September 22, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32039 ative agreement or guarantee or commitment Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to taining to the development and revision of to guarantee with the Administration under forward certain identifying information on land and resouTce management plans. this section during such time as such officer such vehicles to the Secretary of Transporta­ Revises provisions relating to sale of for­ or employee discharged duties or responsibil­ tion who shall forward such information to est products found upon national forest ities under this section." the appropriate State agency responsible for landis. On Page 126, line 3, strike out "(4)" and motor vehicle registration. Prohibits the return to the public domain insert " ( 5) ". H.R. 15358. August 31, 1976. Public Works of na tiona! forest lands other than by Act By Mr. OTTINGER: and Transportation. Amends the Appalachian of Congress. (Amendment to the amendment in the Regional Development Act of 1965 to increase Abolishes the National Forest Reservation nature of a substlrtute offered by Mr. TEAGUE.) the amount of available Federal assistance as Commission. In section 19(c) of the Federal Nonnuclear a percentage of the total costs of Appalachian H.R. 15364. August 31, 1976. Judiciary; Energy Research and Development Act of development highway projects. Standards of Official Conduct. Requires can­ 1974 (as added by the first section of the H.R. 15359. August 31 , 1976. Science and didates for Federal office, Members of the amendment in the nature of a substitute of­ Technology; Atomic Energy. Requires the Congress, and certain officers and employees fered by Mr. TEAGUE): submission of a supplemental plan evaluat­ of the United States to file statements with (1) Strike out "and" at the end of para­ ing future energy programs, to be transmit­ the Comptroller General with respect to graph (8), ted to the Congress by the Administrator of their income and financial transactions. (2) Insert after paragraph (8) the fol­ the Energy Research and Development Ad­ H.R. 15365. August 31, 1976. Post Office and lowing: ministration. Establishes an Energy Produc­ Civil Service. Includes as creditable service "(9) in the case of a demonstration facil­ tion Planning Committee to prepare such for the computation of civil service retire­ ity which converts any coal (including lig­ plan. ment annuities. all periods of service, not nite) from a surface mine to synthetic fuel, H.R. 15360. August 31, 1976. Post Office and otherwise creditable, performed under agree­ the President or his delegate has prescribed Civil Service. Prohibits carriers of Federal ments to which the Federal Government was regulations for the purpose of reduction and employee health benefits plans from reduc­ a party in the employ of a State, or a politi­ control of adverse environmental effects re­ ing benefits or excluding any class of pro­ c al subdivision thereof, or of any instrumen- sulting from operation of such surface mine, vider of health services unless the Civil tality of either in the carrying out of specified and such regulations have been transmitted Service Commission gives notice of, and con­ Federal-State cooperative programs. to each House of Congress and approved by ducts hearings relative to, the proposed H.R. 15366. August 31, 1976. Merchant Congress by law;" and change within prescribed time limits. Marine and Fisheries. Directs the Secretary of (3) Redesignate paragraph (9) as para­ H.R. 15361. August 31, 1976. Post Office Commerce to establish a National Aquacul­ graph (10). and Civil Service. Requires that the follow­ ture Development Plan to identify each ing information be posted in a prominent aquatic species which can be commercially place in each post office: ( 1) the qualifica­ cultured and to contain a program of aqua­ tions, dates, and places for voter registration culturaJ. development for such species. FACTUAL DESCRIPTIONS OF BTI.,LS and voting in the area served by the post Establishes the Interagency Committee on AND RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED office; (2) the names and office addresses of Aquacultw-e to coordinate aquacultural pro­ Prepared by the Congressional Re­ the United States Senators and Representa­ grams and projects. tives for the area served by the post office; Establishes within the Treasury a Federal search Service pursuant to clause 5 (d) (3) the names and office addresses of the Aquaculture Assistance Fund to guarantee of House rule X. Previous listing ap­ State legislators representing the area served loans for the fillliancing of aquaculturaJ facili­ peared in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of by the post office; and (4) the cost and avail­ ties and to make disaster loans available to September 21, 19·76·, page 31714: ability of Western Union public opinion mes­ recipients of such guaranteed loans. Au­ HIOUSE BILLS sages to the President, Vice President, and thorizes a program of grants for aquacul­ H.R. 15356. August 31, 1976. Public Works Members of Congress. tural projects. • and Transportation. Amends the Federal H.R. 15362. August 31, 1976. Agriculture. H.R. 15367. August 31, 1976. Public Works Aviation Act of 1958 to: (1) require the Civil Prohibits the importation of palm oil and and Transportation. Directs the Secretary of Aeronautics Board to consider the necessity palm oil products unless the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engi­ of competitive market forces in the air trans­ Agriculture certifies that such products are neers, to study methods to develop, utilize, portation system; (2) limit the time in which pure and wholesome and meet sanitation and conserve the land and water resources in the Board has to pass on applications forcer­ standards. Authorizes the Secretary to estab­ the Hila Bay Area in Hawaii. tificates of public convenience and neces­ lish such standards, and to inspect such H.R. 15368. August 31, 1976. Science and sity; (3) revise procedures for route transfers, imports. Requires that such imports meet Technology. Amends the Federal Fire Preven­ pooling agreements, rate changes and aban­ the packaging and labeling requirements in tion and Control Act to require the Admin­ donments; (4) remove restrictions on non­ effect in the United States and specify the istrator of the National Fire Prevention and stop service; and (5) remove the authority of country of origin. Makes all palm oil in the Control Administration to give priority, in al­ the Postmaster General to require air carriers United States subject to the Federal Food, locating tt~aining grants, to training programs to establish additional schedules for the Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Sets forth labeling which employ techniques that simulate fire transportation of mail between two points requirements for palm oil in the United experiences. served by such carrier. States. Prescribes penalties for violation of H.R. 15369. August 31, 1976. Ways and this Act. Means. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the H.R. 15357. August 31, 1976. Ways and H.R. 15363. August 31, 1976. Agriculture. Means. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to impose a customs duty on Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renew­ the importation of candles and tapers. United St ates to require proof of automobile able Resources Planning Act to direct the property and personal liability insurance on H.R. 15370. August 31, 1976. Post Office and Secretary of Agriculture to prepare specified Civil Service. Extends the period during automobiles imported for the personal use of reports and to submit specified budget esti­ nonresidents and foreign government per­ which a Member or Member-elect of Congress mates for the purpose of reducing the back­ who is a candidate in a primary or general sonnel, in an amount equal to the minimum log of National Forest System lands in need insurance requirements in those States in election is prohibited from sending mass of reforestation or other treatment. mailings as franked mail to 60 d·ays before which the vehicle will be operated. · Sets forth guidelines and standards per- such election.

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SHOULD AROUSE CONGRESS At that time, I moved the Senate to The editorial also mentioned the re­ restore to the Calendar Senate Joint cently released results of a nationwide Resolution 16. a proposed constitutional poll sponsored by the National Federa­ HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. amendment to require reconfirmation of OF VIRGINIA Federal judges every 8 years. Both Sen­ tion of Independent Businesses in which IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES ator ALLEN and Senator HELMS have co­ the question was asked: Should Federal Wednesday, September 22, 1976 sponsored that proposal with me, along judges be appointed for a limited term With Senators NUNN, TALMADGE, GARN, or for life? Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi­ and GRAVEL. An overwhelming 86 percent of the dent, on August 31, the distinguished On September 2, the Staunton, Vir­ Senator from North Carolina New York, New York, been approached in the context of the axio­ excesses. Since bureaucracy threatens free­ August 13 through 20, 1976. matic assumption that, somewhere in govern­ dom, and it certainly does, lawyers must play ment, with enough federal or state or local a key role in fending off this newest and money, the solution can be found and should most serious threat to the success of the be implemented. Every emerging national democratic experiment. As the tentacles of crisis, from environmental decay to moral government spread into and entwine around TROTSKYISM AND TERRORISM: bankruptcy, is met with the cry, "Why every aspect of American life, lawyers must PART XI-SOCIALIST WORKERS doesn't the government do something?" So, form the thin gray-flannel line defending PARTY FRONTS on the one hand, we have the universal Amer­ freedom. ican assumption that in government lies the The first step toward the solution of any solution to all of our problems, and, on the problem 1s to recognize and understand it. other hand, we have McGarr's Law. All joking Only then can we begin the search for an­ ·HON. LARRY McDONALD aside, this is one of the true crises of our swers. The time to address this problem is OF GEORGIA times. now. It lawyers do not take the lead in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Also at the heart of our dilemma. is that dramatizing the problem and ultimately big government is by nature self-aggrandiz­ turning the tide, we will have nothing to Wednesday, September 22, 1976 ing. It grows bigger a;nd thrusts itself more celebrate in the tricentennta.l year of 2076. inextricably into our lives, whlle we stand Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, a front by and talk and worry about it. Just a. few organization is a group controlled by a observations are needed to outline the Communist Party for the purpose of dimensions of the problem. Federal, state attracting non-Communists to the sup­ and local government employees now total THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE port of a Communist cause and to re­ 14.6 mUllan adults. Governmental budgets OF TURKEY cruit new members. The Trotskyite Com­ aggregate $523 blllion annually, 37 percent munists, following the example of the of the gross national product. And just to Stalinists, have also set up front orga­ keep the problem in perspective, let it be HON. DAN DANIEL nizations. noted that state and local payrolls have OF VmGINIA grown and are growing twice as fast as the The methods by which the Trotskyites federal payroll. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES operate in the trade union movement Many students of the problem have Wednesday, September 22, 1976 was revealed by Jeff Mackler, since 1973 reached the conclusion that the burgeon­ Mr. DAN DANIEL. Mr. Speaker, as you an alternate member of t.he SWP Na­ in~ bureaucracy is irreversible--that, Uke tional Committee, at the 1971 SWP Na­ Hercules's Hydra., it is growing new heads are aware, the Congress is now consider­ faster than they can be cut off. Examples ing a Mutual Defense Agreement with tional Convention. Mackler, who used the could be discussed by the hour, and each and one of our valued NATO allies of long­ alias Jeff Maxton at the convention, de­ every one of you has experienced one or more standing, the Republic of Turkey. With scribed his misuse of his union affilia­ of them. Let's take one or two just to set the this in mind, the Veterans of Foreign tion on behalf of the SWP-controlled tone. The Social Security Administration Wars of the United States at its 77th na­ National Peace Action Coalition-NPAC. sends a. monthly check, for two hundred dol­ tional convention held in New York City lars on the average, to one out of every seven Mackler said: adults in the United States. The number of this summer, adopted a resolution in sup­ My first day of school in California. I beneficiaries, in proportion to the number of port of this agreement, pointing out the looked around for an AFT button and out contributors, is growing every year. The pro­ strategic importance of Turkey. For the of 1,000 teachers I finally found one. They gram 1s actuarlly unsound, and always has RECORD, I would like to bring that resolu­ were having a. union meeting so I went. The been. Simnle mathematics reveals that tt tion to the attention of my colleagues. meetings started out with twelve teachers, will run out of reserve funds in about 1980. built up to about thirty. There was a con­ If it were a business, it would go bankrupt. The text is attached: troversial point on the agenda, and I don't If it were an insurance company, its omcers RESOLUTION No. 426, THE STRATEGIC know what prompted me to do it, but I and directors would go to jail. But in the IMPORTANCE OF TURKEY spoke on it. The next item that came up Alice in Wonderland world of government, Whereas, ever since Turkey acceded to on the agenda was that the vice-president the economic laws of the marketplace do not NATO in 1951 and CENTO in 1954, Turkey of the union had transferred. A hand went apply. To shut down Social Security would be has been a loyal and effective ally of the up and nominated me for vice-president, unthinkable. So the deficits wm be met with United States, having earlier fought at our second, call the question, vote, and I was appropriations from current revenues-first side 1n Korea; and a district vice-president of the Federation 1n tens, and ultimately in hundreds of mil­ Whereas, Turkey, with a. long tradition of of Teachers. lions of dollars annually. host111ty to both Czarist and Communist I was subsequently elected statewide rep­ This is only one of the scores of examples Russia., commands the air, sea, and land ap­ resentative to NPAC, and I attended the of growing government programs which we proaches to the oil-rich Middle East; and NPAC national con~erence and through that cannot end, any more than Nero could ter­ Whereas, the U.S., with Turkish coopera­ we participated in the labor support com­ minate bread and circuses. In ten years, the tion, has created an indispensable network of mittee. Since I represented 20,000 workers, number of employees of the Federal Food bases on Turkish soil which can monitor as opposed to the longshoremen, who only Stamp Program has grown from 240 to 2,000. Soviet Missile flights, nuclear weapons tests, represented 10,000, I participated in the Put it to yourself-would any one of you, and aerial overflights, c·apab111ties which can­ NPAC labor support committee in San as a member of Congress, care to introduce not be matched elsewhere in the region and Fra.ncisco.l a btll eUmtnattng the Federal Food Stamp which bear importantly on the United States' Program or even sharply curta111ng it? ability to verify Soviet compliance with the Mackler went on to describe how, us­ Along with Federal funds, and the growing SALT agreements; and ing his position as an AFT district vice burdens on the economy which they gen­ Whereas, in a. blind surrender to domestic president--elected at a meeting of mere­ erate, is the companion phenomenon of gov­ political considerations, the 94th Congress ly 30 people--he was able to "initiate a ernment regulation, either in pursuit of some has voted to deny Turkey m111ta.ry aid to in­ social goal or a.s a. ma.n1!esta.t1on of the clude arms and spare parts Turkey has paid little antiwar project" and circulate an axiom that where there ts government money, for; and anti-Vietnam resolution to the other 2 there follows government control. As I said, Whereas, a new U.S.-Turkish pact has now AFT locals for endorsement. many people think this bureaucratic bur­ been negotiated and awaits Congressional ap­ geoning is irreversible. What do I think? Is proval; now, therefore Footnotes at end of article. September 2:2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 32043

The National Peace Action Coalition There are new possib111ties of bringing Miah also described the YSA and had been organized by the SWP to com­ around more contacts from our work in the SWP attitude toward the police: pete with the Communist Party, U.S.A.­ desegregation fights, from our work in the I'd like to say a few words on our view of CPUSA-controlled People's Coalition unions, and from our election campaigns. cops. We do not consider cops as part of the for Peace and Justice-PCPJ. Both Many of these contacts are YSA-age and working class. They are direct agents of the attracted to the YSA. But a significant and capitalist state. • • • This holds true for groups supported the North Vietnamese growing number, though st111 a minority, are Communists aggression against South both white and Black cops • • •. We are not direct party contacts. Some are in their late for the reforming of the capitalist pollee Vietnam. twenties and thirties. Some are younger force. We stand for its complete dismantling The 1971 SWP National Convention workers who, given their life situation, are and abolition.e also received a letter of commendation direct contacts of the party regardless of from Pierre Frank, leader of the French their age. We can expect some contacts like NATIONAL STUDENT COALITION AGAINST RACISM Designed exploit controversies aris­ section of the Fourth International, on this are going to be more comfortable in to ing from forced busing, the National behalf of the United Secretariat. Frank coming directly to the party and not the YSA. A worker who is nineteen, has a family, Student Coalition Against Racism­ wrote: has been working two years and is attracted NSCAR-was established by the Young First of all I express to you the attention to our movement through union activity Socialist Alliance and SWP at a confer­ and the passion with which the interna­ won't necessarily join the YSA.o ence held in Boston in February 1975. tional Trotskyist movement in its entirety follows the action against the Vietnam war The YSA serves as the principal re­ NSCAR is targeted principally at black waged 1n the U.S.A. and in which you, the cruiting ground for the Socialist Work­ college and high school students and is S.W.P., play such an important role. It is this ers Party and its major supporter in run­ being used extensively to recruit new mass mobilisation increasingly large and in­ ning the fronts. Most YSA members are SWP and YSA members from those creasingly firm to "Bring the Gis home now" recruited in the colleges. However, a cam­ groups.10 which, after the heroic resistance of the paign to organize high school students NSCAR claims some 70 chapters­ Vietnamese people, contributed decisively to has also been undertaken by YSA. these are attached to the local YSA and sap at the determination of American im­ perialism and to paralyse its forces. This Malik Miah, who has served as YSA SWP branches. NSCAR headquarters are anti-war activity must not stop for one min­ nationa! chairman and now is a regular at 612 Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester, ute, even if the victory of the Vietnamese member of the SWP National Commit­ Mass. 02121 (617-288-6200); its national revolution seems imminent. It must continue tee described the high school recruit­ coordinator is SWP national committee' in the U.S.A. as in the whole world to pre­ ment in a report to the YSA National member, Maceo Dixon, former national vent American imperialism from making an Committee Plenum in July 1974. He chairman of YSA. NSCAR's third con­ orderly retreat, to insure that its defeat stated: ference is scheduled to b-1 held at Boston henceforth inevitable should be the worst University, November 19-21, 1976. One possible.3 We want to increase our recr}litment work • • • on the Black struggle and socialism to of the invited guests is Bernadette Devlin THE YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE attempt to win Black m111tants to the YSA. McAliskey, an Irish Trotskyite and lead­ The Young Socialist Alliance-YSA­ This orientation of developing a good base er of the Irish Republican Socialist was established in 1960 as the SWP on campus also applies to high school work. Party-IRSP. youth group. While it is not necessary to When we talk about high school work, in Shortly after the founding conference, be a member of the Socialist Workers most cases we are talking about Black work. Blacks as the most radicalized segment of SWP National Organizational Secretary Party to belong to the YSA, 50 percent the population are generally the most recep­ Barry Sheppard described the SWP and of the YSA members hold dual member­ tive to our ideas. This holds true for Black YSA role in NSCAR. He said: ship in the SWP.' And it is noted that high school students. Some of our best op­ It took a little time and a lot of work. But expulsion from the SWP also results in portunities to do campaign work, youth sup­ we played an important role--from the De­ expulsion from YSA. port work, is at the high schools. The New cember 14 (1974) demonstration and teach­ In 1971, Ken Simpson and Nancy York City high school campaign ralUes and in, the format,ion of the student committee Adolfi were expelled from YSA. Accord­ the response they received are such examples. (against racism), the conference of the stu­ ing to their appeal, the only reason for * • • • • dent committee, to building for the May 1'7 their expulsion was that they had al­ Coupled with YSA work directed at the march. ready been expelled from the SWP and high schools and the major universities is the work we do at the community colleges and Sheppard continued: that the charges were "preferred against all-Black schools. This is just as important NSCAR is basically a student and youth them by party members and the ma­ as other campus work and must be well group; that is, it 1s attracting non-student jority of their trial body * * * were also planned out. In many cases this may mean youth as well as students. Helping to build members of the party-people who had trail-blazing to campuses where we don't NSCAR is a major task for the YSA. But it previously voted for their expulsion from have members or where we haven't visited is also a task for the party, because of the the SWP." 5 before in the cities we function in. The num­ role this group is playing within the whole Barry Sheppard, SWP organizational ber of students open to our ideas is great desegregation fight. It is the only group con­ sistently projecting the proletarian line of secretary has said, "recruitment to the on all campuses and we should take advan­ tage of this.7 mass mobilization. And the party's got to YSA is party work • • * ." He went on pay attention to it; we've got to help butld to say, In that same report, Miah noted how it as a broad action coalition. That's part of For the last 15 years our basic recruitment the Young Socialist Alllance rall1ed to the proletarian orientation we've been talk­ to the party has been from the YSA. This support the Symbionese Liberation Army. ing albout. NSCAR can reach beyond 1ts own aspect of our recruitment will continue to be It is noted that Gary D. Atwood, former forces to the NAACP, and other force.s in the important. Since the YSA serves in this as­ husband of SLA member Angela D'An­ Black community especially.u pect as both a training ground and a screen­ ing process, when YSA members join the gelis Atwood, was a member of the YSA FOOTNOTES party we are recruiting people who have al· at the time his ex-wife and other SLA 1 Internal Information Bulletin #4 1n 1971, ready decided they want to be professional members were killed in a shootout with Oct. 1971 p. 15. revolutionaries. They go through a process in police in Los Angeles. Miah said: ~Ibid. a Internal Information Bulletin #6 In 1971, the YSA that helps them make up their After the SLA members were executed 1n minds. They've learned something about our November 1971 p. 6. Los Angeles, the YSA In all1ance with other 'Internal Information Bulletin #7 in 1971, program, methods and organization. It's go­ community forces helped to organize a pro­ ing to be different when we begin to recruit November 1971 pp. 7-8. test demonstration against the terrorist 5 YSA Internal Informartion Bulletin, larger numbers of people who are coming di­ methods used by the cops.s rectly to the party. We should not succumb "Documents on the Cases of Nancy Adolfi and to the tempt,ations to automatically put all Here we have a high SWP and YSA Ken Simpson" December 21, 1971 p. 8. o Socialist Workers Party Discussion Bul­ recruits in the YSA. Sometimes I think we've official calling the police "terrorists" in done that, precisely because its a good train­ letin, Vol. 33 #4 June 1975, pp. 24, 25. ing ground. What we have to begin to think defense of a gang of revolutionaries who 7 Young Socialist Disoussion Bulletin, Vol. about is that people we recruit directly to had murdered the supe:·intendent of the XVIII, #1, Nov. 1974 p. 5. the party have not yet made the same kind Oakland schools, Dr. Marcus Foster, and S!bid p. 7. of commitment, nor do they have the same at the same time had fired a shotgun into II Ibid. 10 M111tant, Sept 24, 1976 p. 25. kind of training as someone who has gone the abdomen of his assistant, Robert 11 through the YSA. Barry Sheppa.dr report to SWP National Blackburn; and had committed armed Committee May 2, 1975, SWP Dtscu.ssion Sheppard said further, robberies and kidnaping. Bulletin Vol. 33, #4 June 1975 p. 20. 32044 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1976 TRIBUTE TO ST. CLARE'S SCHOOL-- The official celebration of their 25th not have stopped that quake. Nor will it 25 YEARS OF PROVIDING QUALITY anniversary will include a week-long stop any in the future. But an act of EDUCATION series of events from October 11 through Congress can-and should-provide for the 17th. The highlights of the festivities the research and development of con­ will include a special mass of thanksgiv­ struction methods able to withstand all HON. MARIO BIAGGI ing, a dinner-dance, and an alumni re­ but the most severe seismic activity, and OF NEW YORK union. An anniversary journal, highlight­ lessen the hazards to life and property IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing major events in the life of the school that exist in any part of our country lying Wednesday, September 22, 1976 wm also be published. in an earthquake zone. Mr. Speaker, St. Clare's School is cele­ Mr. Speaker, after-the-tragedy legis­ Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, this month brating a most significant event and it is lation calling for "emergency relief, re­ marks the 25th anniversary of the found­ my pleasure to extend to them my habilitation, and humanitarian assist­ ing and opening of St. Clare's School warmest congratulations. A special tri­ ance" is fine for Guatemala. I want pre­ which is located in the Bronx portion of bute should be paid to Principal Stalbile ventive legislation for the United States. my congressional district. It is appro­ as well as assistant principal, Sister Julia, priate on this occasion to review the whose leadership has aided the school proud history of the school and to pay and whose visions will insure its future special tribute to those who have con­ success. Also, Pastor Raimondo and his HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION tributed so greatly to its outstanding assistants, Father Raymond La Manna 737-RIGHT TO FOOD RESOLUTION success. and Father Joseph Hyndz, deserve spe­ In September of 1951, the doors of St. cial commendation for their outstanding Clare's School first opened. Since that work on behalf of the school. I extend HON. EDWARD G. DIESTER, JR. time, more than 20,000 students have my warmest best wishes for many more OF PENNSYLVANIA passed through its doors. It is significant years of success to St. Clare's School. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to note that St. Clare's School is still Tuesday, September 21, 1976 located at its original site, a tribute to the wisdom of its founders. Mr. BIESTER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Throughout its history, St. Clare's TURN DOWN OF EARTHQUAKE BILL, we voted to approve House Concurrent School has been staffed by the devoted A MISTAKE Resolution 737, a resolution intended to and dedicated Sisters Oblates to Divine demonstrate the consciousness, human­ Love. The first principal of the school ity, and compassion of Congress to the was Rev. Mother Gloria Castro, who HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON needs of an estimated 460 million per­ served in its capacity from opening day OF CALIFORNIA sons, almost half of them young chil­ through 1966. She successfully steered IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dren, who are malnourished and suffer­ ing the consequences of diets seriously the school and its students through the Wednesday, September 22, 1976 difficult years and took great pride when deficient in proteins and other essential 20 students comprised the first graduat­ Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. nutrients. ing class in 1957. Since that time, more Speaker, Monday night the House in its The time for action in dealing with than 1,500 students have graduated from infinite wisdom turned down the Earth­ this problem is long overdue. Interna­ the school. quake Hazards Reduction Act (S. 1174). tional food and fertilizer aid has lagged As of 1966, St. Clare's School has been The vote, in my opinion, was both baf­ behind the most modest goals. Even in under the expert guidance and leadership fling, and a serious mistake. the aftermath of UNCTAD IV the world of Sister Josephine Stabile. During her Hopefully, we will have an opportunity has yet to agree on a global system of decade as principal, St. Clare's School before adjournment to rectify this error. food reserves. Food production in the has continued to grow and is now con­ It is ironic to think that this body, developing countries is increasing more sidered to be one of the finest schools of which earlier this year approved $25 mil­ slowly than it did during the 1960's; and its kind in the city of New York. Sister lion in relief to an earthquake stricken the International Food Policy Research Stabile has donated much time and effort Guatemala, refuses to take action fore­ Institute has predicted that unless the to insuring that her students are pro­ stalling a similar disaster in our own trend in production in developing market vided with the best possible education. Nation. economy countries improves in the She has equipped the school with modem On February 4, 1976, Guatemala was future, the availabilty of cereal, the education tools such as special educa­ struck by its worst earthquake in 20 major food in most of these countries, will tional television networks and modern­ years. The result was 22,0QO dead, 74,000 fall short in meeting demand by 95 to ized science labs. injured, and damage well over $600 mil­ 108 million tons by 1985. This compares St. Clare's School is closely affiliated lion. Certainly, Congress was right to with shortfalls of 45 million tons in the with St. Clare of Assisi Church. The pas­ pass the legislation providing emergency crisis year 1974, and 28 million tons in tors of the church play an important relief. In fact, the bill called for new the relatively good production period, supportive role in the school. One of the construction in that nation to be of 1969-71. most instrumental individuals in the es­ "seismic-resistant materials," and called What are we prepared to do in the tablishment of St. Clare's School was on the Government of Guatemala to pro­ light of this increasingly serious prob­ Pastor Francis Cagnina, who is generally mote the use of such materials. Yet on lem? The "Right to Food Resolution" considered to be the founder of both the Monday, September 20, we voted to deny affirms our intent to make hunger "a St. Clare parish and school. The present that basic protection to our own people. fundamental point of reference in the pastor of St. Clare of Assisi Church, It is quite true that a vote by Congress formulation and implementation of U.S. Msgr. Joseph Raimondo, has lent consid­ is not going to lessen the possibility of a policy" in relation to international trade, erable time and support to insuring the major earthquake in the United States, monetary arrangements, and foreign continued success of the school. or stop one from happening. But we can assistance. And it certifies our will to in­ St. Clare's School is joyfully celebrat­ effectively protect our citizens from un­ crease substantially U.S. assistance for ing its silver anniversary. They have necessary dangers should such a quake self-help development among the world's demonstrated how a combination of occur. In my own district in California, poorest people. quality administrative personnel and fac­ a major quake struck in the year 1936 These are noble aspirations; or at least ulty with a cooperative student body, near the city of Long Beach. Lives were they would appear to be. For in the long spell success for any educational institu­ lost, and ornate decorations on the ex­ process of preparing this resolution for tion. St. Clare's School is highly regarded teriors of buildings were found to con­ passage, during which time several very by and active in the community around stitute a major threat to life during thorough and informative hearings were it. Many of its graduates have become earthquakes. They were promptly out­ held, its body and substance were signif­ leading local citizens and some have come lawed and eliminated. icantly altered, perhaps to the point of back to teach at St. Clare's. Certainly, an act of Congress would making it devoid of much of its mean- September 2~, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 32045 ing. Most notably, all reference to a Furthermore, by taking ourselves out imagine how many people would love to have target goal for food assistance was of the international market for nuclear the residence of the director of the FBI technology, we would be taking away our bugged? eliminated. "Can you imagine how easily it would be to Legislation of this magnitude requir­ ability to bargain for, and encourage, bug the plywood ... that would go into the ing no specific obligation to future ex­ multilateral action aimed at stemming valances, if indeed it were done commercially. penditure can all too easily be ratified the unchecked tide of nuclear prolifera­ At the very least we would have to have FBI without thought or commitment to the tion. agents go down and purchase the lumber, broad goals which are sought. For this I would add that, as the Committee on guard his apartment while it was being in­ reason, and because I believe there was a International Relations notes in its re­ stalled. And inspect the plywood too. How critical need to substantiate the intent of port on the bill, readily fissionable mate­ much ... would that cost if indeed the gov­ this resolution, I introduced an amend­ rial already is safeguarded by the Inter­ ernment opted to do it that way?" Then I asked him if the FBI would have to ment during International Relations national Atomic Energy Council. rescan Kelley's apartment if 1t had been Committee markup which would have I urge the defeat of this portion of the decorated by a commercial carpenter. provided that- legislation. Said Simon: "Sure. My office is constantly The United States • • • increased its food gone over when (I) have a visitor. One never and development assistance to 1.0 percent knows whether a detecting device has been of the gross nation&! product of the United DffiECTOR KELLEY left." States within five years after the date of It seems to me the question of Kelley's re­ enactment of this concurrent resolution. ceiving gifts, such as a $105 easy chair, an $84 Though passage of a substantially HON. SAMUEL L. DEVINE clock or a $95 walnut table, from his sta:ff, OF OHIO isn't any more "illegal" than all the personal amended and watered down resolution favors done by Secret Service agents body­ was preferable to the eventual stagnation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES guarding the presidential candidates. That's or defeat of a stronger measure, I feel Wednesday, September 22, 1976 political nitpicking. constrained to point out that in my view, Point is-what of the FBI's total work? Mr. DEVINE. Mr. Speaker, not much Look at the record. House Concurrent Resolution 737, as is written about the other side of the passed by the House of Representatives During fiscal 1975, the bureau's civil rights coin as the continuing effort to destroy fight was one of quality and quantity. In this yesterday, is little more than a general the FBI runs rampant. Perhaps Victor year, the FBI, according to its documents, statement of principles, completely lack­ Riesel's article will shed some light, and handled 7,946 cases within the civil rights ing obligation or means to fulfillment. balance. criminal statutes. Further, there were The resolution would have been used The article follows: another 1,238 cases of alleged discrimination much improved were it to have included [From the Paterson (N.J.) News, in housing; another 1,477 cases under the 1964 specific commitments by the United Sept. 17, 1976] CivU Rights Act of prohibiting discrim­ States to a percentage of gross national ination in employment, education, public product to be allocated to food and de­ FBI, UNDER KELLEY, HAS BRILLIANT RECORD fac111ties and places of publlc accommodation. velopment aid within a specific term of (By Victor Riesel) Effectiveness in these fields doesn't spring WASHINGTON .-During my recent travels I from some civil service attorney researching years. the record. It takes field work--often dan­ I sincerely hope that ratification of conversed with some of the most brilliant, pragmatic iron-nerved ·James Bond types gerous. In bombing attacks, for e~ample. this resolution does not amount to a specializing in counterintelligence and anti­ And there 1s a vast area of white-collar thoughtless exercise in political grand­ terrorist operations for their government. In crime into which the FBI has recently thrown standing to be forgotten before the next one famed continental capital I was their special "desks." These squads now are foreign assistance authorization measure guest. To my utter delight I learned they had piercing Medicaid and Social Security and reaches committee. one of the best wine cellars abroad. welfare fraud-thus aiding the aged and the Believe me, the faith their nation places poor. The battle 1s on against vast thievery in them is justified, their records some day and forging of securities on which many will show. Obviously with their truly meager depend for old age income. wages they aren't buying the vintages. And 1f that's of no interest to the scalp HEINZ URGES REALISTIC NUCLEAR So I was startled on returniing home to hunters, what of the FBI's attack on orga­ EXPORT POLICY note a headline reading "Director of FBI Tar­ nized crime? What of the investigation, in­ get of Inquiry" because he had permitted dictment and conviction of such tough dons (actually his late wife did) the bureau's as Kansas City's Nick Civella, Detroit's Tony exhibit section to use an estimated $40 Zerilli and St. Louis syndicate power Tony HON. H. JOHN HEINZ III worth of lumber to put up a set of curtain Giardano? Most of these needed only to dial OF PENNSYLVANIA valances in his new apartment. a phone to get action from "controlled" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Director Clarence Kelley, now 64, a deacon unions. Wednesday, September 22, 1976 of the Christian church and like Gov. Carter, In all there were 1,417 convictions of who wants him fired, a former Sunday racketeers. By year's end (June SO, 1975) Mr. HEINZ. Mr. Speaker, I am in strong school teacher, wouldn't misappropriate a 13- there were 1,800 alleged gangsters in the opposition to the provision in the Export cent stamp. court pipelines. Not bad. Fair return on $40 Administration Act that seeks to set un­ Actually U.s. Secretary of the Treasury (or $35) worth of valances. realistic and simplistic regulations on W111iam Simon, who directs the Secret Serv­ It's like President Lincoln said when there ice, tells me there was no more practical or were complaints that Gen. Grant was a heavy the export from this country of nuclear less expensive fashion in which to build these drinker. Mr. Lincoln asked what Grant's technology. valances. Literally Director Kelley saved-not brand was. He wanted to rush it to his other I refer to the amendment in the bill wasted-the government money, manpower generals. that states that no nuclear material or and security. equipment may be provided to any coun­ Kelley won't tell the story. It's simpler try unless all nuclear materials reproc­ to write a $335 check and forget it-if Presi­ DEATH CLAIMS A GOOD FRIEND essed through equipment provided by dent Ford's political opponents permit. Here's what Bill Simon told me the other day when the United States are under the control I asked him to tell me, as the cabinet mem­ and reporting requirements of this act. ber in charge of the Secret Service, if he HON. F. EDWARD H£BERT I urge my colleagues to vote to defeat would have fired Kelley had the FBI chief OF LOUISIANA this provision. been under his jurisdiction instead of Atty. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It makes no sense, Mr. Speaker, to Gen. Levi's. enact legislation that will, in effect, drive "No, I most certainly wouldn't. I think ••• Wednesday, September 22, 1976 customers to foreign and alternate sup­ you'll find it was $35 for some plywood for Mr. HEBERT. Mr. Speaker, I was in­ a valance . . . in his apartment in Wash­ pliers. We have only to look at Brazil's ington. deed saddened to learn of the death of recent acquisition of nuclear technology "Now let's look at a side of thls that hasn't a good friend and a great photographer, from West Germany to see what could, been looked at.... For $35 worth of plywood, Charles P. Gorry. and probably would, happen on a world­ here is the director of the FBI . . . you know Charlie, as he was known to his wide scale if this amendment were al­ we're living in a very dangerous world and friends, had an illustrious career with the lowed to remain in the bill. we do have enemies and adversaries. Can you Associated Press. He put my picture on 32046 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2'2, 1976 more front pages than anyone during man." Sometimes she had advice for Presi­ States and how they would like to see it. Even those years he was covering the Hill. dent Johnson, whom she had known a long then, they had faith that a new era would time. She admonished me to tell him after begin where the opportunities for women His face was a familiar one to those his next press conference. "Mama, I can't would be limitless. If they could have been of us who have been around here for give the President unsolicited advice, even born later, and if they could have been awhile, and we will miss him. from you," I would say. Americans, how much they could have ac­ Charlie always got the job done with­ "Presidents should hear the views of pri­ complished. You must act for them because out being pushy or obnoxious, which is vate citizens-especially women. They are women have civilized the human race,'' unusual among photographers today. surrounded by •yes' men. I'm sure the Presi­ mama said. Charlie was a fine human being. My dent wm ask you," mama replied serenely. sympathy goes to his family during these He did, too. Sometimes he would say, "Vir­ ginia, how does your mother think I am trying hours. doing?" He would listen gravely and tell me, BISHOP FLOYD BEGIN'S FIGHT "Be sure to tell your mother that I will seri­ AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY ously consider her views." At home, mama watched the televised NO ONE LOVED AMERICA MORE press conferences. If she saw me, she was HON. LINDY BOGGS happy. "Don't I always tell you this is a won­ OF LOUISIANA derful country? Where else would a woman IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. JOE L. EVINS have such an interesting career? Where else OF TENNESSEE would a woman be able to know Presidents?" Wednesday, September 22, 1976 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES She was so proud of being an American citizen. She said that no native born Ameri­ Mrs. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, recently it Wednesday, September 22, 1976 can fully appreciated the blessings of this came to my attention that Bishop Floyd L. Begin of Oakland, Calif., has been Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, country. "The United States,'' mama said, "is the fulfillment of everyone's dreams, the waging a public battle in favor of eradi­ the popular and talented White House land of opportunity where everyone With cating pornography. His Excellency's correspondent, Mrs. Virginia Weldon health, normal intelllgence, industry, and principal method has been to encourage Kelly, the wife of Rear Admiral Thomas ambition can be a success." likeminded citizens to refrain from pa­ J. Kelly, of Washington, D.C., and for­ When I pointed out that many people tronizing establishments which show or merly of Tennessee, has written a beau­ were in the slums, burdened with a tragic lack of education and other handicaps, she sell pornographic materials. tiful and moving story concerning her I would like to take this opportunity mother who came to the United States said, "But consider how much worse off these people would be if they were back in the to share with my colleagues in the House from Hungary at an early age, became homelands of their ancestors. Here, they have an article which recently appeared in an American citizen and lived a long life a chance." "Morality in Media Newsletter," concern­ proclaiming the beauties, glories, and In the depths of the depression, she was ing the Bishop's activities in this area, greatness of America. optimistic and predicted that there would the text of which appears below: The Paris Post-Intelligencer of Paris, eventually be community colleges where each person could get higher education, free. MM MAN OF THE MONTH: BISHOP Tenn., has reprinted Virginia Kelly's FLOYD L. BEGIN story about her mother under the head­ She insisted that life is better for most peo­ line, "No One Loved America More." I ple now than in former generations. Early in May, a full or half-page paid adver­ EveTY day, when we had prayers, she sat tisement appeared in all the newspapers­ am inserting this news story and edi­ in a chair but I was on my knees beside her. secular and religious-of Oakland, Califor­ torial in the RECORD along with a tribute Looking down at me, she would say, "Thank nia. The ad was headlined: "An Open Letter to Virginia and Admiral Thomas J. Kelly. God for being an American." Dutifully and of Concern from Bishop Floyd L. Begin." Mrs. Virginia Weldon Kelly is a trustee daily, I did so. The Most Reverend Floyd L. Begin is the of the NaVY Marine Coast Guard Resi­ Mama and I were certain that she had a Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland. A native dence Foundation which built and oper­ close working relationship with Divine of Cleveland, he has been bishop of Oakland ates the nonprofit residence, Carl Vinson Providence, as far as I was concerned. Each since the creation of the diocese in 1962; was day in our prayers, she would ask the Lord to a member of the Administrative Tribunal of Hall, McLean, Va. Virginia is a member help me to be kinder and more loving to my Vatican Council II; a member of the ad­ of a pioneer famlly, the daughter of Dr. husband, the family, and to all who "are in ministrative board for the National Confer­ John D. Weldon and the granddaughter sorrow, sickness or in need,'' and to realize ence of Catholic Bishops; and is vice-presi­ of Dr. Andrew Jackson Weldon of Paris my responsibilities as God's child and as a dent of the California Catholic Conference. Landing, Tenn. citizen. The Bishop publicly expressed his concern Virginia is a member of the National Mama believed in prayer, but she also about the traffic in pornography, and then Society of Colonial Dames, the Daugh­ believed in action. She was what I called the sent the same letter to all religious leaders in ters of the American Revolution, the "wagonmaster for our gravy train." If any his area, all media outlets, and all Catholic neighbor was 111, that person received hot elementary and high schools and colleges. Washington Club, the National Press meals. If the weather was bad, mama had the In addition to the letter, he had printed Club, the Washington Press Club, the grocery lists of elderly neighbors. "Do the hundreds of thousands of cards containing a American Newspaper Women's Club and marketing on your way home," she said. If a prayer and pledge of decency, and distributed the Women's National Democratic Club. black friend needed a loan, mama was not them widely. only ready With her modest means, but was Following is the text of Bishop Begin's open Both Virginia and Admiral Kelly are letter: great Tennesseans and great Americans. quick to admonish me to chip in. After the daily prayers came the Bible "As a spiritual leader in our community I The editorial from the Post-Intelli­ reading. "You choose the passage,'' mama wish to address an area of increasingly grave gencer of Paris, Tenn., "No One Loved usually said. Late at night we talked of many concern. It Is the rapid growth of the porno­ America More," follows: things. Sometimes mama would ask me to graphic and nearly pornographic in the [From The Paris (Tenn.) Post-Intelllgencer, read parts of the Constitution and the Blll of society around us. July 9, 1976} Rights. She considered the separation of "There seems to be an almost constant church and state the noblest concept of all. barrage of the immodest and indecent No ONE LOVED AMERICA MORE With every fiber of her being, she believed in through motion pictures, stage productions, My mother came to the United States from justice and liberty for all. This, too, was the magazines, newspapers, television and even Hungary when she was 13 years old. She guiding principle of my father, a member of on the streets of our cities. So universal have never forgot her first glimpse of the Statue a pioneer family whose ancestors had fought these things become that too many of us of Liberty. She and the other passengers on in the Revolution. have accepted them almost as a way of life, the ship had been up since dawn. Suddenly, One of the memories that I cherish during as an inevitable consequence of modern so­ the mist llfted, the wn was shln!ng • . • this year of the Bicentennial is that no one in ciety. Sensitivities have been dulled, right and there was the statue in all its beauty. our family ever spoke disparagingly of any and informed consciences st11led, and moral If she had lived to see the Bicentennial, race or religion, or the status of women. In objections silenced. she would have rejoiced to know that Ameri­ harmony With these views, my mother, my "I feel it not only appropriate, but urgent, cans celebrated in harmony on July 4. She father's mother, and his sisters were all to speak out against this amazing prolifera­ would have approved President Ford's words women of inteUigence and high principles, tion. Its prime motivation seems to be finan­ after he had sworn in new citizens at Char­ who believed that women have a role in cial profit, but its ultimate result, too often, lottesv1lle, Va.: "After two centuries, there government and in every aspect of life. is the destruction of the moral fiber and vir­ is still something wonderful about being an Mama was only 11 when her mother died, tue of our people. I write this, not out of a American." but she remembered how gifted, dynamic, sense of prudishness or latter-day puritan­ Mama knew Mr. Ford as a Congressman. and capable her mother and grandmother ism, but with what I trust is sensitivity to She said he was "a man of integrity-a kind had been. "They used to speak of the United what the gift of human sexuality is all about. September 2'2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 32047 "It 1s through our God-given sexuality pays the enrollee unsubsidized wages Finally, like all congressional offices, that we as human beings can reach out to that ultimately reduce welfare costs and we p.tovided a huge volume of informa­ one another in love. It is in sexual union increase tax revenue. tion to local Bicentennial commissions. that a couple can express to one another I commend 70001 Ltd., the Department tenderness, intimacy and permanent fidelity. Mr. Speaker, it is happily clear to all The public and profitable exploitation of the of Labor, and the private sector, par­ that the Bicentennial was a rousing suc­ sexual, so common around us, is a direct ticularly the retailing industry that is cess. At this time, I would like to express betrayal of the basic values of sexuality it­ providing most of these jobs, for form­ my personal gratitude to Mr. Warner for self. What is sometimes referred to as the ing such an effective partnership that his guiding role in our Nation's 200th 'playboy philosophy' of sexually using and already has helped thousands of disad­ birthday celebration. discarding another person with 'no strings vantaged young people. We need more attached' 1s not a form of freedom but of efforts such as these. enslavement. What was intended to be most precious becomes almost trivial. What was created to be most deeply personal is de­ THE TERRIBLE COSTS OF humanized. TERRORISM "Pornography of any kind is gravely wrong TRIBUTE TO JOHN WARNER ON and the abuse of the gift of sex remains THE BICENTENNIAL wrong no matter how common or well-pub­ HON. JAMES J. BLANCHARD licized it becomes. OF MICHIGAN "I call on concerned people, and particu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES larly on my fellow Catholics, to refrain from HON. ROBERT McCLORY patronizing those publications, theaters and OF n.LINOIS Wednesday, September 22, 1976 places of business which encourage the por­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nographic. I ask their support in affirming Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, yes­ what is positive and wholesome in the media Wednesday, September 22, 1976 terday, as virtually all of us know by now, and opposing publicly what 1s not. I urge Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, in these the former Chilean Ambassador, Orlando them to pray for decency in the community days of much talk, but little action about Letelier, was assassinated here in Wash­ and the country. bureaucratic reform, it seems a bit un­ ington. "Finally, I ask citizens everywhere to pro­ The assassination, which was carried mote what is wholesome and good in our so­ usual to acknowledge the passing of a Federal agency and its Administrator, out by means of a bomb placed in Mr. ciety and to encourage reverence for human­ Letelier's automobile, was a barbaric act, ity and sexuality at all times." but as the Members know, John Warner Bishop Begin's public statement elicited recently chaired his final meeting of the and one tragic in its consequences. tremendous response in the Oakland area. American Revolution Bicentennial Ad­ Investigations by local authorities and Such statements from religious leaders of ministration. The spectacular success of by agents of the Department of Justice all faiths in all areas of the country could ARBA and of Mr. Warner deserve the are already underway. I have joined in generate the vocal community expression recognition both of Congress and the sponsoring the resolution offered by the needed to solve the problem of pornography. American people. gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. MoF­ Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that the FETT) which condemns the assassination, great achievement of the Bicentennial and I will support any proposals for fur­ was its orientation toward people and ther investigation. 70001 LTD. HELPING DISAD­ communities. Much of the success of 1976 I do not, however, want to let this mat­ VANTAGED YOUTH must be attributed to hard-working indi­ ter pass without expressing my contempt viduals all across our Nation, but there for the person or persons who have per­ HON. BILL ARCHER was also an early decision to keep the petrated this cowardly act. I hope that Bicentennial celebration close to the other Members will take the time, as I OF TEXAS have, to read the details of the assassina­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people, and for this we must thank Mr. Warner. With the same talents he dem­ tion in the newspapers. They tell a story Wednesday, September 22, 1976 onstrated as Secretary of the Navy, he that can only sicken and anger civilized Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, it seems made 1976 into a memorable and appro­ men, of whatever political persuasion. that there is always a lot of talk about priate tribute to a great nation. In the Like similar actions, here and abroad, partnership between the public and pri­ process, he left a lesson behind for those this one was not without its innocent vic­ vate sectors, but not much is being done agency administrators not retiring: by tims. In this case, they were staff mem­ about it. and large, he let the people plan their bers of the Institute for Policy Studies, Today, I would like to briefly share own Bicentennial. where Mr. Letelier worked. One of them, with my colleagues some information These plans took many forms. In my Ronni Karpen Moffitt, lost her life. about an organization that is doing own 13th Congressional District of TIU­ I include herewith her story, both as something about it. 70001 Ltd. is a non­ nois, Elgin Community College decided it a memorial and as a reminder that ter­ profit corporation that provides a pro­ wanted to honor Thomas Jefferson with rorism, wherever it occurs-in La Guar­ gram of employment, on-the-job train­ a special day. Working closely with my dia Airport, in Belfast, in Ma'alot or ing, education and motivation for out­ office, they managed to have a resolution Munich or here in our own midst--is a of -school young people between the ages passed by both Houses of Congress and disease and an abomination that must be of 16 and 22. signed by the President. An annex of the destroyed. Although it is funded by the Depart­ Library of Congress was renamed in [From the Washington Post, Sept. 22, 1976} ment of Labor, 70001 places its young honor of Mr. Jefferson, a joint session SECOND VICTIM OF BLAST WAS "WARM, VITAL, people in unsubsidized jobs in the pri­ of Congress with several guest speakers AND AcriVE" vate sector. Let me repeat. These are un­ was held, and special ceremonies, featur­ (By Richard E. Prince) subsidized jobs. The wages paid these ing an address by President Gerald Ford, Ronni Susan Moffitt, who died in the au­ disadvantaged young people come en­ took place at the Jefferson Memorial. tomoblle bomb explosion yesterday that also tirely from the private sector. And what The citizens of Crystal Lake, another k11led a former Chllean ambassador to the is happening here is that a growing num­ community in my district, decided to give United States, was described yesterday as a poUtically aware, full-of-life woman who was ber of these young adults are moving their city a $1,000 U.S. savings bond as a excited about the future. off the public welfare rolls and onto Bicentennial gift. Working through my Married on Memorial Day in her native private payrolls. As of the end of last office, they arranged for this unusual Passaic, N.J., she and her husband, Michael year, these 70001 workers had earned bond to be issued by the Treasury De­ Moffitt, also 25, recently moved into an old, more than $1 million and paid back partment. In ceremonies scheduled for white clapboard five-room farmhouse in Po­ nearly a quarter of that in local, State, October 2, the bond will be placed in a tomac. They met at the Institute for Policy and Federal taxes. time capsule, to be opened in 2076. Studies, where last month she started a new job as the organization's fund-raiser. Moffitt, What we have here is a true partner­ My office also participated in a Bi­ who was in the car and survived the bomb ship, with public dollars helping prepare centennial project of Marcor Corp., dis­ explosion, is an economist there. the 70001 enrollee to work and advance tributing decorative fiag sets to all Mem­ Mrs. Moffitt was the oldest of three chil­ in the private sector. In turn, business bers of the House of Representatives. dren of Hilda and Murray Karpen, who owned 32048 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS September 2'2, 1976 a 50-year-old dellcatessen and appetizer REPORTING OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOBBYING Metz, and Thionville. In Germany the business in Passa.ic. ORGANIZATIONS unit made splendid combat contributions After completing high school in 1968, she Page 28, strike lines 14--25 and page 29, attended the University of Maryland, where to the battles of Saarlautern, Dillengen, strike lines 1-6, and substitute 1n lieu there­ Ensdorf, Saarbrucken, Moselle-Sarr Tri­ she majored in elementary education and of the following: minored in art. Her acryllc and pen-and-ink "(8) an ident1flcat1on of- angle, Ardennes, Saar River, Rhine works adorned their home, friends said yes­ ( A) each organization from which there­ River, terday. porting organization received income dur­ As each member of the 243d is proud After graduating from Maryland, Mrs. Mof­ ing such period, including the amount of of his unit's military accomplishments, fitt taught for a year at Rocking Horse Road income provided by the organization, where so should we, as a Nation, indicate here Elementary School in Rockville. She left that the income was expended in whole or in part today our pride and thanks for this unit's job, her father said yesterday, because "She to engage in activities described in section loved the kids but wasn't crazy about the personal sacrifices and devotion. 3 (a) , if the amount of Income received from Remembering their departed com­ adults." the organization has totaled $2,500 or more At the time, Mrs. Moffitt was ltving in the in amount or value during the calendar year; rades, this year's reunion honors the Adams-Morgan area of Washington (before and memory of these men by having as spe­ that she Uved in Takoma Park). Her musical (B) each individual from whom the re­ cial guests the widows and children of interests, cultivated in high school, led her porting organization received income during each deceased member. to become involved with The Music Carry such period, including the amount of in­ So to you, the 243d Field Artillery Bat­ Out at 2004 18th St. NW., which served as come provided by the individual, where the talion, we wish you a happy 31 years of a club for musicians. income was expended in whole or part to memories. Virginia Wheaton, who was active in the engage in activities described in section S(a), Carry out, remembers Mrs. Moffitt as "very if the amount of income received from the warm, vital, and active. She was an orga­ individual and his immediate family has to­ nizer-she was always getting things going, taled $2,500 or more in amount or value dur­ and she had a great sense of humor." Among THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF RIVER­ ing the calendar year. This paragraph shall DALE, MD., BAPTIST CHURCH other activities, she organized a weekly wom­ not apply to any income received by the en's night at which she played flute and organization in the form of a return on an guitar. investment by the organization or a return WhUe active at the Carry Out from 1974 HON. GLADYS NOON SPELLMAN . until last fall, she helped write a proposal on the capital of the organization." that secured $2,000 for the club from the In­ ELIMINATING EXEMPTION FOR COMMUNICATIONS OF MARYLAND stitute for Polley Studies. OR SOLICITATIONS TO AN ORGANIZATION'S IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A co-director of the institute, Marcus Ras­ MEMBERSHIP Wednesday, September 22, 1976 kin, frequented the place, friends said, and At page 23, line 4 after "public", strike "or he hired her as his assistant. She began to the membership of Sin organization". Mrs. SPELLMAN. Mr. Speaker, it is working for him in September, 1974. At page 23, line 5, after "broadcast," strike with pleasure and pride that I bring to Michael Moffitt started work at the Insti­ the semicolon and insert the following: the attention of my colleagues a mile­ tute in January, 1974, and did a major share ", or through a regular publication of a stone event in the history of one of the of the research for "Global Reach," a study voluntary membership organization pub­ of multinational corporations authored by lished in substantial part for purposes un­ distinguished churches of Prince Georges Institute co-director Richard Barnett. He related to engaging in activities described County, Md. On September 26, the First majored in economics at the State University in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection 3 Baptist Church of Riverdale will cele­ of New York at Cortland and is currently (a);" brate the 50th anniversary of its found­ working on his masters at American Uni­ ing in 1926. It is a joyous occasion for ver!;ity. the congregation and, on behalf of the Moffitt was raised an Irish Catholic. He Members of the U.S. Congress, I would and his wife, raised an Orthodox Jew, were THIRTY-ONE YEARS OF MEMORIES married by an American University rabbi like to extend my warmest congratula­ May 30 1n her family's garden. About 200 tions. people attended. HON. MATTHEW F. McHUGH Since its inception, the First Baptist "They're both politically aware people who Church has played a central role in the were Involved," said Tina Smith, an associate OF NEW YORK lives of its membership. Believing strong­ at the Institute for !Policy Studies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ly that a church can provide spiritual Mrs. Moffitt's father said she called home Wednesday, September 22, 1976 guidance in many diverse ways, the every Sunday. In her last call home, she said Riverdale Baptist Church has always she would be home Friday for Rosh Hasha­ Mr. McHUGH. My Speaker, the 243d maintained varied and enriched opportu­ nah. After she WSIS named fund raiser, Kar­ Field Artillery Battalion of the Army of pen said, she was "full of ideas. She was up the United States is holding its 31st an­ nities for participation. It has sponsored here last week looking for a grant from a nual reunion on October 9 in Bing­ many different groups for the benefit and foundation. She was full of life, full of life," hamton, N.Y. It seems appropriate and enjoyment of the congregation and the he said. fitting that our Nation, in appreciation community. On more than one occasion, Friends said Mrs. Moffitt was no more inter­ for the unity which we now enjoy, pay I have been deeply moved by the per­ ested in Chlle than she was in other areas of formances of the First Baptist Church the world. Her father had this explanation tribute to this group which has for itself for her death: preserved the ideals for which it served. of Riverdale Choir, whose singing reflects "I guess it was aimed at the ambassador. Each year in honor of the country for so beautifully the spiritual commitment He was fighting the junta in Chlle. He had which they fought and with a profound its members have made. accused them of barba.rtc acts, and to prove respect for each other, this group meets I, for one, doubt that any nation can they were not barbaric, they murdered him to maintain a fellowship seldom equaled. long survive unless its people receive the and my daughter." Sharing the memories of almost 4 years fulfillment and guidance provided by its of service together as a unit, this yearly churches. For 50 years, the First Baptist reunion exemplifies the high devotion Church of Riverdale has been such a which each member has for our country beacon to its faithful members. This THE LOBBY BILL and for each other. church has been an integral part of the Being activated in August of 1942 at religious fabric which is essential to the Camp Shelby, Miss., the 243d received continued growth and prosperity of this HON. TOM RAILSBACK its complement of personnel direct from Nation. The future of this country will OF ILLINOIS civilian life. After extensive training, this be strengthened by the demonstrated IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES unit was honored by being selected to faith of this congregation. place into service the Army's newest On behalf of my colleagues in the Con­ Wednesday, September 22, 1976 heavy artillery weapon, the 8-inch rifle. gress, I extend my warmest congratula­ Mr. RAILSBACK. Mr. Speaker, tomor­ The unit landed on Utah Beach, August tions to the First Baptist Church of row I will be offering two amendments 6, 1944. As a separate unit serving in the Riverdale on its golden anniversary. May to H.R. 15, the lobby bill, which I am 20th Corps of the 3d Army, the 243d God bestow His blessings upon the con­ having printed in the RECORD herewith. saw duty in France at St. Malo, Brest, gregation. September 22, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32049 SWEDES SHOW DISILLUSIONMENT before the local tax board, and Mr. Borne­ Torkel Westin-to check the doctor's book­ WITH THEIR WELFARE STATE! busch was found guilty and forced to pay keeping, they said-and incidentally to per­ back taxes· of 250,000 Kronor ($55,000). use the files of the 30,000 patients registered Bornebusch appealed to a tax court, but in with him over the years. HON·. PHILIP M. CRANE the meantime the authorities moved in on The most celebrated tax case has been his property. When his home was sold at that of Ingmar Bergman, who was arrested OF ILLINOIS forced auction, the tax authorities recovered at a rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theater IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their claimed 250,000 Kr. The market value in Stockholm and charged with tax fraud. Wednesday, September 22, 1976 of his house, however, had been estimated at When the prosecutor general ruled the 600,000 Kr or over $130,000. When Borne­ charges unfounded, the tax authorities Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, after 44 busch was acquitted of the charges in tax changed strategy. Bergman had not com­ years of a Socialist government, the vot­ court two years later he was entitled to get mitted a crime, they charged, but he had il­ ers of Sweden have become disillusioned back his 250,000 Kr with 6 per cent interest. legally tried to avoid taxes. One set of tax with their expensive and all-embracing But there was no legal compensation for the bureaucrats charged that Bergman had listed welfare state. difference between what his house had been certain sums as "income from employment" sold for and what it was actually worth. which should have been taxed as "capital The candidates running in Sweden in Bornebusch now lives in Spain, where the gains," another set maintained that the opposition to the ruling Socialist Party number of Swedish tax refugees is estimated sums in question should have been listed as argued that high taxes-which take to be several times the number of Spanish corporate profit. Bergman, who had already nearly half the salaries of most work­ political refugees in Sweden. paid 10 per cent capital-gains tax, was now ers-as well as the growing bureaucracy In Sweden today, 50.5 per cent of the gross being sued for 85 per cent by the first au­ have created a society that puts security national product is taken up by Social se­ thority, and 54 per cent by the second. Both curity and other taxes; another 9.6 per cent maintained that they were right, and it was and welfare ahead of initiative, free goes into the public coffers in the form of choice, and opportunity. conceivable that Bergman might be forced customs duties, fees on public services, and by two different tax courts to pay a 139 per Americans who have used Sweden as interest on government assets. The total is cent tax on his income. Only by appealing a model of the direction in which our expected to go to 69.8 per cent by 1980. to the supreme tax court could he get his own country should move, should care­ In such a system, tax rates are high even tax lowered to below 100 per cent; but such fully examine the attitudes of the people on low and medium incomes. Mr. Svenson, Sweden's John Doe, earns 40,000 Kr a year an appeal can take up to five years. of that country toward the welfare state {$8,800). His employer pays an extra 25 per Bergman claims also that he was black­ under which they have lived for so many cent in payroll taxes and Social Security dues. mailed by certain omcials, and asked to make years. If they do so, they will find that Svenson himself pays some 40 per cent in "a deal" with tax authorities. In the end, he freedom and socialism are, in reality, not taxes, and inflation is running at 10 per cent simply left the country and put his fortune compatible values. a year. "at the disposal of the tax authorities, so that To keep Inflation in check, the government no one w111 think that I tried to evade my In an article concerning the Swedish duty as taxpayer according to the law." system of taxation, Carl G. Holm, a con­ makes continuous changes in the tax system, which are not always successful. Late in 1975, Press reaction in Sweden on Bergman's tributor to a number of magazines in for instance, parliament legislated a special decision to go into exile was mixed. The anti­ Sweden, including Contra, and a grad­ tax rate for private entrepreneurs (authors, socialist papers have seized on it to attack uate of the Stockholm School of Eco­ artists, lawyers, shopkeepers, etc.) earning both the Social Democrntic government and nomics, notes that- more than 150,000 Kr ($33,000)-a tax rate the tax system. The socialist papers, on the In Sweden today, 50.5 per cent of the of 102 per cent. Though protests were or­ other hand, with elections coming up this gross national product is taken up by Social ganized against such an outlandish levy no month, have strongly supported the tax au­ Security and other taxes; another 9.6 per changes were made until author Astrid Lind­ thorities; they picture Bergman as a criminal. cent goes Into the public coffers in the form gren wrote a "fairytale" on the 102 per cent Many have asked for even tougher actions of customs duties, fees on public services, tax in one of the major dailies. In order to against "tax dodgers." and interest on government assets. The total meet taxes of 2,002,000 Kr on expected royal­ is expected to go to 69.8 per cent by 1980. ties of only 2,000,000 Kr, she estimated that she would have to steal at least 7,000 Kr from The average Swede, Mr. Holm points the Treasury-2,000 Kr to cover the taxes out, earns the equivalent of $8,800 a year, that exceeded her income, and another 5,000 HEINZ SUPPORTS LOBBYING of which he pays 40 percent in taxes. Kr to live on. The Secretary of Finance huffed REFORM LEGISLATION His employer pays an extra 25 percent in Parliament that "taxation was none of Astrid Lindgren's business," but the impact in payroll taxes and social security dues, of her article caused the government· to HON. H. JOHN HEINZ III and inflation rate is 10 percent a year. In change the tax law. OF PENNSYLVANIA higher income brackets, the Government High tax rates have created a large black IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES takes an even larger share in taxes. Those market. Almost everything can be bought at private entrepreneurs earning more than reduced prices, if it's "without receipt.'' Den­ Wednesday, September 22, 1976 $33,000, for example, are subject to a tax tists and doctors give free help to plumbers Mr. HEINZ. Mr. Speaker, for too long, rate of 102 percent. The celebrated case and carpenters In exchange for their services. this country has been without an effec­ of movie producer Ingmar Bergman il­ Such activities have forced the authorities tive law requiring the full public dis­ lustrates the difficulty of keeping even a to take severe measures against tax dodgers. The Secretary of Justice has launched a closure of the activities of lobbyists, small portion of the fruits of your labor campaign suggesting that crimes against those individuals and organizations in in today's Sweden. society are more reprehensible than crimes Washington seeking to influence legisla­ Mr. Holm notes that in Spain: against individuals, that is, it is worse to be a tion. The number of Swedish tax refugees 1s tax dodger than a burglar or thief. Because I strongly believe that the estimated to be several times the number of Since January 1, a law "to secure evidence public has a right to know just how lob­ Spanish political refugees In Sweden. in taxation cases" has been in effect. It gives byists influence the outcome of legisla­ tax authorities the right (1) to search any Now that the people of Sweden have office or factory at any time, without offering tion which has such a tremendous effect seen fit to express their growing hostility grounds for suspicion or a court order, for on their day-to-day lives, I have cospon­ to the ever-advancing welfare state, evidence that might concern the taxes of sored H.R. 15, the Public Disclosure of those in the United States who hold any Swedish taxpayer, and (2), with a court Lobbying Act. Sweden out as a model should rethink order, to search any private home at any H.R. 15, the result of countless months their own position. time. But no defending attorneys are present of careful committee deliberation, will I wish to share with my colleagues the when the court authorizes the search, and help open up the governmental process article, "Taxation in Paradise," by Carl the searchee need not be notifl.ed that he is to public scrutiny by specifying which G. Holm, as it appeared in the October 1, under suspicion. Parliament passed the law organizations must register as lobbyists, 1976, issue of National Review, and in­ unanimously-any opponent would have and by requiring these lobbyists to re­ been branded a "friend of criminal tax sert it into the RECORD at this time: dodgers" in the socialist press. port the amount and specific purpose of TAXATION IN PARADISE Under the provisions of the new law, tax their lobbying expenditures. (By Carl G. Holm) police have frequently violated the profes­ H.R. 15 will replace the loophole-rid­ Five years ago, Mr. Kaj Bornebusch, of the sional secrecy of doctors and lawye!rs. In one den Lobby Disclosure Act of 1946 now in southern Swedish city of Halsingborg, was widely publicized case this spring, tax police effect. Under the old act, which the Gen­ charged With tax fraud. The case was tried went through all the files in the omce of Dr. eral Accounting Office has found to be 32050 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS September 2~, 1976 vague, ambiguous, and not enforced, 48 the American people and their free institu­ seats, Mr. Rattner pulled the victim toward percent of lobbyists' reports were found tions." shore; witnesses say it took him well over an If the people are truly to govern their own hour to do so. Both men were treated for to be incomplete, 61 percent were filed affairs, they must be able to find out what exposure after reaching camp, Q.nd the vic­ late and, in the 30 years since the bill's their public servants, elected and appointed, tim was taken to a hospital for observation. enactment, there has been only one suc­ are doing in their name, with their money Without doubt, the heroic and persistent cessful prosecution of lobbying viola­ and-all too frequently-to them. The First efforts of Mr. Rottner were responsible for tions. Amendment was added to the Constitution saving the victim from death by drowning. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to so that the people would always have the This meritorious action exemplifies the join me in supporting this long-awaited means to govern intelligently. highest ideals of the concern of one human reform legislation. In addition to open­ As a generality, secrecy in government is being for another who is in distress. an enemy of the people. It is the friend, Sincerely, ing up the governmental process to full usually, of incompetence, corruption, and GEORGE M. ELSEY. public view, the passage of H.R. 15 can chicanery. Daniel Schorr understands this hopefully restore public confidence in even if too many congressmen, legislators and our Government and in its leaders. judges don't. The American people, or the vast majority of them, anyway, understand it, too, and would be inclined to deal harsh­ 4-H-ROOM TO GROW ly at the polls in November with any House member voting to cite Schorr for contempt HON. WILLIAM H. NATCHER MAKE NO LAW of Congress. OF KENTUCKY HON. DON EDWARDS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA Wednesday, September 22, 1976 TRffiUTE TO ROBERT ROTI'NER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Speaker, the 4-H Wednesday, September 22, 1976 clubs throughout the country are look­ ing forward to beginning another en­ Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. HON. ROBERT C. McEWEN OF NEW YORK thusiastic year of activity with their Na­ Speaker, on Wednesday, September 15, tional 4-H Week of October 3 to Octo­ the House Ethics Committee conducted IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ber 9. I once again consider it a pleasure an investigation of great importance to Wednesday, September 22, 1976 and an honor to salute them as they be­ Americans concerned with the applica­ Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, I have gin this year with their national theme tion of the first amendment to the Con­ of "Room To Grow." This theme cer­ stitution. The San Jose Mercury pub­ recently learned of the heroic act of one of my constituents, Mr. Robert Rottner tainly reflects their development over lished this perceptive editorial which I the years into a unique organization commend to the attention of my col­ of Paul Smiths, N.Y., in rescuing a person in danger of drowning in the Lower St. openly responding to our everchanging leagues: world. The 4-H Clubs of America have MAKE No LAW Regis Lake in my district. Mr. Rottner's courage and selfless­ expanded their emphasis of early years The intent of the First Amendment to the as a rural and agriculturally oriented Constitution is as clear as its language, ness deserve recognition by us all. I re­ which says, "Congress shall make no law" ceived the following letter from the group to encompass the many different abridging the freedom of the press. American National Red Cross detailing ways of life in our country today. In In the United States an individual can be Mr. Rottner's ordeal on June 1. Anyone farms, towns, suburbs, and central cities, deprived of his life, liberty or property only who is familiar with water temperatures 4-H attracts youth from all racial, cul­ in accordance with the due process of law. in northern New York in late spring tural, economic, and social backgrounds. It is, therefore, reprehensible and probably Projects vary from food nutrition, cloth­ unconstitutional as well for the Ethics Com­ would doubly appreciate Mr. Rottner's heroic act, and his strength and per­ ing, livestock, crops, and health, to aero­ mittee of the House of Representatives to space, theatrics, geology, and karate. threaten television reporter Daniel Schorr sistence in rescuing the would-be victim. with a contempt of Congress citation which The letter follows: Special programs include firefighting could send him to jail or cost him a heavy THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS, training, environmental improvement, fine. Washington, D.C., August 24, 1976. and energy conservation, programs to Schorr re.fuses, and quite properly so, to Han. ROBERT C. McEWEN, combat juvenile delinquency, and com­ tell the committee who gave him a copy of a Rayburn House Office Building, munity projects such as working with secret House report on u.s. inte111gence ac­ Washington, D.C. the handicapped and providing con­ tivities. Schorr subsequently passed along the DEAR MR. McEWEN: Once again I write to sumer product information. report to a New York newspaper, the V1llage call your attention to a noteworthy act of While the projects in which 4-H'ers Voice, which published portions of it. mercy undertaken by one of your constitu­ participa'te are as many and varied as The report itself was hardly earth-shat­ ents. In this instance Mr. Robert Rattner, tering, but that is neither here nor there. their backgrounds and interests, the em­ The point is Daniel Schorr was exercising Heron Lane, Paul Smiths, New York 12970, phasis is placed on personal growth and his constitutional right to find the news and has been named to receive the Red Cross the development of social and leadership make it available for publication. Congress Certificate of Merit and accompanying pin. responsibility which will enable our now threatens to punish him for this because You wm recall this is the highest award given by the American National Red Cross to a youth to better cope with a more com­ he won't tell which member of Congress or plex life later on. which person on a congressional staff slipped person who saves or sustains a life by using skills and knowledge learned in a volunteer 4-H has certainly demonstrated its him the report in the first place. If Congre:.~s persists in this folly it will, in effect, be training program offered by the Red Cross potential for growth as it has expanded "making a law" that abridges Schorr's free­ in first aid, small craft or water safety. The its membership to over 4 million youths. dom of the press, and that the First Amend­ Certificate bears the original signatures of This continual expansion is in my opin­ ment flatly forbids. the President of the United States, Honorary ion due to the flexibility of 4-H as an In his testimony Wednesday before the Chairman, and Frank Stan!;on, Chairman of organization readily adjustable to today's House Ethics Committee (a singularly mis­ the American National Red Cross. Presenta­ community and national needs. The out­ named body}, Schorr demonstrated a deeper tion of the award wm be arranged by the understanding of the Constitution than that Saranac Lake-Lake Placid Chapter of the standing contributions of volunteer lead­ exhibited by the committee or its chairman, American National Red Cross, Saranac Lake. ers and professional extension agents Rep. John J. Flynt (D-Ga). The First Amend­ On June 1, 1976, Mr. Rattner, trained in who offer their time and energy in en­ ment is designed, in the final analysis, to Red Cross advanced first aid, was in a camp thusiastic participation and leadership protect the American people. As Schorr put near the shore of Lower St. Regis Lake on are vital factors in the growth of 4-H it: the campus of Paul Smith's College, when and, I am sure, will continue to be an "In some 40 years of practicing journalism, his wife spotted a canoe tip over on the lake. inspiration of community spirit to us all. I have never yielded to a demand for the As no rescue craft was available, Mr. Rottner I am very proud of our Kentucky disclosing of a source I had promised to pro­ grabbed some flotation seats from the boat­ tect. I cannot do so now. house and swam toward the canoeist, who 4-H'ers as they have consistently demon­ "To betray a confidential source would had lost his glasses and was floundering to­ strated their resourcefulness and eager­ mean to dry up many future sources for ward the center of the lake, away from the ness to become involved in all that sur­ many future reporters. The reporters and overturned canoe. After a long interval in the rounds them. In this year alone the the news organizations would be the im­ ch111ing water, Mr. Rottner finally reached Kentucky 4-H membership has grown by mediate losers. The ultimate losers would be the frantic swimmer. Using the flotation over 4,000 to a total of 161,743 4-H'ers. September 2'2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 32051 These young people are already active other veteran group can get to some of these I think it is just a wee bit hypocritical and concerned citizens of Kentucky. callers and give them some help." for a Presidential candidate to go around The coalition also helps NAB conduct its castigating tax laws that he uses to his They will, I am sure, continue to develop Veterans Employment Seminar Program. and establish higher goals as they learn The Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of own advantage, and downright dema­ by doing through the 4-H program. Foreign Wars and Massachusetts Elks have gogic to try to blame them on the mi­ The focus this year is on growing. sponsored, along with the Alliance, six semi­ nority, when the Democrats wrote them Mr. Speaker, I have no doubt that our nars since the program began. The diversity all into the book. 4-H'ers will grow in all respects by meet­ of participating sponsors provides vets with I would remind him of Matthew VII, ing new challenges and grasping new a broader spectrum of Information. Greene verse 3: "And why beholdest thou the opportunities. I offer my congratulations adds that either Charles Sweeney, regional mote that is in thy brother's eye, but and best wishes for continued success in chief of veteran services at the VA, or his considerest not the beam that is in thine personal representative has attended each own eye?" the future to an organization so worthy VESP. of our pride and our respect. In between VESPs, Greene says that the partnership concentrates on "special need vets-the ones who need an extra boost up CHIEF COUNSEL GREGORY NICOSIA the ladder." Special need veterans can go to OF HOUSE RULES COMMI'ITEE JOB POSSIBILITIES FOR NATION'S any of the partners, according to Greene, VETERANS and get information on how to apply for a job, what is available, or where to go to get HON. CLAUDE PEPPER extra help. One group of special need vet­ OF FLORmA HON. JOE MOAKLEY erans, alcoholics, benefit from mini-VESPs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MASSACHUSETTS which Greene holds in conjunction with the Statewide Veterans Administration Center Wednesday, September 22, 1976 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for Alcoholics. Greene, who is himself a dis­ Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I am en­ Wednesday, September 22, 1976 abled veteran, reaches disabled veterans and veterans with psychiatric problems thanks closing an article that appeared in the Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, in this to the cooperation of Boston area VA Torrance, Calif., Daily Breeze on Au­ month's issue of Jobs for Veterans Re­ hospitals. gust 31, 1976, about the function of the port, published by the National Alliance Veterans aren't the only ones that the House Rules Committee and its chief of Businessmen, there appeared a most coordinated veterans effort is helping, says counsel, Gregory Nicosia. The article dis­ interesting article on the efforts of Mr. Greene. Employers who wish to hire veterans cusses the role and importance of the don't have to worry about contacting the Jim Greene, of Boston, on increasing job wrong agency, according to Greene. If they Rules Committee in the House. It gives possibilities for our Nation's veterans. I call an agency that isn't directly able to find insight into the power of the Rules Com­ believe this article will be of great inter­ the right applicant, that organization will mittee and tells how vital this committee est to my colleagues: contact the partner who can be of most help. is to the legislative process in the House. "FAMn.Y FEELING" WORKS BEST· FOR VETS In this way, says Greene, employers can feel The article compliments Gregory Ni­ When JFV Manager Jim Greene first came sure that they are getting the best employee cosia for the fine job he has done in his to the Boston metro in 1974, he asked Re­ for their needs in the most efficient way 4 years with the Rules Committee. I have gional Veteran Employment Representative possible. Jim Greene describes the results of "this seen firsthand Greg's dedication to the Jim Ferguson for advice in setting up a pro­ Rules Comm.ittee. He is a hard-working gram. Ferguson suggested that his key to suc­ family feeling" among veteran groups and cess would be to work with other local vet­ agencies as a miracle. "All of this unity," and knowledgeable counsel, and I am eran agencies and groups. Greene put Fer­ Greene says "means that no Boston veteran pleased to insert this article in the guson's words into action and says he iS ever has to be in doubt about what help is RECORD: happy he did. available to him or about what benefits he RULES COMMITTEE POWER Is CRUCIAL is entitled to." "There is strength in numbers," says (By Ed Segal) Greene, adding that his partnership with Boston's veteran groups is reaching more WASHINGTON.-One of the most important veterans and employers and is getting more and infiuential parts of the federal govern­ media exposure than any individual group ment is one of the least known or under­ could do alone. JIMMY CARTER AND HIS STAND ON stood. Greene cites his recent contact with radio TAXES In fact, more people today know how the station WRKO. As part of a publicity cam­ Central Intelligence Agency works than they paign, Greene sent the station a veterans ad. do about one of the most crucial committees He didn't hear from the station, so he was in Congress, the rules committee in the HON. JOHN J. RHODES House of Representatives. surprised when a deluge of man started OF ARIZONA coming in from listeners who had heard the None of the 21 other committees in the spot on WRKO. Greene phoned news dii"ec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES House carry the same weight or responsibil­ tor Roger Allan to thank him for the ex­ Wednesday, September 22, 1976 ity of infiuencing the fate of a piece of leg­ posure and to tell him about the good re­ islation-be it an impeachment inquiry, elec­ sponse the ad. received. During the conver­ Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, there tion laws or a declaration of war. sation, Allan asked Greene to speak on the seems to be some kind of misunderstand­ The House Rules Committee is a traffic station's major public affairs prog·ram. ing about Jimmy Carter and his stand cop, deciding when, if and under what con­ "I chose as a theme, veterans organiza­ on taxes. It has been reported to me that ditions legislation wm reach the fioor for tions and their contributions to the Alli­ considers. tion. ance," Greene says. "We got a really good at a recent gathering someone was com­ It is rare indeed that a measure gets to response, both from veterans wanting bene­ menting on the candidates speaking the House without first getting the go-ahead fit information and from employers inter­ styles and said that Mr. Carter's syntax of the rules committee. ested in hiring veterans." He adds that the was lacking. One old codger there There is an automatic three-day lapse be­ program led Allan to ask Greene to give jumped up and assured the group that tween the time a measure is reported out of weekly talks on the history and function of Mr. Carter would take care of that tax a committee, however, and the first available Boston veteran organizations. Allan was so after he was elected. day when lt may be brought up on the fioor of the House. - Impressed with NAB from his contact with Since the near-millionaire goober Greene, that he agreed to join the Alliance's This provision can only be dispensed with Business Advisory Board. grower has declared war on the incomes when the rules committee recommends such The partners in Boston's Jobs for Vet­ of America's working men and women­ an action and the House votes on it. This erans program hold frequent meetings to dis­ if they make more than the median in­ delaying provision usually assures enough cuss veterans' problems and map out strat­ come of around $14,000, I think the time so that copies of the legislation may be egy for solving them. As a result, according American people should take a look at printed and distributed to members. to Greene, each agency and group in the Mr. Carter's own taxes. Greg Nicosia is the chief counsel to the partnership has information and material at Last year he paid $16,072 on an in­ rules committee. He is 28, the youngest per­ hand to deal with any question that a vet­ son ever to direct a committee of this size eran might have. come of $136,139, or less than 12 percent. How did this great tax reformer get off and importance. "The computer at the Veterans Adminis­ His position is a testimony to his talents tration shows that an average of 1300 calls so lightly? Why, he used one of those and skills and evidence of the opportunity are not completed each day at the agency, nasty tax loopholes that he is so vehe­ for advancement that is available to staff because the callers get frustrated before they mently against today. He lowered his tax­ people on the H111. . get through," Greene says. "Now that we able income because he invested in a After graduating from the Indiana Uni­ know what each other is doing, NAB or an- peanut sheller. versity School of Law at Indianapolis, he 32052 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2'2, 1976 served on the committee staff, first as a re­ being satisfied by this resolution. More than adult men, these secondary income search assistant and then as majority coun­ can be done. For example, there is a bill earners may remain unemployed longer sel. which would allow an exemption to vol­ than primary income earners. Therefore, Today, as chief counsel, Mr. Nicosia has the task of keeping in touch with the 11 unteer firefighters from paying the Fed­ the current unemployment rate does not Democrats and five Republicans who sit on e.ral excise taxes on gasoline and fuel necessarily reflect increases in unem­ the committee. products. I cosponsored this bill and ployment due to layoffs or a slackening He assists in the drafting of summaries of would like to see it pass Congress. If reg­ of the pace of the recovery, but is legislation that wm be presented and keeps ular fire departments get these exemp­ more likely due to an increase in in constant contact with his counterparts on tions, volunteer fire departments should the labor force-defined as those em­ other committees. get them too. ployed and those seeking work within A big part of his job is scheduling when a It is highly unlikely that this bill will the last calendar month-attributable to bill, resolution or conference report will be brought up for a. "rule." be considered in this Congress. We should the response of citizens to what is per­ According to Nicosia, a. rule provides for truly honor our volunteer firefighters by ceived as increased job opportunities. consideration in the House of a bill or reso­ passing this tax exemption legislation as What remains is a matter of serious lution and allocates the number of hours of soon as possible in the new Congress. concern, not alarm. Put into realistic debate that w111 be spent on a. b111 when it This is the least we can do for them. perspective, the number of Americans is debated, whether amendments will be per­ We owe it to ourselves, and most of all with jobs stands at an all-time high with mitted to be offered to it and, if so, how we owe it to the 1 million volunteer a record 87,981,000. But the number many and what type. firefighters. seeking work keeps growing as a natural The power to give a. rule on a. bill is the power to determine if legislation might be response to increased job opportunities. altered from its original form and how much What is needed as a solution to this time members of Congress w111 have to con­ problem is a strong employment policy vince their colleagues of its merits or faults. DEALING WITH UNEMPLOYMENT: which will acommodate all those looking And this is the crux of the deliberative side A CASE FOR THE JOBS CREATION for work. of the legislative process--convincing other ACT JOBS AND INVESTMENT congressmen that a. measure should be passed What should be the content of such a or defeated. policy? The rules committee has assumed different HON. NORMAN F. LENT How best can we create the jobs we degrees of importance throughout the his­ OF NEW YORK tory of Congress. need to accommodate those who wish to In its early years, the panel met only IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES work? briefly at the start of a. session and quickly Wednesday, September 22, 1976 Economists have long recognized that issued rules for b1lls that were expected to in order for a society to grow and pros­ be introduced. Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, unemploy­ per, and to create new jobs, it has to But from about 1945 to 1966, a. combina­ ment is a serious issue facing policy­ accumulate capital and channel it into tion of factors caused the committee to makers and the American public as the productive investment. In other words, cease to be an arm of the leadership of Con­ economy recovers from one of the most a society must consume somewhBit less gress and it took on a life of its own. severe recessions in recent history. De­ than it produces and use its savings to Speakers of the House acquired more spite the strong rate of growth for the make the expensive tools, buildings, fac­ power. Political balances in Congress and overall economy, the cooling of inflation­ the committee shifted. tories, trucks, tractors, houses, airplanes An unlikely coalition of Southern Demo­ ary trends, and figures showing that and machines that people use to increase crats and Republicans came together to pre­ more Americans are now employed than their productivity. The main source of vent controversial or important bills from ever before, the unemployment rate re­ our Nation's prosperity has been not only ever reaching the floor. mains stubbornly above 7 percent. its willingness, but more important, its From the late 60s to the early 70s, the com­ The Bureau of Labor Statistics figures ability to save and produce productive mittee began drifting back to its traditional for August show that unemployment capital. role as the arm of the majority party. The stands at 7.9 percent nationwide. While Since 1960, however, the United St8ites change came as the composition of the this represents an increase in unem­ has had the lowest level of capital invest­ House shifted with the defeat or death of ployment over the July rate of 7.8 per­ its members and new polltica.l pressures ment among the major industrialized came to bear on the rules panel. cent, it does not describe the real situa­ nations. Japan's investment rate and tion. Who is unemployed is the question productivity growth rate have been triple which must be answered. our own. The rates in Germany, France, Breaking the total figure down, the and Canada, for instance, are all sub­ NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIREMEN BLS estimates the jobless rate for adult stantially higher than ours. All of these WEEK men at 5.9 percent for August, a decrease nations give more favorable tax treat­ from the July rate of 6.1 percent, while ment to capital investment than do we. that of adult women stands at 7.7 per­ Productive investment is the keystone HON. MAX S. BAUCUS cent, an increase over the July figure of of our productivity. If through continued OF MONTANA 7.6 percent. The unemployment rate for underinvestment, we lose the ability to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES teenagers remains high at 19.7 percent. compete effectively with other indus­ Wednesday, September 22, 1976 These figures represent the normal trend trialized nations, we will suffer further in unemployment. That is, the unem­ loss of markets and jobs to competitor Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. Speaker, I would ployment rate for women and teenagers countries and a decline in our world like to say a few words in support of this is generally higher than that of adult political, economic and military position. resolution honoring our volunteer fire­ men, regardless of the business cycle. While many of our foreign competi­ fighters. Traditional economic theory provides tors have been increasing their capital Ninety percent of the State of Mon­ an explanation for the observed differ­ investment per worker, since 1967 the tana is protected by volunteer fire de­ ences. Women and teenagers have gen­ U.S. capital investment per worker has partments. My district in western Mon­ erally fallen into the category of sec­ actually decreased. tana alone has over 4,500 firefighters en­ ondary income earners. One character­ This decrease in investment means compassing 150 fire districts. istic of many secondary income earners that capital becomes less abundant rela­ I wholeheartedly support honoring our is the ability to choose whether or not tive to labor which, in turn, causes a volunteer firefighters because they can to enter the labor force. decline in the productivity of labor. This be considered the last line of defense in As the recovery moves forward, the causes a lower real wage rate which then fire prevention. They risk their lives demand for workers increases and wage results in a decline in real econom1c daily, and for nothing more than the levels rise. Thus, more and more second­ growth, thus reducing new job forma­ knowledge that what they do saves lives ary income earners are drawn into the tion. In other words, without increased and protects property. labor force. But, because women and capital formation, productivity will be However, we should not consider the teenagers in general display less-con­ stifled, real economic growth will cll­ need to support volunteer firefighters as tinuous participation in the labor force minish, and fewer jobs will be created. September 2~, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32053 INVESTMENT AND INFLATION union wage-Davis-Bacon-level for the The exclusion of dividends from do­ During 1973 and the early part of 1974, particular occupation. mestic · corporations from gross income; the U.S. economy suffered major short­ As much as one would hope to see an The permanent reduction in both the ages in many basic industries including unemployment level of no greater than 3 normal corporate tax rate and in the chemicals, steel, paper, and fertilizer. percent, unfortunately the Humphrey­ corporate surtax; These shortages aggravated inflationary Hawkins bill will not only fail to achieve An increase in the corporate surtax pressures and hindered economic growth. this objective, but on the contrary, will exemption; This lack of sufficient industrial capacity cause excessive rates of inflation and An increase in the investment tax was a result of inadequate prior invest­ even greater unemployment. My reason­ credit; and ment, which caused the capital shortage ing is this: for the government to be­ The provision of new alternative cost in the affected industries. It is predicted come the employer of last resort, it will recovery allowances and extension of the that in approximately 1 year, we will have to spend many additional billions asset depreciation range. again face many of these same problems of dollars. These dollars can only come A major econometric study undertaken as we reach the maturity stage of our from either increased taxes upon those by Dr. Norman Ture of Washington, D.C., present economic recovery. working, primarily in the private sector, simulates the effects of the economy of The Council of Economic Advisers has or greater Federal Government borrow­ the tax reduction provisions of the Jobs noted inhibiting factors which may ing. We know both from past experience Creation Act. In his study, Dr. Ture con­ cause business to fail to provide ade­ and economic theory that as an economy cluded that enactment of the provisions quate new investment to avoid future approaches full employment, inflation­ would result in a significant gain in GNP, shortages. For example, actual rates of ary pressures increase. employment, capital outlays, and Federal return on business investment have Even leading Democratic economists, revenue. lagged in recent years as a result of such such as Charles Schultz, have pointed out The causes of unemployment in Amer­ things as increased price instability, ex­ that when the economy begins to have ican society are easily identified. First, periments with wage-price controls, and an unemployment level of less than 5 structural unemployment-that is, not increased costs resulting from environ­ percent, serious inflationary pressures having the workers with the right skills ment and safety regulations. While cer­ result. If, as the economy approaches full to meet the needs of the economy. Too tain regulations may very well be de­ employment, the Government increases many of our workers are undertrained sirable, they nevertheless force business deficit spending, financing this increased or improperly trained for the tasks to require higher rates of return on in­ deficit will soak up our very limited capi­ society needs, or trained for tasks no vestment, in return reducing the number tal. What Government borrows, private longer needed. of acceptable investments. investors cannot, and to a great extent, These structural employment problems Also, price inflation has raised cor­ Government deficit spending occurs at need to be dealt with through the re­ porate taxes more than it has raised be­ the expense of private investment. This design and more effective management fore-tax returns on fixed capital. This will greatly accelerate inflation, and, at of Government job training programs. has occurred because inflation-induced the same time, reduce the rate of busi­ Also, much more needs to be done in the inventory profits have boosted the tax ness expansion, which in turn will lead forecasting of future employment needs base. to increased unemployment in the pri­ by industry and occupation. Too often, in In addition, inflation has caused the vate sector. the past, we have spent mlllions of dol­ real value of historical cost depreciation On the other hand, if this proposed lars training people for positions that allowances to decline. The increase in Government employment program is did not exist. We can and should do a corporate debt to equity ratios has par­ funded through increased taxation, better job of job training. There is a very tially resulted from the tax treatment of workers will have fewer real dollars to proper and legitimate role for Govern­ interest as a deductible expense. This spend on goods and services. If they have ment in this area. has made debt financing particularly at­ fewer real dollars to spend on goods and The other basic cause of unemploy­ tractive during inflationary periods, thus services, business will produce less, ex­ ment-that is, an insufficient rate of increasing business financing risk, and pand less rapidly, or perhaps even cur­ economic growth-can only be cured over in turn, increasing the cutoff rate of re­ tail their operations. In any case, there the long run by Government allowing turn on many new projects. will be reduced employment in the pri­ and/or providing the proper incentives The U.S. Treasury estimates that to vate sector. Hence, at best, all the Hum­ to businessmen to expand their levels of reach a full employment economy, we phrey-Hawkins bill will do is to sub­ economic activity. Specifically, we need will need to create almost 20 million new stitute Government jobs for private jobs. a much higher rate of capital formation jobs by 1985. That is 7 million more than It is widely recognized that employment than we have had in the past. This can we created in the past decade. Henry in the private sector tends to add much be accomplished through lower Govern­ Wallich, of the Federal Reserve Board, more to real national economic wealth ment deficits and eliminating the bias and others, have concluded that as are­ and productivity than that in the public in our tax laws against capital formation. sector. In addition, we need to free business sult of inadequate past investment, the of the excessive cost of over-regulation United States is already experiencing an FULL EMPLOYMENT by government in relationship to that overall shortage of capital with respect A second alternative now under con­ of the rest of the economy. Government to jobs. sideration by Congress is the Jobs Crea­ receipts and expenditures have been Under this condition there are not tion Act, which I cosponsor. The Jobs growing far faster than the private sec­ enough jobs to provide full employment Creation Act, introduced by Representa­ tor. Only through limiting the growth even when industry is operating close to tive JACK KEMP in 1975, is a meaningful of Government receipts by doing such capacity. Thus, capital capacity is not alternative to the problem of providing things as indexing our present tax sys­ great enough to employ all of those who jobs for those who want them without tem to account for inflation, are we go­ want to work. fueling inflation. The act contains anum­ ing to be able to provide those incentives What then should be the specifics of a ber of provisions designed to stimulate necessary to permit the private econ­ jobs creation policy? economic growth by providing incentives omy to move vigorously forward with JOBS AND INFLATION to businessmen to expand the numbers fewer inflationary pressures and much A number of alternative proposals of jobs they can provide by eliminating higher rates of employment. have been set forth to deal with unem­ the biases in our tax laws which now in­ Serious studies of our long-term capi­ ployment, the most publicized one being hibit business investment. tal outlook, by the Brookings Institution, the Humphrey-Hawkins bill now pend­ Some of the provisions of the act which Data Resources, Inc., the Department of ing before Congress. Humphrey-Hawkins address the tax bias directly are- Commerce, and others, all agree that mandates an adult unemployment level The institution of tax credits for in­ the demand for capital will be increas­ of no greater than 3 percent to be creased qualified savings in banks and ing at a much greater rate than we have reached by 1980. If necessary to reach other savings institutions and in stocks experienced in the recent past. By the this goal, the Federal Government would and bonds; best estimates available, the United become the employer of last resort, and The exclusion of the first $1,000 of States will ·need the incredible sum of employ people at the locally prevailing capital gains; $4.5 trillion, or $21,000 for every man, CXXII--2020-Part 25 32054 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS September 2~, 1976 woman, and child in the United States out the British strategy. At the age of and the British, fearing a public account of 21, the patriot's capture and execution would in new capital funds in the next 10 he gave his life for his country. further inflame Revolutionary sentiment, years. This is three times the $1.5 tril­ On the 200th anniversary of Nathan suppressed all details of the incident. lion of the past decade. Hale's death, the citizens of New London It would be many years before bits and The Department of Commerce has and of the State of Connecticut will pieces of the young schoolmaster's final ac­ concluded that private fixed investment gather for memorial services at the old tivities were pieced together by his own asso­ must increase from the 10.4 percent of Union School house where Hale started ciates and British troops who witnessed the the gross national product that char­ his early teaching career at the age of 19. hanging. acterized the 1965-74 period, to 12 per­ Probably the most singularly slgniflca.nt His memory should remind us all to re­ f.a,ct of the heroic end to Nathan Hale's life cent of GNP between now and 1980 spond to a call to civil duty, in whatever was his age and his accomplishments. Al­ if we are to have a capital stock suffi­ capacity it may present itself to us. As a though Hale reached his 21st year just three cient to promote full employment, con­ recent American President has expressed months before h1s death, he had lived a trol pollution, and to fully develop our so well: remark8ibly full life. domestic energy resources. It is not the position one holds, but the Born June 6, 1755 in Coventry, Hale was In the final analysis, the choice must capacity to serve one's government that one of nine sons and three daughters of be made by the American people. To should be the driving force behind our deci­ Deacon Richard Hale and Ellza.beth Strong. sions. Six of the Hale sons served in the Revolu­ this end, an informed electorate is es­ tion, three at Lexington and Concord. sential. The American economic system In this sense, Nathan Hale, a relatively Hale entered college at age 14, two years has given Americans the freedom to unknown and youthful patriot has pro­ after the death of his mother, and graduated choose the work they wish to do, to pur­ vided an inspiration for us all. from Yale in 1773 at age 18. An exceptional sue the opportunities they have found, I would like to take this opportunity, athlete and enthusiastic debater. Hale is to­ and to be as creative as they can pos­ Mr. Speaker, to share with you an article day regarded as one of Yale's most famous sibly be. • • • Hall the oldest building on Yale's New which recently appeared in the Norwich Haven campus. The economy is a complex and subtle Bulletin. system. It will work for us if we allow Statues of Hale also have been erected in NEW LONDON REMEMBERS PATRIOT-HERO New London, in memory of the young school­ it to, if we understand it and shape it NATHAN HALE master who never returned to his Union carefully. But it may turn against us (By Sue McCaslin) School classes. One likeness stands in WU­ if we tamper blindly or try to force the NEw LoNDON.-He was not a native New Uams Memorial Park on Broad Street, an­ system into molds it cannot fit. Londoner, he lived and worked in the city other on the campus of Mitchell College. The less than one year and he died far fTom the city has named two schools for its adopted Whaling City. son and a street bears his name. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD PAYS TRIB­ Yet, the patriot Nathan Hale left an in­ But the best-known tribute to Nathan UTE TO NATHAN HALE delible mark on the shoreline town from Hale is the res'l:.omtion of his Union School which he answered the call to battle and to on Captain's W.alk near the original site of which he never returned . the schoolhouse. Rededicated the Nalthan . HON. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD Considered by many historians to be among Hale Schoolhouse, the llttle one-room school OF CONNECTICUT previously had been moved around the city the nation's ~eatest patriots, Hale is best­ from one place to another untn it seemed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES remembered for his dying words, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my the old building was in danger of falling Wednesday, September 22, 1976 country." apart. Finally, in 1975, Harry F. Morse, a Nathan Mr DODD. Mr. Speaker, it is with a It is this declaration that has made Hale a hero in American history known to vir­ Hale scholar, convinced the city to allow the great' sense of pride and admiration that school to be placed permanently on a site I rise to honor the memory of the con­ tually every school child throughout the between CLty Hall and F111'st Ohurch of country. There has been great debate about Ohrist. troversial but faithful American patriot the phrase-some authorities dispute the and Connecticut son, Nathan Hale. hero's parting speech, others claim the words Morse, who is president of the Nathan Hale Two hundred years ago today, on Sep­ Chapter of the Connecticut Society, Sons of were spoken, but were not his own. the American Revolution, directed a com­ tember 22, 1776, Hale sacrificed his life However, 200 years after Nathan Hale's plete restoration of the interior and exterior at the hands of the British Army at Ar­ death, it really makes little difference what of the school by volunteers and business con­ tillery Park in Manhattan, N.Y. His he said. His place as an outstanding figure of tributors. OWned by the SAR, the school was hanging was ordered by the British, the American Revolution is more important. re-dedicated at its new site last October 4. without due process of a trial, as punish­ Hale died Sept. 22, 1776. He was hanged in The city again paid tribute to Nathan Hale ArtUlery Park at a spot where Third Avenue last June on the anniversary of his birth ment for his intelligence activities on be­ and 66th Street intersect today in Manhat­ half of the Continental Army. Today, with a Bicentennl:al program near the Wil­ tan. The circumstances leading to the Con­ liams Park statue. The birthday program one cannot avoid the conclusion that this necticut native's untimely death at the was coordinated by Lucllle M. ShowaLter, act represented a gross injustice; how­ hands of the British are sketchy and his New London historian and teacher of local ever, at the time, Nathan Hale's loyalty grave is unknown-the British were said to history, who directed a Bicentennial series, to the American cause and acceptance have left his body hanging for three days as "Know Your City's History," under the spon­ of his impending death was vividly ex­ a warning to other rebels. sorship of the Board of Education and the pressed by his dying words: Hale joined the Continental Army in April, city's Bicentennial Comml:ttees. 1775 after his classes at Union School on Members of her local History Seminar wlll I only regret that I have but one life to State Street were interrupted one day by a lose for my country. mark the 200th anniversary of Nathan Hale's post rider bringing news of the battles of death Wednesday wt.th a memorial program Beyond the controversy over his exact Lexington and Concord. He was commis­ at the schoolhouse. words or the propriety of his role as a SPY sioned a lieutenant in the Connecticut regi­ Open to the public, the program will begin in the American Revolution, Hale should ment July 1 and two months later reported at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday with a candlelight for duty with Washington's army near Bos­ procession from Eugene O'Nelll Drive and be remembered most for his undaunted ton. Early in 1776, he was promoted to cap­ State Street to the schoolhouse. response to the call of service to his tain and three months later was transferred Tbough he stayed but a few months, New country. Hale was a schoolmaster at to New York where the British Army had :fled London has remembered Nathan Hale as its Union School in New London, Conn., from Boston. own-scholar, teacher, soldier, patriot, hero. when he heard the first reports of the Sometime in late August or early Septem­ battle of Lexington and Concord. Born ber, Washington became desperate for in­ in nearby Coventry and educated at Yale, telligence and called for volunteers to spy. Hale was teaching in New London when Reportedly, no one answered the first plea­ CONGRESSMAN ALBERT W. JOHN­ Hale responded to the second. Wearing civil­ SON CARES ABOUT SENIOR CITI­ he joined the Continental Army in April ian clothes, he travelled by ferry from Nor­ 1775 and was commissioned a lieutenant walk to Huntington, L.I. and made his wa'9 ZENS in the Connecticut regiment shortly to Manhattan. thereafter. In September 1775 he re­ Nothing more is known of his activities HON. BUD SHUSTER ported for duty with Washington's army untll Sept. 20 or 21 when he was captured near Boston. The following year he was near Flushing Bay on Long Island, probably OF PENNSYLVANIA transferred to New York to defend this by the Queen's Rangers. Notes and maps IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of redcoat defenses were found on his person Wednesday, September 22, 1976 new battlefront. He traveled from Nor­ and he was taken before British Gen. Wil­ walk, Conn., to Huntington, Long Island liam Howe. Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, in the at General Washington's request to seek He was hanged without benefit of a trial years I have been 1n Congress, I have September 22, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32055 been impressed by the hard work and centers where most of the participants national law, but more importantly, find efforts of my friend and colleague, Con­ have low or moderate incomes. Con­ the actions of those American companies gressman ALBERT W. JOHNSON, on behalf gressman JoHNSON has been a strong who accede to the demands of the Arabs of our senior citizens. Earlier this year, supporter of these centers, which have to be highly reprehensible. ALBERT JOHNSON was inducted into the given new direction and meaning to the The Ribicoff tax penalty approach, Golden Age Hall of Fame as a "Guardian elderly all over this country, particularly although not acceptable, illustrates the of the Aged,'' the highest public service those who live in rural and isolated frustration of many within Congress award given by the National Alliance of areas. about the apparent lack of concern in Senior Citizens to those who have One of the greatest concerns of the the executive branch regarding this worked consistently and diligently to senior citizen today is how he would fi­ matter. It is time now for Congress to support our older Americans. nance necessary medical care in the take hold of the issue and develop a more Congressman JoHNSON recognizes that event of catastrophic illness. Recog­ legally sound and effective attack on the the most pervasive problem facing our nizing this concern, President Ford rec­ boycott. senior Americans on fixed incomes is the ommended .that Congress consider a pro­ In order to prevent American compa­ inflation caused by chronic deficit spend­ gram of catastrophic health insurance nies from acceding to boycott rules im­ ing by their Federal Government on for those covered by medicare. Mr. posed upon them by a foreign power, we many wasteful projects. Mr. JoHNSON JoHNSON endorses the President's pro­ must actively support the strengthening has consistently supported efforts to re­ gram because he believes that no elderly of the Export Administration Act by duce Government deficit spending and citizen living on a fixed income or with making it illegal for American firms to balance the budget, thereby halting the meager savings should have the worry or engage in secondary or tertiary boycotts. huge rise in the cost of living. We cheat burden of trying to finance a long illness. Hence it is in light of the upcoming the older American when we expect him Last year ALBERT JOHNSON supported House vote concerning the Export Ad­ to live on a fixed income that is con­ legislation to provide bonus payments to ministration Act amendments (H.R. stantly being reduced in purchasing recipients of social security, railroad re­ 15377) that I would like to bring to the power, while the Government shows no tirement, and supplemental security in­ attention of my colleagues the following come; he voted to increase funding for editorial which appeared in the New restraint in deficit spending. York Times on September 14: ALBERT JoHNSON has sponsored legisla­ nutritional programs for the elderly; he tion to overhaul the out-of-control food has sponsored legislation to increase the THE ARAB BOYCOTT stamp program. It has been estimated pensions of our World War I veterans The Arab boycott against Israel raises diffi­ that if we could eliminate the frauds, and their dependents, and has voted to cult political, economic, legal and moral is­ provide cost-of-living increases for these sues for the United States. The boycott is cheats, strikers, students, and other non­ repugnant. It violates American principles needy able-bodied men and women from citizens; he has also sponsored legisla­ to and laws when it requires American com­ the food stamp rolls, we could save the tion remove the earnings limitations panies, as a condition for doing business with taxpayers more than $1 billion a year, for social security recipients because he Arab countries, to discriminate against while at the same time increasing food believes that senior citizens who must American citizens because of their religion. stamps to the elderly, the disabled the work, or who want to work, should not It unfairly imposes secondary boycotts be penalized by having their earnings against American companies that hire Jew­ handicapped, and other citizens truiy in taxed away. ish employees or directors, or trade with need. This is a problem now being con­ Mr Speaker, I could discuss at length Israel. sidered by Congress. the many bills AL JoHNSON has sup­ Efforts to prevent American companies In the last Congress, AL JOHNSON, as a ported or introduced on behalf of our from acceding to boycott rules imposed upon member of the House Banking Commit­ them by a foreign power are unfortunately senior citizens, or the great amount of complicated by the fact that the United tee and now its ranking Republican, was time and effort he spends on helping sen­ instrumental in getting the Housing and States has itself engaged in secondary boy­ ior citizens with individual problems. cotts against other countries-for example, Community Development Act of 1974 en­ However, let me sum up the philosophy of for trading with Cuba. Such extraterritor­ acted into law. This law provides Federal Congressman JoHNSON. He believes that iality is a threat to liberal trade and Lnvest­ subsidies for the construction of public our senior citizens should be accorded ment, to the rights of innocent people in housing facilities for use by low- and dignity in their harvest years, the dig­ other countries, to the sovereignty of other moderate-income elderly citizens. The nity for which they have worked so hard nations, and to peace itself. 23d Congressional District can now boast in making this country great. In return All of this makes more difficult, but no of having at le,ast 8 senior citizen hous.­ less relevant, the question whether the ing projects finished or under con­ for that hard work, our senior citizens United States can effectively prevent its own should be provided a comfortable stand­ businesses from yielding to Arab pressures struction, and AL JoHNSON is currently ard of living free of burdens. that abridge the rights of other American working on obtaining more such projects More importantly, Mr. Speaker, AL citizens and companies. The route taken by in his 11-county district. JOHNSON believes that the greatness of Senator Ribicoff in amending the pending Last year, we had many complaints a nation depends on how that nation omnibus ta.x b111 with a requirement to im­ from our senior citizens who found it de­ treats its elderly, and in this regard, his pose tax penalties on companies that par­ meaning to take a means test in order to ticipate in secondarY:: or tertiary boycotts efforts are devoted to seeing that this seems to us the wrong solution. Using the receive services provided by community Nation is recorded in the history books senior citizen centers, and they asked tax code as a punitive device establishes a as the greatest in according its senior dangerous precedent. The tax laws are not that the means test be suspended. Con­ citizens dignity and respect. intended to be part of the law-enforcement gress asked the Department of Health, system; their purpose is to provide revenues Education, and Welfare to study the and to improve the economy's stab111ty and means test and report back to Congress growth. this spring. In the interim, the means THE ARAB BOYCOTT Although certain types of activities are en­ test was suspended for those citizens couraged by the tax law (as through the in­ given group eligibility status by their vestment tax credit), stretching that prin­ States. The State of Pennsylvania gave HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL ciple into a new system to punish corpora­ tions or individuals for alleged misdeeds is a this status only to those citizens in urban OF NEW YORK questionable course. Under the Ribico1f areas, ,thus discriminating against the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES amendment, moreover, determination of guilt elderly in rural areas and angering those Wednesday, September 22, 1976 would be made by the Secretary of the Treas­ of us who represent rural Pennsylvania. ury "or his delegate." Such powers, if granted HEW reported to Congress this past Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, the Arab to an agency adm1nistrator, might be em­ spring that they did not have the statu­ boycott against Israel has resulted in a ployed arbitrarily, especially 1n dealing with tory authority to make changes in the great deal of concern on the part of such complex questions as whether a firm means test. did or did not participate in a secondary or many Members of Congress. As the edi­ tertiary boycott. Therefore, Congress enacted legisla­ torial below highlights, there are efforts Unfortunately, the Riblcoff amendment tion strongly supported by AL JoHNSON being made to thwart the boycott. Many has now been embedded in the tax bill and signed into law by President Ford of my colleagues find these tactics which adopted by the House-Senate conference whereby States are given the power to the Arab nations are seeking to employ committee, and the President may have no eliminate means tests for senior citizen to be contrary to the principles of inter- choice but to accept it or risk kllling the tax 32056 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1976 bill and endangering the economic recovery. health. However, the people directly af­ ference report to H.R. 12987, Emergency over the coming months, however, Congress fected by these hazards have no voice in Jobs Programs Extension Act of 1976. and the President should develop a more ef­ the decisionmaking process which con­ fective and legally sound attack on the tracts for the construction of such a boycott. facility. The antitrust laws, the civil rights laws Public reaction to the location of stor­ NATIONAL OCEAN INDUSTRIES and the banking and security laws give the ADVERTISEMENT: DISTORTIONS United States Government the means of age sites within their States has been curbing conspiracies and discriminatory highly negative. In Lyons, Kans., and AND MISINFORMATION practices by American companies that co­ Alpena, Mich., the public strongly pro­ operate with the Arab boycott. Enforcement tested ERDA's proposal to locate per­ of those laws would do much to stiffen the manent radioactive waste disposal sites HON. JOHN M. MURPHY resistance of American firms to foreign eco­ in their regions. Yet, with no recourse, OF NEW YORK nomic blackmail. The Government has re­ the States will have to accept ERDA's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cently stepped up its actions to penalize firms that violate American laws in response to decision. Wednesday, September 22, 1976 the Arab boycott. This may sig.nal a welcome Our bill, Mr. Speaker, seeks to give change from past attitudes when, as a report the States that recourse. This legislation Mr. MURPHY of New York. Mr. by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and requires ERDA to publicly notify the Speaker, this morning's Washington Post Investigations shows, the U.S. Commerce De­ presiding officers of the State legislature carried a full-page advertisement by the partment actually helped and encouraged of ERDA's decisions to explore a site in Na·tional Ocean Industries Association American firms to uphold the Arab boycott that State for the purpose of the con­ urging the Congress to delay until next and winked at violations of the disclosure struction of a radioactive waste storage January its consideration of S. 521, a bill requirements of the Export Administration facility. Furthermore, in those instances to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Act, intended by Congress to fight the boy­ Lands Act of 1953. The plea comes at the cott. Secretary Elliot Richardson insists that where a State legislature has stated under his administration such conduct has through legislative action their objection 12th hour, and carries a tone of crisis. ceased. to the location, ERDA shall not contract If S. 521 is passed, it says, the Nation's Congress nevertheless should strengthen for the construction of a nuclear waste energy crisis will be prolonged, and many the Export Administration Act by making it storage facility. of the association's members will be illegal for American firms to engage in sec­ Given the hazards associated with driven into bankruptcy. These are old ondary or tertiary boycotts. The threat of these facilities, it is imperative that the arguments, almost worn out from over­ economic reprisal by the Arabs cannot be use, and are totally without merit. accepted as a basis for permitting American Congress give the States, whose popula­ firms to submit to odious terms that violate tion and environment is directly affected I want to emphasize at the outset that the rights and interests of other Americans, by the placement of a nuclear waste stor­ S. 521 is the result of a long, thoughtful or abridge this nation's sovereign powers. age facility, the authority to veto ERDA's process in which every conceivable argu­ decision. ment for and against the provisions of The bill follows: the bill has been carefully considered, A bill to amend section 107 of the Energy debated and voted upon. In the House, Reorganization Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5817) for example, the Ad Hoc Select Commit­ RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE to delegate power to state legislatures to tee on the Outer Continental Shelf con­ veto Energy Research and Development Ad­ sidered almost 200 amendments; and on HON. BOB CARR ministration site selection for radioactive the floor, the full House looked at more waste storage OF MICHIGAN than 80 amendments. A majority of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES recommendations submitted by the ad­ Representatives of the United States of ministration were incorporated. A con­ Wednesday, September 22, 1976 America in Congress assembled, That section 107 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 ference committee of the Senate and Mr. CARR. Mr. Speaker, today Mr. (42 u.s.a. 5817) is amended by adding the House has now met and resolved their RuPPE and I are introducing legislation following new subsection. differences over S. 521, and the bill that which seeks to delegate to the States the "(g) (1) The Energy Research and Develop­ has emerged from the conference will authority to veto ERDA's decisions re­ ment Administration must publicly notify go to the two bodies in the next few days. garding the location of radioactive waste the presiding officers of the state legislature It is at this juncture, almost 2 years af­ storage facilities. of its intent to explore a site in that state ter the legislative process was com­ Some 75 million gallons of high-level for the purpose of construction of a radio­ menced, that the association cries havoc. active waste storage facil1ty. What does the advertisement say? It radioactive waste and 51 cubic feet of "(2) The Energy Research and Develop­ low-level waste are now being stored at ment Administration shall not permit con­ claims that S. 521, by adding new reg­ nine facilities in this country. At no time tracting !or construction of a radioactive ulatory measures to the present statu­ prior to the construction of these facil­ waste storage facility at a site in a state tory regime for OCS oil and gas devel­ ities were the local or state representa­ where the state legislature by concurrent opment, will crank in a delay of at least tives advised of the construction. Given resolution states that that site shall not be 2 years in getting OCS oil and gas out of the hazards we know to be associated used for such purpose. the Continental Shelf. And this, alleges with radioactive waste, it appears to me the association, will ruin its member to be haphazard that those people direct­ companies and make the United States ly affected by the dumping of nuclear even more dependent on foreign oil. The waste would not be advised of this deci­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION allegation is ridiculous, because the sion. premise is ridiculous. The fact is that As noted by Dr. Mason Willrich, visit­ the new regulatory requirements that ing professor of nuclear engineering at HON. RON PAUL S. 521 will establish replace old ones, MIT, a major radioactive waste problem OF TEXAS and do not add new steps, and will not already exists with the present facilities. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES create delay. If the Department of the The escape of material into the air and Interior does its job efficiently, it can water of the Earth from these disposal Wednesday, September 22, 1976 concurrently accommodate them all sites constitutes a major health hazard Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, on Septem­ within the present time periods. for hundreds of thousands, if not mil­ ber 17, I was unable to vote on the fol­ What the association does not tell us lions of years. Plutonium-239 for ex­ lowing bUls. Had I been here, this is how in its advertisement is that the present ample, has a half-life of 25,000 years, I would have voted: OCS Lands Act is archaic and inade­ which from the perspective of human Rollcall No. 749-"Aye" on H.R. 15069, quate in today's world. First, the current history, can be considered infinite. National Forest Management Act of leasing system, which is based on cash As we all know, the harmful effects of 1976. bonus bidding, is no longer working well, radiation could be immediate death, Rollcall No. 750-"Nay" on the con­ because there 1s too much risk of uncer­ shortened lifespan, radiation induced ference report to H.R. 15194, Public tainty and a shortage of capital. The genetic changes which could effect subse­ Works appropriation. result is that the oil companies are bid­ quent generations, or temporary ill Rollcall No. 751-"Nay" on the con- ding on fewer tracts than they would September 2:2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 32057 otherwise, which will mean considerably the U.S. House of Representatives to a REVOLUTIONARY TERRORISM-OR less oil 5 years from now; the major Bicentennial event of great significance WHY LAW ENFORCEMENT companies are predominating in lease in my 13th Congressional District, the SHOULD MONITOR SO-CALLED sales; and the economic goal of finding 125th anniversary of St. Mary's Roman PEACE GROUPS a proper balance between a fair profit Catholic parish in Elgin, Til. to the companies and a fair return to The original church, known as the the Federal Government as the owner Church of the Immaculate Conception, HON. LARRY McDONALD of OCS lands cannot be achieved. was completed in 1851, 11 years after the OF GEORGIA Second, State governments, local com­ founding of Elgin and 5 years after IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES munities, environmental organizations, Abraham Lincoln's first election to the Wednesday, September 22, 1976 and others with an affected interest do House. It was made of cobblestone and Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, on not have a statutory right to participate built mainly through the contributions in the Federal decisionmaking process September 15, 1976, Susan Saxe, 27, went of its parishioners-Irish immigrants and on trial in Boston on murder charges with regard to the development of OCS railroad construction workers. For years · oil and gas. The result is that disaffected stemming from a bank robbery on Sep­ St. Mary's remained the only Catholic tember 23, 1970, during which Officer States and organizations are taking every church in the area, and in 1880, it was legal measure they can to halt lease sales Walter A. Schroeder was shot to death. pioneered parochial education in Elgin Three men involved in the robbery, and to prevent offshore oil from coming with the opening of St. Mary's Academy. ashore within their borders. reportedly committed to finance revolu­ Third, the current statutory regime is The present church was begun in 1896 tionary terrorist "armed struggle" as inadequate in dealing with the protection and completed in 1901, the parish's 50th recommended by Lenin and Marlghella, of the environment, as demonstrated by year. Recent remodeling, which has made were quickly captured. One of them, the enthusiastic support of S. 521 by St. Mary's one of the most beautiful Robert Valeri, turned State's evidence every major environmental organization. churches in my congressional district, helping convict William A. Gilday and Fourth, it is also inadequate in deal­ coincides with both the Bicentennial and Stanley Bond, and received a reduced ing with the safety of the worker. Nu­ the parish's 125th anniversary, St. sentence. Bond later accidentally killed merous deaths and serious injuries have Mary's will be formally rededicated at a himself while making a bomb in Walpole occurred under the present system. The special afternoon Mass led by the Rt. Prison. workers have rightfully demanded, and Rev. Arthur J. O'Neill, bishop of the Two women who were active in the enthusiastically supported, the protec­ diocese of Rockford, on October 10. I am anti-Vietnam movement at Brandeis tions in S. 521. pleased that I will be participating in a University, Catherine Ann Power and S. 521 is a moderate attempt to reform dinner celebrating that event at the Susan Saxe, who had become involved a 23-year-old law, and has the support gracious invitation of Pastor Robert F. with the men on a special prison release of not only environmentalists and most study program at the university, were coastal States, and the unions, but also Cell. Other participants will include Father John Kavcak, associate pastor, sought as participants in the robbery and of almost all of the gas distributors murder. They became fugitives, and were throughout the United States and many Brother Ralph Carpenter, and my long­ placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" of the smaller refiners and oil companies. time friend Eugene Devitt, a St. Mary's list. Saxe was arrested in Philadelphia In fact, opposition to the bill can be iso­ parishioner. I might add, Mr. Speaker, in March 1975. Power remains on the lated to the seven large oil companies, that Father Cell and his parish have re­ wanted list. their industry representative, the Ameri­ ceived the congratulations of President Saxe pled guilty to a Philadelphia. can Petroleum Institute, and NOIA, Gerald Ford. bank robbery and to the theft of am­ which was originally set up by Exxon to Mr. Speaker, we have spoken often in munition and a truck from a New­ act as an additional lobbying agent in this Bicentennial year about the legacies buryport, Mass., National Guard Ar­ its behalf. of the American Revolution. Certainly mory which both took place in 1970. As I have said on many occasions be­ one characteristic of the Revolutionary tn exchange for her June 1975, guilty fore, S. 521, if it is passed by the Con­ movement, and of the FOunding Fathers plea, Saxe was given assurances by Fed­ gress and signed into law, will be one of themselves, was their profound spiritual­ eral prosecutors that she would not be the most significant achievements of the ity. They envisioned a nation of virtuous required to testify about those who had 94th Congress. It is a comprehensive bill men and women, ordained by God and harbored her and Power in the radical that would promote the swift, orderly, dedicated to do His will, as they could underground. Sentencing on those of­ and efficient exploration and production best perceive it, in this world. fenses has been postponed until after of oil and gas on the Outer Continental her murder trial. Shelf; secure a fair return to the Federal Americans have relied on the wisdom Government for the lease of Federal derived from religion, and also on the As Saxe's trial opened in Boston, WIN lands while enabling the oil industry to solace and comfort it provides. We have magazine, the weekly magazine of the earn a reasonable profit; provide the been rightly known as an innovative militant pacifist War Resisters League­ necessary framework for the protection people, but we have relied heavily on con­ WRL-published a five-page article in of the marine and coastal environment; tinuity and tradition. support of Saxe by "Shoshana Rihn," mandate meaningful participation in Social and religious institutions like who is actually Patricia Swinton, a for­ OCS decisions by State and local govern­ St. Mary's Church help provide that mer fugitive in the underground. ments; and enhance the safety of off­ needed continuity. Residents of Elgin's Swinton and Jane Alpert were fugitives shore working conditions. S. 521 repre­ for nearly 5 years on bomb conspiracy East Side and South Elgin know that charges. Sam Melville pled guilty to sents 2 solid years of legislative work to their church has been alive since before bring the Outer Continental Shelf Lands bombing charges; he died during the the Civil War, and that it will serve their Attica Prison riot in 1971. Another man, Act into the modern world so that it may grandchildren and great-grandchildren serve the best interest of the American David Hughey, also was convicted. Jane people. with the same principles that they have Aloert surrendered in 1974 and pled learned and cherished. An institution so guilty to reduced charges. Swinton was important and so dependable in such a captured, tried and acquitted in 1975. !25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED rapidly changing world provides a valua­ Now of Guilford, Vt., she is active with BY ST. MARY'S PARISH, ELGIN, ILL. ble respite from the tensions of modem the Brattleboro chapter of the Weather life, and makes a tangible and significant Underground's Prairie Fire Organizing HON. ROBERT McCLORY contribution to the lives of its parish­ Committee. On July 25 she led a violent ioners-and provides an influence for demonstration and attempted assault on OF n.LINOIS Secretary of State Henry Kissinger 1n good on the entire community. Newfane, Vt. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, it is indeed a pleasure to Wednesday, September 22, 1976 Rhin/Swinton's WIN article, "Why salute Father Cell, the clergy, and pa­ We Should Defend Susan Saxe," at­ Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to rishioners of St. Mary's Catholic Church tempts to excuse Saxe's alleged involve­ draw the attention of the Members of on their 125th anniversary. ment in the Boston murder and bank 32058 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS September 2'2, 1976 present rank following her victory in the ing homes. The latter comprise less than half robbery by attacking the existence of the nursing home universe and of course, ex­ banks in general: national rifle matches. clude the home health care field entirely. Banks • • • epitomize what capitalism is Sgt. Jamie Trombley, 19, serves as an The need for sound objective research in the all about. Banks [are] • • • a major part administrative clerk assigned to the Ma­ area of long-term care in order to fac1lltate of the forces of reaction and oppression. rine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island. health planning is evident. You are correct S.C. in stating that "the elderly deserve quality She brushes aside the murder of Officer care and the taxpayers are justified in ex­ Schroeder with the comment, "murder, pecting that our tax dollars are providing like everything else, is a term that the MORE RESPONSES .ON HEW FOOT­ that care for the elderly who need it." Since state can manipulate." the need for reform is urgent, it seems Swinton has also provided, in the words DRAGGING neither necessary nor advisable to delay im­ of a left revolutionary, a major justifica­ plementation of an action program to cor­ tion for law enforcement monitoring of rect flagrant abuse of public money and un­ so-called peace groups: HON. EDWARD I. KOCH acceptable levels of care until such time as OF NEW YORK all the d~ta have been gathered. We saw, by 1970, that we had no power Your essential question has not been an­ to make this government-our so-called IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES swered adequately for your purposes. Per­ servant--do our bidding. And in outrage people took to the streets once again, with Wednesday, September 22, 1976 haps an action program might proceed as the chllling results: at Kent State and Jackson study itself progresses and each benefit from Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker, as many of the other. state. That was the context of Susan's anti­ my colleagues interested in the health war activism, as it was for yours and mine. Thank you again for soliciting our views. care problems of the elderly may know, Our best 'Wishes to you. • • • I have for several years been trying to Sincerely yours, Swinton went on to compare our gov­ determine whether HEW is justified in ELEANOR D. MARSHALL, ernment with that of Nazi Germany claiming to need an additional 2 years to Staff Assistant for Health. saying: conduct a study of the quality of care If it were Nazi Germany we were talking provided by the various types of nursing AMERICAN ASSOCIATION about, all sorts of acts of resistance might home and home health modalities. OF HOMES FOR THE AGING, seem acceptable to us-going underground, On August 16, I sent letters to numer­ Washington, D.C., September 3, 1976. sabotaging the war effort, resisting by various ous individuals and organizations knowl­ Hon. EDWARD I. KocH, methods whenever the SS came to take people House of Represesentatives, Longworth away, robbing banks to raise money for the edgable in the area of nursing and home House Office Building, Washington, D.C. resistance movement, blowing up trains health care seeking their opinions about DEAR CONGRESSMAN KOCH: Thank you fOl' • • •, destroying ammunition dumps, sabo­ HEW's timetable. Several of the re­ your letter of August 16, 1976, soliciting my taging industry. • • • While some might sponses I received I placed in the RECORD thoughts and the views of my Association not use every tactic of the resistance, we cer­ on August 30 on page 28328. toward the Department of Health, Education tainly would not condemn and want to 1m­ Today I am placing additional re­ and Welfare's efforts to document the dif­ prison those whose tactics we disapproved of. sponses in the RECORD which represent ferentials in care by type of ownership in Most of us, indeed, would applaud whatever views both understanding and critical of skilled and intermediate nursing facllities. was' done to resist it. The American Association of Homes for • • • the destruction we wreaked on HEW. I think those who have followed the Aging represents the not-for-profit pro­ Vietnam was as bad as anything Nazi Ger­ this issue will find the appended letters viders of institutional services to older many ever did. of interest: Americans and their residents. Among our COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY, members are fac111ties which participate in A Susan Saxe Defense Committee is New York, N.Y., September 1, 1976. the Title XVIII (Medicare) program as skilled operating from P.O. Box 39, West Somer­ Hon. EDWARD I. KocH, nursing facllitles and in the Title XIX (Med­ ville, Mass. 02144. House of Representatives, icaid) program as both skilled nursing fa­ Washington, D.C. cilities and intermediate care faciUties. Be­ DEAR CONGRESSMAN KocH: Thank you for cause our members believe there is a dif­ your letter of August 16, 1976 to Mr. Charles ference in the quality of care provided to res­ Dorf, Chairman of our Committee on Health, idents of facilities premised on the finamcial TRIDUTE TO MARINE SGT. JAMIE requesting our views concerning the time motivations of the provider, we welcome an M. TROMBLEY frame proposed for the DHEW study on qual­ indepth, objective study of this relationship. ity of care rendered by nursing homes and We view a positive correlation between the home health care agencies. quality of care which our member facllities HON. ROBERT C. McEWEN We really do not have sufficient informa­ provide and their nonprofit status. This mo­ tion regarding the complete study design, OF NEW YORK tivation often is the stimuli which forces the the funds and staff avallable to conduct such facility to be more dependent and account~ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a nationwide study which would be neces­ able to the community which it serves. Our Wednesday, September 22, 1976 sary for us to render any reliable opinion. Association encourages this healthy inter­ However, a review of the survey methodology relationship between the provider and com­ Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, recently I used to collect data for the sk1lled nursing munity. We have pioneered means to bring had the pleasure of meeting Marine Sgt. home study as described in the Introductory the community to the facility when such in­ Jamie Trombley, a young woman from Report published in July 1976, entitled Long­ stitutionalized services are the most appro­ Fulton, N.Y., who decided to serve her Term Care Factlfty Improvement Study, priate setting for patient care. An unbiased country by enlisting in the Marine Corps would seem to indicate that lf data are to be study of the differences in the quality of collected over a twelve month period begin­ services which our member fac111ties provide 2 years ago. ning in March or April 1977 the analysis a:n'd and that of other providers which respond In August, Sergeant Trombley became final report could not be ready until the lat­ to different motivations would assist us in the first woman to win the Marine Corps ter part of 1978. Apparently, the instruments assessing our responsiveness to patient and Cup Match. In this 300-yard rapid fire to collect data on patient assessment and community needs. Certainly, the sooner such riflery event, Sergeant Thrombley beat evaluation of care are ready for field testing, information is available the better we will 700 other shooters-675 of them men­ the surveyors are being trained to collect be able to assess our impact on the service and established a national record with a data for the study, and by the spring of 1977 delivery system. the final fac111ties wm be selected to com­ At the same time, Congressman Koch, we perfect score of 300-9 X's. Later that plete the sample. I must sound a caution that the Phase II month, Sergeant Trombley captured the The difficulties of measuring quality o1 patient assessment study is hardly the ve­ national women's title at the national care have been discussed at length by health hicle to shed facts on the quality of care rifle matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, with professionals and researchers over the years. rendered in different facilities. The objective a combined score of 1,935 out of a pos­ Certainly it is advisable to allow sufficient of the Phase II study is to develop a patient sible 2,000 points. time to review and revise the survey tools evaluation instrument which can be used in Sergeant Trombley's extraordinary if useful data are to be secured. the future to improve survey and licensure We do have some observations. You have activities. As a member of the Phase II advis­ skill in the art of riflery has been recog­ requested information from DHEW concern­ ory panel, I can document that present pro­ nized by the Marine Corps in the form ing all types of nursing homes and on home gram activities will not provide an objective of meritorious promotion to corporal health care agencies; the DHEW commit­ study of the differences in care provided by after the Marine Cup Match, and to her ment is only to secure data from sklllecl nurs- type of ownership. Wb.Ue a last minute pro- September 2'2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32059 gram change has set out facility ownership Office of Nursing Home Affairs was over­ and need of home health services is purely as one of the test variables, the fact that all promised. The erroneous impression was academic. I believe, as I said earlier, we have facilities participating in the Phase II study created that somehow this survey was to to determine what 1s needed by whom and are doing so voluntarily precludes the oppor­ yield data on the quality of nursing home at what cost. Only then can we avoid all of tunity for a valid sample of participating care in the United States; when, in fact, the catastrophic errors made in the past fac111ties. Obviously, the facilities providing HEW's sample population included only when attempting to answer the health needs less than adequate care are not going to step Skllled Nursing Facillties-e.bout one-third of the citizens in this country. forward to participate in a volunteer pro­ of long term care !acUities that the National I would be happy to assist you in any way gram that could subject their institution to Center for Health Statistics classifies as nurs­ that I can in this critical area. greater scrutiny by surveyors. ing homes. Sincerely, Even if the Phase II study were to provide There was another problem in that the JOHN P. BYRNE, for a. random sample of facilities (as opposed sample chosen by HEW-288 out of the total M.H.A. President. to the present selective process), attention number of 7,526 Skilled Nursing Facilities in would have to be given to the PACE (Patient the country-was too small to answer the NATIONAL COUNCIL Assessment and Care Evaluation) instru­ question you now pose. Thus, I believe HEW OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES, ment. Representatives of consumer organiza­ is being candid with you when they say that Washfngton, D.O., September 17, 1976. tions as well as representatives of nonprofit your question cannot be answered for now. Hon. EDWARD I. KocH, facllities have criticized the contracted Perhaps they are being less than forthright U.S. House of Representatives, Longworth Phase II PACE instrument as failing to ad­ in admitting the reasons why. House Office Building, Washfngton, D.O. dress physio-social aspects of care on equal Also, I doubt whether HEW's Office of Long DEAR CoNGRESSMAN KocH: We appreciate basis with the medical aspects. An objective Term Care will be able to come up with an the opportunity you have extended the Na­ study of the care provided in the institutional answer to your question by 1978. While Phase tional Council of Health Care Services to setting must address the different need re­ I of their Long Term Care Campaign in­ comment on the possible differences in the quirements of long-term care patients in volved 288 facilities, Phase II wUl see less quality of care between proprietary and non­ contrast to the needs of the acute care pa­ than 200 facilities volunteer for the project proprietary nursing homes. We have fol­ tient. To many long-term care patients, the to develop a patient assessment procedure. lowed with great interest your insertions in fac111ty becomes their home; and, therefore, That is not to say that HEW's long term care the Congressional Record on this subject, and such patients require more than attention campaign has little value because 1t cannot welcome this chance to express our views. to their medical needs. The provider should readily relate the quality of care to the spon­ The members of the National Council of address their environmental physio-social sorshtp of !acUity. Indeed, if HEW's cam­ Health Care Services are proprietary multi­ needs. The PACE instrument neglects to re­ paign has a successful impact it will cause fac111ty nursing home firms, which own or flect the abilities of providers to meet these nursing home surveyors to look at the pa­ administer nursing faciUties in 35 states. In health-social service objectives. tient, not just his records or the fac111ty's addition to the more than 1,000 state and Our Association is concerned that the De­ physical plant. It also might result in better federal requirements which a nursing home partment is attempting to stretch the objec­ trained surveyors. participating in the Medicare and Medicaid tives of the Phase II study to meet other pri­ Although HEW's Office of Long Term Care programs must meet, we require that our orities without changing the scope of that was unable to assist you, HEW's Social Secu­ member's fac111ties meet or be able to meet project. As you will recall, a similar demand rity Administration might have. SSA is the standards of the Joint Commission on upon the Phase I Long-Term Care Facility charged with keeping HEW's management in­ Accreditation of Hospital's Accreditation Improvement Study resulted in inconclusive formation system for long term care. SSA Council for Long Term Care. research, which, while informative, could not expects to have in its computers a tabulation In response to your inquiry about the pro­ be used for policy formation. Our concerns of inspection deficiencies of long term care posed time frame of the response by Dr. Faye regarding the Phase II study are heightened facilities. I would not call this the best in­ Abdellah, Director of the Office of Long Term by the response which one of your colleagues dicator of quality care, but i·t is something Care, to your request, it is in our firm opin­ received, commenting that the Phase II re­ if you desire to pursue it. ion very realistic. search would be applicable to home health, A final note on your letter to me: may I Three of our member firms have conducted even though no home health providers are suggest that you not lump home health extensive research to develop and refine a participating in the program. we believe it is agencies with nursing homes. Data from one patient assessment form, as well as the meth­ a serious mistake to misrepresent the Phase type of health care provider simply cannot be odology necessary to evaluate a patient's II project and one which will only facilftate extrapolated to another. total status and needs. These firms have the dispersal of misleading project results. Sincerely, spent the past two years in reviewing and The American Association of Homes for the RoNALD ScHWARTZ. examining the use of a number of different Aging compliment you for your continued patient assessment forms. The objective of leadership in improving the quality of care NATIONAL ASSOCIATION this effort has been to develop the best sys­ for older Americans. We welcome your in­ OF HOME HEALTH AGENCIES, tem to maintain a continuous audit of the quiry on the measurement of such care by St. Louis, Mo., September 8, 1976. quality of patient care, as well as the ap­ type of ownership, and we can appreciate the Hon. EDWARD I. KOCH, propriateness of that care. frustrations which you have experienced in U.S. House of RepresentaUves, Longworth Generally, it may be said that this is an security valid information. We solicit your Of!'lce Bufld'lng, Washfngton, D.O. area which has been ignored except for the continued intravention to ensure that any DEAR CONGRESSMAN KOCH: Please forgive last few years. It was not until former Under study which the Department releases con­ the delayed response to your August 16, 1976 Secretary Frank Carlucci's initial efforts in trasting the quality of care in the institu­ letter. This was due to a rather intense travel 1974 to move the Medicare and Medicaid pro­ tional setting will be accurate and objective. schedule over the last few weeks and not to grams away from their "check-list" approach If we can assist you in any way, please do any disinterest in your quest for information of a fac111ty's physical plant's compliance to­ not hesitate to contact me. from H.E.W. on the comparative quality of wards surveys that address themselves to the With best wishes, I am care provided by non-profit and proprietary quality of services rendered by the fa.ciUty, Sincerely yours, nursing homes and home health agencies. that attention within the Department of DAVID C. CROWLEY, Since I represent both the National Associa­ Health, Education, and Welfare began to Executtve Vice President. tion for Home Health Agencies and the Visit­ focus on this area. ing Nurse Association of Greater St. Louis, Based on our experience and knowledge of I wil~ restrict my comments to home health current survey techniques, and the data WASHINGTON, REPORT ON agencies. which is produced, we would challenge any LONG TERM CARE, I am convinced that part of the difficulty national conclusions as to a comparison be­ Washington, D.C., September 8, 1976. in obtaining this information from H.E.W. is tween the quality of patient care in pro­ Rep. EDWARD I. KocH, the lack of national standards and definitions prietary and non-proprietary facllities. New Longworth HOB, and need determination for home care serv­ techniques, such as a patient assessment sys­ Washington, D.C. ices. One of the most perplexing issues I have tem, must be developed first and applied na­ DEAR MR. KOCH: First, I would like to faced in the four years in the home health tionally before such a comparison could ob­ thank you for including Washington Re­ field I've had 1s the lack of planning param­ jectively be attempted by HEW. port On Long Term Care in your list of eters for the services needed. To my knowl­ As you noted in your remarks ln the individuals and organizations knowledgeable edge, no one has developed a description of Congressional Record of August 10, 1976, in the field of aging. We at McGraw-HUl like these services which are needed and what is there have been a few limited studies con­ to think of our publication as the premier the current availability and cost of providing ducted, and various individuals have written one in long term care. them to the indicated target population. I am on the subject of the issue of proprietary I can understand your chagrin in being very much ln favor of Congressman Cohen's versus non-proprietary fac111ties tn regard to unable to obtain from the Department of approach to establishing a national com­ the quality of care which they provide. These HEW any solid data on the differences, if mission under the aegis of the Congress to studies have been, for the most part, incon­ any, between care in a proprietary nursing address this very problem. clusive in terms of objectively finding any home and in a nonprofit factiity. Frankly, I Until a deta1led effort 1s made, it seems to significant differences in the quality of care believe the original study begun by HEW's me that all of the good words about the role dellvered in nursing fac111ties, solely on the 32060 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2'2, 1976 basis of whether or not they are proprietary faith efforts" of the D.C. Committee to not achieved its putative purpose of nul­ or non-proprietary. take action on my resolution of disap­ lifying the Firearms Control Act. The Since there is presently a lack of a na­ tionally accepted definition of "acceptable proval. The committee claims to have Library of Congress, the Senate Legis­ care", and the lack of a national assessment done its best. Clearly, however, that best lative Counsel and the District govern­ form currently in effect, we strongly ques­ has not been good enough, for it has yet ment all agree with that assessment. tion the abllity of anyone to answer the to report a resolution of disapproval. The Firearms Act was clearly enacted question as to the differences between the I in contravention of section 602(a) (9) of quality of care provided by "non-profit and The committee claims that it could not the Home Rule Act. The Library of Con­ proprietary nursing faclUties". We would at muster a quorum to take action on my gress and the Senate Legislative Counsel this time further question the appropriate­ have written two cogent opinions sub­ ness and benefits of such an evaluation which resolution. Yet, during the 7 weeks in is the product of a philosophical debate which my resolution has been before the stantiating the fact that the Firearms whose shadow has for too long cast itself committee--since July 29-the commit­ Act is, in fact, an act exceeding the au­ over the long term care industry. tee has in fact reported at least one bill, thority of the City Council. I do not It should be noted that the assessment H.R. 15276, when there was not a quorum think there is any doubt about that form to be used in the HEW project is not of the committee members present. In point. presently designed to solely address the is­ fact at the committee meeting at which If this Congress fails to disapprove sue of comparing the quallty of care in pro­ this action was taken, there were only the City Council's Firearms Act, it is, prietary and non-proprietary faclllties. In in effect, voting for gun controls. It is fact, the type of faclllty in which a patient· six members present. The resolution of resides is only one of several factors llsted: disapproval was the next item on the long past due and it is time that the on the assessment form. This is only appro-, agenda, but the committee suddenly re­ Congress exercised its responsibility for priate, since a faclllty's ownership is only one) cessed subject to the call of the Chair. once to abdicate and allow a repres­ of many characteristics which can or mai' There is, however, a further considera­ sive, unconstitutional, illegal act to go influence its operation and ultimately th~l tion. The D.C. Committee has never held into effect in the District of Colum­ quality of patient care which it provides. We a meeting on the resolution I have moved bia. This law will become a model for do not know the impact of any of these char­ to discharge. Their meeting notices have the Nation, and this Congress will de­ acteristics at this time. Therefore, to givftl serve the opprobrium it gets if it irre­ undue emphasis because of a particular always specified House Concurrent Reso­ philosophical viewpoint would be to prej­ lution 694. Not one meeting has been sponsibly fails to act on this resolution udice the assessment form and the study held on House Resolution 1447 or House of disapproval. itself. Resolution 1481. m We would further submit that research The hearings held by the committee on The members of the District of Co­ conducted by a federal government agency? August 25, hearings in which only three lumbia Committee and other Members should be conducted in order to improve the witnesses were heard, and from which of this body have just presented argu­ quality of care and services being rendered residents of the District of Columbia ments explaining why the use of a simple by all providers participating in its programs, rather than in an attempt to discredit a0 were specifically barred as witnesses, house resolution is not in order until segment of that industry solely because oft were held specifically on House Concur­ after the period during which the pro­ its financial, administrative, or ownership rent Resolution 694. If anyone doubts hibitions on the City Council has ended­ structure. It is more important to concen~ what I am saying, let him check the rec­ January of 1979. It has been maintained trate our avallable federal resources on con­ ords of the D.C. Committee. He will find that the only proper way for Congress structive efforts to assure that all faclllties that the committee has not held 1 min­ to disapprove an action of the City Coun­ provide quality patient care to their patients. ute of meetings, has taken no action cil is by passing a concurrent resolution. We would hope that because of the admit­ whatsoever, on the resolution I am seek­ But the District of Columbia Committee ted need to improve the health services pro­ ing to discharge from the committee vided our nation's elderly, that those within has been sitting on a concurrent resolu­ the industry, Congress, offtcials of the De .. today. This total inaction belies the tion for the past 7 weeks, and will not pa.rtment of Health. Education and Welfare, "good faith efforts" claim of the com­ report a resolution so that this House and the general pubUc could begin to work mittee, and it constitutes sufficient cause may vote on it. In effect, the committee together to solve their health problems. We; why the committee should be discharged has been preventing the Congress from can not afford to let subjective, emotionaL, from further consideration of the resolu­ disapproving an illegal act by the City analyses or personal philosophies interfer~ tion of disapproval. Council. with a rational approach to these problems. One final thought: The meetings Now, I, for one, do not believe that this We strongly support the concept of devel-1 listed by the committee were almost al­ oping a comparative analysts of the qualtt~ was the intention of the framers of the of care provided to patients in nursing homes. ways, 2, 3, or 4 minutes in length. The Home Rule Act. In fact, in section 604 Since there is neither a nationally acceptedj only time during which the committee of that act, they outline a procedure definition of "acceptable care", nor the) met for a considerable period was on whereby the committee can be dis­ means to assess that level on a national basts, August 25 when it held hearings on House charged from further consideration of a it is undesirable, but not unrealistic, that) Concurrent Resolution 694, and even concurrent resolution. If you will refer such a process wm take until 1978. However, then it did its utmost to keep the witness to section 604 subsection (b), you will we do take strong exception to any analysis) list to a minimum. which would limit itself to one characteris­ find these words: "For the purpose of tic of a facmty, whether it be its ownership, this section, 'resolution' means only a size, type of building, size of staff, location,1 Under title VI of the District of Colum­ concurrent resolution ...." Then in sub­ cr any other single item. bia Self-Government and Governmental sections (d) (e) and (f), you will find the we appreciate your interests in the health Reorganization Act, the Congress has 30 procedure specified to discharge a com­ care needs of our nation's elderly, and would legislative days in which to disapprove mittee from further consideration of a be most appreciative of the opportunity to any action taken by the District of Co­ resolution, which, according to subsec­ discuss and present to you some of our find­ ings in the patient assessment area, or any lumbia City Council which the Council tion (b) must mean a concurrent reso­ other aspect covered in this letter. has transmitted to the Congress. lution. Sincerely, The Firearms Control Regulations Act If anyone wishes to object to this read­ JACK A. MACDoNALD, was transmitted to the Congress on July ing of the Home Rule Act, the best argu­ Executive Vice President. 23, and the 30 legislative day review pe­ ment he can maintain is that the Home riod wlll expire at midnight on Septem­ Rule Act itself is self-contradictory on ber 23. Therefore, this Congress has only this point. That means, however, that DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FffiEARMS 2 days left in which to act before this the Chair has equal reason to rule either CONTROL ACT repressive gun law goes into effect in way. Having just ruled, though, that the the District. simple House resolution is not in order, HON. RON PAUL The District of Columbia Committee and having just stated that the con­ OF TEXAS has had a resolution of disapproval be­ current resolution would be in order at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fore it since July 29, over 7 weeks, yet this time, the Chair ought not as it has they have not reported it. In fact, they done with the post inquiry now rule Wednesday, September 22, 1976 have not held one meeting on House Res­ that the concurrent resolution is not in Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, we have just olution 1447, or House Resolution 1481. order. The only way out of this dilemma heard a recitation of the so-called ''good The so-called Dent amendment has is to discharge the committee from fur- September 22, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32061 ther consideration of House Concurrent who will assume their new duties in a an estate, only 7 percent of all estates Resolution 716 and to allow the entire joint installation ceremony scheduled are taxed. With the increased exemption, District of Columbia Firearms Control for October 30. On behalf of the Con­ only 2 percent of all estates would be Act. gress, I extend to them our official con­ taxed. The bill increases the amount a gratulations and best wishes for success. husband or wife can leave or give to a They represent a Legion Post with pride spouse without paying taxes on it and GLASSPORT LEGION, A POST WITH in the past and promise for the future. extends the time that estates, consisting PRIDE POST 443 OFFICERS of farms or closely held businesses, will be given to pay the estate tax. Harry Thompson, commander; Donald The tax reform bill is not perfect, HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS Gallagher, senior vice commander; and it may not even be a model for tax OF PENNSYLVANIA Patricia Harris, junior vice commander; reform, but it is a respectible bill and a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thomas Cipirani, adjutant; Dennis Trow, much better bill than looked possible finance officer; Raymond Kr1lls, chaplain Wednesday, September 22, 1976 just a few days ago. The b111 was passed and historian; John Vavrek, judge because of persistent efforts by the tax Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, all of us advocate; George Pattakos, service offi­ reformers in the Congress and because are familiar with the fine work under­ cer; Charles Puka and William Przy­ of the impact of the new congressional taken on a national level by the Amer­ warty, sergeants-at-arms. budget process. ican Legion on behalf of those who AUXILIARY OFFICERS The passage of this bill means that the served our country in time of war. But, Catherine March, president; Diane congressional budget process now exerts I frequently wonder if we are as familiar · Upperman, first vice president; Shirley a powerful influence on legislation, both with the numerous community-oriented Furman, second vice president; Clara in keeping expenditures down and in programs initiated by member Legion Grace, chaplain; Peg Shirley, treasurer; keeping revenues up. The bill will pro­ Posts on a local level. Patricia Jones, secretary; Elsie Conk­ duce an estimated revenue gain of $1.6 Many local posts serve as the focal lin, historian; Patricia Webb and Robin billion in 1977, fully meeting the require­ point for communitywide activities in­ Hodnak, sergeants-at-arms. ments established by the new congres­ volving not only veterans but members sional budget control process. And the of every age group. Post 443 in Glass­ bill is in line with the economic needs port, Pa., for instance, has earned the of the country as determined by the Con­ respect of the community. It is a Legion TAX REFORM ACT OF 1976 Post with pride-in its members and the gress to keep the recovery going and to people of the borough in which it is reduce unemployment without making located. HON. LEE H. HAMILTON inflation worse. During final considera­ tion of the bill in the congressional con­ Among the various activities Post 443 OF INDIANA ference committee costly new provisions conducts for the residents of Glassport IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are: A softball team, a summer basket­ were dropped, like a popular provision ball team, a bowling league, a spelling Wednesday, September 22, 1976 to allow a tax credit to parents to help bee, and coloring contest for younsters, Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, the pay for higher education. Such action the Glassport Athletic Association, the Congress approved this week a bill that means that Congress is willing to live furnishing of wheelchairs and other will affect every taxpayer in the coun­ within its budget. equipment for the elderly and disabled, try-the Tax Reform Act of 1976. The bill accomplishes modest tax re­ a Bicentennial poster contest, visitations Some of the more important provi­ form, meaning that it limits at least the to area hospitals, sponsorship of two sions for individuals are: A special cred­ extent to which tax preferences can re­ boys at Keystone State Camp, and a it, or reduction, in taxes of $35 for duce the taxes for well-to-do taxpayers. $1,000 fundraiser for the Glassport Bi­ each taxpayer and each dependent: an By increasing the minimum tax on so­ centennial Committee. increase in the minimum standard de­ called preference income-that is, in­ The wide scope of its activities dem­ duction; an extension of the holding pe­ come shielded from regular taxes-the onstrates the capable leadership which riod to qualify for capital gains taxation bill makes it virtually impossible for the has guided Post 443 since its incorpo­ from 6 to 12 months; a tax credit for rich taxpayer to avoid paying any taxes ration in 1929. The past commanders of 20 percent of child care costs; an in­ at all. Also tax shelters for investors in Post 443 deserve public recognition and crease in maximum deductions for mov­ oil, movies, real estate and sport fran­ I would like to list them for the atten­ ing expenses; limited deductions for chises have been reduced. The purpose of tion of my colleagues: business use of homes and vacation this reduction is to stop wealthy tax­ Edward Edding, 1929-30; John Mur­ homes; an increase in the maximum payers from avoiding taxes altogether or dock, 1930-31; H. G. Freyer, 1931-32; amount that can be set aside tax-free reducing their· taxes to absurdly low Earl Gross, 1932-33; Hugh McCracken, for individual retirement accounts; and levels. 1933-34; Fred Clague, 1934-35; Arthur a broader definition of "retirement in• The bill is noteworthy in several re­ Mayou, 1935-36; Arthur Salzman, 1936- come" to include earnings and thus per­ spects. It is the first major reform of the 37; Ray Wawrzeniak, 1937-39; Hugh Mc­ mit increased tax credit and lower taxes. estate and gift tax since 1941. It is the Cusker, 1939-40; William Hutton, 1940- There are also some important first bill written in a House-Senate con­ 41; Daniel O'Connell, 1941-42; William changes for corporations: An extension ference open to the public and the press. Rennie, 1942-43; Daniel O'Connell, 1943- of the 10 percent level for the investment It makes the tax system more progres­ 44; Fred Clague, 1944-46; Charles Shoaf, tax credit; an increase in corporate sur­ sive by extending tax reductions through 1946-47; William Bradley, 1947-48; tax exemption; continuation of extra 1977 and weighting those reductions to­ Frank Karnash, 1948-49; Felix P. Zyra, percentage points of investment tax ward low- and moderate-income taxpay­ 1949-50; Ben Miller, 1950-51; William credit for employees' stock option plans; ers. It gives substantial tax relief to all Kulid, 1951-52. reduction in the DISC tax benefits for modest-sized estates by an increase in William Carns, 1952-53; Michael corporate export earnings; additional the amount of an estate which is exempt Kurka, 1953-54; Milan Trbovich, 1954- benefits for corporations which use cer­ from taxes. 55; Norman Papemick, 1955-57; Charles tified pollution control facilities in older The bill is entirely the result of con­ H. Cope, 1957-59; Carl Metz, 1959-60; plants ; and a provision giving corpora­ gressional initiative. The President has Albert Halucha, 1960-61; Edwin Stetz, tions 2 additional years to carry for­ had astonishingly little to do with it-a 1961-62; Vetold Lutkus, 1962-63; Louis ward net operating losses to offset profits fact which raises my hopes that with B. Ostorski, 1963-64; Theodore A. Gavola, and thus lower taxes. presidential leadership much more can 1964-66; Edwin D. Stetz, 1966-67; George The bill also increases the amount of be done for the improvement of the tax Pattakos, 1971-73; John F. Vaurek, 1973- money a person can give away or leave system. It should also be noted that the 74; and George March, 1974-76. tax free. It combines the estate and gift tax bill defies the conventional wisdom Mr. Speaker, the continued success of tax exemptions and converts them into that tax bills, especially tax bills that in­ Post 443's community involvement rests a single credit which rises gradually to crease revenue, cannot be written in an in the hands of the new officers of the $175,625 in 1981. Since the current es­ election year. organization and its ladies auxiliary, tate tax law exempts the first $60,000 of While this huge and complex bill is 32062 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2~, 1976 acceptable, it does not represent genuine With all these surprises percolating, the The committee did not claim to have reform. It only tinkers with the tax code. most interesting surprise has been largely found a "smoking gun," in the form of a kill A major overhaul of the tax system still ignored. And that is how the C.I.A. investi­ order ringing down from the Oval Office, gations ceased. The topic faded away so through the C.I.A. chain of command and seems to me to have the highest priority quickly as to make the whole episode look out to some mysterious trigger man in a on the national agenda. like a fad. Unlike the F.B.I. issue, which has foreign capital. Quite the contrary. Where Unfortunately, the biH with its 1,500 moved to the prosecutors' offices and stayed the American efforts to kl11 were most direct pages does not simplify the tax law. on the front page, the vaunted trial of the and persistent-in the case of Castro-they Rather it makes the tax law more com­ C.I.A. has already become a memory. And the were unsuccessful. And where the foreign plex. Even the summary of the b111 made agency itself has survived the scandals with leaders were actually killed-Lumumba in available for Congressmen to study this its covert operations intact, if not strength­ the Congo, Trujillo in the Dominican Re­ ened. publlc, Diem in South Vietnam, Schneider week is 100 pages of fine print and tough The collapse of the C.I.A. investigations in Chlle--there was no hard proof that C.I.A. reading. Apparently every attempt to has been due largely to ineptitude, poor operatives actually took part in the murders. bring greater fairness to the tax code judgment and lack of w111 on the part of the In some cases, the agency seemed to with­ means finer distinctions must be made. Congressional committees. But the agency draw at the last moment. In other cases, We need a simpler tax code, but no mat­ also played a role. Its strategy was flawless. someone else got there first. Of the Diem ter how strong the attraction of the idea, "Those guys really knew what they were do­ assassination the committee could only say we may be limited to modest achieve­ ing," says a staff member of the Senate Se­ that the C.I.A. had sanctioned and encour­ ments in attaining such a goal given the lect Committee on Intell1gence chaired by aged a coup against his Government when Frank Church. "I think they defended them­ there was a reasonable chance the plotters complicated American economic system. selves just like any other agency would, ex­ would k111 him. But no direct orders to assas­ cept they're better. They had a whole office sinate. Everything was a little blurred. Even set up to deal with us, and I sometimes had the most direct written communications, as the feeling that they ran operations against in the Lumumba case, were couched in HOW THE CIA WON us like they run them against foreign govern­ opaque C.I.A. language: "Hunting good here ments. It was like the C.I.A. station for the when lights right." Congress instead of for Greece or Vietnam." Smoking guns are considered thoroughly HON. BELLA S. ABZUG The story of how they came out ahead of unprofessional in clandestine operations, their investigators says a great deal about where secrecy is pM"amount and it is a mark OF NEW YORK both the Congress, and the agency, and about of sklll to channel existing forces subtly. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the problem of reconc111ng the demands of The assassination report, on the other hand, Wednesday, September 22, 1976 the superspy with the democracy he is sup­ was publicly judged by standards built for posed to protect. palpable and exotic murders. Because no Ms. ABZUG. Mr. Speaker, I wish to In the spring of 1975, the Church commit­ foreign leaders were k1lled outright by Amer­ call to the attention of my colleagues tee had been spinning its wheels for several ican initiative, planning and execution, the an article which appeared in the New months without much success. Charged with C.I.A. benefited from a general impression York Times magazine of September 12, the task of investigating more than a dozen that it came out of the assassination inquiry 1976, written by Taylor Branch, dealing intelligence agencies, any one of which was wit'h clean hands. This impression is false. with how the CIA managed ''to outfox an enormous challenge, the Senators be­ Certainly many thousands of people have came ensnarled in debate over how to pro­ died as a result of secret C.I.A. paramnttary congressional investigators.'' In all the ceed. The agencies were sta111ng, hoping to interventions in countries ranging from Laos furor over the investigation of the so­ deflect attention elsewhere. Then the com­ to Cuba to the Congo. (The Church commit­ called leak of the Pike committee report, mittee got a break. tee obtained some casualty figures but did we have lost sight of the important sub­ The Presidential commission set up under not pubUsh them at the agency's request.) stance of that report. We have not ade­ Vice President Rockefeller that January, to And, in the case of selected kilUngs detaUed quately dealt with the critical question inquire into charges of 11legal domestic spy­ in the report, the Une between involvement of covert activity and have not in fact ing by the C.I.A., announced that it had re­ and actual murder is often shadowy. For ex­ brought the Central Intelligence Agency ceived evidence of C.I.A. involvement in at­ ample, the Church committee reported exten­ under congressional control. tempts to kill foreign leaders. The news cre­ sively on the maneuvering that preceded the ated an instant sensation. Rockefeller said assassination of Rafael Truj111o in 1961. It The creation of a committee in the his commission, which was completing its Senate dealing with the intelligence work, had neither the time nor the mandate showed how American policy turned against agencies is a useful first step. But, Mr. to pursue the matter, and he turned the the Dominican strongman, how the agency Speaker, why has the House not created evidence over to President Ford, who quickly provided assurances of support to those who passed it along to the Church committee. plotted against him, how C.I.A. officials a counterpart committee? I urge my col­ smuggled weapons into the country and ex­ leagues to consider the creation of such Suddenly, the Senators found themselves with a large batch of classified documents changed cryptic messages on the likelihood a committe_e before we adjourn for the and with responsib11ity for the hottest issue of a successful assassination. In keeping with year. since Watergate. its courtroom definition of assassination, A portion of the article by Taylor For five months last year, the Church com­ however, the committee exonerated the Branch follows. I will submit the balance mittee focused its energy on assassinations. agency of Truj11lo's murder on the ground Other investigations lapsed. Staff members that the weapons it smuggled in were proba­ on a succeeding legislative day: bly not the ones used in the killing. THE TRIAL OF THE CIA were pulled from other projects. While it is no mean feat in the Senate to obtain sus­ "By the time we finished the assassination (By Taylor Branch) tained, personal effort from Senators on any report," recalls the leader of one of the com­ There have been enough revelations about single subject, the members of the Church mittee's task forces, "we had lost three the Central Intel11gence Agency over the committee went to C.I.A. briefings day after things-the public's attention, much of our past two years to keep diplomats, prosecutors, day to be introduced to the agency's arcane own energy and will power, and our leader­ reporters and philosophers busy for entire methods. In November 1975, the committee ship. Quite candidly, we had lost Frank careers. Three separate investigations not pulished an interim report on this one as­ Church." The Senator, according to this in­ only stretched the imagination with show­ pect, and Senators and staff alike were vestigator, had given up hope of achieving biz material about cobra venom and deadly proud of it. A sane exploration of the Machi­ major reforms in the prevatling atmosphere. skindiving suits but twisted the lens on the avellian underside of American foreign pol­ Publlc interest was down. Assassinations American self-image in foreign affairs. The icy, it was, in fact, a tour de force. Yet it proved peripheral to the main business of investigations rewrote history-the history, failed to build publlc support for investigat­ C.I.A. covert action, and the investigation of for example, of the relationship between the ing or controlling the C.I.A. that unknown realm had scarcely begun. United States and the Castro Government in Press and TV coverage was intense but With investigations of the other inte111gence Cuba. They showed that the C.I.A., in some shortlived, focusing on certain salacious de­ agencies, including the F.B.I., st111 ahead of 900 foreign interventions over the past two tails: the gangster plots, the tit1Uating re­ them, five crucial months had been lost­ decades, has run secret wars around the ports of an affair between President Kennedy along with much of the committee's momen­ globe and has clandestinely dominated for­ and the mistress of one of the gangsters, and tum. The Senate's February 1976 deadline for eign governments so thoroughly as to make a few exotic spy plans worthy of a television the completion of all work loomed large. And them virtual client states. In contrast to serial. In this last category, the report fea­ Church wanted to wrap up his investigative Watergate, the C.I.A. investigations proved tured a C.I.A. plan to treat Prime Minister chores in order to begin his own Presidential that abuses of power have not been limited Fidel Castro's boots with a chemical that campaign. to one particular Administration or one po­ would make his beard fall out and thereby The Church committee had gambled litical party. They also established facts that destroy his charisma. The rest of the mate­ heavily on the assassination report. And lost. few people were prepared to believe-such as rial was extremely complicated, conclusions According to Mitchell Rogovin, the C.I.A.'s that distinguished gentlemen from the C.I.A. were tentative, and the assassination plans special counsel during the investigation, the hatched assassination plots with Mafia fell short of the dramatic expectations that crux of the inquiry from the agency's point gangsters. had grown up. of view was covert action--secret 1nterven- September 2'2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32063 tlons abroad by means of propaganda, bribes, the F.B.I. Frictions developed between the well-known figure in Athens, certainly to manipulation of foreign agents and, in some two groups, the Bader group tending to the kind of organized polltical groups likely cases, paramilitary force-as distinct from criticize the lawyers as too prosecutorial and to have killed him. These probab111ties were gathering and analyzing intelligence. The "Watergate-minded," and the Schwarz team overwhelmed, however, by the emotional promotion system for C.I.A. case officers has hinting that the Bader group was too soft in power of the tragedy, and the C.I.A. encour­ been built around operations, and C.I.A. its handllng of the C.I.A.'s pros. In any event, aged the idea that C.I.A. critics might have leadership has been drawn from the op­ discouraged by the covert-action com­ contributed indirectly to the murder. Rogo­ erators-Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, wn­ promise, the "professors" never recovered the vin would only tell the Church committee Uam Colby-instead of intell1gence analysts. ·initiative. that its own investigations were not "di­ Veteran agency operatives often say that In the House, the Select Committee on In­ rectly" responsible. Colby lashed out in pub­ without covert action the C.I.A. would be telUgence chaired by Otis Pike-the counter He at those who revealed C.I.A. secrets as nothing but a collection of sophisticated part of the Church committee-pursued an being more sinister than the secrets them­ professors with mounds of intelligence, and arduous and independent course. Created selves. Ford made public statements to the the agency itself would be only a more spe­ only after a long internecine squabble over effect that inquiries into C.I.A. methods were cialized version of the State Department. its leadership, its mandate weakened by con­ unpatriotic. The C.I.A. approached the Congressional tinuing feuds in the House, the committee No single event did more to turn public investigations with one central objective: struggled through the summer of 1975 to opinion against the investigations than the to protect the means and practice of covert breathe life into itself-seeking, on one oc­ Welch affair. As 1975 ended, the press was action. It was in line with this strategy that casion, to justify its existence by leaking the shying away from the C.I.A. issue, and hos­ Colby and Rogovin gave ground on the mar­ sensational but unverified story that Nixon t111ty toward the inquiry was building up ginal issue of assassination, cooperating with aide Alexander Butterfield had been a C.I.A. in Congress itself. As to the C.I.A.'s private the Church committee, turning over more "plant" in the White House. The story was thoughts on whether naming senior officials information than the committee could digest, refuted, leaving the committee with less makes them more vulnerable to "the other helping the committee use itself up. Then, credibUity than ever. By fall, the traditional side," a move that escaped public attention when the assassination report was completed, jealousy between the House and the Senate may provide some insight: Welch was re­ Rogovin became tough about information to had flared up behind the scenes, and Mitchell placed in Athens by a man who had been be granted for the remainder of the investi­ Rogovin, negotiating with both committees, identified as a C.I.A. official by Greek news· gation--especially in regard to covert action. papers and an American ma2azine. The committee was floundering; Rogovin was finding them competitive. "Church," pressed his advantage. "We agreed with the says Rogovin, "held his 'toxin hearings' be­ On Jan. 29, 1976, Representative John committee that they could have access to cause he was afraid Pike would do it if h·e Young, Democrat of Texas, offered a motion information for six case studies in covert ac­ didn't.'' on the House floor to suppress the final re­ tion," he says, "provided they would go pub­ By December, the House and Senate com­ port of the Pike committee. The ensuing de­ lic with only one of them. They swore all mittees were set on opposite courses. Pike bate was not distinguished. Some speakers kinds of secrecy oaths that they would not wanted to impale the C.I.A. for its abuses. argued that the report-which they admitted even let the names of the other five coun­ Church wanted to show that a Senate com­ they had not read-would endanger national tries leak." The case study he chose was mittee could handle national secrets respon­ security and align the House with the mur­ Chile-a selection favorable to the agency, sibly. The Ford Administration played the derers of Richard Welch. Others, like Wayne since a lot of the material on the C.I.A.'s in­ committees against each other. When Pike Hays, argued for suppression on the grounds tervention in Chile had already leaked to demanded information and denounced "de­ that the report would be boring: "I suspect the press. laying tactics," Administration spokesmen ... that when this report comes out it is "It was a bad deal," says F. A. 0. Schwarz, would point to the exemplary behavior of the going to be the biggest nonevent since the committee's chief counsel. Many of the Church committee and appeal for a more Brigitte Bardot, after 40 years and four hus­ principal staff members opposed the settle­ cooperative spirit. When the Church com­ bands and numerous lovers, held a press con­ ment. What little they had learned about mittee cooperated, the Administration ference to announce that she was no longer covert action in the course of the assassina­ tended to see it as a sign of weakness and a virgin.'' Views like these prevailed, and the tion investigation had made them realize it feel freer to hold back on information. Sec­ House, by a vote of 246 to 124, ordered its was one of the hardest but also one of the retary of State Henry Kissinger and C.I.A. own report to be locked away in the clerk's most important issues to deal with. "That is director William E. Colby simply boycotted safe. why we went so heavily into Mongoose in all the covert-action hearings, and the com­ The document did not remain suppressed the assassination report," Schwarz explains. mittee accepted the rebuff instead of sub­ very long. It was leaked to OBS correspondent Operation Mongoose was a covert action poenaing them. Daniel Schorr, who in turn leaked it to The designed to weaken and destroy the Castro "The object of the exercise," says a Church Village Voice through a series of intermedi­ regime through an orchestrated program of committee staff member, "was to prove that aries. When The Voice published the report economic sabotage, commando raids and we were not Pike. We were not going to move in two special supplements under banner paramilitary harassment. It was the heart of the Congress or the public by more expose. headlines, it became the most spectacular the agency's effort to overthrow Castro; What was going to carry us was the kind of leak of the C.I.A. investigations. simultaneous assassination attempts com­ editorial we finally got in The Washington Pike developed two thematic criticisms of plemented Mongoose rather than vice versa. Post: 'An Intelligence Approach to Intel­ the C.I.A. First, he amassed evidence of re­ Although the campaign failed, it was kept so ligence.' " The committee evidenced an peated intelllgence failures, showing how secret that the American public was left with increasing awareness of its public image, the agency had failed to anticipate such ma­ a fundamentally distorted view of United of 11ts abi11ty to keep secrets, avoid leaks jor world events as the 1968 Tet offensive in States-cuba relations for more than a and work in some semblance of pubUc Vietnam, the Russian invasion of Czechoslo­ decade. harmony with the C.I.A. Many on the com­ vakia the same year, and the 1973 Yom Kip­ Before the committee's report, it was gen­ mittee staff endorsed this approach as the pur war in the Middle East. Citing various erally accepted that the Kennedy Adminis­ path toward "establishing a relationship" bureaucratic entanglements and preoccupa­ tration ceased hostilities against Castro af­ that would serve the Congressional commit­ tions as the cause of poor performance, ter the Bay of Pigs, until forced to act de­ tee that was to be set up to exercise over­ Pike took the agency to task for bungling fensively by the unprovoked introduction of sight--supervision of the intelUgence agen­ the one function-gathering intelllgence­ Russian missiles on Cuban soil. The Church cies. Some of these investigators have, in fact, against which there is no audible dissent. committee revealed that not only were there moved on to jobs with the oversight com­ Pike's second Une of criticism was more sub­ repeated attempts on Castro's life before and mittee, now in business. Their attitude was stantive: He attacked covert action by re­ after the missile crisis but covert Mongoose infectious: Even today, many former Church vealing a few of the more startling case raids were being intensified throughout the committee staff members are more reticent studies. His most poignant example involved period. The assassination report quotes the in discussing C.I.A. matters than C.I.A. of­ the Kurdish minority in Iraq. minutes of high-level meetings, less than two ficials themselves. Like many of the world's mountain weeks before the missile crisis, at which At­ On Dec. 24, a band of unknown terrorists peoples--the Tibetans, the Meo in Laos, the torney Robert Kennedy spurred the C.I.A. on assassinated Richard Welch, the C.I.A. chief Montagnards of Vietnam, the Indians of to hit Castro harder. of station in Greece. Welch had been identi­ South America--the Kurds have always The assassination report, outside sources fied as a C.I.A. official by a small anti-C.I.A.. seemed destined for a hard time. They have generally agree, was the high point of the magazine, and a furor immediatey arose been struggling against the Iraqi Govern­ committee's investigation. After that, the over whether the revelation had anything to ment for years. For years they have been los­ staff divided into two groups, one known in­ with his death. The Senators on the Church ing. In 1972, when the Kurdish campaign for formally as "the lawyers"-a group of at­ committee received a flood of letters de­ autonomy was in a brief period of dormancy, torneys drawn together largely by Schwarz­ nouncing its work on the grounds that ex­ the Shah of Iran asked the United States to and the other as "the professors," who were posure of C.I.A. secrets is an invitation to the help him in one of his perpetual feuds with generally foreign-policy experts with academ­ killing of C.I.A. officials. neighborhing Iraq. This time it was a border ic roots or Capitol Hill experience. Under Sources on both sides of the C.I.A. investi­ dispute. The Shah wanted the United States task-farce leader William Bader, the "profes­ gation now agree that neither the magazine to channel clandestine military aid to the sors" became responsible for the C.I.A. in­ nor the Church committee is likely to have Kurd·s, reasoning that American support vestigation, whlle the "lawyers" went off after caused Welch's death. He was a relatively would inspire the Kurds for another mUi- 32064 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2:2, 1976 tary offensive against the Iraqi Government, visiting the United States to attend the icans, the visit to Chicago-as guests of thus weakening Iraq and aiding the Shah. 41st International Eucharistic Congress. John Cardinal Cody, archbishop of that Secretary of the Treasury John Connally, It great city-was a dramatic and unfor­ acting on behalf of Henry Kissinger and was a most memorable occasion, and I President Nixon, informed the Shah that the would like to relate to my colleagues the gettable climax to the tour. United States would go along. A $16 million contributions of the Polish people to the Welcomed by Cardinal Cody, Mayor covert-action project went into effect. Ac­ human community which has been Daley, and a host of dignitaries, civil and cording to Pike's documents, the deal was extraordinarily rich and diverse since religious, Catholic and non-Catholic, made in a convivial spirit--a favor to the the beginning of their recorded history the bishops were greeted with the tradi­ Shah as one of the fellows. (He himself had 1,000 years ago. tional Polish gifts of bread, salt, and been returned to power by the C.I.A. in a It was in 996 that the first historic ruler flowers, in behalf of the Chicago arch­ 1953 coup.) Even the C.I.A. opposed the scheme, but was overruled. of that Nation adopted the Christian diocese and the Polish community. They The agency funneled arms and money to faith. The Roman Catholic Church was were able to celebrate Masses through­ the Kurds for more than two years, and the formally established in the year 1,000 out the metropolitan area in Polish Kurds once again rose up in rebellion. Their and the way was prepared for the life Catholic churches and at Holy Name leader was so moved by American support and work of St. Stanislas, Bishop of Cathedral. It was my privilege to greet for the Kurdish cause that he sent Kissinger Cracow, Patron Saint of the :>olish na­ Cardinal Wojtyla at Five Holy Martyrs a gold and pearl necklace for his new bride. tion and symbol of their unity. Through Church in the Fifth Congressional Dis­ He also sent word to Kissinger that the trict and to attend the testimonial din­ Kurds were ready "to become the 51st state" long centuries of triumph and tragedy, after achieving liberation. the Polish people h:a ve survived to the ner at the Conrad Hilton at which some In March 1975, the bloodied Iraqi Govern­ present day, due in large part to their un­ 2,300 people were present to honor His ment came to terms with the Shah. The shakable faith in God. The character of Eminence. very next day, Iran and the United States that faith has been the secret of their Cardinal Wojtyla-ene of the "papa­ cut off all aid to the Kurds, and the Iraqi strength in every age. hili" or prelates most frequently men­ Army mounted a full-scale offensive against Poles have been in America since the tioned as a possible successor to Pope them. The Kurdish leader, who could not 17th century. They take pride in their Paul VI-created a deep impression of bring himself to believe the United States had reversed itself so cynically, wrote des­ wholehearted participation in American reverence, spirituality, and strength of perate, pitiful appeals for help to Kissinger. life. In this Bicentennial Year they recall character. Formerly a worker-priest and Kissinger did not reply. the dedication of Polish patriots such factory hand, he has served on the facul­ An estimated 5,000 Kurdish refugees died as Kosciuszko and Pulaski to the cause ties of the Universities of Lublin and fieeing the Iraqi onslaught. The Shah, prag­ of American independence and to the Cracow and is an ardent patron of the matic to the last, forcibly repatriated 40,000 freedom of Poland alike. arts and sciences and of Polish cultural Kurdish refugees to Iraq, where their fate, It is in this spirit that Americans of life. He is expected to succeed Cardinal while unknown, has presumably been sad. The United States decltned to provide any every faith have welcomed the recent Wyszinski on the latter's retirement as relief assistance to the remaining refugees visit to these shores by 16 bishops of the Primate of Poland, a crucially important and refused to accept a single Kurdish ap­ Catholic Church in Poland, headed office in this troubled era of crisis and plication for asylum. by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, Archbishop of change. This covert action remained secret, of Cracow. Bishop Boydan Bejze, auxiliary bishop course, until the Pike committee learned The delegation, representing the Pol­ of Lodz, was the guest of Five Holy Mar­ about it and leaked it to the press. To say the ish episcopate, were invited guests of tyrs parish during the last part of his very least, the disclosure raised large ques­ tions about the compatibility of such covert the American Catholic bishops, at the visit and celebrated daily Mass there. actions with principles of any kind, as well 41st International Eucharistic Congress, After most of the delegation had re­ as questions about how such decisions should held in Philadelphia last month. Their turned to Poland, he remained behind be made. Yet no public debate arose, and presence and participation in the con­ and was able to further his knowledge except for a one-man crusade by The New :gress, gathering in the birthplace of and contact within the Chicago commu­ York Times's columnist William Safire, the American liberty, witnessed to that unity nity. He was particularly interested in Kurdish undertaking was widely ignored in and charity in faith which is symbol­ the people's participation in the Eucha­ the press. The reason is simple: The sub­ ized in the Eucharist itself. For Ameri­ stance of the Pike report was completely ristic Liturgy, the upkeep of churches overshadowed by the controversy over how cans, the "Church of Silence" in Po­ and Catholic schools, and the high level it was leaked. land and other lands under Communist of cultural development in the city. He Daniel Schorr first denied, and then ad­ rule was suddenly made real in a per­ expressed his admiration for the pastoral mitted, being the intermediary source. His sonal way. For our Polish visitors, the work of Chicago priests, the interior de­ behavior helped draw attention to his own freedom and pluralism of American sign of the churches, and the ways in conduct and away from the conduct of the democracy was strikingly evident. which modern technology is utilized for C.I.A. Leaks became the issue. President Ford The visit coincided with annual col­ pledged the full resources of the executive human betterment. He praised the pro­ branch for the culprit on the Pike commit­ lections received in all Catholic parishes gram prepared for the delegation in tee. The House of Representatives rose up that minister to American Catholics of Chicago for enabling the bishops to ac­ mightily against the leak and authorized a Polish descent by the Catholic League quaint themselves with the different $150,000 investigation by its ethics com­ for Religious Assistance to Poland, for neighborhoods of the city, with the vari­ mittee. A team of investigators began gr111- almost 35 years a tangible symbol of ous parishes, and with individual priests ing the Pike committee staff, many of whose the ties which unite Polish Catholics in and lay persons in great number members left Washington in fear. Schorr, Poland and in the United States. In the three other journallsts and 18 committee throughout the archdiocese. staff members have been subpoenaed to ap­ words of Bishop Alfred Abramowicz, In retrospect, the visit represents an pear before the ethics committee this executive director of the league: "Char­ affirmation of spiritual freedom and of Wednesday. ity enkindles love, revives hope, sustains faith by Polish and American Catholics faith." This has been the guiding phi­ alike. It celebrated the heart of our losophy of the league since its found­ American experiment in democracY­ WELCOME POLISH BISHOPS: HANDS ing in response to an appeal of Pope ethnic pluralism, the pride and strength AND HEARTS ACROSS THE SEA Pius XII for Poland during World War which all Americans feel in their many II. and distinctive cultural, religious, and During their trip to the United States ethnic traditions. It inspired among us HON. JOHN G. FARY and Canada, the bishops, individually fresh admiration for the courage of OF ILLINOIS and as a group, visited 17 American dio­ Poland, her people and her ancient IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ceses with heavy concentrations of Pol­ church, steadfast in faith despite all ad­ ish Americans, celebrated a Polish lan­ versity. May God give to us in the Bicen­ Wednesday, September 22, 1976 guage Mass at the National Shrine of tennial Year of our liberties a like cour­ Mr. FARY. Mr. Speaker, recently, the the Immaculate Conception in Washing­ age and a like devotion that will kindle Polish American people of Chicago had ton, and shared in the Eucharistic Con­ a deeper faith among all our people as the distinct pleasure of meeting with a gress celebrations in Philadelphia. For we face the challenges of our third distinguished group of Polish bishops me personally, and for millions of Amer- century. September 2:2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32065 PRICE SUPPORTS NEEDED FOR of coal gasification in preparation for nothing of significance is being done COAL GASIFICATION future widespread commercialization. about it. For a given gas production rate, the This is frustrating and disappointing, expected investment for medium-Btu but it is a fact. HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD gasification is markedly less than for In a column which appeared last week OF PENNSYLVANIA high-Btu gasification since high-Btu in the Dallas Morning News, Clyde La IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gasification requires more extensive gas Motte has not only summed up the lack processing to increase the heating value of any forward progress in this Congress, Wednesday, September 22, 1976 from 20v Btu per cubic foot to about but has made a good case that in some Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. 1,000 Btu per cubic foot. Thus, a small areas we are actually moving backward. Speaker, the price support provision of size medium-Btu plant could offset the Mr. Speaker, I would like this column, H.R. 12112, added by the House Commit­ economy of scale working against it. which appeared under the headline "Gas, tee on Banking, Currency and Housing, The need for price supports to build oil efforts decline" to appear in the could facilitate the construction of coal the first few medium-Btu "commercial RECORD: gasification plants dedicated to provid­ demonstration plants" becomes apparent GAS, OIL EFFORTS DECLINE ing gas for industrial plants. when one examines the price of the prod­ (By Clyde La Motte) This is a new provision in the bill. In uct gas. One gas utility company that is WASHINGTON .-As the presidential cam­ its proper perspective, it is an important interested in building such a plant in the paign begins to warm up, it is becoming in­ feature of the legislation. Appalachian area has estimated that the creasingly apparent that the nation appears Although making pipeline quality 20-year average gas cost would be $4.50 to be more concerned about abortion and a wide range of other issues than it is about gas-1,000 Btu per cubic foot-from coal per million Btu. This is too high for an the energy supply situation. for distribution in the Nation's natural industrial user today since fuel oil is Even when energy enters into the Wash­ gas pipeline system will be the principal available in the price range of $2 to $2.50 ington picture there is little meeting of marketing system used by the gas indus­ per million Btu. However, once the gasi­ minds, so the result is that about as much is try to tap our rich coal reserves, there is fication plant is built, the cost of me­ being done to discourage more energy pro­ another approach that is technically vi­ dium-Btu gas is expected to increase duction as there is being done to encourage able and is expected to be economically more sloW'ly than oil prices since most of it. For example, Congress last week was competitive in the 1980's. Aside from the cost elements in medium-Btu gas are wrestling with tax "reform" legislation that pipeline quality gas, consideration is be­ not subject to the rampant escalation would add to the burdens of the domestic ing given by some gas utilities and large that world oil has experienced and prob­ producer and to the international companies industries to producing medium-Btu- ably will continue to encounter. Thus, it even though the nation's dependency on 300 Btu per cubic foot-gas via coal gasi­ is believed that the present fuel cost dif­ overseas sources of supplies continues to grow fication for use as fuel gas for heating ferential in favor of fuel oil will diminish rapidly. and also chemical feedstock for such and be eliminated during the life of Regarding natural gas, there was a grow­ products as ammonia. Medium-Btu gas ing awareness in Wash-ington that 1f the win­ "commercial demonstration plants" that ter ahead should be a bit colder than the is interchangeable with natural gas for would be built and receive price support recent mild ones, there will be some con­ most industrial processes provided that assistance under the provisions of H.R. sumers doing without gas. Even so, legisla­ the combustion equipment is modified 12112. tion to free natural gas producers from price slightly. Mr. Speaker, the only viable way to regulation remains dormant. It is important to realize that the promptly demonstrate medium-Btu coal Instead of a natural gas deregulation bill, technology for medium-Btu gas is al­ gasification for industrial users is for the Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D.-Ill.) was pushing ready established. The Lurgi, Koppers­ for a bill to give the Federal Power Com­ Government to eliminate the differential mission more power to allocate short sup­ Totzek, and Winkler processes are com­ between the cost of the medium-Btu gas plies in an emergency. That is, the emphasis mercially available. The cost of a facil­ and the price of fuel oil. Providing fuel is not on how to increase gas supplies but ity to produce the energy equivalent of oil parity price supports is essential to on how to decide who will get the short sup­ 20 million cubic feet of natural gas per demonstrating as soon as possible this ply that will be available. day is estimated in the $125 million important coal gasification concept. One Similarly, Congress last week was in the range. These plants could be constructed gas company that has proposed such a final stages of consideration of off-shore legis­ adjacent to industrial users with high project to ERDA has estimated that the lation (S. 521) that would tend to slow down natural gas requirements. To the extent offshore oil and gas development even though Government's payments over the 20-year most authorities feel that development of that synthetic gas is made available to project life wouid total $170 million, or these resources offers the primary hope for industry, it either makes more natural an average of $9 million per year. slowing down the dependence on foreign oil gas available to higher priority residen­ This would be for a plant producing supplies. tial and commercial users or it reduces about 20 million Btu/day and having a Regarding North Slope oil, there seems to the need for the ind,lStrial user to de­ capital investment of about $125 million. be more concern over finding something pend on alternates such as imported oil. wrong with the way the Trans-Alaska Pipe­ This is a good sized plant for industrial line is being built than there is over how We need the former so that we can well markets, and it would yield all the in­ do without the latter. to get that oil to the areas of the nation, formation needed to facilitate subsequent such as the upper Midwest, where refiners The major economic difficulty in de­ commercialization of the process without are being caught in a bind because Canada veloping this domestic energy resource is Government assistance in the 1980's, as­ is phasing out its shipments of crude oil to that at this time, the price of medium­ suming the free market price for gas at U.s. markets. Btu gas is somewhat more costly than that time is below the free market price The confilct of priorities, tending to put fuel oil. Thus, a large industrial fuel user for fuel oil. additional obstacles in the way of energy cannot contract today for the medium­ development, also continue to be apparent in Btu gas supply without paying a pre­ Washington. Thus, the house recently followed

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, September 23, 1976 The House met at 10 o'clock a.m. tary of the Interior to provide relief to the priations for public works employment Rev. John G. Marvin, CheVY Chase Banta Ynez River Water Conservation Dis­ for the period ending September 30, trict due to delivery of water to the Santa 1977, Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Ynez Indian Reservation lands. and for other purposes." offered the following prayer: The message also announced that the Almighty God, how Thou hast blessed The· message also announced that the Senate agrees to the report of the com­ us and how little Thou dost require of Senate agrees to the report of the com­ mittee of conference on the disagreeing public servants, but "to do justly, love mittee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amend­ mercy, and walk humbly" with Thee. votes of the two Houses on the amend­ ments of the House to the bill (S. 3052) We would do justly. In these twisted ments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. entitled "An act to amend section 602 times guide us along the razor's edge of 12838) entitled "An act to amend and of the Agricultural Act of 1954." integrity. In divisive issues and the heat extend the National Foundation on the The message also announced that the of national elections forgive our pride Arts and Humanities Act of 1965, to pro­ Senate agrees to the amendment of the and prejudice and help us to practice vide for the improvement of museum House to a bill of the Senate of the fol­ what we preach. services, to establish a challenge grant lowing title : We would love mercy. Bless the mis­ program, and for other purposes." S. 3430. An act to amend the act ap­ sion of the Secretary of State overseas The message also announced that the proved August 18, 1970, providing for im­ and the visit of President Tolbert of Senate agrees to the report of the com­ provement in the administration of the Liberia here today. As we reach out into mittee of conference on the disagreeing National Park System by the Secretary of votes of the two Houses on the amend­ the Interior and clarifying authorities ap­ space and search for life on Mars, for­ ments of the Senate to the bill