9194 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 7, 1975 slons of th& Commodity Futures Trading arms, ammunition, or implements of war; 82. Also, memorial of the Legislature of Commission Act of 1974; with amendment to the Committee on International Relations. the State of Oklahoma, relative to the oil (Rept. No. 94-122). Referred to the Commit­ By Mr. DRINAN (for himself, Mr. depletion allowance; to the Committee on tee of the Whole House on the State of the BADILLO, Mr. STUDDS, and Mr. HAW• Ways and Means. Union. KINS): 83. Also, memorial of the Legislature ot Mr. STAGGERS: Committee on Interstate H.R. 5661. A bill to amend the Impound­ the State of South Dakota, relative to the and Foreign Commerce. H.R. 4111. A bill to ment Control Act of 1974 to provide that no Federal estate tax; to the Committee on amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 rescission of budget authority proposed by Ways and Means. to remove barriers to competition to foster the President shall take effect unless and the development of a national securities until the Congress has passed a bill incor­ market system and a national clearance and porating such rescission; to the Committee PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS settlement system, to make uniform the Se­ on Rules. curities and Exchange Commission's author­ By ~{1·. MARTIN: Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private ity over securities industry regulatory orga­ H.R. 5662. A bill to proYide a penalty for bills and resolutions were introduced and nizations, and for other purposes; with the robbery or attempted robbery of any severally referred as follows: amendment (Rept. No. 94-123). Referred to narcotic drug from any pharmacy; to the By Mr. CEDERBERG: the Committee of the Whole House on the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 5666. A bill for the relief of Won Hyo­ State of the Union. By Mr. SISK: Yun; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. REUSS: Committee on Banking, Cur­ H.R. 5663. A bill to provide for the protec­ By Mr. :r.iATSUNAGA: rency and Housing. H.R. 5398. A bill to tion o! franchised distributors and retailers H.R. 5667. A bill for the relief of James C. authorize temporary assistance to help de­ of motor fuel; to the Committee on Inter­ Dodds; to the Committee on the Judiciary. fray mortgage payments on homes owned by state and Foreign Commerce. H.R. 5668. A bill for the relief of Waihang persons who are temporarily unemployed or H.R. 5664. A bill to provide tax incentives Lai and Celia Chiu-Shan La!; to the Com· underemployed as the result of adverse eco­ to encourage physicians, dentists, and op­ mittee on the Judiciary. nomic conditions; with amendment (Rept. tometrists to practice in physician shortage By Mr. YOUNG of Florida: No. 94-124). Referred to the Committee of are, s; to the Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 5669. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Fred the Whole House on the State of the Union. By ])..fi'. CHARLES H. WILSON of Cali­ J. Studenberg; to the Committee on the Mr. FOLEY: Committee on Agriculture. S. fornia (for himself, Mr. BROWN of Judiciary. 1236. An act to extend and amend the Emer­ California, Mrs. BURKE of Call!orn!a, gency Livestock Credit Act of 1974, and for Mr. DoMINICK V. DANIELS, Mr. En.­ other purposes; with amendment (Rept. No. BERG, Mr. FULTON, Mr. HARIUNGTON, PETITIONS, EI'C. 94-125) . Referred to the Committee of the Mr. Moss, Mr. PEPPER, Mr. RosEN• 1 XXII, Whole House on the State of the Union. THAL, ])..{r, ROYBAL, Mr. SISK, Mrs. Under clause of rule petitions SPELLMAN, Mr. ST GERMAIN, Mr. and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk STUDDS, Mr. THOMPSON, and Mr. and referred as follows: PUBLIC Bn..LS A.'fo.ID RESOLUTIONS WALSH): 68. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the H.R. 5665. A b111 to establish an arbitra­ Speaker, 13th Guam Legislature, Territory of Under clause 5 of rule X and clause 4 tion board to settle disputes between super­ Guam, relative to the impending lay off of of rule xxn, public bills and resolutions visory organizations and the U.S. Postal civilian employees on Guam by the Depart­ were introduced and severally referred Service; to the Committee on Post Office and ment of Defense; to the Committee on Armed as follows: Ci vii Service. Services. By Mr. ASHBROOK: Mr. MAHON: 69. Also, petition of Long Island Friends H.R. 5656. A bill to amend title IV of the H.J. Res. 375. Joint resolution making an of Children of Vietnam, Inc., Deer Park, N.Y., Social Security Act to improve and make additional appropriation for the tiscal year relative to Vietnamese orphans; to the Com­ more realistic various provisions relating to ending June 30, 1975, for the Veterans' Ad­ mittee on International Relations. ellgib1lity for aid to families with dependent ministration, and for other purposes; to the 70. Also, petition of the 80th Convention of children and the administration of the aid Committee on Appropriations. the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., to fam111es with dependent children pro­ relative to world hunger; to the Committee gram, and for other purposes; to the Com­ on International Relations. mittee on Ways and Means. MEMORIALS 71. Also. petition of Leila Johnson, Wash­ By Mr. CORMAN {for himself, Mr. ington, D.C., and others relative to gun con­ METcALFE, Mr. MlTcHELL of Mary• Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memori­ trol; to the Committee on the Judiciary. land, Mr. NoLAN, and Mr. ZEFERETTI): als were presented and referred as fol­ 72. Also, petition of Cli:fford Ban'ister, New H.R. 5657. A bill to create a national sys­ lows: York, N.Y.• relative to redress of grievances; tem of health security; to the Committee on 78. By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the to the Committee on the Judiciary. Ways and Means. Legislature of the Territory of the Virgin 73. Also, petition of Samuel Earl Williams, By Mr. CRANE: Islands, relative to elections ln the Virgin Huntsville, Tex., relative to redress of griev­ H.R. 5658. A bill to limit the jurisdiction Islands; to the Committee on Interior and ances; to the Committee on the Judiciary. of the Supreme Court and of the district Insular Affairs. 74. Also, petition of the Army and Air Na­ courts in certain cases; to the Committee on 79. Also, memorial of the Senate of the tional Guard Association of New Jersey. Tren­ the Judiciary. State of Oklahoma, relative to natural gas; ton. relative to retirement of National Guard By Mr. DRINAN: to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign technicians; to the Committee on Post Of­ fice and Civil Service. H.R. 5659. A bill to provide !or increased Commerce. 80. Also, memorial of the Legislature of 75. Also, petition of the Societe des 40 congressional oversight of foreign military hommes et 8 chev.aux du Oklahoma, Tulsa, sales conducted under the Foreign Mllital'J' the State of Oklahoma, relative to National Hunting and Fishing Day; to the Committee Okla.. relative to the treatment of service sales Act; jointly to the committees on In­ personnel who did not carry out their mili­ ternational Relations and Rules. on Post Office and Civil Service. tary obligation; to the Committee on Vet­ By Mr. DRINAN {for himself and Mr. 81. Also, memorial o! the Legislature of erans' Afrairs. CARR)! the State of West Virginia, relative to the 76. Also, petition of Richard R. Luehrs, H.R. 5660. A bill to require the submission Sutton Dam on the Elk River, W. Va.; to the Northridge. Calif., and others, relative to vet­ of reports to the Congress prior to the is­ Committee on Public Works and Transporta· erans• educational benefits; to the Committee suance of a license for the export of certain tion. on Veterans' Affairs.

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THE HUGHES-CIA CONNECTION billionaire Howard Hughes in raising a Question. It just has been reported tha.t sunken Soviet submarine in the Pacific. the CLR contracted for an underwater ship Mr. Morgan raised some very pertinent with a cover story that 1t belonged. to HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON questions about this very questionable Howard Hughes. You hAve been sharply 01' KASSACHUSETTS critical of this arrangement. Why? project, and I a-sk that the interview­ MoRGAN. The problem to me is that the IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES from the March 21 edition of the Star­ executive contracted out the wa.rmak.Jng Mondau, April 7, 1975 be inserted in the RECORD at this time for power to private corporations. Th& press Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, the attention of my colleagues: reports that we're training the army 1n Charles Morgan. Washington director of LmERTARIAN MORGAN Hrrs CIA SECRECY Saudi Arabia. We've got .a ship roaming the American Civil Liberties Union, was (Charles Morgan, Washington director of around loose someplace out there. Well, good interviewed recently by Norman Kemp-­ the American Civil Liberties Union, was in­ heavens, to turn a ship like that over to ster of the Washington Star on the terviewed by Washington Star Staff Writer Howard Hughes! I should add one thing. subject of the CIA's collaboration with Norman Kempster:) These views are my own. There are folks April 7, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9195 having full information about the contract 1n the ACLU that would disagree with me themselves. I think we should investigate and find out about it. with the CIA? and on much of what I may say the ACLU Answer. When you have full disclosure in has no position. Question. Do you have any indication that the Glomar Explorer was engaged in any corporate documents, you can say, "Wait a Question. You say the ship was turned minute, if that ship's out in the middle of over to Hughes. Wasn't the Hughes con­ activities for the CIA other than the Russian submarine caper? the ocean and it is being watched by satellites nection just a. cover story to conceal CIA and the Russians know it is there, and it's got involvement? Answer. Well, I would say without any Answer. How do I know it's not turned knowledge of anything other than the pub­ a risk facto» that it may go, I've got a pretty lic documents and public records, we are risky investment." over to him? So, (CIA Director William B.) Question. You have been stressing the se­ Colby says it isn't. Who can you believe in putting a remarkable amount of American that agency? Twenty years they've spent money into underseas ventures. We've got crecy that surrounded the submarine matt er. learning to lie. They lie by rote. Is there a ships roaming loose, small submarines, t iny You t ried to interest several newspapers in difference bet ween Hughes a nd the CIA? things built by corporat ions over here, the the story but t hey withheld it because of n a ­ Defense Department and every place else. And tional securit y considerations until colum­ Question. Is there? Are you saying t hey nist J ack Anderson used it. Do you think the are the same? I don't really know what we're doing in t he Answer. I don't know. We ou ght to look sea. All I know is that we are doing some­ press should withhold information like this? Answer. Of course not. Newspapers are sup­ into it. thing there. I assume we are doing it under­ Question. Do you have any indication oth­ cover and the reason we're doing it un­ posed to do their own job. Newspapers are er than this recent situation with the ship dercover is because apparently we're doing charged with the duty of putting out the that there is a connection? something wrong. If we're doing something t ruth and the news. They're not national Answer. Well, certainly, certainly. (Former right then we ought to tell everybody about security agents, they're not official bu­ Hughes aide Robert) Maheu testified, ac­ it and tell them what it costs. reaus of the state. The press is supposed t o be cording to the Washington Star, in his dep­ Question. If we could get back to the Glo­ separate from the government. When a per­ ositions in his lawsuit against ltughes that mar Explorer. Do you know of any other son telephones who you know has been paid in 1960 he was asked by Hughes to form a covert operations conducted by that ship? for 20 years to be a liar and tells you to kill link between the CIA and Hughes Tool. He Answer. I just don't know about that. I a story, why would you believe him, unless then went further and said that he did not read an article in the March 1975 American your experience has been such that you be­ do that. Secondly, he said that he'd been Legion Magazine. It's a perceptive article. It lieve you're supposed to cover for the United working on e.n intelligence mission in 1960 ends up saying that Hughes' ship is the only States governme nt. in Miami and Hughes had tried to sum­ ship that's ready to go to mining underseas. Question. Why do you suppose this s tory mon him back to Los Angeles, or Las Vegas, If 75 percent or 80 percent of the mineral was held out of print? or someplace and he refused to go. He did wealth of the world is underseas and if that Answer. The problem is cowardice. The identify the agency-the Central Intell1- ship does also mine, then we have financed a higher one goes in a bureaucracy, the more gence Agency. He wouldn't go into what he'd ship to mine underseas and violate a U.N. he is able to rely on "responsibility" to ra­ been working on but I think the people of resolution as I understand it about the own­ tionalize his fear. Newspaper owners and ex­ this country are entitled to know. ership of the underseas. Are we in such a ecutives learn as they move up that there is Question. But how much control does tremendous hurry in this country to give less risk in being held responsible for stories Howard Hughes have over what this boat away every piece of land under the sea and they don't print than for stories they do does? on land to private corporations to make a print. So, when the CIA or some other set of Answer. I have no way of knowing. I don't f ortune on it? Is that ship being used as kind trained liars come to them, they are inclined even know if there is a Howard Hughes. All of a symbol over the head of countries nego­ to suppress legitimate news. I know is that I've got to make several as­ tiating now on a law of the seas agreement Question. Surely a newspaper executive h as sumptions about it. If there is a Howard over in Geneva? I don't know what other uses a responsibilit y to decide what goes in to Hughes, then I have to assume that he is that ship has, b_ut I'll tell you one thing-if print . either sane or insane or something else. If that ship was a one-time, pick-up-a-sub­ Answer. Newspaper owners and execut ives I assume him to be sane, then I have to as­ marine kind of venture, then it is worse should limit their power to overruling deci­ sume him to be the most secure person in than a Spruce Gander. The same sauce for sions not to publish. They should recognize the United States. If I assume him to be the Spruce Goose was the sauce that got the cowardice as inherent in the bureaucracy and insane, then we hav'e turned a very highly Spruce Gander going, and that sauce is eliminate their power to kill a story. The risky operation over to a man who is anal­ money. 1st Amendment means nothing unless there leged nut. Now I don't want him out there Question. Why should the CIA be so con­ are news people with the spirit and courage picking up free hydrogen bombs, or walking cerned about underseas research? to use it. The wall between the government around with anything else or risking that Answer. I don't know what you do with all and the press should be absolute. Otherwise, my country gets into war. Now if it's not these nuclear submarines and all these scien­ you wind up with house organs for the CIA. Howard Hughes' crew, and there is a risk tific ships and ventures going on. Maybe If The New York Times had run the Bay that we may go to war over that ship, then we're just in collusion with private oil com­ of Pigs story in 1961 there wouldn't have that's even worse. panies and private mining companies doing been a Bay of Pigs (invasion) and the nation Question. Do you believe the CIA has a research for them and finding out where would have been spared that absurdity. right to contract with private corporations minerals and oil are. Question. Are you saying that newspapers to engage in any of the covert activities Question You've spoken informally of un­ should ignore the national security implica­ that the CIA engages in? derseas explorer Jacques Cousteau in this tions of what they print? Answer. Let me go back just a little bit. In context. How does he tit into this? Answer. I believe that our only national 1967, we were shocked when we found out Answer. As I understand, Cousteau in No­ security is to tell the truth. I think for 35 the CIA was funding the National Student vember 1974 showed up in Pensacola, Fla. years we have lost the people of the world, Association. Now I have an equal shock when in his ship, the Calypso. He said he came for constantly and regularly, by not telling the I find out the CIA is funding Howard research into the red tide. The unfortunate truth to ourselves or abroad. I've noticed Hughes. Now when I look around at the part of that venture is the world's out­ over a 2¥2 year period that when I bring kinds of things that have happened to standing oceanographer got there at the sea­ up the fact that somebody lied in Washing­ Hughes that an average citizen couldn't get son when the red tide isn't a problem. You ton, people just shrug their shoulders, like consideration on for the past several years: go beyond that and he does say he is doing everybody lies. Well, that's okay in a Machia­ an antitrust exemption for the Dunes Hotel, research on a U2 type of camera to be used in vellian government. That's okay with a a tax exemption for his medical foundation. 1978. He's talking about electric sensors prince. But it's not okay in a democracy. through the gulf, studying pollution. I We've gone from cover stories to coverup, non-extradition from the Bahamas, great didn't know that Cousteau worked for the Justice Department efforts to keep a United and that's mighty easy for a (Watergate con­ government of the United States, but I do spirator) Jeb Magruder. States grand jury from indicting him in Ne­ now. So I can't answer the question, I just vada. I look at that and I say to myself, Question. You say lying is easy for a Ma­ know the story's there. gruder. But the CIA presumably should have "What are we paying that fellow for?" Sec­ Question. Does the Hughes contract with more reason to lie than the CRP (Nixon ondly, if you have covert operations through the CIA violate any Securities and Exchange campaign committee) . Are you saying that an American corporation, where's the check Commission regulations? the CIA should lay all of its cards on the on that? Who runs the war? Does Hughes Answer. I have read some documents tiled table? · run the operation, or does the CIA? Or do with the SEC and they don't seem to make Answer. I'm saying we should live by the their interests merge? What happens when full disclosure of this kind of transaction and Constitution. That all the pragmatism and they go off and get into trouble? Do we go this kind of operation that is going on, with pragmatic arguments I hear are so unreal for out and defend them? Is lt a war contracted respect to prospective stockholders in Global a. democracy. If we live by democracy and for by the CIA secretly, without the tax­ Marine, Inc. (The Hughes company that owns live by the Constitution of the United States, payers' knowing where their money went, · the Glomar Explorer.) It may very well be the world woUld be clamoring to come our without any control at all by the executive that in other documents they do. The ones way. There have been revolutions fought all or anybody else? That's the problem. t hat I've been over look to me like they merit over the world for the things we profess to Question. You ask some interesting ques­ risky investment." believe in. And what happens is that the tions. Do you know any of the answers? Question. Is there any way that a prospec­ policy and practice from the highest level ;Answer. I think the questions answer t ive stockholder would be damag~d by not comes down to lying. 9196 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 7, 1975 BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO Wednesday, April-9, at 9:30a.m. in 2141 sponded to my questionnaire, including AND FffiEARMS TO CONTINUE Rayburn House Office Building. 1,400 young people between the ages of TESTIMONY ON GUN CONTROL Those wishing to testify at a future 15 and 21. ACT OF 1968 hearing or to submit a statement for the· Mr. Speaker, the complete text and the RECORD should address their requests to tabulated results of my questionnaire the Committee on the Judiciary, 2137 follow: HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. Rayburn House Office Building, Wash­ MARcH, 1975. OF MICHIGAN ington, D.C. 20515. DEAR CONCERNED CITIZEN: Rising prices, energy conservation, and tax reform are just JN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a few of the many urgent and complex issues Monday, April 7, 1975 CONSTITUENTS RESPOND TO facing the new Congress. To help me get a DRINAN QUESTIONNAIRE better understanding of the ideas and opin­ Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I am ions of the citizens of the 4th Congressional pleased to announce that the Subcom­ District, I would appreciate it if you would mittee on Crime of the Committee on HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN take a few minutes to fill out this question­ the Judiciary will continue hearings on OF MASSACHUSETTS naire and return it to me. If you have young people (15-21) in your more than 50 bills which would amend IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Gun Control Act of 1968. Thus far, household I am interested in having their the subcommittee has held eight hear­ Monday, April 7, 1975 answers in the special yduth column. When your answers are complete, tear off ings on this subject. We have heard testi­ Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, during my the question section, refold, affix a stamp and mony from our colleagues in the Con­ 4 years in the House of Representatives, mail it to me. The results of this question­ gress, law enforcement officials, and a I have made it a practice to send periodic naire will be tabulated and sent to every representative of the medical profession. questionnaires to all of the residents of household in the district. On Thursday, March 20, Rex D. Davis, my congressional district in an attempt It is difficult, I know, to cover all sides Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To­ to learn their opinions on the many is­ of an issue with a simple answer. If you would like to elaborate on any of these ques­ bacco and Firearms, began testimony on sues facing us in Congress. tions--or would like to discuss an issue not the administration and effectiveness of I take this opportunity to share with mentioned in this questionnaire-! would the Gun Control Act of 1968. With the my colleagues the results of my most re­ welcome a personal letter from you. assistance of members of his staff, Mr. cent poll, which invited responses of both I look forward to receiving your completed Davis continued his testimony on national issues and Federal spending pri• questionnaire and hope that you will keep in touch regularly. Wednesday, March 26. Mr. Davis will orities. Cordially yours, continue his testimony further on over 11,500 of my constituents re- ROBERT F. DRINAN. 1. ENERGY DO YOU APPROVE OF THE FOLLOWING PROPOSALS TO CONSERVE ENERGY AND Ill. o·1HER LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS.-DO YOU APPROVE OF THE FOLLOWII'.G LEGISLATIVE REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON OIL IMPORTS? PROPOSALS? (In percent) 1. Impose a windfall profits tax on major oil companies_ 87 13 92 87 Est.ablish a comprehensive system of national health 13 2. msurance. ______Adult Youth Total 80 20 83 17 80 20 3. Reduce h~ $15 the present military budget______71 29 70 30 71 29 4. Require t e licensing and the registration of all guns __ 86 14 91 9 87 Yes No Yes No Yes No 5. Prohibit the sale and possession of handguns to all 13 but authorized law enforcement personneL ______68 32 79 21 69 6. Prohibit all forms of wiretapping and eavesdropping 31 1. Raise prices on gasoline, heating oil, and other forms 67 33 78 22 69 31 of energy by increasing taxes ______18 82 14 86 17 83 7. Pr~~igi~bJi~~a~~~~~-;ritioriiii-uiiiirife-rrial·a-fiairs-ofa - 2. Ration gasoline, giving preference to those who need foreign nation. ______71 29 if for their work ______8. Continue military aid to South Vietnam ______69 91 71 29 56 44 57 43 56 44 14 86 16 84 14 86 3. Impose taxes on automobiles according to fuel con- 9. Subsidize the continued operation of freight rail· sumption or horsepower ______roads. ______: •• ____ 69 31 61 39 68 32 75 25 79 21 76 24 4. Relax antipollution standards on automobiles ______10. Subsidize the continued operation of passenger rail- 39 61 31 69 38 62 roads. ______------______77 23 78 22 77 23 11. Nationalize the oil industry ______46 54 72 28 48 12. Increase emergency food shipments to starving 52 people overseas. ____ ------______II. ECONOMY.-DO YOU APPROVE THE FOLLOWING PROPOSALS TO BRING THE AMERICAN 65 34 77 23 66 34 13. Restrict the FBI from gathering information about ECONOMY OUT OF RECESSION AND EASE INFLATION? American citizens, which is not related to a criminal investigation ______86 14 91 86 14 14. Abolish the Vice Presidency and provide for a special 1. Cut taxes for all individuals up to a ceiling of $1,000 _ 48 52 53 47 48 52 national election in the event that the Office of the 2. Cut taxes for low and middle income individuals only. 69 31 President becomes vacanL ______36 64 42 Cut taxes for all corporations ______68 32 69 31 58 36 64 3. 20 80 15 85 20 80 15. Negotiate with the oil producing nations to sell them 4. Expand Federal programs to provide jobs for the un- ar!'JS only if they agree to sell the U.S. oil at lower employed •• ______•• ______•••••• _ 76 24 88 12 78 22 38 62 36 64 38 62 5. EXpand supply of mortgage money for construction and 1s. tng:~~~!-t"hesiiciai·s-e<:iirifiicixtrom-5~85i>erceiiitii- purchase of housing ______5.95 percent to include coverage of prescription 88 12 85 15 88 12 drugs under medicare ______60 40 63 37 61 39

IV.-SPENDING PRIORITIES WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS REGARDING FEDERAL FUNDS FOR THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS?

Adult Youth Total Maintain at Maintain at Spend more Spend less Maintain at the same level Spend more Spend less the same level Spend more Spend less the same level

I. Defense programs·------····------· 12 65 2. Foreign aid programs ______23 11 63 26 11 65 24 6 70 24 18 48 34 15 55 8 67 25 30 17 57 26 15 55 30 ~: ~i:~swt~~~;rc::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 83 7 10 83 5 5. Medical research and training ______72 12 83 7 10 6 22 75 2 23 73 5 22 6. Welfare benefrts·------20 48 32 28 33 39 7. Education. ______------·---•• _. 52 13 21 46 33 35 64 10 26 53.5 12.5 34 8. Environmental quality programs ••••••••••••••••• 52 18 30 67 13 9. Energy research and development______88 20 53 18 29 2 10 83 4 13 88 2 10 10. Housing ______------.--- 55 13 32 52 7 11. Veterans benefits ______23 41 55 12 33 12. Senior citizens assistance ______26 51 23 30 47 23 27 50 66 6 28 59 17 24 65 1 28 13. Space and NASA------·------14 57 29 5 60 35 14 Day care programs ______43 13 57 30 24 33 46 21 33 43 24 31

_j_ Aprtt 7, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9197 JOHN D. McWILLIAMS night at Uncas-on-Thames after he suffered THE LOSS OF A FREE WORLD an apparent heart attack. LEADER Mr. McWilliams was born in Norwich July HON. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD 23, 1891, son of John and Elizabeth (Mc­ OF CONNECTICUT Clure) McWilliams. HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK He attended the Norwich Free Academy OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and was graduated from Mercersberg, Pa.. Monday, April 7, 1975 Preparatory School in 1910. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES & Monday, April 7, 1975 Mr. DODD. Mr. Speaker, last week saw He was associated with Peck McWilliams Co. and under this name some of the finest Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the the death at age 82 of a former member buildings of all types were constructed. Later of the House of Representatives, John D. death of President Chiang Kai-shek is the business was continued as the John D. being mourned by all freedom-loving peo­ McWilliams of Norwich, Conn. McWilliams Co. John McWilliams served in the 78th Built during the latter era were the Lincoln ple everywhere. He was the leader of a Congress from 1943 to 1945 representing School in New Britain, Manchester Town country which was able to overcome se­ Connecticut's Second District. As a mem­ Hall, Norwich Inn, Nitany Lion Inn, State rious setbacks and by so overcoming them ber of the Naval Affairs Committee he College, Pa., Phillips Exeter Academy Inn, serve as a symbol for people throughout traveled to many Navy bases in the Pa­ Exeter, N.H., Dime Savings Bank in Norwich, the world. cific during those war years, and he is The Southern New England Telephone Co. At this time it is important to re­ remembered by many for the joy brought in Norwich and The Southern New England member the principles that President by the letters he wrote to family and Telephone Co. in Waterbury. Chiang upheld. Those principles must friends of those soldiers with whom he During World War I he enlisted in the not be forgotten. The new President of had a chance to speak at the bases. 49th Co. 20th Engineers, entering service the Republic of China, I am confident, John McWilliams was exceedingly ac­ Mar. 16, 1918 and was discharged on July 1, will continue to follow them. tive in his community through business, 1919. Under Chiang Kai-shek's leadership civic, and political accomplishments. He was elected first selectman of Norwich the Republic of China on Taiwan has His construction company built many under the old form of government when the grown into a country which plays an im­ fine buildings in the region. Prior to his omce was equivalent to the mayor of the city. portant role on the international scene. term as Congressman, Mr. McWilliams He was nominated as an independent Repub­ It is a country whose leaders and people served four terms as first selectman of lican and was elected on that ticket three view Americans as friends. It would be a Norwich, a position at that time equiva­ times. During this period his administration tragedy indeed if the present diplomatic lent to mayor. His list of civic positions had to cope with three major fioods, includ­ and defense relationship between the is lengthy. ing the Great Hurricane of 1938. United States and the Republic of China Mr. Speaker, I wish to place into the Mr. McWilliams was elected to the 78th were loosened in any way. It is time to RECORD the following article and edito­ Congress from the Second District in 1942 make our relations closer. Both countries and served one term. He wa.s the first fresh­ would be well served by such a move. rial from the Norwich Bulletin which man congressman chosen to membership of speak so well of our former colleague: a. major committee-the Naval Affairs Com­ It is time to make the principles of JoHN D. McWILLIAMS mittee. liberty again a shining beacon for the The successful public service career of John He was chosen by House Speaker Sam Ray­ rest of the world. It is time for all of us D. McWilliams of Norwich culminated, in burn as one of the eight congressmen to to rededicate ourselves to them. 1943, in his election to the 78th Congress, and visit naval bases in the Pacific theater. service during a. time when the nation was devoting its entire attention to achieving vic­ He was a. guest of Admiral Chester Nimitz VIETNAM REFUGEE PROBLEM tory in World War II. in a. trip that took him from HawaU to Aus­ He is remembered by many as the Congress­ tralia and the islands of the Pacific. man who, upon his return from a tour of In 1950 he joined the Electric Boat Divi­ HON. EDWARD I. KOCH South Pacific war bases, personally wrote sion of General Dynamics and retired 10 OF NEW YORK letters to the parents and loved ones of the years later. At that time he was given a. life IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American soldiers whom he had seen and membership in the Marine Draftsmen Associ­ talked to. ation. Monday, April 7, 1915 But his career in government had started Later he served as clerk of the works for Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker, last week I several years before he aspired to national Kelly Junior High School and in a. similar office. was most distressed to read in the New He ran successfully for the office of First post for the Thames Plaza redevelopment York Times Secretary General Kurt Selectman of the town of Norwich, offering project. He was clerk of the works for the Waldheim's statement to the e1fect that what he ca.lled "nonpolitical" experience in Thamesville sewer inceptor and the North the refugee problem in Vietnam was "a business methods and management. After Main St. project. He held a. slmllar role dur­ very controversial political problem" eight years in office, he looked back on a ing the construction of the Eastwood and that the United Nations should not get number of accompllshments. He had brought Westwood housing projects for the elderly. involved in. In subsequent statements, about the expansion of the town road sys­ He was a. charter member of the East Great as I understand it, Secretary Waldheim tem. He had replaced three vital bridges in Plain Volunteer Fire Co.; member of Richard the town. And, he noted, he had brought said that his statement was misunder­ E. Hourigan Post 594, Veterans of Foreign stood and that what he feared was that to an end the fiscal practices which produced Wars; a 54-year member of Robert 0. an "unbelievable fioating debt of $600,000" the United Nations' involvement in this that had resulted from an unwillingness to Fletcher Post 4, American Legion; a life mem­ political issue would impair its humani­ "proceed on a pay as you go policy." ber of Norwich Lodge 430, B.P.O. Elks; 40- tarian e1forts. These accomplishments, viewed in historic year member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board; trustee of the Maplewood Cemetery I can only ask, what else is the United context, were remarkable. For Mr. McWil­ if liams served the town during the depth of Association for over 50 years; and director of Nations to do it is not to extend its the great depression, when galloping govern­ The Connecticut Bank and Trust Co. from hand into the political arena? What ment deficits bad become a national habit, 1925 to 1932. Secretary General Waldheim has lost and when resources for government revenues He wa.s a former member of the Greenville sight of is that the United Nations must were scarce. Oongrega.tlona.l Church and served as a. Sun­ insert itself into political disputes, but John D. McWllliams has now passed on. day school teacher. Mr. McWilliams was also as an unbiased mediator and arbiter. In­ But be leaves a. legacy that is valuable for a. former member of Somerset Lodge 34, AF & stead, Mr. Waldheim has taken sides by our time. It we are to learn from history, his AM. acceding to the wishes of the Communist outspoken patriotism in a. time of interna­ He was marrried to the former Ethel V. world which on this issue wants the tional upheaval, and his devotion to fiscal MCClafferty in Norwich, Aug. 28, 1919 and integrity in time of ..economic trouble should United Nations to stand aside. they observed their 55th wedding anniver­ In recent years, the United Nations provide worthwhile examples, for those who sary last summer. have followed him in public office. Besides his widow survivors include one has suffered a disasterous tumble from JoHN D. McWILLIAMS, 83; BUILDER, granddaughter, Mrs. Thomas Archer, two the heights of impartiality and is now CONGRESSMAN grandsons, J. David Sullivan and G. Bryce just picking and choosing whom it will NoRWICH.-Former U .8. Rep. John D. Mc­ Sullivan; and two great grandsons, Brent and help, not on the basis of justice, but on Williams, 83, of 2 Elizabeth St., died Sunday Troy Sullivan. the basis of politics. t • .> - : ., ~ \ I ,• I ' ' \ ., • ' 1 .. -. i\ 9198 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 7, 1975 The United States cannot stand mute ban hom~. less than four months after com­ West Coast dock st;-ike which hurt the while this happens. Therefore, today I pleting his third term as governor. He was 66. economy. am joining with my colleague from New Mr. Burns underwent surgery for cancer He is survived by his Wife and three · York dissidents. He and his wife, the opera singer Congress mandate to assist State and He has also maintained a high level of Galina Vishnevskaya, are now touring t h e local law enforcement in their efforts to community involvement with several United States. In the following letter, ex­ combat increasing violence has been car­ service organizations including Rotary cerpted from the New York Russian-language ried out; and to measure the effect of International, Town Hall of California, newspaper Novoye Russkoye Slovo, and tran.•:; ­ growing homicide rates on the quality and two terms on the Board of Directors lated for The New York Times by Antoniua of American life, among others. of the Westchester Chamber of Com­ W. Bouis, Mr. Rost ropovich explains why he merce, as well as several health and hos­ has said he wil. not return home until there In view of the widespread public in­ is full artistic freedom there. Igor Shafare­ terest in this issue, the members of the pital associations. vich,who is cited in t he letter, is a Moscow Subcommittee on Crime agreed to per­ Mr. Hahn has received many impor­ University mat hematician and an associate mit the proceedings to be televised; ac­ tant awards and citations for his service of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Novoye Russ­ cordingly, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the in the health care field to the residents koye Slovo had reprinted excerpts of a Sha­ 2 days of hearings will be provided of Los Angeles County and southern Cal­ ferevich article t hat had first appeared in the throughout the Chicago area from the ifornia. He has been honored by the ma­ Paris newspaper Le Monde.) studios of WTTW-TV, channel 11, 5400 jor organizations in his field by being As I read the opinions of Igor Shafarevich, North St. Louis Avenue. WTTW-TV, an named a fellow of the American Acad­ whom I admire greatly, I understoo~ that emy of Medical Administrators, a mem­ even people who are kindly disposed toward affiliate of the Public Broadcasting sys­ me, like Mr. Shafarevich, do not know or do tem, first carried such coverage of con­ ber of the American College of Hospital not understand the real reasons that forced gressional proceedings more than 2 years Administrators, a fellow of the Ameri­ me to take a very decisive step-to embark ago when the Select Committee on Crime, can Public Health Association, and a fel­ on a lengt hy separation from my homeland. this subcommittee's predecessor, held 3 low of the. British Royal Society of Mr. Shafarevich writ es: "The best repre­ days of hearings on the problem of drugs Health. sentat ives of our literature, criticism, and music ... have left voluntarily. And, if now, in city schoo~s, under the able chairman­ It is for these reasons, Mr. Speaker, ship of my ·distinguished colleague and that I call to your attention the outstand­ some say that they were expelled, and others ing achievements of Kenneth Kee-Bok that they were almost expelled, and still friend, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. others that they are incensed because they PEPPER). Hahn in providing finer health care to were deprived of citizenship, then it mean s On Monday and Tuesday, April14-15, the people of southern California. t b.at all of them feel that t hey did not act as the Subcommittee on Crime will hear they sh 0uld have." from a number of distinguished wit­ What if he is right, and I did not act nesses, including: The Honorable Richard FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE properly? Could my friends have found an­ J. Daley, mayor of the city of Chicago; other way for :ne? What more could I h ave done? the Honorable Bernard Carey, Cook HON. DONALD M. FRASER My family's situat ion for the last five years County State's attorney; representatives was completely unlike t hat of any other art ­ of the Chicago Crime Commission, the OF MINNESOTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ists ail.d musicians now living in the U.S.S.R. medical profession, crime statistics ex­ There was only one reason for it: As a m·,_c;i­ perts, and several civic and citizens' Monday, April 7, 1975 cian, I never was political. I lived according groups, as well as the local bench and Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, several to my conscience and my heart; I signed no bar. The hearings will begin at 10 a.m. weeks ago, the New York Times published letters composed by official organs-either both days. against "Israeli aggressors" or against Boris on its op-ed page a letter written by Pasternak or Andrei D . Sakharov; I did not Those wishing to testify or to submit Mstislav Rostropovich, the world famous participat e in t he officially organized persecu­ a statement for the record should ad­ cellist, who, in his own words has em­ tion campaigns against certain composers, dress their requests to the Committee on barked ''on a lengthy separation from writers, artists, and scientists; and, as you the Judiciary, 2137 Rayburn House Office my homeland," the Soviet Union. Rostro­ know, I gave refuge to my friend Aleksandr I. Building, Washington, D.C. 20515. povich will become the music di1-ector Solzhenitsyn, who spent four winters in my dacha. These are the "crimes" that led to an and conductor of the National Symphony entire chain of events. The result was my KENNETH KEE-BOK HAHN Orchestra beginning with the orchestra's departure from Russia with my family for 1977-78 season. an extended period. Excerpted from the New York Russian­ Mr. Shafarevich wrote: "They left .. . HON. ALPHONZO BELL language newspaper Novoye Russkoye voluntarily." What does voluntarily mean? I am speaking now not of the manner of the OF CALIFORNIA Slovo, the letter published March 6, 1975, by the Times was translated by Antonio departure but of what led up to the fact that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES W. Bouis. It is an artist's testimony of two Russian artists had to appeal to the Monday, April 7, 1975 Government with a request to take their how an authoritarian regime can strangle family abroad for an extended period. Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, I wish today to the artistic life of a person who considers I would like I. R. Shafarevich to answer pay special recognition to a particularly herself/himself nonpolitical. ''I never was this: Just how do you picture my creative outstanding individual in my congres­ political," writes Rostropovich, but in life at home when I was denied the opportu­ sional district in southern California. some societies even actS of conscience nity of self-expression as an artist? What Kenneth K. Hahn is regional director and friendship are viewed by the bureau­ should a performing musician do when his crats as "political." art is aging and dying along with him? Re­ for American Medicorp, Inc., one of the cordings are the only way (and then, not Nation's largest investor-owned hospital In his case, Rostropovich w1ites, there fully) to leave a "record" of interpretations, organizations. He has supervision over 11 was no intolerable pressure: which can even "outlive" the artist himself. major hospitals in Los Angeles and Riv­ Almost anything physical can be with­ But for this you need at least permission to erside Counties. stood. . . . A musician cannot lock himself record. What would you do if at someone's These hospitals under Mr. Hahn's di­ inside four walls and create for himself command, the recording session is stopped alone. He must give his art to others, other­ literally in mid-note, and you are literally rection have together more than 3,500 wise the art, having no outlet, will destroy thrown out of the studio? That is what hap­ employees and volunteers, and combined t he artist. · pened during a recording of Puccini's staffs including more than 2,000 medical "Tosca" with m y wife and the Bolshoi doctors. Mr. Speaker, Mstislav Rostropovich gives us an artist's view of how authori­ Theater orchestra under my baton. Under Mr. Hahn's direction, these hos­ On ce, in reply to Herbert von Kar ajan's pitals served last year more than 44 000 tarian government corrodes the human spirit. For Rostropovich, "the wall raised r equest for Galina Vishnevskaya to come to inpatients, 98,000 emergency cases, ~nd Vienna to record Moussorgsky's "Boris returned more than $3.3 million in taxes by the system" between him and the Rus­ sian people was too high to jump. He saw Godunov," the Ministry of Culture of the to city, county, and State and Federal U.S.S.R. said, naturally without consulting Government. :flight as his only recourse. Galina Vishnevskaya, that she was a "so­ A resident of Torrance, Calif., Kenneth The Times version of the letter follows: prano" and could not sing the part of Marina Hahn has pertinent educational degrees FROM RussiA, WITH LOVE Mn ishek because it did not suit her voice. and honors from the Sussex College of (By Mst islav Rostropovich) Apparently, Mr. von Karajan was not as Technology in England, the University (NoTE.-The Soviet Union allowed the educated musically as our Ministry of Cul­ of Southern California, the University of cellist Ms tislav Rostropovich to go abroad on ture which, of course, knows everything CXXI-580-Part 7 9200 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 7, 1975 better than anyone. After the resulting scan­ through the hardships, hunger, and sorrow ment's assessment of industry capabili­ dal, the recording was made, and it remains of war with our people. That 1s possible when indisputable evidence of who knows more there is hope and the chance of it coming ties to meet its target estimates of gas about music. true. A musician cannot lock himself inside and oil extractions from the OCS. I would be interested in Leontyne Price's four walls and create for himself alone. A recommendation by the Environ­ reaction if the United States State Depart­ He must give his art to others, otherwise mental Protection Agency that the open­ ment, saying not hing about it to her, were the art, having no outlet, will destroy the ing of frontier areas be postponed for simply to forbid a record company to use artist. at least 2 years to enable coastal States her in "Carmen," because in their opinion And now my wife and I have gone away to assess the impact of onshore develop­ her voice lacked the necessary lower ranges. for a few years-not from our own people, How much longer could I remain a puppet but from the bureaucrats who are allowed ment and assess possible adverse en­ of Goskoncert, t h e st ate organization that to mock openly people in the arts. We did vironmental consequences. trades in artists, in planning my guest ap­ not leave because we did not have enough An assessment by a committee of the pearances abroad? When, in accordance with love, recognition, comfort, or money at home. National Academy of Sciences that stud­ their (or "someone's" ) desires, only they can Not at all. On the contrary, our life abroad ies on environmental risks associated determine where I can go and where I can't is much more difficult for us: The children with offshore oil development in the Gulf what I can play and what I can't. Why is it are in boarding school in Switzerland, and of Alaska and the Atlantic Ocean is in­ that when they did not wish to let me per­ we keep moving around, spending a few adequate and incomplete. form Beethoven's Trio with Yehudi Menuhin days at a time in hotels, definitely without and Wilhelm Kemptf for the UNESCO cele­ the comforts we enjoyed in our marvelous The legislation Mr. DoDD and I have bration in Paris (in January, 1974), they apartments and huge dacha. We lef t only to introduced, H.R. 5588, is brief and to the send an official telegram to Mr. Menuhin realize our musical plans. point: stating that I could not come because of ill­ ~1r. Sha.farevich writes that "the cult u ral Be it enacted by the Senate and House ness--when in truth I am perfectly healthy? figures who left voluntarily . . . did not of Representatives of the United States of How many times can my creative plans have sufficient spiritual values to counter­ America in Congress assembled That not be changed abruptly and how many times balance the threat of ordeals, difficult ones, withstanding any authority gra~ted under can I be "punished" by various periods of to be sure, but completely within the scope the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 "quarantine" against appearances abroad of human strength, as numerous examples U.S.C. 1331 and following) or any other act, and by various cancellations of my con­ attest. If that is so, how can we talk of that beginning on the date of enactment of certs at home? significant contributions to culture? People this legislation no lease sales or other trans­ Perhaps I was always hoping to go abroad without these values are incapable of con­ fer of proprietary interest shall be made in and consequently did not devote enough tributing to culture no matter which side respect to the production of. mineral re­ energy and time to my people? No. During of t he border they are on." serves of the Outer Continental Shelf dur­ my 25 years at the Moscow Conservatory What should you do then, if you are per­ ing the 94th Congress or until such time as I graduated over twenty international prize haps not bereft of these "spiritual values," the 94th Congress prescribes procedures for winners; I tried to stimulate composers to but are physically restrained from sharing the orderly development of the O.C.S. create new works for the cello; I was one of them with your people? And if you cannot However, such moratorium shall not pre­ the initiators of the first music festival in jump over the wall raised by the system, vent the Federal Government acting through the U.S.S.R. in the city of Gorky; I did not no matter how hard you try and how much the United States Geological Survey or other disdain performing in the distant cities of you sutfer? instrumentality to negotiate with govern­ Siberia, Chukota, and the Far East. I do not know whether I have contributed ment or private industry for the purpose of But for my growth as a musician and even minutely to music, but whatever I do conducting exploratory operations to deter­ artist, I need to realize more significant on the other side of my country's border mine the nature and extent of such mineral projects with large orchestras and major wlll always be Russian. Our stay abroad is reserves along the O.C.S. conductors and soloists, in my own country not an escape from Russia for my wife and and abroad. myself, but the only opportunity left for I want to emphasize that this morato­ I am only 47 n ow, in my prime. There is us to realize our musical dreams, which we rium would not prevent the Federal Gov­ so much more that I could have done for will perform with all our love from Russia ernment from negotiating with public my country, it they would have at least and the great Russian people. agencies and private industry for the given me "musical freedom," without "reg­ sinking of test wells to determine the ulation," without tripping me up, spoiling nature and extent of mineral reserves my plans, trying to destroy me as a person INTERIOR AND THE SHELF: TIME offshore. and musician. They were trying to prove What a moratorium will provide is that a talented man, too, if he did not FOR A MORATORIUM obey, could be destroyed and replaced by time for a reassessment, a review of how a mediocrity, who would slavishly submit accelerated drilling in the Outer Con­ to the authorities and follow the narrow, HON. WILLIAM J. HUGHES tinental Shelf fits into an overall energy and often stupid, official line blindfolded. OF NEW JERSEY strategy. How much suspicion, control, and over­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES As the Government Accounting Office cautiousness they have toward their own so accurately stated in its report of compatriots! Wednesday, March 26, 1975 March 19, the Interior Department's It is not my fault that I must realize my Mr. HUGHES. Mr. Speaker, on behalf life's dreams not in my homeland but in the leasing goals were: theaters of New York, San Francisco, Lon.. of Mr. DoDD and myself, I announce the Hastily conceived by Interior under don, Paris, Milan, Vienna, and Munich. Not introduction of legislation to declare a pressure exerted by the energy crisis and long before I left, the Deputy Minister of moratorium on the sale of leases in the newly formed Federal Energy Ad­ Culture said to me in an official conversa­ frontier areas of the Outer Continental ministration; tion: "Who cares that you want to conduct Shelf for the purpose of exploiting min­ Developed with little input by the In­ or play with the best orchestra of our coun­ eral reserves. terior operating levels and based on try. They do not want you!" Members wishing to either discuss or overly optimistic assumption and inade­ GaUna Vishnevskaya replied: "That is precisely why we must leave, because they cosponsor this legislation are encouraged quate data; want Rostropovich in Paris, London, and to call either of our offices. Adopted by Interior policy officials de­ New York." The necessity for this legislation is spite opposition from program person­ In the prime of her career, GaUna Vish­ apparent: Secretary Morton has pro­ nel; and nevskaya found her appearances being met nounced full speed ahead on plans for Developed and adopted without ade­ with a conspiracy of silence. She was liter­ lease sales for production despite such quate consideration of environmental ally driven from radio and television. cautionary developments as: What then should I have done according A report by the Government Account­ impacts, national-regional supply-and­ to my friend Mr. Shafarevich? Sit at home ing omce released March 19-"0utlook demand needs, or alternatives to large­ until I was old or dead, waiting for them for Federal Goals To Accelerate Leasing scale expansion of shelf leasing. "to want" me? And never realizing my Legislation is pending in both Houses dreams, think as I lay dying, "Ah, how I of Oil and Gas Resources on the Outer could have played that work!"? Continental Shelf"-that concludes, in for the orderly planning and develop­ Mr. Shafarevich writes, "The cultural fig­ part: ment of offshore reserves which consider tues who voluntarily left Russia just could GAO believes that the Secretary of the such needs as coastal impact funds and not withstand the pressures that, say, mil­ Interior should clearly define Shelf leasing no-fault oil spill liability. lions of religious believers withstood for goals and specify how these goals will be Mr. Speaker, it is time for the House decades." met and how they relate to national energy and Senate Interior Committees to ex­ There is no talk of intolerable pressures goals and plans (p. 16). in my particular case. Almost anything ercise oversight responsibilities. physical can be withstood. My wife survived A Department of Commerce report It is time to take the wind out of In­ the blockade of Leningrad. We suffered highly critical of the Interior Depart- terior's hastily raised sails.