January 22, 1971, EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 417 trol Act of 1974; to the Committee on Bank­ time requirement for candidates for the Of­ establish a Joint Committee on Energy; to ing and Currency. fice of President and Vice President; to the the Committee on Rules. H.R. 12212. A blll to prohibit the exporta­ Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ By Mr. ICHORD (for himself, Mr. tion of grain from the United States when­ merce. AsPIN, Mr. DENT, Mr. 8AT'l'ERJ'IELD, ever the supply of grain is not sutllcient to By Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey: Mr. HOWARD, Mr. RAalCK, Mr. ZION, meet domestic needs; to the Committee on H.R. 12219. A bill to establish a National Mr. 8ARASIN, Mr. RoE, Mr. KEMP, Mr. Banking and Currency. Energy Information System, to authorize the PODELL, Mr. BUitXll: of Florida, Mr. By Mr. PATI'EN: Department of the Interior to undertake an SIKES, Mr. JAMES V. STANTON, Mr. H.R. 12213. A blll to establish a National inventory of U.S. energy resources on public BENNETr, Mr. En..m:Ro, Mr. H'tJBEB, Energy Information System, to authorize the lands and elsewhere, and for other purposes; Mrs. GRASSO, Mrs. 8CHBOEDD, Mr. Department of the Interior to undertake an to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign KARTH, Mr. NIX, Mr. VANIX, Mr. Fm.­ inventory of u.s. energy resources on publlc Commerce. TON, Mr. DAVIS of South Carolina, lands and elsewhere, and for other purposes; By Mr. VEYSEY: and Mr. LONG of Maryland) : to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign H.R. 12220. A blll to establish a national H. Res. 774. Resolution declaring the sense Commerce. homestead program under which single­ of the House with respect to a prohibition of By Mr. REUSS (for himself, Mr. AsH· fa.mlly dwellings owned by the Secretary of extension of credit by the Export-Import LEY, Mr. KOCH, Mr. MITcHELL OP Housing and Urban Development may be Bank of the United States; to the Committee Maryland, Mr. MOAKLEY, Mr. MOOR­ conveyed at nominal cost to individuals and on Banking and CUrrency. HEAD of Pennsylvania, Mr. STARK, famllies who will occupy and rehabllitate By Mr. MARAZITI: and Mr. STUDDS) : them; to the Committee on Banking and H. Res. 775. Resolution providing for an H.R. 12214. A blll to amend the Economic Currency. investigation of the amount of petroleum Stabilization Act of 1970 to require the Pres­ By Mr. WYATT: resources; to the Committee on Rules. Ident to set a ceiling price on certain domes­ H.R. 12221. A blll to declare Lake Oswego, By Mr. RANGEL: . tic crude petroleum not to exceed prices pre­ Oreg., a nonnavigable wa.ter of the United H. Res. 776. Resolution creating a select vailing on May 15, 1973, adjusted for cost States; to the Committee on Interstate and committee to conduct an investigation and increases; to the Committee on Banking and Foreign Commerce. study of the health effects of the current Currency. By Mr. EILBERG: energy crisis on the poor; to the Committee By Mr. ROE: H.J. Res. 872. Joint resolution proposing on Rules. H.R. 12215. A b111 to amend the Public an amendment to the Constitution of the H. Res. 777. Resolution creating a select Health Service Act to provide assistance for United States guaranteeing the right to life committee to conduct an investigation of programs for the diagnosis, prevention and to the unborn, the Ul, the aged, or the in­ the nationalization of the on industry; to treatment of, and research in, Huntington's capacitated; to the Committee on the Ju­ the Committee on Rules. Disease; to the Committee on Interstate and diciary. By Mrs. SULLIVAN: Foreign Commerce. By Mr. KOCH: H. Res. 778. Resolution to provide further By Mr. ROSE: H.J. Res. 873. Joint resolution to establish funds for the expenses of the investigations H.R. 12216. A bill to amend the act relat­ a Joint Committee on Energy; to the Com­ and study authorized by House Resolution ing to the Lumbee Indians of North Caro­ mittee on Rules. 187; to the Committee on House Admin.1stra­ lina; to the Committee on Interior and In­ By Mr. O'HARA: tion. sular A1fa1rs. H.J. Res. 874. Joint resolution to designate By Mr. ROYBAL: the first week in October of each year as H.R. 12217. A b111 to amend title 38, United "National Father-Son Week"; to the Com­ PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS States Code, to provide appropriate cere­ mittee on the Judiciary. monies with respect to the burial of veterans By Mr. BOB WILSON: Under clause 1 of rule xxn, in national cemeteries; to the Committee on H.J. Res. 875. Joint resolution designating Mr. FAUNTROY (by request) introduced Veterans' A1Ia1rs. February of each year as "American History a b111 (H.R. 12222) to correct an inequity in By Mr. STAGGERS: Month"; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the case of certain applications for letters H.R. 12218. A b111 to amend the Com­ By Mr. RAILSBACK: patent of Tsukumo Nobusawa; to the Com­ munications Act of 1934 to repeal the equal H. Con. Res. 414. Concurrent resolution to mittee on the Judiciary.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS IMPLEMENTATION OF MPAP CAUSES of a letter Mr. Pat Moran, fuel alloca­ nounced. Much of the publicity surround­ CONFUSION AT ALL LEVELS tion officer for the State of Arkansas, Ing the initiation of this program empha­ wrote to Secretary of the Interior Rog­ sized that the individual state governments ers Morton. I am afraid that such prob­ were expected to play an important role in HON. BILL ALEXANDER lems are not peculiar only to the Ar­ carrying out its day to day operation. In an OP ARKANSAS effort to learn in more detail how the State kansas allocation officer. of Arkansas could do Its part during the IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES It is time for us to stop the back­ current energy shortage, I have attended Monday, January 21, 1974 biting over how we got into this situa­ these briefing sessions of your department, atlon and who is to blame. We have got all to no avail; the speakers are not sure of Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, the anything when questioned by the various mandatory petroleum allocation pro­ to start working together to get some truthful answers to the extent of this state offi.cials in attendance. gram went into effect on November 1. However, the particular briefing which At that time its Administrator said that crisis and then constructively take mea­ takes the cake, so to speak, was the one tn sures to alleviate it. Dallas, Texas last Friday morning, Novem­ he did not have the staff to handle this The letter follows: program and it would take him 60 to 90 ber 16. This meeting, to which each Gov­ .ARKANSAS PuBLic ernor in this region was asked to send a days to set it up. However, this country SERVICE COMMISSION, representative, was addressed by Under Sec­ was expected to live under a program Little Bock, Ark., November 19, 1973. retary Whitaker in your absence. Secret&rJ for 2 to 3 months that was not in full op­ Hon. RoGERS C. B. MORTON, Whitaker delivered an absolutely ridiculous eration. Not only were those adminis­ Secretary of Interlqr, Department of the speech (although it was mercifully short) tering and affected by the program at Interior, Washington, D.C. in which he sought to convince the audi­ local and State levels confused and un­ DEAR MR. SECRETARY: During the past ence that President Nixon had seen the pres­ sure of its provisions and authority, but month I have attended approxtmately three ent fuel shortage coming for years and that we in Congress were not much more briefings at the invitation of your agency, it was the Congress who at fault for or the Energy Polley omce, whtch were sup­ was successful in obtaining answers from posedly designed to bring appropriate state failure to act. those responsible for the program at offi.cials up to date on the workings of the Secretary Morton, most of the people in the Federal level. And, the MPAP has newly formed ''mtddle distulate fuels allo­ the Dallas audience last Friday came 1n an been revised several times since its issu­ cation program" formulated and announced effort to get some answers about the day to ance to make up for the hasty, seem­ by the Energy Polley Oftlce for implementa­ day workings and administration of the fuel Jngly thoughtless omissions and mistakes tion by the Department of Interior, effec­ allocation program being sponsored by your made in the promulgation of the first tive November 1, 1973. department. What they received was a thtnly regwations. My knowledge of the "middle dtstmate diSguised poltttcal speech which no one ap­ allocation program" was, and stm 18, what I preciated. In the current stage of the energy As an example of the lack of informa­ have gleaned from a careful reading and re­ shortage we are surely past playing the tion our States are getting on this pro­ reading of the program as it was printed in asinine game wherein one branch of our gov­ gram, I wish to share with YOU a CODY the Pedera.l Register when tt was ftrst an- ernment blames another for our troubles (a CXX--27-Part 1 418 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 point very aptly made by Congressman Mil­ It was reassuring to read Mr. Drum­ The danger is plain to see. It 1s not an ford of Texas at the Dallas meeting.) mond's appraisal of American Viewpoint, overstatement to say that it !s as great a Whether it be termed "New Federalism" headed by Ivan Hill, president, Univer­ challenge to American freedom as World War or otherwise, the States are ready to assume sity Square, Chapel Hill, N.C. Its sole, n. We either face it or run away from it and any responsiblllty given them in the present su1fer the consequences. energy situation. In Arkansas, Governor nonprofit concern being to help "make Much can be done individually to restore Bumpers created a State Energy Ofiice one honesty a working social principle, rather higher ethical conduct to all our relations. week before the middle distlllate program than a moral issue apart from our daily But collective efforts will be needed. I make was announced. We have since doubled the lives." He wrote: this suggestion: force in that omce and we wm increase per­ From first hand experience, I can vouch Shouldn't every major civic organization 1n sonnel again if this 1s needed 1n order to in­ for American Viewpoint. It 1s sound and the U .8.-llke the League of Women Voters, sure that no Arkansan has to bear more than sane. the Junior Chambers of Commerce, Rotary, his or her share of the energy shortage. OUr Kiwanis--every labor union, every business State Energy 01fice has printed its own Mr. President, I have felt so, too, espe­ organization, every professional group, make forms because we have yet to receive any cially since reading its full page adver­ it a first priority in 1974 to study codes of forms from the Federal Government. These tisement in · the Friday, December 14, ethics to find out how well they work and self-generated forms have been sent to the 1973, issue of the Wall Street Journal find ways to make them work better? appropriate people throughout the fuel dis­ making a special appeal to business lead­ I'm not talking about ethics you frame tribution chain in Arkansas and the com­ ers "with the courage and faith to sup­ and hang on the wall. I am not talking about pleted versions thereof have been filed with ethics with which to measure others, but your omce in Washington. In connection with port a movement to make America more ethics to measure ourselves and to live by. these make-shift forms our Attorney Gen­ honest". The leaders of these and other organiza­ eral recently filed a petition seeking state I ask unanimous consent, Mr. Presi­ tiens can do much to stir and stimulate a wide relief from our agricultural diesel fuel dent, that Roscoe Drummond's column, genuine revival of ethics-at-work 1n the u.s. shortage and at this writing lt appears that "Point of View," under the heading, "The and one way to begin would be to consult our prayer for relief has, 1n part, been Nation's Greatest Need,'' from the with American Viewpoints, Inc., whose sole, granted. Wednesday, January 16, 1974, the Chris­ non-proftt concern is to help "make honesty The point I make, however, is that what re­ tian Science Monitor, be printed in the a working social principle, rather than a lief we have thus far received has been almost moral issue apart from our daily lives." wholly a result of a herculean joint etrort RECORD. The address is: Ivan Hill, president, Uni­ by our entire Congressional delegation, the There being no objection, the column versity Square, Chapel HUl, North Carolina Governor's Ofiice, and the State Attorney by Mr. Drummond was ordered to be 27514. From firsthand experience I can vouch General. We would have been completely out printed in the RECORD, as follows: for American Viewpoint. It ts sound and of diesel fuel to harvest crops 10 days ago if [From the Christian Science Monitor, Jan. sane. we were depending upon a citizens request to 16, 1974] The American people can have any kind of make its way through local, regional, and THE NATION'S GREATEST NEED government, any kind of polltics, any kind national levels for review. So, please spare us of society they want. But it won't come from any more Under Secretary's speeches about The No. 1 problem 1n the United States wishlng; only from doing. how much the present administration is on 1s not the energy cr1s1s nor health nor hous­ ing nor unemployment--urgent as these mat­ top of our energy problems. I don't believe ters are. THE LATE DR. MANUEL GffiERGA we can stand it (Uterally). It's something else. Sincerely yours, It's sleazy ethics and pervasive dishon­ PAT MORAN, esty in just about everything-in govern­ Fuel Allocat!on 0/ftcer. HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI ment, 1n politics, 1n busln.ess, In labor, and to some extent in the media. They au suffer OF n.LINOIB from widespread public distrust. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The truth 1s that a lack of faith ts dan­ Monday, January 21, 1974 NATION'S GREATEST NEED: RE­ gerously eroding the resources of the na­ VERSE DOWNWARD TREND OF tion. Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, it is ETHICS, WRITES ROSCOE DRUM­ Here 1s one verdict which 1s blunt and my sad duty to inform the Members of MOND AS HE COMMENDS AMERI­ to the point: the death last week of my good friend, CAN VIEWPOINT, INC., EFFORTS "People are fed up, dtsffiusioned by the Dr. Manuel Giberga. Uars. Sick of the exploiters. The former treasurer of the Republi­ People want faith Instead of anxiety. Faith in themselves, faith 1n their unions, can National Heritage Groups Council · HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH their schools, their government. Faith in each and, at his death, third vice chairman OF WEST VmGINIA Othel'. of the councn, Dr. Giberga was known IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES "They are ready to belleve in ethics and widely for his philanthropic and hu­ honesty. But to Improve our system, we must manitarian deeds. He also was vice Tuesday, January 22, 1974 Improve ourselves. That's the challenge." chairman of the President's Advisory Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, the But just how important is it to con­ COuncn to the Cabinet Committee on noted columnist, Roscoe Drummond, front this challenge and begin to do some­ Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking thing about it? Is it something just nice writing another forthright chapter of to do or 1s it Imperative? I submit that cor­ Americans. his "Point of View," in the Wednesday rupt politics, ahabby ethics, and widespread Manuel Raphall Giberga was . born January 16, 1974, issue of the Christian dishonesty are death-dealing to human September 3, 1916, in Havana. CUba. He Science Monitor, discussed "The Na­ freedom and to democratic government. To was graduated from Havana University tion's Greatest Need," namely, reverse the downward drl!t we have been where he received his B.A. degree in To reverse the downward drift we have witnessing for a decade of lawless violence 1939 and his M.A. in 1945 in social, eco­ been witnessing for a decade of violence and and lawless government w1ll be Ufe-givlng. nomic, and political history. He com­ lawless government. Such a reversal would One organization, which 1s setting out to pleted postgraduate studies at the Uni­ be life-giving. do something about declining ethics 1n the U.S., 1B called American Viewpoint, Inc., and versity of Villanueva in Havana in eco­ Mr. Drummond declared that: its premise goes to the heart of the matter. nomics and marketing. He became an Corrupt poUtlcs, shabby ethics, and wide­ It 1s: "Let's Make AmerJ.ca Honest Enough economic adviser to the Cuban Labor spread dishonesty are death-dealing to hu­ to Stay Free.'' Department in 1947 and in 1948 worked man freedom and to democratic government. This is not mere rhetoric. History makes with the Cuban Treasury Department in It amply clea.r that the alternative to a de­ And he expressed enthusiasm for the: sugar fiscal control. cent and workable standard of honor and From 1946 to 1966 Dr. Giberga was an One organization which is setting out to honesty 1n any society 1s not dlsorder, It 18 do something about declining ethics in the enforced disclpllne; lt 1s repression; it 18 international consultant to many South U.S.-tille orga.nization called American the authoritarian state and, in the end, dic­ American banking and business firms. Viewpoint, Inc.-and its premise goes to the tatorship. He held a seat on the New York coffee heart of the matter. It is: "Let's Make That is why the theme, "Let's Make Amer­ and sugar exchanges. Through 1968 he America Honest Enough to Stay Free.'' That ica Honest Enough to Stay Free," means what was president of Tinguaro sugar mill in theme means what it says--it is crucial to lt says. That's why it 1s crucial to do some­ Louisiana. He was Director of Tax Divi­ do something about it now. It may sound thing about it now. It may sound Idealistic. sion Sugar Production in tM Cuban idealistic. So what? It may sound Utopian. So what? It may sound Utopian. It Isn't, It's It isn't; it's practical. Healthy ethics 1s no practical. Healthy ethics 1s no more Utopian Treasury Department and special eco­ more Utopian than a healthy democracy. than a healthy democracy. Neglect one and nomic consultant to the Prime Minister N6glect one and you k1ll the other. you kill the other. of Cuba, Dr. carlos Prlo, 1952-55. January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 419 One of the recent highlights of sumption of the power of the purse; it would of Columbus council in the State of Manuel Giberga's career was his in­ increase the possibtlity of overriding such a California. The Gardena organization is defatigable efforts in bringing to fruition veto if it did come. The Senate would do well the only one to have ever received this the return to the United States from to follow the lead of the House. award for two consecutive years--1972 Spain of 25,000 Cuban refugees. He was a and 1973. war hero, a patriot, a civic leader. Under the leadership of Grand Knight Dr. Giberga was the author of anum­ TRffiUTE TO THE GARDENA VALLEY Oscar Santos, Deputy Grand Knight Al­ ber of books and articles in the field of COUNCIL OF THE KNIGHTS OF red H. Lecesne, Financial Secretary economics. COLUMBUS James Pierceall, Treasurer Fred Purifoy, Mr. Speaker, Manuel is survived by and Junior Past Grand Knight Fred his wife, Lillian, of Washington, D.C., Hand, we can be assured that this dis­ and eight daughters. I take this time to HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON tinguished council will continue to live alert many Members of Congress of his OF CALIFORNIA up to the motto of the Knights of Colum­ death since it may not have been called IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bus, "All this and much more are these to their attention while Congress was men they call the Knights of Columbus." adjourned. Tuesday, January 22, 1974 Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to REPORT TO THE SEVENTH CON~ the outstanding community work being GRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF ILLI­ NOIS FROM CONGRESSWOMAN POWER OF THE PURSE done by the Knights of Columbus Coun­ cil No. 4038 of Gardena, Calif. CARDISS COLLINS Over 100 years ago, Walt Whitman HON. BOB BERGLAND seemingly prophesied our good fortune OF MINNESOTA when he wrote: HON. CARDISS COLLINS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A great city 1s that whioh has the greatest OF ILLINOIS men and women. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, January 22, 1974 Gardena is such a city. Tuesday, January 22, 1974 Mr. BERGLAND. Mr. Speaker, I am The Gardena Valley Council of the Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, dismayed and disturbed by the continued Knights of Columbus was founded by thwarting by the executive branch of not last fall I sent a questionnaire to all of 105 charter members in 1955. Through the residents of the Seventh Congres­ only the will and the express direction their hard work and dedication this or­ of the Congress but also of the indiffer­ sional District of Illinois. The questions ganization has now more than doubled and findings of that survey are as fol­ ence and disregard of the interests by its enrollment. In fact, it has received the the executive branch of our citizens in lows: Century Club Award for acquiring 100 SURVEY rural communities. new members in a single year. Specifically at this time I refer the 1. Amnesty: Favor amnesty for draft to In addition to the work the Knights of evaders 1f they perform several years of pub­ impoundment of moneys appropriated to Columbus do for their parishes-St. lic service work upon their return? Yes, construct needed water and sewer facili­ Anthony. Maria Regina, St. Catherine, 54.5%; No, 38.1%; No opinlon, 7.4%. ties in rural areas. St. Frances Cabrini, and St. Phllomena-­ 2. Bllingual: Favor more federal funding In that connection, Mr. Speaker, I in­ to aid bilingual education? Yes, 50.2%; No, their achievements and activities have 35.5%; No opinion, 14.3%. clude an editorial on this subject appear­ greatly benefited all the citizens of the ing in the New York Times on December 8. Cost of living: Feel that the costs ot 17, 1973: community. Almost $1 milllon has been food and rent have become excessive? Yes, raised in the past for various charitable 84.5%; No, 9.0%; No oplnlon, 6.5%. POWER OF THE PuRSE organizations, including Boys Town of 4. Day care: Feel that more federally fund­ Congress in its collective wiSdom decided the West. Members of the Knights also ed day care centers a.re needed? Yes, 60.2%; last year and again this year to appropriate take part in alcoholic and narcotic No,28.9%; Noop1n1on,10.9%. funds for the construction of needed water 5. Economy: Favor continued wage and and sewer systems in rural areas. The execu­ prevention and treatment programs, price controls to fight lnfiation? Yes, 53.0%, tive branch decided that the program was Boy Scout activities, senior citizen pro­ No, 38.8.%; No opinion, 13.7%. unnecessary and impounded the money. grams, and visit patients in area hos­ 6. Environment: Think that su11lcient Far from being "redundant"-to use the pitals on Sundays. The Gardena Valley progress is being made to clean our air and Adm1n1stration's word-the program in dis­ Council was instrumental in starting the water? Yes, 28.3%; No, 67.8%: No opln1on, pute 1s distinct from the Government's ex­ Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award 8.9%. isting program, which has to do with sewage and the Community Field Day for the 7. Bead.start: Feel that federal funds to treatment systems, npt sewers themselves. give pre-schoolers a "headstart" should be But even if the Admlnlstration's explanation citizens of Gardena. increased? Yes, 56.3%; No, 82.3%; No opin­ were sound, it would be no answer to the One of the major activities of the Ion, 11.3%. real question involved. council is the Annual Sports A ward 8. Health insurance: Feel that a national The question 1s this: Which branch of gov­ night honoring outstanding athletes health insurance program to serve the medl• ernment is constitutionally charged with chosen by the local high schools and cally poor 1s needed? Yes, 69.7%; No, 2Ui%:· making laws and appropriating the necessary colleges. The 16th annual presentation No opinion, 8.8%. money and which branch 1s charged with ex­ will be held on January 25, and I am 9. Housing: Feel that the President should ecuting those laws and spending that lift the moratorium on federally subsidized money? Even in this instance, where Con­ honored to have been invited to help pre­ low-income housing? Yes, 51.0%; No, 31.6%: gress has explicitly directed the expenditure sent this year's awards to Don Rowell of No oplnlon, 17.3%. within a fixed period, the Admlnlstration Harbor Junior College, Wayne Johnson 10. Impoundment: Feel that the President takes the view that Its judgment must pre­ of Compton Junior College, Mike Gilbert has the right to refuse to spend funds ap­ vall. of El Camino College, Kevin Cole of propriated by Congress? Yes, 32.9%; No, Its action should quicken the pace of Gardena High School, and Pat Donahue 55.4%; No opinion, 11.7%. Congressional efforts to curb a growing usur­ of Serra High School. I am sure that the 11. Military: Peel that the mtlltary budget pation of legislative function by the execu­ 1s excessive? Yes, 60.9%; No, 27.1%; No opin­ tive branch. Both houses have already passed parents, schools and communities of ion, 12.0%. bllis giving Congress the power to override these fine young men are very proud of 12. News: Guarantee reporters the right to such Impoundments and force the release of their achievements. confidential news sources? Yes, 61.3%; No, appropriated funds. Tacitly acknowled.glng We in the South Bay area are for­ 25.1%; No opinion, 13.6%. that these attempts might be vetoed, the tunate to have such a dedicated organi­ 13. OEO: Agree that federal funding of House of Representatives embodied an anti­ zation as the Gardena Valley Knights community action programs should be con­ impoundment section in a much-needed blli of Columbus willing to unselfishly serve tinued? Yes, 54.1%; No, 30.5%; No oplnlon, to enhance budgetary responstb111ty 1n Con· 15.4%. gress. the interests of our community. It is in­ 14. Postal Service: Feel that the postal Coinbinlng these -cwo purposes would not deed fitting that Council No. 4038 has service has iinproved durtn.g the last two only make it harder for President NIXon to twice received the star Councll Award years? Yes, 19.6%; No, 69.5%; No ~pln1on, veto a curb on his own Administration's as• for being the most outstanding Knights 10.9%. 420 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 DETENTE FOR ENEMIES: BUT WHAT THE POLITICS OF FAMINE turles of economic development. The six na­ AND THE SAHEL tions carved out of the heartland of once ABOUT FRIENDS? semi-arid French West Africa are st111 scarred by the worst kind of economic balkanlza.tion, perpetrated by artlflcial national boundaries HON. JOHN M.ASHBROOK HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL imposed by a colonlal power. o., omo OF NEW YORK The Sahel 1s a flat, harsh region stretch• IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES ing across the continent from the sands and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tuesday, January 22, 1974 barren mountains of the Ba.hara, to where Tuesday, January 22, 1974 the desert gives way to the grasslands and Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, for 3 years trees of the savannahs in central Africa. The efforts of President Nixon and Secretary desert is encroaching upon the region at of State Kissinger to achieve detente drought has ravaged the Sahel in north the rate of 30 miles per year. It has already Africa. The effect on both the peoples parti-ally consumed Mauritania, is threaten­ with Communist countries are well and the economies of the region has been ing the southern half of Niger, and has long known. Not so well known are the efforts devastating, but neither the United since covered Chad as it advances southward, by the same individuals to achieve a cold States nor the United Nations has made edging into Senegal and Upper Volta. war with a cotmtry which desires to be a substantive commitment of economic The six Sahelian states cover an area our friend-Rhodesia. While Secretary equivalent to 60 percent of the u.s. There and humanitarian assistance. It seems the similarity with America ends. The Sa­ of State Kissinger maintains that we that we can sell wheat to the Soviet should not put pressure on the Soviets helian people are among mankind's poorest. Union and force our own consumers to Upper Volta 1s often referred to as the to change internal policies, we should pay higher prices for bread, but we can­ world's poorest nation. Its flve million peo­ and must put pressure on Rhodesia to not provide grain to starving Africans. ple have an annual per capita income of change their internal pollcies. It would Jeffrey L. Hodes has written an in­ $50 and a life expectancy of 32 years. Only seem that there is a certain amount of cisive article on how most of the world 10 percent of the population 1s literate. hypocricy in this position. is shutting its eyes to the Sahel tragedy. Life in M9.11, Chad and Niger is little Smith Hempstone, in the Washington I am sharing this article, which appears better. The average 10-year-old 1n Niger has Star-News on December 21, 1973, has a life expectancy 14 years shorter than a in the February issue in Encore maga­ 10-year-old in India. In Chad during "nor­ written that the United States- zine, with my colleagues in the Congress mal" years, it isn't unusual for six out of Should be encouraging concUiation rather in the hope that our collective conscience every 10 babies to die before they reach flve than confrontation, compromise rather than will be moved to insist upon greater years of age. con.ruct. U.S. commitment to relieve the suffering Mauritania and Senegal are only sllghtly At this point, I include in the Record better oil'. In sparsely-populated Mauritania, of the starving people of the Sahel. the GNP is a princely $140 per capita. In excerpts of Mr. Hempstone's column en­ The article follows: Senegal, children lacking protein suffer from titled "Embargo Debates Called m In­ THE PoLrrics oF FAMINE kwashforkor-bloa.ted bellies--and pregnant formed." (By Jeffrey L. Hodes) women lacking vitamin A suffer from kera­ The excerpts follow: The drought and devastation of the Sahel tomalacia-blindness. EMBARGO DEBATE CALLED ILL !NFOBJU:D is now entering its third year. The famine Amane 1s what the Sahel nomads call (By Smith Hempstone) that has besieged this region of North Africa water. It is the basis of existence in the 1s a blot on the conscience of the inter­ Sahel. Yet the region's rains are scanty and "There are really only three questions erratic. The .annual rainfall is from 16 to worth asking, and nobody is asking them: national community. The technocrats use code words like "developing countries" and 120 inches 1n west Africa. In the Sahel, the "-Is the government of that white-ruled average rainfall is between 4 and 16 inches. Central African state so odious as to merit "lack of infra-structure" to belittle African estimates of the tragedy. The precipitation usually lasts from late lsolattng Rhodesia from the rest of the civU­ May through the summer into late Septem­ tzed world? Each news dispatch coming out of Dakar, Senegal; Niamey, Niger; and Ouagadougou, ber. But the sun quickly sucks up the rain, "-Are (trade] sanctions likely to moderate reducing the lmpac--'; of the precipitation. the racial policies of Rhodesia, or lead to the Upper Volta; documenting the desolation and death that has overcome a quarter of the Thus, the intensity of the summer rains-­ collapse of Premier Ian Smith's regime? the monsoons--usually determines the suc­ "-If sanctions were to lead to the collapse 26 million nomads of this sun-scorched bowl, offers a distressing example of the low pre­ cess or !allure of the agricultural output. of the Smith regime, what would be the con­ This delicate ecological balance supports a sequences? mium placed on life in Black Africa by the West. Much of the human suffering could largely pastoral economy, where nine out of "One does not have to be particularly per­ every 10 workers engage in "subsistence spicacious to see that the Smith regime was have been avoided if it wasn't for the in­ dlfference, bureaucratic hassles and inertia farming," raising cattle or growing either not ma.de in Heaven. Africans are discrimi­ peanuts, sorghum, or millet, primarily for nated against over a broad spectrum of mat­ of the emergency relief operations of the United Nations and the U.S. Agency for In­ self-consumption. ters. But when it comes to oppressiveness, The magnitude of 1972's short-lived rain­ the Rhodesians are amateurs when compared ternational Development (AID). The drought was officially "recognized" in fall, combined with the hardships and de­ to all those Communist regimes (and some clining water levels of the lengthy dry 1969- non-Communist ones) with which we trade August, 1972, but the last shipments of emer­ gency grain did not arrive in Mauritania, 1971 seasons, precipitated the catastrophic and maintain diplomatic relations. drought and famine which overwhelmed the "As to the likelihood of sanctions having Senegal, Chad, Mall, Niger and Upper Volta untll October, 1973. For flve months the UN Sahel, and after seven disastrous years of a beneficial influence on the policies of the declining rainfall, finally brought the region Rhodesian government or resulting in Ita did not even heed the SOS of its own "early warning system," and lts record from that to international attention. "If you bring this collapse, one can only say that neither has region back to where it was before the happened in the eight years since Rhodesia point on is something of a cruel Joke. The Sahel has also dramatized what little drought, "one aid expert commented, "it w111 declared its independence from Britain.... not be good enough." "It is difficult to see how the sudden col­ regard the U.S. government has for Black Africa. Faced with massive starvation last Last fall's harvest was as poor as the pre­ lapse of white rule would benefit black vious year's, necessitating a continued emer­ Rhodesians or the United States. A terrorist summer, the Sahelian governments pleaded with the U.S. Air Force for at least 20 planes gency relief operation of the same magni­ movement, aimed prlmarily against black tude-if not larger-than 1972's. And beyond Rhodesians seeking accommodation with the for an emergency airlift. The State Depart­ ment allocated three C-103 cargo planes for this remains the necessity of coming to grips white minority, already is under way and the with the spreading desert and restoring the dissolution of authority could only lead to 105 days. The U.S. countered famine and flooding in ~ologlcal balance of the environment. an orgy of reprisals between rival tribal power 'There is no doubt that the present crisis ~angladesh with $318 mlllion in assistance. groups. No less can be done to assist the 25 mUUon will happen again," a UN report declared "To the extent that conditions in Rhodesia "possibly each time more severe, because of warrant the consideration of worthy mem­ people of the Sahel," says Rep. Charles Diggs, chairman of the House subcommittee on the growing degradation of the rangelands." bers of the U.S. Senate-and one would really The raln that did fall last summer was late think there would be matters of more ur­ Afrlca. But, unfortunately, drought does not have the visual immediacy of a flood or in coming, inadequate and short-lived. By gency commanding their attention-it would early October the crops were withering in the seem that that venerable body should be en­ earthquake. Its physical properties are more couraging concllla.tion rather than confronta­ elusive and difficult to esta.bUsh. And the ground. A multi-nation survey mission as­ tion, compromise rather than conflict. Sahel does not have much strategic, political sessed the fall harvest and concluded that the "Rhodesian chrome is not and never has or economic value for the U.S. government, crop was sum.cient to sustain the Sahel only been the real issue. The Senate has been get­ the criteria for most bilateral assistance. through the winter months. This spring will ting the wrong answers on Rhodesia for the The Sahel exists in a time capsule today, probably see a repeat of last year's famine. simplest of all reasons: It has refused to ask as it tries to shakes loose the shackles of Mass starvation was averted in 1978 be­ itself the right questions." colonial servitude, whlle leaping acroea cen- cause of the eventual arrival of 625,000 January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 421 metric tons of grain. At least that amount Black Africa has never received much U.S. about setting our clocks forward or back­ will again be needed. Meanwhlle, disease ald. In fiscal 1973 the U.S. allocated only ward or sideways. In fact, one of the posi­ claims a large number of the already ema­ •173 mlllion for economic aid, and $134 mil­ tive aspects of year-round Saving Time 1& ciated nomads, especially children. Th1s win­ llon 1n food commodities. The siX Sahel that we won't have to go through the con­ ter many wlll succumb to respiratory ali­ countries received $11.9 mlllion 1n food com­ fusing ritual of changing a half dozen or so ments. modities and nothing for economic develop­ timepieces in our house twice a year. We The actual cost tn human life to date 1s as ment. have a reprieve until October 1975. yet unknown. Statistics are hard to come by What can be done about the Sahel? can • , , "liE'S STILL 'DADDY' " tn such a desperately poor region. The Sahel­ future famine be averted? As for reverting to Central time, we feel tans say that six milUon faced starvation Ministers of the Sahelian states will meet much like the young man who discovers his last summer. The UN denied it. The League again this fall. They have estimated that re­ natural father ls not the one he's been call­ of Red Cross Societies said it was twice as habllitation projects--reforestation irriga­ ing "Daddy" !or 20 years. The guy who's been many. "I cannot play the n_umbers game," tion, transit, etc.-would cost $850 mlllion. putting bread on his table may not be h18 says Carl Rowan, who was in the Sahel last Because of the tremendous loss of tax-pro­ natural !ather but he's the only father the summer, "but I know what I am seeing: flies ducing cattle, the governments are all near young man has ever known. feasting on the sore-pocked face of a chlld bankruptcy, and will need subventions and We implore Rep. Pearce and other leg­ pot-belled and deformed by hunger; chil­ deferment of their present outstanding loans. islators campaigning to turn our clocks back dren crying incessantly." But d1.soord between donor nations such to forget it and concentrate on the multitude Life 1n capital cities Uke Bamako, Mall, as the U.S. with the Sahelians and the UN of far more pressing problems. and Niamey, Niger, ls becoming a nightmare. over the shape of rehabllitation projects of­ Wlth the social dlstntegratlon of the nomadic fers scant hope that a concerted effort will tribes, herdsmen are leaving their fam.llles be launched. The AID technocrats reject and are being forced to llve on the dole near remedies and innovations that haven't been refugee camps. engineered by Americans. The World Bank CHARLES M. TEAGUE: A FRIEND Indeed, the effects of the drought were and the UN espouse well-digging and deepen­ OF THE AMERICAN FARMER devastating. All slx Sahellan nations share a ing of the existing system of wells. AID says common dependence on livestock and agri­ wells contribute to the water shortage. culture for their llvelihood. With tnsumcient There ls also a major dam project on the ralnfall, crop production was ravaged and Senegal River, that, if built, would help ir­ HON. BILL GUNTER food production was halved. Before the rigate Mali, Mauritania and Senegal. It has OP FLORIDA drought, there were about 60 million ani­ a $1.1 billion price tag on it. Either out of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mals, including several m11llon head of cattle. polltlcal disinterest or lack of faith in Sahel­ Millions perished. Estimates are that from ian research, the U.S. ls asking for still more Tuesday, January 22, 1974 '0 to 80 percent of the llvestock were deci­ feastbllity studies. Indeed, even though the Mr. GUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I was mated 1n some regions. Sahel governments have proposed 123 im­ deeply saddened to learn during the days The UN Food & Agricultural Organization's mediate projects, the U.S. government thinks between sessions America lost one of ita early warning system reported an "acute what is needed now is a major study to de­ emergency situation" in the Sahel 1n Sep­ termine the parameters of the problem I The most respected legislators and a true tember, 1972. Yet, nothing signiftcant was real question now is not how many wells friend of the Nation's farmers, Hon. done to mobllize the international commu­ will be dug, or how many head of cattle will CHARLES M. TEAGUE Of Callfornia. nity until the spring of 1973. And a major ap­ be replaced, but what is going to be done and As a freshman Member of the House I peal was.not made until May-two months who is going to do it. did not know CHARLEs TEAGUE as well as after the six Sahelian governments declared The Sahelian drought is not a politically­ many of his friends and colleagues here, a state of emergency at a heads-of-state charged situation such as Biafra or Bangla­ but my service with h1m on the House meeting in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta. desh. A drought is not as easily ldentlftable Agriculture Committee afforded me the In the U .8. there is evidence that AID of­ as a civil war or an earthquake. But unless ficials wired the State Department from this drought is given the same priority, the opportunity to observe how much he Africa as early as August, 1972, of the im.ml­ 1972-73 tragedy in the Sahel could arise knew about American agriculture. nent disaster. And Sahelian embassies in again. I know that those who served with Washington insist that they appealed to AID him on the House Veterans' A1fatrs Com­ for emergency food provisions in September mittee share my high regard for his and October of that year. LEAVE THE CLOCKS ALONE abilities, his wit, and his dedication to Yet AID didn't respond until the winter improving the llves of America's farmers months. AID and the Agriculture Depart­ and veterans. His passing is a sad event ment's Food for Peace program are the major HON. JACK BRINKLEY sources for the UN's World Food Programme for us all. reserves. Some government bureaucrats OF GEORGIA Mr. Speaker, I include at this point have implied that the global grain deficit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1n the RECORD an article which appeared was one reason why AID couldn't move Tuesday, January 22, 1974 1n the January 2 edition of the Wash­ faster and more generously. This simply isn't ington Post reporting on the death of true; the problem was financial and polltical, Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I com­ Representative CHARLES M. TEAGUE: not agricultural. The delay on grain ship­ mend the within editorial from the Co­ REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES M. TEAGUE DIES ments to the Sahel was caused by the pri­ lumbus, Ga., press to the attention of (By Jean R. Halley) ority given to the shipment of $200 milllon the membership. If, however, there is to in wheat to the Soviet Union, which com­ Rep. Charles M. Teague (R-Calif.), a mem­ pletely tied up U.s. ports on the Gulf of be further legislation on the national ber of Congress since 1954, died yesterday 1n Mexico. time zones Georgia properly belongs in Santa Paula at 64. The size of the U.S. commitment has also the Central Time Zone. The fact that it Aides said he suffered a heart attack whlle appalled the Black community. Of 625,000 is not is exactly the reason that daylight staying a.t the home of his son, Alan, who :r;netric tons of grain donated lntematlonally, savings time is so onerous to most Geor­ 1s mayor of Santa Paula. the U.S. contributed only 156,000 M.T., and gians. The congressman, who was the ranking this fall--after the worst of the drought LEAVE THE CLOCKS ALoNE Republican on the House Agricultural Com­ had passed-committed another 100,000 M.T. If you'll pardon the pun, a number of mittee and the senior Republican member In addition, the donor nations gave over $40 state legislators seem to have time on their of the Veterans Affairs Committee, had gone million in cash and service-in-kind. The U.S. hands. home for the holidays. share was only $4.4 m11llon. As a matter of Rep. Norwood Pearce of Columbus, among Santa Paula, where he was born and reared. fact, until the Black community mobllized others, wants to return Georgia to its right­ is ln the 13th District, which he represented public opinion last spring, there was Uttle ful place, 1n the Central time zone. in Congress. recognition of the problem at all in Washing­ Georgia has been a fish out of water, so The unexpected death of the quiet but ton. The spectre of Jesse Jackson collecting to speak, for more than 30 years. He and a highly respected congressman brought im­ cans of dry milk and appealing to cereal few other chosen representatives want to mediate statements from top-ranking Re­ manufacturers jogged the State Depart­ right this long-time wrong. publicans. ment's indifference. President Nixon said: The prodding continued with the forma­ ••• END "FAST TIME"? "The death of Charles Teague represents tion of Afro-Americans Against the Famine, Meanwhile, a couple of Rome, Ga., law­ a significant loss to the United States Con­ and RAINS, a Black coalition for "Relief for makers want to take Georgia off Daylight gress, to his home state of California and to Africans 1n Need of the Sahel," headed by Saving Time. Georgia. and the rest of the the nation he served so long and so well. He former Ambassador Elliott Skinner and Con­ nation has been on "fast time" since Jan. 6 will be remembered most especially for his gressman Diggs. Diggs asked for an emer­ in what is supposed to be an energy-conser­ interest in American agriculture and for his gency $30 mlllion 1n a.ld for the Sahel. Five vation move. many years of devoted service on the House months later he compromlsed With the Sen­ Here's our position: Leave the clocks alone. Agriculture Committee. Mrs. Nixon and I ate at •25 mllllon. We're sick and tired of all this nonsense were deeply saddened to hear of hls passing 422 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 and we extend our sincere sympathy to his "I repeat, Mr. Speaker, 'This child ain't gram whereby we are hoping to encourage famlly." mine.'" our private land owners to plant their idle Vice President Gerald R. Ford said: "I am Rep. Teague also found humor in another acreages in trees. Germany, as I understand very much saddened by the death of my dear situation. For some tlme, he and Rep. Olin it, has been active in forest incentive for friend and former colleague, Charles Teague. E. Teague (D-Texas) shared seats on the many years. How do your forest incentive American agriculture owes a great deal to Veterans Mairs Committee. and conservation programs work together? him for his dedication to the best interests The resulting confusion from pronounce­ Mr. Wn.KE. Let me first mention, Congress­ of the American farmer. His district, state ments frequently credited to the wrong man Rarick, Germany is usually considered, and the nation have lost an outstanding leg­ Teague were usually followed by retractions, even by Germans, as a typical country with islator." which in turn were followed by a good laugh. a high percentage of state-owned or public­ "Congressman Teague typified the best in There was no confusion in the work both owned forests. This is not absolutely true, American politics today," said Rep. Robert H. did toward helping veterans. because more than 44 percent of all forests Michel of Illinois. "He was a dedicated, hard­ Among other things, Rep. Charles Teague are privately owned. There's one big difference working legislator whose prime interest was had worked hard to improve housing rights between the United States and Germany, in what is best for the country. As ranking for veterans. that is, we do not have any industry-owned Republican member of the House Agriculture Rep. Teague's first wife, Marjorie, died 1h forests. So we have nearly 900,000 small pri­ Committee, he also was the leading advocate 1970. He remarried that year but was sep­ vate woodlot owners. And in these years of American agriculture in Congress. He will arated from his second wife, Courtney, at where the importance of agricultural produc­ be sorely missed." Michel is chairman of the the time of his death. tion is decreasing, farmers give up marginal Republican Congressional Committee. In addition to his son, Rep. Teague also lands close to forests and in the mountainous Rep. Teague has served on the Agricul­ is survived by two daughters, Norma Potter, areas. All these, or mostly all of these areas tural Committee for most of his tenure in of Washington, and Judith Kenyon, of Santa are reforested and cultivated. And the gov­ Congress. Whlle he was not noted for intro­ Rosa, Calif., and eight grandchildren. ernment gives these people a subsidy up to ducing major legislation, his efforts to main­ one-third of their own cost to reforest or tain free as opposed to subsidized agriculture to build up a forest stand on those places. were considered very effective. We of course try to get the farmers or the He also took a strong stand on aiding con­ RARICK REPORTS TO HIS PEOPLE: private wood owners to produce mixed stands servation and environmental programs and which are more stable, which offer more for a number of years was the ranking mem­ FORESTRY IN GERMANY recreational possibUities for the people in ber on the Agricultural Committee's Conser­ future years, and which are better habitats vation and Credit Subcommittee. for the wildlife. He was one of those responsible for bring­ .HON. JOHN R. RARICK Mr. RARICK. I see. In other words, in Ger­ ing about an Interior Department ban on OF LOUISIANA many, you have the multiple use of your new oil drilling platforms in the Santa Bar­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES forests also. bara Channel in 1971. There had been heavily Mr. Wn.KE. Yes. We do not call it "multi­ damaging oil gushing from a drilling plat­ Tuesday, January 2 2, 197 4 ple use", but is exactly the same system. form there several years earlier. Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, I recently Mr. RARICK. Mr. Wilke, I noticed during Rep. Teague was a natural choice to serve my trips to Germany that the people seem on the Agricultural Committee. His family discussed the problems of forestry with to make great use of your forests for recrea­ was among the founders of the Sunkist co­ German forest expert Mr. Jost Wilke, tional purposes. What specific programs does operative in California, and his father was a forestry counselor for the Republic of your government encourage, as fat: as using pioneer in that state's farm credit program. Germany, in a televised interview for my the forests in recreation? Rep. Teague went to Stanford University, constituents. I include the text of that Mr. Wn.KE. That is right. Germans are where he received his bachelor's degree in interview: impassioned, dedicated hikers. Not all the 1931 and his law degree three years later. TELEVU3ION INTERVIEW forests are state-owned. We have another His practice of law was interrupted during typical form of forestry proprietorship, name­ World War n, when he served as a major in Congressman RARICK: Public attention is ly villages, small towns, counties and even the Army Air Corps. He resumed the prac­ being focused on the nation's forests today schools or churches own forests. They all tice after the war and became involved in probably more than at any tlme in the re­ try to provide the necessary trans for hiking community affairs, serving as president of cent past. One of the primary reasons for all and also for bicycling, not to forget horse­ the Ventura County Community Chest, the this attention after years of neglect, is that back riding in the forests and playgrounds Ventura Rotary Club and the Oja.i Valley our country is running out of timber to for children. But it is not allowed, or let School Board of Trustees. satisfy our increased demands. In order to me put it this way, not everybody is allowed, He was president of the Ventura. County fully understand the forestry situation in for instance, to hunt or fish in the forests. Republican Assembly when he decided to run this country, it's helpful to gain a perspective There is a quite different system. And the for Congress in 1954. He was re-elected to by studying the way other countries' forests reason for this is probably that we are, com­ the nine succeeding Congresses and had are managed. pared to the United States, densely over­ planned to run again this year. I've been to Germany on several occasions populated. I know a little about your state, Rep. Teague had a gentle sense of humor. and I've always been highly Impressed by lovely Louisiana, called "sportsmen's para­ He once noted that there seemed to be a con­ their beautiful, well managed and highly dise". And that is really true. We couldn't filet in the labels applted to him In letters productive forests. We in this country can afford to have such a liberal system of hunt­ from some of his constituents. learn a great deal from foresters in the Fed­ ing because thousands of· people would b& "When the conservatives consider me a eral Republic of Germany. With me on the in a very small space; so hunting is strictly liberal and the liberals figure me for a con­ show today is the Forestry Counsel for the regulated and is related to an area system. Embassy of Germany in the United States, servative, I must be in trouble," he lamented. Only a small number of pe~ple is allowed to On another occasion, he disowned one of Mr. Jost Wilke. Mr. Wilke, it's indeed a pleas­ hunt on a given area.. The hunt has to b& his own bUls on the floor of the House. A ure to have you with us on our show today. of a minimum size, and there are leasing great pet lover, he had introduced a blll to And as I understand it, forestry is an im­ contracts for those hunting rights with a el1m1nate tariffs on the Importation of wUd portant part of the economy of Germany. minimum of nine years for those areas where animals. Would you give us some idea of the scope of small game is given and twelve years where­ He was so proud of the bill that he had forestry in your country? stags, wild boar, etc. are present. asked that it be referred to as the Teague Mr. Wn.KE. First, Congressman Rarick, let Mr. RARICK. In our country there has de­ BUI. But by the time it got through the Sen­ me thank you for your kind invitation. It's veloped a division of opinion between various ate, it had come out as a bill to limit beef of course a pleasure to be with you and to groups of forest managers, who favor the imports from Australia and New Zealand. discuss some problems of forestry in which concept of a managed forest with Increased The changes brought this speech from Rep. you are interested. You. are absolutely right; production, and environmentalists, who sup­ Teague: forestry plays an Important role in the port a wilderness forest where nature would "I was proud to have been the father of economy of my country. This is due to his­ take its course. What has been the experi­ such a clean, beautiful little fellow . . . He torical reasons. Four or even five hundred ences in your country between the managed was prepared to do great things for boa years ago we were already forced to manage forest and the wilderness concept? forestry in an intensive way. Today forests constrictors and gorillas and their owne11J. Mr. Wn.KE. First, Congressman Rarick, I "But, in the course of events, my little cover nearly so percent of all the acreage of my country; the agricultural part is 55 per­ would like to mention that in Germany there baby was sent to the Senate pediatric hos­ a.re less than one or two percent virgin pital ... All that remained of h1m was the cent, towns, industrial areas, roads and traf­ identification number on his poor little wrist. fic installations such as ports, harbors, air­ forests. Tha.t means that the abundance of "Mr. Speaker, I must disclaim fatherhood ports~ etc. cover another 10 percent. Only German forests is all man-made, in a cer­ of (H.R.) 1839 as he is before us today. I am very small areas are waste lands, idle, or un­ tain way. And during a long experience of wllling to contribute to his support, but he cultivated rura.ls. not only decades, but hundreds of years, we ts not mine--my blood no longer flows ln his Mr. RARICK. Well, we in the U.S. Congress came to the conclusion, and that is the omctal opinion M that th~ vetna. just recently passed a Forest Incentive Pro- as wen my own, January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 423 best way to produce and to provide a variety unless we have sufficient other, non-poison­ efficiently enough for competition in world of recreational purposes is a rather well, ous cheinicals to replace DDT or use methods markets. Their possession of plants embody­ and high-yield managed forest. If you take like biologically fighting insects, which is ing U.S. technology would perinit this. More­ several parts of the forests out of this in­ absolutely possible with sophisticated meth- over, it would enhance their production of tensive management and try to bring it back ods ••.. mllltary cargo planes, a type of aircraft that to a kind of wilderness, the wilderness Is not Mr. RARICK. Mr. Wilke, our time has ex­ has been accorded considerably higher prior­ optimal, neither In the ecological nor in the pired, and I wish we could proceed further. ity by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union as recreational sense, because in our opinion Our guest today has been Mr. Jost Wilke, a result of the recent Mideast war. very, very few people would be able to feel Forestry Counselor for the Republic of Ger­ The link between civilian and mllitary happy in an absolute wilderness, that means many in the United States. Thank you so production technologies is impossible to sep­ no roads, no trails, no restaurants, no ac­ much. arate, Pentagon sources emphasize. Aircraft cessibility. This is not the ideal which most Mr. WILKE. Thank you. engines, computers, integrated circuitry, of our outdoor-loving people would like to telecommunications equipment, navigation have. And in these times where it is and be­ systeiDS, and avionics are very similar in both comes increasingly more difficult to get the mllitary and civiUan aircraft. Less obvious, necessary raw material out of forestry pro­ DETENTE: A TRADE GIVEAWAY? perhaps, are the similarity in production in­ duction, we couldn't afford to exclude and to struments, tooling, and other manufacturing put aside wilderness area. equipment. Mr. RARICK. In other words, In Gerznany, HON. ROBERT J. HUBER But beyond the new potential in aircraft you don't have the battle we have between sales, Pentagon officials are agitated by the the environmentalists and the timber man­ OF MICHIGAN general relaxation of export controls. The agement folks? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S., for example, now is supplying the So­ Mr. WILKE. That 1s true--not to the same Tuesday, January 22, 1974 viets' Kama River truck complex with manu­ extent as over here. But, of course, we do facturing equipment that was embargoed two have environmentalist groups who try to at­ Mr. HUBER. Mr. Speaker, there is a years ago. The Pentagon, which never did tack our intensive way of forestry, especially misconception in the executive branch as wholly approve of U.S. participation in that clear-cutting. But even clear-cutting is an well as among members of the news project, notes that the technology and equip­ efficient way to renew a forest. And there are media that the only reason the Members ment required to mass-produce heavy-duty a few examples, for instance, if there has of Congress are opposed to the Presi­ civilian vehicles is virtually the same as that been a forest fire or if a stand is highly in­ needed for Army trucks. fected with disease, fungus disease or insect dent's trade bill is because of the restric­ disease, or in the case of an avalanche in tive immigration policies of the Soviet CLOSING THE GAPS mountainous areas and a stand is destroyed Union. This is but one of many important Malcolm R. Currie, Director of Defense Re­ or is broken by ice or snow or the like, there reasons in my view. Many of us are also search and Engineering at the Pentagon, has is no other way than clear-cutting to a launched a campaign warning U.S. industry concerned about giving away the tech­ about the dangers of selling the Russians limited extent. It is always the size of a nology of the United States to our po­ clear-cut area that counts, not the measure production technology that is unique to U.S. itself. tential enemies. This case was put in an companies. Currie, an applied physicist, who Mr. RARICK. Mr. Wilke, training of forest excellent manner in an article that ap­ was a research vice-president for Beckman professionals, as I understand it, began in peared in Business Week of January 12, Instruments, Inc., before joining the Penta­ Germany in the early part of the last cen­ 1974. Those who feel this trade is in­ gon last spring, says he is "very concerned tury. Your country today is considered as one nocent and devoid of perU should read about exports in high technology areas which of the leading advocates of management this article which follows: have both civilian and military application." The Soviets have become increasingly training. Just how extensive is your training Dt'l'ENTE: A TRADE GIVEAWAY? of young foresters? aware. Currier claiiDS, that their great de­ The steadily increasing number of high­ Mr. WILKE. We have three different careers ficiency is not in sclentlflc knowledge but in technology dea.ls between U.S. companies and production technology. Says he: "They ap­ in the forest service. We can forget the third the Soviet Union is stirring up a serious one because it is running out. In the future parently feel that they can neither close policy dispute in Washington. In the past pivotal gaps in their Inilitary capabllity, nor we will have two different careers, an aca­ year or so, export restrictions on these trans­ demical, strictly academical career with uni­ gaps in their general econoinic growth­ actions have been liberalized as d~tente has domestically and worldwide--until they ac­ versity curriculum for the supervisory level, become the essence of U .B.-Soviet relations. for the management level, for the minlstries quire a manufacturing technology com­ But Defense Dept. and other officials~ now parable to ours. The processing knowhow. and so on. Ministries is the European ex­ complain that the Soviets are acquiring--or pression for departments. After graduation the whole flow of work and eqUipment in are trying to acqulre-U.S. technological manufacturing plants-that's the tech­ from high school you have to do one year of knowhow that has important mllitary ap­ a kind of apprenticeship, where you work in nology they're after." plications under what are supposed to be Arguing that "U.S. national policy on a forest as lumberman, as forest road builder, commercla.l agreements. The areas involved etc. And then you usually have to serve in technology exports needs to be clarifted,•• in the recent sales range from computers and Currie is lobbying hard both in the defense the m111 tary (we still have the draft system, communications to shipbuilding and aircraft. as you know) for at least a year and a quar­ industry and other government circles. He The latest affair to disturb the Pentagon has the wholehearted support of Defense ter. After that you have to study for a mini­ critics: Soviet overtures to five U.S. areospace mum of four years. If you plan to get your giants-McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Lock­ Secretary James R. Schlesinger and of Dep­ doctor's degree, it w1ll require another one heed, General Electric, and United Aircraft's uty Defense Secretary William P. Clements or two years. This is not the end of it. You Pratt & Whitney Div. The Russians have Jr., both of whom continuously reinind lis­ then have to pass a rather difficult exainina­ teners of SOviet strides in Inillta,ry research sounded out the companies on the purchase and technology in recent years. ' tlon, at the end of your university curricu­ of DC-10, 747, and L-1011 alrcraft and en­ lum, and join the state forest system which gines. But whlle these Pentagon officials have a is comparable to your forest service, even if Next month, McDonnell Douglas market­ voice in government export licensing clear­ you do not intend to join the state forest ing executives are scheduled to fly to Moscow ances, they know they do not exercise con­ service in the future but rather the private for talks with Kremlin trade and aviation of­ trol. That control rests with the National forest system. This education in the state ficials about the possible sale of the DC-10. SecUrity Council, which gets recommenda­ forest service, however, is mandatory and at Negotiations are still in the "feeler" stage and tions on sensitive export licensing clear­ the end of three more years you have to pass the Russians insist tha.t their interest in ances from the State Dept., White House a very sophisticated exainination in order to wide-bodied jets has no military connota­ Council on International Econoinic Policy. prove that you are able to combine your tions. But the Pentagon is upset, not so much and the Commerce Dept.'s Bureau of East­ theoretical knowledge with the practical about potentiaJ. alroraft sales, but over the West Trade, which was created to promote needs a forestry manager is required to have. package of U.S. aerospace technology that U.S. sales to Russia and other Warsaw Pact Mr. RARICK. Mr. Wilke, let me ask you one might be part of the deal. nations. Defense industry sources say they never more question. In the United States we are TECHNOLOGY GRAB? losing more timber as a result of insect dam­ make a move in dealing with the SOviets age than we lose to forest fires. Do you have What the Soviets really want to buy, ap­ without first checking with the government. prehensive Pentagon spokesmen claim. is the same problem with DDT usage in Ger­ "No U.S. company," says a Boeing spokes­ not planes but the knowledge that would tnan, "would ever make any finn cominit­ many? allow them to build their own production Mr. WILKE. Germany banned the use of ment to the Soviets without first receiving facllities-complete with all the systems and concrete government authority for it. And DDT nearly two years ago. But there's one quality control that are the hallmark of U.S. the Russians know that this is the case." big exception, and that is forestry. Foresters defense plants. Did the SoViets ask Boeing, for one, for cannot afford, in my opinion at least, to com­ The Soviets already can produce big .Jets information on how to improve plant manu­ pletely drop the use of DDT, and DDT has for commercial or Inilltary transport. But facturing techniques for wide-bodied jet air­ not proven, 1! carefully considered, to be their manufacturing techniques, according craft? "Yes, they brought 1t up," says the da.ngerous to forests. We obey very strictly to U .8. experts, are still too backward to per­ Boeing o11lc1al. "We just listened.'' the regulations and directions for use, and mit them to produce them economically and The key question in all this, according to 424 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 the director of a Senate committee statr Pentagon•s concern. "As an Industry. we'Ve On hfs retirement date, January 31, that deals with East-West trade, 1s "just who never done that. and we had better be very, 1s the U.S. government?" There is, he says, 1974, Burch will have served the same very careful... bank for 46 years, 7 months--24 years as "no national policy. and we•ve all got the WHO IS DEALING wrrH THE SOVIET UNION feeling, like CUrrie. that this all needs a very a branch manager. He is one of the most hard look. The list of things that can't be Company and area of cooperation admired men in our community and one exported to the Soviets is not su11lciently Bechtel-construction methods, planning. of our most able leaders. discrete. It's got more exemptions than re­ Boeing-civll aviation, air transport tech­ For these reasons, Mr. Speaker. it is strictions. We're moving toward becoming nology. with special pleasure that I call attention wholly unrestrained in our technology ex­ Brown & Root-On and gas development. to ports. You can't blame the companies; it's Control Data--computers, peripheral the honor which is being paid to Mr. not their job to worry about national equtpmenrt, systems design, software. Burch on January 31. It is a tribute security." Dresser Industries-On and gas explora­ which reflects the regard and respect of WHAT IS SECURITY? tion. everyone who is privlleged to know him. Steven Lazarus, director of the Bureau General Dyna.m1cs-Shipbu1lding, aircraft of East-West trade, acknowledges that there construction, telecommunications, comput­ have been conflicts between his agency and ers. the Pentagon on questions of technology General Electric-Power and electrical ARMADO DE LEON-A JOB WELL engineering, atomic power plants. export clearance. He agrees that a potential DONE adversary's "possession of technological Hewlett-Packard-Medical electronics, know-how 1s often of greater strategic sig­ measuring equipment, minicomputers. ITT-communications technology, elec- nlftcance than finished items produced from tronic components. HON. MORRIS K. UDALL that technology." Consequently. says Laza­ OF ARIZONA "it has been necessary to exercise a Joy Mfg.-coal mining equipment. rus, Litton Industrles--(Not available). IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more restrictive control over transfers of Monsanto--(Not ave.lle.ble). technical data than commodities... Occidental Petroleum-Oil and gas drill­ Tuesday, January 22, 1974 He also acknowledges "what I call the ing, refining. agricultural chemicals. Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, in Novem­ 'dread of cumulative etrect'-while no one Singer-compU!ters. electronic instru­ sale or negotiation between a U.S. company ber of 1973, the job opportunities for ments, textlle equipment. Mexican-Americans in the city of and the Soviets may pose a threat to se­ Stanford Research Institute--General curity, the increasing volume and frequency science and technology. Phoenbc were significantly increased, of sales and talks could be harmful." Still, Tennecc:r-(Not avallable) . thanks to the efforts of a Phoenix city he insists the bureau 1s as sensitive to na­ Texas Eastern Transmtssion-(Not avail­ councilman, Armando De Leon. A long­ tional security as it 1s to East-West com­ able). time champion of the Chicano cause, merce, and he sees "no evidence that secur­ ity has been compromised." Councilman De Leon ;>ushed for the The debate, however, clearly involves reduction of height requirements in city dltrerent definitions of security. The Penta­ JOHN P. BURCH employment. His arduous campaign was gon, for example, feels that security con­ rewarded when Phoenix announced lower siderations were downrated in one deal which height regulations for all personnel, in­ the National Security CouncU has just HON. ALPHONZO BELL cluding those of the fire and police cleared-a bld by a team of American com­ departments. This change was vitally puter companies to install in the Soviet OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES necessary. By creating opportunities for Union an air traftlc control system com­ a greater number of Mexican-Americans. parable to the system used by the Federal Tuesday, January 22, 1974 Aviation Admlnistration. the city has moved toward a hiring prac­ mM heads the team, which also includes Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, tice which will involve more people of all Sperry Rand Corp.'s Univac Div., Texas In­ January 31, 1974, in Castagnola's Plush minorities. struments, and Raytheon. The team is com­ Horse Restaurant in Redondo Beach, This broadening of city employment peting with Thomson-CSF of France for the John P. Burch, Redondo Beach bank policies to include more minorities is but Soviet award, which U.S. sources say could executive and South Bay civic leader, one of many accomplishments of amount to $100-mUlion or more, depending on the extent of the system the Soviets will be honored at a combined retire­ Armando De Leon. A13 a past member of decide to buy. ment-recognition banquet sponsored by the Human Relations Commission. the In the government debate over clearing the Redondo Beach Chamber of Com­ Housing Code Advisory Committee, and the system bid by the American team, the merce. the National Conference of Christians Defense Dept. argued that it would provide Burch. vice· president and manager of and Jews, Mr. De Leon has had an in­ the Soviets with the technology they need the South Bay office of the Crocker Na­ fluential voice in local affairs. His effec­ to buUd the computerized mutta.ry air tramc tional Bank, was named Redondo tiveness in aiding minority groups was control system they now lack. Beach's "man of the year.. in 1964. He is increased with his election to the Phoenix To aggravate the Pentagon's fears, the White House CouncU on International Eco­ a charter member and past president of City Council 4 years ago. Using his legal nomic Policy 1s winding up a study of com­ the Riviera Village Rotary Club and has background. he was able to benefit puter exports to the Soviet Union which, served as president of the Redondo another minority group when he repre­ according to one high source, "will ease our Beach Chamber of Commerce, Redondo sented the National Indian Reservation. stance, make it less restrictive.'• Pentagon Beach Coordinating Council, Riviera This Phoenix councilman has been a experts who participated in the study report­ Village Merchants and Professional &­ strong advocate for greater Mexican­ edly argued for a tougher computer export sociation, and Redondo Beach Sister American rights. In his capacity as legal pollcy, but lost the debate. City Committee. counselor for the National Council of La The national security debate 1s com­ pllcated by considerations of commercial He has served as a director or officer Raza, Armando has been workin.g to im­ advantage. "The companies don't have any of the Palos Verdes Navy League, Com­ prove the quality of life for the 7 mil­ precedent," says a White House source. "They munity Chest, South Bay YMCA, South­ lion people of Mexican descent. head detente, and they deal, but they wonder. west Optimist Club, Palos Verdes Cham­ His experience working with Spanish­ Individual co;npanien are dealing with min­ ber of Commerce, Redondo Beach Round speaking people expanded while he was a isters of state who trained on the wheat deal. Table, Palos Verdes Breakfast Club, special legal liaison officer for the De­ They really know L.ow to do that; they're American Red Cross and the Sales and partment of Defense in Spain. There he good at it... Marketing Executives Association of Los worked with city officials in Madrid and "I would urge our companies and our gov­ Angeles. He received the salesman's key personnel in the Spanish Foreign ernment to be wary of some of the com­ distinguished award from the latter Ofllce. Since then, Mr. De Leon has con­ mercial gain and balance-of-payments group in 1970. advantages.."' aays the Pentagon's Currie. try­ tinued his international work through ing to put the damper on strategic exports Burch was born on August 6, 1909, in Mexican attorney associates. During his to the Soviet Union. "In my personal oplnion. Iola. Allen County. Kans. He attended practice he h:as helped many clients with the ma.rket may be significantly less than San Jose Ukraine is a full-fledged member, and operation resulted in forcible repatria­ contribution to improving city life for the Kremlin makes much of this fact in its these people. massive propaganda drives throughout the tion of millions of anti-Communist Rus­ world. sians. Execution or imprisonment at the The fact is that today Ukraine, with its hands of the Soviet Government awaited 48 million people, is more than ever a colony those who were repatriated. UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY of Communist Russia; it is a land of inhu­ Why is so little known about this man persecution and economic exploitation. event? Even though over 25 years have Many a Western statesman may be lulled passed, the Defense and State Depart­ HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL into a sense of false security by the spurious detente; but there is no detente in the re­ ment files on Operation Keelhaul are OF NEW YORK lentless persecution of the Ukrainlan people still classified. In his book, "The Gulag IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by Communist Russia. Archipelago", however, Alexander Solz­ Tuesday, January 2 2·, 197 4 Only outside Ukraine can Ukrainians and henitsyn writes about the tragic fate of their descendents scattered throughout the those who were repatriated. I find it Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I join with world speak of the freedom and independ­ ironic that American citizens will learn millions of Ukrainian citizens throughout ence of Ukraine. about this event in Solzhenitsyn's book the world today in marking January 22 Wherever the basic rights of humanity rather than from our own Government. as Ukrainian Independence Day. On Jan­ are abused, men of good will must pro­ The following article on "The Gulag uary 22, 1918, in the city of Kiev, the test. That is why I bring Ukrainian In­ Archipelago" and Operation Keelhaul Eastern European nation of Ukraine is­ dependence Day to public attention. By appeared in the January 16 edition of the sued its proclamation of independence appropriately marking this day, we add Washington Star-News: I from the Soviet Union. would like now our voices to those who protest Russia's REMEMBERING ''KEELHAUL'' to submit a short statement prepared by treatment of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Russian Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr I. the United American Ukrainian Organi­ people. Solzhenitsyn's new book smuggled out to the zations Committee of New York for the West, "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956.'' attention of my colleagues. It carefully is a stinging indictment of the tyranny which and concisely considers the history of UKRAINE ANNIVERSARY is the foundation of the Soviet Union. Ukraine: But Solzhenitsyn hurls at least one dart January 22, 1974, will mark the 56th An­ that ought to prick the conscience of the niversary of the proclamation of Ukraine's HON. CARLETON J. KING West when he recalls how Roosevelt and Churchill condemned literally millions of Independence, and the 55th Anniversary of OF NEW YORK the Act of Union, both of which took place anti-Communist Russians and Eastern Euro­ in Kiev on January 22, 1918, and January 22, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES peans to execution or imprisonment by agree­ 1919, respectively. By these acts a Ukrainian Tuesday, January 22, 1974 ing at Yalta to their forcible repatriation. independent state was ofilcially established Not one American in 100,000 has heard of on all the ethnographical Ukrainian terri­ Mr. KING. Mr. Speaker. it is a great Operation Keelhaul, for the very good reason tories. pleasure for me to join with the many that the Defense and State Department files The young Ukrainian democratic republic thousands of Americans throughout this on it are still classified top secret. Nor are was short-lived as Communist Russia at­ Nation in commemorating the 55th an­ more aware of its infamous successor, the tacked it almost immediately, despite the niversary of the proclamation of the United Nations Relief and Rehab111tation fact that the new Soviet Russian govern­ Agency's Operation Carrot. ment had ofilcially recognized Ukraine as all Ukranian National Republic, January 22; Yet it has been estimated that between 6 independent and sovereign state. The same 1918, was a day which marked the cul­ million and 7 million members of the anti­ recognition to Ukraine was granted by the mination of century-old dreams of na­ Communist Russian Liberation Army {who Central Powets, and a number of the coun­ tional independence from the Soviet fought on the side of the Germans), POWs tries of the Entente, including Great Britain Union. On that occasion, in the city of and civ111ans---including women and chil­ and France. Kiev, the Ukranian National Republic dren-were forcibly repatriated under "Keel­ Mter almost four years of continuous in­ was born. haul" and "Carrot" to the Soviet Union be­ vasions and fighting, Ukraine, alone and un­ The Ukranian people proved them­ tween 1945 and 1947. Some were White Rus­ aided, succumbed to the numerically su­ sians who had fled from the Soviet Union a perior mUlte.ry forces of Communist Russia. selves to be dedicated and heroic patriots quarter of a century before. which eventually destroyed the Ukrainian who were able to realize their cherished Solzhenitsyn asserts that not a single for­ National Republtc, created a Communist pup­ goals of individual freedom and national mer POW-let alone members of the Russian pet government in Ukraine known as the liberation from the autocracy of Soviet Liberation Army, many of whom were "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republtc," and Russia. Today the 47 million ethnic executed-returned to his country a free incorporated it in 1922 into the "Union of Ukranians form the largest of the cap­ man. Without exception, they were shipped. Soviet Socialist Republics" (USSR). tive nations subject to the control of directly from Hitler's concentration camps The whole history of Soviet Russian-domi­ in to no less horrible slave-labor camps of nated Ukraine is g. ghastly record in inhu­ an unrelenting Communist regime Siberia. There, according to Solzhenitsyn, manity, outright persecution and genocide, Moscow. They still hold within their most of them perished. Russification and violation of human rights. hearts the memories of a glorious his­ In 1945, there were, according to Berun•s Under Staltn Ukraine was marked for physi­ tory of continual struggle for self-deter­ figures, nearly 700,000 Russians serving with cal extinction; under Khruchchev, and now mination. the German armed forces, most of them on under Brezhnev-Kosygin outright terror has We Americans must be reminded of the Eastern Front, since the Russians were been replaced by the subtle process of de­ our struggles for those same rights which interested in the liberation of their country, stroying the Ukrainian national conscious­ not 1n fighting the Western democracies. ness and identity through Russification, mass are inalienable to people all over the free Their commander was Lt. Gen. Andrei A. arrests and Ulegal trials and by other oppres­ world. We share this dream with the Vlasov. a br1111ant Soviet ofilcer and one of sive methods. people of the Ukraine. Let us pledge to the heroes of the battle of Moscow, where he In the course of its rule over captive work faithfully for the ideals of the men was captured in 1942. Ukraine, Communist Russia destroyed mil­ and women who fought so hard and won In Aprll of 1945, the 45-year-old Vlasov led lions of Ukrainians through man-made fam- a free Ukraine. his three divisions through Bavaria toward O.XX--28-Part 1 426 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 Prague, with the notion o! holding Bohemia active in California agricu1ture, Con­ Rep. Teague was a natural choice to serve against the Soviets with the assistance o! gressman Teague provided the Agricu1- on the Agricultural Committee. His fa.mily anti-Communist Czechs until a surrender to was among the founders of the Sunkist co­ ture Committee with a great deal of val­ operative in California, and his father was a the Americans could be arranged. It was also uable insight during his tenure in Con­ hoped that 30,000 anti-Communist Cossacks pioneer in that state's farm credit program. retreating !rom Yugoslavia could effect a gress. Rep. Teague went to Stanford University, juncture in the Bohemian basin with Mr. Speaker, I feel privileged to have where he received his bachelor's degree in Vla.sov's men. known Mr. Teague and to have had the 1931 and his law degree three years later. At Pilsen, Vlasov reached the American opportunity to work with him. I extend His practice of law was interrupted dur­ lines. According to his biographer, Sven my deepest sympathy to his family, and ing World War n, when he served as a major Steenberg, Vlasov received no guarantees to the people of the 13th District of Cal­ in the Army Air Corps. He resumed the prac­ from the Americans, although his troops tice a.!ter the war and becanae involved in ifornia. We all have lost a good friend. community affairs, serving as president of laid down their arms and considered them­ In addition, I wou1d like to share . an selves to be interned under U.S. protection. the Ventura County Community Chest, the With Russian troops advancing from the article with my colleagues concernmg Ventura Rotary Club and the Ojai Valley East. Vlasov was informed that permission Congressman Teague which appeared School Board of Trustees. for his troops to pass through the American January 2 in the Washington Post. The He was president of the Ventura County lines had been refused. This left him no article affords us additional insight into Republican Assembly when he decided to alternative other than to order his unarmed some of the highlights of Mr. Teague's run for Congress in 1954. He was re-elected men to save themselves as best they could. to the nine succeeding Congresses and had career. planned to run again this year. Some 10,000 were captured or executed by The article follows: the Russians. Hal! of those who slipped Rep. Teague had a gentle sense of humor. through the American lines were forcibly [From the Washington Post, Jan. 2, 1974] He once noted that there seemed to be a con­ repatriated to the Soviet Union. Vla.sov him­ REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES M. TEAGUE DIES filet in the labels applied to him in letters self was taken from an American escort by (By Jean R. Hailey) . from some of hls constituents. Soviet troops, spirited to Moscow and exe­ "When the conservatives consider me a Rep. Charles M. Teague (R-Calif.), a mem­ liberal and the liberals figure me for a con­ cuted. ber of COngress since 1954, died yesterday in The British behaved no more honorably. servative, I must be in trouble," he lanaented. Santa Paula at 64. On another occasion, he disowned one of Despite guarantees to the contrary, more Aides said he suffered a heart attack while than 30,000 Cossacks, including women, and his own bills on the floor o! the House. A staying at the home of his son, Alan, who is great pet lover, he had introduced a bill to children, led by the 76-year-old Gen. P. N. mayor of Santa Paula. Krasnov, who had left the Soviet Union in eliminate tariffs on the importation of wild The congressman, who was the ranking animals. 1920 were disarmed and forcibly turned over Republican on the House Agricultural Com­ to the Red Army. Many committed suicide He was so proud of the bill that he had mittee and the senior Republican member asked that it be referred to as the Teague rather than be repatriated. Krasnov and 36 of the Veterans Affairs Committee, had gone other generals were executed. Blll. But by the tinae it got through the Sen­ home for the holidays. ate, it had come out as a bill to Unlit beef A certain amount of what happened can Santa Paula, where he was born and reared, be laid to the confusion o! the moment. But inaports !rona Australia and New Zealand. 1s in the 13th District, which he represented The changes brought this speech from Rep. forcible repatriation of anti-Soviet Russians in COngress. under UNRRA's auspices continued into Teague: The unexpected death of the quiet but "I was proud to have been the father of 1947, more than a year after the fighting had highly respected congressman brought im­ ended. This "indelible stain on the honor of such a clean, beautiful little fellow ... He naediate statenaents !rona top-ra~g was prepared to do great things for boa con­ the West" (as the American historian George Republicans. Fischer has termed it) can only have been strictors and gorillas and their owners. President Nixon said: "But, in the course of events, nay little a consequence of the desire to please Stalin "The death of Charles Teague represents at any price. baby was sent to the Senate pediatric hos­ a significant loss to the United states Con­ pital . . . All that remained of hina was the Solzhenitsyn perhaps is being charitable gress, to his home state of California and to when he attributes this crime against hu­ identification nunaber on his poor little wrist. the nation he served so long and so well. He "Mr. Speaker, I must disclaina fatherhood manity to the "systematic shortsightedness Will be remembered mos·t especially for his and stupidity" of Roosevelt and ChurchUI. of (H.R.) 1839 as he is before us today. I am interest in American agriculture and !or his willing to contribute to his support, but he Perhaps they-and Gen. Dwight D. Eisen­ many years of devoted service on the House hower, who enforced Operation Keelhaul is not mine-nay blood no longer tlows in his Agriculture Committee. Mrs. Nixon and I veins. with no apparent pangs of conscience-un­ were deeply saddened to hear of his passing derstood but simply did not care. "I repeat, Mr. Speaker, 'This child ain't and we extend our sincere sympathy to his mine.'" family." Rep. Teague also found hunaor in another Vice President Gerald R. Ford said: "I am situation. For sanae tinae, he and Rep. Olin very much saddened by the death of my E. Teague (D-Texas) shared seats on the CHARLES M. TEAGUE, 1909-74 dear friend and former colleague, Charles Veterans Affairs Comnalttee. Teague. American agriculture owes a great The resulting confusion frona pronounce­ deal to him for his dedication to the best ments frequently credited to the wrong HON. HENRY HELSTOSKI interests of the American farmer. His dis­ Teague were usually followed by ret ractions, 01' NEW JERSEY trict, state and the nation have lost an out­ which in turn were followed by a good laugh. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES standing legislator." There was no confusion in the work both "Congressman Teague typified the best in Tuesday, January 2 2, 197 4 did toward heloing veterans. American politics today,'' said Rep. Robert Among other things, Rep. Charles T~ague Mr. HELSTOSKI. Mr. Speaker, it was H. Mlchel of lllinois. "He was a dedicated, had worked h!trd to improve housing rights hardworking legislator whose prime interest with great sadness that I learned of the for veterans. was in what ts best for the country. As rank­ Rep. Teague's first wife, Marjorie, died In death of my friend a.nd colleague, Charles ing Republican member of the House Agri­ M. Teague. Congressman Teague died 1970. He remarried that year, but was sepa­ culture COmmittee, he also was the leading rated frona his second wife, Courtney, at the New Year's Day in Santa Pau1a, Calif., advocate of American agriculture in Con­ time of his death. at the age of 64. Widely respected by his gress. He will be sorely missed." Michel is In addition to his son, Rep. Teague also 1s friends, he was also admired by his ad­ chairman of the Republican Congressional survived by two daughters, Nornaa Potter, of versaries for his diligence, forthright­ Committee. Washington, and Judith Kenyon, of Santa ness, sense of humor, and integrity. Rep. Teague has served on the Agricultural Rosa, Calif., and eight grandchildren. Committee for most of his tenure in Con­ Charles Teague leaves an inspiring rec­ gress. While he was not noted for introducing ord of service-he was the senior Re­ naajor legislation, hls efforts to maintain free UKRAINE ANNIVERSARIES publican member of the House Veterans' as opposed to su bsidlzed a.gricul ture were Affairs Committee, in addition to being considered very effective. the ranking Republican on the Agricu1- He also took a strong stand on aiding con­ HON. HENRY P. SMITH III ture Committee. As a member of the Vet­ servation and envlronnaental progranas and OF NEW YORK erans' Committee, I consider myself for­ for a number of years was the ranking mem­ ber on the Agricultural Committee's Con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, tunate to have had the opportunity to servation and Credit Subcommittee. work closely with Mr. Teague. Tuesday, January 22, 1974 He was one of those responsible for bring­ Congressman Teague will be remem­ ing about an Interior J?epartment ban on Mr. SMITH of New York. Mr. Speaker,. bered for his good judgment, conscien­ new oil drUllng platforms in the Santa Bar­ I would like to join those who today are tiousness, honesty, and dedication to bara Channel in 1971. There had been heavily remembering the 56th anniversary of the pursuing what he believed was best for damaging oil gushing from a drilling plat­ proclamation of Ukraine's independence his country. Having come from a family form there several years earlier. and the 55th anniversary of the January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 427 Ukraine's Act of Union. The people of supplement it. In a letter dated January often if we had our w-ay. I consider it abso­ the Ukraine did not have much opportu­ 16, 1974. Leonard LaShomb, executive lutely essential for Africa and America and nity to enjoy their freedom before they vice president of the Minnesota AFL­ the whole world for that matter, to appreciate the fact that although we live under a were incorporated into the Union of So­ CIO,says: peculi-ar regime, such as the one 1n our coun­ viet Socialist Republics in 1922. However, Labor is in full support of this legislation try, that we have no option but to live in our the desire for freedom despite Russian (H.R. 8053) as we feel it wlll supple­ country. This means that we just have to occupation has claimed more than 11 ment the post card registration we now have make the best of the situation in which we million victims. We have achieved some in Minnesota. find ourselves. This might even mea.n living success with support of human rights for I agree. there and suft'erlng the handicaps under Jews in Russia. Can we not extend our which we live just as over 3 million Jews did We must make it easier to vote in the in Germany before the last world war. We do scope to include concern and support for United States. I am convinced that the not accept being chatels in the land of our other captive peoples? diffi.cult registration procedures limit the birth. We have not even resigned ourselves to turnout on election day. Among th~ the state of powerlessness and voicelessness to world's democracies the United StateJ which we have been reduced by the powerful has the worst record of voter participa­ 1n our land. The methods we use are dic­ H.R. 8053-POSTCARD VOTER tion in elections. This country is the only tated largely by the strength of the forces REGISTRATION arrayed against us. hven our politics, might Western democracy that puts the burden look to an outsider as lacking the vigor and of registering on the citizen instead of force it should leave. It must be remembered on the Government. We must remedy that even in that situation poUtics is the art HON. DONALD M. FRASER this situation. of the possible. OF MINNESOTA The rest of the world and even Africa some­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES times fall to take cognisance of the fact that Tuesday, January 22, 1974 we are faced in South Africa with an In­ FOURTH AFRICAN AMERICAN digenous white population. Most white South Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, the post­ DIALOG CONFERENCE Africans are descendants of settlers who set­ card voter registration bill will be con­ tled 1n South Africa more than three hun­ sidered by the House soon. This is vital dred years ago. They have become Indigenous HON. LOUIS STOKES to South Africa as white and black Ameri­ legislation. There are too many people cans have become to the United States. in the United States who do not take OF omo This makes no task more difficult because part in elections because registration is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this white minority is powerful and probably too diffi.cult. H.R. 8053 would supplement Tuesday, January 22, 1974 has the most powerful army 1n Africa, the the existing registration machinery of total amounts set aside by white South the States. Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, the fourth Africa for Defense for 1973/74 amount to In a letter, Peter Fosco, general presi­ annual African American Dialog Con­ R481,164,000. This figure represents 3.3% of ference was held in Addis Ababa, Ethi­ the estimated gross national product as com­ dent of the Laborers' International pared to 2.5% 1n the previous financial year. Union of North America, states: opia, from December 3 through 7 of This is merely to mention one aspect of their We believe one of the most critical prob­ 1973. This conference is sponsored by power. lems facing polltical leaders is the sharp the African American Institute, which is When the present regime formulated its rise in public cynicism toward government. based in New York City. The participants Apartheid policy, there was no consultation A survey conducted last November by the in this very important conference con­ with Blacks. This was not something University of Michigan's Institute for Social sisted of representatives from both the peculiar to this Regime as is no other regime Research showed that 66 percent of the pub­ United States and majority-ruled Afri­ has ever done so since our conquest. Before lic said they felt they could trust their gov­ can countries. the Nationalist Regime ascended to power, ernment only "some of the time." the United Party ruled 1n South Africa. They This is a shocking statistic and, in a The purpose of the dialog between par­ had a policy of segregation under which democracy, government cannot act effectively ticipants centered around the importance Africans had a Native Representative Coun­ if citizens lack confidence in their publlc of assistance from the United States to cil in Pretori-a. For quite a long time great leaders. It therefore rests with Congress to majority-ruled African countries in the African patriots such as the Late Chief A. J. help restore the people's faith in their po­ areas of trade, economic development, Lutuli, the late Dr. z. K. Mathews to men­ litical system. A good first step would be to and foreign investment. tion just two well-known names because Increase voter participation 1n the demo­ It was a very important occasion for members of the Native Representative Coun­ cratic process. me, for not only was I a participant in cil. When they did participate they did not H.R. 8053 would supplement the existing by so doing embrace the segregationist poli­ registration machinery and add a new tool the dialogs, but a chairman of the con­ cies of the then-government of the Land. to registering voters. . . . ference as well. National Liberation Movements such as the There were several significant speeches now banned African National Congress de­ Minnesota used their new postcard given by various representatives who par­ cided to embark on a policy of non-collabora­ registration and election day registration ticipated in the conference. One very tion. In other words, they asked their mem­ law in last fall's election. The following significant speech was tendered by Chief bers not to continue to participate 1n these 9xcerpts are from a letter from Arlen Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of the Zulu na­ bodies set up under the segregationist poli­ .&-dahl, Minnesota secretary of state, tion, which focused on the evll.l f:1f the cies. They then followed a more m111tant line .vhose office administered the new law. apartheid policy in South Africa. I deem I need not go through the history of these .ie says: bodies as it is well known to all of you . it a privilege to share this magnificent I mention this b-ackground to emphasize As you well know, our Minnesota experi­ speech with all my colleagues: ence with the 1973 law is so far limited to that Separate Development as Apartheid is local and municipal elections. About 700 mu­ COMMENTS ON SOUTHERN AFRICAN ISSUES now euphemistically known 1n South Africa, nicipalities had elections 1n November and IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS, ADDIS has been imposed on Blacks. No options are December, and I feel the experience with the ABABA, ETHIOPIA-DECEMBER 6, 1973-M. open to us, the number ~f banning orders new law was quite satisfactory.... GATSHA BUTHELEZI under which various people have been placed On the whole I felt the new postcard and I considel\ it my first duty to thank the is evidence of this. Homelands have been universal registration law worked quite Directing Committee for the African-Ameri­ imposed on us but are now a fact. That well.... can Dialogues for extending the privilege to does not mean that we are resigned to having Voter registration is now a.n easy process me to participate in this fourth Conference a stake only in these impoverished under­ in Minnesota and should not restrict any of their Dialogues series. developed old reserves which have now been eligible person from voting.... It is always beneficial to one to partici­ romaniticised with the news name of "Home­ pate in any Dialogue where one learns from lands". We do not want to opt out of the This letter, from a secretary of ·state a divergence of opinions. This I think is the economy of our country. At the same time who has had experience with postcard whole purpose of an7 dialogue. One does not it must be realised that our people live 1n registration, is a positive and powerful come to a dialogue with the purpose of ac­ these undeveloped areas and we are concerned argument against the prognosis of sec­ quiring proselytes or to sell any particular about them as much as those of our people retaries of state who were polled last line of thought. More is gained by an ex­ who are regarded as soujourners 1n the met­ change of views 1n any dialogue. ropolitan areas of Scuth Africa. summer and stated the postcard regis­ For those of us who live 1n South Africa, it Africans are the only racial group 1n South tration would not work in their States. is a great privilege to come out to Black Africa that carry passes. We are 1n other The Federal law would not supplant Africa, something that is not very easy and words, debarred from seeking el'>'lployment as existing registration machinery, it would something which should be ha.ppenlng more freely as other racial groups do. Only through 428 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 labour bureaux can Africans get registered as by the Racist Regime to divide us. ThaJt i.s Congressional Quarterly, that he was wor­ employment seekers. White South African why we have now committed ourselves to the ried about a secretary in his office who, for has now irresponsibly made us responsible for idea. of a Federal Union. several weeks, had been following him when mlllions of our people under the policies they We think first of a Federal Union of Black he left for lunch or at the end of the day. pursue. In my case 4~ mlllion Zulus have States and we have said that we are not Pollee said yesterday that the secretary, been pushed on to my lap.We have no indus­ going to agree to any Federal formula which Paula. J. Frenda.k, 27, has been charged on a. tries worth speaking about in the Homelands. pushes us out into the cold by allowing warrant with homicide in the fatal shooting Even the Prime Minister has more than once whites to hoard the economy of South Africa of Titlow, whose body was found shortly said to me that the former-High Commis­ for themselves. after lunch just inside the rear door of an sion Territories which are now independent We have said that if whites are so con­ office building at 1735 K Street NW, where countries in Southern Africa, and the Home­ cerned about "being swa.mped" as they put Congressional Quarterly rents office space on lands, have nothing to sell but their labour. it, we can work out a federal formula which the third floor. This hurts but it remains a true description will ensure that the economy of the Country Titlow, who sold the research service of the of the extent to ·nhich we are kept both eco­ benefits all the peoples of SOuthern Africa.. private government research organization, nomically and politically powerless. We do not pretend that this is the only had been shot twice in the head, a.ocording We appreciate the volume of sympathy to formula for the solution of that complex to the D.C. medical examiner's office. us that is directed from outside. This moral situation. But it must be realized that what­ Police described Miss Frendak as being 5 support means quite much for people like ever efforts are made towards resolving the feet, 8 inches tall, weighing 165 pounds. They us stewing powerlessly in the Apartheid pot. problems of South Africa, from outside, have said she is armed and considered dangerous We appreciate the motives even behind the a highly appreciated but limited value. to herself as well as others. various attempts to weakening the south In the final analysis, it is the Black peo­ Colleagues and friends of Titlow's said Miss African Regime economically. I, for instance, ple themselves within South Africa who will Frendak, a. secretary in the sales section of applaud the pressures that have been brought ultimately throw off the yoke of this racist Congressional Quarterly, sat directly across on American Corporations by people like oppression. This is not just wishful think­ from Titlow's desk and took letters from him Congressman Charles Diggs. I wish particu­ ing on our part, but this has been the com­ as well as other sales personnel, but that he larly to congratulate Mr. Diggs on his bill. At mon pattern of liberation throughout the had no personal relationship with her. the same time it must be appreciated that history of Man. Judy Godsey, a. secretary in the same of­ those of us who are responsible for so many Whilst we try all the formulae at our dis­ fice, described Titlow as "very outgoing, the mlllions of people, however irresponsibly this posal for our liberation, it must be remem­ type of person you could get to know very has come about, have to provide for their bered that our people have to live from day well and very fast. He was always kidding existence from day to day. to day. At the same time we have to pre­ around." With Miss Frendak, however, "he We appreciate that the pressures by Ameri­ pare our people for the time when we shall was very businesslike. He didn't joke around cans. We also understand that the pressure take full participation in decisionmaking in with her like he does with everyone else," for sanctions and withdrawal of investments South Africa. This means uplifting ourselves said Miss Godsey. are an ideological stand aimed at the Racist as much as possible in the meantime. We On one occasion when he accidentally Regime in South Africa. However, by virtue feel that this is the aspect of assistance touched Miss Frendak, she became annoyed, of the fact that we are right in the situation, which the rest of Africa. and the world seem said Miss Godsey. "He was at the Christmas our approach has of necessity to be more to ignore. We would appreciate any assist­ party and put his hand on her arm and said pragmatic than doctrinaire. According to a ance for this vital preparation for our future 'excuse me' as he was passing by, and she leading Industrial Consultant, Dr. Lawrence said, 'get your hand off,' " Miss Godsey McCrystal, given the current economic recalled. growth, there would be 728,000 unemployed Miss Frendak joined the Congressional Africans by the year 1975. Between 1973-77, MURDER BY HANDGUN-THE CASE Quarterly on Dec. 3, according to managing 107,800 additional African workers will enter FOR GUN CONTROL-NO. 262 editor Wayne Kelly. At first, said Miss God­ the labour force annually, 23,500 Coloured sey, "her work used to be pretty good. They and Indian making a total of 131,300. The were very impressed the first couple of weeks. cost of training one worker is $1500 and it HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON Then, it started going downhlll." costs $3,865 to create jobs per worker. The OJ' MASSACHUSETTS About this same time, according to Kelly, total cost of placing a worker is $5,365. So Miss Frenda.k began following Titlow when that the annual cost of providing one job per IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES he left the office for lunch or in the eve­ annum wlll be: For Afrioa.ns: $578,347,000. Tuesday, January 22, 1974 nings to go home. Jilor Coloureds and Indians: $126,077,500 mak­ "Mostly it was just joining him (as he ing a total of $704,424,500. Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I walked), although she did follow him at a. We came from Natal and 60,000 African wish to direct the attention of my col­ distance some times,'' said Kelly. workers mainly Zulus, went on strike this leagues to the article reprinted below "This happened frequently enough to dis­ year as 70 per cent of African wages a.re from the January 18 Washington Post. turb him and to disturb the supervisor uneconomic. Our workers are not members of It is, I think, obvious that this murder here in the department. Trade Unions. But we in Kwa Zulu publlcly would not have occurred had Mr. Titlow's "W1llard had told a. couple of friends at the encourage our people in South Africa to assailant been unable to obtain a gun. office that he was concerned about her fol­ establish Trade Unions and more than five lowing him and that he was going to speak have been founded. At a Summit meeting of Once again, I must urge my colleagues to her about lt. We don't know whether he Homelands' Leaders held at Umtata on the to take prompt action to prevent these ever did that,'' Kelly said. 8th of November, all Homelands' Leaders ex­ tragedies through stringent gun control Kelly said Miss Frendak was going to be cept the Chief Minister of Bophutatswana, laws. "let go" this Friday "because of her behavior Chief Mangope supported the stepping up There are two things that we must not and our concern about it and because her of a campaign for the establishment of more forget. First, no matter what the inten­ general secretarial work was not satisfac­ and more trade unions amongst Africans. tions and capabilities of a person, it is tory." She had not been told that she was There is nothing in law forbidding Black going to be fired at the time of the shooting, Trade Unions. Under the Industrial Conc111- much more difficult to kill someone with­ Kelly said. at1on Act the definition of a worker ex­ out a gun. Great Britain, for example, Pollee, in the lookout issued for Miss Fren­ cludes Africans, that is what has hampered had fewer than a hundred murders in all dak here and in her native New York state, the emergence of Black Trade Unions. of last year. said she was wearing an orange dress with The South African Government has up Second, only Congress can do anything white piping around the neck and cuffs, a. to now refused to give us more land than was to stop this slaughter. The stfttes cannot knit sweater, dark blue suede coat, dark boots promised under the 1936 Native Land and do it because their jurisdiction is too and a. large pocketbook. Trust Act under the Hertzog Regime. In limited. Miss Godsey said Miss Frendak had been other words, no more land is being released The Executive and Judicial wearing that same outfit "for about two by the South African Government to con­ branches of the Federal Government weeks." She said Miss Frendak also began solidate Homelands as countries. This was cannot do it because it is not within wearing a purple and white knit cap, into one of the main issues we discussed at our their authority. which she tucked her long dark hair, every Summit Conference at Umtata and we intend Only Congress can take effective day since Christmas. approaching the Republican Government on action, and, as I have said before, if Miss Godsey also said that Miss Frendak these issues. Whilst people like myself have Congress refuses to act, the responsibil­ had a large pocketbook and "carried it all strong reservations about the philosophy of ity for this continuing tragedy must rest the time. If she poured a cup of coffee, she Apartheid, we feel that the Regime in South had it with her. The purse was never out Africa must carry out their policy to its logi­ with us. of her sight. Not for one minute." cal conclusions. This means providing coun· The article follows: Miss Frendak, who was born in Ska.neatells, tries within SOuth Africa for the various WoMAN SouGHT INK STREET SLAYING N.Y., was graduated from the Syracuse Uni­ African· ethnic groups such as they have (By Judith Lace Mann) versity in December, 1967, according to promised. We are at the same time aware of Shortly before he was shot to death, Tues­ resumes she provided her employers. She the fact that ethnic grouping is being used day, W11lard Titlow, 40, told colleagues at worked briefly as a clerk for a radio station January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 429 in Charlottesvme, Va., before coming to the revision, health insurance, housing, mini· HOLY FAMILY COLLEGE CELE­ Washington area. mum wage, no-fault insurance and land use. BRATES 20TH YEAR Most of the next five years she lived at It is easy to put the Congress down for 1417 N St. NW. and held various secretarial failure to complete actions on these tough and clerical positions. Several of her em­ issues, but that indictment may be over­ drawn, especially if it is recalled that the HON. JOSHUA EILBERG ployers described her as quiet and intro­ OF PENNSYLVANIA verted. issues raise terribly difficult problems and In 1969, she was enrolled in the philosophy that the Congress will act on many of them IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES department at Howard University, according in 1974. Tuesday, January 22, 1974 to her resumes. The 1973 Congress did not achieve land­ Miss Frendak worked on Tuesday, accord­ mark legislation on most issues of domestic Mr. En.BERG. Mr. Speaker, this year ing to Kelly, and followed Titlow when he policy. No major housing, education or tax marks the 20th anniversary of Holy and a friend left the building for lunch. She legisla tlon was enacted, although a farm bill Family College in Philadelphia. This became law which replaced the existing sys­ did not follow them into the restaurant but coed liberal arts college is plannin~ to was in the lobby of the building when they tem of rigid farm price supports with a "tar­ -returned. Titlow went to his office, then left get price" plan, and major transportation commemorate its founding by providing shortly before 2:30 to go out on business. measures were passed, including a highway a series of complementary lectures to the "When he got up to leave, she jumped up bill and a railway blll to keep the trains run­ public dealing with some of the problems and followed him," said Kelly. "She said ning in the Northeast and Midwest. facing families today. something about having an appointment, Although the list of legislative accomplish· Besides providing an outstanding and never came back." ments was not long, the Congress showed scholastic curriculum. Holy Family Titlow was born and raised in the Wash­ initiative with legislation to open the high­ College, through its various clubs and ington area, attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase way trust fund to mass transit, home rule High School and Montgomery Junior College. for the District of Columbia, a comprehensive activities, has raised money and enter­ He served in the Army for two years, then manpower program with public service em­ tained many needy families and chari­ received a degree in journalism and public ployment, federal aid for emergency medical table organizations during its 20 years of relations from the University at Maryland. care and the creation of health maintenance existence. He had been with Congressional Quarterly organizations. Congressional reform made a Holy Family College is not an institu­ about a year and a half. breakthrough, too, with more open meetings tion which hides behind its academic He was separated from his wife Patricia, of Congressional committees, a further dent walls. In addition to the many charitable who is llving in Sydney, Australla, and was in the seniority system, and the installation living with his mother, Isabel W. Titlow, at of an electronic voting system in the House works performed by the faculty, sta:tr, 8802 Grant St., 1n Bethesda. He is also sur­ which cut in half the time of a recorded vote. and students, the college makes its vived by a brother, Richard, who also lives This Congress also dealt reasonably well facilities available to many segments of in Bethesda. with the extraordinary problems of the Presi­ the community. dency. Despite some mistakes, the Senate I have used its meeting rooms and Watergate Committee performed an impor­ classrooms many times for seminars for tant task of public education on the men and events of Watergate. A careful and respon­ the public on the vital issues of our day. THE 1973 CONGRESS sible job was done on the confirmation of a At this time I enter into the RECORD new Vice President, and a beginning was an article in a local newspaper. the made on a purposeful and professional in­ Northeast Times, commemorating the HON. LEE H. HAMILTON quiry into impeachment. 20th anniversary of Holy Family College. OF INDIANA The energy crisis dominated the final days The article follows: of the Congress. After passing signiftcant IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES HOLY FAMn.Y CoLLEGE CELEBRATES 20TH YEAB energy legislation authorizing construction Tuesday, January 22, 1974 of the Alaska pipeline, providing for manda­ Nestled in the quiet setting of Torresdale, Holy Family College 1s preparing to celebrate Mr. Mr. tory fuel allocations, approving a. 55 mile­ HAMU.TON. Speaker, under per-hour speed limit and daylight savings its 20th anniversary. Originally chartered 1n leave to extend my remarks in the REc­ time, the House and the Senate were unable 1954 as a liberal arts college for women, Holy ORD, I include the following: to agree on the provisions of an emergency Fa.mlly 1s now a. coed institution, with pro­ THE 1973 CONGRESS energy bill. Three days before Christmas, grams in elementary and secondary educa­ 1973 was a good year for the u.s. Congress. with the two chambers bogged down over a. tion, medical technology, nursing and busi­ The major concern of the Congress in 1973 Windfall profits section aimed at the oil in­ ness administration as well as the traditional was to reverse the long-standing fiow of pow­ dustry, and with nearly half the members liberal arts curricula. er toward the Presidency. When the Congress already gone, the Congress adjourned and let Founded by the Sisters of the Holy Family assembled in January of 1973, a defiant the blll go over to 1974. of Nazareth, the college is located on a mood was apparent and Its leaders were de­ Whatever its faults, the first session of the spacious and attractive traot of land 'bounded termined to reassert its constitutional 93rd Congress, which convened on January 3, by Grant and Frankford Aves. The •buildings powers. During the year the Congress suf­ 1973, and adjourned December 22, 1973, ran of Nazareth Academy and Nazareth Grad& fered some losses and made some gains, but, 354 days and was hard working. As the School adjoin thP- College property. on balance, it ended the year in a stronger seventh longest Congress in history, it con­ Sister M. Lillian 1s the current president position. sidered 17,528 bllls, enacted about 200 laws, of the college; other a.dmln1strative officers: In foreign policy it scored two major suc­ and took more recorded votes than any Con­ include Sister M. Immaculata.. Academic­ cesses: a first time ever cutoff of funds for gress in history. During the session the Dean, Sistf-r M. Praxede, Treasurer, Sister­ a mllitary operation in progress, by voting House cast 541 recorded votes, and the Senate M. Patrice, Dean of Students, and Sister Mary to end funds for bombing in Indo-China on 594. (The old records were 329 for the House Louise, the Registrar. Sister M. Kathryn­ August 15; and a 60-day limit on the length and 532 for the Senate.) directs the services of an adequate and com­ of time American troops could be committed fortably furnished llbra.ry. to combat without Congressional support. Recent additions to the original campus. With the help of the federal courts, the have been made to provide for possible ex­ Congress is apparently winning the struggle UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE pansion in the future. The former Evans over the control of spending. The lower fed­ property, on the southeast corner of Frank­ eral courts have consistently held that the ford a.nd Grant Aves., was purchased three President must carry out the laws enacted HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI years ago and a.t the present time it pro­ vides departmental office space for the faculty­ by the Congress, and that he does not have OF n.LINOIS the power to impound money that the Con­ of the popular Department of Nursing. Some gress has appropriated. The House has passed, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 20 acres, north of Stevenson Lane and in-­ and the Congress will undoubtedly give final Tuesday, January 22, 1974 cluding the former Green property, were pur­ approval next year to a blll to limit the Presi­ chased more recently from the Orleans Con­ dent's power to impound appropriated funds Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, today, struction Co. and to give Congress better control over the January 22, commemorates the 56th an­ The Green fa.mlly residence now houses the­ federal budget. niversary of Ukrainian independence. Mathematics Center, a community-oriented Of course the Congress often failed, too. Normally, Mr. FLooD would conduct a fac111ty under the direction of Wanda.. by not overriding vetoes and by adjourning special order recognizing this historic Wieckowskl of the Department of Education. . with a long Ust of important and unfinished This fac111ty provides specialized tutorial business. Campaign spending failed, and, in occasion. Due to the fact that this is the assistance in the field of mathematics to local the closing days of the session, no agreement first week of the second session and a school children. At the same time, prospec­ could be reached on emergency energy legis­ heavy legislative schedule awaits us, the tive teachers, students of the college, are lation. Other legislation facing members in special order will be held next Thurs­ trained in the important techniques of spe­ the new session wlll be pensions, trade, tax day, January 30. cia.linstruction. 430 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 According to the Academic Dean, Sister M. city have been entertained or otherwise as­ NIXON. PURSUES DETENTE WHILE Immaculata, eshbUshment of the Mathe­ sisted by campus groups. lnatlcs Center was a natural follow-up to the Of the 49 full-time faculty members, 26 KREMLIN PURSUES MILITARY previously established Reading Center. are religious. The full-time faculty is sup­ SUPERIORITY Opened in September 1968 the effectiveness plemented by a staff of part-time lecturers, of the Reading Center, which is directed by 22 laymen and another 5 religious. Sister M. de Lourdes, has been commended HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK by representatives of the Pennsylvania De­ OF OHIO partment of Education as well as by educa­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tors generally. The Center has even served GEN. EDWARD I. CREED as a model for simllar installations at other Tuesday, January 2 2, 197 4 institutions of higher learning. Substantial Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the numbers of students, registering from pub­ HON. LOUIS STOKES Nixon administration, despite all indica­ He and private secondary and elementary OF OHIO tions to the contrary, seems to believe schools in the area, have been assisted since the opening of this Reading Center. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that U.S.-Soviet detente wlli bring about Sister M. Patrice, Dean of Students, re­ Tuesday, January 22, 1974 a friendlier and less militant Soviet ports that the typical student at Holy Fam­ Union. An article by Evans and Novak in ily is friendly, seriaus in purpose and, more Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, during this the December 31 edition of the Wash­ than likely, holding a part-time job. Most session of Congress, Maj. Gen. Edward I. ington Post, however, exposes the danger of the students are residents of Philadelphia, Creed, Commander of the U.S. Army Re­ of this misconception. many from the Northeast community. And, serve Command, Columbus, Ohio, one of At the same time that Nixon is talking paralleling a nation3.l trend, more than hal! the largest in the Nation, is leaving his about the supposed benefits of detente, of the students attend on a part-time basis, pursuing various occupations in conjunction command. the Soviet Union is pushing to achieve with their academic studies. General Creed entered the Army on clear military superiority. The Soviets The pioneer class, which was graduated in March 18, 1941, and was commissioned are now spending twice as much as the 1958, numbered 19. During the intervening from Officer Candidate School at the United States on military research and years enrollments have slowly but steadily Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., in Jan­ development, while the United States is increased and more than 1,150 baccalaureate uary 1942. His first assignment was to spending twice as much as the Soviets on degrees have been conferred by the college the Ordnance School at the Aberdeen military pay. As Evans and Novak warn: to date. Courses in business law, family law, real estate, ethnicity and plurallsm, person­ Proving Grounds. In December 1942 he If continued, those trends will enable the was assigned as section chief of the Ord­ Soviet Union to pursue a highly bell1cose nel management, and the psychology of the foreign policy within 3 years. socially maladjusted-emotionally disturbed nance Training Center at Santa Anita, child are courses currently being offered in Calif. He was transferred to the Alaskan The following is the complete text of response to the needs and interests of the Defense Command at Fort Richardson, the Evans and Novak article: present student body. Alaska, in April 1943 where he partici­ THE KREMLIN'S FuTuRE POWER A variety of courses, for personal enrich­ pated in the Attu and Kiska campaigns ment as well as for professional and aca­ (By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak) demic credit, are offered to all interested can­ in the Aleutian Islands. The muscular Soviet military posture dur­ didates. Day, evening and Saturday classes In August 1945 he was assigned as As­ ing the Mideast war and disturbing trends in are scheduled throughout the year and a sistat Chief of Staff, G2. with the 6th comparative U.S.-Soviet defense spending growing number of more mature adults as U.S. Army and participated in the Hol­ leads senior uniformed omcers in the Pen­ well as younger individuals in the commu­ landia, Admiralty Island, Leyte, and Lu­ tagon to this alarming forecast: a Kremlin nity register each year. Holy FamUy remains zon operations. He was awarded the with clear mllitary superiority wlll begin the only fully accredited four year college in maximum world pressure as early as 1977. Bronze Star for Valor for his participa­ U.s. intelligence analysis shows Moscow the immediate area. tion in the landings at Luzon in the LECTURES FOR PUBLIC spending twice as much as Washington on Philippines; and the Bronze Arrowhead military research and development and One of the distinctive features of the col­ for participating in the amphibious land­ Washington spending twice as much as Mos­ lege has been an emphasis on family spirit ings on Attu, Kiska in the Aleutians and cow on m111tary pay. If continued, those .and the linportance of inculcating values trends will enable the Soviet Union to pur­ in all aspects of family life. Appropriately, Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines. His many other decorations include the Pur­ sue a highly bellicose foreign policy within the family has been chosen as the dominant three years. By this analysts, Soviet saber .and particular theme for the entire College ple Heart Medal; Asiatic Pacific Ribbon rattling during the Yom Kippur war is but a ·community during this 20th anniversary with five battle stars; American Defense foretaste of what lies ahead. year. Seminar and course themes, the Logos Ribbon; Philippine Liberation Ribbon Going beyond the usual Pentagon rationale lectures and student sponsored activities will with three battle stars; six Overseas for higher defense spending, this assessment "focus on this theme during the year. More­ Bars; World War II Victory Medal; represents deep-seated concern for the future over, a coordinating council, comprised of Anny of Occupation Ribbon and Armed by troubled senior omcers. In particular, they students, faculty and alumni of the college, Forces Reserve Ribbon. believe the architect of detente, Secretary of has announced a commemorative lecture State Henry A. Kissinger, overlooks the dan­ series to begin on Jan. 15. These lectures, Following his return to civilian life, he ger of declining United States strength in open to the public without charge, will deal entered the U.S. Army Reserve. His Re­ comparison with that of the Russians. with some of the practical problems which serve assignments have included assign­ That decline is pointed up in the U.S. in­ confront fam111es today: communication, ment as commanding officer, 302d Ord­ telllgence consensus regarding U.S.-Boviet morality, finances, mental and physical nance Group, Cleveland, Ohio; chief of defense spending. Research and development health, law, and preparation for the later staff, 83d Infantry Division; deputy com­ now accounts for 25 per cent of the Soviet years. defense budget, compared with 12 per cent To encourage attendance at the lectures, mander, 83d ARCOM. He assumed com­ for the United States. students of the college have volunteered to mand of the 83d ARCOM in March 1970. Converting rubles into dollars, R & D fig­ provide supervision and recreational activi­ During General Creed's tenure of duty ures for 1970 (the last available year) show ties for the younger members of the family with the 83d U.S. Army Reserve Com­ $16 billion spent by Soviets against $7.4 bil­ while parents attend the lectures. Further mand, he has taken an active role in lion by Americans, with the gap even wider information concerning the lectures is avail­ community service relations, mutual sup­ today. Moscow's crash program in naval ex­ able from the college. port programs, and military a:fllliated or­ pansion is most dramatic. Ship construction The campus spirit at Holy Family rtr.Iects now comprises 15 per cent of Soviet defense an enthusiasm generated by diverse interests ganizations. He consistently and tireless­ spending compared with 4 per cent for the and activities. For example, in addition to the ly devoted his time and attention to the United States. scholastic interests, depart;.n.ental clubs and problems at hand and to the one goal In contrast, inexorable salary demands of other campus organizations pursue a variety of a better Reserve force. His inspiring the all-volunteer U.S. armed services mean of activities, science exhibits and demonstra­ example, exceptional capabilities and that manpower alone costs the United States tions, glee club and dramatic performances, loyalty have earned him the esteem and an outlandish 57 per cent of the defense athletic events and charitable efforts form budget, compared with 25 per cent for the an integral part of the collegiate year. Among admiration of subordinates and superiors Soviets. That ratio will get worse before it the beneficiaries, the Riverview Home for the alike. It is with fond memories and sad improves. Aged, the Philadelphia State Hospital, local regrets that we bid goodby to General These deadly statistics convince high U.S. orphanages and several needy fam111es of the Creed as a group commander. omcers the all-volunteer concept must be January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 431 replaced by a. revived draft. The cha.lrmen of Committee the findings of my trip to willing to assist, any full scale search would the armed services committees in Congress, Laos. have to await the formation of a. coalition Sen. John F. Stennis of Mississippi and Rep. I respectfully request permission to in­ government in Laos so that the safety of the P. Edward Hebert of Lou1s1a.na., tend to agree. search teams would be guaranteed. He fur­ But they have privately informed the Penta­ clude this report in the CONGRESSIONAL ther indicated that he knew of no American gon that Congress would not adopt a. new RECORD so that my colleagues will have prisoners being held in Laos with the excep­ draft law earlier than 1977. And 1977, omi­ opportunity to give this matter appro­ tion of Emmet Kay, a civllian pilot. nously, is the year U.S. officers see the So­ priate consideration: I then conferred with Vu Thien, First Con­ viets achieving clear-cut conventional su­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, sul of the North Vietnamese Embassy in periority. Washington, D.O., January 22, 1974. Vientiane who cited the failure of the South The question remains: What will the Hon. CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI, Vietnamese to abide by the conditions of the Kremlin do with that superiority? The Chairman, National Security Policy Subcom­ agreement concerning the release of political Pentagon has noted with interest a. news­ mittee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, prisoners as the major stumbling block to letter published by The Economist of Lon­ Rayburn House Office Building. Wash­ our thwarted search efforts. don, describing blla.tera.l meetings early in ington, D.O. I then flew to Long Thien, the Laotian field 1973 between Soviet officials and their War­ DEAR CHAIRMAN ZABLOCKI: I welcome thiS headquarters for rescue of American pilots saw Pact allies. According to the newsletter: opportunity to formally report to the Sub­ downed in North Vietnam. There I met with "Essentially, the East Europeans were told committee on National Security Policy and Major General Va.ng Pa.o, Commanding Gen­ that the Soviet Union aims in the next 12 to Scientific Developments the findings of my eral of Mllita.ry Region II, the region en­ 15 years to devote all its resources (A) to recent visit to Southeast Asia on behalf of compassing the embattled Plain of Jars area.. pursuing detente with the west and (B) to those Americans stlll unaccounted for fol­ General Vang Pa.o is commander of the bullding up its own strength, militarily and lowing our mil1tary involvement in that part Hmong guerrllla army which opposed the economically. At the end of this period­ of the world. Pa.thet Lao in Laos. roughly in the middle or late 1980s-the With recent reports that efforts at ac­ General Va.ng Pao informed me that he total strength of the Soviet and East Euro­ counting for our missing men are at a sta.nd­ had received reliable information that "8 to pean bloc would have increased to such an stlll and with the growing frustration on the 10 young American pilots were being held by extent that it would be able to gain the part of the families of these men, I felt com­ the North Vietnamese" for purposes of ex­ upper hand in its relationship with the pelled to visit Laos myself for an on-the-spot tracting technical information. He was un­ West." assessment of our situation there. able to supply me with the names or con­ High U.S. officers confirm this account's Prior to taking this trip, I sponsored legis­ ditions of these men, other than the infor­ accuracy but predict the "upper hand" stage lation, H.J. Res. 716, calling for a Congres­ mation that they were younger pilots who will be closer to 1977 than 1987-a. view sional field investigation into the status of had been flying in Southeast Asia. shaped by recent events in the Eastern our missing men. In October, 1973, I helped Since learning of this information from Mediterranean. arrange a. similar trip for a delegation of General Va.ng Pao, and having been assured With the Soviets concentrating 93 vessels famil1es of our missing men. Because of our of his credence as a. source, I have been there against 60 for the United States, the legislative responsibil1ties, I was unable to acutely troubled as to how best to utilize Pentagon believes a. clash would have re­ accompany the fam111es at the time of their this information. I hesitate to raise the sulted in American disaster. What, then, trip. I was pleased, therefore, to have had hopes of the families of our missing men would the United States have done had there this opportunity, during our recess, to take a since we have no further substantiation of not been a. diplomatic settlement? Replies first hand look in Southeast Asia. at the con­ these reports at this time. Moreover, if one top officer: "We would have had to ditions surrounding the search for missing these facts are corroborated the prospects throw in our cards." In other words, an American servicemen. Additionally, the State of a. · repatriation are not encouraging. ignominious withdrawal of U.S. forces. Department urged my visit, lending furthe! Recognizing, however, that these families Kremlinologists outside the Pentagon al­ impetus to my own interest. have a right to this information, I have ways accuse the U.S. military of accepting Before reporting on the actual events of my contacted Mr. Frank Sieverts of the state the worst possible hypothesis of Soviet in­ investigation, permit me to take this oppor­ Department and Dr. Roger Shields of the tentions, neglecting Moscow's desperate need tunity to review the provisions of the agree­ Defense Department to further pursue and for Western computer technology and !ear ment we signed almost a. year ago today. fully investigate this information. Both of of U.S.-China. entente. Nevertheless, these The Joint Communique signed in Paris on these gentlemen have assured me that such experts now believe the Pentagon's !ears June 13, 1973, details the specific provisions an investigation is taking place. should be taken more into account by Dr. relating to POW-MIA matters agreed to in Following my meeting with General Va.ng Kissinger. Article 8 of the original treaty signed in Pa.o, I traveled to the Nakhon Pha.nom Royal This view is held by a. distinguished Krem­ January, 1973. Thai Air Force Base in Thailand where of­ lin-watcher, Pro!. Zbigniew Brzezinski of Section 8(e) states: ficers of our rescue and search team reported Columbia. University. Moscow, he said, dur­ "In conformity with Article 8(b) of the on the current status of our search e1forts. ing a. Dec. 7 seminar at the Brookings In­ Agreement, the parties shall help each other I met our rescue crews who informed me stitution, continues to "seek a. warfare ca.pa­ to get information about those mllita.ry per­ that during their most recent investigation bil1ty to become assured of victory and to sonnel and foreign civilians of the parties of a crash site in Viet Nam, their unarmed have an edge in crisis situations." Hence, the missing in action, to determine the location United States must increase defense spend­ investigative team was fired upon in a pre­ and take care of the graves of the dead so as meditated ambush by the North Vietnamese. ing to retain vanishing parity. to fa.clllta.te the exhumation and repatria­ This abominable attack resulted in the death More important was this recommendation: tion of the remains, and to take any such As chief proponent of detente, Kissinger other measures as may be required to get of an American military officer, Captain should participate more actively in drafting information about those still considered Reese, despite the fact that a. two week the defense budget. To that suggestion from missing in action." notice of intention to investigate had been the Columbia. professor, the brass in the To this date the North Vietnamese have given to the North Vietnamese. Because the Pentagon whispers amen. failed to comply with these search agree­ safety of the search teams cannot be guaran­ ments, and since fighting and military oc­ teed, the search effort has temporarily come cupation particularly in the areas of Viet to a halt. Na.m, Cambodia and Laos has not fully sub­ Brigadier General J. R. Ulatoski, Com­ GILMAN REPORTS POW-MIA sided, members of the Four Party Joint Mil1- mander of the Joint Casualty Resolution STATUS tary Team have been unable to adequatel. Center at Nakhom Phanom briefed me on the investigate known crash sites. current results of their search efforts a.nd During my visit to Laos I met and con­ provided me with the following information: HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN ferred with officlals of the Pathet Lao, offi­ Search. Status Report OF NEW YORK cers of the Hmong Guerrllla. Army which ~ash sites------1,077 IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES opposed the Pa.thet Lao in Laos, officials ot the North Vietnamese government, and Ground sites------434 Tuesday, January 22, 1974 members of the Joint Casualty Resolution Grave sites------49 Mr. GIT.MAN. Mr. Speaker, I recently Center. In Vientiane I conferred with Pathet Lao Total Sites------1,560 returned from a trip to Laos taken on Col. Soth Phetrasy, Co-chairman of the Joint By country behalf of those American men still miss­ Commission for Implementation of the Peace South Vietnam: ing military as a result of our involve­ Agreement. crash ------249 ment in Southeast Asia. In reply to my appeal to expedite the Ground ------351 Today I reported to the National Se­ search for our MIAs and to provide informa­ Grave ------36 curity and Scientific Developments Sub­ tion concerning POWs in Laos, Col. Phetrasy comm1ttee of the House Foreign A1fairs stated that while his government would be Total ------636 432 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 Search Statm Report-continued COLLEGES TEST SCORES DOWN ences (premedicine) , business and engineer­ By county-continued lOTH YE.AR IN A ROW ing. North Vietnam: Well over half the students said they planned to live in dormitories, whUe 28 per­ Crash ------348 cent said they would stay at home. Only 5 memorial­ izes the Congress of the United States to souri (Mr. !cHORD) and my distinguished enact such legislation to identify and prevent colleague from Pennsylvania Ultating inheritable dis­ 61 percent. In 1971, it dropped slightlY sive program to combat Huntington's ease which makes its first appearance 1n the to 60 percent, but by 1972, the net as­ Disease by providing Federal assistance very prime of life already affects great num­ signment rate was only 56.4 percent. for programs for the diagnosis, preven­ bers of Americans and wW begin to afflict an One reason for these skyrocketing costs tion and treatment of, and research 1n even greater number as our young adult is that private carriers pay only the cost population expands; this most serious illness affecting many (3) that the exact cause of Huntington's of hospital care, a situation which forces of the families of our Nation. d1sea.se 1s stlll unknown. Although severity doctors and patients alike to resort to the A national commitment in the funda­ of the choreiform movements may be reduced expensive and inefficient use of hospital mental health of our people is needed by the administration of certain medication facilities. Unnecessary hospital stays now. America's unprecedented strides in or treatment that has been developed, there drive up the total cost of health care. technology and science have achieved is no known treatment that w111 intluence Just as important as rising costs is the undreamed of horizons throughout the the course of the disease; shortage of trained health personnel. We (4) that efforts to prevent Huntington's world over the past two decades. If we disease must be directed toward increased have health personnel shortages of near­ can harness these disciplines and con­ research in the cause and treatment of the ly half a milllon, including 50,000 doc­ centrate America's technical expertise disease, and the education, screening, and tors, 20,000 dentists, and 150,000 nurses. and scientific knowledge to alleviate the counseling of carriers of the trait; By 1980, the shortages are expected to sutfering of our people and achieve the (5) that programs to prevent Huntington's cllmb to 725,000. finest health care through Federal assist­ disease must be !Jased entirely upon the vol­ Today, the number of doctors provid­ ance and grants-in-aid, then let us make untary cooperation of the individuals in­ ing family care is only about 1 for 2,000 volved; and that investment in the substantive health (6) that the attainment of better methods people, as compared to 3 doctors for 2,000 care needs of our people. of preventl:>n, diagnosis, and treatment of people in the 1930's. Considerable attention has been di­ Huntington's disease deserves the highest Not only is there a nationwide short­ rected toward the hereditary nature of priority. age, but because of poor distribution, this disease which has been found in all (b) In order to preserve and protect the many rural and inner city areas sutfer races and nationalities. Both sexes are health and welfare of all citizens, it is the from an even more acute lack of avail­ affected and the disease may be trans­ purpose of this Act to establish a. national able medical personnel. mitted by either sex. The incidence in program for the diagnosis, prevention, and The health crisis has been intensified treatment of, and research in Huntington's different families is subject to consider­ disease. by the failure of our health delivery sys­ able variation. In some families, prac­ tem to encourage preventive care. Hope­ tically all of the offspring have the AMENDMENTS TO PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT fully the recent passage of legislation to SEc. 3. (a.) section 1 of the Public Health disease. In others, only one or two mem­ Service Act is amended by striking out "titles encourage the establishment of health bers may be affected. This chronic pro­ maintenance organizations will help to I to X" and inserting 1n lieu thereof "titles gressive degenerative disorder of the I to XI". alleviate this problem. nervous system in which mental deteri­ (b) The Act of July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 682), It is imperative that Congress now de­ oration accompanies involuntary choreic as amended, is amended by renumbering velop a system of national health insur­ movements of the body generally makes title XI (as in effect prior to the enactment ance to help the individual consumer its first appearance in the very prime of of this ~ct) as title XII, and by renumbering meet skyrocketing health care costs. sections 1101. through 1114 (as in effect prior life, between the ages of 30 and 50. It to the enactment of this Act) , and references All the proposals before Congress vary already affects great numbers of Ameri­ thereto, as sections 1201 through 1214, re­ considerably in scope and operational cans and will begin to amict an even spectively. procedure, but they all have one common greater number as our young adult ''TITLE XI-HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE element--they would rely in some way on population expands. PROGRAM the Federal Government to contribute to Mr. Speaker, I wish to commend the "PROGRAMS RELATING TO HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE medical insurance coverage for most, if citizens of my congressional district and "SEc. 1101. ·(a) (1) The Secretary may not all American citizens. the state of New Jersey, and particularly make grants to public and nonprofit private I have cosponsored the Kennedy-Grif- the Garden State Chapter for the Com- entities, and may enter into contracts With 442 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 public and private entities, for projects for the Secretary determines have the greatest JANUARY 21 STATEMENT ON NEED the establishment and operation, prlmarUy number of persons in need of the services through other existing health programs, of provided under such programs. FOR On. EXCESS PROFITS TAX Huntington's disease screening, treatment, " (c) The Secretary may make a grant and counseltng programs. under section 1111(~) (1) for a screening, "(2) The Secretary may make grants to tre.a tment, and counseling program when HON. H. JOHN HEINZ Ill public and non-profit private entities, and he determines that the screening provided OF PENNSYLVANL\ may enter into contracts with public and by such program will be done through an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES private entities and individuals, for projects effective Huntington's Disease screening tea,t. for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and Tuesday, January 22, 1974 "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FACILITIES prevention of Huntington's disease including Mr. HEINZ. Mr. Speaker, as Con­ projects for the development of effective "SEc. 1104. The Secretary shall establish gress reconvenes today, I am convinced tests which will identify those who have the a program within the Public Health Service disease or carry the trait. to provide for voluntary Huntington's it is imperative that we make the first "(S) The Secretary shall carry out a pro­ Disease screening, counseling, and treatment. order of business the passage of legisla­ gram to develop information and educational Such program shall utUize effective Hunt­ tion imposing an excess profits tax on the materials relating to Huntington's disease ington's Disease screening tests .and shall be on industry. and to disseminate such information and made avaUable through facUlties of the Pub­ We have heard considerable discussion materials to persons providing health care lic Health Service to any person requesting in the last few months about the causes and to the public generally. The Secretary screening, counseling, or treatment, and and dimensions of the energy shortage. may carry out such program through gra.nts shall include appropriate publicity of the to public and nonprofit private entitles or avall.a.blllty and voluntary nature of such But after visiting at home I can tell you contracts with public and private entities programs. that my constituents are tremendously and individuals. "REPORTS skeptical about the existence of a short­ "(b) (1) for the pnpose of making pay­ "SEC. 1105. (a) The Secretary shall prepare age or our Government's ability to handle ments pursuant to grants and contracts un­ and submit to the President for transmittal a real energy crisis. I am sure most of der subsection (a) ( 1) , there are authorized to the Congress on or before AprU 1 of each us received the same message. to be appropriated $500,000 for the fiscal year a comprehensive report on the adminis­ And I believe the American people are year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of tration of this title. making a valid point. For instance, who the next two fiscal years. "(b) The report required by this section "(2) For the purpose of making payments shall contain such recommendations for believes that Congress or the adminis­ pursuant to grants and contracts under sub­ additional legislation as the Secretary deems tration has sufficient information to section (a) (2), there are authorized to be necessary." make energy decisions that inspire pub­ appropriated $1,500,000 for the fiscal year lic confidence? Yet, we should pass no ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the Mr. Speaker, thank you for the op­ additional legislation unless and until next two fiscal years. portunity to present this vitally impor­ Congress first enacts an excess oil profits "(3) For the purpose of carrying out sub­ tant health amendment on behalf of our tax. Notwithstanding our failure to section (a) (3), there are authorized to be people. grasp all the problems, we may any day appropriated $25,000 for the fiscal year end­ ing June 30, 1975, and for each of the next now be asked to vote on another energy two fiscal years. bill. While many in Congress may lament "VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION SUDDEN INFANT DEATH the loss of this energy legislation, I think "BI:c. 1102. The partiCipation by any indi­ SYNDROME vidual in any program or portion thereof un­ it is extremely important for us to take der this title shall be wholly voluntary and the most controversial problem first­ shall not be a prerequisite to el1g1b111ty for HON. GOODLOE E. BYRON the question of the excess profits tax­ or receipt of any other service or assistance OF MARYLAND before we begin reconsideration of a full from, or to participation in, any other pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES blown energy bill. I say this because I gram. believe that there is no public support "APPLICATIONS; ADMINISTRATION OF GllANT Monday, January 21, 1974 for any congressional action which might AND CONTRACT PROGRAMS Mr. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, recently the further inconvenience the American peo­ "SEC. 1103. (a) A grant under this title House passed H.R. 11386, to provide as­ ple or might promote oil companies' in­ may be made upon application to the secre~ sistance for information and education terest in working closely with each other, tary at such time, in such manner, con­ unless the public is assured that com­ taining and accompanied by such informa­ programs concerning sudden infant tion, as the Secretary deems necessary. Each death syndrome. This is landmark legis­ panies do not stand to reap windfall applicant shall- lation giving statutory recognition to a profits growing out of the uncertainties "(1) provide that the programs and ac­ medical problem requiring additional of the energy situation. tivities for which assistance under this title research and counselling activities. The American people are willing to is sought wUl be administered by or under The Guild for Infant Survival was make any sacrifice in a real and just the supervision of the applicant; founded in 1964 to fight sudden infant cause. But, despite the praiseworthy suc­ "(2) provide for strict confidentiality of all death syndrome or "crib death." The cess of the voluntary program of lower­ test results, medical records, and other in­ ing highway speeds and home thermo­ formation regarding screening, counseling, guild has concentrated its efforts on or treatment of any person treated, except counseling individuals and groups, pro­ stats, there is no assurance that the pub­ for (A) such information as the patient (or viding information on sudden infant lic will continue to tolerate long-term his guardian) consents to be released; or death syndrome, and cooperating with cutbacks and inconveniences. If people (B) statistical data compUed without ref­ public and private research efforts in the cannot reconcile fuel shortages with the erence to the identity of any such patient; field where possible. I commend the ef­ sizable jump in precrisis oil profits or " (3) provide for appropriate community forts of the guild over the years to bring the high postcrisis level of on inven­ representation in the development and op­ this mysterious cause of infant death to tories, if people become convinced that eration of any program funded by a grant the attention of private citizens, medical the higher prices they are now paying under this title; only mean even higher profits, there will "(4) set forth such ftscal control and fund authorities, and the public in general. accounting procedures as may be necessary to H.R. 11386 would authorize $6 million be no support whatever for any Govern­ assure proper disbursement of and account­ over a 3-year period for grants and con­ ment programs, either from Congress or ing for Federal funds paid to the applicant tracts. The Senate bill, S. 1745, would the administration. And quite frankly, under this title; and authorize $36 mtlllon--$24 DU[tlon for most of the people I have met do not "(5) provide for making such reports in believe there is an energy crisis-but such form and containing such information research and $12 million for counseling they do believe that someone is getting as the Secretary may reasonably require. and other purposes. It is obvious that rich from actions taken in the name of "(b) In making any grant or contract un­ there is a need for organized research a so-called crisis. der this title, the Secretary shall ( 1) take into the causes of sudden infant death Part of the credibility problem stems into account the number of persons to be syndrome, and I would hope that the served by the program supported by such from price controls. Why not? After all, grant or contract and the extent to which House and Senate can reach an agree­ price controls simply mean Government rapid and effective use wlll be made of funds ment on final legislation that would pro­ and business sitting down to decide how under the grant or contract; and (2) give vide adequate funding for both research much to charge the public. If a price priority to programs operating 1n areas which and counseling. control is a ceiling, it is also going to January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 443 be a floor. Is there not great reason for Profiting from their lesson in collective as world treasures open to the world market­ the public to believe that our price con­ action, they could realize further mutual ob­ place in fair trade; resources not to be used jectives were they so inclined. Tyranny al­ to wage a war that, while absent of bullets, trol policy is a complete failure? ways begins with a first step. What's next? may be as catastrophic as arms to peace More to the point, there is a significant Disruption of free world productive and eco­ and tranqullity. -energy credibility problem because people nomic stab111ty; repeated denials for what­ Rather than supinely retreat and divided do not believe that an administration, ever purpose of a-ccess to basic world energy suffer losses we previously fought wars and whose campaign managers are alleged sources? spent fortunes to prevent, let us join to­ t.o have accepted $6 million in contribu­ Thetr lesson should be our lesson. I strong­ gether and fight fire with fire, collective em­ tions from people in the oil industry, ly urge that we, as Americans, assume the bargo with collective embargo. .can be totally impartial in the setting lead in creating an effective, collective coun­ On October 17, 1973 at Kuwait eight na­ ter-embargo and thus show the Arabs they tions created a joint policy aimed at bend­ of oil and gasoline prices. are swinging a two-edged sword. ing the free world to their will. They were For these reasons, I say it is imperative The Arab nations cannot survive without Saudi Arabia, Libya, Algeria, Kuwait, Abou that Congress takes the initiative in put­ food, industrial products, transportation Duran, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen. ting public fears to rest. The first step equipment, medicine, industrial services and Against that line up, the free world must be to pass an excess profits tax other commodities available to them only through collective counter-embargo could whose purpose is to take the profit out of from the free world. quickly regain control of its destiny, deal _profiteering. Properly designed legisla­ The United States historically has taken fairly with everyone and protect our mutual tion will not drive energy producing firms the lead in protecting the integrity of sov­ national interests. With courage and a ereign nations against blackmail by mtl1tary strong will, it can be done. ne of that accompanies a significant policy change the ideas being worked on-is known as Sec­ Over last Thanksgiving weekend a pri­ the Farmers Home Administration informed tion 23 leasin g. vate group, the Committee to Investigate its 1,750 field offices before Christmas that HUD's FHA chief, Sheldon Lubar, has his Assassinations. sponsored a conference most of the $1.1 billion COngress appropriated office pushing for funding of some 130,000 on the subject at Georgetown University. for low and moderate income single family units of Section 23 in the next six months, I was represented at the conference by housing this year won't be spent on con­ and up to 300,000 units from July, 1974 to a member of my staff whose subsequent struction of new units. $350 million of it, June 1975. Under the program housing units report I found revealing and disturbing. said an internal memorandum issued by the in a variety of building are leased by lower A similar report appeared in the Janu­ agency, is being placed in "reserve." Another income families who pay one quarter of their $400 million is being set aside for rehabilita­ monthly income to the building's owner. ary 3, 1974, issue of Rolling Stone mag­ tion and purchase of existing rural housing Through payments from a local housing au­ azine, I commend it to the attention of units one year or older. The remaining $350 thority to the building owner, the federal my colleagues, particularly those parts million is for new housing. What upsets government provides the difference between of it dealing with the responsibilities of builders is that the Farmers Home Adminis­ the going market rent and the subsidized ten­ , Congress in the whole sad affair: tration traditionally has spent the bulk of its ant's 25 per cent. Normally, no more than 20 [From Rolling Stone, Jan. 3, 1974] available loan funds for construction of new percent of the units in a building can be cov­ units--and almost no one believes it can ered by Section 23 contracts, thereby avoid­ ASSASSINATION-MURDER IN THE CATHEDF.AL spend anywhere near $400 million on rehab ing the concentration of low-income tenants (By Robert Blair Raisin) and ex[sting housing by the fiscal year-end in vertical ghettos that characterize many "That was a golden time for us back in deadline, June 30. federal projects. the Sixties," said Sylvia Meagher, reminiscing The combination of the $350 million Because the leasing program permits fami­ over the early days when the critics of the "reserves" and the $400 million that can't lies to choose their own housing and this re­ Warren Commission Report were doing their all be spent amounts to a "1974-style im­ sembles President Nixon's long-range pref­ homework, trading their arcane information poundment of a big chunk of the subsidy erence for a housing allowance, it is likely to with one another and writing their books on appropriations," says the head of one rural be the largest (if not the only) subsidized their conspiracy. "Then we started fighting housing group in Washington. housing vehicle for the foreseeable future. among ourselves.... " Her voice trailed off, "It's much subtler than the 1973 mora­ Some builders say they aren't enthusiastic the violins came up there in the bar of the torium," he added. "They give you a dead about a program that can only fill up 20 per Colonial Inn in Georgetown and she pon­ end rather that a stop sign. Maybe they've cent of a projects units. Also the U.S. pays dered her drink (tomato juice, no vodka, on gotten a new lawyer." only when a family actually moves in. But the rocks}. Even James R. Neville, who was an As­ Lubar answers that the days of "the govern­ "Right," said Josiah (Ting) Thompson, sistant Administration at Farmers Home ment getting ripped off" (paying developers stirring his whiskey sour. "In fact, all the from 1971 until his retirement Dec. 31, con­ for empty space in subsidized units) are over. critics have fought with one another so cedes that it will be difficult to spend all Other ideas being worked on within the bitterly that many are still not speaking to the subsidy money because "there simply Administration to boost housing market ac­ this very day. I think that Sylvia and I are isn't a rehab industry out there," and be­ tivity also follow the policy guidelines of­ among the few who are stlll on friendly cause the field offices aren't geared up for fered by the President last September: terms." such a big switch. A major new emphasis on rehabilitating Thompson, a Haverford College philosophy What's going on here? Does the Nixon existing housing units in urban and subur­ professor, wrote Six Seconds in Dallas, a administration spokesman you can get hold ban areas including possible below market seminal work which demonstrated that one of, say housing is high on the agenda. But rate loans. lone rifleman on the sixth floor of the Texas housing on the administration's terms, not Stimulating home buying by pumping new School Book Depository couldn't possibly necessarily on the home builders'. · mortgage funds into the market through have fired the bullets that killed President One of the White House Office of Man­ some form of temporary or "emergency" John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963. agement and budget's housing specialists, mechanism. No one has ever refuted that book, and it's Ronald Landis, says for example that "no Pushing HUD-FHA mobile home insurBID.ce one of the reasons why an overwhelming ma­ one should have been surprised" by FHA's volume from the present 21,000 units per jority of Americans believe that President new emphasis in existing housing and reha­ year level to more than 80,000. Kennedy was done in by a conspiracy. bilitation. A dark horse possibility, according to some Meagher is the UN official and independent "Anyone who read the President's Septem­ officials, might be limited resumption of a researcher who indexed the Warren Com­ ber ( 1973) housing message to Congress subsidized home-ownership program, the old mission's 26 volumes and then wrote Acces­ would have known that he said the pollcy Section 235. Although oriented towards new sories after the Fact, an opus which gave the henceforth would be to reach and serve more construction, it got a relatively good review authorities reasons enough to reopen several lower income families through better use of in HUD's 1973 housing policy report. With an investigations into JFK's murder, reasons. existing units." estimated $212 million in contract authority however, which they found themselves able "Look," said a high official at the Depart­ funds still impounded by the administration. to resist. ment of Housing and Urban Development Section 235's resumption could put between The two of them were relaxing over drinks (HUD), "we spent eight months last year 150,000-170,000 new single family units on after a full day's meeting at Georgetown (during the moratorium on subsidized pro­ the market--and give some home builders University to commemorate the tenth anni­ grams) showing why the old construction­ what they really want. versary of the President's death. But they oriented programs were bad, and indicating (The writer, Kenneth Harney is managing would soon have to revise their views on the where we should put our money from now editor of Housing and Development Reporter, bickering critics, for if anything came out on." an information service published by the Bu­ of the two-day meeting there in the frescoed The Administration, he said, is really wor­ reau of National Affairs Inc.) auditorium of old Gaston Hall, it was this: ried about the plight of home builders, espe­ The conference marked a real change for the cially during the first two quarters of 1974, buffs. Critics who hadn't spoken to each when the annual housing starts rate may other for years now started talking: Popkin drop to 1.3 million units, 40 per cent below A DECADE OF ASSASSINATIONS to Weisberg, Weisberg to Policoff, Policoff to 1972's high rate. Sprague. And, later that evening, at a party "But we're not going to throw out our given by Bernard Fensterwald, the director principles in trying to bail them out. They're HON. LOUIS STOKES of the Committee to Investigate Assassina­ going to have to do without gravy trains like tions, everyone talked to everyone. (Section) 236." OF OHIO It was a time of renewal and reconciliation The Section 236 program, which subsidized IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for all the old critics and, more importantly, the mortgage interest rates paid by develop­ Tuesday, January 22, 1974 a time when it was clear that many other ers of lower-income apartment projects, was new, respectable researchers had joined the one of BUD's two largest programs between Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, a great club. "I'm encouraged," said Jerry Pollco:tr, 1969-1972, accounting for as high as 200,­ number of Americans are not convinced referring specifically to the climate newly ooo new units a year. It was criticized as in- that President John F. Kennedy was established here in Georgetown, and adding, January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 453 vis-a-vis a new national cllmate moderated arly professor of medieval literature at the some kind of go-ahead to run down some by the winds of Watergate, "people don't University of California at Berkeley, and answers? call me a lunatic any more." Policoff, who the author of a book on the Vietnam War, Some conspiracy buffs said the reason was 1s a media analyst in New York, had been The War Conspiracy, pointed out to the audi­ obvious: because the intelligence community working on the JFK assassination for years, ence that there are ways we can all learn itself was complicit in either the assassina­ but finally, out of sheer frustration, put all from Watergate some significant things tion or the coverup. But the events of the his materials in cartons and sealed them up about the methodology of a cover-up. "The past year or two (the Pentagon Papers, the and said the hell with it. physical evidence presented by Dr. Wecht is Watergate business and all the other inside The years from November, 1968, to Novem­ good" he said, "but that won't tell us who stories about the way the secret government ber, 1973, were an exhausting decade for the the real suspects are. Examining the cover­ has worked) suggest another, less sinister critics. They worked, they produced findings ups in the Dallas affair will help us find our answer: that the intelligence community was which were hard to ignore and yet public suspects." neither intelligent nor a community-i.e.• officials did ignore them, gave them so little George O'Toole, a former CIA computer that the patterns of secrecy within govern­ of a hearing that the critics began to feel specialist who looks like Santa Claus with ment precluded open exchanges of informa­ that maybe they were lunatics. a black beard, showed the audience how he tion, frequently not even among themselves, Norman Mailer, who keynoted the confer­ has used a new "truth machine" called the never with the public at large. ence and hung around for the entire two PsycholOgical Stress Evaluator (PSE) to eval­ That kind of operational secrecy is chang­ days, focused right on the mark when he uate previously recorded statements about ing (not nearly fast enough, but it is chang­ compared the obsessed critic to a jealous the assassination by former Chief Justice ing). The conference's media panel (of which lover, who in his affiiction careens between Earl Warren; James E. Humes, the chief I was a member) agreed that the press 1s the two extremes of hating his unfaithful autopsy surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital putting on unprecedented pressures to blast wife for her unspeakable conduct and hating who burned his original notes on the au­ open the secret government. A craggy char­ himself for his unspeakable imaginings. topsy; Howard Brennan, the man who told acter like Sherman Skolnick, the paraplegic "What has made this history unendurable," the Warren Commission he had seen Oswald from Chicago who successfully agitated for said Mailer, "were two opposed hypotheses: shooting at President Kennedy from the win­ the conviction of Judge Otto Kerner, with 1) that it was just an accident, which leads dow of the book depository, and several other that most subversive of all tools, informa­ to a philosophy of the absurd, and 2) any Dallas officials who were involved in the tion, could well be emulated by other infor­ one of the grand conspiracy themes. And any­ initial investigation of the shooting. All these mation commandos. thing in between." men showed great stress, said O'Toole (point­ Radical youth may take this kind of lead But now it was obvious from what was ing to slide projections of their voice pat­ and run with it. Norman Mailer prophesies happening here at the conference (and from terns as recorded by the PSE) which might that a growing movement on the nation's the daily news reports about all the mal­ mean they were not telllng the truth. The campuses--gathering political intelllgence-­ feasance and the misfeasance in government PSE, he said, was 94% accurate in the hands could become as big as the peace movement. not so very far away from Georgetown) that of an expert. O'Toole said he has been work­ That may help the assassination critics get the times are indeed changing. ing for a year on these analyses; sometime an official reopening of the investigations Here at Georgetown, new critics came for­ next year he will turn over his findings to into the assassinations of two Kennedys and ward with evidence to create new doubts, the Justice Department and to members of a King. old critics presented items which could trig­ Congress. Then again, no amount of agitation may ger new tries for the truth. Congress. That may be where all these new win a public constituency large enough to Dr. Cyril Wecht, the coroner of Pitts­ investigations will wind up. Unofficially, this demand that Congress do something very burgh and one of the leading pathologists conference at Georgetown (which was spon­ special (and without the public demand. in the U.S., spent hours on the podium ex­ sored by the private Committee to investi­ Congress usually does nothing). plaining why he does not believe that any gate Assassinations) issued no white paper The reason: Assassinations are more single human being could have handled the or set of conclusions. But almost every ghastly than burglaries and assorted other shooting of JFK. speaker implied that only a subcommittee political dirty tricks, and if many think that Wecht is a man whose looks and vigor of Congress could get to the bottom of impeaching a President is obscene, what are reminded me of no one so much as Vince things--because only Congress or the courts they to think about dredging up thoughts of Lombardi. He has had the almost singular had the power to subpoena witnesses under having his brains blown out? They don't want benefit of access to many medical and patho­ oath or levy penalties on those who wouldn't to think about it. And the very people who logical reports on the JFK assassination talk. The Watergate committee is, of course, should think about it most--the Kennedy which are st111 technically secret and he something of a model. clan (and that includes the Salingers and the doesn't buy the Warren Commission's key­ What chances that a congressional com­ Schlesingers and the Mankiewiczes who re­ stone theory of the single bullet, based on mittee will take over from the lonely critics? fuse to even read my book on the Robert ­ the evidence he has now. What more does Slim now, I think, but growing, as the con­ Kennedy assassination)-want to think he need? Among other things: a specto­ sciousness of a wider public grows that there about it least. graphic analysis of the bullet fragments re­ are some answers out there and that this On this ground, apparently, the Washing­ moved from both Kennedy and Governor nation needs them. While the so-called ton, D.C. appeals courts have so far been Connolly. The FBI, he says, has the evidence, "straight press" hss largely ignored the critics denying the Committee to Investigate Assas­ but the FBI won't cough it up. (Harold Weis­ for years now, the Washington Post reported sinations access to key records the Com­ berg, author of Frame Up, told the confer­ this Georgetown conference as soberly as it mittee and its members need. "Requiescat ence that he has had a tip-off on that specto­ has reported anything on the Watergate in pace," wrote Judge John Anthony Dan­ graphic analysis: It, too, will destroy the scandal. And three staff members of Con­ aher in a recent opinion denying Harold single-bullet theory.) gressmen Morris Udall's office looked in on Weisberg a look at the FBI's spectographic Dr. Robert Foreman, a chinless anthropo­ the discussions at Gaston Hall so they could analysis. logist from Toledo, Ohio, presented his study report to Udall, a brother of Stewart, JFK's The Judge has a point. During the George­ of a simulated JFK "skeleton." According to Secretary of the Interior and himself a key town conference, the experts spent a full all reports, the bullet that entered JFK's figure among the so-called "Kennedy Demo­ afternoon on bullets, brains and ballistics upper deck exited just below his Adam's crats" in Congress. and when they turned off the lights to show apple, without striking any of the Presi­ During the Sixties, before the Garrison the audience their ghoulish slides and the dent's bones. Dr. Foreman showed on a se­ charges against Clay Shaw in New Orleans, afternoon rays shone in the high stained ries of elaborate photographic charts that before the assassinations of Martin Luther glass windows of Gaston Hall, I jotted in my such a shot, fired from the sixth floor of the King and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, before, notebook, "Murder in the Cathedral." It was book depository, couldn't have hit JFK at in sum, the information overload short-cir­ too much for me and for many of the sev­ the angle it did and stlll have continued on cuited the critical faculties of those who eral hundred spectators who were there, un­ to hit Governor Connolly. liked their thinking neat and tidy, there was used to such a cool, scientific treatment of Pete Noyes, a corpulent TV news pro­ a measured receptivity among many to this, such a hot, emotional subject. Some became that or another theory on the conspiracy to visibly uneasy, almost ill. I went for a walk. ducer from L.A. who is the model for the klll JFK. But what good are theories that And then that night at the Fensterwald Edward Asner character on The Mary Tyler multiply as the years pass and lead nowhere? party, Robert Grodin, a young filmmaker Moore Show, has been working for at least six years on the Mafia connections to the Did any of the conspiracy theories about the from New Jersey who is working with a JFK assassination. Here, at last, after several death of JFK, for instance, save the life of group intending to do a documentary on the assassination of JFK, showed up with an­ publishers canceled their contracts to pub­ his brother? Curious, strange, remarkable thing: It was other generation of the film shot by Abra­ lish his conclusions, Noyes proudly presented only the amateurs, the philosophy profs and ham Zapruder in Dallas. Grodin and an optic his just-published account, Legacy Of Doubt the private citizens who had the theories, technician had spent exhaustive hours en­ (a Pinnacle paperback). Noyes doesn't solve who tried to map new avenues of investiga­ larging the central detail, i.e., the President the conspiracy in the book. But he names tion. But they had no resources to travel. and Mrs. Kennedy, of each frame of the names, he tells how he knows what he knows What about the FBI and the CIA and the Zapruder film and here, toward the end of and he points out the directions that au­ whole so-called intelligence community? the party, Grodin ran the enlarged version thorities must take--if they really want to Wasn't there a single agent whu had theories several times. It is clear from this film do their jobs. of his own? Any of them asking questions? (which eliminates to a large extent the shaky Peter Dale Scott, a tall, ascetic and schol- And if so, why weren't any of them given effect of a hand-held camera) that the shot 454 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 which took the top off President Kennedy's of a special prosecutor of recognized profes­ I am pleased to include the text of Gov­ head came not from the direction of the sional stature and integrity would do much ernor Briscoe's remarks: b?Ok depository but from the grassy knoll. to clear the air and reassure the country REMARKS BY Gov. DOLPH BRISCOE The realization drove some of us to tears that the facts will be brought out and those and then to whiskled inebriation. Later, involved dealt with fully and fairly." Thank you for a kind and generous intro­ about 3 AM a.t another gathering bS.ck in The special prosecutor's office as estab­ duction. Georgetown, I almost got into a. fistfight with lished was a part of the Justice Department, I know of no other place where I feel more an asshole who wa.s claiming that Senator a circumstance that did not remove the in­ at home than I do with you. For a great num­ Robert Kennedy wa.s also killed in a crossfire. herent anomaly of investigatee having ulti­ ber of years I have worked closely with you But irra.tiona.Uty is the easy way out. No mate dismissal power over investigator. But and I know personally the great contribution matter how much it hurts, we have to con­ the Senate was satisfied with the assurance the men and women of the Texas Agricultural sider any and all evidence which may be of the new attorney general, Elllot L. Rich­ Experiment Station have made to the prog­ germane to the issue. Of course, we could ardson, that the prosecutor would have an ress of Texas. Working with your partners-­ withdraw from the issue entirely. But, as unusual degree of independence and could the Texas Agricultural Extension Service-­ MaUer said at this conference, that would not be removed except for "extraordinary 1m­ the many lasting benefits of research have make us less interesting as human beings. proprieties," which would be determined by been carried to the people of this State, and And being mired in secrecy would make our the attorney general. These assurances were as a result of these efforts, all Texans have society a frightful place. expressed in "guidelines" that became the enjoyed a more abundant life. foundation of the special prosecution force. President Williams, I would like to thank This compact between the executive you, Dean H. 0. Kunkel, Directors Mlller and branch and the people was abrogated by the Hutchinson and the many dedicated mem­ bers of this university staff both here and in THE RULE OF LAW president in late October when he directed Archibald Cox, who had been appointed spe­ the field for our favorable position in agri­ cial prosecutor, "to make no further attempts culture. Of course, many of you hold joint HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE by judicial process to obtain tapes, notes, or teaching appointments and I express appre• memoranda of presidential conversations," elation also to those dedicated teachers who OF MISSOURI discharged Mr. Cox when he refused to accept are training the young men and women who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this interference in his prosecutorial func­ will lead agriculture and home economics in the future. Tuesday, January 22, 1974 tion, and abolished the independent status of the prosecution force. Mr. Richardson did Dr. Wllliams, in my opinion the land grant Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, the De­ not find Mr. Cox guilty of "extraordinary im­ university concept of teaching, research and cember 1973 issue of the American Bar proprieties." Indeed, he declined to discharge extension is one of America's great achieve­ Association Journal strongly supports the special prosecutor and himself resigned. ments. I hope that the high priorities given the principle of independence of prosecu­ Neither President Nixon nor anyone for him to agriculture and rural life in the past will has charged Mr. Cox with "extraordinary be accelerated in the future. You are assured tion. Citing the chain of events surround­ of my continued support for your efforts. ing the Watergate Special Prosecutor, improprieties." In a statement issued October 22, Chester­ You are aware that one of the goals of my the article reaflirmed the ABA's position field Smith, president of the Association, ad.ministration is to make Texas Number One that the Special Prosecutor must be declared that President Nixon's actions were in Agriculture, not only in volume of sales wholly independent of the executive an "intolerable assault upon the courts, our but in profits to the farmers and ranchers of branch of Government: first line of defense against tyranny and ar­ this State. If we achieve this goal then we all must accelerate our efforts. I believe no THE RULE OF LAW bitrary power.... I express my hope and one could be engaged in a more exciting ca­ The deep attachment of the American confidence that the judicia.! and legislative forces of this nation will act swiftly and de­ reer than in today's dynamic agriculture. people to the principle of the rule of law Agriculture is really the great hope of our and not of men could not have been exem­ cisively to challenge, repeal, and correct this damaging incursion . . . upon the system country. Not only does it feed and clothe our plified better than by the outpouring of pub­ people but agriculture has become the one lic disapproval that greeted President Nixon's of justice and therefore upon the basic lib­ erties of the citizens of this country." A few tool with which we can compete most effi­ action in late October when he declined to ciently in foreign markets. follow the adverse Watergate tapes decision days later the Association's Board of Gov­ ernors endorsed Mr. Smith's statement and Dean Kunkel, in his annual report mes­ of the court of appeals and then dismissed sage, said "an agronomist can no longer be the special prosecutor for refusing to temper went on record favoring the re-establish­ ment of the office of the special prosecutor concerned only with producing the seed, but his investigation and to accept the president's he has to be part of the team concerned with alternative to turning over the tapes. by appointment of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. (For the disposal of the straw." Yes, the agrono­ The publlc outrage, which political re­ mist has to be a team member. You are de­ porters have said was not expected by the the text of the resolution and the statement, see the article on page 1389 of this issue.) veloping a team approach and I congratulate president, demonstrated that the people have you on the strides you are making. The four­ an ingrained trust in and respect for our The principle of independence of prosecu­ tion is one that needs to be remembered and teen designated research and extension cen­ system of justice as administered by fear­ ters, one of which is located in my home less and independent judges and lawyers, and preserved. No better successor for Mr. Cox could have been selected than Leon Jaworski, town of Uvalde, provide truly effective multi­ that they feel that the established judicial disciplinary task forces, dedicating their ef­ means for the settlement of disputes are to the former president of the American Bar Association, whose appointment was an­ forts toward solution to the problems of the be preferred over methods grounded on poli­ areas in which they are located. The con­ tical power and position. These events serve nounced on November 1. But the question is not one of men but of independence of the duct of research by the station is organized to point out again the awesome yet integral into projects which outline objectives. This role the legal profession plays in our na­ prosecutoria.l function. In the unusual cir­ cumstances of this situation, that principle provides for necessary coordination to insure tion's life, and they should be the occasion that the most important priority problems for a reaffirmation of our determination to requires a prosecutor not beholden in any way to the executive branch of government. are being investigated and prevents costly fulfill that role. and unnecessary duplication. The Research It is elementary that the investigation and and Extension Centers and dynamic area de­ prosecution of wrongdoing must be inde­ velopment programs such as B.E.T., B.I.G., pendent, free of conflicts of interest, and not HON. DOLPH BRISCOE, GOVERNOR P.E.P., South Plains, E1 Paso, Rolllng Plains subject to the influence of those who might and the new one just recently organized at fall under suspicion and investigation. This OF TEXAS, ADDRESSES THE Uvalde can continue to make Texas agricul­ problem was present from the beginning in TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXPERI­ ture a leading economic and social base for the investigation and prosecution of the MENT STATION STAFF a more prosperous Texas. After all, the prin­ events that comprise what ha.s been called ciple measure of research success is the im­ "Watergate," but it became more acute as pact that research has had on the economy higher officials were implicated last April. HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE and well being of the people of the State. Robert W. Meserve, then president of the OF TEXAS No one would deny that Texas agriculture American Bar Association, told a National IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and its associated supplying, processing a.nd Press Club luncheon on Aprll 30 that an "in­ distributing industries have been trans­ dependent special prosecutor, having no con­ Tuesday, January 22, 1974 formed. dramatically in recent years. And nection with the government or any of the Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, it was my agricultural research has been the basis for parties in the case, should be appointed to every change--the new varieties of cotton, direct the grand jury inquiry and any crim­ pleasure to be in attendance at a staff rice, vegetables and grain sorghums, the inal prosecution that might result." After conference of Texas Agricultural Experi­ modern fertilization practices, the new referring to the Code of Professional Re­ ment employees on Wednesday, Janu­ equipment and processes, the new manage­ sponsibllity and the Standards Relating to ary 9, 1974, at College Station, Tex. The ment and cultural practices, the new live­ the Prosecution and the Defense Functions, Governor of Texas, the Honorable Dolph stock rations and feeding systems. As only Mr. Meserve added that the "appointment Briscoe, delivered the main address, and one measure of value of agricultural research January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 455 in Texas, oash farm income increased almost I think this gives us a great outlook, a has moved through this trelliswork of roses 50 percent between 1962 and 1972. This in­ great potential, of making Texas number one and thorns with consummate skill, winning · crease was more than $1.1 billion. in agriculture in the United States. the respect of his colleagues and the warm Projects in rural economic development, I congratulate each of you on your profes­ admiration of his many friends. Mexico's re­ cooperatives, financial institutions serving sion and achievements. It was men and lations with the United States are of great agriculture, foundation seed programs, in­ women of research and education who looked importance, and it is hard to imagine a man sect and disease programs, poultry diagnostic into test tubes and under the microscopes better qualified for the job than Mr. Jova services, water, livestock and crop programs and built American agriculture into a suc­ and, though he will be missed in Washing­ and hundreds of other projects make the cess story unsurpassed anywhere else in the ton, we wish him well in his new post. future exciting indeed. world. We must see to it that the rural areas of We do not know what new worlds, what CAREER DIPLOMAT JOVA NAMED TO MEXICO Texas do not dry up and that they do not new frontiers of science, what new tech­ POST die; but that they offer to each Texan the niques, are as yet undiscovered. Some fore­ WASHINGTON.-The White House last week opportunity to make that decision as to casts of developments before the year 2000 announced the designation of three career where he or she wants to live, to where they are: reliable weather forecasts and regional diplomats to western hemisphere ambassa­ want to make a decent living, to where they weather control, translation of language by dorial posts. The most significant assignment want to have educational opportunities for computers, production of primitive artificial was that of present United States OAS Am­ their children. Rural Texas must provide life, blanket immunizaticn against infectious bassador, Joseph John Jova, to replace re­ medical services for families, library oppor­ disease, and the economic production of syn­ tiring Robert H. McBride at Mexico. tunities, and a way of life that is attractive thetic protein foods. Prior to having served as U.S. Ambassador to our citizens. Expected in the succeeding quarter cen­ to Honduras ( 1965-1969), and deputy chief This we can do and I think nothing less tury-when children born this year will be of the mission in Chlle (1961-1965), Jova will do. only in their fifties are: direct links between had extensive experience in Europe and at We must work toward the attraction of the brain and the computer, chemicals to headquarters in Washington. A graduate of job opportunities and economic develop­ stimulate the growth of new organs and Dartmouth, and a Navy lieutenant in World ment-the attraction of existing industry to other drugs to increase intelligence, educa­ War n (1942-1946), Jova is highly regarded rural areas--the orderly development and tion by direct recording on the brain, and in Latin circles. protection of our natural resources-the im­ production of a fifth of the world's food from Ambassador-designate Francis E. Meloy, provement of government services and facil­ ocean farming. Jr., after Yale, also served as a World n Navy ities-more emphasis on vocational career­ The future will be exciting. I am confident lieutenant (1942-1946). He now moves from oriented education-a partnership between that the men and women of the Texas Agri­ Santo Domingo to Guatemala. Meloy joined the business community, the agricultural cultural Experiment Station will, as ever, the foreign service late in 1946 and spent community and our educational system. We be in the forefront in service to their fellow most of his career before the Dominican must be sure that we are training the young man. Republic in Europe and on special tasks. people of today for the career opportunities Going to Port-au-Prince is Hayward Isham, and the job opportunities that will exist in a third Ivy-leaguer also from Yale. He had the world in which they will live. army service (1945-1946), and his past as­ Our aim then must be to increase jobs, to signments have included Moscow, Berlin, and increase economic activity. AMBASSADOR JOSEPH JOHN JOVA Hong Kong. Certainly agriculture alone, in the rural areas of this state, cannot do it. But today because of very fortunate circumstances that HON. GOODLOE E. BYRON exist throughout this world, I believe that OF MARYLAND we are in a position to achieve within a very IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE few years what I think to be a most impor­ MUST PROOFREAD MORE CARE­ tant goal for all of Texas and that is to Tuesday, January 22, 1974 FULLY make Texas number one in agricultural pro­ Mr. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, now that duction and profit in the United States. With your help-the help and the leader­ Ambassador Joseph John Jova, of His­ panic, Cuban, and Puerto Rican ancestry, HON. JOHN D. DINGELL ship of those assembled in this room-we OF MICHIGAN can make known to those engaged in agri­ has been named and confirmed as Am­ culture throughout the state the potential bassador of the United States to Mexico, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for additional productivity that exists in my distinguished colleagues may wish to Tuesday, January 22, 1974 practically every field of agricultural en­ read an editorial and news report fea­ Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I regret deavor in Texas today. tured in the Times of the Americas, Your distinctive service, and the support to report that a most grievous typo­ of the other state agencies working toward Washington, D.C. graphical error occurred in the Govern­ this goal, certainly makes our goal of be­ Among the many admirers of Ambas­ ment Printing Office regarding my re­ coming number one in agriculture an ob­ sador Jova, his wife, Pamela, and his marks in the Extension of Remarks of tainable objective. gifted children is my longtime friend, January 21, 1974, page 191, which I in­ I am convinced that as we look to the Father Joseph F. Thorning, known affec­ future, Texas agriculture will become more serted calling the attention of the Mem­ tionately as El Padre of the Americas. bers of the House to my strong objections important in many, many ways; one of For many years, the Reverend Father which will be the worldwide demand for to the proposal by the Select Committee agricultural products. Joseph F. Thorning has been observing on Committees to restructure the House In terms of world trade, agriculture is a the performance of Ambassador Jova Committee system. major contributor to America's balance of and his devoted wife as envoys to the Re­ I am most disturbed by the Govern­ payments and Texas plays a major role in public of Honduras and as our repre­ ment Printing Office error, due to the this worldwide market. Our State is the sentative with ambassadorial rank to the leader in the export of beef breeding cattle, obvious lack of efficient proofreading in Organization of •American States. that Office and which resulted in, to say cotton and rice. In fact, during fiscal 1973, The articles I recommend follow: Texas' agriculture exports totaled $835 mil­ the least, a deplorable misleading state­ lion-or about 21 percent of the State's total AMBASSADOR WITH CREDENTIALS ment in my Extension of Remarks o! farm cash receipts. President NiXon's nomination of Joseph that date. Foreign trade is important to the Texas John Jova as ambassador designate to Mexi­ I will point out that my prepared Ex­ agricultural economy, and it will have an co, reported on page one of this issue, is re­ tension of Remarks on this matter were even greater impact-and greater potential­ assuring proof that capable, career diplomats in the future. do often get proper recognition. Simply put, sent to the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD clerk America has at last faced the realization Ambassador Jova is both "a good man" and and the Government Printing Office from that the days of importing low cost petro­ "a nice guy." His language ab111ty, diplomatic my congressional office, letter-perfect, so leum from the Arab nations is past. If we skills, and long experience will be put to good the error is at this time inexplainable to are to continue importing oil to meet our use at Mexico as they have been at Wash­ me. energy demands of the future, the cost will ington where he now serves as this country's I refer the Government Printing Of­ likely continue its upward spiral. OAS ambassador. fice, and the Members of the House, to To offset these growing deficits we must be The OAS ambassadorship is not as routine in the position to export those products an assignment as it might seem to an out­ page 191, column three, the fourth full which the United States can produce more sider. Since the United States cannot avoid paragraph, where the GPO dropped the efficiently and more economically than any being the dominating force in the OAS, it is letter "s" in a key word, "busy," in the other country in the world. often scolded by those Latin countries who first sentence of that paragraph which These products, of course, are the crops say it does too little, and just as frequently results in an embarrassing interpretation and livestock of our farmers and ranchers. by those who say it does too much. Mr. Jova of the meaning of my remarks. 456 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 The sentence referred to should read, Wesleyan University's Distinguished Award The first is this: I will own my feelings, I as my letter-perfect letter and remarks for Outstanding Service to College and State. will own what I say, I will own my words. These tributes are but a portion of the I will own my thoughts. I cannot and I will were sent to the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD chorus of thanskgiving that Cy deserved and not demand that you accept what I have to clerk and to GPO, "It is undeniable that earned by his faithful commitment to the say, or for that matter, reject what I have conflicts exist, and that this can be and cause of education. to say. I am te111ng you what I feel, what I often is inconvenient to busy Members." Mr. Speaker, Dr. Messer spoke for all believe, what I must deal with from the very Mr. Speaker, I respectfully ask that the South Dakotans who knew and respected depths of my own soul and experience. And Government Printing Office prepare an Cy Holgate. as I understand the will of God and my explanation for the Members of the subsequent responsibility as a Christian, I House of this breakdown in its vital serv­ speak to you this morning. I sincerely be­ lieve that as I understand the will of God ice and that the inaccurate spelling I CALLING FOR AMNESTY DEBATE and as I believe that His spirit works in me. have referred to be corrected immediate­ I am moved to say what I have to say. If ly in the permanent history of the Ex­ you can relate to that, okay. And if you tension of Remarks. HON. JAMES C. CORMAN don't relate to what I have to say, that's I also am writing the Government OF CALIFORNIA okay, too. All I can give you is the depth Printing Office requesting an explana­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of my feelings and my understanding. I do not lay that on you for you will have to tion. Tuesday, January 22, 1974 In addition, while I am pointing out come to your own understandings, your own Mr. CORMAN. Mr. Speaker, at this conclusions and deal with your own feel­ proofreading errors, Mr. Speaker, there ings. are three more instances of misspelling time the American people are confronted Secondly, I want to give you some of my in my Extension of Remarks of the same by enormous problems-the energy crisis background so that you can get a better pic­ date and those are located in the follow­ and inflation are two which will affect ture of me and, hopefully, garner more ing paragraphs and sentences: the direction of our Nation for genera­ credib11ity about my remarks. Perhaps most First. Page 191, third column, second tions to come. of you by now know that I came to this full paragraph, first sentence, the word \Vhile we are looking forward and at­ Parish from the Military. I was a Navy Chap­ tempting to make the future better, we lain for three and one-half years and during "Merchant" is inaccurately spelled that time I spent three years with the United "Mechant." must also take stock on the impact of our States Marine Corps. Second. Page 191, third column, sec­ past. Many of us would like to forget the Now first, in 1968, at the very height of ond full paragraph, third sentence, the Vietnam war because it was a period of our involvement in Southeast Asia, I went word "Endangered" is inaccurately great division for our country. But we to Vietnam and served for a year. Upon spelled "Endangerd." should not forget the thousands of men arriving there, I served about two weeks with Third. Page 192, first column, fourth who acted on the dictates of their con­ the First Reconnaissance Battalion, a highly science now exiled in other countries or trained and very skilled counter-insurgent full paragraph, second sentence, the force. But I didn't stay there long. I waST word "attempts" is inaccurately spelled languishing in American jails. There are transferred to the field with a regular in­ "atempts." over a hundred thousand men in the fantry battalion because their Chaplain had above categories alone. Hundreds of been badly injured. So I remained for eight thousands more were court-martialed or months with the Second Battalion of the received dishonorable discharges for Fifth Marine Regiment, First Marine Divi­ C. H. HOLGATE actions related to controversial Vietnam sion. During that particular time of eight war policy. months, my battalion suffered among the It is incumbent upon us to fully debate highest casualt ies of killed and wounded of HON. JAMES ABDNOR what is to be done with the lives of these any battalion in the I Corps area of opera­ OF SOUTH DAKOTA tion. I Corps ran from the DMZ South to Americans. The following sermon by the Quang Nai City. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Rev. Richard S. Lippert, pastor of St. Second, I spent a whole year away from my Tuesday, January 22, 1974 Matthew Lutheran Church, North family. For those of you who, either in Hollywood, Calif., can help to point the the service, or for some other reason have Mr. ABDNOR. Mr. Speaker, last De­ had to spend long periods of time away from cember marked the passing of one of way for such an important debate. The sermon follows: your family will understand what I am talk­ South Dakota's most distinguished edu­ in g about. I spent a whole year away from cators. Although his teaching and ad­ A SERMON PREACHED ON AMNESTY my wife, away from my child, during the ministrative career was centered in the I have agonized this past week trying to most formidable year of his life. And be­ Aberdeen area, his influence was felt decide whether or not I should talk to you cause of that, I missed out on an awfully throughout the State and was a large about this subject. I must admit that at this large chunk of his life. I can never have very moment I am feeling nervous, as I have that time back. force in developing the strong educa­ been all week. I agonize because this is a Third, I contracted illnesses the likes of tional system which is the pride of South touchy, emotionally charged issue that has which I hope I never have to go through Dakota. He was Clare H. "Cy" Holgate. only now begun to be talked about. And I again. I had falciprum malaria which has While his skill as a leader in education agonize because this, as well as any subject a much higher fatality rate than the normal made him known throughout the State, that is controversial, always has the possi­ vivax type of World War II. I had shigella his leadership was for many years a force bility of dividing rather than bringing to­ dysentery so bad I was withered up like a throughout the city of Aberdeen and its gether. I realize that and I understand that. prune. I had practically eve1-y kind of in­ various civic groups and organizations. It has never been easy for any religious com­ ternal and external parasite-hookworm. munity to come to grips. with controversy. roundworm and ringworm so bad that my In all of his many activities he gained One needs only to look back into our own skin broke open and began to pus. I was in the respect and esteem of his associates, Judeic-Christian heritage, back to the days so many fire fights and in so many shellings and as part of their tribute to his work in earlv Israel in the time of the oronhets that it's like one big, bad nightmare. And one of the city's junior high schools bears when they had their running controversies I stlll pick small pieces of shrapnel out of his name. with the Kings; back to Judaism in Jesus' the back of my neck and the back of my -During memorial services for Cy Hol­ dav and their runnlng feud and controversy head. I have my medals, nine of them in all, with the Roman Government: and back into to show where I've been. I say all of this gate, Dr. Donald E. Messer, president of the entire historv of our own Christian Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, not because I boast or am proud. On the Ch11rch. In all of these il1St$nces, one finds contrary! I tell you this only to hop~fully S. Dak., made these comments: that the time was pregnant with controver­ make my remarks more creditable. Also to Truly, the gloom of the world is but a sies wlth which Judaism and the Church talk or to think about any of this only shadow-behind it, yet within reach, is joy. were. on many occasions, unable to handle. brings on anxiety and sadness and a strong We affirm this truth in two ways. First, our So I must tell you that I ag{)nize and at desire to withdraw. However, I have com­ memories of Cy Holgate are a source of this moment--..a.t this verv moment I have a mitted myself to this task and I choose to joy. His life a-nd work sustain us in a time pit in my stomach-and I am nervous-and of trouble and stimulate us to greater heights mv hands are literally shaking. And I must carry on. I must tell you also that I do so of service to others. As the eulogists have tell you, too, that any time I talk about this hesitantly, especially against the background noted, the profound impact of.his life shaped or any related sub1ect. I am flooded with of convulsion which is now going on tn the educational history of Aberdeen and memories and I still hurt. terribly inside. So Washington, because I am sensitive to that transformed the lives of countless people. before I embark on what r have to say, there also. Two years ago, it was my good pleasure to are two things which constitute a preamble The issue or question simply put is this. present on behalf of his alma mater, Dakota to my remarks and my feelings. What is to become of the 11housands upon January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS .OF REMARKS 457

thousands of young men languishing in our to fight, who refused to be drafted and who was immoral going to bring back ~or change jails right now; and what is to become of refused to go to Vietnam were doing so for any of the suffering that went on with the the thousands upon thousands of our young moral reasons because I know that isn't thousands and thousands of young men who men across the world who nave had to fiee true. There are thieves and interlopers and served there? Is it going to change anything? this country because of something they be­ hustlers and con-artists and murderers who What will the pound of fiesh bring? What will lieved in, because they refused to participate at this very moment are in jail, who are our retribution bring? If we throw them in in something which they felt was immoral across the sea. who deserted and refused to prison and keep them there, is that really and wrong? The war is now over between go to Southeast Asia. going to make the death and suffering of so North Vietnam and us but it is not over But their number is small. That same line many Americans any more meaningful? for the majority of our sons who refused of reasoning could be applied also to those Today I speak to you as a veteran of the to fight, who refused to be caught up in who served in the Armed Forces because I Southeast Asia War, as a Christian and as an something which they believed was wrong, know that there are thieves and interlopers American who tries and falls far short, but and immoral, and Jndecent. So I ask-when and hustlers and con-artists and murderers who tries to understand myself and my world will this war end? who went to Vietnam and came back and in terms of forgiveness, restoration, recon­ Some people have suggested that what we answered their "call to duty" to serve in the ciliation and healing. We teach our children need to do is to apply what the law says. armed forces. There are bad people in both from the time they are able to walk that they They should be tried, convicted and put into places who did their thing for bad reasons, should forgive, learn to live with people, to prison. Others have advocated that these just as there are good and honest men in seek peace and not to demand our pound of young people should be pardoned by the both places who did their thing for what fiesh. Now if this is so, how can I as a Chris­ President. That is, what they have done they believed were good reasons. Who there­ tian and an American refuse to be reconciled should be recognized as a crime because they fore is to say who did the most for freedom to our exiled and imprisoned sons--how can broke a law and it should be so recorded; and conscience? To me it really is amazing I do that? We have taught them to honor but that the offenders should be relieved of that most Americans continue to believe their conscience, to listen to the voice of God any consequence of the offenses for which that these young men who refused to fight in them, to forgive, to heal and to reconcile. they have been convicted. Now others have or be drafted still must be punished when What gross hypocrisy if we honor that inside suggested that what they need is amnesty. over 70% of the American people now be­ the Church but not in the market place of Now amnesty comes from a Greek word which lieve that the war was wrong from its incep­ the world. Is it no wonder then that so many means literally to not remember, or to over­ tion to its conclusion. Doesn't it seem rather of our youth regard the Church and our look, or to not recognize. The proposition ironic then that even though we feel the country with contempt and cynicism? Unless is that the whole matter of desertion, the war was wrong, and in many quarters im­ some of you accuse me of lack of allegiance refusal to fight, or the refusal to be drafted moral, we still demand our pound of fiesh to my country and an appreciation of what should be forgotten, that there would be no from our sons? and who we are, I want to go on record right recognition of a crime having been com­ Third, it is argued that amnesty will con­ here that I very dearly love my country­ mitted and therefore no reason for pardon. tribute to a general breakdown of law and and because I do, I say these words thiS Now, I gave you all of that background on order. This is inaccurate. For the past on~ morning. Just because I disagree with some myself, on my feelings, on where I had been hundred and ninety-seven years of our coun­ of its policies does not mean I love her any and what I have done because I wanted you try, we have had thirty-five instances of less. And contrary to the intentionality of a to know exactly what I felt and what I went amnesty or pardon beginning with the whis­ well known bumper sticker, I do love my through. And I want you especially to know key rebellion in 1785 in the State of Penn­ country and I will not leave! that during that year in Vietnam I died a sylvania. And mind you, these people in In closing, I am going to quote a short, but hundred times, believe me I suffered! I suf­ 1785 fought against their own and not a for­ eloquent thought that can best sum up ex­ fered terribly and because I suffered I say eign government and received amnesty from actly what I feel about amnesty. It was ut­ to you this morning that I am completely President Washington. In all of these in­ tered during what I believe to be t.he most and totally for complete and total amnesty! stances when amnesty or pardon was given, critical period of American history: "With I say that as a human being and as one the general breakdown of law and order malice towards none, with charity for all, let who recognized the basic tenets of my faith never occurred! Either to know or to hope us strive to bind up the nation's wounds. To as being reconciliation, and peace, and love. that you will be forgiven, or that your act do all which may achieve and cherish a just Because I recognize these things I must, and will be forgotten after a war, did not make and lasting peace among ourselves and with I am moved, to ask our government to remove it any easier to go to jail or fiee your coun­ all nations." The man who said that did so the penalties immediately from those who try during the war. Further, to speak of law on a bloodsoaked battlefield one hundred ten have suffered long enough in prisons, or and order, that one must obey the letter of years ago and his name was Abraham Lin­ have gone underground, or who are now in the law or be punished, is rather hard to coln. exile. I take very seriously my responsibility take when hypocrisy, double-talk, lying, de­ Finally then, I urge from my perspective as a citizen of the United States and I take ceit, and the breakdown of law and order and my feelings and experience as a Chris­ very seriously my responsibility as a Chris­ emanates from the very highest positions tam and an American: not malice, but for­ tian, and I am well aware of the arguments in our land. What kind of a country is this giveness; not revenge, but charity; not more that might be raised against my position. when those who govern feel they can break brokenness, but unity; not peace only in Viet First, that I am neglecting my Christian laws with impunity while imposing laws and Nam but here with our sons as well. responsibility to the State as set forth in the rules and judgments and regulations of their If what I have said here today has any Thirteenth Chapter of Romans which states: own liking on others? What kind of hypo­ relevancy, then I am forced to ask this ques­ 'Let every person be subject to the govern­ crisy is that? President Nixon talks a lot tion: Is the King God; or is God the King? ing authorities, for there is no authority about law and order, and though he gets except from God and those that exist have pardon and amnesty mixed up, I think the been instituted by God." Now I accept that following quote by Mr. Nixon valuable in and I believe that, but I also must balance terms of what I've been talking about. "Now PASSENGER TRAIN JOURNAL that with a statement in St. Matthew where amnesty means forgiveness. We cannot pro­ PRAISES "COAST STARLIGHT" Jesus in the Sixth Chapter said you cannot vide forgiveness for them. Those who served serve two masters. Now I understand that to paid their price; those who deserted must pay mean, within the context of Church and their price and the price is not a junket in the Peace Corps or something like that as HON. BROCK ADAMS State, that if the demands of the State and some have suggested. The price is criminal OF WASHINGTON if the demands of your faith have come into IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES confiict, you must choose between the two. I penalty for disobeying the laws of the United States. If they want to return to the United Tuesday, January 22, 1974 have that confiict and I have chosen between States, they must pay the penalty." In light the two! I choose the demands of my con­ of what is going on right now in Washing­ Mr. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, the present science and my understanding of my faith ton, I can only shake my head in disbelief. as opposed to the demands made on me by energy crisis has provided further rea­ Fourth, some argue that to grant amnesty sons for improving intercity passenger the State. I cannot and I will not give com­ is unfair to those who died and suffered in plete, absolute, unconditional and unques­ Southeast Asia because it robs them of their service by rail. Already the gasoline tioned allegiance to the State. Nazi Germany sacrificial meaning. I came back with my life, shortage has produced a sharp increase is not that far behind for me to forget the but I want you to know that I suffered there in train ridership. One of the most en­ ovens at Dachau and Auschwitz. and that this line of reasoning, that it robs couraging developments has been the Another comment that people are making those who suffered and died of their sacrifi­ steady increase in ridership on the long­ in regard to amnesty is that if we do give cial meaning, is absurd, illogical and irra­ haul trains, traditionally those trains amnesty it ls going to be destructive for tional. Is putting these young men in prison our country and for those who served. Now with the highest deficits and which rail and keeping them there because they be­ management for years dismissed as a lost I ask this question: who is to say who did lieved in the rightness of their cause going the most for their country, whether it was he to bring back the lives of any of those young cause. Contrary to traditional wisdom, who answered his call to duty and went men who were k1lled in Southeast Asia? Is the long-haul trains have been between overseas, or whether it was he who answered putting into prison those who have fied the Seattle and San Francisco, via the his call to duty and refused to go? I'm not country because they refused to be drafted ''Coast Daylight" and the "Coast Star­ trying to say that all of those who refused and participate in a war that they thought light." In November of last year, the CXX--3Q-Part 1 458 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 latest month for which figures are avail­ through coach and sleeper from Seattle that laboratories at North Carolina State able, these trains carried a daily average was switched to a San Diegan at Los Angeles. University in Raleigh. However, the expensive switching operation of 750 people. In August of 1973, the rid­ in Los Angeles and relative light usage moved This feature story written by Mr. Brad ership in terms of passenger miles was Amtrak to terminate these cars in early 1972. Stuart was especially timely because Dr. nearly double that of the preceding year. The name Coast Starlight came into being Bennett recently made a major break­ I was pleased to note that an excellent on November 14, 1971 upon issuance to Am­ through in fusion research. He sees magazine, Passenger Train Journal, trak's first home-grown system timetable. fusion as the source of our future energy which is devoted to reporting on modern From this time, the Coast Starlight generally supplies, and I am including this article passenger service, featured the "Coast referred to the tri-weekly operation north in the RECORD to call attention both to Starlight" in its monthly feature, Trains of Oakland, while the daily operation south of Oakland was called the Coast Daylight. his work and ideas: of Note. Passenger Train Journal com­ Now that the entire route is operated daily, THE TAR HEEL OF THE WEEK: FuSION Is HIS ments that-- it does not make much sense to continue the CANDIDATE FOR OUR FuTuRE ENERGY NEEDS The "Coast Starlight" has provided the dual nomenclature. So while Amtrak con­ (By Brad Stuart) most positive proof that long distance ran tinues the double name, PTJ prefers to call It's like putting a cold pack on a cancer! travel can be a growing institution. the train Coast Starlight no matter where it ... Short-sighted ... Ridiculous!" I am happy that this success story has may be between Seattle and Los Angeles. The Dr. Wlllard H. Bennett, an internationally­ taken place on a rail route serving my Coast Daylight was a Los Angeles-San Fran­ known physicist heading the Plasma Re­ cisco train, the likes of which, in the tra­ search Laboratories at N.C. State University, own district in Seattle and I would like ditional sense, left the rails some time ago. was talking about the government's efforts to include the article from Passenger The resumption of the through train had to ease the energy crisis. Instead of redou­ Train Journal in the RECORD at this little impact on ridership initially. By that bling efforts to find new energy sources, Ben­ point: time, SP had generally convinced most peo­ nett complained, the government is seek­ THE "COAST STARLIGHT" ple that passenger trains were indeed gone. ing to prolong the life of energy sources In the West, the long-distance passenger Amtrak was an unknown entity. However, which will soon expire no matter what is train is dead. These words summed up the as Amtrak's marketing program began to done. Southern Pacific funded, "The Future of Rail take effect in spring 1972, the train caught With all the world's oil-reserves due for Passenger Service in the West,'' which be­ on, even with young people. By the end of total depletion within a. few decades, with came the cited reference for those who sought 1972, demand built to the point that Amtrak uranium in short supply and nuclear power the end of passenger service on ralls. How­ decided to operate the Oakland-Seattle seg­ under attack of posing cata.clyslnic dangers. ever, seven years later finds the passenger ment daily during the Christmas vacation and with other energy sources unable to train traversing the length of the west coast period. Unlike most long-distance trains that meet future demands, Bennett sees the pres­ alive and thriving on the run between Seattle, carry their lightest loads during the winter ent long-overdue reactions to the fuel crisis Washington and Los Angeles, California. and early spring months, the Starlight in­ as paltry and pathetic. Because the Coast Starlight has provided creased its average daily loads in each con­ Bennett believes a greater national effort the most positive proof that long distance secutive month in 1973 from January to should be made to bring about controlled rail travel can be a growing institution and June. "thermonuclear fusion,'' the reaction power­ has done so on the tracks of a railroad that Almost without saying, the train was made ing the sun and the hydrogen bomb. was most dedicated to the passenger trains' daily over its entire route for the 1973 sum­ Controlled for peaceful purposes, scientists demise, PTJ has chosen this train to begin mer season, and in spite of 16 car consists interviewed by the N&O have said, the power a new series, Trains of Note. every day, sellouts were more the rule than of the H-bomb could provide all the energy When Transportation Secretary Volpe an­ exception. This demand convinced Amtrak man needs for millions of years. nounced the final basic system routes in to retain full daily operation on a year round The world's oceans are full of the fuel January of 1971, the end point designation of basis. At the present rate, the Starlight is for fusion-nonradioactive hydrogen. Seattle and San Diego set the stage for the carrying more passengers annually than the Bennett himself recently made headlines establishment of service that has never been highly touted Super Chief and is earning with a major breakthrough in fusion re­ available as a through train of any time prior enough to cover operating costs much of the search. to Amtrak's May 1, 1971 beginning. Before time. By firing electron beams at solid objects, Amtrak, various ways were available at one. Why the Starlight is such a. hit is not en­ Bennett has achieved "fusionable tempera­ time or the other for the traveler to go from tirely clear. Beyond the attributes of train tures" of nearly 200 million degrees Fahren­ Southern California to Seattle. From No­ travel, there is little, competitively, to place heit for the first time in history in a device vember, 1924 to October, 1949, Espee pro­ It above other modes. From the speed view­ other than a nuclear bomb. vided a through train from Los Angeles to point, even buses are faster between most Scientists have long said that achieving Portland, but only some sleepers went on city-pairs. The fare level is generally bus such temper-atures is an essential step to­ through to Seattle. The West Coast, as it was competitive, but between San Francisco/ wards getting controlled fusion. Previous to called from June, 1927, operated via the San Oakland and Los Angeles, the train coach Bennett's breakthrough, the highest tem­ Joaquin Valley and Sacramento to Portland. fare is $1 higher than the popular, cheap air peratures reached in controlled fusion ex­ The train was discontinued north of Sac­ service that has made this corridor the most periments were around 95 mlllion degrees ramento just after the inception of the Shas­ highly traveled air route in the world. Fahrenheit, only half that needed, according ta Daylight although it continued to oper­ But, whatever attracts several hundred to scientific journals. ate south of Sacramento until 1960. From passengers to the Coast Starlight each day, If Bennett can achieve controlled fusion October 3, 1949, one was required to make a they are there, voting with their travel dol­ "within two years," as he has claimed, he train transfer at Martinez, California to com­ lars that the long-haul passenger train is far would be years ahead of official govern­ plete the fastest Seattle-Los Angeles trip. from dead. Since Amtrak's fastest growing ment projections. Then, in 1965, even first class passengers had train is as far from the Northeast Corridor as But it wouldn't be the first time Bennett to change in Portland with the termination possible, it has probably done more to re­ has made scientific history. of through sleepers between Oakland and verse traditional thinking toward ran pas­ Bennett was the first man to predict the Seattle. Finally, in 1969, SP altered the sched­ senger service in the United States than any earth's Van Allen radiation belts. He pre- · ules of the Coast Daylight and Cascade to other post-Amtrak event. dieted them in 1953, five years before James provide better through transit time, but re­ A. Van Allen discovered the belts using in­ quirlng an additional transfer (three alto­ formation from our first satellite--and Ben­ gether) and a bus ride across the San Fran­ nett's research. cisco Bay Bridge, if one chose this routing. MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN FUSION Bennett is now patenting his "super­ However, this schedule adjustment broke the RESEARCH pinch" fusion reactor. It is called the "super­ key connection with the Super Chief in Los pinch" because its electron beams create Angeles and was probably counter-productive "the strongest magnetic fields ever created,'' on balance. HON. IKE F. ANDREWS Bennett said. This magnetism is designed to tightly contain the powerful fusion reac­ So, Amtrak's through train put four dis­ OF NORTH CARO~A tinct segments together to provide the no­ tion in an area only a fraction of an inch change-of-train service. Los Angeles-Santa IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES across, a. feat greater than holding a dyna­ Clara, Coast Dayltght; Santa Clara-Oakland, Tuesday, January 22, 1974 mite blast in a cigar box. a freight-only section that had not been a All controlled fusion experiments, except regular passenger train since October 2, 1960; Mr. ANDREWS of North Carolina. Mr. recently tried and so far unsuccessful laser Oakland-Portland, Cascade; and Portland­ Speaker, each Sunday the Raleigh News beam experiments, use "magnetic bottles" in Seattle, pool train service of the Burlington and Observer honors an outstanding attempts to contain fusion. Northern/Union Pacific. Bennett invented the first "magnetic bot­ North Carolinian as its "Tar Heel of tle" over 30 years ago in discovering the The operation never did actually fulfill the the Week," and on Sunday, January 20, role of a through train between the DOT­ "Bennett pinch effect." He demonstrated that designated end-points. Service between L.A. this honor was accorded to Dr. Willard when high electrical currents are passed and San Diego was maintained with a H. Bennett, head of the plasma research through gas "plasmas" (with both negatively January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 459 and positively charged gas molecules), the a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted Government has detained large numbers gas is "pinched" down to a tiny fraction of out of the debris of war by the Americans of civilian prisoners. Unfortunately. its former volume. This heats the gas to who poured in blllions of dollars and forgave these charges have been made against very high temperatures. other blllions in debts. None of those coun­ the Government of South Vietnam with Since Bennett's discovery, billions of dol­ tries is today paying even the interest on its very little investigation of the validity lars have been poured into research seeking remaining debts to the United States. of the charges. In the cause of fair re­ to "pinch" and electrically heat hydrogen to When the franc was in danger of collapsing fusionable temperatures. in 1956, it was the Americans propped it up porting, I would like to enter into the Bennett himself, seeing continued failure and their reward was to be insulted and swin­ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a statement is­ in these gas experiments, went over to his dled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I SUed by the information office of the new method of heating solids with electron saw it. Embassy of the Republic of Vietnam beams. When· frozen hydrogen or hydrogen­ When distant cities are hit by earthquake, which discusses this issue in a forthright rich plastics Sl'e heated by h1s device, he it is the United States that hurries in to manner. I believe this statement will give expects the first controlled thermonuclear help . . . Managua Nicaragua is one of the us a better perspective on the entire reaction in history which gives off more most recent examples. So far, this spring 59 energy than it uses. American communities have been flattened question. The great mass of federal money is still by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. The statement follows: going into gas fusion experiments. Bennett The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy . · FACT SHEET: THE ISSUE OF CIVYLIAN PRISON­ decries a kind of scientific "inertia" which all pumped blllions upon blllions of dollars ERS IN SOUTH VIET-NAM causes more and more efforts to be applied into discouraged countries. Now newspapers While the Republic of Viet-Nam is mak­ where efforts have already been made in the in these countries are writing about the dec­ ing every effort to maintain peace, the com­ past. adent warmongering Americans. munists and their friends are creating The cause of much of this inertia is the I'd like to see just one of those countries "phony issues" aimed at discrediting the dependence of sophisticated research on that is gloating over the erosion of the United Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam. large grants from federal bureaucracies, he States dollar bulld its own airplanes. Come The issue of "political prisoners" is the most said. To get grants, scientists must show on . . . let's hear it! Does any other country persistent of these false issues. they are in the mainstream. Once research in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing The communists have launched a vigorous is under way, researchers justify their ef­ Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the campaign charging that the Government of forts to the bureaucrats, assuring them that Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? the Republic of Viet-Nam is holding hun­ success is inching ever closer. Why do all international lines except Russia dreds of thousands of so-called "polltical Bennett's work is well funded. A grant fly American planes? Why does no other land prisoners." In the face of such outrageous and from the U.S. Air Force supports his fusion on earth even consider putting a man or false charges, the Information Otll.ce of the research. The university provides the Plasma woman on the moon? Republic of Viet-Nam deems it necessary Research Labs, including shops and special­ You talk about Japanese technocracy and to make certain clarifications regarding this ists to make the equipment he and his col­ you get radios. You talk about Gerxnan tech­ issue by presenting the following facts, facts, leagues design. More equipment is provided nocracy and you get automoblles. You talk which, unlike the claims and charges of the by the Boeing Radiation Laboratories in about American technocracy and you find communists, are well documented and can Seattle, Washington, where the fusion experi­ men on the moon, not once, but several be substantiated: ments are carried out. times ... and safely home again. You talk Fact: In the Republic of Viet-Nam, no one Bennett received his doctorate at the about scandals and the American put theirs ls arrested and detained only because his University of Michigan and did postdoctoral right in the store window for everybody to political opinions are at variance With the study at the California Institute of Tech­ look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pur­ government. The law of the Republic does nology. sued and hounded. They are here on our not permit the arrest of a person merely be­ During World War II, he served as otll.cer­ streets, most of them . . . unless they are cause of his opposition to the policies of the in-charge, research section, Aircraft Radio breaking Cana.dla.n laws ... are getting Amer­ government. The people can freely express Laboratory at Wright Field, Ohio and as ican dollars from Ma and Pa at home to their opinions and are constantly doing so liaison otll.cer to the radiation laboratory at spend here. in South Viet-Nam. In fact, some of our MIT. He was chief of the physical electronics When the Americans get out of this senators and representatives and, especially section at the National Bureau of Standards bind . . . as they will . . . who could members of the press, are well-known for folloWing the war. blame them 11' they said 'the hell with the their criticisms of the government. The place rest CY! the world'. Let someone else buy the to look for political prisoners, therefore, 1s bonds. Let someone else bulld or repair for­ not in South Viet-Nam but in the innumer­ SPEAKING UP FOR AMERICA eign dams or design foreign bulldlngs that able prisons, concentration camps, and men­ won't shake apart in earthquakes. tal institutions in North Viet-Nam. When the rallways of France, Germany, Fact: From the juridical point of view as HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK and India were breaking down through age, it with regards to penal law, even within a OF OHIO was the Americans who rebullt them. When democracy in time of peace, attempts against IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Pennsylvania Rallroad and the New York internal and external security of. State such Central went broke, nobody loaned them an as vandalism, robbery, rebellion, spying, Tuesday, January 22, 1974 old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name cooperating with the enemy, high treason, Mr. to you 5.000 times when the Americans raced should be punished with extreme vigor. We Mr. ASHBROOK. Speaker, when to the help of other people in trouble. have to take drastic measures against these newspapers and news programs are con­ Can you name me even one time when elements, who cannot, in any sense of the stantly filled with the problems facing someone else raced to the Americans in word, be called "political prisoners." As in these United States, I think that it 1s trouble? I don't think there was outside help any nation in the world, the elected govern­ worthwhile to stand back and take a look even during the San Francisco earthquake. ment has the duty to safeguard security and at those many things which are good Our neighbors have faced it alone and I'm to enforce law and order. Any element, who about our great land. Mr. Gordon Sin­ one Canadian who is damned tired of hear­ through his actions, has endangered security clair, a Canadian radio commentator, has ing them kicked around. They wlll come out and publlc order, must be classified as a of this thing with their flag high. And when criminal, in accordance with the legal prac­ put the case well in his broadcast of they do, they are entitled to thumb their tice of any country. November 30, 1973. nose at the lands that are gloating over their Therefore, in danger of being repetitious, It is good to know that at least some present troubles. we deny the charge that there are "political residents of other lands do appreciate I hope Canada is not one of these. prisoners" in the Republic of Viet-Nam. The the works of the United States. The text GORDON SINCLAIR. only people we hold in our prisons are either of Mr. Sinclair's broadcast follows: communist civllian personnel and/or com­ mon criminals. CANADIAN OPINION Fact: The communists at fi.rst claimed that This Canadiim thinks it is time to speak POLITICAL PRISONERS IN SOUTH VIETNAM the Republlc of Viet-Nam detained 200,000 up for the Americans as the. most generous of their civillan personnel. This ridiculous and possibly the least-appreciated people in claim was not substantiated by any list of all the earth. HON. BILL ARCHER names or locations of capture. Obviously it As long as sixty years ago, when I first was a conveniently round figure puUed out started to read newspapers, I read of floods OF TEXAS of the blue in order to discredit the Govern­ on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment of the Republic of Viet-Nam. When rushed in with men and money to help? Tuesday, January 22, 1974 they are faced with the fact that all the The Americans did. prisons in South Viet-Nam combined would They have helped control floods on the Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, there has not contain more than 35,000, including Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. been discussion in recent months in the communist civllian personnel and common Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississip­ criminals, the figure came down to 100,000, pi is under water and no foreign land has media concerning the Government of sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and to South Vietnam and charges that this and finally, the communists admitted that 460 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 perhaps the number of detainees held by the of civilians in their concentration camps. It who are giving them support by publicizing Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam is is the communists and not the Republic of all their lies. They have even sown seeds of closer to 50,000. This inconsistency, along Viet-Nam who are violating the peace treaty. doubts in the minds of some of our friends. with the lack of any documents to back up As is often the case, it is always the fellow It ls our hope that by presenting the their claims, clearly shows that the com­ who is doing the robbing who shouts the above facts we will have convinced our munists charges are absolutely false. The loudest that he is being robbed. friends and shown our foes that it is not truth is that the Republic of Viet-Nam only Closely related with this issue of "political the Government of the Republic of Viet­ held 5,081 communist civilians, a figure prisoners" is the matter of the treatment of Nam that is guilty of the charges levelled which we immediately released after the prisoners. Here again, the communists and against it by the communists but the com­ signing of the peace treaty. their supporters have been strident in their munists themselves who are gUilty of such Fact: Article 8C of the Paris Peace Agree­ charges of the "inhumane" treatment of crimes. ment of January 27, 1973, deals with the re­ prisoners in South Viet-Nam. Without fan­ turn of Vietnamese civilian personnel cap­ fare, we would simply like to present what tured and detained in South Viet-Nam. It the eye13 can see and the ears can hear and CONTRIBUTIONS OF OFFICERS, DI­ reads as follows: leave it up to your objective judgment as to RECTORS, AND SOME STOCK­ The questions of the return of Vietnamese who is the inhumane party in this all too HOLDERS OF OIL AND GAS COM­ civilian personnel captured and detained in human drama. PANIES TO PRESIDENT NIXON'S South Viet-Nam wlll be resolved by the two Fact: The American and the Republic of South Vietnamese parties. . . . The two Viet-Nam's POW's released since the signing REELECTION EFFORT South Vietnamese parties will do so in a of the Peace Agreement looked as if they had spirit of national reconciliation and concord all been to hell and back. Their mental and with a view to ending hatred and enmity, in physical states were on the verge of collapse. HON. LES ASPIN order to ease suffering and to reunite fam­ The American POW's have repeatedly told OF WISCONSIN ilies. The two South Vietnamese parties will their stories of the unimaginably inhumane IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES do their utmost to resolve this question treatment they received from communist within ninety days after the cease-fire comes hands that it is unnecessary for us to reiter­ Tuesday, January 22, 1974 into effect. ate their charges. Suffice it to ask, "Who is Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, I want to In respect of this provision, the Republic calling whom inhumane?" take this opportunity to insert into the of Viet-Nam presented a list of the 5,081 Fact: Since 1966, the International Red CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a study Of cam­ civilian detainees it held within 15 days of Cross and other international observers have the signing of the treaty. The communists, visited the Republic of Viet-Nam prisoners' paign contributions made by officers, di­ on the other hand, at first, said that they camps no less than 195 times. Question: How rectors and some stockholders of oil and had only 142 civ111an detainees. This ridicu­ many times have the North Vietnamese al­ gas companies to President Nixon's re­ lous figure was later revised to 200, then to lowed the International Red Cross or any election effort. I believe that the fact 400 and finally to 637. The inconsistency of other international organization to visit their that 413 individuals directly involved in these figures denotes the ill-will of the com­ jails? Answer: Never. Question: Which side the oil industry contributed over $5.7 munists in implementing the provisions of has something to hide? The answer is ob­ million dollars to the President's war the Paris Agreement and the Protocol con­ vious. chest goes a long way to explain the cerning the return of detained Vietnamese When the peace treaty was signed in Paris civilian personnel and casts serious doubts on January 27, the world breathed a sigh glaring inequities in this administra­ on the real number of South Vietnamese of relief. At last the protracted war in Indo­ tion's handling of the energy situation. prisoners still in communist hands. china is going to stop and people can turn The President is unable to control the Fact: From 1954 to April 14, 1973, the their minds and efforts to constructive oil cartel because they financed at least communists abducted and captured 68,621 endeavors. Unfortunately, from the very be­ 10 percent of his campaign. The entire South Vietnamese ciVilians of which 16,798 ginning, the communists have violated every burden of solving the oil shortage has are government officials, social workers, and provision of the treaty. They have continued rural cadres. It must pointed out that even been thrown on the consumer with no their military build-up by infiltrating more sacrifices asked of the oil companies. In after the ceasefire, the communists continue men and better equipment from the North; their deliberate policy of terrorism. In the they have built an oil pipe line from North fact, the oil companies have been the period from March 24, 1973, to April 12, 1973, Viet-Nam into Quang Nam province; they biggest beneficiaries in this situation, alone, the communists abducted and cap­ have constructed air fields; they have brought their profits have skyrocketed and an ef­ tured 1,076 South Vietnamese civilians. The hundreds of tanks into South Viet-Nam in fort has been made to undermine the Republic of Viet-Nam has a complete list of short, they have never stopped their war of environmental movement. those people with all the details concerning aggression. They have violated the cease­ I suspect that this study only revealed their identities and the times and locations fire more than 19,000 times causing close to the "tip of the iceberg" of big oil's activ­ of their abduction. 1,500 deaths, 3,300 injured and 14,000 missing The most significant cases of capture and among the innocent civ111an population. ities on behalf of the President. I have detention occurred in Hue during the 1968 Furthermore, instead of contributing con­ asked the Senate Select Committee to Tet Offensive and in several hamlets north structively to the rehabilitation of the coun­ investigate possible additional secret of Binh Dinh province during the 1972 try, in accordance with the aspirations of gifts by oil interests. Easter offensive. The number of captured the people, the communists are actively The list of contributions follow: personnel in these two places alone already manuvering to either take over all of South Ada Oil Exploration Co.: exceed more than ten times the figure of 600 Viet-Nam or at least to carve out for them­ and some civilians that the communists Adam, K. S. Jr. (Pres.) __ _ (? CC) $ 1, 000 selves a piece of the territory south of the Aladdin Pet. Co.: Bruce, claimed they held. This suggests the pos­ 17th parallel with the aim of creating a sec­ sib111ty that a great number of captured per­ George H. (Pres.)------­ 1, 000 ond state in South Viet-Nam. With this ob­ Amarillo Oil Co.: sonnel could have been massacred or taken jective in mind, the "National Liberation to the battlefields to provide forced labor or Quakenbush, W. W. (Ex­ Front" has evaded all attempts to negotiate ploration Man.)------880 are still being detained in communist con­ seriously with the Government of the Re­ Walker, W. E. Jr______centration camps. 1,000 public of Viet-Nam at the conference of the An Car Oil Co. Inc.: Sterge, Fact: The Republic of Viet-Nam has done two South Vietnamese parties. They have John c ______its best to implement the provisions of Ar­ 5,000 stubbornly rejected the constructive and Anchor Prod. Co.: Blair, ticle 8C as well as all other provisions of concrete proposals put forth by the Govern­ (CC) 1,000 the Paris Agreement. It has returned all the ment of the Republic of Viet-Nam and made B. , B. (Pres.)------26,750 communist POW's and 1,575 of the (GAO) 1,000 hazy counter-proposals as well as inoonsist­ (GAGJ 1,500 5,081 communist civilian detainees. The Re­ tent and unsubstantiated charges in order public of Viet-Nam will release the rest of (GAO) 2,000 to intentionally delay a political solution and Apache Corp.: the civilian prisoners as soon as the com­ to avoid democratic and free general elec­ Plank, Raymond (Pres.)_ 500 munists show signs of their willingness to tions agreed upon in the Paris Agreement. respect the Parts Agreement. Sweatt, Charles B ______1,000 For them, ending the war and restoring a Annour Oil: Armour, Ogden On the other hand, the communists have lasting peace for the country are not ulti­ only returned 4,608 of the Republic of Viet­ mate goals. They want to gain time with the B. (Pres.)------500 Nam's 31,818 POW's and 271 of the 69,839 help of their big communist brothers in order Total $17,380 civilians which they have kidnapped or cap­ to pursue their future political and mmtary tured during the war. ventures. From these figures, it is obvious, then, that Ballard & Conlell Corp.: the communists have no intention of carry­ Thus the propaganda campaign they have Munchak, Theodore J. ing out the provisions of the Peace Agree­ launched is one delaying tactic aimed at (Dir.) ------$ 1, 955 ment which they themselves have signed discrediting and alienating the duly elected 5,865 and pledged to uphold. Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam. Bass, H. W. & Sons: It is the communists and not the Republic Unfortunately, they have succeeded in con­ Bass, Henry W. Jr. (Pres.) 2,000 of Viet-Nam who are detaining thousands vincing certain elements in the United States Bass, R. D. (VP) ------3, 500 January 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 461 Edwin L. Cox Co.: Laketon Asphalt Ref. Co.: Samuel Bell Bros.: Pappageorge, S. Brons~n. Pres______1,000 500 Goggans, J. Lawson, Dallas______$1,000 Charles (Gen. Man.)----­ Longhorn Prod. Co.: Frank Pitts___ 1, 000 Belridge 011 Co.: Whittier, Cox, EdWin L------4,183 Owner-Large Independent ______6,366 Maguire Oil Co.: Cary Maguire, Leland K------­ 9,794 Big Heat Pipeline Corp.: 8,366 Pres ------12,000 Zarrow, Henry (Pres.)--­ 7,000 4,013 Bonded 011 Co.: Deer, Paul 5, 108 Total ------$26,000 500 Davis 011 Co.: Davis, Marvin, Gen. U. (Chrm. of Bd.) -----­ McKnight Petroleum Trust: Mc­ Bond Operating Co.: Bond, Manga ------1,000 Ronald S. Jr. (Pres. •) ---- (Jr.) 1,000 Delta Drllling Co.: Ze~pa, Joseph, Knight, w. L. (Trustee)------1,000 (Sr.) 1,000 Pres ------(CC) ------$100,191 Diga.s Co. of Delaware: which is in McMoRon Exploration Co.: Ran- LA, Spitzer, Arthur, Pres ______3,000 kin, B. M., Jr. (President)------­ 500 Bridwell 0~ Co.: Bowdel, 2,500 Diamond Shamrock: Adams, Rich­ Medders Petroleum Co.: Medders, Margaret (Partner)------Tom B. (Chrm. of Bd.) ______.. _ 50() ======ard E., Asst. Mangr. (CC) ------­ 525 Dorchester Exploration, Inc.: Mesa Petrol 166: Pickens, T. B. Jr. Total ------$35,614 Aikman; Wllliam H., Exec VP ____ _ 1,000 (President) ------­ 1, 00() Cul-Mon 011 Co.: Monaghan, Robert Aikman, Robert E., Pres------­ 1,000 Michigan Oil Co.: L., Midland, TX Pres. & Chmn of Eddy Refining Co.: Blanton, J.S., McClure, Harold (Chrm. of Bd.)- 2,90() Chmn of the Bd ______500 2,900 Bd ------$3,207 17,40(} Calvert Exploration Co.: East Ohio Gas Co.: Tankersley, G. J_ 5,000 Calvert, F. A., Jr______500 5,800 Chmn. of Bd., Tulsa______1, 000 Total ------$19,150 •Nelson, Herman A., Frlsco, Di- Michigan-Wisconsin Pipeline Co.: El Paso Natural Gas: Fisher, John W. (Superintend- rector ------1,500 Canadian-American Resources Fund: Young, S.D., Director ______$1,500 ent) ------2,500 McMahon, David A., Fort Worth, Di- Rockwell, Wlllard F., Jr., Director_ 500 (CC) ------1, 000 1,000 rector ------500 (CC) ------Cardinal Petroleum Company: Pal- (GAO) ------1,500 Missouri Public Service Co.: Wil- mer, Hugh E., President and Gen. (Father) ------2,000 liams, Kelly (VP-Finance & Sales)_ 2, 000 Kayser, Paul F., Director ______1,000 Mangr ------1, 000 Murphy H. Baxter: Baxter, Murphy Caulkins 011 Company: Higbie, Har- *Glassell, Alfred c. (Dir.) ------1,000 H. (Owner) ------2, 000 ley G------1,100 Equitex Resources Corp.: Goldbaum, Cayman Corporation: Stanley ------6,832 Total ------$138,691 Coenen, Dale S., Director, 280 Park 22,683 2,297 Northern Pump Co.: Ave. ~------3,868 Rentzel, Delos w., Dallas, Director_ 1, 000 Fair 011 Co.: Hawley, J. B. Jr. (President)____ $1, 000 Central Kansas Petrol Co.: Scupins, Fair, Wilton H., Senior VP------2,000 1,000 550 Carl A., Abilene, VP------1, 000 Champlin Exploration Inc.: Cham- Falcon Seabord Inc.: North Penn Gas Co.: Ware, John H. plin, Douglas H., VP------500 Law. Theodore N. Charon of Bd. III (Chrm. of Bd.) ------1, 000 (CC) ------­ 14,000 Northwest Oil Co.: Brachman, S. Charter 011 Co.: 2,000 Keaton, Darius N------37, 000 (GAO) ------(VP&Treasurer)------1,000 Pres. & Dir. Charter Trading Co-- 3, 000 (GAO) ------2,000 6,000 Forest 011 Co.: Total ------$4,00~ 3,000 Casey, Martin F------1,000 Chmn, Exec. Com ______1,000 Charter Trading Co.: Oasis Pipe Line Co.: Oreffice, Paul F. Central American 011 Co. of Texas: Radle, Charles E------500 (VP & Dir.) ------$50~ 1,000 Ocean Drllling & Exploration Co.: VP&Dir------1,000 Conley, Paul A------­ 1,500 Meadows, Algur H------3,000 Blanke, Albert G. Jr. (Dir.) ------1, 89{1; 3,000 Chevron Chemical Co.: Kent, J. W., 1,000 500 GHK Co.: Hefner, Robert A., Jr___ _ 2,000 Pres ------General Crude 011: Montague, K. E-­ 1,000 O'Neill Oil Properties: Global Marine, Inc.: O'Nelll, Joseph I. Jr. (Owner)---- 6, 000> Total ------$70, 675 Bauer, R. F ------1,000 1, 000' 1,000 c · & K Petroleum Company, Inc.: ChDrun of Bd------Chambers, c. Fred, Pres______$1,000 w. B. Osborn Co.: Osborn, W. B. Jr. Kennedy, W. D., Exec VP------­ 500 ~·otal ------73,862 (Manager) ------1, 000' Cleary Petro Co.: Cleary, W. B., Pres __ 2,000 Osceola Refining Co.: Hansen, Arm- Goldston 011 Company: Goldston, Clinton 011: ond (President)------2,000' Avery. William H. Jr______Iris, Chmn. of Bd------$5, 000 500 Cit. Plains Natural Gas: Durham, Exec VP------1,000 C.W., Pres ______(CC) 10, 000 Total ------$13, 396 Geo. H. Coates Co.: Coates, Geo. H __ 3,000 Graham-Michaelis Corp.: Graham, 1,000 Paciilc Gas & Electric Co.: Gerdes, Wllliam L., VP------(CC)500 Robert H. (Chrm. of Exec. Comm.) $1,000 Coastal States Gas: Claude B. Hamlll-Independent______1, 000 Wyatt, Oscar S., Jr______000 Pato11 Corp.: Shield, Fred w. (Presi- s. 500 Claude S------1,000 dent) ------Chmn of Bd------7,000 Petro Suppliers Equipment Assoc.: Patrick Petroleum Co.: Patrick, u. F. (son) 22, 000 Harbtn, J.P., 2nd VP------2, 000 (President) ------­ 500 1,000 Hamilton Bros. Petro Corp.: Hamil- Pauley Petrol Inc.: Pauley, Edwin W. 1,000 ton, Ferris F., Vice Chmn., Pres__ 5, 473 (Chrm. of Bd.) ------­ 35,000 4,000 Harkins & Co.: Harkins, H. B., Chmn. Penrose Prod. Co.: Penrose, Neville 1,000 of Bd------1,000 G. (Chrm. of Bd.) ------­ 1, 00~ (CC) 25,512 Petrol Exploration & Operating Co.: •ware,Jack______500 Franklin, James B. (Dir.) ------4,000 Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.: Total ------$25,973 Laird, W. F., Pres ______3,000 625 Heyser, Estlll S.: Ind. 011 Co. Dallas- $1,000 3, 000 Commonwealth 011 Refining Co., P.R.: Hilliard, H. T.: Hilliard 011 & Gas __ _ 1,000 15,000 Keith, Norman C., Pres------2,000 Highland Resources: Ralph O'Con- 2,000 5,23() nor ------1,000 Kaplan, Stanford (Dir.) ------Consolidated Natural Gas: HNG 011 Co.: Roden, Wllliam F----- 1,000 2,615 Rose, H. Chapman______1, 000 Herring, Robert R.: Houstor. Nat. Ro­ Director ------1, 000 Gas ------1,000 Portal Pipe Line Co.: Downing, 10,000 Howell Corporation: Paul HowelL-- 1,000 bert w. (President) (CC) ------500 500 Hudson Oil Co.: Frank Vandergrtft__ 2,000 Consumers Petro Co.: T. L. James & Co.: Floyd B. James__ 600 Total ------$71,345 Aymond, A. H------500 Kansas Nebraska Nat Gas: McDill ChDrun&Pres______900 Boyd, Dir------500 Salmon 011 Co.: Cotton PetroleUin Corp.: Cotton. Kisslngersinger, PresPetrol ______Corp.: Clyde G. Kis- _ Salmon. Barton D. (VP) ------$1, 000 Doyle W. Jr., Pres. Tulsa------1, 000 500 500 • Koch Oil Co.: Robert L. Williams__ _ 1,000 Total ------$93,037 Lafayette Funds, Inc.: J. C. Trahan­ 1,000 Saxon 011 Co.: Saxon, Blll D. ( Chrm Ladd Petrol Co.: J. B. Ladd------500 of Bd.) ------1, 000 462 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 22, 1974 Southwestern 011 & Refining: Selt­ Delhi Australian International 011 • Times concerning the recent statement zer, s. s. Jr. (Chrm of Bd.) ----­ 2,000 Co.: by OMB Director Ash. Southern Natural Gas Co.: Shaw, John Murchison, Chr. (Cash) __ 50,000 John S------2,800 2,000 The article follows: Perry R. Bass, Dlr. (Cash)------20,000 DEVICE OF IMPOUNDING PROGRAM MONEYS ~otal------$7,300 10,000 ~0 BE DROPPED ==== (By Edwin L. Dale) Shaheen Resources: John M. Sha- 82,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-President Nixon's heen ------$1~,000 Midwest 011 Corporation: Arthur E. new budget will all but abandon last year•s ~amarack Petroleum Co.: Johnson (Former Chr.) ------106,500 highly controversial device of "impounding" McKeithan, D. F. Jr. (VP) -----­ $2,000 Quintana Petroleum Corp: funds for programs approved by Congress. 500 11,000 Uihlien, Joseph ------Jr______Roy H. Cullen, VP------­ ~his was disclosed in a.n interView by Roy 700 Isa.a.cCullen, Arnold, ELarry VP ______------_ 23,000 L. Ash, director of the Office of Management ~auber 2,000 011 Co.: fiuber, 0. J ______14,000 and Budget, who was in charge of prepara­ ~eton EXploration Drllling Co.: Belco Petro: Arthur B. Belfer, Ch. 500 tion of the budget. Lisco, Richard K. (President)--- Bd ------13,250 "You can retire that word impoundment 500 King Ranch (Crude & Nat. Gas): Robert Kleberg ______from your type," Mr. Ash said. "We may even 100,000 forget how to spell it." ~exas Independent Producers: Grant on ~ool: Henry Salvatori __ 99,415 3,000 Mr. Ash made an exception for the program Mitchell, George P. (President)-­ American Liberty on: ~oddie of grants for sewage treatment plants under ~exapato Pipeline Co.: Wynne, Pres------50,000 the Water Pollution Act, where the President Killam, Radclift (President)---- 1,500 Jake Hamon: (011 & Gas Prod.) 2,000 has already announced his decision to allot (Cash) ------~ ------25,000 more money in the new budget than was al­ lotted this fiscal year, but again to withhold Tippepary Land & Exploration ------$695,925 1,500 ~otal part of the amount authorized. Mr. Ash corp.: Stoltz, Deane H------­ called this "a totally different" item, in which ~iangle Refineries: Love, F. C. "it was never intended" that all the author­ (Chrm of Bd.) ------__s._o_o_o ized funds could be spent. OMB DIRECTOR ASH ANNOUNCES ~otal------*17,200 NO LIST OF CUTBACKS NEW POLICY-IMPOUNDMENT OF The big change is that the new budget of Urich 011 Co.: Urich, George______$3, 000 FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY CON­ slightly more than $300-blllion wm not con­ Vaughn Petroleum Inc.: Vaughn, GRESS TO END tain, as the one a year ago did, a long list of JackC------~- 2,000 more than 100 items in which the President Venus 011 Co.: Ames, Eugene L. (Jr.?) decided to cut back on programs and elimi­ (Exec. VP)------1,000 nate some altogether. Vickers (Sub. of Swift): Swift, Ed- HON. JOE L. EVINS His decisions sparked an immediate and ward F. (Dir.) ------1, 000 OF TENNESSEE intense battle with Congress and a flood of Viersen on & Gas: IN ~HE HOUSE OF REPRESEN~A~IVES court suits. Eventually the President released Viersen, Sam------700 funds for many of the programs in question, Viersen, Sam Jr ______~ Tuesday, January 22, 1974. and some were changed by Congress in a Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, manner acceptable to the President. ~otal ------8,700 in a recent interview Budget Director "We'll be talking about different things Roy Ash announced that the Nixon ad­ with Congress this year-not impoundment," Walker Manufacturing Co.: Rapp, ministration is discontinuing its long­ Mr. Ash said. Wayne E. (VP) ------$625 ~he budget office, he said w111 revert to its Washington Natural Gas Co.: Woods, standing policy of impoundment of funds normal practice of "reserving" appropriated William P. (Chrm. of Bd.) ------500 appropriated by the Congress. funds for various programs, which includes WEtStern Gas & 011 Assoc.: McMlllan, In this connection, it is interesting to doling them out to the various agencies on John R. (Pres.)------1, 000 note that this decision came after some a schedule determined by abllity to spend White Eagle Overseas 011 Co.: Helmer- 25 Federal district courts had held that and other factors. This practice has led, for ick, w. H. (President)------1, 000 such impoundments are illegal and in­ example, to "underspending" the money Wood Oil Co.: Smith, Glenn J. (Chrm valid. available for roadbuilding in the Highway of Bd.) ------1, 000 ~rust Fund for many years, mainly without Marshall R. Young Oil Co.: Young, Furthermore, this practice of im­ controversy. . Marshall R. (President)------1, 000 poundments has been under strong at­ Congress in general has accepted the need tack in the Congress for some 3 years­ for the "reserving" device, sometimes called ~tal ------5, 125 and I have personally denounced exces­ "apportionment," as necessary for orderly sive and arbitrary impoundments and spending, though there may continue to be Husky: some controversy this year over speciflc Eccles, G. S., Director ______$1,000 freezing of funds appropriated by the Congress for education, agricultural items. Nielson Glenn E. (NPC), Director 1,250 ~he President's gradual retreat during 1973 ' 600 programs, highways, public works and on the impoundment issue has ineVitably 1,000 other programs for the growth and de· meant some increase in the budget. But Mr. Superior 011 Company: velopment of America. Ash said the amount was less than $1-blllion Howard Keck, Pres------25, 000 I am pleased with the recent statement in the current fiscal year, 1974, and about $1- Superior 011 Corp (Ad)------10, 000 by Mr. Ash indicating a reversal of blllion in the new fiscal year. Pacific Gas and Electric: Walter Haas 48, 557 policy. The OMB director indicated that "Some of the things that caused the most Great Plains Natural Gas Co.: C. W. one exception to the new policy will be controversy involved very little money,'' he Durham, Pres. (CC) ------10, 000 the continued impoundment of a limited remarked. East Ohio Gas Company: G. J. ~an­ "UNCONTROLLABLE" PROGR..~MS kersly,Pres------6,000 amount of funds for grants under the McCulloch 011 Co.: Ad------10, 000 Water Pollution Act. One reason for the change in policy on Nicholas Va.rvinoganis: ( 011 Reflntng Although the Director apparently does impoundment is that the prospect of a slowdown in the economy this year has made & Shipping, Athens, Greece)------15,000 not consider the withholding of several ~ans Union Corp.: J. W. Van Gor- possible a somewhat more relaxed budget billions of dollars in contract authority policy in general, though Mr. Ash insisted Timekom Oil ------Co.: Employees ______16,0002,000 as impoundments in the technical sense, that "restraint" had not been abandoned Western Crude 011: Courtlandt Pres., the effect is the same-cities and coun­ in wholesale fashion. Additional Govern­ ment spending, without a corresponding tax Dietler ------3, 500 ties throughout the Nation will be de­ Arch Rowan & Co. Inc.: prived of the benefits of this antipollu­ increase, w111 help to stimulate the economy. Arch Rowan------1,000 tion program concerning which the Mr. Ash had preViously disclosed that the Estill Eleyser------1,000 country and the Congress is concerned. budget, which will go to Congress Feb. 4, Texas Pacifl.c OU (subsidiary of Mr. Speaker, because of the interest of would move a little above $300-billion, about Sea.grams) (D1Btillers): John a $30-blllion increase from the current 1974 Loeb (Partner Loeb Rhoades)--- $109, 000 the American people and my colleagues fiscal year. It will probably show an esti­ Newmont Mining: Andre Meyer in this most important matter, I place mated deftclt in the neigh')Jorhood of $10- (Partner Lazard Freres) Direc- in the RECORD herewith the article from billion. tor------62,760 the January 20 edition of the New York Of the $30-blllion increase in spending, he • January 23, 1974 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 463 said in the interview, about $20-billion will grams, and chairman of the Optimist activities in which Mabel serves so ac­ be in "uncontrollable" programs such as Club of Lawndale and now serves as vice tively that she was given an honorary Social Security and veterans benefits, where president and director of the Optimist life membership and Continuing Service the scale of payments is fixed by law and the Award from two PTA's, Mabel's civic total spent depends on the number of per­ Home for Boys. sons on the rolls. His energy is seemingly boundless and work has been far reaching and imag­ Of the remaining $10-blllion he continued, his achievements legion. He was presi­ inative. Twenty-two years ago she joined nearly all is equally beyond the Administra­ dent of the Lawndale Breakfast Club and the Monday Eves. Jr. Women's Club tion's control. It includes such items as pay chairman of the Jane Adams Memorial where she soon was elected president; increases for both the military and civilian Wall project. He has been active in the under her leadership, "Operation Sky­ personnel of the Government to keep up Lawndale Chamber of Commerce, rocket," a free public fireworks display with infiation, and the impact of 1nfiation in at Alondra Park, was initiated. increasing "unit costs" of other programs, serving in every capacity from director meaning more dollar outlay for the same to fundraiser for every conceivable civic While continuing her active work with program level of activity. event. His artistic talents were brought this organization, she directed her ener­ The spending total in the new budget will into play as he designed the chamber of gies to youngsters. Besides here con­ not be swollen significantly by new programs commerce emblem and Lawndale's map. tinuous work with the PTA over a 22- except for the previously disclosed doubling Fred's philanthropy knows no bounds. year period, she has served on the of outlays for energy research. The expected Asked by the sheriff's department to Centinela Valley High School Advisory new health insurance program, for example, Council for the last 3 years and as will not affect spending until after the fiscal assist during emergencies, Fred has year 1975. pulled many a stranded motorist from chaperone for Leuzinger High grad night :tlooded waters and serves as the official celebration. photographer and official witness for the This last December, Mabel helped bake law enforcement agency. To Fred, time is and deliver 78 birthday cakes for the LAWNDALE, CALIF.'S MAN AND not money but value, and he has unstin­ lonely youngsters at Juvenile Hall. And WOMAN OF THE YEAR; FRED tingly devoted his energies to helping she has chaired the Lawndale Angel Tree KNIGHTON AND MABEL McCULLEY others achieve more happiness in their program during the last 4 years, a pro­ lives. He has donated the bird of gram which funds Christmas baskets for HON. CHARLES H. WILSON paradise plants for Lawndale's main over 500 needy people each year. Were it street areas and barbecues for the all not for Mabel McCulley, thousands of OF CALIFORNIA city picnic; he has spent countless hours lives would be the poorer and, because of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES helping cheer senior citizens and the her selfless efforts, she has earned the re­ Tuesday, January 22, 1974 ill. spect of the community and the joyous Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON of Cali­ The Rotary Club, in nominating Fred love of children. fornia. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, Jan­ Knighton for this award, said: Ever generous with her time, Mabel uary 26, the city of Lawndale, Calif. will No one is worthy enough to write about has served on nearly every door-to-door honor two :fine citizens as its man and the contributions of another. The measure of campaign-from the United Way to the woman of the year. Both Mabel life, after all, is not its duration, but its March of Dimes. Her husband, Howard, McCulley and Fred Knighton have truly donation. Lawndale would be much less a a successful and hard-working business­ deserved these accolades, for these place if it was not for Fred Knighton. man beams with pride as he says: people are examples of what an in­ I don't care if Mabel fs away sometimes at In nominating Mabel McCulley as dinner. I would learn to cook if 1t meant dividual can do to make a difference. Lawndale's Woman of the Year, the Ro­ Fred Knighton has the distinction of some hungry kid could eat. being the first non-Rotarian ever nomi­ tary Club wrote: The Rotary Club calls Mabel "Lawn­ nated by the Lawndale Rotary Club for This wife and mother of two sons and two dale's First Lady." By means of her com­ this high honor. In fact, Fred is an daughters moved to Lawndale neaxly 27 years mitment to others and sensitivity to their Optimist-and a leader in this outstand­ ago and our community hMn't been the same needs, she has well earned the honor ing service organization. He has been since. of being named Lawndale's Woman of president, vice president, director of pro- For aside from the scouting and PTA the Year.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Wednesday, January 23, 1974 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Give to each one of us a mind open to H. Con. Res. 413. Concurrent resolution The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, the truth, a heart sensitive to human pl'oviding for a joint session of the House D.D., offered the following prayer: need, a spirit that seeks to be under­ and Senate on Wednesday, January 30, 1974, standing, and a will ready to do what 1s to receive the President of the United States. Acquaint now thyself with God and be noble and good. at peace; therefore good shall come unto In the spirit of Him who dared to live thee.-Job 22: 21. by His faith we pray. Amen. Almighty God, who art the Creator ENERGY PROBLEM and the Sustainer of all mankind, with­