234152 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 17, 1975 with the previous order, that the Senate DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Opportunity Commission for a term of 4 stand in recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow Richard E. Bell, of Maryland, to be an yea.rs. morning. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. 0cCUPATIOi AL S .'1.FETY AND H EALTH REVIEW The motion was agreed to; and at 6:03 COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION COMMISSION p.m .• the Senate recessed until Friday, Richard E. Bell, of Maryland, to be a Mem Frank R. Barnako, of Pennsylvania, to be a July 18, 1975, at 10 a.m. ber of the Board of Directors of the Com· member of the Occupational Safety and modity Credit Corporation. Health Review Commission for a term expir ing April 27, 1981. CONFIRMATIONS EQUAL El\IPLOYl\1ENT 0PPORTU ITY COM MISSION (The above nominations were approved Executive nominations confirmed by subject to the nominee's commitment to Abner Woodruff Sibal, of Virginia., to be appear and t estify before any duly consti the Senate July 17, 1975: General Counsel of the Equal Employment tuted committee of the Senate.)
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ALCONA MAN BATTLES CANCER the Alpena Rotary Club in 1967 and served A MAJOR REASON WHY WE ARE ON COMMUNITY AND PERSONAL as club secretary-treasurer. He has also held NOW PAYING MORE FOR FOOD LEVEL offices in the American Association of Retired People and the Hubbard Lake Sportsmens' AND WHY IT SHOULD NOT BE and Improvement Association. PERMITTED TO HAPPEN AGAIN HON. PHILIP E. RUPPE "You don't just exist in a comm,mity, you take an active part in it," is his stated OF MICHIGAN philosophy. HON. JACK F. KEMP IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nevertheless, the decision to return to OF NEW YORK Wednesday, July 16, 1975 community life following his hospital bout TN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES With cancer in October, 1972 wa-s not easy. Mr. RUPPE. Mr. Speaker, I was re By his own admission, he came home Wednesday, July 16, 1975 cently heartened by an article appear "wrapped in gloom, ready to die." Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, everyone of ing in the Alpena News in my district, "At first I dwelt on the shock of my hav us wonders why the price of food has which contained the account of a North ing cancer and how no one could understand my problem who hadn't experienced it," he 1·isen so sharply. ern resident who is successfully strug recalls. "Gradually, through the outpouring This is a question for which it is well gling against cancer, and is also making of concern by friends and with the help of worth having an accurate answer. a useful contribution to the welfare of several area ministers, I regained a balance. Eliot Janeway-the noted financial his community. Mr. Elry Larsen, of Hub "One day it hit me. I realized I needed columnist, author, and edit-0r of the out bard Lake, was stricken by this dread to get back into the community. And that's standing monthly economics journal, the disease 2% years ago. Since that time, been the key-getting involved in something Economist--has authored a thoughtful he has remained active, and is for the besides myself, particularly in trying to help answer to this question. second consecutive year the chairman others. That goes an awfully long way toward helping yourself." That answer? of the Alcona County Crusade. I laud In discussing his personal situation, Lar That much of our higher food prices is Mr. Larsen for his spirit and hard work, sen emphasized he is not interested in pub attributable directly to the Federal Gov and commend the article to my colleagues licity for himself, but agreed to an interview ernment's one-sided-unfortunately not as an inspiration for all of u~: with hopes it might in some way help others our's too frequently-agricultural com ALCONA MAN BATTLES CANCER O 'f Co;,..01uNrrY 1n his position come to terms with the dis modities trade policies, specifically the AND PERSONAL L EVEL ease. He said education of the public about most recent Soviet wheat deal. (By Sue Williams) the disease is his main goal along with mak ing known to local cancer patients the help His commentary is well worth reading HUBBARD LAKE.-Elry Larsen is a quiet, available to them within their own com by all my colleagues, but especially by gentle, wisp of a. man who enjoys puttering munity through the Alcona Cancer Society. those on the Committee on Ways and 1n his garden, woodworking and participating Alcona's Cancer Crusade will open May 1 Means-with its jurisdiction over trade in community a.ctlvttles. His boyish, elfin, and continue for two weeks. The goal as policies-and the Committee on Agricul grin and compassion for others almost mask signed to Alcona County is $3,200. Larsen ture-with its obvious jurisdiction over the iron-like resolve of the fighter he carries notes 60 per cent of the funds raised locally :wt thin. farm policies. will stay in the Alcona community and about As Eliot Janeway points out, quit-e Larsen is presently locked in combat With 30 per cent of the remaining funds will go cancer on a community level and a personal toward cancer research. The majority of local convincingly, we have to learn-and very level. He is doing battle as Alcona Cancer funds are spent helping Alcona patients meet quickly-that the long-range interests Crusade chairman and as a Victim of cancer travel expenses to hospitals in Petoskey and of the United States are what must be of the pancreas. Ann Arbor for services they can not receive pursued in our trade and agricultural His modest assessment of this dual chal locally. policies, and when we permit a foreign lenge: "Cancer has taken two pokes at me Other services provided by the society in country-especially one as inimical to and I've decided to poke back. It's going to clude obtaining educational materials, free have to run to catch me." our way of life as the Soviet Union is dressing, loan closet equipment for home ca1·e to In his race against time and the disease, of patients, post operative visiting services, take clear advantage of us, we end Larsen ls ahead on all counts. He has turned rehabilitation services and ministerial co,m up paying the penalty for having been a post hospital prognosis of two months into seling upon request. "had." 2 Y:z years packed full of a more enriched life Officers of the Alcona society are Marshall The American farmer has been en for himself and others in his community. McGuire-sr, president; Helen Sharboneau, couraged to grow more in recent years. From his crusade chairmanship position vice-president; Mildren La.Forge, secretary When he is fortunate enough to have within the Alcona Cancer Society he has treasurer. Serving with them on the society's good weather and has a surplus, he worked to extend concern and greater com board of directors are: Mrs. Leslie Mllligan, forts to others suffering from cancer and to should not be penalized for it by stopping Mr. & Mrs. Henry Webb, Mrs. Rodger Wenzel, him from exporting his harvest. educate the community a.bout the improved Mr. & Mrs. Lee La.Forge and Mrs. Marshall diagnostic and treatment techniques for the McGuire-sr. They will assist Larsen in work But, neither should the American tax disease. ing with over 76 volunteer fund-raisers dur payer and consumer be required to sub The first "poke" Larsen got from cancer ing the campaign and are available at all sidize-with their dollars and with the was losing his 26-year-old daughter, Karen, times to answer inquiries about the county's effects of inflation-the purchase of to Hodgkins Disease 16 years ago. "There was cancer program. American crops by foreign entities no hope for her then," he reports. "But, to Larsen, in his second year as crusade day she would have a fifty-fifty chance." count1ies or su1Togate corporations. chairman, plans to spend the next 30 days The 1972 Soviet wheat deal illustrates A native of Manistee, Larsen sold his ''eating, sleeping a.nd dreaming the crusade" Owosso office supply and furnishings business as he travels from one end of the county how the American taxpayer can be ripped in 1967 and moved to Alpena to be near fam to another. He acknowledges the crusade ls off by these transactions. In that year the ily members following the death of his first one of the things that has kept him "going." Soviets bought vast tonnage of wheat be wife. More recently, he remarried and moved He clearly intends to return that dividend cause of their own crop failures. The to Hubba.rd Lake. by waging a successful 1975 campaign and price of these shipped grains was deter Participating in community activities is winning another round in his dual fight mined by the U.S. Department of Agrt not a new experience for Larsen. He joined against cancer. culture by setting a "target world price." July 18, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23453 The Department subsidized the differ The Russians know that there's no way to torial agreements i:elated to fishing rights. run Russia. without primary dependence on We've roiled over 'for Ecuador, paying her off ence between the target price and the American agriculture. Moreover, they know to commit piracy against our fleets by loan price that wheat dealers were asking that if American farm products on which ing her money for one percent interest. subsidized with Federal tax dollars. For they are critically dependent are no longer Americans are second-class because we're the Soviet wheat deal, the target world available the Russians are between the devil under the wrong flag. If you want one per price was set at $1.63 per bushel. At the and the deep. · cent money, you've got to become Ecua time of the deal, the market price was Russia has a population that can't sub dorian; if you are an American farmer, approximately $1.69, but the completion sist without an abundance of agricultural you've got to pay at least the prime rate of the shipments which took several products. They've got an animal and poultry and then some. population that's eating them out of house The devaluation of the American dollar months the market price had jumped to and home, and even they aren't dumb stands as yet the best example of how we've $2.49. The subsidy, thus, amounted to enough in these matters to feed wheat to mismanaged our foreign affairs. The theory approximately $300 million. their animals and their poultry! They've got on which we did it was that it would make Preceding these transactions, the U.S. t o give them feed grains. our exports cheaper. But, what were our Commodity Credit Corporation had ar There's only one place where they can exports? Stuff that the world would have ranged in May 1971 for credit to the hope to get feed grains with reliability as brought more of even if it had been marked Soviet Union for these purchases. The to supply and as to standard and on the up! Food stuffs are the best example. De loans were to be available for 3 years, scale that they need it. That's this country. valuation is supposed to make your imports And now, the Russians are trying to break cost more. We did it--and that brought on expiring July of 1975. Credit was ex our market! the oil gouge. tended for a total of $750 million, and Do you remember the headlines from a No power in the world lets the proprietary while the rate of interest on these loans couple of years a.go? First, the Russians products of its soil and subsoil be a grab bag :fluctuates according to market condi booked a record wheat order from America. for its competitors and enemies. Yet, that's tions, the CCC notes are lower by ap Then, they cancelled it. Now, we know the exactly what we have done, and now the con proximately one-half-percent than the Russians pretty well, and if there's one thing sumer is paying for it in the form of higher market rates. that their purchasing agents never fail to food costs. · There was another way in which the do, it's to overdo everything they start. If we had played our hand realistically, American people paid for this Soviet What the Russians have done is gamble on America could have it made-because we the futures market. They know that our would give ourselves the first crack at cheap grain deal. The shipment of large vol Chicago Board of Trade follows the rest of raw materials. We would also give American umes of grain overseas meant less grain the economy, and they look good buying back farmers and manufacturers a proprietary ex left for our own domestic consumption. cheaper commitments that they walked out port market. Instead, we have put the cattle, When demand remains relatively on at higher prices. poultry, dairy and fish economies through stable-as it did here at home-and the AMERICAN FARMERS IN THE MIDDLE the wringer. supply goes down, the classic balances Now what does this have to do with the GOVERNMENT: AMERICA 's BARGAINING AGENT of supply and demand go into effect, and price of groceries? Everything. If you think The Russian wheat deal and these other the price rises. Thus, the domestic price that American farmers are going to go out examples show. just how badly we are mis rise in grain as a result of this deal con and plant and borrow to plant on the scale playing America's hand at the poker table of tributed directly to increases in the needed to ensure us stability in the market the world. Whose fault is it? It's the federal place in the next three years, you've got government's. costs of foods containing wheat. another think coming. In this context, Mr. Janeway's article The only thing that government is is a You're going to see a holdback on the part bargaining agent in dealing with other coun is most enlightening: of farmers, a refusal to commit without in tries-all of whom are represented against WHAT'S WRONG WITH AMERICA'S FOOD surance-call it a price support, if you all other countries by their respective govern POLICIES: WHY YOU'RE PAYING MORE FOR want--unless they can make an honest dol ments. The difference is that our government FOOD lar for their investment. In today's economy, bargains against us. (By Eliot Janeway) with the Russians wielding such power, they The Hungarian playwright Molnar once Americans are concerned with the rapidly can't. said, " If you've got a Hungarian for a friend, escalating price of food. Most of us are ab On the scale of present-day farmer invest you don't need an enemy." Well, if you've solutely amazed at the way grocery prices ment, figuring 18 percent and a three-to-five got t his government for a bargaining agent, have gone up in the past decade, and wonder year payout, a farmer would need from a. you don't need enemies. This is a bi partisan what's wrong with the American system bare minimum of $25,000 to a half-million cri ticism. when it permits such inflation. dollars in order to get anywhere with a. new The problem is not a simple one, but part investment, even if we have enough fertilizer, You might think that this is a conspiracy. of the explanation becomes clearer if we look which we don't. However, it isn't. If it were a conspiracy, it beyond our borders-and realize that the This is the worst corkscrew whipsaw I have wouldn't be working this efficiently. You'd cost of food in this country is not being con seen in 40 years. By the time the whole force probably have someone like Howard Hunt trolled within the United States. Instead, it of this manipulated Russian short specula messing it up. Think of the problem in terms is our foreign policy that has had a disas tion against our grain market has played of a football game: You are facing the op trous effect on food prices. itself out, you're going to be looking at the posing line, and they're all cornfed. Every You can take the steel business, the auto wildest, meanest, cruelest food price spiral time that the ball is snapped, they charge/ business, the heavy equipment business up again in the next year you have ever Then think of your line. Instead of facing you name it. These don't need export busi tried to catch up with. the opposing line, it's facing the same way! ness. There's only one part of the American As if that weren't enough, take a look at The velocity of their going in the right direc economy structured into the rest of the some of the other events that we have let tion and yQur going in the wrong direction world: agriculture. t ake place in the past couple of years. First gets up a lot of momentum. Two-thirds of our agricultural output de is our sale of corn to Japan. If we put our policy sights on the proposi pends on exports, with a few exceptions like Let's suppose that Japan, instead of being tion that we have been subsidizing a cheap citrus. The only agricultural exports we still a bunch of islands with mountains, happened diet for the rest of the world-including our have in this country are the exports we can't to have our corn belt. Have you any idea. how enemies, competitors and creditors--at the give a.way-and, frankly, we've given away much expensive, boxed, frozen chicken we same time we are increasing the cost of food the store! would be eating? Japan wouldn't be selling in this country, we can understand just how THE GREAT RUSSIAN WHEAT DEAL us Japanese corn or soybeans, ltke what we contradictory our foreign and food policies sell to them. We would be eating fabricated. If we begin by recognizing that America. is are today. buying raffle tickets on the way Russia runs processed Ja.panees foods made, shi!)ped and Too few Americans realize that this is the its government domestically-and plays its insured by the Japanese. way it is-or that the media doesn't have hand against us-we'll clear our minds of Take a look at sugar. If the oil shortage any more notion of what it's all a.bout than the misconception that pure and simple is the big phony of this decade, what is the they do. If Americans are to regain control economic or market factors are bouncing us sugar shortage? over food prices, they first have to become around. Now, the smart thing for us to do is deal clued-in on what is going on. Once they I recently visited with Gov. Jim Exon of with Cuba-for cash. We should grab that get a peek at the cards, they then have to Nebraska, probably the most influential new sugar that has been out of this market for take a place at the table and let their voices personality in American agriculture. I told 13 years. There are lots of things you can do be heard. Otherwise, we can look forward to him that if any American operator had just with sugar-not the least of which is to use nothing more than continued food price done to our wheat, corn and soybean markets it for fuel. Sugar can be made i.nto alcohol inflation. what the Russia.us have done in this manip and the alcohol can be used as a fuel burn Mr. Speakei·, it is not solely a matter of ulation of the market, the Federal Trade er-with no environmental problems, no re Commission would have put him out of busi fineries, no five-year hangups and no big economics which we here examine. De ness in a week. His reply sums up the situa investments. terminations as to the extent and nature tion: "Yes, all we have done is say, 'thank Yet another example of our diplomacy of trade in commodities and goods with you.'" leading to disastrous food prices is our terri- the Soviet Union must have other per- 23454 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 17, 1975 spectives. One of those is an awareness dent's wa.y is the hand-wringing going on should do is water down his plan to get that foreign assistance allows the Soviets among several of his advisers, those who be Democratic agreement. to continue to divert their controlled re lieve controls are intrinsically bad yet who The President holds all the cards. The latest sources from such vital aspects of the fea.r that the absence of controls wlll have Han·is survey on the issue even shows that economy as food production and other dire effects. These voices are telling the by 46 percent to 31 percent Americans favor consumer needs to heavy industrial President that if controls expire on August deregulation of oil and gas produced here. 31 the price of oil products Vl·ill rise so He should send up a tough decontrol plan, which then competes with us on the sharply that the economic recovery under one the controllers in Congress would love world market-or arms expansion way will be aborted, another inflationary to reject, and let them spend their summer which threatens our own national spiral will be ignited, the general public vacations wishing they hadn't. security. will denounce Mr. Ford's free-market dog Alexandr Solzhenitsyn addressed him matism, and Congress will come back with a self to this very point in his recent ap controls program worse than before. REPORT OF SUBCOMMITTEE TO RE Given this scenario, which a number o:f pearance before the AFL-CIO at the oil company executives are also carrying VIEW LIQUID METAL FAST Americana Hotel in New York City last around in their heads, the obvious policy to BREEDER REACTOR week. He commented from the penetrat follow is one of gradual decontrol, letting ing comprehension of a third-party, out that 40 percent of the crude market that is HON. MIKE McCORMACK sider observer of what we have been fixed at $5.25 a barrel rise to the world price doing: over two or three years. If fed the price in OF WASHINGTON Our whole slave labor system depends on creabes a little at a time instead of all at I N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES your (the U.S.'s) economic assistance. It is once, the public will not be vulnerable to Wednesday, July 16, 1975 American trade that allows the Soviet eco a demagogic stampede against the oil in nomy to concentrate its resources on arma dustry. Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, in ments and preparations for war. Remove that The scare scenario is another of those continuation of my practice of keeping trade, and the Soviet economy would be ob utter fantasies that occasionally get a grip this body informed of the activities of liged to devote some of those resources to on the minds of supposedly informed people the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy's feeding and clothing and housing the Rus (whatever happened to the petrodollar prob Subcommittee to Review the National sian people-something this (their) socialist lem anyway?). In fact, the price of gasoline Breeder Reactor Program, I have the fol economy has never been able to do. is more likely to fall than to rise after de lowing report. Stop sending goods. Let them stand on control. The scenario rests on the observa their own feet and see what happens. tion that with decontrol the price of "old" During the period June 28 through domestic crude would leap from $5.25 a bar July 4, 1975, the subcommittee conduct Whether one believes we should stop rel to $13, the world price plus the $2 tariff ed an onsite review of the British, French, trade with the Soviets altogether or and on the hallucination that retail prices and German breeder reactor programs. tighten it up, I think in light of this we would behave more or less in proportion. I wa-s pleased that Representatives JOHN would all agree that we should be much To begin with, since controlled oil is only B. ANDERSON, FRANK HORTON, and AN more careful in how we go about it and 40 percent of the total, the current aver age price of crude is about $10. Beyond that, DREW J. HINSHAW, and several staff mem certainly not subsidize it. the price of crude is a 1·e1atively minor com bers of the subcommittee were able to ponent of the retail cost of gasoline; a $l accompany me on this trip. The subcom DEBATE ON ANOTHER MISLABELED a-barrel increase in crude costs means a 2.5- mittee's impressions of the Western cents-a-gallon increase in gasoline prices. European breeder reactor program as ENERGY BILL So, if the total increase is passed on, lifting formulated during this trip are as fol the average price of crude to $13 would mean lows: an increase of 7.5 cents at the gasoline pump, HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI (or 2.5 cents if the President simultaneously IMPRESSIONS OF BREEDER REACTOR DEVELOP MENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE AND OF ILLINOIS lifted the tariff). We doubt that this increase WEST GERMANY BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would set off riots even in Senator Jackson's offices and it is the most pessimistic possible ON ATOMIC ENERGY'S SUBCOMMITTEE TO RE Tuesday, July 15, 1975 prediction. An increase of 7.5 cents is the VIEW THE NATION AL BREEDER REACTOR PRO upper limit, the maximum. GRAM Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, as we 1. The Western European nations are continue debate on another mislabeled Actually, anyone who believes elementary economics ought to predict that decontrol unanimous in their belief that current energy energy bill, I direct the attention of the would leave the price of gasoline totally un sources are inadequate for future needs, that Members to a very pertinent article changed. Elementary economics teaches that both coal and uranium must be utilized which appeared in the July 11, Wall prices are set at the margin. What matters is more heavily than in the past, and that a Street Journal. not the last additional barrel necessary for breeder reactor is needed to make optimal I am amazed that such an issue that supply to equal demand. Of course, the use of uranium resources. The Liquid Metal marginal barrel of oil 1s now imported at a Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) has been so vitally affects all Americans is the unanimously selected as the most promising subject of such a complete lack of eco cost of $13. Decontrol would not change this marginal cost, and therefore would not breeder concept and is under development nomic understanding. As we reduce our change the price of gasoline. by all the industrially advanced nations. dependence on imported oil, we must 2. The Western European nations have What would instead happen would be a re forward more agressively than the United stimulate experimental development of distribution of benefits Within the oil indus our domestic energy. This means oil, States in committing themselves to breeder try. Those participants now benefitting from demonstration plant construction programs, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy and the vagaries of the federal allocation program and have been substantially successful in this any other economically feasible element would lose their goodies, while the actual mission oriented approach. They have em that can be developed as an energy producers of domestic crude would gain. The phasized the construction of prototype ( dem Bource. removal of controls would allow the system to onstration) plants which will investigate The America:.1 free enterprise system operate more efficiently, thus tending to re the entire range of operating conditions us has produced for our citizens a standard duce prices. The extent of this tendency 1s ing existing technology, and are placing ma not measurable, but at least it ts no hallu jor reliance on gaining experience With those of living that is the envy of the world. cination. plants. You have only to look at the total man The sea.re scenario seems by now so in 3. For future reactor projects, such as the agerial economy of other countries to grained that President Ford is calllng for a French Super Phenix and German SNR-2, see that we would have to retreat if we gradual decontrol and will announce his plan Western European nations, including Italy opted for state control of our economic soon, which either the Democratic Senate and the Benelux countries, are actively co system. or Democratic House will be able to reject operating on the governmental and indus The article follows: by simple majority vote. Because liberals trial level. SNR-2, for example, will be have enough votes to do so, and oppose even PRESIDENT FOJU>'S OIL OPPORTUNITY jointly funded by industries in Germany gradual decontrol, chances are they will vote (RWE-51 % ) , Italy (ENEL-33 % ) and France With the government's authority to con down the President's plan and send him an (EDF-16%). trol oil prices running out on August 31 extension of his authority to impose controls. 4. Cost overruns of varying magnitudes and Congress running out on a month's We find ourselves rooting for the liberal have appeared frequently in Western Euro vacation beginning August 1, President Ford Democrats, because once they have turned pean breed.er programs. Although it does has a delicious opportunity to get rid of the down the President's bill he will be free to not appear possible to make a direct com controls to the immediate benefit of the veto the extension and end controls once parison between actual costs in constant economy. It's difficult to see how 1\1:r. Ford and for all. He can then assure his nervous dollars between Western European breeder can fall to benefit politically if he plays the advisers that any problems can be blamed reactors and those under construction or on cards he holds with bold confidence. on the Democrats' refusal to go along with order in the United States, it would appear The only problem standing in the Pres!- his gradual plan. The last thing Mr. Ford that the British and French, having ess~n- July 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23456 tially completed their plants before the re used to heat a town in this fashion as a UNITED STATES SHOULD LEARN FROM BRITAIN'S cent inflationary spiral, have encountered test of the economic and societal feasibility EXPERIENCE WITH SOCIAL MEDICINE smaller overruns and have enjoyed much of this concept. No country in the world today is exempt lower total program costs than are pro from problems in the financing and manage jected for the United States and German ment of the delivery of medical care. I am plants. aware of the problems in U.S.A. but I am 5. Funding for the demonstration plants UNITED STATES SHOULD LEARN because I lack direct personal experience of in the Western European nations is almost FROM BRITAIN'S EXPERIENCE American medicine, and secondly because af totally provided by their Federal govern WITH SOCIALIZED MEDICINE doubly disqualified to discuss them, firstly ments, although varying degrees of industrial ter two visits to U.S.A. I am so heavily preju invol ement were observed in the manage diced in favour of all things American from ment and conduct of new programs. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE Clam Chowder in Boston to Giradelli ices in 6. Various similarities and differences in OF ll,LINOIS the Flower City and rock climbing in approach were observed in the countries IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Yosemite valley that I could not be relied on visited, such as in the use of the "tank" to make an unbiased analysis. or "loop" type reactor system, in the test Wednesday, July 16, 1975 This is not to say that I am a candidate ing of major components in separate facili Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, those who for the "brain drain". My family are de ties vs. obtaining operating experience in scended from Kentish chiefs and so we have plants, and in the selection of fuel re advocate a system of nationalized medi seen this country come through some rough processing locations (on-site vs. off-site). cine for the United States tell us that times in the past and I certainly have no However, none of the countries claimed their the socialized medical system in Great intention of getting out now. But we do have breeder technology to be inherently bet ter Britain presents a model which we would a massive fight on our hands and I believe the than that of any other country. do well to emulate. problems in our National Health Service 7. Breeder demonstration plants in the Recently, I and a number of my col (N.H.S.) epitomize the problems in the U.K. and France are designed to operate at country as a whole and the way we solve the conditions more stringent than are believed leagues attended a medical meeting in London. One of those who addressed our one will be the way we solve the other. necessary for commercial plants. For the next I have been involved in British medicine generation of plants, certain parameters such group was Dr. Max Gammon. Dr. Gam for just over 10 years, first as a hospital doc as the operating temperature will likely be mon has been involved in British medi tor in the N.H.S. and then, for the past four reduced. cine for more than 10 years, first as a years I have led a team in the development 8. Western European nations estimate that hospital director in the National Health of proposals for an independent hospital there are likely to be 10 million tons of eco Service and for the past 4 years in lead service. nomically recoverable uranium in the world, In Britain we now have had just over 25 and are basing their breeder plans on each ing a team in the development of pro posals for an independent hospital serv years of a virtual state monopoly in medicine. nation obtaining a "fair share" of this re Your country may be on the verge of em source. ice. barking on the development of a state-run 9. The Western European nations con Dr. Gammon, viewing the British ex health service, and I suggest that it could be sider plutonium to be a national asset. The perience of more than 25 years of social of interest to you to know why many of us potential hazards of plutonium are univer ized medicine conclude::: that: believe that it is essential to develop an in sally recognized, and operating procedures A state-run system of delivery of health dependent system of medical care in Britain and engineered projective systems essentially ca.re should be rejected as damaging to the the same as those in place in the U.S. are today. interests of the patient, the doctor, and other I would like to begin to deal with this employed to assure safe handling of plu workers within the service. question by stating as a basic premise some tonium. 10. The Western Eul'opean countries are thing which I believe should be acceptable At the present time, there are more to protagonists of both state-run and free anxious to continue and expand technical than 500,000 people in Great Britain on cooperation and information exchange pro enterprise medical systems, namely that it is grams with the U.S. They stated satisfaction waiting lists for nonurgent surgical pro desirable that essential medical care should in the recently increased U.S. interest in this cedures, such as hip replacement for be denied to no-one by reason of their im area. arthritis, varicose vein operations, gall mediate or ultimate inability to pay, and as 11. The French have reported extraordinary bladder surgery-all painful but not usu a corollary it is desirable that no-one by success with fuel performance in Phenix to ally life-endangering conditions. More reason of expense incurred in receiving such date. They state that there has not been a care should suffer financial degradation. serious, Dr. Gammon notes: Having stated this basic premise, I would single fuel pin failure among the 20,000 Are the waiting lists for major procedures pins irradiated to 55,000 megawatt/days per like to put to you three propositions: for life-endangering conditions. The Sunday Firstly that: A state-run system of delivery ton in Phenix during almost one year of Times of June 22 reports the case of a 54· operation. They reported a high thermal of health care should be rejected as damaging year-old woman who died after waiting a to the interests of the patient, the doctor and efficiency ( 43 % ) , and an availability factor year for a heart operation. . .. of 77%, including down time for refueling. other workers within the service. 12. When panels of experts in European Socialized medicine has been bad for Secondly that: Such a service carries wider countries (e.g., Royal Commissions) are the British patient, and equally bad for political implications inimical to an orderly appointed to resolve technical matters or the morale of British doctors. Each year economy and a free society. other points of public or governmental con Thirdly that: Despite manifest difficulties troversa.ry, their findings are considered to more than 400 doctors leave the coun the best hope and the only safe way of pro be primary inputs into the policy making try-the product of about four of Eng viding good health care for all in a free process, and are generally accepted by the land's medical schools, Many of Eng society lies in the development of a healthily public. This is in marked contrast to the land's hospitals are more than 100 years competitive but compassionate free enter U.S. where the collective work of experts is old. Dr. Gammon notes that: prise system. sometimes viewed with suspicion, and the The amount of new hospital building I wm deal briefly with the empirical evi findings of expert panels a.re not necessarily undertaken under free enterprise in the 25 dence for the unsatisfactory nature of a. considered by some as the most effective years preceding the inception of the Health state-run system of medical care because I basis on which to form public policy. Service in 1948 (including 6 years of war) am quite sure that most of you are f-a.miliar 13. Western European experts believe that exceeded that in the 25 years from 1948 to with it and in any case, no matter how over the chain of events that must be hypothe the present day under N.H.S. whelming, such evidence can never be con sized for a core disruptive accident is so clusive. remote that such accidents are not credible. Dr. Gammon urges a return to the pri You will be aware I expect that at the pres Nevertheless, the reactors in these countries vate practice of medicine for the doctors ent moment we have in this country rather are constructed with the capability to con and patients of Great Britain. Before we mo1·e than 500,000 people on waiting lists for tain a wide range of such non-credible events. non-urgent surgical procedures, such as hip 14. Environmental and safety issues were 1n the United States decide to abandon replacements for arthritis, varicose vein op found to play an important part in the our own private practice of medicine, erations, gall bladder surgery-all of them development plans of the countries visited. and replace it with some form of na painful conditions but not life-endangering. However, the degree of public concern ex tional health insurance, which, in the These people will wait for treatment for pe pressed in each country varied, as did the long run, is simply a euphemism for na riods ranging from several months to several attention to particular issues. For example, tionalized medicine--we would do well to yea.rs. Those of you who have undergone sur the dominant concern in Germany 1s re carefully consider the British experience. gery will understand the meaning of thiS in ported to be the disposal of waste heat from terms of individual su1Iering and apprehen electric generation, both fossil and nuclear. I wish to share with my colleagues ex sion. The Germans are, therefore, using waste heat tracts from a speech by Dr. Max Gam More serious are the waiting lists for major from reactors to heat homes and offices in mon delivered at the Tower Hotel, Lon procedures for life-endangering conditions. the vicinity of reactors. It ls expected that by don, on June 27, 1975, and insert it into The Sunday Times of June 22nd report.s the 1985 the waste heat from one rea,ctor will be the RECORD at this time: case of a 54-year-old woman, "a priority pa- 23J56 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 17, 1975 tient" who died after waiting a year for a country 10 years or so ago the leading article victions from 20 percent to almost 90 heart operation at the University Hospital stated that "Private practice remained what of Wales. During that period this patient it ought to be, an expensive luxury for those percent in a single year. had her operation cancelled. no less than for whom time is money, or for whom indi While much remains to be done to pre three times. She eventually died at home and vidual attention is worth the cost." vent the alarming incidence of rape na from the description given in the newspaper The case history of the 54-year-old heart tionwide, I am encouraged by reports her end must have been hastened and tor patient mentioned. earlier bears witness to that medical and law enforcement per mented by an acute anxiety state. what happens when individual attention is sonnel are improving their methods of Turning from patients to sta.tr, deteriora replaced by state ca.re-when the state cares, rape prevention, of dealing with rape vic tion in morale in the N.H.S. has reached the nobody cares. stage at which earlier this year doctors in You are all well able to extrapolate from tims, and of effective prosecution of rap this country took the unprecedented step of here. But I would recommend you to read ists in our courts of law. I commend this engaging in industrial action. According to an article on page 12 of today's "Times" article to my colleagues: Department of Health and Social Security (27th June 1975) on psychiatric practice in [From the Wall Street Journal, July 14, statistics over 400 doctors leave this country the Soviet Union. And don't say it can't hap 1975] each year never to return-the product of pen here. or in U.S.A. People as basically not Ri\PE VICTIMS' PLIGHT GETS WIDE ATTEN a.bout four of our medical schools. 33 percent so very different the world over, but systems TION FROM POLICE, COURTS of all hospital medical posts are filled by are. overseas doctors, the best of whom regard What is the alternative? Here we come to (By Janice C. Simpson) this country as a staging post en route for the heart of the matter. I believe that here SAN FRANCISCO.-Kate Jackson, a 29-year North America. we have the challenge of the last part of the old office manager for an accounting firm, Turning from people to buildings, many 20th century. lives alone here. One morning recently, a man of our hospitals a.re over 100 years old-con How do we co-operate without destroying crawled through a window in her apartment, verted workhouses. The amount of new hos our indi ,·!duality? warned that he had a knife and raped her. pital bulldfLg undertaken under free enter How do we care without tyrannizing? Rape is an astonishingly commonplace prise in the 25 years preceding the inception How do we meet and overcome the momen crime, most experts agree. Kate Jackson of the Health Service in 1948 (which in tum towards collectivist socialism? (that's not her real name) was one of more cluded 6 years of war) exceeded that in the We have to :find a new dynamic and here I than 50,000 reported cases last year. But if 25 years from 1948 to the present day under believe that Britain has a major part to play. all victims reported the crime, criminologists the N.H.S. We are perhaps further down the repressive say, she would likely be one of perhaps Protagonists of socialized medicine will road of state socialism than any other coun 500,000 cases. say that this proves nothing. All that is try in the free world. We almost certainly Kate Jackson's reaction to the rape was needed is a little more money and some will travel a little further down it before we commonplace, too. She was hesitant to call minor modifications to the basic structure. turn, but I believe that we will turn and that the police, having found them unsympathet I suggest to you that this argument should we will lead the way out. ic when they investigated a robbery of a be rejected; the problem is inherent in the It is going to be the struggle of our lives, store she once owned. But her anger eventu basic philosophy. requiring all our fortitude and all our skill ally overcame her reluctance. I would now therefore like to turn to the and something more. I would like to leave Now she is glad that she reported the theoretical basis of the case. In essence, in you with some words of the Chief Rabbi, Dr. rape. Three officers arrived quickly, urged arguing for delivery of medical ca.re by the Ja.kobovits with which I as a Christian, a her to relax and took the time to drink cof state as opposed to the free enterprise unit, doctor and a student of history profoundly fee and make small talk with her. Then they we are accepting one or both of two basic agree. Dr. Jakobovits said: "If there is one questioned her gently about the attack and assumptions: cardinal lesson to be taught by our history, drove her to a hospital so that proper evi ( 1) That the state is capable of creating it is that our physical via.billty depends on dence could be obtained. "They were being resources in excess of the aggregate gener our spiritual strength rather than the other human beings for a change," she recalls. ated by individuals. In the short term of way round." WOMAN AS VICTIM course it can; the state has better credit fa Let us get our priorities right and then, I That change is obvious across the nation. cilities than the individual or private enter suggest, we shall find that we are facing Early in the 1970s, feminist groups com prise firm and can operate the money-print reality. Let us face it fearlessly and with com• plained of a lack of sensitive support given ing press. But in the longer term reality passion. rape victims by medical and law-enforce catches up, and in this country we have ment agencies. They pointed to many in reached the longer term. We are touching stances where rape victims, already fright here on the delusion which lies at the root CONGRESSMAN HEINZ REPORTS ened and humiliated, faced inditrerence or of the inflationary disease. PROGRESS IN RAPE PREVENTION ridicule from officials investigating their If we reject this first assumption as we AND CONTROL cases. The women's groups set up telephone must, but we still question the ability or hot lines and crisis centers to provide raped fitness of free enterprise to deliver compre women with emotional support and counsel hensive medical ca.re, then we are accepting HON. H. JOHN HEINZ III ing. a second assumption, and that ls OF PENNSYLVANIA Their message hasn't been lost on public (2) That the state is better able to manage IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES officials. In the past year or so, thousands of the personal resources and deliver the re rape victims have encountered a more sen quirements of the individual than he is Wednesday, July 16, 1975 sitive response than they might have found himself; this is the central thesis of state Mr. HEINZ. Mr. Speaker, in response earlier on the part of police officers, hospi socialism. tal attendants, prosecuting attorneys and, I do not believe it to be true. We certainly to the frigh telling rise in the incidence of perhaps more important, state legislators. do not have the time this afternoon to go rape in this country, and the urgent need A major impetus for action has been what into this fundamental argument, but even if to develop more humane methods of as appears to be a dramatic nationwide increase it were true, I believe that the implications sisting victims of rape, I have introduced in rape. The Federal Bureau of Investigation of a state monopoly in medicine are so the Rape Prevention and Control Act, estimates that in 1973, the la.test year for malignant that it should be totally rejected. which has been incorporated in the which figures are available, 51,000 forcible Already in this country we are feeling rapes were reported, comps.red with 21,250 in the tightening of the bonds. A recent direc health revenue-sharing bill recently passed by both the House and the Senate. 1964. Preliminary 1974 reports indicate a 9% tive from the Department of Health and increase last year. Part of the increase is Social Security has instructed all hospital Because of my continuing interest in probably a result of women's growing will boards in this country not to employ doctors rape prevention efforts, I was very much ingness to report rapes. But experts believe it who are not prepared to perform or sanction encouraged by an article which appeared also reflects an actual rise in the incidence of abortions. Thus the state With virtual mo in the July 14 issue of the Wall Street rape. An FBI spokesman says rape 1s "prob nopoly powers is imposing conditions such Journal entitled "Rape Victims' Plight ably the most underreported crime in the that a doctor may have to choose between the Gets Wide Attention from Police, country." Many criminologists :figure that practice of his chosen profession in his own there a.re upwards of 10 rapes for every one country and the sacrifice of his conscience. Courts." that appears on police blotters. Under such circumstances both history and In that article, which follows, the au logic show that most of the best will go and thor details the nationwide effort to in FEAR IN THE NIGHT the remainder will be coerced, for how many crease sensitivity to the needs of rape The aftershock of rage, fear and shame can resist a state monopoly when their live victims, and to pursue the most effective that seizes most victims ls the maJor reasons lihood is at stake? methods of obtaining rape convictions. so few rapes are reported. The trauma. But perhaps even more serious ls the subtle doesn't disappear quickly, and It can some- erosion or standards affecting even those who My own county of Allegheny, which in times build as time goes by, as Kate Jack· are fighting to improve the service. This is cludes the city of Pittsburgh, has created son discovered. The morning after her attack well illustrated by the following quota.tlon a special rape team comprised of male she went to work. That night, she refused from a leading article ln the British Medical detectives, female investigators, and two friends' invitations to stay with them and Journal of 22nd March of this year. Refer· assistant district attorneys, which has remained in her house alone. But Miss Jack· 1·lng to a decline in private private ln this been credited with increasing rape con- son, an unusually strong person, admits, July 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARK 23457 "You think you're all right a.nd then find To help build as strong a ca.se as possible, nated attack on the problem. "It's not terri that you're not." Ten days after the attack, many prosecuting offices are emphasizing bly useful for the police to be kind and con Miss Jackson says she "broke down terribly," good relationships with the victlm. They ex elderate and then have the victim abused at and although she continually reassures plain to her how & case 1s tried and why the hospital," says Miss Gates of the Center friends that she is over the shock, she also certs.in embarrassing questions must be for Women's Polley Studies. She advocates notes that lately she ha.s begun to stutter. "I asked. They also work with !amllies to help a coalition in which all public and private never stuttered in my life," she says. Weeks them cope with both the rape and the added agencies work together. One such effort is after the attack, she still keeps the kitchen burden of a public trial. In some cities, in Seattle's Rape Reduction Project. light on all night. Her attacker is still at cluding Denver, prosecutors have begun to For over a year and a half, Seattle police, large, a.nd Miss Jackson often wonders if he consult psychiatrists and psychologists for the King County Prosecutor's office, Harbor is outside, peering through her window, assistance 1n electing "victim-sensitive" view Medical Center and Rape Relief a waiting for her to go to bed. So fa.r, she has Jurors. YWOA-sponsored crisis center, have worked resisted the temptation to move. "I'm not In spite of progress in the courts, prose together to provide a network of continuous about to, dammit," she says. cutors say they can only move as far as the ca.re for the city's rape victims. David Boer The new effort to reduce rape and mini law allows them. Now. in every pa.rt of the ner, the county's chief criminal deputy mize its emotional impact takes many forms. nation, legislatures are changing sexual stat prosecutor, emphasizes the value o! person In New York City, for example, a Mayor's utes to make prosecution of rapists easier al exchange between the agencies. The proj Task Force on Rape, formed in 1973, helped to make public agencies more sensitive to ect "took the pressure off us from doing it establish four special sex-crime squads. The the plight of victims. alone and when there's a problem, we can an squads work with the city's sex-crime anal In Michigan, for example, a year-long ef talk it out," he says. ysis unit, a center equipped with the la.test fort supported by over 3,000 women and men Mr. Boerner's office and Sgt. Yumul's unit in technologlca.l crime-detection equipment resulted in the passage of a comprehensive have worked with social workers in the sex and staff'ed largely with female officers who criminal sexual-conduct statute. The new ual assault center at Harborvlew to develop are on call 24 hours a. day to interview law widens the definition of force in rape simple forms for doctors to fill out as they victlm.S. cases to include threat of force. It also for examine rape victims. The social workers Other police departments, some with bids as irrelevant at a trial any reference to help train the lay counselors at Rape Relief. help !rom local women's groups and other a victim's pa.st sexual experience. Police officers routinely a.sk victims 1f they concerned citizens, are rewriting rape-in Michigan's law, effective this year, "puts would like to talk to someone from Rape Re vestigation guidelines and a.re holding spe the burden of proof on the defense," says lief. And Rape Relief feeds pollce informa cia.l "sensitivity-training" sessions for Jan BenDor, a representative of the Michi tion about rapes that women don't wish to everyone from the cop on the beat to the gan Women's Task Force, which led the report personally. The reports are anony head of the sex-crimes or morals det.a.ll. fight for the law. State Sen. Daniel Cooper, mous and can't be used as evidence, but they They are assigning more women officers to a Democrat from Oakland County and one ca.n help police to track down multiple these details and are forming special rape of the four senators who voted against the rapists. squads, upgrading investigation techniques final statute, worries about lts constitution As public agencies grow more sensitive to and trying to establish better images within ality. A recognized llbeml. sen. Oooper was rape victims, the crisis centers-the cata their communities. A few police academies, one of the bfil's original supporters. But he lysts for much of the current activity-are including those in New York and Massa-ehu says he always felt uneasy about the law's expanding their own services. Centers are setts, now offer specia.l training in rape in blanket prohibition of any reference to the actively recruiting volunteers from PTAs and vestigation in their curriculum. victim's past sexual history. "I understand Junior Leagues In an effort to reassure CONVICTIONS ARE RARE that the loopholes have been abused in the women formerly frightened away by the past," he says, "but now I think it's going strong feminlst image most centers pro "There's no doubt about it, the stereotyp too far the other way." ing attitudes are changing and we've come jected. Others are making an effort to reach a long way," says Sgt. Romero Yumul, head EXIT "LORD HALE" minority women, who are often the most re o! the Seattle police department's morals Many other state legislatures are acting luctant to report rapes. detail. Recently, his unit requested a new to abolish references to a woman's prim! Some groups now include men because interviewing room. The present space, sexual experience a.t a rape trial. California they have found that a sensitive man oan which houses the homicide, robbery and and New York recently enacted such laws, comfort some victims. In Philadelphia, the morals details, "leaves a lot to be desired," and action is pending in Ha.wall, Washing• local center spawned a new group, Men Or he explains. He is hoping for a brightly ton, Oregon, Delaware and Kansas. ganized Against Rape. It runs what is prob painted room, complete with couches, coffee Meanwhile, Alaska legislators are con ably the first hot-line phone service to coun and women's magazines. sidering a bill to require the assignment of sel husbands, fathers and boyfriends of rape Officer 1141ke Germann, a training officer women officers to rape detalls and to make victims. at the Seattle Police Academy, says that rape "sensitivity training" a mandatory seemingly callous attitudes displayed to pa.rt of police education. A number o! states, ward rape victims by policemen a.re "not a including Colorado, are considering abolish FEDERAL OVERREGULATION OF matter of intentional cruelty." Rather, he ing what ls known as the "Lord Ha.le" state NATION'S BUSINESSMEN says, they have in the past Just treated sex ment-a compulsory warning to the Jury by crimes like any other, abruptly questioning a judge that rape ls a charge "easily made a victim nbout intimate details of the and once made, difficult to defend." Such a HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK attack, without considering the trauma she statement, of course, tends to make convic had undergone or making an effort to put tion more difficult. (Lord Hale was an 18th OP OHJ:O her at ease. Officer Germann says that he Century English barrister who successfully IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES now stresses the victim's feelings in his defended a 53-year-old man charged with Wednesday, July 16, 1975 classes on investigating sexual assault. the rape of a 14-year-old. He proved the man Kate Jackson's positive experience with was medically incapable of the crime, and Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, Federal the police hasn't allayed all her fears about his closing words to the jury have become overregulation 1s an increa.s!ng threat t.o working within the system. She worries enshrined in some state crlmlna.l codes.) our Nation's businessmen. More and about the ordeal of a trial, should her assail Other states are mulling measures that more of the vital decislonmaking power ant be arrested. Indeed, rape cases are no would broaden the definition of rape. In 1s torious for their conviction difficulty. Many eight states, including Texas and Florida, shifting from business management to attorneys, shying away from all but the women's groups are focusing their attack on Washington, D.C., bureaucrats. easiest stranger-a.tta.cks-virgin-in-front-of- the last remalnlng statutes that require a No longer does management have con 10-wi.tnesses cases, have offered rape vic woman to prove rape through either a cor trol over many facets of the business. tims little encouragement. Overworked roborating witness or evidence o! a. struggle, Federal agencies such as OSHA, EPA, prosecutors "don't like to try cases that such as torn clothing. EEOC, CPSC, all issue reams of regula can't be won easily," contends Margaret WORKING IN CONCERT tions that affect the basic operation and Gates, director of the Center !or Women's Policy Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based Hospitals and medical centers, too, are profitability of the enterprise. group that conducts research on the eco responding to the rape problem. Major hos All too often these regulations are is nomic and legal status of women. pitals tn Philadelphia, Louisv11le, Denver and sued without regard to cost. An expendi There is strong evidence, however, that the Washington, D.C., give free care to rape vic ture of thousands of dollars may be re new attention rape cases are getting from tims regardless of their ablllty to pay. Bos quired to satisfy the whim of some bu- law-enforcement agencies is making them ton City Hospital and Boston College School 1·eaucratic agency. Although businessmen easier to prosecute. A year ago, Pennsyl of Nursing offer -a joint program in which 25 have a vital stake in profit and loss they vania's Allegheny County, which includes nurses have been trained to guide rape vic losing profit Pittsburgh, had only a 20 % conviction rate tims through the medical examination and are the freedom to make the on rape cases. Nine months after District to give them emotional support. The nurses and loss decisions. This can only lead to Attorney John J. mckton created a special make follow-up calls after the initial hospital economic disaster. rape and child-abuse team of three male de visit and sometimes even sit through the Following is an excellent article on the tectives, three ~emale investigators and two trial with the victim.. Federal ove1Tegulat1on problem, which assistant district att-orneys, the conviction Such progress is encouraging but many appeared in the June issue of Nation's rate jumped to almost9C~c. people concerned with rape urge a coordl- Business: 23458 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 17, 1975 WHERE 0VERREGULATION CAN LEAD approval. You can't even get started, unless By forcing it to lay off employees, the com government gives you the go-ahead. (An Interview with Dr. Murray L. mission not only added to unemployment, Weidenbaum) That applies to communications-radio, but hurt a group of people who find it espe television, cable TV, microwave transmis cially hard to get jobs-the handicapped. Government power to control and infl.u sion-as well as trucking, for example. Isn't it rare for Washington to put a com ence the decisions of business threatens the But it goes beyond. that, doesn't it? pany out of business and people out of W COMPARISON OF WENNER INITIAL DECISION WITH USPS PROPOSALS IN R 74-1 (WENNER RATES IN PARENTHESES) 4TH·CLASS PHASED RATES: SPECIAL AND LIBRARY Phased rates {cents) 1 1974-3 1975-4 1976-5 1977--6 1978-7 1979-8 1987-16 Description: Special: 18 19(24) 23(28) 25 28 30(40) ______8 9(12) 9(14) 9 10 10(20) _____ ------Libra~~~~:, pounds_ ------·------• ---=--.------: 6 7 (9) 7(11) 7 7 8 10(29) Additional pounds ______------______--~---· ______----__ -~ 3 3 (5) 3 (5) 4 4 4 5(14) I Each phased rate step begins on July 6 of the indicated year. For example, step 4 would begin on July 6, 1975. Phasing ends in 1979 for the special 4th class rate and in 1987 for the library rate. INCREASE IN WENNER'S ULTIMATE RATES OVER CURRENT {1974-75. STEP 3) RATES Cents Percent Cents Percent Special: Library! 1st pound ___ ------_____ ------_------n 120 23 38l Additional pounds------1 12 150 l:/J'~~ -pounds-----=------'-·------= 1l 363 CXXI--14'13-Part 18 23466 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 17, 1975 DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND THE felt that the point of no return would be OFFICIAL AGENCY QUESTIONNAIRE AMERICAN ECONOMY reached when,, and if, the peacetime defense EXPLANATION FORM budget equaled or surpassed actual wartime expenditures, a state that some felt could never happen. Only now it has. HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM The defense package presently nearing HON. EDWARD I. KOCH O? NEW YORK OF NEW YORK final passage not only exceeds the biggest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES budgets of the Vietnamese and Korean wars JN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES but even those at the height of World War Wednesday, July 16, 1975 Wednesday, July 16, 1975 II, when more than 10 million Americans Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, a de were in the armed forces (2,152,000 are to Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker, Alan Westin, day). Indeed, the military obligations for the editor of the Civil Liberties Review, a pressing anomaly in the economy of the next fiscal year ($104.7 billion) are greater United States is that, even in peacetime, superb independent journal sponsored by than the cost of the entire government (in & we grow ever more dependent on the pro cluding defense) during any of the World the ACLU and John Wiley Sons, pub duction of war materials for our eco War II years. lishers, has devised an "Official Agency nomic well-being. The defense budget The most alarming aspect of this un Questionnaire Explanation Form" for continues to grow, and we sell ever-in precedented situation is that a great major individuals to send to a Government creasing quantities of military hardware ity of Ame1·icans are against it, yet feel agency after they receive an intrusive or helpless to do anything about it. And in uncommunicative questionnaire. to other nations-$8.3 billion in fiscal Congress, many who feel that military spend year 1974 alone. Aside from the moral How often is it that individuals receive ing should be cut back also are throwing up these communications from Federal implications of our emerging role as the their hands in despair. world's major supplier of the tools of war, So the juggernaut rolls on, war or no war, agencies and do not know if the request it should be evident to all that we only each year picking up more momentum as to respond to the inquiry is voluntary or make war more likely by continuing on the country increasingly depends upon this compulsory, whether the agency has legal such a course. A major stumbling block wasteful, but massive, spending, not so much authority to ask the questions and what to a change in direction is the havoc that to wage war as to sustain the economy and restraints are put on the disclosure of maintain employment. personal information divulged in the would be wreaked upon many of our most All the experts agree that comparable crucial industries, costing jobs, and sap questionnaire response. spending for productive domestic programs For our colleagues who are concerned ping the economic vitality of communi would result in a sounder and more prosper ties across the Nation which depend on ous economy, but no administration seems to about the right of privacy, I would like defense industries. have the will to switch. to append this "all-purpose citizen's Yet it is clear that we must change di All of our Presidents since Eisenhower equalizer" for individual to send to Gov rection. Our economy would be far have been patsies for the Pentagon, which ernment agencies. healthier if we could rechannel some of now counts on both Big Business and Big While Mr. Westin has prepared his Labor to support many of its demands, es questionnaire, tongue in cheek, some of the funds now flowing into military pro pecially at a time when it is claimed that grams and products into goods and serv his questions make better sense than the any cut in the defen::;e budget would worsen official questionnaires do. ices for a real peacetime economy. The tho recession. problem is one of cushioning the effect. of Once hooked on this, the addition becomes The questionnaire follows: such reform. permanent, for every year the cure will seem 0 P E'ICIAL AGENCY QUESTIONNAmE EXPLANATION It is up to the Congress to pass legisla n1.ore risky, although there is no reason why FORM tion to provide that cushion. The Defense it has to be. In fact, the cure (substituting (By Alan F. Westin) Economic Adjustment Act, introduced by non-defense spending) would be the reve.!·se Have you ever opened your mail to find a myself, Mr. WHALEN, and 28 cosponsors of risky if it were applied intelligently and auestionnaire from the federal, state, or local constructively. A few years ago, when we government asking you to disclose a passel of on May 14, and reintroduced today with started bringing the troops home from Viet information about yourself? Have you ever 5 additional cosponsors, provides an ideal nam, there were high hopes of using military felt annoyed at the way some of the questions vehicle for the discussion and shaping of savings to fund long-delayed domestic im intrude into your personal life? Have you such a measure. It would provide Fed provements. These hopes have been dashed tried to read the microscopic type in the eral assistance to industries and com as defense expenditures, instead of receding, "Instructions" section that explained munities for planning conversion to a have gone up almost 50 per cent over what whether you were legally required to answer nondefense-oriented economy, and fi they were at the peak of the Vietnamese wa·r. the questionnaire, or that it really was vol Moreover, the Pentagon projections call for untary? And even if it said it was "volun nancial and other help to workers whose another 50 per cent increase (to about $150 tary," did you find yourself wondering jobs are lost in the conversion process. billion) in the next five years. whether, if you refused to reply, the agency The bill is pending in five committees, The Pentagon, in short, is literally eating that "asked" you to return the questionnaire but no action has been taken on it in America out of house and home. An ever might cut off your veteran's benefits, or So any of them. I am hopeful that, with the larger sum goes for ships, tanks and pla.nes, cial Security checks, or revoke your driver's support of my colleagues, we can obtain while new housing lags far behind the na license? Have you wondered, after spending hearings on the Defense Economic Ad tion's needs. As Ben Franklin warned in 1784, an inordinate amount of time answering the justment Act before the end of 1975. "An army is a devouring monster." questions, what is done with the information Only a strong, determined President can you supplied? In yesterday's Washington Post, Clay provide relief. Harry Truman, the President If so, you are part of a large American ton Fritchey warned of the dangers in who Mr. Ford says he admires the most, club. Last year the federal government sent continuing down our present path. 1 showed how to do it. He simply set a fiat out over 156 million forms and question commend his column to the attention of ceiling on expenditures and ordered the mili naires to individuals; by the government's my colleagues: tary chiefs to make the most of it. The re own estimates, these took over 63 million THE "DEVOURING MONSTER" sult was the only reduced defense budget in hours to complete. There a.re no comparable all of the post-World War II years. figures for the questionnaire activity of our (By Clayton Fritchey) Despite Mr. Ford's professed concern over 50 states and 3,000 local governments, but Of all the farewell addresses of retiring inflationary expenditures, however, he is still these jurisdictions have been no less active American Presidents, only two are much giving the Pentagon carte blanche to spend in asking us for personal information. remembered, and even they are little as it see fit. Adm. Gene La Rocque (Ret.), To be sure, the government is entitled to heeded. George Washington urged his coun now director of the Center for Defense In seek out most of the essential information trymen to beware of "entangling alliances," formation, says, "Civilians are in danger of it needs in order to supply the many services and Dwight Eisenhower prophetically warned losing control of the Pentagon:• we expect of it. But so much information, so against the consuming power of the "mili· In this connection, it is not reassuring to many questions, and, sometimes, such absurd tary-industrial complex." note that prominent Pentagon figures are as ones? Haven't you ever wished that, some The World War II commander was alarmed suming the management of Ford's election how, you could grab the bureaucrat respon over the development of a complex that, 1f campaign. Army Secretary Howard Callaway sible for a bothersome questionnaire by the not restrained, could gaither the momen is to be campaign chairman; David Packard, scruff of the neck and make the government tum of an unstoppable juggernaut-beyond former Deputy Secretary of Defense, will be answer your questions before you answer the the ability of the public and the Congress to finance chairman; Robert C. Moot, former government's? cope with it any longer. comptroller of the Pentagon, and Assistant CLR Editor Alan Westin won three national Numerous economists and political think Defense Secretary Robert Ellsworth are also awards for his book, Privacy and Freedom, ers who shared Eisenhower's concern have being considered for campaign posts. (1967), and served for several years as chair- July 17, 1975 .EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23467 man of the ACLU's Prlv.acy Committee. From be made of it, and you have not made such such a misleading claim on your form or 1969 to 1M2 he directed. the National Acad full dlscl~e.. questionnaire. emy of Sctenees' study of the effect of com c. You have not indicated .1! my response 13. Will any other government agencies puters on privacy, coauthoring its report. 1s to be voluntary or compulsory, which have regular access to information collected Databanks in a Free Society {1972). Last denies me essential information for deter from this form or questionnaire? -Yes -No. year, he was a consultant to Senator Sam mining my response. If "Yes," indicate legal authority for such Ervin's Subcommittee on Constitutional Therefore. lf you wlsb to hear from me you data sharing. Rights and helped draft the federal Prtvacy will have to furnish more information before Does such data-sharing require my con Act of 1974. He currently serves on the Na I take my valuable time to respond. sent? - Yes - No. If "No," why not? tional Wiretapping Commission, a body cre Kindly answer only the questions in Sec 14. If I want to inspect the record com ated by Congress to review federal and state tion 1I that have been indicated by the boxes piled about me on the basis of my response, wiretapping operations under the 1968 Om I have checked in Section I-a. You may am I entitled to do so? - Yes - No. If "No," nibus Crime Control Act. attach additional pages with your answers, explain why not. If "Yes," detail the location Last year, Congress tried to help us all out if necessary. of the file, the procedures for inspection and a bit. It passed the Privacy Act of 1974, which (Boxes not printed). raising issues about the accuracy or com provided. some salutary controls over the Notice: I will hold your form or question pleteness of the record, and the name and government's intrusive data-collection prac naire until I receive your reply. See Section address of the agency official in charge of tices. Starting in late September 1975, the IV of this form for my holding procedures. such access procedures. act requires any federal agency that solicits II. 15. Will your agency supply to any private information from you to state its authority 1. If my answers are required by law, pro organlzation lists of names. addresses. and for doing so. to indicate if your response ls vide full citations to the relevant statute, personal characteristics of those who reply mandatory or voluntary, to explain why the executive order, or other authorization for to your form or questionnaire? - Yes - No. government wants the data. collected, to tell such compulsory response, and attach the If "Yes,'' will you obtain my permission first? how the information will be used, and to in· full text along with this answer. - Yes - No. U "No,'' and if this ls based on dlca.te what (ff anything) will happen to you 2. Are answers to all the questions legally the assumption that federal or state freedom if you decline to respond. required or only some of them? O All of-information laws do not require you to SO far, very good.. But the Privacy Act D Only some. If "Only some," indicate do so, cite the relevant legal provisions. really doesn't help you as much as it should.. which questions are voluntary. 16. Describe fully the administrative meas It covers only federal agencies, leaving the 3. If my answers a.re required by law, what ures that will be taken to guarantee the con questionnaires of state, county, and munic are the penalties or consequences should I fidentiality and security of my personal data ipal agencies unregulated. It doesn't provide refuse t.o comply? in your files, if you promise such confiden an independent board to which you can com 4. If my compliance ls voluntary, was your tiality. plain, easily and inexpensively, 1f you think decision to seek this personal information 17. If my Socia.I Security number ha.a been a federal agency is asking unjustifiably nosy from individuals reviewed by any central requested, explain why you need it, since I questions. (In fact, you must bring a.n ex agency or authority in the (city) (county) am ,concerned that having this number on pensive and time-consuming lawsuit if you (state) or (federal) government to insure many of my government records makes it wish to cha.llenge an agency's practices.) that this information ls not already collected easy to assemble a comprehensive dossier Furtherm.ore. a lot of the information you somewhere else, and that it ls not unduly about me. Explanation: really should have before you fill out the burdensome or intrusive to the respond If I am opposed to giving my Social Se questionnaire need not even appear on or ent?-Reviewed by Central Agency-Not Re· cui·ity number, despite your explanation, with it: Where will the data go? Who has viewed.. If "reviewed," indicate the agency would you rather I left that space blank and access to it? How can you get to see and, and specific official who ma.de the review. If returned the form to you with the other if necessary, contest what is put into any file "not reviewed," indicate why not. questions answered. or should I throw the compiled on the basis of your responses? Can 5. If my compliance ls voluntary, do you form in the wa.stebasket?-Return without the agency legally- refuse to disclose the data certify that my answers or my refusal to an social security number if you wish-throw if subpoenaed? The government ls required swer wlll never be used in making decisions into wastebasket. to publish this information only once a year about my access to government benefits or 18. Do you have a regular procedure for 1n the Federal Register. Now, the Federal opportunities?-Yes--Ca.nnot so certify. If either destroying the personal lnforma.tlon Register Isn't exactly the most popular or "cannot," explain why. collected by this form or questionnaire after readily accessible periodical in America. If "yes" supply name and title of person a certain period of time, or of updating it for To remedy these weaknesses in the federal in the agency ta.king responsiblllty for mak accuracy and timeliness 1f it ls retalned? Privacy Act, The Civil Liberties Review offers ing this certtlication. Ha.ve regular purging procedure-update the here its all-purpose citizen's equalizer: the informa.tion--other. Please explain. Name------ 19. Why didn't your agency put this ex Official Agency Questionnah·e Explanation Title------~------Form. It's yours to tear out and send to the planatory information on your initial com next government agency that sends you a 6. If my compliance ls voluntary, may I munication to me, either in a letter, an in long, burdensome, highly intrusive question omit my name or other persona.1 identifl.er? troduction to the form or questionnaire, or naire, one which doesn't demonstrate clearly OK to return anonymously-need name or an enclosed brochure? that its questions are relevant, or that your identifier. If name ls needed, explain why. a. It would cost us some money. data will be properly safeguarded, or that 7. If compliance ls voluntary and my name b. It isn't the practice in our field.. you wlll be able to see what ls transferred ls needed., will it and any other personal c. We didn't think anyone cared. from lt to a.ny record on which you are identifier be removed from the data once the d. Po1lcles haven't been formulated yet. identified, or that you are legally obligated agency undertakes its study. or wlll the e. No one higher up t.old us to. to fill it out and return it. identifiers be preserved with my record41- f. We were just following orders. Take heart. Here's a molotov cocktail made Removed-Preserved. If ''preserved," ex g. All this uproar over privacy ls silly. of paper. Hurl it at your favorite bureaucrat. plain why this Is necessary. h. Other. (Write in.) Help to start a privacy revolution. 8. State fully the purposes for which this 20. Wouldn't it be a lot easier in the future information ls being gathered.. to supply such explanatory information ln OFFICIAL AGENCY QUESTIONNAIRE EXPLANATION 9. Indicate why this ls necessary to carry advance, rather than have to reply to all FORM out a lawful function of your agency. these official agency questionnaire explana L 10. Describe fully how the information I tion forms? Dear Inquirer: I have received your have given will be processed, used, and stored Yes; no; depends on how many others push agency's form or questionnaire dated -- with your agency, including whether it will us on it. and relating to ---. You requested that I be used only in manual form, ln comput Look over your answers aga.ln. Make sure fill lt out and return 1t promptly to you. erized form, or in both. Also indicate th.at all questions you have been asked. to However, your request presents a serious whether it wm be kept in a separate file or answer a.re answered. Then be sure to read civil liberties problem. I have checked it made part of a larger file of de.ta about me. section IV. below. 11. Wlll my consent be obtained before any IV. The following a.re my procedures for a. You say that my answers are legally 'Use is made by your agency of my identffled processing this official agency questionnaire explanation form: required. But as you know ( or should know). personal data for purposes other than the only valid legal authority can compel me to ones stated above ( or in your form of ques I will hold your orlglna.l form or question disclose such personal information, and your naire until I receive your answers on this tionnaire, if 1t waa given there)? - Yes form and study their responsiveness to my communication has not provided the facts I - No. If "No.'' explain why. legal and persona.I rights. need to determine my legal llabllity to 12. If you say my persona.I data is and will comply. I will not reply to any computer-gener be held "'confldentla.1," does that mean you ated second or third mailings of your form or b. You say that my answers are voluntary have legal authority to withhold it from and ask for my cooperation with an important questionnaire. My memory-system for keep other government agencies or jurisdictions ing track of nonrespondlng agencies is tn government activity. But whether I cooperate that might call for lt? -Yes -No. If "Yes," falllble. depends on your discloeing how you wW hold please indicate the scope and limits of that If I do not hear from you within 30 days, my personal information and what uses will authority. If "No," explain :why you put I shall assume you are content to have me 23468 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July~11, 1975 throw away the original form or question· An American citizen is watching a naire. of building up this type of activity into one static display at a U.S. military base in that is gaining international recognition. It If I receive stern letters pressing me to an.. swer your form or questionnaire even though Asia. The platform fails, and she is se reflects so positively on the cultural atmos you have not replied to mine, I shall write verely injured by debris. After 7 years of phere of our community and it is a. great "Constitutionally Obscene Mail-Return to surgery, she is still badly scarred and un drawing ca.rd to our Mint Museum. I am just as enthusiastic as I can be over this program Sender" on the envelope and give it back to able to live a normal life. The military and the other aetivities in connection with the letter carrier. autho1·ities admit fault-but offer a set the Seminar. For your information: tlement of less than $20,000-not even If your reply to this questionnaire is un enough to cover the associated expenses Mr. Claud's sentiments were those of satisfactory or not forthcoming, I shall send of her care, let alone recompense her for a firm believer in the arts but also those a copy :.>f the reply or of the original ques of a businessman. He is senior vice presi tionnaire to the U.S. senate Subcommittee permanent physical damage. on Constitutional Rights, if a federal agency Once again, there can be no appeal of dent of North Carolina National Bank. is involved, or to the appropriate state legis the decision of the Department of De Widespread recognition of the Sep lative committee, if it is a state or local gov fense. tember Seminar has brought early regis ernment agency. I shall send additional It is such injustices this legislation tration from many museums and histori copies to the local and national offices of seeks to correct. cal societies of note. The September the American Civil Liberties Union. Ame1icans who are injured on Federal Seminar is held under auspices of the I also talk to my friends a.bout these mat• property here in the United States may Delhom Service League, a working arm ters, and they talk to their friends. And let's of the Mint Museum. The lecture pro face it-you really can't run the government make claims under the Federal Tort without our cooperation, can you? Claims Act, but Americans who are in gram is arranged by Miss M. Mellanay jured on Federal property overseas have Delhom, Curator of the Delhom Gallery THE CIVIL LmERTIES REVIEW, no such rights. and Institute for Study and Research in New York, N.Y., June 24, 1975. In addition, I am opposed to the basic Ceramics, and in cooperation with Mr. ;:;.epresentative EDWARD KocH, principle of the curren t system of han Dewey Lee Curtis, director of the Penns Ho1Ue of Representatives, bury Manor Forum, held in Bucks w... .,;d ·ngton, D.C. dling overseas claims. To declare such a process is just when the agency which County, Pa. .a..1EAR En: I thought you might like to have Chairman of the 1975 September Semi an advance copy of something I devised to may be at fault holds the hearings, in send to a government agency when they send terprets the law, and makes the final de nar is Mrs. Howard Strock; cochainnan you a form or questionnaire that ls intrusive, cision is scarcely in the American tra is Mrs. Robert Dalton. Jr. Mrs. Oliver uncommunicative, etc. This will. appear in dition. Shaw is president of the Delhom Service the forthcoming "Spring 1975" issue of the My proposal would simply amend the League. Civil Liberties Review, in which your corre Tort Claims Act to make it applicable Registration fee for the September spondence with Representative Ichord about Seminar is a 3-day package for $55-15 the HISC files will also be appearing. Bound for such claims. Under this amendment, the law of the claimant's State of resi lectures-or $25 for a 1-day session. Lec copies will be available about July 3rd. ture sessions will be held in the Pease We are hoping to get national media at dence would apply. If he had no official tention for this "strike back" questionnaire, State of residence, but is still a U.S. citi Audito1ium of Central Piedmont Com and to put it into very widespread use zen, the laws of the District of Columbia munity College. All lectures will be slide throughout the country, The ACLU will be would apply. illustrated. In addition to the lectures, promoting it, as will all of us self-appointed Such wording avoids application of the elaborate arrangements are being made privacy buffs. local foreign law while affording a long for luncheons, receptions and dinners for If you think well of it, and are so inclined, registrants of the seminar. An added we would very much appreciate your putting overdue right of appeal. So I urge you to take early and favor featm·e is intra-city bus service to all it into the Congressional Record with a suit events available to registrants. able explanation and a few words about the able action on this legislation. Review. Because of limited seating capacity, I hope we will be meeting again soon on registrants will be treated on a "first the privacy hustings. come, first served" basis. Registrations Sincerely, CHARLOTI'E MINT MUSEUM OF ART will close August 15. Registration forms ALAN F. WESTIN, PRESENTS A SEMINAR for lectures and social events may be ob Editor. tained from the September Seminar, Post Office Box 6011, Charlotte, N.C., 28207 . HON. JAMES G. MARTIN EQUAL JUSTICE ON U.S. PROPERTY OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BANGOR, MAINE LOSES COMMU - HON. WILLIAM L. ARMSTRONG Thursday, July 17, 1975 NITY LEADER OF COLORADO Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Speaker, each year IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Charlotte Mint Museum of Art pre HON. WILLIAM S. COHEN sents a seminar. This September, the OF MAINE Thursday, July 17, 1975 museum will present a Seminar on Ce IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. ARMSTRONG. Mr. Speaker, today ramic Art. It is my pleasure to include I am introducing an amendment to the the news of this cultural event in today's Thursday, July 17, 191'5 Federal Tort Claims Act to remedy a RECORD. Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, on July 9 longstanding injustice in American juris Collectors and enthusiasts of historical my home city, Bangor, Maine, lost one of prudence. pottery and porcelain find that Charlotte its most energetic community leaders, I would like to illustrate the problem is their mecca. Again in September, they Norbert X. Dowd. with a series of examples, all real. will make the annual trek to this center Norby Dowd, was was 68 years old at The wife of a Federal employee is put of study and research of the ceramic art. the time of his death, was a guiding ting up decorations for a club function Mr. Joseph Claud, president of the force in civic activities in Bangor for being held at a service club on a U.S. mil Mint Museum of Art, announces it will more than four decades. He served the itary base in Japan. She is injured when present the September Seminar on Ce Bangor Chamber of Commerce for 28 a stack of loosely piled building mate ramic Arts with an outstanding array years, from 1944 when he took over as rials falls on her. Her insm·ance does not of seven speakers, September 16, 17, and executive secretary of the chamber to cover the enormous costs to her and her 18. September 15 is described as "Monday his retirement in 1972 as executive vice husband, and they file a claim with the at the Mint,'' with the museum open president of an expanded Greater Ban Department of Defense. After a hearing only to registrants of the seminar that gor Chamber of Commerce. and an administrative review, her claim afternoon, followed by a reception at the In an obituary published in the Ban is denied by the Defense Department- museum hosted by its board of trustees gor Daily News, newsman Jim Byrnes DOD claims she was negligent. that evening. wrote eloquently of Norby Dowd's dedi There is no avenue of appeal, no re Mr. Claud said: cation to the city he loved: course whatsoever, except a private bill The enormous success of last year's Sep Dowd was a tire'less worker to make in Congress. tember seminar accentuated the strong need greater Bangor a. better place in which to July 17, 1975 EXTE SIO ~OF REMARKS live, work and play. He never gave up, and The Federal Government contributed ergy Administration already have an Indus during his efforts a newer Bangor emerged, to 1·etirement systems in 20 States prior try energy conserveJtion program in place. an ongoing memorial t,o thls gentleman. to 1969. The other 31 States received no This successful program, begun in 1973, con A battler s.tnce 1928 when he amved in This tains the following elements: ( 1) the Gov Bangor as the first head coach and athletic Federal assistance. contribution in ernment, with industry, sets energy conser director of John Baptist High School, he 20 States has been interpreted to be a vation goals; (2) industry regularly reports captured the hearts of the student body by windfall for technicians and, therefore, to Commerce and the Federal Energy Admin :fiahting for every year of score with referees the retired credit was reduced to 55 per istration regarding its progress; and (3) the a~d umpires who he thought ha d done his cent. Federal Government offers its suppo1·t arid beloved Crusaders wrong. The facts are that 75 percent of the technical expertise in helping industry "No1·by's on the field again ••. Norby's technicians covered by local retirement a~hieve the goals. Voluntary energy savings on the field again," was the chant from the systems did not have sufficient service goals of approximaely 12 percent have been t.>leaohers when the scrappy young pilot from set within 10 energy intensive industries. Holy Cross ma.robed out to ba-ttle with offi to give them vested interests in their To date, over one-third of this goal has been cialdom. State systems, and will, therefore, never reached. Given this level of success, a Con Later, when he became a sports official, he become entitled to State annuities. gressionally directed mandatory program is was respected by friends and foe for his A provision can be made in the :final not needed. :firmness, and he carried these attributes bill that will preclude any windfall in Reduction of industry energy use will be into his work for the Bangor community. those States which had a retirement sys a vital part of a sound energy policy, and He helped Improve and expand airline tem and 1·eceived contributions. Under efforts are well underway in this regard. En service t.o the area. He brought public trans actment of Title IV, Part B, however, will portation t.o the area and constantly fought the present 55-percent restriction, tech only serve to saddle the Administration with for more parking space, and consumer pro nicians are forced to remain in the sys an inherently :flawed mandatory program. tection, and better health and hospital care. tem until age 60 in order to qualify for Moreover, it will only serve to confuse the There was hardly a charity drive in the city a sufficient annuity for their sustenance. situation regarding our successful in place or nearby communities of which Dowd was After age 55 their value under a mobili cooperative program. Accordingly. we rec not in the forefront. zation situation is severely 1·educed. If ommend that Congress delete this sectiou He took much banter at soci&l and busi they receive 100 percent credit toward from the measure. ness functions, and gave as good a quip as retirement, many will elect to retire al Sincerely, he received. lowing a younger input which will vital ROGERS C. B. MORTON. The Greater Bangor area will sorely ize the force and assure its combat readi miss Norby Dowd's good-natured and ness. productive presence. It remains to us to SOYUZ-APOLLO: THE MYTH AND carry forward the good works he THE REALITY launched in our community a-s a living SECRETARY OF COMMERCE OB memorial to this man who gave so much JECTS TO PORTIONS OF OIL CON of himself to help others. SERVATION ACT HON. LARRY McDONALD His widow, Theresa, and his sons, OF GEORGIA Norbert Jr., J ames, and Shaun, have my J. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deepest sympathy on the loss of a dear HON. JOHN RHODES Thursday, July 17, 1975 husband and father. OF ARIZONA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. McDONALD of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the link up in space today may Thursday, July 17, 1975 provide lots of copy for the press, but it STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF 100 Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, I have to will not advance the cause of human PERCENT CREDIT FOR RETffiE day received a letter from the Secretal'Y freedom one step. The space link up may MENT FOR NATIONAL GUARD of Commerce indicating his objections to help further the myth that the Soviets TECHNICIAN SERVICE portions of H.R. 7014, the Energy Polley are mellowing, but to those Soviet citizens and Oil Conservation Act of 1975. Spe who languish in the forced labor camp cifically, the Secretary is concerned with and their so-called psychiatric hospitals. HON. ROBERT G. STEPHENS, JR. the language in title IV, part B. it is a nonevent. An organization called OF GEORGIA For the information and enlightment the Committee of Concerned Scientists, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of my colleagues, I am inserting the text Inc. of New York City issued a state Thursday, July 17, 1975 of the letter from Secretary Morton at ment in this regard which I feel deserves this point in the RECORD: the thoughtful attention of my col Mr. STEPHENS. Mr. Speaker, I h1- THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, leagues. This statement was made joint troduced H.R. 4019 to correct certain in Wa.shington, D.a. ly by Dr. Jack Cohen of the National equities in the crediting of National Hon. JOHN J. RHODES, Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. and Guard technician service in connection Minority Leader, House of Representatives, Dr. Eugene Stanley, of the Massachusetts with civil service retirement. This legis w ashington, D .a. Institute of Technology on July 11. The lation is designed to remove the 55-per DEAR JoBN: The current language of Title IV, Part B of H.R. 7014, the Energy Policy statement follows: cent limitation on credit for National and Oil Conservation Act, contains several SOYUZ-APOLLO: THE MYTH AND 'l'HE REALITY Guard technician service prior to Janu objectionable features. It bw-dens govern "Glowing newspaper and television cover ary 1, 1969, thereby allowing full credit ment and business with cumbersome repor-t age of the Apollo-Soyuz launch wlll offer for all technician service. The National ing requirements regarding fuel use. It visible evidence that the world's greatest Guard technicians are the only group orders the setting of energy use reduotion ideological and military rivals can cooperate ever brought under the Civil Service Re goals which are likely to increase the pres on p1·ograms of mutual interest. The vent ure tirement Act who have not been given sm·e for a. mandatory program; given the may create an impression of Soviet and U.S. full credit for prior service. This includes distortions and inequities created by exist technological equality, but far more damag those groups whose prior service was ing regulations, another mandatory pro ing would be the impression that the USSR gram will not serve om energy needs. More shares Westen1 concepts of scientific co covered by the Social Secmity Act. An over, the specification of conservation tech operation. inequity exists in that less than half the niques which must be used, as 01·dered in "While the astronauts link up in space, technicians who came under the Techni the bill, is beyond the ability of any institu minute details of the technology which made cian Retirement Act in 1969 had the tion and will probably discourage technical the rendezvous possible will be read by mil necessary 40 quarters required to assw·e innovation in this field. Part B also takes lions of people all over the world, ·but on social security benefits. Those who did little cognizance of industry's current energy earth, Soviet space scientist Aleksandr Druk have this requirement will suffer a re conservation efforts which have yielded sig.. is still denied permission to emigrate on the duction in social security benefits that nificant savings to date. Government rules pretext t hat his space knowledge ls 'secret'. and orders are unlikely to improve that "In space, scientific cooperation has re they eventually receive, because contri 1·ecord. sulted in clever packaging of three meals a butions ceased from both employer and Despite these significant deficiencies, Part day for the astronauts, but on earth, other employee on the day they entered the B is unnecessary for other basic reasons: the scientists subsist on a semi-starvation diet Federal retirement system in 1969. Comme1·ce Department and the Federal En- in Soviet prison camps for the 'crime' of 23470 EX':rENSIONS 6F~MARK5 ~Jicly i 7, '197'5 claiming the international human right of INCREASE MANDATORY SENTENC penalty can be up to 10 years. For second emlgra~on. For other scientists, incarcerated ING OF FIREARM CRIMINALS in mental institutions for displeasing the offenders the term of imprisonment can Soviet establishment, vitamins are replaced not be less than 5 years and up to 25 by mind-destroying drugs. HON. ROBIN L. BEARD years. In both cases, the sentence is in "Cooperation in space should be matched addition to the penalty for the under by cooperation on earth and as long as Soviet OF TENNESSEE lying crime. scientists cannot deal freely with Western IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES With the passage of my legislation. the Colleagues, and while Soviet abuse of science Thursday, July 17, 1975 criminal who thinks to use a firearm in and scientists increases, we can have no faith in the expectations raised by the emphasis Mr. BEARD of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, perpetrating a crime will have final no on detente. today I am introducing legislation which tice that this society will not have even "While we join in the celebration of increases mandatory sentencing for crim the slightest sympathy in a case where another step forward for man, we grieve inals who use a firearm in the commis violence is used. over the refusal of the USSR to take even sion of a Federal crime. Fourteen of my one step for-ward for mankind." colleagues have joined me in what I hope will be a successful effort to help combat EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS violent crime in this Nation. THE 200-MILE FISHING ZONE My bill differs from existing law in two DRAWS CLOSER principal areas-first, it increases penal HON. W. HENSON MOORE ties for offenders in both cases of first OF LOUISUNA and second convictions; and second, it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. DON YOUNG gives the Nation's Federal prosecutors Thursday, July 17, 1975 OF ALASKA the right to have the trial courts' sen IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA'l IVES tencing reviewed if the sentencing judge Mr. MOORE. Mr. Speaker. I am com fails to exercise proper discretion in de pelled to vote against the conference re Thursday, July 17, 1975 termining the terms of sentencing. port on the Education Division appro Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, Under the provisions of the Omnibus priations bill, H.R. 5901, as an advocate the recent incursion of the Taiwanese Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of both Federal education programs and fishing vessel Tai Chiang into the Bris Amendments of 1970, strict sentences the taxpayer. tol Bay red salmon fishery drastically are imposed upon felons using or posses A vote against this measure should not demonstrates the need for timely a.ction sing a firearm in the commission of Fed be construed as a vote against education on extended fisheries jurisdiction legis eral crimes. The 1970 amendments pro by anyone. It clearly is not. It is, how lation. vided a separate and additional penalty ever, accurate and timely to interpret my The vessel was boarded July 16 by U.S. for the mere act of carrying a firearm opposition to this specific bill on the basis officials at which time 50 metric tons- in committing a crime-specifically sep of fiscal responsibility and unnecessary 20,000 to 22,000-of fish were discovered arate and in addition to the sentence for Federal intervention in the conduct of on board. The catch consisted primarily the underlying crime itself. our local school systems. My vote in op of Bristol Bay red salmon, the same The legislation being offered here position to the conference report would species which prompt.ed Congress to today would preserve some latitude in the not have been cast in that manner had declare the Bristol Bay fishery a disaster case of first offenders. However, this dis the Senate and House conferees retui·ned last summer. cretion is intentionally restricted by the to the House a conference report signifi U.S. officials learned from questioning addition of language authorizing the cantly closer to the President's budget the captain of the Chinese ship that he United States the right to seek review of request and retained the amendment I poosessed a permit from his government sentences 1·eceived by first offenders if successfully offered on the floor to assure to operat.e a :fishery direct.ed at the Bris the trial court judge fails to exercise dis the Department of Health, Education. tol Bay salmon in the Port Moller area cretion in meting out penalties in such and Welfare would not release Federal off the coast of Alaska. cases. funds to finance forced busing of school U.S. State Department officials are The need to maintain discretionary children as a result of Federal court di aware of the serious nature of this prob status in sentencing a first-time offender rectives. lem and have filed a protest with the is not to imply that the individuals Mr. Speaker, a 20-percent, $1.3 billion Taiwan Embassy here in Washington. should be treated with leniency but in increase over a budget request in any An official of the Department is scheduled recognition of the state of this Nation's category of Federal spending should be to travel to Taiwan and initiate high penal system. In too many cases our subject to close scrutiny by any Member level discussions with the proper au Federal penitentiaries are breeding of Congress who wishes to state his or thorities of that nation. grounds for the schooling and training her opposition to increased taxes or def The Stat.e Department will further of even more determined criminals. The icit spending to the taxpayers back home explain the fact that foreign nations, conditions prevalent in many Federal and stand behind it. It is unfortunate recognizing the need to conserve this prisons force the internee to react with that this bill contains increased Federal dwindling stock, have agreed not to op bitterness and vengefulness on the so spending of that magnitude. In other erate high-seas salmon vessels in the ciety which incarcerated him. There terms, the final version of H.R. 5901 is North Pacific. Also, millions of dollars ! ore to confine a first off ender in every more than $560 million above the appro have been spent by the United Stat.es instance means there is little hope for priations for such purposes last year and to revitalize this fishery and insure its rehabilitation. more than $147 million above the amount continued viability. However, there are many cases where specified by the House in its initial pas Unfortunately, this incident occUITed first offender deserves imprisonment. sage of H.R. 5901 on April 16 of this year. on the high seas outside of the jurisdic While judges have the authority to mete In addition to this departure from rea tion of the Unit.ed States. For this rea out a sentence to these individuals, they sonable spending practices, the House son, we must rely on the good faith and often do not. My legislation. if adopted, Senate conferees failed to retain my cooperation of the Taiwan Government would off er remedy in the case where the amendment to section 314 of the bill. to insure prot.ection of the Bristol Bay Federal prosecutor determined that sus That amendment would require HEW to salmon. pension, probation or terms of sent.ence abide by sound congressional prohibi I have consistently stated the need to were unreasonable. This added tool would tions against forced school busing and my colleagues in the House for us to act operate in both first and second offenses. prevent that bureaucracy from using immediately on extension of our contigu Yet, in the case of the second offense the any interpretation of other legislation ous fisheries zone to 200 miles. If this additional penalty is truly a mandatory to release Federal funds to pay for the was done the protection of our national sentence which may not be suspended by costs of forced busing ot schoolchildren. :fisheries, made necessary by this most the court, nor may probation be granted. As a student, a teacher, an attorney, recent in a series of threats, would be My bfil provides for new terms of sen and as a Member of Congress, I have insured. tence. In the case of ~ first offense, the consistently advocated a strong and vital · Juiy 17, 1975 . EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23471 public education system in this Nation. tection of the trust fund from non-interstate that gasoline true that the administration's · I intend continue demonstrate my highway and va1·ious forms of public trans proposal would return to the general ftmd. to to portation. Further Increases in the gas tax, when advocacy of public education in the fu While the proposal would authorize $800 they must occur, should be related to mo1·e ture. million a year for the urban transportation energy efficient modes of transportation assistance program, this funding is not sub· such as mass transit 01· rails. ject to the same protection as that kept in We are not unmindfUl of the serious task T. P. O'NEILL ID AND l\L~SSACHU the fund for the interstate system. The com of fair allocations of scarce revenue, but we SETTS SUPPORT THE HIGHWAY mittee knows far better than I that the are concernd that once set-asides for trans TRUST FUND competition for appropriations in the general portation are ended, there is no guarantee fund is fierce, and only those programs that funds will be provided constantly in funded by trusts can be guaranteed of ade sufficient quantity. HON. BUD SHUSTER quate moneys. Before the concept of a trust fund is de If Congress is to coiitinue its support and stroyed, w ought t ri examine what wlll hap OF PENNSYLVANI.'\ encouragement of balanced transporta.Uon, it pen to trans Jortation without these guru- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES should examine two courses. We should either antees. I apprecia: e the opportunity to appear be Thursday, July 17, 1975 expand the concept of the current highway trust fund into an overall transportation fore you to< ay, and I am anxious to work Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, as the trust fund, or we should establish a separate further with you on the details of your debate over the highway trust ftmd de public transit trust fund in addition to the response to the President's proposal when velops, it is significant to note that the limited and restricted highway trust fund you begin formulating your program. proposed by the President. For unless there Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, is that measure of protection, public trans Thomas P. O'Neill III, has testified be portation will be shortchanged. This is not fore the Subcommittee on Surface Trans only contrary to congrP.,,s.sional intent, but ALVARO CUNHAL: PORTUGUESE portation in support of the highway flies in the face of the public outcry for ex VOICE OF COMMUNIST TYRANNY trust fund. Lieutenant Governor O'Neill panded transportation services. informed us that Massachusetts is ap In Massachusetts for example, there are a. proximately 80 percent urban so theii< number of legitimate and well thought out HON. LARRY McDONALD support of the trust fund highlights the projects that have the support of State and local officials. These are not the major ex OF GEORGIA fact that urban America, as well as rural IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES America, needs the highway trust fund. pressway projects, favored in certain for mulas, but rante from services to improve Thursday, July 17, 1975 Following is Lieutenant Governor local bus service in small towns and rural O'Neill's testimony which I commend to areas to improvements in some of the oldest Mr. McDON~\LD of Georgia. Mr. my colleagues: and most traveled urban roads. Speaker, having learned from the exam T. P. O'NEILL IlI AND ?vlASSACHUSETTS SuPPOII.T P1·esently the dollar value of these projects ple of Chile that a Marxist-Leninist revo THE HIGHWAY TRUST FuND is well over fom· times the funding we would lution cannot h -. f'f'r.tu-e until a country's Mr. Chairman and members of the com receive from the Federal Government over armed forces havr· been subverted to the mittee, I appreciate the opportunity to ap the next five years under the current pro gram. If the new administration plan is Communist cause, the Portuguese Com pear before the committee and discuss some munists do not intend to make the same aspects of the present interstate highway adopted as proposed, there would be an even program and proposed changes in that sys greater discrepancy between the transporta mistake. tem. I hope to spend a.s much time telling tion needs and available funds. Closely allying itself with the extreme you about the needs of our State and, I a.m If we really intend to encourage urba-n left armed forces movement which trausi t through the creation of a UTAP, an staged a coup on April 24, 1974, the Por sure, other urban and industrialized States. urban transportation assistance program, we It : tuguese Communist Party, in direct has long been apparent that the future must insure an adequate and dependable of transportation in this country lay in the funding level. .cahoots with Moscow, has in turn re development of various kinds of public We of course recognize that Federal trans ceived support from the military for it transit-transit which would permit the portation funds are not an unlimited re revolutionary programs which have in mobility we demand while preserving our . eluded taking over all opposition press environment and protecting us from the self source, and we don't expect them to be. But we must face the fa.ct that if some transpor · and radio stations. created demands of oil consuming auto tation funds are held in a trust fund, and mobiles. Alvaro Cunhal, leader of the Portu others are subject to the normal pruning and guese Commw1ist Party, is of a type The 93d Congrses took a major step to paring of the appropriations process, that ward this future by passing legislation which those actiVities protected by the trust fund rather rare now-a Communist leader allowed for use of the highway trust fund Will flourish, while other transportation pro with the taste of a long-sought victory in from mass transit construction, as well as grams may become severely undernourished. his mouth who, feeling ultimate power for highways. It was the intent of Congress, An expanded general transportation trust within his grasp, does not deign to dis in passing the Interstate Transfer Amend fund would finance the various highway guise his intentions. ment, to encourage public transportation assistance programs as well as our Nation's tlll'ough the use of a fund which has proved Cunhal makes no secret of his con discretionary transit program. It would have tempt for "bow·geois democracy" as he phenomena.Uy successful in encouraging the the advantage of providing a stable source building of highways. The amendment of funding for transportation investment terms the electoral system, and the law. recognized that transportation demands dif without the disadvantage, inherent in both Here for the illumination of my col fered from area to area and changed with the present highway trust fund and the leagues is an interview with Alvaro Cun time. trust fund proposal of the President, of un hal conducted by Italian jow·nalist The highway trust fund, by proViding a duly favoring certain kinds of improve Oriana Fallaci. continuing dependable source of funds, ma.de ments at the expense of others. The article follows: possible the vital links between different I know that these are difficult times and areas of the Nation. there are many demands on you, as there A TALK WrrH THE COMMUNIST LEADER- While there is a need to complete that sys are on us in State government, to allocate "! CARE NOTHING FOR ELECTIONS, tem-except, of course, where the desires of resources. I also know that too often State HA, HA!" planners failed to consider the feelings and officials come to you with their concerns or (By Oriana Fallaci) needs of local residents-there is an equally requests, but ignore the vital and final ques The man who counts most in present-day strong need to fund other kinds of highway tions of financing. I will try not to do that. Portugal, the man who influences the army's construction and transportation systems. In order to fund the tra.nsportation needs power ma.chine, the man, in one sense, who This committee and the Congress are con of the Nation, new revenues will have to be ha.s emerged the winner, although he was sidering proposals to provide direction and raised. Given the existence of more than beaten at the elections, is Alvaro Cunha.I, the sufficient funding for a balanced transporta $8 billion in the present trust fund, it is Portuguese Communist party leader. It isn't tion development. The Ford administration's not clear if that need ls immediate or some too easy to obtain an interview with him. If proposal, while containing some admirable what in the future the existing and antici one succeeds, however, one has only to listen and long worked for changes, fails to fully pated rates of receipts and disbursements to him in order to grasp what is happening achieve either of those goals. indicate that the surplus may decrease very in that country, to obtain a. clear picture. Although changes in the interstate trans slowly. Cunhal ignores diplomacy's nebulous fer provisions of the highway trust fund will But eventually there will be a need for paths. When he opens his mouth, he says allow more fiexibllity in the draw down pro more revenue. Massachusetts, and most what he thinks, With blunt sincerity. Ancl visions which Massachusetts and many mem other States would, I believe, be willing to among the things that he thinks, that he bers of this committee have long worked for seriously discuss funding mechanisms. wants, that he has already partially obtained, the administration proposal removes the pro- Right now, it would seem wise to examine we find a total refusal of democratic liberties, • r 23472 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 1?', 1975 of democracy as we conceive it. The sum and tion results. Yes, I know what you're wishing center, left. We had you against us, too, rou substance of his utterances ls: Either the dic to retort: that the Army voted too. So what? of the international ·press-always talking of tatorship of the proletariat or else Fascism; Its votes were scattered among the various Prague, of Lisbon as of Prague ... while the the third force doesn't count, liberal Social political parties: The Armed Forces Move Vatican radio launched appeals not to vote ism is rubbish. If this attitude harms Euro ment wasn't competing as such. And if you for the left and the Socialists evoked the pean comrades, all the worse for them. He believe the constituent Assembly can meet speaker of civil war, of a. war with Spain if makes no mystery of his opinion. without the M.F .A., you're making a big the Communists came to power, of a Commu The only mystery he makes concerns his mistake. If you believe the Constituent As nist army coup. It was unavoidable that the own person: He refuses to state whether he sembly will be transformed into a. Parlia right should win. has any family or where he lived after lits ment, you're making a ridiculous mistake. It isn' t the right that won, Cunhal. It's the flight from the fo1·tress of Peniche where he No, indeed! The Constituent Assembly will Socialists that won. Nor was there any terror : was interned until 1960, for 14 years in all. (It certainly not form a legislative organ; it will You spoke wherever you liked. The election is, however, believed that he lived in Moscow certainly not become a chamber of deput ies. w as held in a correct manner. It's you, later, and married a Russian.) Paradoxically, one is I promise you. It will be a Constituent As that behaved incorrectly. Unlawfully, in fact . attracted to him. He is friendly, gay, impetu sembly and nothing more, with a limited Ah, but at this point I must explain to ous, apt at repartee and able to make one importance, nothing more. It will meet with. you what·s happening in Portugal, what we laugh even while he is u ttering t he most un in a well-determined political framework, have here. There's a. revolution happening, acceptable principles. Moreover, his intelll well-conditioned by t he agreement signed you know? There's a revolutionary process gence ls lively and sharp despite his blind w'ith the M.F.A. by the force that is not afoot , you know? Even if it is proceeding faith and a hint of naivete that cannot but represented by the M.F'.A. Because it's t he side by side with a bourgeois democratic astonish his listener. (I saw his eyes flicker M.F.A. that launched the revolution on April process t h at sometimes coincides ,vith the and his ears redden when I maliciously in 25, not the Socialist party. aims of 1-he revolutionary process and some sinuated that the Soviet Union, impatient Have I understood y011, properly? You did times cont radicts them. The solution of our with his orthodox excesses, might consider li not say there'd, be no parliament in Portugal? problems lies in the dynamics of revolution, quidating him.) It is hard to resist the fasci You've understood perfectly. I promise you whereas the bourgeois democratic process nation of his handsome, clean-shaven face t here'll be no parliament in Portugal. wants to ent rust it to the old electoral con imbued with faith, his blue eyes and his In that case, why hold elections at all? cepts, iu,.,oklng legality, a judicial situation snow-white hair. (Women find him likable.) Why did. you Communists take part? Why and seeking to protect it with the laws or a. It ls easy to ignore his charm, however, when spend, so much effort and money? previous regime. It refers to laws that must one reflects on how ruthless this man is, He, He, he! Maybe you have a. point there. be respected. But in the revolutionary proc when one remembers he doesn't believe in Maybe it would have been better if we hadn't ess, laws are made, not respected. Do you see? freedom. ta.ken pa.rt. But one can't always do what one The revolution doesn't respect old laws; it CUNHAL. Say what you like, think what you likes; one can't always follow programs. makes new ones. like: We Portuguese communists need the Everything was already planned, decided. So Perfectly right. Perfectly true. But, in that army. And we're supporting the army. We've many contradictory factors had intervened case, why speak of democracy? Democracy no use for a popular front with the Socialists, t hat heterogeneous Government, for in is pluralism; it is free thinking. It's elections a pact like the one formulated by Nenni and st ance. That large coalition of power that that must be respected. Elections in which Togllatti in 1948. We have already signed the even included the Popular Democratic party. all take part and not just the parties tol kind of pact we need with the M.F.A., the We Communists had indeed told the army erated by you. Armed Forces Movement. In this country it ts men that the P.P.D. shouldn't have been in That's yolu- opil.i.ion. It's by no means impossible to form a popular front without cluded, that the country couldn't be led to mine. the army. The Socialists' great mistake lies in wards Socialism by means of an extensive So I p erceive. But then, what on earth do not having understood such a simple truth, democratic coalition. But they insisted on you mean when you use the word democ 1n having estranged themselves from the lumping together Socialists, Communists, racy? army despite all the votes obtained. Even Social Democrats and the various trends Certainly not what you pluralists mean. now, they can't manage to grasp this fact. within the Armed Forces Movement ... We To me, d mocracy means getting rid of capi They refuse to acknowledge that we are en had warned them the elections constituted a talism, of trusts. And I'll add: In Portugal, gaged in a revolution together with the army, danger, that they were premature, that if no henceforth, there eXists no possibility for a a revolution started and led by the army. The measures were taken we'd lose them, that democracy such as the kind you have in Socialists already backed the wrong horse on one can't mix the passive vote with mili Western Europe. By "henceforth" I mean "no April 25. At decisive moments, we Commu t ancy. But we were able to prevent only the lon ger." Of course, if on April 24 we had nists have always arrived first. On March 11, regional elections. They insisted on holding been told, "You'll have a political set-up :for instance, when there was the coup at the one for the Constituent Assembly. like the one in France or in Italy or in Eng tempt, we didn't wait to see which way the Cunhal, elections provicle the only ther lo.nd," we'd have exclaimed: "How wonder wind would blow. We didn't fiddle about try mometer for assessing a people's will. ful, what a relief!" But things went differ ing to discover which group was more likely One of the thermometers. Only one. And I ently; the way events moved opened other prospects to us, a.nd you can't expect a. peo to win. We immediately took the responsl say this just to please you or, better, because billty of denouncing the counterrevolution if I answered "no thermometer," we'd go on ple's wishes to limit themselves or crystal ary danger, of condemning Spinola. And we :forever; yes, no, yes, no. But how can you lize. In other words: Your Western democ remained on the side of the Armed forces. speak of using a thermometer when there are racy is no longer enough for us. Your districts where people can't even read and coexistence of democratic freedoms and mo F ALLACI: Say what yO'U Zike, think what nopolistic power no longer interests us. We you Zike: It isn't permissible to neutralize write? Districts where propaganda ls carried wouldn't attain it even if we could. Because an4 ignore a party that represents the greater out by whispering: "If you vote hammer and sickle, the Communists will come and we don't want to. We don't want a democ mafonty of your people, the party that won racy like yours. We don't even wa.nt a. Social the election. If one doesn't accept the rules give you an injection behind your ear." What you're saying is that the people are ism, or, rather, a. dream o! Socialism, like o/ the election game. yours? Is that clear? But we Communists don't accept the rules immature, Cunhal. It's always an excuse for dictatorships. And it's exactly what the Fas And how! of the election game! You err in taking this In this country we need thorough, radical concept as your starting point. No, no, no: cists say. Well ••• It doesn't mean that the people transformation at the social and the eco I care nothing for elections. Nothing! Ha, ha! nomic level. There a.re two choices before us: It you believe it's all a question of the per are immature ... it means that the elec toral method isn't the only one. . .. either a monopoly with a strong reactionary centage of votes obtained by one party or government or the end of monopolies wit h a the other, you're laboring under a gross delu The truth is that you didn't expect t o lose so heavily, Cunhal. strong Communist democracy. Capitalism in sion! If you think the Socialist party with its Portugal ha.s developed in a. very individual 40 per cent and the Popular Party With its No, no. I knew the right would win. Hadn't I even warned the army? I expected more istic way-based on backward industry, a 27 per cent constitute the majority, you're primitive agriculture, a. poverty never I!ght the victim of a misunderstanding! They votes in Lisbon, true. I expected more votes in several districts, in the South . . . but I ened by technology. Moreover, it has always aren't the majority. enjoyed the protection of the Government Are you joking, Cunhal? Or is arithmetic never deluded myself that we'd obtain the majority. Tha.t would have been an un establishment. It was the Fascist state itself nothing more than opinion? that promoted a trust system by its use of I'm telling you that elections have nothing, founded hope. Anti-Communist feeling ran violent repression and its enforcement of t he or very llttle, to do With the dynamics of so high that in some villages I couldn't even hold a meeting. On the walls they scribbled. miserable conditions the workers lived in. Our revolution. Whether you like it or not, wheth capitalism has a.Iwa.ys been an underdevel er the Socialists like it or not. I'm telling you " Cunha.I, if you come here, you die." The oped one, not at all to be compared with the that the election process is but a marginal agricultural electorate was very unfavorable types existing in other European count ries. complement of said dynamics. Because the to us. The election campaign was held in a There's always been an enormous di1ference Armed Forces Movement, ln this country, ls a. climate of terror in the countryside. And between the salaries of our workers and those political force. An independent force, with everywhere, the enemy to be overcome wasn't of other European workers, an abyss between its own political thinking, its polltlcal auton Fascism, it was the Portuguese Communist their mutual standards of living. So I'm. in omy, even if it isn't represented in the elec- party. We had everyone against us: right, t erested in gett ing rid of monopolies, even i! July 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23473 we're doing It in ra.ther a disorderly way Just Oh, how sad to think they've suffered so like last night, when they sta.rted shouting at present. Wb.a.t you see now 1n Portugal is much because of me! Oh, how mortified I that the political prisoners' cam.pa contained but the beginning. A temporary situation, 1n feel! They ha.d that possibility, and I spoiled Communists who had plotted With the fact. Don't believe that the nationalization it for them! You know what I think? If a Fascists. already achieved has followed a blueprint, a Communist party can suffer damage by events Prison camps? What next? Aren't the program. It's Just a solution to immediate taking place in another country, if it has to jails enough? How many political internees problems. Even without wanting Socialism, bear the consequences, then it means have you in Portugal today? nationalization was overdue. And here you that.•• I don't know. In any case. not many, not come babbling of election results, democratic • . . it isn't worth much? It may not be enough. They set them free too easily. They freedoms, liberty I worth much, but the Italian Communist arrest them and then throw them out the Is it because you don't Zike that kind of party, notwithstanding, can summon up next day. Sometimes these military are real talk that you've had the Socialist daily Re seven million votes, whereas you didn't get ly too mild. And yet, they've made a revolu publica suppressed? Is it because you don't even 700,000. Have you ever meditated this tion. care for freedom that you're monopolized. fact? Have you never considered the advis Listen, Cunha!, here one hears of nothing all the information media, from newspapers ability of making the choice Togliatti made, but revolution. What revolution? Revolutions to radio to television? of inserting yourself in the so-called bour occur when the people participate. Aprll 25 I haven't monopolized anything. The press geois democracy? was a coup d'etat, not a revolution. is self-managed ideologically, and I'm agree No, no, no, no, no, no and no! We've already By no means! If you consider the M.F.A. able. It follows Portugal's revolutionary proc obtained much more this way. Today there just a group of conspirators who meet one ess and ls entirely free. Of course, if the are no more private banks in Portugal and fine day to engage in a plot, it shows you workers believe some editor or staff if coun all the fundamental sectors have been na don't understand what's happened in Por terrevolutionary, they have every right to tionalized; agricultural reform is on the way, tugal. It wasn't a coup: We Communists said demand their removal. It's even their duty, ca.pi talism is destroyed and monopolies are so at once. It was a movement of democratic both spiritual and political. Everywhere, in about to be destroyed. And all this is ir forces within the army with meetings of 400 Portugal, a paper's workers may evict the reversible. Irreversible I So my answer to the officers at a time discussing ways and means paper's editor. Or refuse to print the paper Communists in Western countries, to their of changing the regime. I shouldn't even call for him. That's what happened 1n the case of complaints ls: We don't await the results of them meetings: I should call them assem Republica. The Socialists behaved hyster elections to change things and destroy the blies. And if you ask me where the people ically; they made a scandal of the affair to past. Our way is a revolution and has noth were during those assemblies, I'll answer that remind people they'd won the election. The ing in common with your systems. the Armed Forces Movement wouldn't have truth is that the workers rebelled because Do you believe Portugal will go been formed if the people had not already Republica published nothing but attacks Communist? started the struggle. The progressive officers against the P.C.P., libels against the P.C.P. Indeed I do! It's my aspiration, since I'm didn't fall from heaven, were not born spon and criticism of the revolution: They began a Communist myself. And it ls indisputable taneously like mushrooms after rain and sun by censoring the texts they found unfair and that Portugal, as things now stand, is moving shine. But to convince you, I must make my then revolted. They were quite right to do so. toward Socialism. The only thing I can't analysis. What if Socialist workers were to do the say, as things now stand, ls what form that Please, don't bother. same to your papers? What would yo11, say to Socialism will take. Maybe I ought to be No bother. Here it is. The last years of the them then, Cunhal? able to, seeing I'm in charge of a party by Fascist regime were difficult ones even for He, he! I'd say: You fellows .... no means defeated. But, frankly, I don't feel the dominant capitalist groups. The colonial Listen, Cunhal: One even finds you, be up to it. I don't know why. We Communists war absorbed 43 per cent of the national cause you're overbearing and make no secret would like to have everything, but we have resources and those groups found out sup of it, a tyrant who takes no pains to mask ~i3 to reckon with very complicated, very con porting it no longer served their purposes. tyranny. On the other hand, don't you realize tradictory reality. Our program for a Com Apart from everything else, it isolated them the harm you're doing to the European left munist Portugal is certainly open to amend from the rest of Europe and impeded their and particularly to your Communist com ment. We've signed a five-year pact with the economic expansion. Caetano would have to rades in other countries? Just consider the M.F.A. And we haven't the slightest inten revise his international policy and liberalize Spanish Communist Party. • .. tion of aligning ourselves against the army. his Government, they kept on repeating anx Ahl Poor Spanish Communist Party. Ah! What if the military discover they're not iously. This anxlety found a response in Poor Spanish Communists! How their plight so fond of you as you are of them, Cunhal? Spinola and other generals. Spinola. was in moves me, how I suffer for them! What if they transform Portugal into some telligent, well-prepared and had a following. Just consider the Italian Communist party thing like Peru? However, there waa also another trend with and the service you've done the Italian No .•. I don't think so. No, not Peru. in the army: the progressive officers. An ele Christian Democratic party...• But suppose it happens. mentary one, we must admit, not ideological. Ohl How sorry I am, how afflicted, navre! Well, then I'll tell you: You can exclude Few had the necessary preparation: com· Je suls na.vrel Vraiment navre! Oh! Poor the idea that in Portugal there exists a munist cells, for instance, existed among the Italian Communists! Je pleure pour les Com political force able to survive without the soldiers but seldom among the officers. And munlstes Italiensl I weep for all European Communist party. Or, rather: Without the the movement evolved rather as a caste than Communists, I reproach myself, I curse my Communists, the revolution is impossible. a democratic one. Then the officers began to self, I suffer on their behalf l Yes, I know I'm not saying this to express an opinion: hold meetings to discuss their career prob their complaints. They're the ones they re I'm saying it to state a fact. I'm not saying lems and the discussions expanded. They ma peat to me whenever they come here. "Why it to imply blackmail, either; I'm saying it tured. And when both trends, Spinola's that are you doing these things?" "Why don't to demonstrate that we're conscious of our only wanted the liberalization of the regime you accept some of the democratic proce unexpendability. The military are aware of and the progressive officers' that wanted dures?" "Why do you prevent the Christian this too and have no idea. of attempting to much more, found themselves shoulder to Democrat party ta.king pa.rt 1n the election?" proceed without us. Neither now nor in the shoulder on April 25 •.• and so on and so on and amen. What Christ future. . . . Cunhal stepped in and went to worlc ian Democrat party? All there existed was a However, there are some military who on the progressive officers. Until he had tiny party that had been formed a bare four don't like you. I refer to the Maoists, who them where he wanted them. weeks earlier, with a fascist at its head. A declare themselves fed up with the Portu That's not the way to put it. We Com fascist who should have been in prison since guese Communist party's influence on the munists had no contacts before April 25. Sept. 28, in fact, because he had already Revolutionary Council and the Armed We did foresee something, but we couldn't betrayed the Armed Forces Movement with Forces Movement. forecast anything for certain because we Spinola. A young reactionary party that There are certainly some Maoists con had no agents within the army. One can't didn't even have a Catholic base and that cealed in the army, and it 1s obvious they even say we had lots of sympathizers there. had already attempted conspiracy.••• oppose us, since they are inspired by the In fact, the new leader considered was a All that has still to be proved and, in any forces of reaction. This orientation of Maoist moderate: Costa Gomes. Spinola took Costa case, wasn't the M.D.P. (Movimento Demo groups is universal, the same the whole Gome's place because it was Spinola. who cratico Portugue.s, a Communist front] also world over. Their enemy isn't the middle negotiated with Caetano, and the latter de such a small party but recently foxmed for class, it isn't capitalism: They themselves clared he would surrender only on condi your convenience? have risen from the middle class, or even tion Spinola assume leadership. However, We are looking through two very different from capitalism. Their enemy is the Com that's not what I wanted to explain. It's the windows. Your window isn't mine. munist party. The Portuguese Maoists are fact that it's the army that overthrew the That appears obvious to me. However, I like the Italian, French or German Maoists: fascist dictatorship, but it•s the people that find it strange that you should sneer so at puppets of the reaction against the Com imprinted the revolutionary dynamics. :rn. your Communist brethren in another coun munist party. And they do constitute a fact, it's the people that assaulted police try. The Ita.Uan Communist party was strlv· danger. On the other hand, they have no headquarters and freed political prisoners. ing for the historical compromise and possibility of selztng power. All they can do I can demonstrate thts because there are you .••• 1s attempt to divide, engage in provocation. films of the events. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 17, 1975 Revolutions are launched to give people Paul expla.ined to me that recently the tions at last yea.r"s level. Also, I woultl a better life. That doesn't seem to me to be temple had a pulpit exchange with St. have voted "aye" on rollcall No. 371, an the case in Portugal. Joachim Church of Cedarhurst, Long Is I'll admit it. Our economy is still dis amendment to H.R. 6706, which sought astrous, even after nationalization. But I land, N.Y. On Friday evening, June 6, to provide for the control of White react like an authentic revolutionary to 1975, Father Joseph J. D'Angelo was the House staffing by congressional author the bitter reality and have the courage to guest preacher at the temple's Sabbath ization in lieu of statutory limita.tion. oppose strikes, excessive wage claims, to re evening service, and on Sunday, June 8, peat that one mustn't lapse into demagogy, the temple's Rabbi Mark N. Goldman into a competition of who promises more. was the guest preacher at the service at This very morning, I've had a discussion St. Joachim Church. As a result of this NATIONAL SPEED LIMIT? with the representatives of hotel staffs. I asked them: "Do you believe you'll solve exchange, a poem was written by one of your problems by ever-increasing wage the congregants of St. Joachim Church claims? Momentarily, maybe. But what about and sent to Rabbi Goldman. It is a re HON. EDWIN B. FORSYTHE tomorrow? Tomorrow you'll have no more markable poem and I wish to share it OF NEW JERSEY tourists (already this year very few are with my colleagues. It follows: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES coming) and the hotels will have to close SHABAT SHALOM! down. You must make fewer demands and Thursday, July 17, 1975 I work more, produce more." Mr. FORSYTHE. Mr. Speaker, with If the Italian unions could hear you! .How can I share the rightness of this night, the Congress diligently working on ways Why should I worry about the Italian this place? unions? Truth is truth and demagogy is These are my people to come to grips with the energy prob demagogy. If we don't help ourselves, no This my community lems at hand, one basic energy conser body's going to help us ... Any more ques These my roots. vation measure, already in effect, is con tions? Tonight I belonged-a spiritual Jew who pro tinually overlooked not only by Congress Only two. The first is What aboitt NATO? fesses Christ. but also by the American driving pub The other day, I met the United States The words that were spoken were words I lic. There is a national speed limit of Ambassador who was here before Carlucci. knew, They were not strangers to my ears. 55 miles per hour. This reduced speed He was with some English people and they limit, possibly one of our most efficient asked me: "But how is this? You Portu "You shall love the Lord your God guese Communists support NATO. You really With your whole heart, energy saving measures, is constantly want to stay in it?" My answer: "Who told With your whole mind, abused and ignored. How many times you we support it, that we want to stay in With your whole soul." have we been sped past by cars travel it? We have merely stated that we don't "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." ing in excess of 55 miles per hour, and wish to discuss the problem for the time n frowned at by passing cars as if inter being. It needs to be considered in a broader Tonight was a fulfillment fering with the flow of traffic? I imagine, context: World peace, the Warsaw Pact, the Of the promised of God. all of us, much too often. cooperation of countries with different po Hear, O seeker after Truth, I would like to urge my colleagues to litieal regimes. Some day, we'll tackle it. The Lord your God is one. continue pressing for enforcement of the We're in no hurry. For the time being, be And we shall be one with You. longing to NATO doesn't present us with any Your covenant with man national speed limit, and to keep it in problems." Did not seel{ division, but unity. mind as we wrangle with energy legisla The second question concerns the Warsaw m tion. Of course we as Members of Con Pact. Is it or isn't it true that you voiced ap I have prayed for the day gress should set the example and adhere proval for Soviet intervention in Czechoslo When Christians and Jews could really live as to the speed limit as well. It is possible, vakia? brothers do; as the following article from the Oil : You want to end on that note, do you? Could ignore the differences Daily, written by Marvin Murphy indi E I'm sorry to appear brutal. Could rejoice in just being a part of the cates, that simply the enforcement of the ' Why "brutal"? Its entirely true that I ap whole; proved and supported Soviet intervention in national speed limit may conserve gaso Could work for good-for life-l'chaim! line and go a long way to alleviate fuel Czechoslovakia, the so-called tanks in Could see the evil-the division-and reject Prague. And there's no shame in admitting it . shortages. .it; at most, and sometimes, it's unreason IV The article follows: able. But such was my, our, choice, and we Last night I dreamed a strange dream. NEWSWATCH were right. In every sense: political, his (By Marvin Murphy) torical and cultural. And I don't care a fig for I could see the world and all its people. whatever interpretation is given it. And I'd There were people at war with each other Lessons from the Arab embargo days seem be grateful if this interview would stress this and themselves to have been quickly forgotten on the na point well. And another too. I repeat and They were evil. tion's high ways, and you can count on this conclude: Portugal will never be a country There were people striving for perfection Newswatcher's personal testimony for that. of democratic freedoms and monopolies. It Trying to be one with God- Cruising along at a speed of between 45 won't be a fellow-traveler of your bourgeois I was one of those. and 50 miles an hour on a six-lane divided democracies. Because we won't allow it to be. And we knew highway, he was pulled over by a frowning state policeman and asked to explain why he We might land with another fascist Portugal. If we stopped trying The world would end. was going so slow. It's a risk we have to run, although I don't Other cars whizzed by well in excess of the believe in it because I don't believe in an 55 mph speed limit, imposed nationwide by other fascist coup: We Communists are federal law during the embargo. equipped to prevent it, thanks to our alliance PERSONAL EXPLANATION After I explained about my car troubles, with the military. But, certainly, we shall which forced me to keep the speed down, he not have a Social Democrat Portugal. Please seemed sympathetic. I pulled over into the make that quite clear, will you? HON. JOHN BRECKINRIDGE exit lane to a.void being squeezed out by fast i.:. Never fear, Cunhal, I will. OF KENTUCKY bumper-to-bumper traffic later, I said. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES He checked my driver's license and regis tration, then sent me on my way with the Thursday, July 17, 1975 warning to "speed it up." SHABAT SHALOM Mr. BRECKINRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, "Where you headed?" he asked. I appreciate this opportunity to make a "On the way to a fire,'' I could have said. But I didn't. statement of personal explanation. On "Milford," I answered. HON. JOHN W. WYDLER Wednesday, July 9, 1975, due to the To Perhaps I should explain: OF NEW YORK bacco Subcommittee field hearings held Milford is in New Jersey farm country, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Marion, S.C. I was forced to leave not far from Pennsylvania. Washington before the House completed The trooper shook his head-he apparently l Thursday, July 17, 1975 the business of the day. I would there recognized my driving traits. In Milford, we Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, recently fore like the record to show that had I slow down for squirrels, pheasant and other t' wildlife. I received a letter from Samuel Paul, been present I would have voted "nay" Speeders run the risk of colUding with ; the president of Temple Sinai of Long on rollcall No. 370, an amendment to deer. i Island, in Lawrence, N.Y. The temple is H.R. 6706, which sought to retain the Cars have to stop daily for ducks crossing l in my congressional district, and Mr. number of high level White House posi- Main Street on the way to a stream which July 17, 1tJ75 ~EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS runs tbroUgh town. They are smart enough Most recently, $1 million were taken their fundamental right to national self· to go across at the traffic Ught. but they're by the State to build an atomic bomb; determination. evidently color blind-they cross on red. yel one million precious dollars were taken And. yet, the Soviet Union does not low or green. It's Just a. thought • • • but maybe the out of the mouths of hungry Indians to conduct lt.s subversive activities alone. nation could learn a few safety lessons from ward the construction of a mllltary ma Communist influence has made great in such small town "slowpokes.'• chine. I fail to see how atomic bombs roads into Asia and Europe and con The triple A ought to know about this, I could be made edible, could be used to tinues to radiate throughout Latin decided. feed India's millions of starving people. America and Africa. We look with dis Melitta Hartung, research editor at the In addition, Mrs. Gandhi, the great may at the recent Communist gains in American Automobile Association in Falls self-appointed conscience of mankind, Portugal and the continuing erosion of Church, Va.. listened to my story and agreed civil liberties. We have already witnessed that we need to start a nationwide "slow has recently begun to lecture the United down" campaign. States on morality. And, at the same the suppression of basic human rights in Being conscious of the huge drain on en time, she has insisted that we make more Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia fol ergy supplies from "gasoline guzzlers," I aid available to her, an option that is lowing a Communist takeover and the asked for statistics on the effect of the 56 increasingly hard to swallow, increas institutionalization of tyranny. mph speed llmlt. ingly unacceptable to Americans. This era of detente should not obscm·e It's considera-ble, she said, though she Mrs. Gandhi does not seem to realize reality. The peoples of tht: captive na didn't have statistics to show how much tl:at the real test of a democracy is hard tions have been imprisoned in their lands gasoline was saved by slower speeds. The big bonus, she said. was in the num times. America passed the test of Water by the iron-fisted Communist regimes. ber of llves It saved. gate. However, the hard times in India Denied the right to emigrate, they must I checked out some of the statistics she have only resulted in the establishment also endure governmental efforts to erase gave me with the Chicago-based National of an odious dictatorship, complete with the richness of their national cultures in Safety Council. Energy-saving speed curbs mass arrests, press censorship, and re an assimilationist drive. Either conform reduced highway fatalities 17%. the council pression of political opponents. In short, or suffer persecution-there is no other told me. Mrs. Gandhi and her country hav~iled alternative for these captive peoples. The Here•s the two year toll, as reported by the freedom we enjoy here does not exist council: 56.800 deaths in 1973, 46.200 in 1974. the test. · Fatalities for the first four months this Therefore, I sincerely believe that the there. year are up 3%, and as the nation moves into United States should not continue to At the same time, this time of im the busy vacation season, figures for the next pour foreign aid into a country such as proved relations between East and West four months may go even higher. India where respect for our benevolence, should encom·age our ceaseless efforts to Even though highway speeds have started let alone our democratic ideals. seems a alleviate the plight of the captive na picking up. the toll for the quarter is still dream of the past. Previously, such as tions. It is indeed fitting for us to set 22 % below the same period of '73. aside 1 week each year in protest against One factor behind the lower death toll last sistance had been rationalized on the year was a 3 % decline in travel AAA re grounds that it is vital to the survival the incessant enslavement of these once ported. of the world's largest democracy. How sovereign nations. The Soviet dissident Conclusion: Efforts to reduce high speed ever, India is no longer the worM's larg Alexandr Solzhenitsyn ended hJs recent driving, coupled with President Ford•s est democracy. She is no longer a democ speech here with a plea: "We beg you to heavier tax on on imports-aimed at reduc racy at all. If Mrs. Gandhi continues to come and interfere." Let this observance ing highway travel-may not be such a bad request foreign aid, other countries, reemphasize our commitment to keep idea. those in support of her current pollcies, this issue in the forefront of our inter will have to satisfy her needs. It should national relations. It is ow· moral re .. no longer be up to the United States to sponsibllity to keep the cause of freedom DICTATORSHIP IN INDIA doso. alive for the captive nations. HON. LEO C. ZEFERETTI CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK OF NEW YORK LOUISIANA DOCTORS SPEAK IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, July 17. 1975 HON. JOHN W. WYDLER HON. W. HENSON MOORE :M:r.ZEFERETTI.:M:r.Speaker,forthe OF NEW YORK OP LOUISIANA past two decades, the people or the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES United States have been repeatedly told that it is largely our responsibility to Wednesday, July 16, 1975 Thursday, July 17, 1975 pour large qualtities of foreign aid into :Mr. WYDLER. :Mr. Speaker, once :M:r. :M:OORE. :M:r. Speaker, the Louisi India. And, unsel:.fLshly, and often to our again, we pause to observe Captive Na ana State Medical Society has gone on own detriment, we have done so, despite tions Week as an expression of our con record in opposition to two bills pending India's own unwillingness and inability cern for the suffering of those peoples in the Senate that view rapid increases to deal with her own problems at home. deprived of their national liberty. Re in professional liability insurance rates Simultaneously, India has nestled ever cent events emphasize the need to keep from a Federal vantage point. Instead of closer to the Soviet Union and the Com the cause of freedom alive. Or else, we Federal intervention into questions asso munist world, following policies that op shall watch its demise at the hands of ciated with medical liability, Louisiana pose ours abroad and echoing theirs the oppressing forces, which are active physicians prefer to address this issue on rather than our thoughts concerning the everywhere. The Soviet satellization of a State level. world at large. And, if to compound mat Eastern Europe in the 1940's was just the The problem of skyrocketing increases ters even further, we have begun to wit beginning of the continuing Communist in such insurance premiums is acute, but ness India's new desire to openly de strategy for world domination. The I urge my colleagues to contact their re nounce the United States, to denounce tragic fall of Cambodia and South Viet spective State medical societies and so the democratic Gove1nment she once nam, despite the heroic struggle of these licit their views on State versus Federal tried to emulate. valiant peoples, violated the democratic jurisdiction over legislation relating to Internally, India's policies seem even process of government upon which this professional liability insurance before more bleak to the observer. For exam country was founded. making an assessment of any bills pend ple, time after time, India has suppressed Focusing on the Baltic States, the So ing in Congress. dissent by preventing a plebiscite ln viet Union is seeking to legitimate its I commend to your attention the fol Kashmir, suppressed disagreement In illegal occupation of these nations at the lowing language of Resolution 819 as Assam, or shot any Na.ga who dared ask Conference on Security and Cooperation adopted by the Louisiana State Medical for a free state. India invaded Goa and in Europe. We must never recognize the Society House of Delegates on May 4: has gone head in building a massive mili forced incorporation of the independent RESOLUTION tary machine. And, all of this has been nations of Estonia, Latvia. and Lithuania Whereas, the Louisiana. S tat e Medical So done at the expense of her people. by the Soviet Union in blatant denial of ciety Sa fully cognizant of the implicatiom 23476 .EXTENSIONSI OF REMARKS' July 17, 1975 and severity of the current Professional Lia mined by supply and demand factors, there's country, and to insist on gasoline short bility Insurance problem, and no wa.y profits can be too high. Whereas, physicians welcome the input of "The higher the profits the better, because age and long lines waiting to the pump. a.11 interested individuals, organizations and there is more money available to finance the I hope it is not speaking too late to public officials but do not believe that an better life in this country." urge the President to insist on a veto. appropriate approach lies in federal inter Stults noted an observation by journalist vention, be it therefore Eric Sevaried that the "Chief cause of prob Resolved, that the Louisiana State Medical lems is solutions." Society believes that solution to the current The implication, Stults said, is that un SCHOOL SAFETY Professional Liability Insurance problem qualified people try to solve ceraln problems, must be found at the State level, and be it or people qualified for other things are asked further to solve problems in an area they should HON. MARIO BIAGGI Resolved, that the Louisiana State Medical never attempt. OF NEW YORK Society is opposed to federal legislation which "Tom Martin, the educator who wrote would direct or interfere with solution of the 'Ma.lice in Blunderla.nd,' said our problems IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Professional Liability Insurance problem at are ca.used by the 'provocative purveyors of Thursday, July 17, 1975 the State level, and be it further panaceas,' " the banker added. Resolved, that the Louisiana State Medical As for the state of the economy, Stults 1\.1:r. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, the Sub Society is specifically opposed to "National said the country's major problems have bot committee on Elementary, Secondary, Medical Injury Compensation Insurance Act tomed out. and Vocational Education has recently of 1975" (S. 215) introduced by Senator "Our problems are mostly behind us addressed itself to school safety. Even a Inouye and "National Medical Malpractice what we have to do now ls fight the solu cursory examination of this problem Insurance and Arbitration Act of 1975" (S. tions," he said. suggests the pessimistic conclusion that 482), introduced by Sena.tor Kennedy. Stults noted that housing and autos are on their way back up, that inventory reduc America's public schools, particularly tion for all practical purposes has been com those in densely populated urban areas, ~. Consumer confidence also has seen are losing the idyllic atmosphere neces d t!!lll.l, and the inflation trend is favorable, sary for an effective learning experience ECONOidIC SITUATION Jed. and are acquiring the sordid aspects as . ~ults marveled at the abll1ty of the econ sociated with many of America's most omy to withstand the shock of the double dangerous and violent city streets. To HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI digit inflation, the energy crisis, an OF n.LINOIS unprecedented political upheaval, and an day's schools are nothing but the exten sion of the streets as far as crime is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES all-time low in consumer confidence-all occurring in a relatively short period of time. concern€d. Thursday, July 17, 1975 "Even in this recession, the economy is The problem is multifaceted and com Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, as functioning to the benefit of more than 95 plex. There are no instant panaceas. On percent of our citizens," he said. "This hasn't the other hand, the lack of an obvious, the Congress plods along adding layer been given the kind of recognition it after layer to the Federal bureaucracy, deserves." easy solution is no excuse for allowing there is no doubt that an overabundance Stults had criticized a couple of decisions the problem to proceed unchecked. of regulations and Federal interference, President Ford made early in his adminis Two possible approaches to the prob working with the economic system as well tration [the pardoning of Richard Nixon and lem are available for immediate study, as the frustrating paternalism of the the amnesty otter to Viet Nam War deserters] and, hopefully, for prompt implementa huge Federal Government, is adversely without first consulting his advisers or mem tion. First, educators must cease their affecting the overall American economic bers of the Congress. complicity in the conspiracy of silence "If Ford had devised a game plan-which which envelops the issue of rampant situation. I don't think he did-I don't believe he could These points are very effectively made have done a better job of showing the nation crime in the schools. Their reluctance to by a very distinguished civic and business he was a strong decision-maker," said the report school crime is an open invi leader, Allen P. Stults. In the Chicago banker. tati on to further indulgence in illegal Tribune of July 11, Nick Poulos, finan "But since then, I think he has done an acts. Second, the predilection of many cial editor of that publication, carried excellent job; demonstrating he is a thought courts to draw hard and fast lines at age Mr. Stults's remarks in his column, ful statesman who does use his advisers, 16 between adult and juvenile crime must careful not to shoot from the hip, yet capa be reevaluated. Most heinous crimes are "Moneyscene." I am pleased to insert ble of deoisive action as in the case of the this article at this time: Mayaguez ship seizure. committed by young people under 16, MONEYSCENE-STULTS HITS GOVERNMENT "He's made great strides in building the and this disturbing fact must be the ECONOMIC TAMPERING confidence of the nation in the fa.ct it has point of departure for any new policy in (By Nick Poulos) an honest, dedicated statesman at the helm." this area. Young people under the age of "Our country is suffering from the sickness 16 are cognizant of the fact that their of an overgoverned society," Banker Allen P. crimes go unpunished, including their Stults was ruminating. violent crimes. Judicial permissiveness in "Government's tampering with the basic PRODUCTION ROLLBACKS this area, while no doubt the product of components of our economy-supply, de noble intentions, in fact, merely encour mand, and prices-was, is, and always will be ages the unhealthy and dangerous cli detrimental. HON. JAMES G. MARTIN mate in many American classrooms. "And every government intervention is OF NORTH CAROLINA harmful. Without exception, it hurts the Tranquility and the absence of fear are long-range economic well-being of the coun IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not merely desirable characteristics of try." Thursday, July 17, 1975 the classroom; they are necessary ones. Stults, chairman and chief executive officer On an interim basis, school guards, or of American National Bank & Trust Company l\.1:r.1\.1:ARTIN.Mr.Speaker,Ispoketoo where possible, police officers, must be of Chicago, told his visiting interviewer that soon. placed in schools plagued by chronic ju most of the country's ills could be solved Yesterday after hearing the encourag venile violence. In the long term, how by simply letting the economy operate with ing remarks of the gentleman from ever, the preservation of peace in the out interference. Texas (Mr. KRUEGER) and the gentleman "Our markets are the most efficient ele classroom will be better achieved by a ments of our economy,'' Stults continued. from California (1\.1:r. REES) I was lulled voluntary acquiescence in the desirability "They properly assess and they properly into the hope that the Congress could of the open classroom and not by forced price. Price functions as the chastiser, the join with the President on a P1·ogram of compliance under the visible threat of punisher of the oversupplier. gradual deregulation of domestic oil. an officer's club. Responsibility for in "The economic healt h of our country is the The vote just taken today, adopting culcating in students the value of orderly key to our overall well-being, a.nd profits a.re the conference report on H.R. 4035 by behavior rests primarily with their home the barometer of economic health. a vote of 239 to 172, the House agreed to environments. "These profits are the sole source-directly or indirectly--of financing all cultural, edu a Senate amendment which amounts to I received a letter this week from a cational, and social activities. a price rollback. concerned parent, a Mrs. Rudolph Velky "In a free enterprise system there are no Apparently, the liberal majority is con from Solon, Iowa, whose son was sub uncontrollable monopolies. With our free tent to insist on confrontation, to in jected to verbal harassment and physi markets working so t hat prices are deter- sist on reduced production of oil in this cal assault for resisting in his school an July 17, 1975 EXTENSIO S OF REMARK 2347,7, offer of sale of drugs and for 1·eporting make their way in society. If need be then In September that all changed. My hus the incident to the school authorities. this ls the place for those. They are definitely band was transferred from Pea.rl Harbor sick. (my son and I lived in California whlle he Her letter sheds light on the near uni Now one more thing, our same 15 year old was stationed. in Hawaii) to Alameda NAS. versal concern with this unfortunate got his drivers license this spring and was We sold our home and moved to Marin phenomenon of the erosion of the at caught speeding. We pulled his license for 33 County as housing was (and still is) un mosphere in the Nation's classrooms. I days, plus the state pulled it for another 30 available in Alameda. As a member of the am including her letter in the RECORD for da.ys and he has to take a written test over military community I have become more the edification of my colleague again. He also was fined a big amount which aware of the problems that face the military Representative MARIO BIAGGI, he ls paying us back for at rate of little by fa.mily. plowing and cultivating in the field which I do not intend to list here the benefits State of New York, he dearly hates to do because it does so slow. tliat bave been eliminated over the past ten New York, N.Y. He has been a good kid other wise but he years. After all, they are gone and there is HELLO MR. REPRESENTATIVE: I read in our Cedar Rapids Gazette about your urging for needed to know how money comes from hard no sense in beating a dead horse. After sev a stiffer penalty for the young people. Please work and at 80° in field all day and little pay eral months of careful deliberation and after may I tell you our story: Last December my it doesn't come as easy as it goes. writing to several members of Congress re 15 year old son was offered drugs by another We told him he has no right to threaten garding the commissary issue, I ha.ve come boy whom years earlier had been to our others lives by driving like that or no right to the conclusion that the answers to the house to play. My son turned him into the to do it to bis own life. We told him it ls not problems of the military community lie in school officials. But, with all the good work because we hate him but because we love the Congress. You have the solution available of the school and the police the boy only him and would like to see him grow up and to you. ha.d 3 months of home tutoring and back to have a nice life that he has to do this, and We have truth in lending, more consumer school a.gain to the same bunch. In other with the realization that you many times advocates are appearing every day and Amer words, some judge pa,tted the boy on the ha.ve to work for nothing and take a lot of icans are becoming awa.i·e of their rights. guff from people and that he has to a.bide What I believe could stop a lot of the prob back and kissed him for being a 15 year old by guidelines or he won't have decent who really knew his way a.round. In the a lems that exlst for us today is for Congress country to live in and be able to even pro to prohibit the Services or the Pentagon or meantime, our son had his life threat-ened test about a thing let alone maybe •e~l} when the word got out, we had phone call whoever from promising things in recruiting having an auto to drive. Yes we ha.v'e.. 1:>e~fi. and re-enlistment that they have no right after phone call, his younger brother 12 years threatened to have our new home burnt even had nasty sneers to him and some tried to promise. down and many other things but we think Recently there appeared in om· magazines to beat up on him, plus I sent our 5 year old that if we do go by the guidelines and truth to Bible School the other day and he came a promotional advertisement for the Pl'oject then sooner or lat-er it will prevail. Get Ahead program whereby a person en home telling what some girl that apparently Enough rambling on, but please don't give had been connected with the drug kids had lists in the Army and when they get out up on this you are trying to do for a.ll the they can go to college on the O.I. Bill. Tlle to say and he asked me what it was all about. young people there are many parents that Across the road from us the young boy bas Army cannot guarantee the G.I. Bill will be will back you up, it ls just that we have not there when that person is ready to go to invited this boy whom my son turned in plus been making the noise like the donkeys a lot of the other drug kids and my son has college. Service men and women are being have. promised commissaries, exchanges, medical chores to do over there every morning. So as Thank you for taking the time out to read he walks by they yell filth, threw bolts at coverage, housing, etc. for themselves and this. their families. CAVEAT EMPTOR IS NO WAy him, and turned up the stereo so loud we Sincerely, to TO FIND A JOB. can't get sleep at night. We stopped it last Mrs. RUDOLPII c. VELKY, night, my husband went over there and told I've heard so many comments such as "The the parents that we damn well knew what Service promised us all these benefits and was going on and tha.t the harassment would now the Congress is taking them away." stop now a.nd tha... the stereo would be turned After a while, I began to think, now wait down. We think the kids have these parents CONSTITUENT LETTER OUTLINES just a minute, maybe the Service didn't afraid to do anything their selves a.nd either DECLINE OF MILITARY SERVICE have the right to promise all these benefits. we're dumb or smart but we a.re not going BENEFITS I would like to hear from you on this. to let them get to us and we're going to have some changes made. You see we happen to be people that be HON. JOHN L. BURTON lieve that God gave us children to take care OF CALIFORNYA DEATH OF FORMER CONGRESSMAN of and even to punish if the needs arise that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that might be the case. Children needs a LAWRENCE G. WILLIAMS guide and the parents should be a set of Thursday, July 17, 1975 those guides as muoh as school officials po HON. ALBERT W. JOHNSON licemen, or the courts. But ! ! ! when the Mr. JOHN L. BURTON. Mr. Speaker, judge passes the buck he is not setting this the men and women who serve in our OF PENNSYLVANIA guide and yet as a youth he also had to have country's Armed Forces are faced with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES some good guiding or he wouldn't have been increasingly dwindling military service Monday, July 14, 1975 where he ls today and what makes him think benefits made in the name of budget cut that the children now are any better than he ting. Mr. JOHNSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. was, or ls it that he got to where he is The next benefit that military families Speaker, it was with great sorrow that I though corruption which in the end shows learned of the death of my dear friend. if it did in his way of handling things in his may lose is that of the base commissary. court. The loss of certain conveniences that Larry Williams. When he first came to We could ha.ve called the police on this once helped to make military life more Congress I made it a point to meet him across the road or on the telephone calls and bearable has been effectively outlined in very soon as I had received calls from the harrasment but they would do their job a letter I have received from a constitu members of the Pem1sylvania Association only to have it go to court to have the case ent. of Township Supervisors to immediately dismissed or the judge to pat them on the Mr. Speaker, in order that my col look up Larry Williams, as he was a very back again. Instead how about a work pro leagues may read first-hand the situation fine person, and would be a credit to the gram after school with pay of a.bout .50 an hour a.nd a. check up on the children to see that many families now face, I wish to congressional delegation of Pennsylvania. to it that they a.re not back running with insert in the RECORD a copy of this cor I made this ea1·ly acquaintance and the the same drug kids again and making the respondence. reports that I had received on Larry were parents being held responsible and each time The text of the letter follows: true. He was a real fine gentleman and they are caught uping the fine or making a JUNE 25, 1975. became an outstanding Congressman. He harder sentence for them until they learn Representative JOHN L. BURTON, was named a member of the Banking and the good old fashioned hard way that peo· Longworth, House Office Building, ple whom work hard and do right by God WasMngton, D.C. Currency Committee, and with his great and their country are really making it pos DEAR Sm: My husband has been in the knowledge of urban and suburban prob sible for these other creeps to live in this Navy for the last 11 years although we were lems he made a valuable contribution to country. and we really don't enjoy support not active in the military community until the committee and its work. ing judges or the people that do this sort of just recently. We lived about 50 miles from He knew the housing needs of his area, thing. No school teacher or adult should his ship when he was in port and we did have to have to take this abuse from kids not move with him until late last year. His the problems of banks and thrift institu as I really think we ha.ve institutions that being in the Navy was more of a job than a tions, and he was an expert on mass tran used to take ca.re of people that couldn't way of life. sit. When he spoke in committee or on 2~78 £XJ'XENSIONS OF ·REMARKS Jul~ 1 1, 19 't 5 the House floor he attracted rapt atten Community Mental Health Centers Act, ticipating in the Independence Day cere tion. is to establish the National Center for monies conducted by Argo Lodge No. 413, It is always sad when such a fine per the Prevention and Control of Rape, B'nai B'rith. The event was significant son is stricken at a time when he was which will undertake a national effort as it focused upon an important part of a.chieving such great success in life. Those against the crime of rape and in sup this Nation's heritage which we some are the things that are beyond our con port of the victim. The center, to be times too easily forget. No one who at trol and are, of course, hard to explain. located within the National Institute of tended could fail to be moved by the ex I want to join his former fellow Mem Mental Health, would be responsible for periences of those honored, nor, I feel, bers of Congress in extending to his dear :financing and conducting research and fail to appreciate the fact that they rep wife, Margery, and the other members of demonstration programs into the causes, resented the hundreds and thousands his family, our deepest sympathy in their consequences, prevention, treatment and who have fled oppression in foreign lands great loss, and want them to know that control of rape. to find freedom and fulfillment on our we share in their grief in the passing of The center, with its repository of re shores. this very great person. search and information on rape preven Each of those honored were presented tion and treatment, would be of con with the Haym Salomon Freedom Medal siderable benefit to States and communi lion. Each had fled Europe during the ties in developing more effective and holocaust of the 1930's. They came to the RAPE PREVENTION AND CONTROL more humane victim-oriented procedures United States and found freedom here. for dealing with rape victims. Primary But more than that, in spite of language activity involving rape prevention, treat barriers, each has added significantly to Hon. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke ment, and control would still be sup his or her field of endeavor and OF CALIFORNIA ported by State, local, and voluntary conununity. funding sources, but the Federal Govern IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Those honored were: Mrs. Annette B. ment can and should encourage and sup Ludwick, artist, painter, and creator of Wednesday, July 16, 1975 port these activities by providing tech Jewish sculpture; Dr. Laszlo Sokoly Mrs. BURKE of California. Mr. Speak nical advice and :financially supporting dentist and professor; Mrs. Rita Rubin~ er, as a prime sponsor of the Rape Pre research and demonstration projects to stein, educator and teacher, Yiddish and vention and Control Act, I am pleased discover new and more effective means Hebrew; Rabbi Akiva Egozi, poet, writer, that the provisions of that legislation of carrying out State and local pro educator, principal, Hebrew Academy of are included as title III of the Health grams. I would expect that any studies Greater Washington; Dr. Edwin Shot Revenue Sharing and Health Services and investigations undertaken by the land, physicist and author; Dr. David Act. center would utilize the expertise of the Korn, professor, Howard University, lin The incidence of forcible sexual as various citizen groups throughout the guist, authority on Soviet Jewry. Each sault has become more and more wide country who have been involved in run of those receiving a Freedom Medallion spread over the past several decades. ninff rape crisis intervention programs gave a moving response. Mr. Herman Forcible rape is the fas test growing crime and similar projects. Taube spoke eloquently and sensitively of violence in the United States. At the Under this act, an advisory committee to those gathered in honor of this eve same time, it is probably one of the most will be appointed to advise, consult, and ning's presentations. underreported and least understood make recommendations on the imple The ceremonies were conducted by Mr. crimes in the country. According to the mentation of the programs of the center. Joseph M. Frankle, past president of uniform crime report released by the The intent of the legislation as originally Argo Lodge No. 413. I had the pleasure FBI, over 51,000 females were the victims introduced, and as stated in the com of being introduced by my old friend, of rape in 1973. This :figure represents a mittee report, is to appoint persons to David A. Brody, director of the Washing 10 percent increase over 1972 and a this committee who are particularly ton office of the Anti-Defamation League, shocking 62-percent increase over a 5- qualified and recognized leaders in the who contributed to the serious and patri year period, 1968-73. The increase may area of rape prevention, treatment, and otic theme of the evening with thought stem in part from improved reporting control. It is also specified in the legis ful and timely remarks. and a growing willingness on the part of lation that a majority of the members of victims to press charges despite the risks. the committee must be women. But it must also undoubtedly reflect an I would hope that promising new ap increase in the incidence of rape in this proaches to rape prevention treatment A CITIZEN PROTESTS THE PRES country. and control will be developed and put IDENT'S SNUB OF SOLZHENITSYN The reasons that rape victims either into effect as a result of the center's re fail or choose not to report such a savage search and demonstration program as HON. LARRY McDONALD crime of personal invasion are numerous; well as the other studies and investiga tions it will undertake. This legislation is OF GEORGIA some obvious, some less so. Aside from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the personal embarrassment or trauma only a first step in moving our Nation that the victim must suffer if she carries toward a more responsible, more humane Thursday, July 17, 1975 her case into the courts, there appears to system for dealing with the perpetrators Mr. McDONALD of Georgia. Mr. be a growing sense of futility by the vic of this crime. By placing a higher prior Speaker, in conjunction with my ear tim toward winning her case. Only 51 ity on examining the causes and con lier remarks-Tuesday, July 15-in the percent of the rapes reported in 1973 were sequences of rape and seeking more ef CONGRESSIONAL RECORD concerning Pres cleared by arrest; of the adults anested, fective methods of rehabilitation, we can ident Ford's snub of Alexandr Solzhe 76 percent were prosecuted for this of move closer to discovering methods for ni~yn, I would like to offer the views of fense; of those cases prosecuted, 36 per preventing and controlling this heinous a private citizen which came to my at crime. Only then will women be able to tention when he provided me with a copy cent resulted in conviction. This means have the security and peace of mind to that forcible rape has a lower conviction move about as freely as men. of a letter he sent the President. The rate than any other crime. sentiments of Mr. Van Curler's forth The skyrocketing incidence of reported right views to the President on the Sol rapes, the inadequacy of our current an zhenitsyn matter I think quite adequate tiquated rape laws, the indignities often CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICA BY ly expresses the opinion held by the ma experienced by rape victims, and the low CITIZENS OF FOREIGN BffiTH jority of citizens in this country, as Mr. rate of rape convictions all point to the Nessen, the President's Press Secretary, need for a national rape prevention ef himself confirmed, and his remarks cer fort. HON. HAMILTON FISH, JR. tainly merit recognition: This legislation represents an attempt OF NEW YORK JULY 8, 1975. President GERALD Fono, at the national level to encourage con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sideration of the general attitudes and White House, assumptions about rape, its· victims and Thursday, July 17~ 1915 Washington, D.O. DEAR PRESIDENT FORD: I am certain that my it.s perpetrators. The objective of the Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, on July 9, 1975, letter will be only one in a :flood of com legislation, included as part D of the I was privileged to have the honor of par- plaints you must be receiving on your recent July 17; t975 EXTENSIO OF REMARKS 23479 refusal to meet with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, a move toward the resumption of open knowledge that they will probably slow the exiled Soviet author who many of us in hostilities. down .the productivity of Congress. The this country consider a very important indi greater the fragmentation of influence, the I will vote for the concurrent resolu· ha.rder it is to develop or assert internal vidual a.nd certainly someone the President I ask of this great country should have had the tion .of disapproval and my col leadership. And the more open the internal courtesy to at least meet with. leagues to do the same. operation, the easier it is for external groups According to Associated Press news, you to interpose their wi1:.hes at all stage of the declined to meet with the gentleman on the process . advice of Henry Kissinger because it "might .. That is, the weaker the leadership and the more the external demands, the slower upset Soviet officials and deal ,1 setback to CONGRESSIONAL REFORM detente." will go the lawmaking. If wha.t we want from I, like many Americans. are fed up with Congress is action, neither type of reform this business of soft peddling Commu can be viewed as a blessing," Fenno says. nism and have had enough of this so-called HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI He argues that, for the most part, it helps detente. It appears that this means nothing OF KENTUCKY the country that Congress is "our slow institution." That slowness, Fenno says. n1ore than surrender on every issue to the IN Tim HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Communists, and we Americans have had it. gives Congress time to "work out and re I am sorry for your busy schedule and hope Thursday, Jilly 17, 1975 flect a consensus view in the country," as it did, so effectively, during last year's im that your family dinner was worthwhile. Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, this Con However, it seems to me that Ron Nessen peachment proceedings. should be more careful with public state gress has been criticized as being slow Consensus decisions, he argues, "are likely ments as quoted in the article, "The Pres moving and inactive. to be regarded as fair decisions- and what ident generally likes to schedule meetings While there is some basis for these we shall be needing from our nation.al insti that involve substance," particularly when criticisms, the public interest may be tutions now-more than speed-a.re de you can find time to meet with soccer star served by a Congress which does not cisions that are felt to be fair." That conclusion might be cha.Uen.ged by Pele and all the rock music stars and beauty move hastily and instantly. queens you have recently been pictured with. those who feel that two years is a bit too In a recently published article, David long to await the emergency of a "consen I woul~ hope that the administration and Broder develops this thought in an in sus" on energy policy in Congress or the particularly the President of our country teresting· manner, and I commend this would extend an apology for this uncalled country. But Fenno ls not trying to give the article to the attention of my col lawmakers excuses for inaction. for incident. leagues. On the contrary, he asserts that the re Sincerely, forms put additional burdens on individual DON LD E. v ~.:,r CURLER.. \VHY CONGRESS" SLOWNESS MAY REALLY BE A POSITIVE ATTRIBUTE members of Congress--particularly in their role as educators of their own constituents. (By David Broder) With the reforms that have been passed, WASHINGTON.-The members o.f Congress he says, "more members should be willing DISAPPROVE SALE OF MISSILES are on holiday this week, attempting-at to resi4 the temptation-which seizes them TO JORDAN least one presumes-to explain to their con when they talk to their constituent&-to see stituents why their branch of government Congress as 'then1' instead of •we,' a.nd to seems trapped in its own sense of futility. run for Congress by running against Con When last seen, the House was failing to gress". HON. WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD override another presidential veto and the More should be willing, instead, to accept OF MICHIGAM Senate was still filibustering last November's their personal accountability for the per IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENT_<\TIVES New Hampshire senatorial election-neither formance of Congress as an institution of which have ~n obvious connection with and to seek, while home among their con Thursday, July 17, 1975 advancing the public welfare. But there is stituents, to shape the consensus that makes Mr. BRODHEAD. Mr. Speaker, I wish more to the story than that. effective congressional action possible. to protest in the strongest terms the Some helpful perspective on Congress and Fenno suggests that the press needs to do. it.a condition have come to hand, in the form much more monitoring of what congress proposed sale of Hawk missiles to Jor of an essay by Richard F. Fenno Jr. of the men tell their constituents. This week pro dan and I urge Members to vote for the University of Rochester. Fenno, a longtime vides a wonderful opportunity for news concurrent resolution disapproving the student of the legislative branch, originally paper;:. around the country to do just that. sale. presented his thoughts t-0 a Time magazine Besides the fact that the administra forum here. .J tion has misled the House about the size It is his belief, not smatterecl by years of and scope of the sale, I oppose it because intimate acquaintance with the institu it will seriously alter the balance of pow tion, that Congress really is the rep1·esent OIL PRICE DECONTROLS COULD a.tive body in Washington. It is obviously GENERATE A NEW OIL CRISIS er in the Middle East. more representative than the Supreme Court It is the considered opinion of mili and, he argues, more reflective "of the di tary and political observers that these versity of views that exists in this country" weapons will give Jordan the strength it than the single individual who claims to be HON. DOMINICK V. DANIELS needs to open a third front against Is president of all the people. OF NEW JERSEY rael in any new Mideast war. Far from Moreover, Fenno's proposition is that the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES congressional reforms of recent yoors have being merely a defensive weapon, the Thursday, July 17, 1975 'I Hawk and Redeye missiles would pro tended to enhance, not impede, that repre vide cover for an offensive ground strike. sentative character. Mr. DOMINICK V. DANIELS. Mr. One set of reforms has been designed to Speaker. the Subcommittee on Con Thus, Mr. Speaker. the United States Share power more evenly among all 535 could be in a position of supplying one members of Congress-by spreading the sumer Economics of the Joint Economic of the key ingredients which would pre choice comm.itt.ee assignments among junior Committee held hearings this week on cipitate a renewal of the war in that part members, by weakening the power of com the general economic impact of oil price of the world. mittee chairmen and other elders, and by decontrol. _ To justify this sale, as the adminis strengthening party caucuses. Because of the importance of .the tration has attempted to do, by saying A second stream of reforms has been de testimony that was presented, indicat that it would strengthen King Hussein signed to make the workings of Congress ing serious repercussions for the U.S. more public and hence more accessible to economy if the President's decontrol internally and reinforce Jordan's "mod constituents' understanding. The use of 1·e erate" policies, is the utmost folly. King corded teller vot,es on key amendments in plan is adopted, I would like to share a Hussein has said that one reason why the House, the opening of committee mark part of that testimony with my ·col he did not open a third front against up sessions and some conference committees leagues. Israel in 1973 was that he lacked an and party caucuses ma1·k impo1-tant steps in I believe the excellent testimony of adequate air defense system. This sale that direction. Charles L. Schultze will be particularly But there are costs and consequences for interesting to my colleagues in view of would give him just such a system. these reforms, just as there have been for Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to con the debate in whfoh we are engaged to· the reforms in the presidential nominating As Mr. sider this sale with the greatest caution. process and in the campaign finance laws. day on oil pricing policy. It is not only contrary to the longstand Fenno writes: "While the two streams of Schultze points out, the Pi·esident's de ing policy of friendship and support we reform may enhance the representative control plan could result in a loss of have shown toward Israel. it is actually pos-;ibilities of Congress, we should also a{:- consumer purchasing power of between 23480 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 11, 19, 5 $25 and $45 billion, and could further case of fruits and other food products with 13. Simplification of moving expense de result in the loss of up to 1 Y2 million long development periods, the deduction of ductions and application to the mllitary. jobs. fa.rm losses, the so-called hobby loss opera 14. Tax treatment of scholarships and This testimony, along with other t ions, Umiting farm deductions to related in fellowships (including cancellation of in come (perhaps only to the extent nonfarm debtedness with respect to certain student testimony developed by Chase Econo income exceeds some level (such as $20,000)), metric Associates, the Library of Con loan programs) . limiting deductions on livestock to the 15. Clarification of the tax: treatment of gress, and the committee staff, under amount of risk, requiring the accrual method certain disaster loan provisions. scores the need to proceed with caution of accounting for corporat ions engaged in 16. Qualified stock options. in the area of price decontrols on do farming, etc. 17. Alternative capital gains tax rate for mestic crude oil. While the price does c. Natural Resource - This category in individuals. need to rise somewhat to increase pro cludes limiting the .deductions for intangible 18. Holding period for short -term capital duction and discourage wasteful con drilling expenses and development costs on a gains. sumption, it should not be allowed to property to the amount the taxpayer has at 19. Group t ~rn1 insurance. r isk, limiting deductions from intangible C. Foreign Income rise so rapidly that it destroys whatever drllling expenses (except in the case of dry hope we have for an economic recovery. h oles) to the relat ed income, recapturing in 1. Per-country limitation in computing For this reason, it is essential that the tangible drilling costs deducted as ordinary foreign tax credit. House give its support to the reasonable income where the property is subsequently 2. Grossing up dividends from less devel 7014, S'1ld at a gain, etc. oped country corporations for purposes of price ceilings in H.R. as reported determining U.S. income and foreign tax out of the Interstate and Foreign Com d. Motion Picture F i lms and Si milar Prov credit. merce Committee. erty- This category includes limiting deduc tions for depreciation in motion picture 3. Application of the foreign tax credit in the case of capital gains income. films, etc., to the amount of income derived from the investments, and limiting loss 4. Treatment of foreign Income subse deductions to the amount of risk, etc. quently ea.i:ned where foreign losses are off FOR 24TH DISTRICT CONSTITUENTS e. Personal Property (Equipment) Leas set against U.S.-source income. 5. Deferral of income of controlled. foreign ing-This category includes limiting deduc subsidiaries. tions of depreciation on personal property ~(.:·-- HON. DALE MILFORD subject to a net lease to the income from the 6. Exclusion for income earned abroad by ~ OF TEXAS property, etc. U.S. citizens living or residing abroad. 7. Tax treatment of foreign trusts. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f. Sports Teams (Player Contracts)-This f 8. Excise tax on transfers to a foreign category includes specifying the portion of business. 1• Thursday, July 17, 1975 an aggregate amount paid to purchase a : 9. Treat ment of earnings of less developed Mr. MILF'ORD. Mr. Speaker, the team or group of assets which is allocable country corporations where there is a dis chairman of the Ways and Means Com to player contracts and applying recapture rules in the case of player contracts. position of stock representing these earnings. mittee has just announced that public 10. Westeru Hemisphere trade corpora g. Tax Treatment of Limited Partnerships tions. hearings are now underway in his com This includes considerations involving the mittee on the first phase of a tax reform basis for non-recourse loans, requiring cer 11. Tax t rr> atment of U.S. possession cor bill. He has further announced the par porations. tain kinds of limited partnerships (and joint 12. Tax deferral under DISC provisions ticular areas of our tax laws that are ventures) to be taxed as corporations, et c. (including export trade corporations). being studied. h. Prepaid Interest.- This category in 13. China Trade Act Corporations. In order for my constituents in the cludes requiring the use of the accural meth 14. Application of the 30-percent with 24th District of Texas to be fully aware od of accounting for prepaid interest. holding tax to dividend and interest income of the tax areas being revised, I would i. Partnership Syndication Fees-This cat received from the U.S. by foreign persons. egory is included to clarify the rules requir like to list them hereunder. ing capitalization of partnership syndica 15. Dividend treatment of U.S. sharehold- Mr. Speaker, one of the key platforms tion fees. ers where funds are Invested in the United in my election campaign was "tax re States by foreign corporations. B. Tax Simplification and Reform of Domes 16. Advance IRS rulings for ta.x-free ex form." I am pleased to see the Ways and tic Income of Individuals changes involving foreign corporations re Means Committee underway with these 1. Deduction of expenses attributable to lated to U.S. taxpayers. extensive hearings. business use of homes and rental of vacation 17. Tax treatment of married couples My own voters will be able to read the homes. where one spouse is a nonresident alien. topics under consideration and mail me 2. Deduction for conventions, conferences, 18. Minimum tax on foreign source their ideas and recommendations. I etc., outside the United States. income. shall, 1n turn, forward all suggestions to 3. Retirement Income credit. D. Administrative Provisions the Ways and Means Committee so that 4. Sick pay exclusion. 1. Income tax return preparers. each may be considered during the hear 5. Child care deduction. 2. Assessments in case of mathematical or 6. Deduction of alimony payments. clerical eITors. ings. 7. Deduction for guarantees of business The article follows: 3. Application of withholding tax provi paid debts t o guarantors not involved in sions. such as for Interest and dividends, cer LIST OF TOPICS FOK TAX REFORM PACKAGE IN business. tain gambling winnings, earnings of agricul FmST PHASE 8. Deduction for property t ransfer taxes tural employees, and State income taxes for A. Tax Shelters and Minimum Tax and disabllity taxes. certain government employees and military 1. Minimum Tax--This category includes 9. Simplification of itemized deductions reservists. t he consideration of the exemption level, the generally including (but not llmlted to) a 4. Disclosure of tax returns and ret urn rate of tax, the allowance of a deduction for simplification deduction in lieu of the div information. the regular individual or corporate Income idends received exclusion, the deduction for 5. Private let ter rulings. tax, and the possiblllty of adding other pref State and local taxes on gasoline and other 6. Jeopardy and termination assessments. erence items to the base of the tax or alter motor fuels, deduction of casualty losses be 7. Declaratory judgments In the case of natively the consideration of a different low a floor (e.g., 3 percent), medical expense tax-exempt organizations. version of a minimum tax. deduction below a floor (e.g., 5 percent in 8. Tax exempt status of condominiums and 2. Allocation of itemized deductions be stead of the present 3-percent floor on med homeowner associations. tween taxable and nontaxable income. ical expenses generally and I-percent floor 9. John Doe summons. on drugs), and deduction for certain em E. Deadwood Bill 3. Ta:r: Shelters Generally- ployee business expenses and expenses of a. Real Estate-This category includes de activity engaged In for profit below a floor Repeal and revision of obsolete, rarely u sed, preciation methods and life (including any (e.g., $200). etc., provisions. distinction for this purpose between borrow 10. Extension of tax tables to enable in P. Extension of Individual and Corporate ings and equity), recapture rules for excess dividuals to use the short 1040-A tax form Tax Reductions Provided In Tax Reduc depreciation, treatment of Interest and taxes for adjusted gross incomes up to $20,000. tion Act of 1975 during the construction period, limiting cer 11. Accumulation trusts. G. Capital Formation (Including Fast De tain real estate deductions to related income, 12. Limitation of the interest deduction preciation, Investment Credit, and Inte etc. for nonbusiness interest to a spec11led gration of Corporate and Individual Taxes) b. Farm Operations-This category includes amount where it is claimed as an itemized H. Capital Gains and Losses th e treatment of development costs in the deduction. I . Limited Technical Matters July 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23481 PROCEEDINGS OF THE FEDERAL A question has been raised as to the use financial arrangements for each event will be ELECTION COMMISSION of this arrangement in light of the amend agreed upon on an individual basis between menm to Title 18 set out in too proceeds the Democratic National Committee and the with respect t.o tbe telethon.1 Under the State Committee. Costs of the event may be HON. TOM STEED ~rms of agreement t,o be executed by par paid for by the State Committee or by the OF OKLAHOMA ticipating State Committees and by the Democratic National Committee, and iu Democratic National Committee, the State either case costs may be met out of the IN 'lHE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committees assume the responsibility for op proceeds of the event. In at least one in Thursday, July 17, 1975 erating and financing state telephone centers. stance, the costs of the event are to be borne Costs of telephone installation and rental of by one or more individuals, who have un Mr. STEED. Mr. Speaker, for the space will be reimbursed by the Democratic 'dertaken t o host the event. The terms of benefit of those who share my interest National Committee. AJJ.y other expenses at agreement as to distribution of proceeds in the proceedings of the Federal Elec t ributable to the operation of telephone will also vary from state to state. In some tion Commission, I am again today plac centers will be borne by t he State com cases, pledge cards or envelopes will be dis ing into the RECORD material which they mittees. tributed at the event, with contributions to have provided. Members wishing to re State Committees are also, under the terms be sent directly to the Democratic National of agreement, responsible for planning and Committee. Where this is done, there will tain the entire sequence of proceedings 1mplementing at least one of two proposed usually be no charge, or a minimal charge, should also consult the RECORDS of June pre-telethon programs, designed to encour for admission to the event. In other cases, 2 and 25, and July 9, H, 15, and 16. age advance contributions. One of these op the agreement may provide for funds to be The article follows: tions is a pre-telethon telephone solicitation raised directly-through the sale of admission THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CO!.llllTTEE Wn.L effort. Individuals who are contacted by tele tickets by the State Committee or by the SPONSOR A FUNDRAISING TELETHON phone will be requested to send contribu Democratic National Committee. Where either the State Committee or the Demo DEAR Co:r,n.a.SSIONERS: On July 26 and 27, tions to the national telethon post office box cratic National Committee has generated 1976, the Democratic National Committee number rather than to the State Commit will wlll sponsor a fund-raising telethon, na tee. Costs incurred in this connection by funds through ticket sales. there gen tionally televised over ABC network, for the State Committees will not be reimbursed by erally be a subsequent divlslon of the pro benefit of the Democratic Party. the Democratic National Committee. In lieu ceeds under the terms o! the agreement. The Democratic National Committee will The t.elethon effort has developed over the of, or in addition to, this program, Federal last several years into a. highly successful Election Campaign Aet Amendments of 1974, provide several full-time regional telethon means of raising revenues to meet the oper Section 591 (e) of that Title provides that the coordinators to work with State Committees ating costs of the Democratic National Com term "contribution" shall include the en 1n planning and implementing telethon pro dorsement of guarantee of a loan, to the ex grams. Ea.ch State Committee must assign mittee and of participating State Commit at least two individuals to work full-time tees, revenue which is generated for the most tent of the unpaid balance or a proportional part through small individual contributions. a.mount thereof, when such loan ls made on telethon activities for at lea.st a tbree "for the purpose of lnfl.uencing the nomina tnonth period. The Democratic National The arrangements for the production and Committee has also assigned se-veral mem financing of the telethon cont.empla.te a vari t ion for eleetlon, or election, of any person bers of its regular staff to work on telethon ety of entities, and require certain transfers to Federal office," or for certain other purposes. matters on a full-time or part-time basis. of funds, which are n<>t typical of the nor Telethon proceeds will be divided under mal operations of a. political committee. We We believe that the definition of a "con tribution" for purposes of Title 18, which ls a formula set out in the terms of agreement. therefore request your cooperation in estab Gross receipts which are directly attributable lishing guidelines for the reporting of the specifically limited to transactions entered into for the purpose of influencing the out to the telethon itself will first be applied to various financial transactions involved, and reimburse State Committees !or certain ex in responding to certain questions raised by come of a Federal election, does not apply to a loan guarantee made simply for the pur penses relating to the operation ot state tele the 1974 amendments to Title 18 of the phone centers, and !or certain other expendi United States Code. pose of facilitating production of the t.ele t hon. tures approved in advance by the Democratic TELETHON PRODUCTION If it becomes necessary for the Democratic National Committee. One-half ot telethon The actual production of the telethon National Committee to borrow money in con receipts remaining after appropriate reim show will be undertaken by the Democratic nection with the telethon, the proceeds will bursement will then be divided among the Telethon Production Committee (hereinafter be expended only for telethon purposes, and participating state committees, 1n propor •'Production Committee") , a not-for-profit the loan will be repaid out of telethon pro tion to the percentage which ea.ch state corporation organized under the laws of the ceeds. The loan proceeds will not inure to the contributed to telethon revenue. The Demo State of California. on May 28, 1975, solely for benefit of any candidate, and no part of the cratic National Committee will also transfer the purpose of assuming this function as an proceeds will be used in connection with any one-half ot the fun HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Friday, July 18, 1975 The House met at 10 o'clock a.m. The message also announced that the [Roll No. 405] The Chaplain, Rev. Edward Gardiner Senate had passed with amendments in Adams Ford, Mich. Nowak which the concurrence of the House is Alexander Forsythe O'Hara Latch, D.D., offered the following prayer: Andrews, N.C. Fountain Patman, Tex. Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art requested, bills of the House of the fol Archer Fulton Pepper lowing titles: Ashley Gibbons Randall my God; Thy spirit is good; lead me into Bell Hagedorn Reuss the land of uprightness.-Psalms 143: H.R. 4073. An act to extend the Appa Bowen Hansen Rhodes 10. lachian Regional Development Act of 1965 Breaux Harsha Richmond O Thou who dost reveal Thyself in for an additional 2-fiscal-year period; Breckinridge Hebert Riegle R.R. 6799. An act to approve certain of the Broomfield Heckler, Mass. Risenhoover endless ways, deepen within us the sense proposed amendments to the Federal Rules Brown, Calif. Helstoski Roberts of Thy presence as we wait upon Thee of Criminal Procedure, to amend certain of Brown, Ohio Jarman Rogers in prayer. Buchanan Jenrette Rose them, and to make certain additional Chisholm Johnson, Pa.. Scheuer Thou art love and You bid us to be amendments to those Rules; Collins, Ill. Jones, N.C. Schneebell loving too. Thou art forgiving and You H.R. 7716. An act to amend the Tariff Conyers Karth Seiberling call us to be forgiving also. Thou art Schedules of the United States to suspend Corman LaFalce Sikes the duty on certain forms of zinc until the Crane Latta Solarz truth and You summon us to be truthful Danielson Long, La. Steed as well. Thou art good and Thy desire for close of June 30, 1978; Dellums Lujan Steiger, Wis. us is to be good all our days and in all H.R. 7731. An act to suspend the duty on Dent Mccollister Symms open-top hopper cars exported for repairs Diggs McDonald Thompson our ways. or alterations on or before June 30, 1975. Drinan Macdonald Udall During these trying time bless Thou Eckhardt Matsunaga Wampler our President, our Speaker, Members of The message also announced that the Esch Melcher Wiggins Congress, and all who labor with them. Senate insists upon its amendments to Eshleman Mink Wilson, Bob 6799) Fish Mosher Winn May the benedictions of Thy presence the bill (H.R. entitled "An act to Flynt Murphy, N.Y. rest upon them this day and every day. approve certain of the proposed amend Lead us, we pray Thee, in the paths of ments to the Federal Rules of Criminal The SPEAKER. On this rollcall 351 peace and unity for Thy name's sake. Procedure, to amend certain of them, Members have recorded their presence Amen. and to make certain additional amend by electronic device, a quorum. ments to those rules," requests a confer By unanimous consent, further pro ence with the House on the disagreeing ceedings under the call were dispensed THE JOURNAL votes of the two Houses thereon, and with. The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam appoints Mr. McCLELLAN, Mr. PHILIP A. ined the Journal of the last day's pro HART, Mr. ABOUREZK, Mr. HRUSKA, and ceedings and announces to the House his Mr. HUGH ScoTT, to be the conferees on PERMISSION FOR COMMITTEE ON approval thereof. the part of the Senate. APPROPRIATIONS TO FILE PRIVI Without objection, the Journal stands LEGED REPORT _approved. There was no objection. Mr. YATES. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani PERMISSION FOR COMMITTEE ON mous consent that the Committee on RULES TO FILE CERTAIN PRIVI Appropriations may have until midnight MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE LEGED REPORTS tonight to file a privileged report on the A message from the Senate by Mr. Mr. BOLLING. Mr. Speaker, I ask Department of the Interior and related Sparrow, one of its clerks, announced unanimous consent that the Committee agencies appropliation bill for fiscal year that the Senate had passed without on Rules may have until midnight to 1976, and the transition. amendment a concuuent resolution of night to file certain privileged reports. Mr. McDADE reserved all points of the House of the following title: The SPEAKER. Is there objection to order. H. Con. Res. 342. Concurrent resolution the request of the gentleman from Mis The SPEAKER. Is there objection to authorizing the Chief of the Capitol Police souri? the request of the gentleman from Illi interrogatories in a civil action. nois? There was no objection. There was 110 objection. The message also announced that the Senate agrees to the rePort of the com mittee of conference on the disagreeing CALL OF THE HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER THOMAS P. votes of the two Houses on the amend O'NEILL, JR., SAYS NO WONDER ments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Speaker, I make the THINGS DON'T WORK ANY MORE 5901) entitled "An act making appro point of order that a. quorum is not pres priations for the Education Division and ent. (Mr. O'NEILL asked and was given related agencies, for the fiscal year end The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorwn is permission to address the House for 1 ing June 30, 1976, and the period Sep not present. minute and to revise and extend his re tember 30, 1976, and for other purposes," Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, I move a marks.> and that the Senate had agreed to the call of the House. Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, President amendments of the House to the amend A call of the House was orde1·ed. Ford likes to say that programs of the ments of the Senate nwnbered 10 and The call was taken by electronic de New Deal and other Democratic pro 21, and that the Senate further insisted vice, and the following Members failed grams do not work any more. on its amendment numbered 44. to respond: He is in a good position to know.