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May 20, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14085 The committee recommends that the au- . PURPOSE lishing a customs Cooperation Oouncil. thority be continued. It believes, however, This bill would change the name of the The Council is the major international that the authority should not be made per- · Army Medical Service to the Army Medical manent because the justification for use of organization for improving and simplify Department. ing oust.oms procedures. It started out as this authority in Vletnam might not neces EXPLANATION sarily exist in other ·areas where a permanent largely a European organization. Now 53 authority could apply. The Army Organization Act of 1950 changed countries are members. Almost all our the name of the Medical Department of the COST Army to the Army Medical Service. The pur major trading partners participate in its The average transportation cost for a pose of the change was to eliminate the pos work. member of the uniformed services who ex sible confusion that might result from use The objectives of the Convention are tends his tour of duty under the authority of the term "Department" when this term to assist international trade by working this bill would extend is approximately $570. was also used in connection with the De for: This cost is offset by reductions in the partment of Defense and the m111tary de -uniformity and simplicity in the transportation of replacements and in the partments. customs systems of its members; relocation of dependents of replacements. The 1950 change has had an opposite ef -solutions to customs administration The Department of Defense considers that fect from the one intended. The term "med this authority pays for itself in savings on ical service" is used within the Army to refer problems; replacement costs. If two persons extend to parts of a hospital that provide care in -cooperation among governments in for 6 months each and are paid their trans specific fields of medicine. Another source of these matters. portation and are given their leave, the cost confusion ls that one of the six corps con The Council's recommendations are is approximately the same as to send one stituting the Army Medical Service ls called not binding but they are widely accepted person to Vietnam, to resettle his family, and a Medical Service Corps. by most of our major trading partners. to return him to the United states 1 year Returning to the name of the Army Medi They have an increasing importance for later. cal Department that was used for 132 years United States trade. before 1952 ls intended to eliminate mis The title was amended, so as to read: understandings about the terminology for The United States sends observers to "An act to extend the authority to grant medical personnel and units of the Army. meetings of the Council and its Commit a special 30-day leave for members of the tees. I believe that accession to the Con uniformed services who voluntarily ex vention would be of clear advantage to tend their tours of duty in hostile fire CONVENTION ESTABLISHING A CUS the United States. We would have in areas." TOMS COOPERATION COUNCIL creased opportunities to participate in REMOVAL OF INJUNCTION OF SE the Council's recommendations and to CRECY benefit from its work. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. President, As the world's largest trading nation, The bill (H.R. 15863) to amend title in we would be better able to do our part as executive session, I ask unanimous to 10, United States Code, to change the consent that the injunction of secrecy in helping improve customs procedures name of the Army Medical Service to the be removed from Executive G, 90th Con so as to expand international trade. Army Medical Department was con gress, second session, the Convention I recommend that the Senate give fa sidered, ordered to a third reading, read Establishing a Customs Cooperation vorable consideration to United States the third time, and passed. Council, together with the protocol con accession to this Convention. Be it enacted by the Senate and House cerning the European Customs Union LYNDON B. JOHNSON. of Representatives of the United States of Study Group, signed in Brussels on De THE WHITE HOUSE, May 20, 1968. America in Congress assembled, That title 10, cember 15, 1950, transmitted to the (Enclosures: 1. Report of the Acting United States Code, is amended by striking Secretary of State, 2. Certified copy of the words "Army Medical Service" wherever Senate today by the President of the the Convention Establishing a Customs they appear in sections 711a, 3064, 3067, 3210, United States, and that the convention, Cooperation Council, together with the 3296, 3579, and 4624, and in the text of the together with the President's message, be Protocol concerning the European Cus catchlines and corresponding analyses to sec referred to the Committee on Foreign toms Union Study Group, signed iri Brus tions 3067 &nd 3579, and inserting the words Relations and ordered to be printed, and sels on December 15, 1950.) "Army Medical Department" in place there that the President's message be printed of. in the RECORD. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without RECESS UNTIL 9 :30 A.M. TOMORROW Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Presi objection, it is so ordered. Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. President, to dent, I ask unanimous oo:nsenrt have The message from the President is as in accordance with the order previously printed in the RECORD an excerpt from follows: entered, I move that the Senate stand in the report (No. 1135), explaining the recess until 9: 30 a.m. tomorrow. purposes of the bill. To the Senate of the United States: The motion was agreed to; and (at 6 There being no objection, the excerpt Today I ask the Senate to give its ad o'clock and 5 minutes p.m.) the Senate was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, vice and consent to aiccession by the recessed until tomorrow, Tuesday, May as follows: United States to the Convention Estab- 21. 1968. at 9: 30 a.m. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS STUDENTS EDIT BURLINGTON I commend their reading to my col- some type of exchange of ideas. The more HAWK-EYE FOR A DAY leagues: discussion, the greater the understanding and GENERATION GAP the narrower the rift. Today many families seem to be afraid to HON. FRED SCHWENGEL (By Gretchen Funck of the P. & G.) talk to each other. "They wouldn't listen or "Generation gap" ... For centudes youth pay attention anyway" or "I'd just be laughed OP' IOWA and adults have disagreed. Socrates com- at and considered and old fogey" are two IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES plained that young people had "bad manners, widely-used excuses. Monday, May 20, 1968 contempt for authority, and disrespect for This lack of communication has been their elders." Yet many sociologists feel the criticized by many popular songwriters. Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, on gap is wider and d·eeper now than eveT before. Simon and Garfunkel in "The Sounds of Friday, May 10, the senior members of As the folk song "The Tim.es They Are Silence" see communication as existing on the Purple & Gray Burlington High A-Changin'" says " ... better &tart swim- only the most superficial level. "She's Leav School student newspaper, helped edit ming or you'll sink like a stone, for the times ing Home" by the Beatles discusses parents' they are a-changin'." Later, the song tells lack of understanding as to why their daugh their city's newspaper, the Burlington mothers and fathers " ... your sons and ter left after they had given her everything Hawk-Eye. your daughters are beyond your command" money could buy. The ·experience was educational and and "please get out of the new one (road) Yet the outlook is not all bad. Parents worthwhile. The students were up to the if you can't lend a hand." must realize that, because of TV and radio, challenge. Editorials by· Gretchen Funck While there are many aspects to a gener.a- their views must contend with news from tion gap, the communicatlo~ gap plays an . all over the cou;ntry and world. Besides par- _ and Kathy McAllister were particularly important part. Much depends upon under- ents, these two mass media are strong ln good. sta,nding, and this can't come about without fiuences for teenagers. 14086 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May · 20, 1968- Teens, on the other hand, should be aware Kans., letter carrier rescued him from cees' salute to the Armed Forces lunch of the fact that their parents have been an extremely uncomfortable situation eon. In his very fine talk, Secretary around longer and have more experience in life in general than they have. The particu and quite possibly saved his life. Brown raised many topical questions on lars may differ, but some things hold true The constituent, Mr. Frank M. Powell, the U.S. Strategic Forces-questions of under any circumstances. was working in the trunk of his car when vital importance in today's world. Know Both adults and. youth ll\USt get in the a gust of wind slammed the lid shut, ing that many Members of the House swing of things and break the silence. Some trapping him in the trunk. His cries for will find these remarks of great value to parents may be surprised to find that their help went unheeded until the mailman, their understanding of our defense kids agree with them on many points. Teens Mr. Walter Clyde, approached on his policy, I insert Secretary Brown's ad will be surprised to learn that their parents daily round and promptly responded to dress in the RECORD at this point: weren't born in the Dark Ages and drinking and pre-marital sex were problems when the cries for help and freed Mr.