February 8, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3289 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SUPPORT FOR THE NIXON PEACE end its war with the DRV. Now, at the Paris person-to-person communication can PLAN COULD FOSTER AN END TO forums, the U.S. Ipay be able to end a similar contribute so much to the cause of world war. The Nixon-Kissinger proposal recog­ peace and understanding. A TERRIBLE WAR nizes that determination of Vietnam's politi­ cal future-indeed, the future of all Indo­ I congratulate Youth For Understand­ Ohlna-must be left to the dynamics of in­ ing on reaching this milestone and would HON. HOWARD W. ROBISON ternal politics and forces there. And by ex­ like to share with my colleagues the fol­ OF NEW YORK pressing its willingness to separate political lowing letter from a YFU participant in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES settlement considerations from military Maryland's Eighth District-a fine testi­ ones, the American position gains important mony to the worthiness of such pro­ Monday, February 7, 1972 room for m.aneuver, as Hanoi denounces the grams. proposed electoral scenario. Mr. ROBISON of New York. Mr. The beauty of these eight points, and of The letter follows: Speaker, I have previously expressed the Viet Cong's July, 1971, seven points, ls BETHESDA, MD. January 29, 1972. here my support for President Nixon's that while to each side their substance may The Honorable GILBERT GUDE, new peace initiatives, calling the plan he not be negotiable, there ls considerable Cannon House Office Building, announced on January 25 both construc­ chance for the U.S. and Hanoi to reach agree­ Washington, D.O. tive and encouraging, and calling for as ment about those points most directly aimed Sm: Two years ago, during the summer of broad a base of public support for that at ending the present war. In so doing, the 1970, I was very fortunate in being able to plan as is possible under the circum­ basis for ending the war is at last separated participate in the Youth for Understanding from the basis for a political settlement. The program. For two months, I lived with Herr stances. counsel of Henry Kissinger, in his famous Doktor Guller and his family in a small vil­ I have since noted-in today's issue of Foreign Affairs article of January, 1969, that lage about halfway between Bern and Thun the Christian Science Monitor-a similar "Cease-fire is thus not so much a step toward in Switzerland. c·all for public support for that plan, this a final settlement as a form of it" is now The first feeling that struck me was the one coming from Prof. Allan E. Good­ revers-ed, and rightly so. amazing amount of effort made by the YFU man, chairman of the department of In Vietnam, of course, the term "postwar committee in Switzerland towards making government and international relations period" has never been used as a synonym sure the summer was a success. The selection at Clark University, in Worcester, Mass. for peace for political struggle. Over the past of homes was excellent, as were the orienta­ few years, political leaders and forces there tion meetings and small excursions that the Professor Goodman's column or com­ have become disillusioned with the war; it committee organized. mentary is being set forth here in full, has grown too big and too costly to maintain My particular family was perfect. With five but it is worth noting therefrom his as one Vietnamese congressman suggested children ranging in age from 16 to 27, I had thought that public support for the Pres­ to me in an interview: "Only the U.S. could a great opportunity to learn about Switzer­ ident's plan "could foster an end to a afford the Vietnam war, and if your gov­ land form many different levels. My family terrible war," and that he connects that ernment thinks it can continue the war by took me on many small trips to nearby cities ending just as I always have with a ter­ proxy it will soon learn that we South Viet­ including Interlaken, Murren, and Luzern in mination of hostilities not just for us, as namese can neither afford the war nor Vlet­ addition to the trips to Bern and Thun that namiza.tlon. Our only hope lies in our abllity I was permitted to take on my own, and thus the proponents of unilateral withdrawal to compete politically with the Viet Cong I was able to see and explore a good pa.rt would have it, but for all the Indochina after the war." of Switzerland. The most important aspect people. In addition to this, Professor Support for the new U.S. proposal, at home of my stay, however, was the feeling of being Goodman applauds, as I have, the Presi­ and abroad, and for a positive response from a regular member of the family that the dent's willingness to separate the mili­ Hanoi, could foster an end to a terrible war. Gullers gave me. By going to the same school, tary from the political issues involved in This ls what the President asked for. If it doing the came chores, and enjoying the a true settlement and, then, through use could end or reduce the suffering of the Indo­ same recreation as a Swiss 16 year old might, of the words of a South Vietnamese con­ China people, then the long voyage home and I believe I received an unusual insight into the decade of Vietnam would at last be the country that I don't think I could have gressman, helps · us to understand in a over. obtained by just traveling on a tour. The way I have not seen put before why, even proof of this, I feel, is that Switzerland is if this were the President's intent­ no longer merely another nation in Europe which I do not believe is the case-we to me. Instead, it is almost a second home. could not continue the war by proxy so THE YOUTH FOR UNDERSTANDING I believe my stay in Switzerland did a that a politicial settlement, negotiated in great deal for me, and I think the experience STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM would be equally worthwhile to many other the main between the North and the high school youth. I would like to thank South, is the only answer. On the basis you for your efforts in giving Youth for of today's news, though still fragmen­ HON. GILBERT GUDE Understanding the recognition it deserves. tary, we may be moving at last in that OF MARYLAND Yours truly, direction, too. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CAREY HECKMAN, Professor Goodman's commentary follows: Wednesday, February 2, 1972 ASPIN SCORES AUTO COMPANIES PRICE OF PEACE IN VIETNAM: YEAS Mr. GUDE. Mr. Speaker, I would like (By Allan E. Goodman) to take this opportunity to join my col­ President Nixon's peace plan hastens the leagues who participated in the special HON. LES ASPIN end of American military involvement in order commending the youth for under­ OF WISCONSIN standing teenage student exchange pro­ the Vietnam war and the prospect of a lower IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES level of conflict throughout Inda-China gram, and extend my hearty congratu­ thereafter. The long voyage home for all lations to this program on the occasion Monday, February 7, 1972 American troops, set in motion in 1968 of its 20th anniversary. through the Vietnamization program, and Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, the automo­ sped along by the new role in policymaking Teenage student exchange represents bile companies today are seeking to delay of the National Security Council, is nearer an outstanding venture in international implementation of the 90-percent reduc­ to an end. And the United States has come cooperation, with unlimited opportuni­ tion of pollutants emitted from cars closer to behaving not as an ally of a be­ ties for both the student and host family scheduled to go into effect in 1975. I be­ sieged government but as a principal bellig­ to gain a special understanding of for­ lieve that the auto companies are play­ erent. The Nixon-Kissinger proposal at least eign cultures, family and community life. ing the same game with auto exhaust articulates, as did the limited final declara­ Youth For Understanding, now celebrat­ pollution control that they played with tion of the Geneva Conference of 1954, the ing its 20th anniversary, offers four dif­ limits of American ability to shape future auto safety. The name of the game is at­ political developments in Indo-China. ferent opportunities for American stu­ trition and delay. Operating on the old There was no consensus among the great dents to live abroad, as well as programs theory that to slow something down is powers in Geneva then about the political for American families to host foreign t.o kill it, the automobile companies hope, future of Vietnam. There is even less con­ students. Such exchange is particularly little by little, to destroy this important sensus now. At Geneva, France was able to relevant in today's world where such provision of the law. 3290 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1972 As my colleagues know, the Clean Air Numismatists and other citizens who Indian troops unquestionably has at­ Act Amendments of 1970 which this have paid the Bureau of the Mint $3 for tributed to the comparatively stable House passed requires that both domestic uncirculated Eisenhower dollars con­ situation there. As of today there is no and foreign manufacturers reduce auto taining 40 percent silver or $10 for proof indication when, or even if, these Indian emissions by 90 percent by 1975, unless coins of the same composition, and were forces will be withdrawn. the Environmental Protection Agency limited to ordering no more than five Thus the United States, in my own grants the companies an additional year coins of either type, are understandably opinion, might well adopt a "wait and to comply with the pollution standards. wondering how a major national mer­ see" approach. Perhaps a hypothetical In hearings chaired by my distinguished chandiser could obtain sufficient quan­ situation will dramatize the problem. colleague, Mr. ROGERS, of Florida, the au­ tities of these special coins to enable Suppose the Soviet Union, asserting its tomobile manufacturers testified that it them to make an off er of this kind. interest in promoting "stability," were was economically impossible for them The answer, of course, is that the "sil­ to invade Yugoslavia and promote an to implement the provisions of the law by ver" dollars offered by Clairol are the independent Croatia? Would we hasten 1975. Their repeated pleas are simply a same cupro-nickel coins available to any­ to accord a new de facto government facade covering up the companies' at­ one at any bank for $1. They do not there full recognition? tempt to emasculate the rules. What they contain silver. It has been claimed that recognition really want is additional time to scuttle Undoubtedly, many people regard the of Bangladesh is needed so that we can the standards completely. $1 coins as ''silver dollars" because the.y resume trade relationships, and be in a As many of my colleagues know the are the same size as the old 90-percent position to resume humanitarian relief. auto companies claimed in the hearings silver t:oins minted throughout our his­ If such ties are considered desirable, they before Representative ROGERS' committee tory·until 1935. can be developed without the formality that they were uncertain if they could But in view of the fact that there are of recognition. ever meet the standards. Mr. Speaker, Eisenhower silver dollars in existence at Speaking of humanitarian relief, it is that is simply ridiculous. Automobile a substantial premium over face value, disappointing to me that the Prime makers have always been able economi­ it is deceptive for anyone to advertise a Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Muji­ cally to add power windows, power brakes cupro-nickel coin as a "silver dollar." bur Rahman, declared in Calcutta yes­ and numerous accessories and still pro­ The Federal Trade Commission should, terday that he "cannot express grati- duce a marketable product. Why can they therefore, require any advertiser guilty . tude to the United States." Despite his not control pollution? 1 of this deception to place corrective ad~ reluctance to acknowledge it, it is a fact It is also interesting to note that re­ vertising in all of the publications which that the United States, prior to the out­ cently a closed-door conference was held carried the false advertisement. break of hostilities, outstripped all for­ at the Western White House attended by About 130 million cupro-nickel $1 eign countries in ext-ending aid to the representatives of the automobile manu­ coins have been minted so far, and are people of East Pakistan-now Bangla­ facturers, oil companies, lead manufac­ being made available to the public desh. We also were by far the largest turers, and Justice Department officials through the banking system. Anyone foreign contributor to assistance to to discuss the emissions requirement. who wants one should be able to obtain Bengali refugees in India. There were no environmentalists or con­ one without any difficulty from his own sumer representatives at that conference. bank. If the bank says it does not have I believe the Nixon administration is any for its customers, it has either failed guilty of obvious behind-the-scenes ma­ to order them or has been diverting its CONTINUING PROBLEM OF DRUGS nipulation of the air pollution issue. supply to business firms using them as IN THE MILITARY If special interest groups devoted half promotion tools, under an implication the time and money to solving the pollu­ that they are scarce items not otherwise HON. SEYMOUR HALPERN tion problem as they do to lobbying in available. OF NEW YORK Washington, we would not have to play IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this Mickey Mouse game of bluff. It is my hope that the auto emissions standards RECOGNITION FOR Monday, February 7, 1972 will go into effect as provided by the law BANGLADESH? Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, there are in 1975. increasing signs that the specter of nar­ cotics abuse in the military is no less CLAIROL OFFER OF FREE "EISEN­ Hon. PETER H. B. FRELINGHUYSEN menacing than 6 months ago, when iden­ HOWER SILVER DOLLAR'' IS MIS­ OF NEW .JERSEY tification, treatment, rehabilitation, and LEADING; FEDERAL TRADE COM­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES drug suppression efforts got into full gear. MISSION SHOULD REQUIRE A RE­ Monday, February 7, 1972 Many authoritative sources have TRACTION pointed out that there has been nothing Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, near an all-out program to treat either I was asked by a colleague a few days ago GI's who are still in the Armed Forces, or HON. LEONOR K_. SULLIVAN whether I thought the United States those veterans who return to society des­ should extend immediate recognition to perately hooked on heroin. Conservative OF MISSOURI the new Government of Bangladesh. estimates put the number of ex-GI ad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA ~IVES My answer was brief: "No, why should dicts now on our city streets at 50,000. Monday, February 7, 1972 we?" The total is probably closer to 70,000. And The argument in favor of recognition, Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, soon yet, Mr. Speaker, hard-core addicts con­ basically, is that Bangladesh exists. tinue to be discharged from the military after the mint began producing and dis­ And traditionally recognition is even­ tributing through the banking system at an alarming rate of 500 to 1,000 each tually extended to governments which month. last year the cupro-nickel $1 cojns au­ appear to be in control of their territory. thorized by Congress, numerous adver­ The effect this is having and will have In addition, a number of countries have on American society is frightening. Ex­ tisements appeared for high-priced jew­ already recognized the new Government, elry items containing the new "silver" perts have estimated that these 50,000 dollars. I called these advertisements to and a push seems on for more to follow to 70,000 addicts could spread their ad­ suit. diction to as many as 3 million others the attention of the Federal Trade Com­ In my view the United States would mission and asked that the practice be by the year 1975. Recent reports of the stopped. be well advised to move slowly in this growing rate of heroin addiction in Now, Clairol, Inc., has taken out full­ matter. Pakistan has been an ally of babies-550 cases during 1971 in New page advertisements in mass publica­ ours for many years. She has been York City alone-are further proof that ·forcibly dismembered as the result of America is being threatened at its very tions, such as the Reader's Digest for military action taken against her by her February, offering: roots by the plague of heroin addiction. neighbor, India. Whatever the justifica­ When even our unborn children fall vic­ Free, a beautiful new Eisenhower Silver tion for India's action, it was her resort Dollar to go with your beautiful Silk & Silver tim to this dread disease, we must realize haircolor-just send two empty Silk & Silver to force which created an "independent" that it is time to replace our half-way boxes along with your name and address country, and the continued presence in measures with an all-out attack on nar­ ·to.... Bangladesh of substantial numbers of cotics at every level. February .S, 1972 EXTENSIONS -OF REMARKS 3291 Mr. Speaker, I would like to call the narcotics, but we just as definitely we have The three services' programs are about the attention of my colleagues to a most in­ no hard answers for ending this problem," same. Detoxify, counsel and return a man formative article dealing with drug ad­ one source said. to his unit as rapidly as possible. Most of Reports of soaring crime rates at military those under treatment may not even spend diction in the military. This article, writ­ bases here and overseas, due in large part to any time assigned to a halfway house. ten by John T. Wheeler, appeared in the the drug problem, bode ill for another of the Others work with counselors as outpatients February 5 edition of the Long Island President's wars-the one on crime-as ad­ after a short, "inhouse," detoxification pe­ Daily Press. Mr. Wheeler presents here dicts and users return to civilian life. riod. The most serious cases may spend weeks an excellent, up-to-date summary of the Addicts hooked on Vietnam's nearly pure in halfway houses or return for prolonged small successes and large failures in the heroin bring back incredibly expensive habits. stays if they fall back into the drug life. Armed Forces "war on drug abuse." The They may spend $2,500 to $3,000 saved in the Screening to spot drug users began in Viet­ article, which I hereby submit to the war zone during the first month home. nam and now has spread to other Southeast The drug problem in the military has Asian bases. Men in this area are given urine RECORD, is entitled "We Have Met the grown so serious in the Army that a senior tests to determine whether they have been Enemy-Drugs": source said military police and investigators using heroin, amphetamines or barbituates. WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY-DRUGS have little time for seeking addicts and users Those who flunk and are returning home (NOTE.-To paraphrase a military leader of but must devote virtually all their efforts to are held for seven days to "dry them out" the past, we have met th.e enemy and they trapping pushers. before they are flown back to the United are drugs. Starting with a presidential order, The administration so far has authorized States where · they are encouraged to get the administration and the military com­ the Defense Department to spend $34.2 mil­ into drug trea.tment programs. Most don't. mand is waging war on drug abuse among lion and the VA an extra $17 million on the The holding period soon will be two weeks Gis and veterans. Here's how it's going.) drug war. Some at the operating level are not and a bill pending in Congress would extend (By John T. Wheeler) sure the amount is nearly enough. a man's tour for up to 30 days for treatment. Drug abuse, originally conceived popularly This would be done in a VA hospital. w ASHINGTON .-President Nixon's declared as a problem of poor blacks, has proved to cut What the ultimate cost of the drug war war-the one to rid Gis and veterans of dan­ fairly evenly across racial and economic lines will be, none can envision. The m1Utary says gerous drug habits-is winding up rapidly. in the military. A company commander who it cannot predict how large the problem will So far, many worried officials say, there said he canvassed his unit and found 65 per­ be in the future and because so little is is little if any light at the end of the tunnel. cent had or were using and experimenting known about treatment, how long a man A senior Pentagon source, who looks on the with drugs, said: "Once I thought it was a will need treatment and how intensive, and optimistic side of the problem, says more Negro problem. Then I decided it was a thus costly, it will be. than 500 heroin users and addicts are dis­ ghetto problem. Now I know it is just a prob­ The VA says hard cases will take about a .charged each month by the Army, the center lem." month of hospitalization, at an average of of the drug epidemic in the military. Other The military, and especially the Veterans $30 a day, and then years of outpatient estimates place the figure closer to 1,000 to Administration, have started a massive cam­ treatment. It, too, says it is too early to 1,500, counting Navy, Air Force and Marine paign against drug abuse. Current programs, forecast costs in terms of manpower needs discharges. some officials believe, will be further ex­ and facilities needed for outpa,tients. Although hard figures are impossible to panded as the true extent of the problem be­ Brig. Gen. Robert Gard Jr., head of the come by, estimates that addicts and users comes known. A Pentagon source noted wryly, Army's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program, in the military or discharged in the past few "This is the first popular war we've had in recently noted President Nixon "emphasized years have pushed the nation's heroin de­ a long time." informally to Department of Defense offi­ pendent population up by 50 per cent are not A first rule of war is to know the enemy, cials that the mi11tary services must not hard to come by. but in this case the Pentagon has several­ discharge drug-dependent servicemen into An Associated Press survey of drug prob­ first and foremost heroin, followed by am­ our already crime-ridden streets without lems among Gis and ex-Gis and what is be­ phetamines, barbiturates and other danger­ treatment and attempts at rehabilitation." ing done for them turned up these other ous drugs. The old enemy marijuana almost The spirit and, in some cases, the letter major points: is forgotten in view of the new and far of that order are not being carried out, some With American combat dwindling as the greater threat. · officials concede privately. A general follow­ U.S. hot war diminishes in Vietnam, deaths Hard facts on the enemy's conquests are ing the sltuation closely said: "There is no from confirmed and clinically diagnosed drug almost impossible to find. A senior Army question we are turning junkies into the abuse may soon overtake casualties inflicted official says his service has now, or has dis­ civilian society. We can dry them out and try by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. charged recently, some 60,000 heroin users to take care of the guy staying in the Army. Addicts and users being discharged are re­ and addicts, a total he said leaves the Army But the VA has got to carry the ball on the ceiving only "bandaid" treatment before re­ "quite pleased" because it feared the situa­ veterans." entering civilian life, a senior Veterans Ad­ tion was far worse. Reports from the field The military has provided a bare mini­ ministration official says. suggests a far higher but unproven figure. mum of counsell1ng and referred departing Only a comparative handful of veterans There are some hard statistics, especially veterans to VA hospitals. A majority of the from Vietnam, the worst drug crisis area, are on Vietnam, where national attention has time they simply don't show up. .seeking help, and some VA sources say it may been riveted on the drug problem. In the The Pentagon plans to order heavy users be years before most do. A key reason appears first six months of 1971, drug-related deaths to VA hospitals for discharge in hopes they to be that these addicts are among the most were running 64 per cent higher than the will take advantage of the VA drug program. anti-estab1ishment and alienated of the previous year and arrests on charges in­ But once a man's service is over, no one young in uniform. volving hard narcotics had tripled. under present laws can force him to submit The amnesty program to encourage addicts Pentagon sources caution that arrest fig­ to treatment. still in the service to turn themselves in for ures especially may not present a true pic­ Dr. Samuel C. Kaim, director of the VA's treatment with no punitive action has proved ture since a year ago the m111tary scarcely alcohol and drug abuse program staff, said a statistical success but, officials say, may be realized it had a. problem. of the short term treatment given by the largely meaningless in terms of permanent The Army has set up or will soon open 81 mi11tary: "Hopefully it will orientate the cures. halfway houses at bases in the United man to his problem. It is not a real treat­ Known users of heroin and other dangerous States. Thirteen more operate in Vietnam. ment. But hopefully it may bring the man drugs still are being drafted and sent to Viet­ These are treatment centers for those who to the point where he is ready to be treated." nam despite what sources concede are serious volunteer to try to escape their drug habits. A major problem is that veterans, espe­ risks such men may become hardcore addicts. No over-all figures are available for the cially those who served in Vietnam, are gen­ Any other policy, officials say, would allow number of men taking part in the stateside erally in no mood for tre·atment. Dr. Brian any who claimed drug usage to escape serv­ program. Each base's anti-drug program is B. Doyle of the Army's drug abuse control ice or Vietnam duty and lead to chaos in the built locally around loose Pentagon guide­ division said of Vietnam GI addicts: military. lines. Officials in the m111tary, and out, fear re­ "The overwhelming majority express either Ex-addicts are recruited as "therapists" no interest or antagonism toward further turning Gis and discharged vets will spread because they are available and have in­ their addiction among their friends, not only treatment." sights non-drug users may not have no mat­ Where then are the Vietnam addicts which for profit to support their own habits but to ter how extensive their training. spread their own euphoria and sense of guilt. officials felt certain would flood the VA sys­ The Army is attacking its problem base by tem? Addicts and ex-addicts in and out of Cure rates outside the controversial metha­ base. The Navy and Air Force have tried to done maintenance program are "depressingly concentrate their efforts in one installation the military predict these men will not seek .small," VA and military sources report. For apiece. This is possible, they say, because help until they "hit bottom" perhaps a year the most part, a senior VA doctor says, about their problems are numerically and propor­ or more from now. 70 to 80 per cent of hardened heroin addicts tionately smaller. "The day they get up and have to hit may never lead a totally drug free life again. However, in at least one case, Air Force before they can brush their teeth, when they Both the milltary and the VA are searching drug abusers have been farmed out to the can't stand the sight of wha,t happened to desperately and so far inconclusively, for bet­ Army because Lackland Air Force Base, that the face in the mirror, when they know ter cure methods. "We definitely have hard service's center, could not handle them. their whole life is chasing the bag, then they 3292 EXTENSIONS ·OF REMARKS February 8, 1972 may come in," said one addiot being treated Such excellence of performance is Shikatani works in strange ways, say the in a methadone ward by the VA. nothing new to the band program at Japanese. "We may find the exclusively American As the war was ending, Tom Kitayama was Parkdale. In the 3 short years the school not only graduating-but marrying his tragedy of Vietnam will be measured in the has been in existence, this band, under long run as much by the lives destroyed by present wife Heidi on June 15, 1945. Tom had drugs as by American blood lost and treasure the capable leadership of Mr. Bruce L. worked his way through college in the nearby spent," a VA official said. Nale, has received "superior" or "out­ fields and put away a few dollars. Then for Although thousands of Gis have sought standing" ratings at all the State and two years, he worked and studied in the WSO amnesty in return for attempts to treat their county festivals in which it has competed. experiment station. habits, many more thousands have not. And As we all know, the pursuit of this kind In 1947, Tom and Heidi made a major de­ many drop out of programs to fall back into of excellence requires many hours of hard cisllon. They headed for the Bay Area and that demiworld of addiction and euphoria. and dedicated work, and I commend Mr. landed matching jobs in a San Lorenzo "The heroin addict is likely to be the most nursery. Offered a good pay, Tom did the un­ Nale, his band members, and the school's expected. He chose to study the flower busi­ anti-Establishment of his peers," a VA ·source principal, Dr. G. Allen Sager, on this ex­ said and Pentagon officials agree. ness from the ground up and became a man­ "Their habit aside, they want nothing ceptional record of achievement. ure gardener for 90 cents an hour. With from us," one said. I and all other residents of Maryland Heidi's 70 cents an hour added on the Kitay­ Another reason the men may have for not are pleased and honored that the Park­ yamas faced marriage in the year .1948. seeking help is that those caught in the drug dale Band was selected by the Westbrook Then Shikatani raised his guiding finger culture often are as aware as physicians and Foundation, the United States sponsor of of fate and when a San Lorenzo nursery drug treatment experts of the small chance owner died of insecticide poisoning, Tom in­ the festival. We know that each band herited the post. for complete cures. member will prove to be the kind of am­ Defense and VA officials say past expe­ Tom's brother Ray joined the family and rience indicates only 7 to 13 percent of those bassador overseas that will make all of by 1950 they were ready for a big gamble. who turn themselves in will ultimately lead us proud of them. Kitayama was offered 16 acres of land a permanently drug-free life unless they are near Alvarado-Niles Rd. in the unincorpo,­ put on methadone, a "highless" heroin sub­ rated county between Decoto and Alvarado. stitute when used by addicts. The cure rate With the help of a San Lorenzo nursery with methadone, too, is relatively small. TOM KITAYAMA--CITIZEN owner, Tom came up with the $10,000 down The VA's Dr. Kaim says he does not even OF THE YEAR payment and a spectacular future was like the term "cure rate" when applied to launched. addicts. The family ( now added by brother Kee) "Abstinence is not the only criteria. Suc­ HON. DON EDWARDS took 16 acres of cabbage and created one of cessful rehabilitation does not mean many the nation's largest carnation nurseries. To­ OF CALIFORNIA day the Greenleaf Wholesale FlOlrists, Inc. in the program will not take an occasional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hit. I don't get uptight about the occasional have additional outlets in Colorado, Houston, trippers. If a man gets a job, goes to school, Monday, February 7, 1972 N~w Orleans, El Paso, Dallas and Minne­ functions in society and at work, we con­ apolis. sider it successful. In these terms I think Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. Almost as Tom's business reached stability, we can rehabllitate 80 percent although it Speaker, a well-deserved honor was re­ the town of Union City became a reality. may require long periods of treatment, a cently paid to one of Alameda County's From the outset, Kitayama was involved. As most distinguished citizens, Tom Kita­ one of the city's original five councilman, he period of years." helped create the city's charter. yama, when he was declared Citizen of From 1959 to 1970, Tom Kitayama was a the Year by the Union City Chamber of Union City Councilman and three times Commerce. mayor. In April, 1970, he lo.st by 10 votes PARKDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL It is with great pleasure that I con­ and was appointed to the city's planning BAND TO ATTEND VIENNA MUSIC gratulate my good friend Tom Kitayama commission. FESTIVAL and insert in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Mo.st people close to Tom expect his entry the Union City Leader's article of Jan­ within the next two weeks in the April City uary 20, 1972, describing his noteworthy Council election. HON. LAWRENCE J. HOGAN career: Kitayama Will only say, "I haven't made OF MARYLAND up my mind. I want to see who is in the TOM KITAYAMA: HARD WORK AND running." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A FRIENDLY GoD Business and politics are just part of Tom Monday, February 7, 1972 The legendary Japanese god Shikatani has Kitayama. always looked with favor upon Tom Kita­ A devoted Baptist he is a two-time Deacon Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, we read yama. Shikatani is the god of "fate"-a fate on a San Leandro Church. Also, Tom is a much today which is negative in charac­ that man has no control over. charter member of the Lion's Club the ter about the younger generation, and He has usually been in the right place to Chamber of Commerce and Merchant'~ As­ particularly about the youth in our sec­ make the right decision at the right time. sociation, plus the Japanese American's Citi­ ondary schools and colleges. Today I And Shikatani has been most helpful. zen's League. should like to call the attention of my Born on July 13, 1923 on Bainbridge Island He's been active in every local project f:rom colleagues to a group of young people in Washington State, Tom was the first child the March of Dimes and County Fair to a of the elder Kitayamas. Tom's dad had immi­ spot on the Sumitomo Bank AdlV'isory Board. from my own district who, by their posi­ grated just before World War I to Port Blake­ But the real Tom Kitayama works behind tive achievements, have distinguished ley, Washington and set up a truck flower notoriety in quiet ways for Union City. Re­ themselves and their school. The 70 mem­ business. It was not a lucrative trade, but cently, a local youth group needed a sub­ bers of the Parkdale Senior High School Tom and his five brothers and sisters always stantia,l guarantee of x-number of $$$ to Symphonic Band have been honored by ate well. hold a midsummer dance. Very anonymously, being selected to represent the State of After Tom graduated from high school in Kitayama came up with the money. (He wlll Maryland at the International Festival of June of 1941, he left home and started college deny the loon.) Bands to be held in Vienna, Austria, in as a Floriculture undergraduate at Wash­ All this leads to a famny man (five chll­ July of this year. They are one of only ington State University. Fortunately, WSU is dren) who looks forward to big 77th birth­ on the east side of the Pasco River. Otherwise, day party for his mother Masuko this week­ 26 bands in the United States which will Tom may have never finished school. be competing in the Vienna Musical Fes­ end. After the Japanese invasion of Pearl Har­ It is small wonder that the Chamber of tival which is a part of the Austrian Gov­ bor, the future of all West Coast Japanese­ ernment's comprehensive plans for Youth Americans was threatened. In fact, Tom's en­ Commerce chose to select Tom Kitayama Year, 1972. tire family was rounded up and trained to a their 1971 "Oitizen of the Year." These fine young people received their concentration camp in Manzanara, California Yet, at the recent Cham.ber dinner Tom invitation to attend the Vienna festival and later Mendadoca, Idaho. was stunned by the announcement. Chamber and to spend an additional 2 weeks Tom was able to visit his family-but until manager Mel Eckerstrom had kept the seoret the end of World War ll, 3¥2 years later, so well, even Heidi was surprised. touring the Continent, giving concerts in he couldn't really be part of the family. When Senator Nicholas Pet'l'!is said his Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, by Years later, these innocent immigrant vic­ name, Tom thought fast to find a few words earning a rating of ''superior" at both tims of Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 have of thanks-and as usual remained poised. the Prince Georges County and the State yet to condemn the American Government's Well, of course, Tom Kitayama was calm. of Maryland Band Festivals in 1971. treatment. He had Shikatani on his side. February 8, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3293 THOUGHTS ON SCHOOLBUSING Though northern cities had ample oppor­ A PLEASANT STORY tunity to make gradual change, they were content to let the southland take the brunt HON. LOUIS STOKES of the thrust, while northern educators and OF OHIO school administrators did virtually nothing. HON. ROBERT L. F. SIKES When President Nixon entered the White OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES House, widespread busing to bring about de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, February 7, 1972 segregation was reaching its crux, and the pressures on both the President and Congress Monday, February 7, 1972 Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, as the is­ from northern white parents and organiza­ sue of schoolbusing balloons with com­ tions began to escalate. ~r. SIKES. Mr. Speaker, one of those plexity and significance, some basic con­ President Nixon's response was a flat state­ pleasant little storiei:; which contribute siderations seem to have been misplaced. ment. On August 3rd, last year he said: to the lore of America has been brought First of all, many of us have forgotten "I have consistently opposed the busing of to my attention by a long-time friend that the necessity-and the constitution­ our Ifation's children simply for the sake of and a distinguished Florida writer, E.W. ality-of schoolbusing have already been busing." Carswell of Chipley. Mr. Carswell, who Now while the President oan insist that also has been mayor of his hometown confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. government do not one bit more than is Despite the ease with which the required by law to encourage busing, he oan't is president of the Carswell Family As~ President dismissed the Court's deci­ change the law, and court, after court, was sociation. The association will sponsor sion-and thus reopened a closed case­ continuing to rule for busing. the bicentennial celebration of the fam­ busil .g remains a constitutional question, So whiite parents have stepped up their ily late this year. outs!.de the omniscient executive's influ­ pressure on members of Congress to change The story which appeared on Jan­ the law. This ls what is about to confront uary 16, 1972, in the Atlanta Journal tells ence sphere. the Congress as it opens its election-year Second, the antibusing forces, egged of the preservation through many years sessions beginning on January 18, and which of an outstanding variety of corn which on by the President, are now determined just might develop into one of the most ex­ to enact a constitutional amendment pro­ plosive political issues in the coming presi­ has been perpetuated for a century and hibiting the use of schoolbusing to dential campaign. a half by members of the Carswell fam­ achieve integration. Desperate, hysteri­ Before the Senate, for example, is an anti­ ily. I submit it for reprinting in the cal and heedless of the threat such an busing bill co-authored by Senator Sam J. RECORD. amendment poses to our essential free­ Ervin of North Carolina, a Democrat, and The story follows: Sena.tor Howard H. Baker and Senator Wil­ CORN OF LEGEND RETURNS doms, those same forces now ask us to liam E. Brock of Tennessee, both Republicans. sign a discharge petition which would The bill offers a series of amendments to a HEPHZmAH, GA.-When Edward Carswell bring the question into the House with­ House-passed bill to strengthen the enforce­ left Richmond County about 145 years ago, out the benefit of public hearings. ment powers of the Equal Employment Op­ he carried with him a bride and-legend portunity Commission, and which stipulate says-some corn of a variety that even then That brings me to my third point­ was a longtime favorite of farmers in his that of hysteria. Schoolbusing has leapt tha.t once the federal courts have determined that a school district has an open admissions family. from the area of rational concern into a policy, the courts would have no further Descendants of the couple, now living in free-for-all characterized by cla:ms and jurisdiction to order busing to achieve racial western Florida, still have corn that is de­ counterclaims which have no basis in balance. scended from that early seed. They have fact. In such a highly charged atmos­ The boys have selected a time when the sent a gift package of the seed "back home" phere, little of lasting value can be Congressional atmosphere ls most favorable to distant kinsmen here for planting. achieved. for their clever scheme. It finds a number E. J. "Mack" Dunagan, whose wife 1s the of otherwise liberal democratic Senators former Alice Carswell, plans to plant some Mr. Charles Loeb, city editor of the of the corn in his garden. Their home, inci­ Cleveland Call and Post, articulated his scrambling for the brass ring of a presiden­ tial nomination, with the realization that to dentally is called Carswell Place. They are views on the subject in the January 15 defend school busing at this time is nothing restoring the imposiut pre-Civil War home issue of the newspaper. Because of his short of political suicide to their ambitions. built by E. R. Carswell, Sr., an ancestor of studious avoidance of hysteria and his Militant white parent organizations are Mrs. Dunagan. clear grasp of the vagaries of the school­ behind a widespread mall campaign aimed at They hope to produce some more seed of busing issue, I bring his column to the Northern congressmen in support of a con­ the Carswell corn-and to have some succu­ stitutional amendment, sponsored by Sena­ lent ears ready for roasting when representa­ attention of my colleagues: tives of the far-flung family come to this area [From the Call and Post, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1972] tor Robert P. Griffin (R-Mich.) which says: "This Constitution shall not be construed to next spring and summer to plan a 200th anni­ BUSING BATTLE CONFRONTS CONGRESS require that pupils be assigned or trans­ versary celebration. (By Charles H. Loeb) ported to public school on the basis of their It was in 1772 that Alexander and Isabella race, color, religion or naittonal origin." Brown Carswell, both of Scotch ancestry, mi­ The Jim-crow educational system in the grated from Northern Ireland to America South did not actually cease to exist until At the same time another busing fight is expected in the Senate where important edu­ with their six children. They settled near 1968 when Southern politicians and educa­ what is now Hopeful Baptist Church, near tors finally ran out of legal tricks to stall caitional bills are tied up because the House ta.eked on anti-busing amendments which today's Burke-Richmond County line-but and delay implementation of the historic Su­ not until the father and at least one of his preme Court ruling of seventeen years ago. the Senate is reluctant to act upon. · The fate of busing as a means to enforce sons helped the Colonies win the Revolution­ Ironically, it has developed that it has been ary War and independence. easier to develop some sort of balance between integration in our public schools certainly hangs in precarious balance. The sons and daughter settled nearby, or white and black pupils in southern schools at least in neighboring east-central Georgia than in those of the north, even though many counties. Some members of succeeding gen­ southern parents tried to divert their chil­ erations remained in the same general area, dren to either private schools, or pseudo-pri­ but others moved on-to the west, then some vate schools set up and operated with state MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN­ to the south and a few to the north and tax funds. One reason was that in their ear­ HOW LONG? northwest. Hest effort.s to beat back school integration, Descendants of the couple and their kin many southern states had undertaken a mas­ now "constitute a respectable proportion of sive program of upgrading its all-black the population of Georgia, and throughout schools, and in numa-ous instances, when a HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE the Southland," wrote a family genealogist. white child found himself transferred to a OF IOWA Someone has estimated that descendants formerly all-black school, the facility was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES alone have exceeded 300,000, with more than likely to be a new, better-equipped plant than two-thirds of them living today. the one he had been attending. Monday, February 7, 1972 Soon the emphasis-and the loudest Edward and Maha.la Knight, who married static-moved northwards, where, under the Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, a child in Richmond County in 1825, later lived in old neighborhood concept, pubUc schools, es­ asks: "Where is daddy?" A mother asks: Macon CoUlilty and then in Crawford County. pecially in the big cities, were becoming more "How is my son?" A wife asks: "Is my It was there that one of their sons, Robert and more all-black. husband alive or dead?" Knight Carswell (born near Montezuma in But the real explosion came when the Communist North Vietnam is sadisti­ 1829) mairried Jane Preston. weapons written into law to force the inte­ Following his father's example, he took his gration of public schools moved in on north­ cally practicing spiritual and mental bride and-legend says--some of that seed ern cities aided and abetted by the require­ genocide on over 1,600 American pris­ corn and moved on seeking new la.nds and ments that buses become mandatory to oners of war and their families. new frontiers. They settled in DaJ.e County, achieve racia-1 balance in the schools. How long? Ala., bl.lit 50 years later they, with the fa.mi- 3294 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1972 lies of their several sons and daught·ers, But all of these activities are only a the Peace Corps can be, and often is. moved into western Florida. small reason for Mrs. Barrios' selection. extraordinarily effective, without at the Robert Knight Carswell always treasured Letter after letter on behalf of Mrs. same time being prohibitively costly for that "old field corn" variety that his father had brought from Richmond County. He pro­ Barrios' candidacy mentioned her quali­ the United States. tected it from what he considered inferior ties as a parent and a grandparent, a - I believe we should welcome and com­ and unproved varieties, but he crossed it neighbor and, a friend. Lillian is the one mend the new initiatives that the Peace lightly now and then with a variety with that is there when someone is ill or some­ Corps has taken in the last few years. similar good qualities. To overcome the in­ one needs help. Her friends and neigh­ The agency's stress on an increa.sed in­ breeding influence, he said. bors have recognized her great work in volvement and participation of host In the course of events during 145 growing making life a little nicer and a little easier countries in the planning and implemen­ seasons, a lot of unplanned crossing un­ tation of Peace Corps activities, in com­ doubtedly took place. It nevertheless has re­ for all the people of Lawndale. tained the ba.sic good qualities of Carswell I hope that my colleagues will join me bination with the Peace Corps' greater corn. in wishing Lillian Barrios a hardy• con­ responsiveness to host country's requests Fea.tures include small stalk; small, white gratulations on a job well done. for highly skilled volunteers, represents cob; close, deep rows of hard grain; tight a very significant and effective shift in shuck, fairly high yield and superior edibility Peace Corps policy. I urge all my col­ as roasting ears, corn meal, grits or animal leagues to join me in commending these feed. IN SUPPORT OF THE PEACE CORPS new efforts and in supporting the highly Robert Knight Carswell's grandsons some effective and productive Peace Corps 50 years ago crossed some of the white corn program. with what they considered a quality yellow HON. F. BRADFORD MORSE variety. The result was a golden yellow corn OF MASSACHUSETTS with light red cob, but otherwise bearing a strong resemblance to the parent corn. Some IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES KIDNEY MACHINE of the yellow seed also have been "returned" Monday, February 7, 1972 to the community where the parent white corn wa.s first grown by the Carswell family. Mr. MORSE. Mr. Speaker, at this HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS It was the flavor of products made from time I would like to place on record my OF PENNSYLVANIA the variety that kept the corn from becom­ firm support for the Peace Corps and to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing extinct when farmers turned to the congratulate the organization on its suc­ higher-yielding hybrids some 20 or 25 years cess in implementing its New Directions Monday, February 7, 1972 ago. Maybe sentiment helped, too. program. Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, some­ At any rate, in Holmes County, Fla., Leon­ ard Carswell always insisted on having a lit­ Since it was first instituted in 1969, thing happened recently in my 20th Con­ tle planted each spring. Just to keep seed­ the agency's five-pronged New Directions gressional District of Pennsylvania which and for use in making superb waterground policy has proved its effectiveness and made me proud to represent the people corn meal. It was unaffected by the South­ the soundness of its conception; there of that area in the Congress of the United ern Leaf Blight that devastated nearby fields has been an upswing in every aspect of States. of hybrid corn. the Peace Corps operation. In program The incident concerned three people Leonard gave the seed to E. W. Carswell, year 1971, for example, the Peace Corps directly, two of them from my district. president of the Carswell Family Association, had more programs in operation-over P.O. Box 584, Chipley, Fla. 32428, for pres­ and thousands more indirectly. It was entation to their Richmond County, Ga., 540-than ·ever before. Applications to an act of unselfishness which spanned kinsmen. The association, formed in 1970 to the Peace Corps rose by 40 percent from the Nation and which will unquestion­ compile genealogical information, is expected 1970, reversing a 5-year downward ably save the life of someone in years to to play an active role in the proposed bicen­ trend. In addition, 1,168 volunters ex­ come. tennial celebration la~ this year. tended their terms of service. Even more The principals in this story are Mrs. significantly, the Peace Corps in 1971 Mary Elizabeth Morrissey of 118 West was able to meet over 90 percent of the Edna Street, Munhall, Pa., and two 17- increasing requests from overseas for year-old high school girls: Miss Cindy MRS. LILLIAN BARRIOS-LAWN­ high skills, which represented over 70 Wilson. of 3843 Chester Street, Munha.J.I. DALE'S WOMAN OF THE YEAR percent of total requests. and Miss Kathy O'Rourke of Oakhurst. This is sharp contrast to 1969, when Calif. HON. CHARLES H. WILSON overseas requests for specialists stood at Working together, these three individ­ OF CALIFORNIA 40 percent of total requests. uals collected more than 650,000 coupons The basic elements of the New Direc­ off the pr-0ducts of one of our Na­ IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES tions program, including a shift in em­ tion's major food manufacturing com­ Monday, February 7, 1972 phasis to high priority needs of develop­ panies. The coupons were returned to the Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON. Mr. ing countries as defined largely by company and, in exchange, the firm has Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I the developing countries themselves; agreed to purchase a $6,000 kidney dial­ bring to the attention of my colleagues broader, more streamlined recruitment ysis machine and donate it to the Kidney here in the House of Representatives the and training; greater involvement of host Foundation of California. naming of Mrs. Lillian Barrios as Lawn­ country citizens in Peace Corps opera­ This coast-to-coast coupon campaign dale's Woman of the Year. Mrs. Barrios tions; and cooperation with interna­ began last September, while Mrs. Morris­ was accorded this honor in recognition of tional groups and agencies-all these sey was hosting a local television pro­ her years of unselfish service to the com­ goals are most laudable. They represent gram. In an effort to secure new material munity of-Lawndale. a flexible and necessary response to a for her show, Mrs. Morrissey wrote a na­ A native Californian, Mrs. Barrios is changing international environment, and tionally circulated mag~ne soliciting active in the Lawndale High School they serve to complement similar changes ideas. Booster Club, the Lawndale High PTA, of emphasis in other U.S. and worldwide Kathy O'Rourke in California read the the Jane Addams School PTA, the Lawn­ development assistance efforts. But what magazine and contacted Mrs. Morrissey dale Woman's Club, and St. Catherine is even more commendable is that these abimt the coupon campaign. Kathy, in­ Laboure Church. She has also worked at goals and objectives are being met; the cidentally, owes her life to a dialysis ma­ the Southwest Community Health Clinic new directions program of the Peace chine. Four years ago, while attending Mardi Gras, chaperoned "Grad Night" Corps is succeeding on all fronts. eighth grade, she was stricken with at Disneyland, and prepared a Mexican We are all aware of the difficulties and uremic poisoning and rushed to a hos­ luncheon for fundraising purposes for uncertainties of the intangible process pital in Fresno, where she was treated the Lawndale Women's Club. Lillian has called development. Yet it seems to me with the machine. It saved her life. Later. also given unselfishly of her time, work­ that we have learned several things over she was given a kidney transplant and ing on various projects for the veteran's the years. We have learned that many today leads a healthy normal life. hospital, B'nai Brith, Children's Hos­ varied approaches to solving the prob­ Kathy had been collecting coupons on pital. She is also always available to work lems of the developing world are neces­ her own when she saw Mrs. Morrissey's on the election boards or walk for a fund­ sary, and we have learned that the per­ letter. Her suggestion was accepted by raising drive. son-to-person approach exemplified by Mrs. Morrissey and the two Joined forces February 8, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3295 in a common cause. Working with the J aJnes J. Hbrnady, son of Mr. and Mrs. SEARCHES FOR NUGGET OF GOOD personnel of WIIC-TV in Pittsburgh, David C. Horn.ady, 1436 TimbeTgrove Road. SENSE Mrs. Morrissey spread the word about Randy Hurst, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. z. Hurst, Ball Road. her campaign and the public responded. Mike Asbw-y, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cubs, and Asbury, Beaver Ridge Road. HON. JOEL T. BROYHILL Brownies Joined the campaign. Groups Kent Rankin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kent OF VIRGINIA and schools offered their help, as well as Rankin, Cedar Bluff Drive. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES several individuals. One of the outstand­ Bob Dohoney, son of Mr. and Mrs. David ing volunteers was Cindy Wilson. When Dohoney, Regency Road. Monday, February 7, 1972 she learned of the campaign, Cindy made Chris McGowan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mr. BROYHILL of Virginia. Mr. signs publicizing the drive and posted McGowan, Gulf Park Drive. Jim Houser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Speaker, an editorial which appeared in them in business p~aces in her commu­ Houser, Roland Lane. the Richmond News Leader, Virginia's nity. She conducted a door-to-door col­ Tony Gilmore, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. largest newspaper, on January 11, 1972, lection with members of the Delta Soror­ Gilmore, Shady Oak Lane. cogently and succinctly states the case ity of Munhall. She contacted Rainbow Al Spivey, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Spivey, against approval by the Supreme Court Girls, as well as church and civic groups. 604 West Meadcrest. of the decision of Federal District Judge All in all, Cindy accounted for approxi­ Norman Pogue, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. 0. Robert R. Merhige, Jr., directing the mately 15,000 coupons. Pogue, New Beaver Ridge Drive. conrnlidation of the Richmond school The coupon collection grew and grew, Mike Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milford Payne, Gray Hendrix Road. system with those of two adjoining sub­ finally topping the 600 ,000 total needed Keven DuBose, son of Mr. and Mrs. O'Neal urban countieJ in order to broaden the to obtain the kidney machine. In fact, DuBose, 746 Spruce St., Morristown. area of busing and forced integration. Mrs. Morrissey estimates the total was Gary Gregg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold The excellence of the editorial is no exceeded by some 50,000 and she hopes Gregg, 823 Highland Dr., Morristown. doubt due in large measure to the fact to exchange these for equipment which Mike Lane, son of Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. that the News Leader is at the center of can be used to help patients in Chil­ Lane, Bellemeade Dr., Maryville. the area which would be directly and im­ dren's Hospital in Pittsburgh. mediately affected by Judge Merhige's I think a significant fact in this coast­ ruling were the Supreme Court to permit to-coast campaign is that Mrs. Morrissey it to prevail notwithstanding its tremen­ and Cindy have never met their Califor­ LIFESAVING TEAMS DISPATCHED TO CRITICAL AREAS dously detrimental impact on the people nia counterpart, Kathy. For awhile it ap­ residing in the Richmond area. peared they would have that oppor­ Neither the 1954 Brown against Board tunity on nationwide television. It was of Education decision nor anything in the suggested the machine be presented to HON. JOHN H. TERRY Constitution of the United States can the Kidney Foundation on the Johnny OF NEW YORK rationally support a decision such as that Carson "Tonight" show with Mrs. Mor­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES just rendered by Judge Merhige. The rissey .and Kathy on hand for the cere­ Monday, February 7, 1972 News Leader rightly characterizes the monies. Unfortunately, circumstances decisions as "harsh, acrimonious, some­ arose which made this impossible. Mr. TERRY. Mr. Speaker, there is times arrogant, and full of unnecessary However, the Kidney Foundation of today in this country a critical shortage asperity." It goes on to say that: California has cited Mrs. Morrissey for of physicians and other professionals in The decision brims with the pretension of her outstanding service. The recognition the field of health care. Few States have sociology. Indeed, it ls a document in which is most commendable and well deserved, escaped this problem. one searches in vain for a nugget of good but I believe the attention of the entire The shortage affects both urban and sense. Nation should be focused on these three rural areas. In my own congressional outstanding women. district, the northe:rn Cayuga County The editorial concludes with these I deem it a great privilege, therefore, area has been without a physician for words: Mr. Speaker, to insert their story into the a considerable length of time, dgspite The public cannot take much more of this; neither can public education. And perhaps CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, where it can be the efforts of local and State officia s and one day soon the message will get across to seen by the public, the Congress and the myself. the high courts in this land. The message President. They have earned our respect Now the problem has been alleviated already is getting across to the nation's poli­ and admiration. by the National Health Service Corps, ticians: There are clamorings in Congress created by the President on December for a Constitutional amendment that would forbid compulsory busing, and compulsory 31, 1970 when he signed the Emergency busing seems to be the big ugly sleeper in the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Heal th Personnel Act. The corps will be coming presidential election. '):'he public sending medical personnel to northern wants integration; it detests racism. But the Cayuga County to provide much needed public has learned its lesson so well that it health care for this area. will not accept judicial orders grounded in HON. JOHNJ. DUNCAN reverse racism; it will not tolerate orders that OF TENNESSEE Life is the most precious commodity are detrimental to the nation's poor and the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and greatest natural resource we have, nation's blacks. That is exactly the sort of and the medical profession is of ten the order, based on his own idea, which Judge Monday, February 7, 1972 link between the gain or loss of that life. Merhige has given us today. It is profoundly Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, one of the wrong. It is profoundly sad. And it must not The critical shortage of trained physi­ stand. finest organizations in this country for cians, nurses, and other professionals young men is the Boy Scouts of America. must be reversed if the people who live My colleagues in the House and, no I know much about this organization in rural and urban areas alike are to doubt, most Members of the other body first hand since my sons were scouts and survive and be able to make their con­ are aware of the letter which I have because I maintain an adult membership. tributions to this great Nation. I com­ addressed to each member of the Virginia I am always proud of boys from my delegation in the House to join with me district who achieve high goals in scout­ mend the National Health Service Corps for making a beginning in this most im­ in signing the petition to discharge the ing. In fact, on several occasions I have House Judiciary Committee from further had the privilege of participating in cere­ portant fight. consideration of the proposed constitu­ monies where the rank of Eagle Scout is But most of all I commend the com­ tional amendment to establish that bus­ bestowed on worthy recipients. munity for their continued efforts to ing may not be used to establish racial Ma.ny young men in the Second Dis­ provide vi tally needed medical services balance in this Nation's public schools. trict of Tennessee have recently become for northern Cayuga County. These While it would be unthinkable were the Eagle Scouts. I would like to place their efforts have been long and exhausting Supreme Court to uphold the Merhige names in the RECORD at this time to hon­ and I am sure will continue until a per­ decision and thus impose a tyrannical or them in this small way. manent solution is found. The people are and oppressive compulsion upon people in The first 11 are from Knoxville, two to be congratulated for striving ardu­ the Richmond area and other areas are from Morristown, and one from ously to help themselves and I wish them throughout the United States by inevi­ Mary-ville: every success in the future. table results, consideration of the consti- 3296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1972 tutional amendment by the House and Court upheld the three-judge ruling in MONDAY HOLIDAY PROGRAM A also by the other body will establish how Spencer v. Kugler on January 17.] IDT the people's representatives in Congress In its opinion in the Charlotte-Meck­ lenburg case last April, the Supreme Court feel about this transcendently important decllned to concern itself-in its words­ matter of public policy. "with myriad factors of human existence The text of the editorial follows: HON.ROBERT McCLORY which can cause (racial) discrimination in a OF ILLINOIS HE Dm IT multitude of ways ...." The Court said: "We IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ideas are like children: One tends to prefer do not reach in this case the question one's own. So it was hardly surprising yester­ whether a showing that school segregation is Monday, February 7, 1972 a consequence of other types of state action, day when Federal District Judge Robert R. Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, as I re­ Merhige, Jr., handed down 343 pages of tedi­ without any discriminatory action by the ous argument in support of an idea that he school authorities, is a constitutional viola­ ported in a previous edition of the CON­ aired publicly in the summer of 1970. The tion requiring remedial action by a school GRESSIONAL RECORI, I have been conduct­ judge has done precisely what he had indi­ desegregation decree. Our objective ... is to ing a survey of our first year's experi­ cated he would do. The only astonishing see that school authorities exclude no pupil ence with four new Monday holiday aspect, really, is the tone of his opinion: It is of a racial minority from any school, directly weekends. harsh, acrimonious, sometimes arrogant, and or indirectly, on account of race.... " The bill esrtablishing these new Mon­ full of a good deal of unnecessary asperity. In the Richmond case the plaint.iffs and day holidays, which I authored, was It brims with the pretensions of sociology. their handmaiden-the city school board­ passed by the Congress and signed by the Indeed, it is a document in which one failed to produce persuasive evidence showing searches almost in vain for a nugget of good that any action by any State agency has had a President in 1968 to go into effect in 1971. sense. causal effect on population movement. It is The reports which I have so far received But we would caution the citizenry: Be one thing to cite, as Judge Merhige does, the indicate to me that Americans thorough­ prudent. Boycotts and other excesses will ac­ State's former policy of segregation in the ly enjoy this new leisure time, and busi­ complish nothing, and they could damage public schools. It is altogether another thing ness and industry welcome the change the cause of reason that is our essential hope. to show that racial disparities in the Rich­ because it relieves the economic hard­ It is altogether possible that the intended mond metropolitan area derive from State ships which were occasioned by midweek effects of today's order will never come to action-any more than racial disparities in pass. Most likely there will be stays of the Newark derive from action of the State of shutdowns. order, pending appeals of Judge Merhige's New Jersey. Indeed, the plaintiff's own de­ Mr. Speaker, the Chicago Sun-Times ruling. In those appeals, his ruling could be mographer testified that racial disparities reported on January 30, 1972, that tour­ reversed. The situation does not call for rant­ similar to those in the population of the ist activity greatly increased during 1971 ing or extremism. Rather, it calls for hold­ Richmond area can be found in any number due to Monday holiday weekends. Be­ ing tight rein on one's emotions and one's of States in which the Federal courts have cause of the growing interest in Monday wits. acknowledged that there never has been a. holidays generally, I am inserting the The prospects for reversal are not entirely policy of segregation. Sun-Tim.es article at this point in the discouraging. Last March the Fourth Circuit The effect of today's order is to conclude Court of Appeals reversed Judge Merhige in that "community of interest" takes prece­ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: the Greensville County case. In overruling dence over population movement; that MONDAY HOLIDAY PROGRAM A HIT Judge Merhige, the Fourth Circuit allowed where a "community of interest" can be A year-end report the first year in which the city of Emporia to set up its own school proved to exist, freedom of movement carries there were four officially designated Monday system-independent of the predominantly no weight under the Constitution. The logi­ holidays in the country reveals that the con­ black school system operated by Greensville cal conclusion would be an order forbidd1ng cept is a popular one. County. And the May 13 ruling by a three­ individuals to move their residences without The report was prepa.red by Somerset R. judge Federal panel in New Jersey offers the permission of totalist social engineers in W·aJters, an official of the Discover America grounds for hope. the Federal courts. Travel Organiza.tions, one olf the prime advo­ Plaintiffs in the case-8pencer v. Kugler­ Today's order constitutes yet another chap­ cates of the stretched-weekends legislat ion. argued that New Jersey public schools are ter in the text·book memorized by those who The Congressional legislation, which took racially unbailanced by reason of New Jersey would verse themselves in the technology effect in early 1971, requires federal agencies statutes that set school district boundaries of social demolition. For putting aside one's to observe holidays on the Mondays follow­ In conformity with municipal boundaries. private worries about his own children be­ ing Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, The plaintiffs contended that as a conse­ comip.g nameless numbers in a racist game, Columbus Day and Veterans Day. All but quence of those statutes, racial balance in the overarching anxiety relates to what such two states subsequently enacted similar laws. many of New Jersey's public schools is math­ rulings as this one are doing to public ed­ Although companies in the prtva.te sec­ ematically impossible, thereby affording vari­ ucation. tor are not required to grant holidays on the ous children equal educational opportunities. Education is the closest thing this coun­ four specified Mondays (the laws directly af­ In pa.rt, the three-judge Federal panel said: try has to a nation.al religion. But rulings fect only agencies and institutions under "It is clear that New Jersey's legislative en­ such as Judge Merhige's divide the nation federal or sta.te jurisdiction), most firms actments prescribe school district boundaries on questions of social ideology, and con­ jumped on the bandwagon if for no other in conformity with municipaA boundaries. sequently damage public education. The re­ reason than to reduce confusion and ensure This designation of school district zones is sults of the theories on which Judge Mer­ continuity of operations among local busi­ therefore based on the geographic limUa.tions hige's ruling is based can be seen in school nesses. of the various municipalities throughout the system after _school system throughout the The DATO survey produced some interest­ State. Nowhere in the drawing of school d1s­ land. If the public does not believe in the ing observations. trtct lines a.re consideration of race, creed, public schools, the public will not support Major benefits accrued to tmvel firms ca­ color or national or,igin made. The setting of the publlc schools. The public's confidence in tering to touriS1ts arriving in the family car. municipalites as local school districts is a. public education-and its derivative sup­ No Sta,te exceeded Pennsylvania in its en­ reasonable standard, especially in the light of port for public education-is shalttered by thusiasm for Monday holidays. out-of-sea­ the municipal taxing authority. The system just the sort of idea. that Judge Merhige son travel business boomed, and leaders in as provided by the various legislative enact­ presumes to foist on the Richmond area. Pennsylvania's tourist industry used the ments is unitary in nature and intent and The public cannot take much more of this; Monday holiday legislation as the ma.jor de­ any purported racial imbaila.nce within a local neither can public education. And perhaps vice '1x> persuade the legisla.tors to change the school district results from an imbalance in one day soon the message will get across to state's Sunday liquor law. Now llquor can be the population of that municipality-school the high courts in this land. The message purchased on Sundays in hotels Mld restaur­ district. Racially balanced municipalities are already is getting a.cross to the nation's politi­ ants in Pennsylvania. beyond the pale of either judicial or legdsla­ cians: These are cla.morings in Congress for Cape Cod reported inm-eases in the order tive intervention." a Constitutional amendment that would for­ of 20 per cent in a numbe·r of restaurants, Both the Greenville case and Spencer v. bid compulsory busing, and compulsory bus­ accommodations and retail facllities. Kugler-particularly the latter-appear to ing seems to be the big ugly sleeper in the In New Engla.nd, many resorts reported be relevant to the Richmond case: The Su­ coming presidential election. The public wants integration; it detests racism. But the sold-out conditions on the Vete,rans' Day preme Court has agreed to rule in the former weekend. The Greyhound bus terminal in case, and is considering a. motion to hear the public has learned its lesson so well that it will not accept judicial orders grounded in Boston put on 30 extra buses. Rent al cars latter. The court's ruling In those cases could reverse racism; it will not tolerate orders were heavily booked. pr,ovide some Indication as to what the final that are detrimental to the nation's poor and In the Midwest, Henry Foro Museum and outcome of the Richmond case will be. Those the nation's blacks. That is exactly the sort Greenfield Village reported sizable gains in cases aside, the Supreme Court or the Fourth of order, based on his own idea, which Judge visitors as a result of the Monday holidays. Circuit could overturn today's order. There Merhige has given us today. It is profoundly Farther west, substantial increases in tour­ is a good deal of legial argument to suggest wrong. It is profoundly said. And it must ist ,traffic on the three-day weekends were re­ that one of them will. [NoTE.-The Supreme not stand. por,ted in Las Vegas. February 8, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3297 EIGHT-POINT PUBLIC RELATIONS ians. The North would thus give up its hos­ preserve the absolute integrity and credi­ GESTURE tages and bargaining point, leaving America bility of the EPA, and to demonstrate in the position described above. 3. New and free elections. This continues this administration's firm commitment HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL a longstanding contradiction. We insist that to the quality of our environment. As the the Thieu government is legitimate ( and so Times article points out, the administra­ OF NEW YORK support it, building it up by "Vietnamiza­ tion's pesticide legislation, which played IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion"), yet agree to new elections in order an important role in this incident, was Monday, February 7, 1972 to achieve legitimacy. This time we say, the regarded as tough and was weakened by NFL would be allowed to vote-but Thieu's the Congress--weakened to such an ex­ Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the apparatus has rigged elections even without tent in fact that many Members Qf the tragedy of the war in Southeast Asia them, and would work harder at it with continues day after endless day. While them. American claims of "neutrality" must House, myself included, voted against American casualty rates have been re­ seem hollow in Hanoi, when the very docu­ final passage of the bill. duced, even one dead or wounded or ment that makes them refers often to our In spite of my great respect for the enemy and our ally, and to those who favor New York Times and the author of the missing American a week is one too one side of the other ( even here in America) . many. Additionally, our wanton bomb­ Times story, I feel that Roberta Horn­ 4. Return to Geneva Accords-difference ing's January 28 article in the Washing­ ing policy, responsible for the death of over which got us into this mess. They were thousands of human beings and the de­ the partial cause of our problem, not its ton Star more accurately describes the struction of three countries, is being solution. circumstances surrounding Howard Coh­ stepped up and intensified, not reduced 5. No foreign interference-hence with­ en's resignation, and the continuing pol­ or wound down. drawal of Hanoi's troops. But it is the whole icy of the Nixon administration to en­ Mr. Nixon came to the White House 3 basis of Hanoi's argument that Vietnam in force antipollution regulations without years ago boasting of a secret plan to end its northern or its southern parts is not a regard to political considerations. Mrs. foreign country to them. Homing's article follows: the war. Twenty thousand Americans 6. General cease-fire, with "no further in­ have been killed in Indochina during filtration of outside forces"-subject to the COHEN DENms MEMO ROLE those 3 years and the fighting continues, same objection as the last point. (By Roberta Horning) while Mr. Nixon's plan to end the conflict 7. International supervision of the with­ The latest "secret" papers floating around remains the best kept secret in modern drawal-though true neutrality here is a town are from the office of Howard A. Cohen, history. myth, and the conditions of the withdrawal who was a fairly obscure administrative offi­ The President's eight-point peace pro­ as Mr. Nix.on has drawn them up (e.g., what cial in the Environmental Protection Agency posal is a public relations scheme to pac­ are "foreign" troops, what are "free" elec­ until his boss, William D. Ruckelshaus, ify and tranquilize his domestic critics, tions?) would inevitably be subject to dif­ abruptly fired him this week. while our immoral policy continues. ferent interpretation by different parties. Cohen, EPA legislative director, was dis­ 8. International supervision of Indochina's missed after seven embarrassing intraoffice What it says after reading through the future-again, not leaving the Vietnamese memos outlining suggested strategy on the flowery lines of rhetoric is that the masters of their own house. The "super­ Nixon administration's major environmental United States will withdraw after the vision" would have to look to the interests bills in Congress were leaked to the New York other side unconditionally surrenders of participating countries, thus recognizing Times. They were assumed to be his, but he and gives up all that it has fought for that we continue to have interests there. says they weren't. during the last 25 years. Mr. Nixon's offer is too little and too late. The Times account, by E. W. Kenworthy, Mr. Speaker, there is no real commit­ He wants to have his cake and eat it too­ said, "It is evident from his strategy state­ ment to compromise or reconciliation in withdraw yet keep control; give in yet say ment that Cohen does not share Ruckelshaus' that plan. Our support of the corrupt we won; destroy yet claim we helped. desire to make the environment a non­ Why should Hanoi ball out its enemy in partisan issue." Saigon dictatorship continues unabated a position Mr. Nixon cannot even maintain But Cohen insists, "I never gave them and remains the principal obstacle to before his own people? Why accept as our (the memos) to Bill (Ruckelshaus) because achieving a total U.S. withdrawal and the gift, with all kinds of strings attached, what they were not my product nor did I endorse safe return of all our POW's and MIA's. they have spent so many years and lives to their content." What is needed, as I have said before, vindicate as their right? Why encourage all The mystery is how the memos, which is not an eight-point public relations the myths of beneficent "intervention" by a Cohen says were meant for him only, became scheme, but rather, a one-point true superpower that has ravaged their country public, and why they were attributed to him peace proposal: Total U.S. withdrawal, at will, and still does so from the air? Why since none was signed. accept this degrading agreement under threat Then there are these curious matters: including troops, material, and all other and at gunpoint? support for the Saigon regime. lt is only Why, at a meeting Jan. 12 with EPA Put yourself in their shoes, and you will regional administrators, did copies of the at that point that we could safely bring see the speech sounded even more ridiculous memos "inadvertently" turn up in manila home the American POW's. in Hanoi than it did in Washington. folders distributed to all 10 present for the In the Monday, February 7, issue of the briefing? Cohen says he believes it was Washington Post, Garry Willis, not a simply a staff error. radical, but a moderate-to-conservative Why are Xeroxed copies turning up in columnist, described the failure of the COHEN DENIES MEMO ROLE Capitol Hill offices, with a cover sheet read­ Nixon peace plan. I am inserting it in ing "prepared by Howard A. Cohen, office of the RECORD at this point: Congressional Affairs, Environmental Pro­ tection Agency," the latter on agency sta­ NIXON PLAN EVEN SILLIER TO HANOI HON. F. BRADFORD MORSE tionary? Cohen points out the cover sheet (By Garry Wills) OF MASSACHUSETTS gets his title wrong. He heads the Office of For a peace offer, the President's eight­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Legislation. point plan sounded like a declaration of war. Despite the firing, Cohen and Ruckelshaus The private talks were made public, not to Monday, February 7, 1972 have only good things to say about one further negotiation (one does not do that another. by castigating the other side, like a school Mr. MORSE. Mr. Speaker, I was con­ Ruckelshaus, Cohen says, was "boxed in" marm), but to justify confrontation. And, cerned by an article which appeared in because the memos made it appear the EPA of course, to score points off domestic critics: the New York Times of January 22. It was playing politics with the environment In four separate places they are called dupes implied, unfairly I feel, that the admin­ just a week after Ruckelshaus accused the of the enemy. istration was willing to compromise front-running Democrat, Sen. Edmund S. Why should the enemy acoept Mr. Nixon's sound environmental legislation for po­ Muskie of Maine, of doing the same thing. eight points? Consider them singly: litical expediency. It also attributed to "He gets paid for making tough judgment," 1. U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam by Mr. Howard Cohen, Director of the En­ ;tie said, adding that had he been Ruckels­ six months after an agreement date. The ha.us, he would have done the same thing. withdrawal is only of U.S. forces (not equip­ vironmental Protection Agency's Office Cohen, Ruckelshaus says, "had done a ment and aid), and only from South Vietnam of Legislation, a series of confidential first-rate job in every respect." Ruckelshaus (not all of Indochina, a distinction pointed memorandum which, according to Mr. was obviously shaken for having fired him, up by the immediate cease-fire's Indochina Cohen, were neither written nor en­ but said he had to in order to preserve his scope). Thus, aside from other objectionable dorsed by him. agency's credibility. features within the agreement, this first point would not give the Vietnamese what Mr. Cohen, who in my view is one of AGENCY DmECTIVE they have fought for ever since World War the most tal·ented and able young men "We are living in an ,a,ge when people are II-mastery within their own house. serving the Federal Government today, so distrustful of government thait incidents 2. Return of captured soldiers and civll- resigned from his position in order to like this ... We have to scrupulously guard 3298 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1972 against them," he said, slowly shaking his Secretary Robert H. Finch appointed him cipal restrictions on any number of' services head. deputy assistant secretary for welfare legis­ from bars to taxis. "The problem is," he continued, "whether lation. After Elliot L. Richardson became All of these keep prices up. he wrote it or not is almoot irrelevant . . ." HEW secretary, Cohen worked full time on This does not say that such subsidies and The Environmental Protection Agency yes­ the administration's welfare proposal, still regulations are bad. But they do tend to terct,ay directed agency employes throughout pending in Congress. limit competition and escalate prices and the nation to enforce antipollution regula­ "At some point you decide that politics is hold them there. tions without regard to political considera­ a tough trade but it's too important to leave So why single out the farmer on the con­ tions. to others. It's a damn tough trade," he said. venient excuse that he made some political (Ruckelshaus raised the issue in a na.tion­ His regret about his former job, where he contributions-just like his fellow Ameri­ wide staff meeting carried to EPA regional headed up a shop of 40, he said, is that "I cans the labor unions, the utility man­ offices.. across the country by closed-circuit finally know my job; I'm really in a position agers, the oil men and, of course, the food color television and viewed by newsmen and to make an input." processor. hundreds of employes at a hotel here.) · As for what's next: "I'm going to take a To some extent almost everything, one So far, the only things certain in the week off and try to put my life together." way or another, is subsidized today. We have Cohen affair are th:at at Ruckelshaus' request, drifted ino subsidation as a way to make EPA is conducting a head hunt to find out things go. who leaked the memos and why, and that The contractor who builds low-cost hous­ Cohen is l:ooking for a job. WHY PICK ON FARMERS? ing is subsidized . . . the utility which To conduct the search, Ruckelshaus has develops sparsely populated areas is subsi­ placed his top aide, Gary Baise, in Cohen's dized . . . the lending institutions are sub­ job. HON. ANCHER NELSEN sidized and so is transportation. All the memos are somewhat embarra,s,sing Without subsidies many of our essential because they name specific congressmen. One OF MINNESOTA services might well fail-and so migh·t the is particularly s::> because it states that the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES farmer. administration is willing to accept a weaker Monday, February 7, 1972 The latter is a tempting target, with pesticides bill than the one it sent to Capitol diminishing political clout-although with Hill and urges that further congressional Mr. NELSEN. Mr. Speaker, the Man­ the political fragmentation going on he may hearings on it be avoided to placate pro­ kato Free Press edited by Ken Berg in get a pleasant surprise one of these days­ pesticide congressmen. Minnesota recently ran an editorial and because his produce is so essential, he The memos suggest maneuvers to avoid stoutly defending dairymen and other is wide open to attack. giving Democ,ratic presidential aspira,nts But really, if we are to seriously consider something to criticize, and ask for steps to farmers against the unfair attacks subsidies or political contributions as a give the President "legislative victories" in launched on them by Ralph Nader and basis to start consumer crusades, the farmer an election year. assorted others poorly informed about seems hardly the place to start. "I didn't write those memos," Cohen in­ the sorry farm situation today. I com­ sists. "I don't endorse those memos, and I mend it highly to any of my colleagues never sent them to (Ruckelshaus) ." Cohen who may not realize the huge number of said he personally disagrees with the pesti­ cides paper, and he said the distribution of empty dairy barns and vacated farms we LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR WINTER the papers at the regional direotors meeting find in this country solely because their ADDRESSES NATCHEZ JAYCEES wars "inadvertent." former mvners could not make a living Here is Co,hen's version of whialt ha.ppened, wage on the shamefully low market up untU the leaks: prices they were receiving. HON. CHARLES H. GRIFFIN In late November or early December, not I include the editorial in full at this OF MISSISSIPPI long after he took over the legislative direc­ paint in my remarks: tor job, he asked his staff to oome up with . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "issue papers." WHY PICK ON FARMERS? Monday, February 7, 1972 "I was trying to learn the substance of our It is natural, the price of food being what legislation, where it wa.s on the Hill and wha.t it is, that farm subsidies should be singled Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Speaker, on Janu­ factors could come into play,'' he sa.id. out by metropolitan media and politicians ary 22, 1972, the Lieutenant Governor of He said the papers were presented to him for criticism. Mississippi, the Honorable William Win­ the first week in January, and he read "a Most people live in the cities and most ter, addressed the Distinguished Service couple of them,'' but not the one on pesti­ people spend a good portion of their income Award Banquet sponsored by the cides. for food so farm subsidies make an attrac­ Cohen has been quoted in the Times as tive target. Natchez Junior Chamber of Commerce. telling the regional directors that he will be Thus we find consumer advocate Ralph Mr. Winter, one of Mississippi's most dis­ spending part of his time working for the Nader starting a suit to overturn an increase tinguished public servants, spoke elo­ re-election of President Nixon. in the support price of milk on the grounds quently of Mississippi's great past and, This is correct, he says. He said he hold the administration yielded to political pres­ more importantly, of her great future. the regional administrators that he believes sure in approving the increase. Nader says It was fitting that the Lieutenant Gov­ the environment, as an issue, will become a the new support price hikes has increased ernor deliver such a moving address to battleground in this year's presidential elec­ dairy prices to the consumer by four per the Jaycees, Mr. Speaker, for it is this tion and that he believes the President's cent. environmental proposals are good. Nader is basing his suit on political con­ organization that, by virtue of its dedi­ "I also said, he remarked, that "it seemed tributions made by the dairy industry to cation and sense of civic responsibility, to me the best politics for the president is President Nixon and various members of stands in the forefront of Mississippi's to give the people good government, and Congress (including Senators Humphrey and growth. These young men, looking ahead we'd all be trying to do that." Mondale.) and daring to dream the impossible, are LEGAL BACKGROUND Now we don't like subsidies-very few making this vision come true. From their people other than those who receive them Asked if he is bitter over his job loss he ranks will come our future leaders in do-but it seems to us that if subsidies are business, law, politics and the arts, and said "yes," but not because of his firing. to be attacked by consumer coµscious cru­ He says he is bitter because of the Times saders, there are far more insidious subsidies I salute the Jaycees' important contribu­ news account, which unquestioningly as­ than those paid to farmers. tions they are making to Mississippi. sumed the memos were written by him. After all, the farmer's price on the farm Mr. Speaker, as a portion of my re­ The news story, he said, "cost me one of for his produce has gone up far less than marks, I include the text of Mr. Winter's the most fun jobs in government." have many other things that have con­ Cohen is 30 and a member of the Ripon speech to the Jaycees and commend it to tributed to our inflation. And the farmer, the attention of the House: Society. The son of a Newark, N.J., police­ because of this, has, along with the aged man, he was graduated from Rutgers Uni­ pensioner and others living on a fixed in­ [From the Natchez (Miss.) Democrat, versity and its law school, and taught law come, been the hardest hit by our depreci­ Jan.26, 1972} at the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, ating dollar. WINTER TOLD JAYCEES OF PROGRESS Pa. In 1965-66, he was a teaching fellow at If Nader really wants to crusade for the Lt. Gov. William Winter, in his first ad­ Boston College Law School and was a con­ consumer he would do well to look into dress in Natchez since he was elected, spoke sultant at the Harvard Graduate School of other, but less obvious, subsidies--direct and of the future of the area and the state Education. indirect-which affect prices. here Saturday night. He came to Washington as a congressional To name a few, he might attack the oil The occasion was the Distinguished Serv­ fellow and worked for then Illinois Rep. import quotas, import tariffs and restric­ ice Award banquet, sponsored by the Natchez Donald Rumsfeld, now a counsellor to the tions on a wide variety of goods, regulations Jaycees. Paul Porter won the award. President. He then went to the Department governing wages on government projects, The text of Lt. Gov. Winter's speech fol­ o! Health, Education and Welfare where then union restrictions on apprentices and muni- lows: February 8, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3299 Let me say this first of all. I think one of dent institution of higher learning, for the were moving into. But the point is they still the myths that some of us have engaged in young people of this area to have an oppor­ remain largely just words, because we didn't the past has been that you have to have a lot tunity to go to school here and receive a de­ give substance to the thought, to the idea. of seniority a lot of years of age and experi­ gree without having to leave the area. This is the job of leadership here in ence, in order to contribute very meaning­ These are examples of dreams deferred, of Natchez, here in this area of the state and fully to the society in which we live .... I goals unrealized, simply because these "have­ throughout the state. These are some of the think you know better than that. I think not" years were still very much a part of our things, specific accomplishments, that we in­ that by virtue of your being here tonight at­ existence. What we now have the task of tend to see carried through ... highways ... a tests to the fact that that is a myth. doing is to get away from the negativism specific tangible, workable highway pro­ But let me remind you of some of the con­ that accompanied those "have-not" years and gram . . . put some roads out there where tributions that have been made to mankind begin to fill in with substance, the form, the roads need to be built. by men not as old as most of you here, and shape and the dreams that were dreamed so In the education program, that leadership no older than most of you here, men who long. wm see to it that the institutions that ought made their greatest contributions perhaps What I'm saying, simply, is that we are to be built and ought to be established and before they were 35 years old and I think coming into this period, just beginning to ought to be sustained are provided. particularly of a man like Thomas Jefferson, move into this period, of relative affluence as In the field of internal development, see who wrote the Declaration of Independence a state when we can do some things that we to it that we take advantage for the first when he was 33 years old, Bell, who invented have not been able to do in the past. time of the great water resources of this the telephone before he was 30 years old. Edi­ But to do these things, all of us are going state ... that we build channels of transpor­ son who invented some of his greatest in­ to have to establish the real priorities to de­ tation that we need on our waterways. ventions when he was in his 20s, the Wright cide what is important, what we really want, We actually need to set in motion a pro­ Bros., in their early 30s flying the first air­ for the area, for the state, then get on with gram of priorities that 10 or 20 years from plane, some of the great composers, like the job of providing thesP, things. We battle now we won't have to look back and talk Beethoven, who wrote some of their great the old myths, we've battled the old ghosts about the years the locusts have eaten. In works before they were 25. of the past. Please don't misunderstand me. other words, we need to give substance to our These are illustrative of the creative peo­ I'm not suggesting a break with the past. I'm dreams.... And this is not going to be easy. ple who have produced a great deal in their a historical buff. I like history. I have a pride It never has been easy, but if there is a basis young years. Now, more than ever before in the past, in the greatness of the men and for cynicism that I detect among people it it seems to me, we can ill afford, with all of women who have gone before us in this state. is that there have been so many promises in the complexities that we are confronted with, But I have no desire to relive that past. the past, so many glowing predictions of we can ill afford the luxury, if indeed it is a And I have no desire to see us make the mis­ what could be accomplished and so little by luxury, we can Ul afford to have men and takes that were made in the past. If history way of accomplishment in terms of what had women defer the assumption of the role of is of any value at all, it seems to me, it is in been predicted for us. Our excessive hopes leadership in community, and civic, and pub­ the field of enabling us to avoid the mistakes have given way to a kind of callus cynicism. lic affairs until they have some gray hairs, or of our forebears. Now as we enter this period You and I now have the chance, I think in the case of men, until they have no hair where we are going to be able to do some really for the first time in the history of this at all. We need in this society the participa­ of the things that we have not been able to state, because we are now just at our eco­ tion of active, alert, intelligent young citi­ do before, as the economic level of the state nomic means have now caught up with out zenry of our state if we're going to be able to increases, as our affluence increases and our ability to achieve some of these things. solve the considerable number of problems ability to provide some of these material Now we can excuse past generations be­ that confront us these days. things that we were not able to provide be­ cause they did not have the means to make We've come a long way. Some of you will fore increases, let us make certain that we the words come true. They could not be held recall years when we did not have the oppor­ have out in front of us a statement of the accountable for their failure to perform. We tunity that we have now. I was looking back true priorities that we want to pursue. have a definite, solemn responsibility lying through some old volumes of the legislative This is where real civic and community on us, it seems to me, to take advantage of enactments, going back to the dark, dismal leadership comes in. There is no greater myth these good years in which we live to make depression years of the 1930s. And I didn't than that elected political leaders have all certain that these opportunities that are ours realize how far we had come until I saw the answers and can, by virtue of their as­ are not frittered away. I think that every that in 1932 one of the first things that the sumption of office, can get anything done young Mississippian, and by that I mean legislature had ~o do was to authorize the· that they want to get done. These leaders those who are younger than we are here in chairman of the State Tax Commission to move only as there is behind them a base of this room, who are just now beginning to borrow $750 in order to buy postage stamps public opinion that will sustain them in do­ make the choice of where they are going to to put on the letters that went out to collect ing the things that ought to be done. live and what they are going to do with their taxes for the state of Mississippi. There was This is the real role under our system. lives, we owe it to them to make certain less than $500 in the state treasurer in 1932. This is the role of the citizen leader. Under that this decade immediately in front of us And we, of course, had all sorts of unpaid our system we do not make any great distinc­ is the decade in which we put the meat on obligations. tion between the main who happens at the the bones here in this state of ours. The point is that we were not able to do moment to wear the toga of official office Get on with the job of making this truly in those years very many things that needed and responsibility. We do not make a great a good place to live. We still have time. This to be done. Those were years in which we deal of distinction between that man and is one thing we can say about Miss., we still were really just getting by, just surviving. the citizen leader because of the ability of have the time. We have not made a lot of We were still very directly in the economic elected leaders to function and to lead and the mistakes that some of the other overbuilt backwash of the Civil War. Almost 70 years to get things done is absolutely dependent on areas of the country have made, where life had elapsed by 1932 since the end of that the citizen leader establishing that base of is becoming increasingly intolerable in the war. The Miss. Legislature in 1932 was obliged public opinion that will sustain the man great cities. We still have here opportunities to appropriate more money for the payment who actually pushes the button in the legis­ to provide the good life at the same time of pensions to Confederate veterans and their lature enabling him to. do the things he that we preserve the quality of our com­ widows than it was able to appropriate for ought to do. This is where we are in Missis­ munities, and the quality of our natural re­ the maintainance and operations of all of sippi in 1972. sources. the universities and colleges in this state If we talk about the new South, we talk This cannot be the job of any one politician put together. about the changed image of the state, all of or public official. This is the job of all of us. We were still trying to live, trying to make which is to a certain degree true. I think This is your job. This is what citizen leader­ the basic ends meet. And as a consequence Mississippi is a part of this new concept that ship is all about. The creating of the base of we deferred the solution of a lot of problems. is written about but there have been other public opinion will enable us to make the Problems that are just now coming home to "new Souths" before and the dream hasn't right decision the right way while there is haunt us today. You're concerned with many moved forward to reality simply because no still time to make it. o.f them here. We're still haunted, for ex­ one has been able to give substance to the We will see in the next decade the obtain­ ample, by an inadequate transportation sys­ dream. ment of many of the objectives that have tem in this state. We have had to defer our We talked, we used the rhetoric but we did been so long delayed. Those of us who have needs in that regard. Now we are finding not give substance to the dream. This is what been honored by being elected to public of­ ourselves caught up in a fast-growing state we must do, we must use the resources that fice in this state can punch the buttons, we that demands the more adequate system of now are available to us to a greater extent can make the marks, front up the effort but transportation, particularly as far as our than ever before, the economic resources, and we can't get the job done unless there is mainline highways are concerned. the human resources here in this state. behind us the enlightened, dedicated, active And we're going to have to make up the We must use these resources to build the public opinion that only you can provide. next few years for the long period of time in kind of state that we've talked about building This is citizen leadership under our sys­ which we deferred the providing of our needs tem, this ts the way it ought to work, this is in that area. for a long time. As I said in Jackson Monday You are aware here of the needs in the afternoon, Judge Whitfield, chief justice of the way it has to work, this is the way it will field of education. You have a plan here, a the Miss. Supreme Court, in 1903, almost 70 work and when it does, we will have achieved dream, to establish in this area, a center, a years ago, talked about this new Mississippi, those goals that we've been talking about for diploma-granting center, by way of a resi- this new South, this ~eat new era that we a. long time. 3300 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1972 THE FORGOTTEN STATES lion, became members of the United Nations or to distinguish between the old treatment, on September 2. They join a growing number using methadone for inpatieillt detoxification, of independent nations which have become and the new treatments, using methadone HON. SEYMOUR HALPERN U.N. members. At the same time, other once for ambulatory detoxifioation, for low-dose OF NEW YORK independent states are not members of the maintenance or for the high-dose methadone U.N. "blockade." In 1963, a statement on "The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The most surprising example of this situa­ Use of Narcotic Drugs in Medical Practice Monday, February 7, 1972 tion is the three Baltic States: Estonia, Lat­ and the Medical Management of Narcotic via and Lithuania. These states are inde­ Addiots" was prepared by the Amerioan Med­ Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, the Bal­ pendent and were members of the old League ical Association Council on Mental Health tic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithu­ of Nations, but we do not find them in the and the National Academy of Sciences-Na­ ania existed for hundreds of years as dis­ membership list of the United Nations. tional Research Council Committee on Drug tinct separate nations until the end of As a consequence of the Soviet-Nazi pact Addiction and Narcotics. At that time, the the 13th century when all three nations of 1939, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were joint statement recommended treatment Oif came under Russian rule. During the occupied by the Soviet Union. Puppet gov­ addicts for withdrawal of detoxification on ernments were set up and all three states an inpatient basis, the drug of choice being First World War, however, the people of were incorporated in the Soviet Union against methadone, to be given in decreasing doses the Baltic States, like several other na­ the wlll of the people. Arrests, deportations, over a three-week pe·riod. On the other hand, tionalist movements in Europe, were able economic exploitation and suppression of ambulatory maintenance of addicts on stable to reassert independence. Lithuania de­ human rights followed in all three countries. dosage levels of methadone was considetred clared its independence on February 16, A present Soviet goal is complete Russifi­ generally inadequate and without rationale. 1918, Estonia on February 24, 1918, and cation of the Baltic peoples. Another problem was that liaboratory tests Latvia on November 18, 1919. By 1920 the The Baltic peoples observe the ever increas­ for detecting opiates in urine, necessary ing number of United Nations members with for monitoring a patient's adherence to the three Baltic States had entered into a hope that the process of decolonization and treatment program, were available f<>T re­ peace treaty with Soviet Russia in which the universal acceptance of the right of self­ search purposes only in 1963 but were not Russia "voluntarily and forever" re­ determlnation will also bring freedom for the available for olinioal use at that time. nounced all sovereign rights over the Baltic states. Their trust ls sutained by the Several years later, in 1966, the substance people and territory of the Baltic States. Charter of the United Nations and by the of the AMA-NRC report was made available Between the world wars the Baltic fact that the United States does not rec­ to physicians throughout the United States States experienced two decades of na­ ognize the incorporation of the Baltic states as Treasury Department Pamphlet No. 56 by in the Soviet Union. the Commissioner of the United States Bu­ tional independence and self-govern­ The Soviet Union stlll rules and exploits reau of Narcotics. The data of this pamphlet ment. They were admitted to the League the Baltic states, a condition about which set the stage for the conflict and confusion of Nations in September 1921, extended the U.N. is silent. The Soviet occupation of surrounding methadone today, for one year full recognition by the United States in the Baltic states is a violation of the U.N. earller. In 1965, Dole and Nyswander had re­ July 22 and generally assumed the ob­ Charter. The independence of Estonia, Lat­ ported favorably on the use of methadone ligations of a sovereign state in the inter­ via and Lithuania must be restored; they also maintenance.1 In the short period between national community only to lose their in­ should be represented in the U.N. 1965 and 1968, the same workers had tested F. BERZINS. methadone maintenance of heroin addicts dependence at the onset of the Second sufficiently to jU1Stify the First Nation:al Meth­ World War. Mutual assistance pacts with adone Conference in New York City. By 1970 the Soviet Union, which included a provi­ the prestigious textbook of pharmacology by sion that there would be no interference METHADONE Goodman and Gilman hailed methadone with their internal affairs, soon led nev­ maintenance as the treatment that was re­ ertheless to complete Soviet control con­ volutionizing care of the heroin addict. solidated by mass deportations from the HON. JEROME R. WALDIE As originally conceived and as still prac­ ticed, the Dole-Nyswander treatment was Baltic States to Siberia •and elsewhere. OF CALIFORNIA • intended to introduce methadone gradually, The United States has continued to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES recognize Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania with the goal of building up to a saturation Monday, February 7, 1972 or "blockade" dail·y dose. The "blockade" and has never recognized the Soviet Un­ dose of methadone was intended to satisfy ion's incorporation of the Baltic States. Mr. WALDIE. Mr. Speaker, the United the addict's drug hunger and to depress On November 30, 1953, more than a States is currently plagued by an epi­ euphoria if he decided to mainline he·roin on decade after the Soviet takeover, Sec­ demic of heroin addiction. Thousands top of his meth,adone. Suocess at a program retary of State Dulles reaffirmed the pol­ of our ci'tizens, including many young was measured by regular as well as people, are squandering their lives on random testing of urine for opiates and other icy of recognition of the Baltic States drugs such as amphetamines and barbitu­ and the non-recognition of their absorp­ chemicals provoking false euphoria and rates. The urine testing for opiates, done by tion into the Soviet Union. offering a sure, premature death. thin-layer chromatography, is relatively Slim­ The United States for 1'ts part maintains The tragedy is compounded by the fact ple and available for as little as $1.00 to $1.50 the diplomatic recognition which it extended that science has provided some remedies per test in 1971. in 1922 to the three Baltic nations. We con­ to the problem. Methadone treatment is From the days of Timothy Leary and LSD tinue to deal with those consular represent­ one such remedy. The use of this heroin in 1962, with their "tune in, turn on, and atives of the Baltic countries who served the substitute offers no sure guarantees drop out" message, America and the world last independent governments of these have seen an upsurge in the use of illegal states.1 for miracle cures; indeed, studies have drugs to enormous and epidem.ic proportions. warned doctors to be cautious in their In 1970 New York City contained an unoffi­ While United states Policy toward the methods. Nevertheless, the only alterna­ cial estimated 100,000 heroin addicts (nearly Baltic nations remains the same, this by tive is the continued existence of danger­ one in 70 persons), Boston, an unofficial esti­ itself is not doing much to change their ous levels of addiction. mate of nearly 10,000 addict.s (nearly one in status. The history of these brave Baltic Because so much of the information 65 persons), and Washington, D.C., nearly nations is tragic in itself, but it is espe­ about heroin and methadone is misun­ 17,000 heroin addicts (nea,rly one in 45 per­ cially so when it is realized that their sit­ derstood, the following article by Ver­ sons) .2 When physicians were called on to deal with the epidemic problem, they had uation appears to be virtually forgotten non D. Patch, M.D., in the New England the benefit of the extensive studies of Dr. while other states their size are not only Journal of Medicine, offers some insights Frances Gearing of Columbia University gaining their independence but also into the problem: School of Publlc Health. Dr. Gearing had membership in the United Nations. The METHADONE evaluated the course of several thousand New following letter by F. Berzins in the There is mUIOh misunderstanding in this York City heroin addicts treated in the Chic-ago Tribune, October 11, 1971, points country aboUJt the use of methtadone in the methadone maintenance treatment program out what needs to be remembered and treatmerut of heroin addiction. The lay public initiated at Rockefeller University by Dr. and far too many physicians accept as fact Dole in 1964. By November, 1970, at the Th.ird done, but seems to have been forgotten: popular newspa.per accounts of "methadone National Methadone Conference, Dr. Gear­ THE FORGOTTEN STATES madness," methadone-treated patients as ing was able to show that methadone main­ FLUSHING, N.Y.-Three newly independent "zombies" or "robots,'' and methadone-treat­ tenance had been able to "hold" 60 per cent small states, Bahrein, Bhutan and Qatar, ment programs as "irresponsible." Rapid of drug •addicts in treatment for several years with a total population of less than 1.6 mil- changes in the use of methadone in the of followup observation, and that the pa­ treatment of heroin addiction have ta.ken tients treated gained employment and gave 1 Department of State Bulletin, July 27, place in the last few years, and the confusion 1940, Vol. III, p. 48. seems to stem from a failure to understand Footnotes at end of article. February 8, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3301 up their criminal activities formerly neces­ ing increasing promise to control the epi­ in San Antonio, Tex. The editorial f al­ sitated by their expensive heroin habits. demic of heroin addiction with which the lows: Physicians familiar with outcome studies of country is faced. THE END OF VIETNAM heroin-addiWALTER E. FAUNTROY Born as she was before the advent of elec­ one more thorough than could have been OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA tric lighting, the automobile, the telephone, done at home. There should have been noth· ing alarming in the idea of hospitalization IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES radio, the newer prodigies of science and technology did not impress her overmuch. I for no more reason than a thorough physi­ Monday, February 7, 1972 once asked her what she thought of seeing cal. Surely the reason for Grandma's pain men on the moon, live, in color. "Oh," she could be more easily and accurately dlscov· Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, the way said, "I suppose it's all right." Her many years ered in a hospital than at home. Yet Virginia that our society has, in this day of tech­ had clearly made her extremely tolerant. (my wife) and I were both uneasy at the nological excellence, chosen to treat, Intact as were her mental and spiritual idea. She was herself less than enthusiastic. care, and assist our elderly is nothing faculties, the sheer weight of her 90-plus As Virginia and her mother left her on the less than an outrage. I cannot imagine years did bear on her body. Though far from first evening of her first hospital stay, my being bedridden ( merely two summers ago mother-in-law said, "Well, we're going." that the callousness, which seems to be "And leave me in the presence of mine shown to our elderly, is accepted or even she was capable of the long car trip from Iowa to Washington), she did have difficulty enemies?" said Mrs. Meinders. It was a line tacitly condoned. Yet, we seem to have at times walking and she recently made fre­ from the best known, and Mrs. Meinders' done less than is possible and tragedies quent use of a wheelchair. If you asked her favorite, of all the Psalms. such as the one written about by Gary how she felt, she would reply, "I'm all right, She was in the place for merely a few days. Potter seem, at times, to be common­ but I used to be able to run like a deer." Because Virginia and her mother thought place. There was wistfulness in the remark, and they discerned a casualness, even a certain In an attempt to prick the conscience resignation, but also a subdued note of anger, callousness, in the institution's treatment of as if she felt she had been betrayed-by her Mrs. Meinders, they were quite pleased when of the Members of the Congress I am at­ the doctors told them there was no need for taching the following article so that per­ own body-and who could doubt her word? Yet there was no one still living who remem­ worry, Grandma could go back home. haps we can find the way to move our­ bered her running. The doctors at the hospital had failed selves to take those actions which will, From the fa..ct that so many she'd known to detect a massive internal abscess which if not eliminate, make less commonplace and loved had already passed on and from her burst in the evening soon after Grandma's the seeming indifference that our society religious devotion was derived another char­ return. I was later appalled to learn that has heaped upon our aged. acteristic: prudence. She deemed it prudent small Iowa cities of 30,000 population a.re The article follows: to devote much of her energy these last years apparently no different than New York or 3306 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1972 Washington on one score: Despite all the can be exceedingly tender) . There were simi­ Mrs. Meinders in the place, Virginia came pleas of Virginia and my mother-in-law, no lar bruises elsewhere on her body. We in­ home to Washington. She told me all about doctor would come to the house. All through quired of the nurses how the bruises had the home. It was clean and bright, the newest the night the two women carried on as b_est been inflicted. Blithely, we were told she built and supposedly best equipped home in they could. The blood and matter was commg bruised herself trying <;o get out of bed. The the vicinity, but she'd found the same rou­ in prodigious quantities. Every convenient bed in question had high railings all around tine use of drugs as at the hospital. Every receptacle-basins, bowls, pans, even a kitty it. An old lady who's lately needed a wheel­ evening everyone got his stupor pill; un­ litter box-was put to use; Veronica, our 15- chair to get around tried by herself, in a disturbed quiet would reign for the rest of month-old daughter, upset by the turmoil, drugged state, to climb over those barriers? the night; no one would be any trouble for began to cry but could not be coped with­ That's what we asked. We were told: Yes! anyone else, particularly the staff (in addi­ there was no time even to empty the pans Mrs. Meinders was clearly not popular with tion to professional staff there was consider­ as Virginia and her mother worked in tan­ the staff. She was a nuisance; so it seemed. able volunteer help--Girl Scouts earning dem; the gory containers overflowed the bath But, as Virginia asked, what could we do? badge points, that sort of thing). room and kitchen floors, had to be set out We didn't want to take her home simply to I was struck by one detail; persons feeling in the garage. die. We wanted her to live comfortably and badly often must be encoura.ged to eat; that Finally, at dawn, a doctor agreed to a house well. For that she needed healing. The alleged is as true of old persons as anyone else. At call. This gentleman's professional contribu­ healers said the only place for the healing this "nursing" home where Mrs. Meinders tion to the situation, seeing the pans spread was here, in the hospital. now lived, no one did anything to encourage before him on the garage floor: "That's im­ Mrs. Meinders was most of all a nuisance eating; food, I gathered, was simply left with possible. If she lost that much blood she'd about the catheter. My mother-in-law who'd the inmates: there it is if you want it. The be dead." cared for her for years, knew she was not, had result was that the relatives or friends of She was in fact so weakened that the doc­ never been, incontinent, yet a catheter had many inmates, including my mother-in-law, tor would not advise what doctors today al­ been inserted in her urethra. This did spare visited the establishment twice a day to fet!d ways automatically advise, what the doctors the nurses having to attend to a bed-pan but the inmates. A thousand dollars doesn't buy a few days before advised: he would not it created another problem. Mrs. Meinders much anymore, I reflected. recommend her being moved to the hospital, was evidently offended by the plastic tubing, Three weeks after Virginia got home the not then. especially inserted as it was in a part of her phone rang at 3 o'clock one morning. It was Yet weak as she was, she was also strong. body she probably regarded as not merely Virginia's mother. Grandma had been killed. Anyone, it seems when you consider it, must private but inviolate (nothing could more ac­ She was scalded to death in the bathtub. In a be marvelously strong simply to live 93 years. curately reflect her 19th-century upbring­ sitz bath, I wondered what nurse this time It was her strength that undid her. Why ing). When she was sufficiently undrugged, had been busy reading the funnies. couldn't the end have been that night? It she pulled the catheter out. Not once. At least No one had actually been reading the would have been far better. There were mom­ three times. Incredible. I flinched whenever paper. It might as well have been the case, ents when Grandma actually cried out for it I imagined the pain her action must have however. Beyond the fact that someone had to be. She was too strong, however. Her God caused. I don't know if the nurses considered been grossly negligent we shall perhaps never had made her so strong she was yet to endure the pain, but they were furious. When Vir­ know exactly what happened. Either some­ a death unlike any she had ever expected. ginia. and I discovered the catheter removed one had simply put Grandma into water al­ The members of my wife's family are not on one of our visits and foolishly reported it .ready scalding hot aµd abandoned her de­ numerous. For several generations the fam­ ("Please don't make trouble for them, Grand­ spite her protests, or she was left unattended ily's children have been born a.t 30-year inter­ ma. You'll only make them mad.") we were while a malfunctioning electrical device vals, rather than the common 20. Thus, Mrs. banished from the room, saw nurses, faces heated up the water. As chance had it, both Meinders, though already past 90, had no rigid with anger, rush into it. We heard my mother-in-law and her sister arrived at great-grandchild until the birth of Veronica, Grandma scream as they jammed the damned the "nursing" home, for a visit, within min­ my daughter. The two of them, the old lady thing back in, but the .first nurse out the utes of the event. The place was in turmoil. and the infant girl, had a close and warm door met our gaze with equanimity, even In the moment's excitement, one nurse was relationship. smiling. What to do? We felt trapped. extremely candid. She , blurted: "We heard In the morning after that first crisis, after The last time I saw my wife's grandmother her screaming but we were all too busy to go the doctor had left, before anyone could stop alive was with my mother-in-law. When we in." When the remark was reported to us, her, Veronica climbed onto Mrs. Meinders' reached the floor, we found no one at the Virginia and I recollected the scream we'd floor desk. We went straight to Grandma's heard in the hospital corridor, ap.d the satis­ bed. She grabbed a crumpled Kleenex lying room. She wasn't there. Wondering where to there and with it wiped some sweat from fied look of the nurse afterwards. her great-grandmother's forehead. My wife look, we heard Grandma's voice from the Grandma lingered, in agony, for twelve room down the corridor where sitz baths were hours. She was back in one of those beds has told me th81t it wasn't until days later given. My mother-in-law pulled me back as that she saw Veronica's gesture in the light with the high metal barriers; both her I was about to step through the door; she daughters were with her. She complained of the aot once performed by her namesake. wanted to hear what was being said. During those days, as Mrs. Meinders re­ very little about the pain she was feeling, Grandma was saying, "Why can't I talk?" but it had to be great. Her boiled flesh had covered something of herself, there were "Because I want to read the paper," the countless games of peek-a-boo, the child turned black and was falling away. A curious nurse replied. thing happened in those hours. Though standing at the foot of the bed, Mrs. Mein­ When we did go into the room, I saw the ders frequently racked by pwin nobody nearly Grandma was Iowa-born, her first language nurse's paper was turned to the funnies pa.u:e. was German, until the age of 8. No one living a century old is meant to bear. How did she I returned to Washington, leaving Virginia bear hers? Her heart, her lungs, all her organs had ever heard her speak it. Now at the with her family. Mrs. Meinders was in the end, it was suddenly the language in which were extraordinarily fit, we were told. It was hospital a while longer. The hospital then necessary, however, finally to readmit her to she prayed. Then, her very last words were: asked that she be removed. "Give me a kiss." Neither of her daughters the hospital. I couldn't believe it when Virginia told it It surely was necessary, wasn't it? The ab­ could reach over the barriers of the hospital to me on the phone. bed to give it. That was all. scess had to be completely cleaned, it had to There had been a letter to the hospital be healed. The doctors wouldn't treat Mrs. When we buried Grandma her pastor said from Medicare, it s*'emed. Formerly, hospitals that everything he knew about her indicated Meinders a.t home, no more than they'd do might keep patients indefinitely, as long as anything else there, even examine her. that she was now with God. It is hardly necessary to get the job done, the job that possible to believe otherwise. All signs, her It was in the hospital that I last saw her. needed doing; that's why the patient was devotion and piety, her prudence, indicated She had been there in bed, for two or three there. Today, the Medicare "benefits" are ex­ that she understood her very long life to be weeks. I was deeply distressed after seeing hausted, ·and that's it. Out. Unless maybe a gift from God, which He meant her to use her. Never had I seen her so enervated, so you're actually dying. Ginny quoted a doctor in preparing to meet Him. Not everyone re­ listless. Never before had I seen her listless. at the ·hospital, speaking of Mrs. Meinders' ceives such a gift. Consider the case of a period. And her eyes! A 93-yea.r-old junkie, case: "Hopefully, we'd thought that she'd young man wiped out driving to work. Yet wa.s that possible? have slipped away by now." Those were his Grandma's death was more nearly akin to My wife explained that the nurses gave exact wo:ds. Since she hadn't "slipped away" the young man's than it surely was to that of Mrs. Meinders drugs, "to keep her quiet." as sched.uled by Metllcal'e, she'd have to leave. say, her grandfather. But Grandma's case "Quiet! How noisy can a bedrldden 93- I was speechless. was not unique, you know that. That most of year-old woman be?" Even as Mrs. Meinders was expelled from us will have her institutional kind of dying, "No, it's just that if she asks for anything the hospital, the doctors expressed the view or the young man's violent death, and al­ when it's not scheduled it disturbs the rou­ that if she were taken home she'd require most no one of us the older kind of demise, tine. They're busy." the attention there of two full-time nurses. an 1878 death-there ls the material for "Oh, c'mon. What? A glass of water?" That was out of the question. Accordingly, meditation. "I know. But what can we do?" Virginia's mother and aunt surveyed most of Death has always been the ultimate cor­ What indeed? the nursing homes in the area and finally rection of men's lives: it is the wages of sin; Her low morale was not the only thing settled on one: it was going to cost the family but unless all accounts of past dyings have troubling about Mrs. Meinders' condition. We $1,000 a month. As it happened, Mrs. Mein­ been falsified, it does seem that death, the noted a vicious bruise, actually an open ders was there but a few weeks. process of having one's sins corrected, was wonnd. on one elbow (an old person's skin After helping her mother and aunt install once easier to bear. It seems to have in- February 8, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3307 valved some tears and sincere repentance, in the Senate recently, " ... one-fourth of Last week, however, school officials voiced and that was about it. Did its relative ease that enormous total debt ($493.2 billion) concern that these special programs, aimed correspond to the sins it corrected? will have been incurred during the Admin­ at preventing drug addiction and at helping That young man driving to work, is he istration of President Nixon in only four those who are already "hooked," would come aware his life is in God's hands? Chances are years." to a halt when the school year ends this that if he has any thoughts at all about his In addition to the increase, instead of June. life being in anyone's hands he thinks it is the expected cutback, in defense spending ALBANY ANNOUNCEMENT in those of the General Motors engineers. many looked for in the wake of the de­ Their concern was prompted by the an­ And if so wretched a death as Grandma's escalated Vietnam war, _the President is also nouncement in Albany on Tuesday that the can be visited even on that dear, amiable, pushing expensive and uncontrollable do­ state would by Sept. 15 end its support of God-fearing lady, what chance have the rest mestic plans. These include welfare reform special school programs to prevent drug ad­ of us to avoid her fate, the young man's, or and his proposals for a guaranteed annuli.I diction because of a lack of funds. worse? Tears and repentance, then, sweet income. But, even before Congress has "It would be a sad day if programs which death? No, for most of us it's going to be the passed these proposals, for the first time appear to be bringing about some favorable freeway crackup, or the lonely, bitter death budget appropriations for the Department results should be discontinued," School of a terminal ward-or the scalding sitz bath. of Health, Education and Welfare exceed the Chancellor Harvey B. Scribner said. The Why should God, capable as He is of in­ defense budget. Chancellor added that he had personally in­ finite subtlety, arrange for the top of the One thing is clear, the Republican party spected several of the special programs and world to blow off at Amchitka? He can ar­ can no longer point the finger at the Demo­ was "impressed" by what he saw. range for every man a personal Amchitka. crats, charging them with unrivaled fiscal ir­ During the current school year, the state I believe that is possibly just what He's do­ responsibility. Even the spending of the ls providing $19.6-million to the city schools ing. I'm suggesting that the American way Johnson Administration cannot match what for these programs, through the city's Ad­ of death may in fact be His punishment for is happening today. diction Services Agency. The city matches our way of life. If you don't believe in Him, If things keep up the way they are going, these funds with "in kind" services. But let's just say that it's nature fighting back. and there's no reason to believe there will be school officials say that without the state a change of heart, four years of the Nixon funds, there could be no special drug-preven­ Administration will severely challenge the tion programs in the schools. long record of Democratic deficit spending Dr. Helen M. Feulner, the acting assistant A LIMIT TO THE SKY? for the dubious honor of being the leading superintendent in charge of special educa­ catapulter into flnanci·al disaster. tion at central school headquartert. and Richard deLone, the Addiction Services HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Agency's assistant commissioner for educa­ tion and training, noted that the state OF vmGINIA DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION funds had made possible a variety of special IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES EMERGENCY projects last fall. Tuesday, February 8, 1972 LIFE'S PROBLEMS The emphasis in the school programs is Mr. BYRD of Virginia. Mr. President, HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL on reaching and helping youngsters who the Northern Virginia Daily at Strasburg, OF NEW YORK have problems--"life's problems," Dr. Feul­ Va., in its lead editorial of Thursday, IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES nea- remarked-before they get involved with February 3, s·aid this: drugs. These could be problems about school, One thing is clear, the Republican Party Tuesday, February 8, 1972 the family, or relations with peers. can no longer point the finger at the Demo­ Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, last Group "rap sessions" and individual coun­ crats, charging them with unrivaled fiscal seling are the "guts" of the program, Mr. de­ irresponsibility. Even the spending of the week I spoke on the floor of the House Lone said. But a variety of approoohes, often Johnson Administration cannot match whwt about drug abuse prevention. At that devised by the students, are also employed, is happening today. time, I made clear my chagrin with a including student-produced newspapers, proposed cutback ·in drug abuse educa­ magazines, films and plays warning against The Northern Virginia Daily, through tion programs in New York schools. drug use. In some schools, specially trained the years, has had outstanding editorials. Funding treatment programs is cer­ students, selected for their leadership abil­ It is influential in the Shenandoah Val­ tainly important, but no more impor­ ity, are working with their classmates. ley. . tant than efforts to prevent our young There are also referral and follow-up serv­ It has supported every Republican ices for youngsters already addicted. In the people from becoming addicts in the 93 high schools alone, 1,600 students have presidential nominee since 1932. first place. since September been · referred to outside The editor of the Northern Virginia Today, when the average age of drug agencies for treatment. Daily, J. J. Crawford, as did his prede­ users being treated is 17 years, and when In the past, Mr. deLone said, schools felt cessor, Arthur Davison, speaks frankly the New York Addiction Services Agency that they had a drug-prevention program if and forthrightly, and calls the shots as treated 3,787 young people under 15 they occasionally showed a "horror" film de­ he sees them. years of age last year, I can no longer picting the effects of addiction or invited a I ask unanimous consent that the edi­ understand our meager efforts at educa­ few former addicts to an assembly program torial captioned "Does the Sky Have a to tell of their experien~. These approach­ tion. es, he said, produced "limited and possibly Limit?'' be printed in the Extensions of I fervently hope that the Director of Remarks. negative" results. the Speciwl Action Office on Drug Abuse SPECIAL TEAMS USED There being no objection, the editorial Prevention will give the highest priority was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, In addition to the drug-education special­ to massive education and prevention ef­ ist in every high school, 13 secondary schools as follows: forts. have established, under the SPARK pro­ [From the Northern Virginia Dally, Feb. 3, I include several articles of interest: gram, "intervention and prevention centers." 1972) [From the New York Times, Feb. 6, 1972) Each center, Arthur Jaffe, the SPARK pro­ DOES THE SKY HAVE A LIMIT? gram director noted, has special teams con­ SCHOOLS FEAR END OF STATE DRUG Am As the import of President· Nixon's budget sisting of a social worker or psychologist, a for 1972-73 begins to be more fully under­ (By Leonard Buder) guidance counselor, an attendance teacher, stood a rising tide of shock and disbelief A drug education specialist at Alfred E. a teacher and four para.professionals-"some is being heard around the country. Smith High School in the Bronx recently re­ of whom are recent go:aduwtes or, themselves, There is one central figure which is the ceived what he regarded as the "ultimate ex-addicts." capstone of what many consider a new high reward" from some students: wrapped-up In the program's first three months, ac­ of fiscal madness. That figure is $493.2 billion, packages of their "works"--drug parapher­ cording to Dr. Feulner, more than 2,500 stu­ the amount which represents the President's nalia-together with assurances they would dents participated in group_sessions and 1,- estimate of the national debt at the end of never go back to using drugs. 150 received individual counseling. the new budget's fiscal year, June 30, 1973. The specialist is one of 93 serving in the Each of the city's 31 decentralized dis­ The national debt is now $424 billion. Thus, city's high schools under a new state­ tricts has a drug-educaition coordinator and by his own reckoning, the President proposes funded program known as SPARK-for has mounted special programs. Mr. deLone to spend about $70 billion more in the next School Prevention of Addiction Through Re­ estimated that these local efforts were reach­ 17 months than will be taken in in revenue. habilitation and Knowledge. Companion pro­ ing about 103,000 pupils, of whom 5,000 were It also means that since President Nixon took grams, also state-financed, have recently got­ receiving intensive help. office in January 1969 the debt will have ten under way in many elementary, inter­ "It would be aJ.most cynical for the state grown by $133 bUlion. mediate and junior high schools under local to pull the rug out from under these pro­ As Sen. Harry Byrd pointed out in a speech district auspices. gra,m,s now," he said. 3308 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS FebPuary 8, 197'2

HEROIN TAKING PRETEEN TOLL old for a couple hundred dollars worth of May, but that even though he had actually drugs. offered to set a date for the withdrawal of all (By Joe Feurey) "And sometimes the kid is just pressed into our troops in return for the release of our Drug experts here are becoming alarmed service to sell in order to support the habit prisoners, he had met with a fiat rejection. at the rapid growth in the number of pre­ of his parents or maybe of an older brother Then, he told us about the latest secret teen heroin addicts. or sister." peace proposal he made to the North Viet­ An analysis of available statistics, inter­ Martin said he did not have any accurate namese-one that included ceasefire, the views with doctors, school officials, social statistics but felt that the pre-teen drug use withdrawal of all troops within six months, workers, drug experts, community leaders, percentage may already be as high as 10 per and the return of all prisoners of war. It ex-addicts and current addicts indicates cent in the elementary schools in his area. also included the resignation of South Viet­ there are thousands-perhaps tens of thou­ Most of those interviewed said the most namese President Thieu a month before an sands-of preteen drug users in this city. effective immediate measures to identify and independently supervised election is held, He (or she) is sniffing glue at the age of treat, prevent and educate was in the schools. and the participation in that election of the 5, getting stoned on pot by 8, popping pills But, according to Asst. Commissioner de­ Viet Cong. This offer, the President said, has by 10, snorting heroin and pushing drugs by Lone, it looks as if all of the funding for the been ignored. That is why he has disclosed 12 and shooting dope before 13. in-school programs will be cut off before the the offer now, in the hope that the pressure In the early '60s, the age of the average beginning of the next school year. of world public opinion may cause the North drug user in treatment was about 25. By the "There are just no more funds for the Vietnamese to change their minds. mid-'60s it was 23. Four years ago it was school program in the pipeline. Unless there's While we were happy to hear that the 21. Today, according to Addiction Service a special appropriation before school opens President was pursuing this line of negotia­ Agency spokesman Ray Godhey, it's 17. or unless we can get some funding through tion, and while we hope that it bears fruit, In August, 25 per cent of the drug users in the U.S. Mental Hygiene Act, an effective our expectations are not high. Announcing treatment were under 15. Last month, the school program for prevention and treatment the secret peace proposal in the attempt to figure rose to 29 per cent--3470. will be impossible next year." get North Vietnam to accept publicly what it "These figures are pointing to the begin­ Pre-teen addicts are very difficult to treat. refused to accept privately seems a little ning of a real problem in the pre-teen area," In fact, because the phenomenon is so new, unrealistic to us. says Richard deL&ne, Assistant Commission­ there are virtually no treatment program The effect of this announcement may be er for Education and Training for ASA. available for the pre-teen addict. more to disconcert and silence the President's "Although there's no hard data-the cen­ All of those interviewed agreed that political critics, than to get the other side sus we took only listed the category under methadone for pre-teens wasn't feasible. But to negotiate. And negotiating peace is the 15-all the evidence points to the fact that treatment of the pre-teen addict in thera­ major issue here. While we agree that the children are turning on to drugs at younger peutic communities just hadn't shown any proposals represent a major improvement in and younger ages." real successes. American policy in Vietnam, whether they DeLone pointed out that Manhattan had Dr. Thomas Scott, who works for Odyssey will lead to peace is another matter. some 2500 under-15 users in treatment, House, which treats addicts of all ages, said The North Vietnamese may seek the end of Brooklyn 359, Queens and Richmond 358 and Odyssey House started taking in pre-teen ad­ American involvement, but do they really the Bronx 212. dicts three years ago. He explained some of want to negotiate peace? Or do they feel, per· "But that's not because, say, Manhattan the problems in treating the young drug haps, that with the withdrawal of American has more addicts than, say, the Bronx," De­ users. troops, they can now win on the battlefield? Lone said. "It's just that there are more "The therapeutic community relies a lot And are they, indeed, planning a broad, new facilities for treatment and detection here. on peer group pressure for treatment. But at offensive over Tet, the Vietnamese New Yea.r, The more we look into the problem, the more the pre-teen level they require more of a next month? we're finding." parent surrogate rather than peer group The answers to these questions will deter­ Nathan Wright, coordinator of Community pressure. Also it's almost impossible for a mine whether President Nixon's proposals are School' Board 4's drug program in East Har­ child that young to understand the type of the extra mile that will lead to peace in lem, estimates that out of an elementary insight therapy we use at Odyssey. They Vietnam. As for the American people, the school population of 1300 in his district there really can't understand what it's all about. extra mile that most of us would like to take may be between 200 and 300 drug users. "Also,'' Scott explained, a child that age is that last mile out of Vietnam. "There's an awful lot of pills floating is really almost too rambunctious to stand around in the elementary schools and pot, up to the kind of discipline and structuring too, of course. But there's heroin, too. The that is necessary for the treatment of older kids do a 'combination act' with it. addicts. RABBI ALBERT A. GOLDMAN "That's when two or three children get together and pool their lunch money to buy a bag of heroin for a couple bucks. Then they PRESIDENT NiXON'S PEACE HON. WILLIAM J. KEA TING all get together and sniff it. Cocaine ts out EFFORTS IN vmTNAM OF OHIO of their reach. It's Just too expensive." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SIGNIFICANT FACTORS According to drug experts interviewed HON. LESTER L. WOLFF Tuesday, February 8, 1972 there are significant economic factors push­ OF NEW YORK Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, it is an ing the drugs into the pre-teen age groups. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES honor to welcome here today Rabbi Al­ "Kids who use drugs find the best way to Tuesday, February 8, 1972 bert A. Goldman, senior rabbi at Isaac support their habits is to push drugs. So M. Wise Temple in my home city, Cin­ drugs spread through peer groups like an Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, I recently epidemic. And small kids can't pull off big cinnati, Ohio. jobs to finance their drugs so they have to heard about a broadcast editorial by Rabbi Goldman is one of the outstand­ rely on pushing," says Richard Mangus who WCBS-TV's Sue Cott. I would like to ing leaders in our community and com­ was formerly with the Children's Aid Society share what I consider the true wisdom of mands the respect of the clergy and lay­ and 1s presently working in West Harlem's Sue Cott's remarks with my colleagues men for his work at the Wise Temple. School District, 3's drug program. in the House. Her editorial follows; Rabbi Goldman, native of Chicago, Ill., According to David Margulis, who heads THE EXTRA MILE Alpha School in Brooklyn, a therapeutic com­ graduated from the University of Chi­ munity and outpatient treatment center for (By Sue Cott) cago and in 1940 he was ordained at the teenage addicts, one of the main reasons NIXON. "But I can tell you that we have Hebrew Uniori College in Cincinnati. drugs are being pushed into the pre-teen pursued every negotiating channel, that we He is active in ecumenical affairs group ls: have made a number of offers, in various channels, and that when the record, total teaching classes at Xavier University, at "If you're small you've got to sell drugs to the University of Cincinnati and the He­ someone smaller than yourself. If you try to record, is publliShed, and it will be published sell to someone bigger, or maybe even your in due time, at an appropriate time, our lady brew Union College. He also has a radio own size you run the risk of getting robbed. from Florida and the others will realize that show called the "Reader" on the Uni­ we have gone the extra mile as far as POWs versity of Cincinnati radio station. The smaller your customer is, the safer you is concerned. I do not want to disclose any are." further details because negotiations are He also is active in civic affairs and Ray Martin, director of Bedford-Stuyve­ under way." (end videotape) has been an officer for the Cincinnati sant Youth in Action, says there are 9- and That was President Nixon responding to Council of Christians and Jews. 10-year-old pushers in his community and a question from a woman in Florida on the It is an honor to join with my collea­ explains that "sometimes it's just a family interview conducted by Dan Rather of CBS gues in welcoming Rabbi Goldman to thing." News, a few weeks ago. Last night the Presi­ "Sometimes the kids' parent or parents are dent told us about going that "extra mile;" the House of Representatives and have on drugs, so they use their kids to transport he told us that he'd been negotiating secretly him conduct the official prayer at the the stuff. Most cops wouldn't search a 9-year- with the North Vietnamese 1:n Paris si,nce laat opening of this day's proceedings.