeder technology itself. It will be years Early in 1951, Father Olynyk was in sure you that this issue will have my own before a breeder reactor is economically vited to come to the United States, where continuing attention. This is an issue of superior to conventional light water reactors, there was a shortage of clergy. His first worldwide interest in which once again and a delay in the production of the first charge in this country was the Holy As the actions of the United States are the prototype will, in fact, give time to improve sum1;tion Church in Passaic, N.J. His its design and efficiency. wife and sons came to the United States center of attention and will have a far The sense of urgency that until recently reaching impact on world decisions. surrounded the American effort to develop a with him. In September 1952, he was protoype for commercially produced breeders appointed pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul at Clinch River has been a m ' jor factor in Church in Youngstown, Ohio, by Arch BREEDER REACTOR PROJECT heightening foreign interest in breeders. A bishop Mstyslav and the Consistory of policy reversal in the U.S. now may well slow the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the foreign development efforts. USA. HON. PAUL E. TSONGAS The House is expected to vote next week In the fall of 1961, Father Olynyk was OF MASSACHUSETTS on a committee recommendation to appro invited to teach social science at Youngs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES priate $150 million to keep the Clinch River project alive. It should reject that recom town University on a part-time basis. He Monday, July 11, 1977 mendation and demonstrate to the w:i,rld that continued to do so until the end of the spring quarter in 1969. In the mean Mr. TSONGAS. Mr. Speaker, the the U.S. is truly interested in halting the spread of nuclear armaments. time, he had enrolled at the graduate House will soon start debate on the school at Dubuque University in Du Clinch River Breeder Reactor project. buque, Iowa, where he took summer The issues involved range from interna VERY REV. WILLIAM BASIL OLYNYK, courses for a total of 15 semester hours tional politics to national resource esti M.A., D.D., PASTOR OF STS. PETER in sociological Etudies. On April 15, 1966, mates. The future of the world's nuclear AND PAUL UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX he was awarded the doctor of divinity dependence and the course of our domes CHURCH, TO BE HONORED AT degree by the Evangelical College and tic nuclear energy policy is at stake. SILVER JUBILEE BANQUET Seminary of the Pacific Western Uni A Boston Globe editorial on Saturday, versity, with the approval of the late June 25, 1977, presents a reasoned over Metropolitan John, primate of the view of the complexities involved. I place HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA. this article in the RECORD to aid in the On October 8, 1967, the bishops of the coming debate: OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES church raised Father Olynyk to the dig THE CLINCH RIVER SHOWDOWN nity of mitered archpriest. President Carter's effort to re"train world Monday, July 11, 1977 In the summer of 1969, Father Olynyk vide the development of advanced tech Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, on Satur enrolled as a student in the history de nology that has the capacity to produce day, September 11, 1977, the parishioners ent office of the Government submitting re- materials for making nuclear weaoons is es of Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Ortho partment of the graduate school of sentially an exercise in international jaw dox Church in Youngstown, Ohio, will Kent State University. On June 10, 1972, boning. A vote by Congress, oyer the Presi honor their pastor, the Very Reverend he was awarded the master of arts de dent's strong ob' ections, to continue develop gree by KSU. He also completed many ment of the Clinch River nuclear breeder William Basil Olynyk, M.A., D.D., on the reactor would pull the teeth out of that occasion of his silver jubilee as pastor. additio!l.al hours for his Ph. D. degree, effort. The banquet will be held at the Ukrain and he had been asked by his professors Carter's attempts to rein in the develop ian Orthodox Center, 1025 North Belle to complete his studies at Kent State. As ment of breeders and nuclear reprocei::sing Vista Avenue, Youngstown. of this date, he has not decided whether plants have been greeted with considerable William Olynyk, son of Ukrainian im to do so. He feels that living and work skepticism among our allies in West Ger migrants John and Anna Olvnvk, was ing with people in a parish is more re many, France and Japan. Many in those born on February 17, 1917, in Goodeve warding than anything else. countries view his pledge to guarantee them During his stay at Sts. Peter and Paul uranium for conventional reactors if they Saskatchewan, Canada. He attendee local public schools. In 1934, he gradu Church in Youngstown, Father Olynyk forego development of more advanced has ba:i:: tized 383 children-as of June 19, technology, with its bomb-making poten tial, ated from high school at St. Joseph's as a sly attempt to gain dominance over their College, Yorkton, Saskatchewan. In the 1977-joined 160 couples in marriage, economies. Given the root cause of our own fall of the same year, he entered the and laid to rest 336 individuals. energy problems-undue reliance on foreign Basilian Fathers' Monastery and Scho Mr. Spealcer, I want to take this op energy sources-their suspiciol"s are certain lasticate to study for the priesthood. He portunity to extend my sincere and ly understandable, if unfounded. lived there as a full-time student until heartfelt congratulations, and best Thus, to proceed now with the development wishes, to Father William Basil Olynyk of the fullscale prot:ltype breeder . reactor at the fall of 1940. The scholasticate at that time was located in Mund.are, Alberta. on the occasion of his silver jubilee as Clinch River, while trying to impress upon pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian our allies the wisdom of tt>e opposite policy, Moving to eastern Canada in Decem Orthodox Church. I also want to com would almost certainly doom the Carter ber of 1940, William Olynyk joined the mend him for his outstanding and dedi initiative. It would be a clear signal to the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox cated service to our community. When world that the United States has emb· rked Church under Bishop Bohdan Shpilka upon the commercial exploitation of the his many friends and well-wishers join plutonium fuel produced by the breeders and and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Con in honoring him, I will most assuredly essential to the making of nuclear bombs. stantinople. On July 13, 1941, William be there. Given tbe incomparable risks to mankind married Doris Golonsky in Hamilton, of the proliferation of nuclear weaponry, the Ontario. On July 20, 1941, Bishop Boh development of breeder reactors could be dan ordained him to the priesthood in SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS justified only in the m:ist dire circumstances, Detroit, Mich., and shortly thereafter as Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, when a failure to proceed threatened the very signed him to a newly organized :i:-arish iri agreed to by the Senate on February 4, future of the nation. Jn the ca6e of the Oshawa, Ontario. Father Olvnyk served 1977, calls for establishment of a sys Clinch River project that is emphatically not the case. as parish priest and as church and lan tem for a computerized schedule of all There is no evidence that the United States guage teacher at St. John's Church in meetings and hearings of Senate com is about to run out of uranium for conven Oshawa, until the end of 1950. During his mittees, subcommittees, joint commit tional reactors. !n fact, a study by the Mitre stay in Oshawa, he furthered his educa tees, and committees of conference. This Corp., financed by the Ford Foundati:in , has tion in psychology, pastoral psycho title requires all such committees to suggested the U.S. could safely and wisely therapy and comparative religions at notify the Office of the Senate Daily 22337 July 12, · 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS To hold oversight hearings on the in Governmental Affairs Digest-designated by the Rules Com ternational telecommunications sys To hold hearings on the nomination of mittee--of the time, place, and purpose tem. John M. Ferren, to be an associate of all meetings when scheduled, and 235 Russell Building judge of the Superior Court of the Dis any cancellations or changes in meet Foreign Relations trict of Columbia.. ings as they occur. To review the operation and effectiveness 3302 Dirksen Building As an interim procedure until the of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Human Resources computerization of this information be 4221 Dirksen Building Handicapped Subcommittee Human Resources To continue hearings on proposed ex comes operational, the Office of the Sen To consider s. 1750, Saccharin Study, tension of the Vocational Rehabilita ate Daily Digest will prepare this in Labeling, and Advertising Act, a.nd tion Act of 1973, Education of Handi formation for printing in the Extensions other committee business. capped Children Act, and S. 1596, to of Remarks section of the CONGRESSIONAL Until 11 :30 a..m. 4232 Dirksen Building establish a National Center for the RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of Joint Economic Handicapped. each week. Economic Growth and Stabilization Sub 6202 Dirksen Building committee Judiciary Any changes in committee scheduling Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee will be indicated by placement of an To continue oversight hearings on Fed eral income tax policies. To hold hearings jointly with Human asterisk to the left of the name of the 318 Russell Building Resources Subcommittee on Health unit conducting such meetings. and Scientific Research on the cost of Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Rules and Administration drugs. To hold hearings on and to consider 4232 Dirksen Building July 12, 1977, may be found in the Daily sundry legislative and administrative 10:00 a..m. Digest of today's RECORD. business. 301 Russell Building Agriculture, Nutrition, a.nd Forestry MEETINGS SCHEDULED Rural Development Subcommittee JULY 13 Select Indian Affairs To continue hearings on energy needs To hold oversight hearings on the cur 8:00 a.m. rent -organization of the Bureau of in rural areas. •Judiciary Indian Affairs, Department of the In 322 Russell Building Penitentiaries and Corrections Subcom Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs mittee terior. To hold hearings on S. 1682, to imple 1114 Dirksen Building To consider recommendations to the ment the treaties with Mexico and 10:30 a.m. Committee on Energy a.nd Natura.I Re Canada on the execution of penal Judiciary sources on energy conservation in resi sentences. To hold a. business meeting. dential areas a.s contained in pa.rt A 6226 Dirksen Building 2300 Dirksen Building of s. 1469, the proposed National En 9:00 a..m. 11:00 a..m. ergy Act, and S. 1397, to increase the Environment and Public Works Armed Services size of the Boa.rd of Directors of the To consider proposed amendments to Research and Development Subcommittee Federal National Mortgage Association. the Water Pollution Control Act. To hold hearings on and to consider the 5302 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building nominations of: Walter B. La.Berge, of 9:30 a..m. Virginia., to be Under Secretary of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Energy and Natural Resources Army; Hans M. Mark, of California., Communications Subcommittee To consider provisions relating to power to be Under Secretary of the Air Force; To continue oversight hearings on the sources of new facilities contained in and Antonia. H. Cha.yes, of Massachu international telecommunications sys s. 977, the coal conversion bill, and S. setts, to be an Assistant Secretary of tem. 701 and pa.rt C of S. 1469, the National the Air Force. 457 Russell Building Energy Act, regarding energy conser 212 Russel~ Building Finance va. tion in schools. 2:30 p.m. International Trade Subcommittee 3110 Dirksen Building Select Intelligence To hold hearings on numerous tariff Fina.nee Collection, Production, and Quality bills. International Trade Subcommittee To hold a closed business meeting. 2221 Dirksen Buildi~g To 1hold hearings to examine the current state of U.S. agricultural trade and H-403, Capitol Foreign Relations possible means by which agricultural JULY 14 To review the operation and effective exports might be increased. 8:00 a.m. ness of the War Powers Resolution of 2221 Dirksen Building •Judiciary 1973. Judiciary Penitentiaries and Corrections Subcom 4221 Dirksen Building Criminal Laws and Procedures Subcom mittee Human Resources mittee To continue hearings on S. 1682, to im Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom To hold hearings to examine the alleged plement the treaties with Mexico and mittee restrictions against law enforcement Canada. on the execution of penal To hold hearings to examine the cur intelligent operations. sentences. rent quality of education in elemen 2228 Dirksen Building 6226 Dirksen Building tary and secondary schools. Select Indian Affairs 9:00 a..m. Until 12:30 p.m. 1318 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 1560, proposed Environment and Public Works Siletz Indian Tribe Restoration Act. 2:00 p.m. 457 Russell Building To continue to consider proposed amend •commerce, Science, and Transportation ments to the Water Pollution Control Science, Technology, and Space Subcom 10:00 a..m. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Act. mittee Rural Development Subcommittee 4200 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on the auto fuel To hold hearings on energy needs in 9:30 a..m. economy section of S. 1469, proposed rural areas. Commerce, Science, and Transportation National Energy Act. 322 Russell Building Science, Technology, and Space Subcom:.. 5110 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs mittee 2:30 p.m. Consumer Affairs Subcommittee To receive a report from the National Human Resources To continue hearings on legislation to Commission on Supplies and Short Health and Scientific Research Subcom amend the Truth in Lending Act, in ages on materials policy research and mittee cluding S. 1312 and S. 1501. development. To mark up S. 1391, proposed Hospital 5302 Dirksen Building 5110 Dirksen Building Cost Containment Act. Commerce, Science, and Transportation Energy and Natura.I Resources Until 3:30 p.m. 4232 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 1381, setting To continue consideration of provisions JULY 15 standards for State no-fa.ult benefit relating to power sources of new fa 9:00 a .m. plans to compensate motor vehicle ac cilities contained in S. 977, the coal Environment and Public Works cident victims. conversion bill, and S. 701 and part C To continue to consider proposed amend 5110 Dirksen Building of S. 1469, the National Energy Act, re ments to the Water Pollution Control Commerce, Science, and Transportation garding energy conservation in schools. Act. Communications Subcommittee 3110 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building CXXIIl--1406-Pa.rt 18 22338 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 12, 1977 9:30 a.m. Finance 2:30 p.m. Energy and Natural Resources Public Assistance Subcommittee Foreign Relations To continue consideration of provisions To resume hearings on H.R. 7200, deal To resume hearings on proposed relating to power sources in new facili ing with the programs of supplemental Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful Nu ties contained in S. 977, the coal con security income, social services, child clear Explosions Treaties with the version bill, and S. 701 and part S of welfare services, aid to families with U.S.S.R. (Exec. N, 94th Cong, 2nd S. 1469, the National Energy Act, re dependent children, and child sup sess.). garding energy conservation in schools. port. 4221 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building 2221 Dirksen Building JULY 20 Judiciary Governmental Affairs Improvements in Judicial Machinery Sub 9:30 a.m. Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga Human Resources committee tions To resume hearings on S. 1819, the pro Health and Scientific Research Subcom To continue hearings on the present mittee posed Federal Criminal Diversion Act. status of the Department of Labor 2228 Dirksen Office Building To continue hearings on biomedical re Task Force investigation of the Team search programs. Veterans' Affairs sters Central States Pension Fund. Until 1 p.m. 4232 Dirksen Building To consider pending calendar business. 1114 Dirksen Building 412 Russell Building Veterans' Affairs Select Small Business To consider pending calendar business. 10:00 a.m. To resume hearings on administrative Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 412 Russell Building reporting and investment policies 10:00 a.m. Agricultural Production, Marketing, and under the Employees Retirement In Stabilization of Prices Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs come Security Act; S. 285, diversifica To continue hearings on S. 1542, to ex To resume hearings on transportation tion of investment of private pension problems affecting agriculture, for tend to September 30, 1979, the Coun fund assets; S. 901, to eliminate dual cil on Wage and Price Stability. estry, and rural development. Treasury and Labor Department ju 322 Russell Building 5302 Dirksen Building risdiction of ERISA; and S. 1745, to Budget Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs facilitate the establishment of em To hold hearings on the nomination of To continue hearings on the Second Con ployee retirement plans by small gressional Budget Resolution for fis Robert H. McKinney, of Indiana, to be businesses. a member of the Federal Home Loan cal year 1978. 424 Russell Building 357 Russell Building Bank Board. JULY 19 5302 Dirksen Building 8:00 a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation Commerce, Science, and Transportation Agriculture To resume hearings on S. 1381, setting To resume hearings on S. 1185, to regu Agricultural Research and General Legis standards for State no-fault benefit late interstate commerce with respect lation Subcommittee plans to compensate motor traffic ac to parimutuel wagering on horserac To resume hearings on the Federal Gov cident victims. ing. ernment's role in food safety and qual 5110 Dirksen Building 5110 Dirksen Building ity. Commerce, Science, and Transportation Commerce, Science, and Transportation 322 Russell Building Communications Subcommittee Consumer Subcommittee 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings on S. 1162, to repeal To resume hearings on S. 1381, setting Commerce, Science, and Transportation section 222 of the Communications Act standards for State no-fault benefit Science, Technology, and Space Subcom of 1934, which governs the inter-rela plans to compensate motor vehicle mittee tionship among communications com accident victims. To review 1\ report from the National mon carriers providing international 6226 Dirksen Building Commission on Supplies and Shortages record services. Finance on materials policy research and de 235 Russell Building Social Security Subcommittee velopment. Foreign Relations To resume hearings on proposals for 5110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on the following five maintaining the financial soundness Human Resources tax treaties: Convention with Israel of the Social Security system. Health and Scientific Research Subcom (Exec. C. 94th Cong., 2nd sess.); Con 2221 Dirksen Building mittee vention with Egypt (Exec. D. 94th Foreign Relations To resume hearings on biomedical re Cong., 2nd sess.); Convention with To review the operation and effectiveness search programs. the United Kingdom (Exec. K. 94th of the War Powers Res'Jlution of 1973. Until 1 p.m. 4232 Dirksen Building Cong., 2nd sess.); Convention with the 4221 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Republic of Korea (Exec. P. 94th Governmental Affairs Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Cong., 2nd sess.); and Convention Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga To hold hearings on S. 1542, to extend with the Republic of the Philippines tions to September 30, 1979, the Council on (Exec. C. 95th Cong., 1st sess.). To hold hearings on the present status Wage and Price Stability. 4221 Dirksen Building of the Department of Labor Task Force 5302 Dirksen Building JULY 21 investigation of the Teamsters Central Budget 9:30 a.m. States Pension Fund. To hold hearings on the Second Con Commerce, Science, and Transportation 3302 Dirksen Building gressional Budget Resolution for fiscal To hold oversight hearings on the Rail 10:30 a.m. year 1978. road Revitalization Act of 1976 (P.L. Judiciary 357 Russell Building 94-210) and amendments proposed Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee Finance thereto. To resume hearings to examine whether Public Assistance Subcommittee 5110 Dirksen Building the President's proposed financial re To continue hearings on H.R. 7200, deal 10:00 a.m. porting system by energy industries ing with the programs of supplemen will permit an assessment of the state tal security income, social services, Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of competition within such industries. child welfare services, aid to families To mark up S. 1594 and H.R. 5959, to re 4232 Dirksen Building with dependent children, and child vise and extend the Renegotiation Act. support. 5302 Dirksen Building JULY 18 Budget 10:00 a.m. 2221 Dirksen Building Foreign Relations To continue hearings on the Second Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Congressional Budget Resolution for To continue hearings on the nomination To hold hearings on the following five tax treaties: Convention with Israel fiscal year 1978. of Robert H. McKinney, of Indiana, to 357 Russell Building be a member of the Federal Home Loan (Exec. C, 94th Cong., 2nd sess.); Con Bank Board. vention with Egypt (Exec. D, 94th Commerce, Science, and Transportation 5302 Dirksen Building Cong., 2nd sess.); Convention with the Communications Subcommittee United Kingdom (Exec. K, 94th Cong., To continue hearings on S. 1162, to re Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2nd sess.); Convention with the Re peal section 222 of the Communica To continue hearings on S. 1381, setting public of Korea (Exec. P, 94th Cong., tions Act of 1934, which governs the standards for State no-fault benefit 2nd sess.); and Convention with the interrelationship among communica plans to compensate motor vehicle ac Republic of the Philippines (Exec. C, tions common carriers providing in cident victims. 95th Cong., 1st sess.). ternational record services. 5110 Dirksen Building 4221 Dirksen Building 235 Russell Building July 12, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22339 Foreign Relations JULY 27 10:00 a.m. To continue hearings on proposed 9:00 a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Threshold Test Ban and Peaceful Nu Veterans' Affairs To continue mark up of S. 1664-1669, to clear Explosions Treaties with the Health and Readjustment Subcommittee amend in several regards the law as U.S.S.R. (Exec. N, 94th Cong., 2nd To hold oversight hearings on a study it pertains to Federal regulation of sess.) by the National Academy of Science on financial institutions. 4221 Dirksen Building health care for American veterans. 5302 Dirksen Building 6226 Dirksen Building JULY 22 AUGUST 4 8:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Judiciary • Human Resources Judiciary Separation of Powers Subcommittee Health and Scientific Research Subcom Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee To hold hearings on the disposition of mittee To continue oversight hearings on the U.S. holdings in the Panama canal To continue oversight hearings on the effectiveness of antitrust laws enforce Zone. cost of drugs. ment. 6202 Dirksen Building Until 12: 30 1318 Dirksen Building 2226 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Human Resources 10:00 a.m. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Subcommit Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To consider the nomination of Robert H. tee To mark up S. 1542, to extend to Sep McKinney, of Indiana, to be a mem To hold hearings on the role of the half way house in the rehabilitation of tember 30, 1979, the Council on Wage ber of the Federal Home Loan Bank and Price Stab111ty, and S. 1724, to Board, and H.R. 5675, to authorize the alcoholics. Until noon 1202 Dirksen Building establish a Neighborhood Reinvest Treasury Department to make short ment Corporation. term investments of any portion of its JULY 28 5302 Dirksen Building excess operating cash balance. 10.00 a.m. AUGUST 23 5302 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs •commerce, Science, and Transportation 10:00 a.m. To mark up S. 695, to impose on fcrmer Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Merchant Marine and Tourism Su!Jcom Federal procurement personnel an ex mittee tended time period during which they International Finance Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 1077, to assure may not work for defense contractors. To hold hearings on the dimension of that essential maritime transportation 5302 Dirksen Building national debts and payments deficits, is provided to Alaska, Hawaii, and cer Foreign Relations and the outlook for the future. tain U.S. territories. To resume hearings on proposed Thresh 5302 Dirksen Building 5110 Dirksen Building hold Test Ban and Peaceful Nuclear AUGUST 24 JULY 25 Explosions Treaties with the U.S.S.R. 10:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. (Exec. N. 94th Cong, 2nd sess.) Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 4221 Dirksen Building Finance International Fina.nee Subcommittee Taxation and Debt Management Sub JULY 29 To continue hearings on the dimension committee 10:00 a.m. of national debts and payments def To hold hearings on estate and gift tax Budget icits, and the outlook for the future. problems arising from the Tax Reform To mark up Second Congressional Budg 5302 Dirksen Building Act of 1976. et Resolution for fiscal year 1978. 2221 Dirksen Building 357 Russell Building SEPTEMBER 8 9:30 a.m. 9:00 a..m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation AUGUST 1 Commerce, Science, and Transportation To resume oversight hearings on the 10:00 a.m. Consumer Subcommittee Railroad Revitalization Act of 1976 Budget To hold hea.rin.gs on automatic auto crash (P.L. 94-210) and amendments pro To continue mark up of Second Con protection devices. posed thereto. gressional Budget Resolution for fiscal 5110 Dirksen Building 5110 Dirksen Building year 1978. 10:00 a.m. 357 Russell Building SEPTEMBER 9 9:00 a..m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs AUGUST 2 To hold hearings on S. 1724, to establish 9:30 a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation a Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpo Consumer Subcommittee Judiciary ration. To hold hearings on automatic auto era.sh 5302 Dirksen Buildin~ Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee To resume oversight hearings on the ef protection devices. JULY 26 fectiveness of antitrust laws enforce 5110 Dirksen Building 8:00 a.m. ment. SEPTEMBER 21 Judiciary 2226 Dirksen Building 9:30 a.m. Ad Hoc Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. Veterans' Affairs To hold hearings on S. 1503, to provide Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs for the payment of losses incurred as To hold hearings on S. 364, Veterans' To mark up S. 1664-1669, to amend in Administration Administrative Pro a result of the ban on the use of the several regards the law as it pertains chemical Tris in apparel and fabric. to Federal regulation of financial in cedure and Judicial Review Act. 2228 Dirksen Building stitutions. Until 1 p.m. Room to be announced 9:30 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building SEPTEMBER 28 *Human Resources Budget 10:00 a..m. Health and Scientific Research Subcom To continue mark up of Second Con Veterans' Affairs mittee gressional Budget Resolution for fiscal To resume oversight hearings on the cost To receive legislative recommendations of drugs. year 1978. from representatives of the American 357 Russell Building Legion. Until 12:30 p.m. 6202 Dirksen Building Judiciary 10:00 a.m. 412 Russell Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Administrative Practice and Procedure To resume mark up of H.R. 5294, S. 918, Subcommittee CANCELLATIONS and S. 1130, to amend the Consumer To hold hearings on S. 1792, to amend JULY13 Protection Act so as to prohibit abusive the Administrative Conference Act. 9:30 a.m. practices by independent debt 6202 Dirksen Building Human Resources collectors. AUGUST 3 Handicapped Subcommittee 5302 Dirksen Building 9:30 a.m. To continue hearings on proposed ex Foreign Relations tension of the Vocational Rehablll To hold hearings on protocol to the Con Judiciary vention on International Civil Aviation Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee ta. tlon Act of 1973, Education of (Exec. A, 95th Cong., 1st sess.), and To continue oversight hearings on the Handicapped Children Act, and S. related protocols (Exec. B, 95th Con effectiveness of antitrust laws enforce 1596, to establish a National Center gress, 1st sess.) ment. for the Handicapped. 4221 Dirksen Building 2226 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building
