18344 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 provisions of this section shall not apply to a respect to reh.abilitation activities financed lieu thereof "; and", and after Une 13 insert substantially rehab111tated project assisted by a mortgage insured under this Act and the following: · under such section 8 if such rehab111tation carried out, directly or by contract, by any ( 5) by adding the following new sentence is carried out, directly or by contract, by a neighborhood-based nonprofit organization.". at the end of the first paragraph thereof: "Of neighborhood-based nonprofit organization". the additional authority to enter into con­ (c) Section 212(a) of the National Hous­ tracts for annual contributions provided on ing Act is amended by adding the following H.R. 12433 October 1, 1978, and approved in appropria­ new sentence· at the end thereof: "Notwith­ By Mr. GEPHARDT: tions Acts, the Secretary shall make available standing any other provision of law, the pro­ -Page 20, in line 10 strike out "and", and in not less than $50,000,000 for modernization visions of this section shall not apply with line 13 strike out the period and insert in of low-income housing projects.". EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS GEORGE . W. BREWSTER RETIRES includes almost 10 years of experience found time for community affairs. He is FROM PUBLIC LIFE as systems analyst, senior economics ad­ a past president of the Torrance Junior viser, and special assistant to the direc­ Chamber of Commerce; a former chair­ tor of transportation developments for man of the Torrance YMCA Board of HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON North American Rockwell, as well as spe­ Managers, and has served the American OF CALIFORNIA cial assignments in technical analysis Red Cross in three capacities-as a past IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and research functions. As the city of chairman of the Lomita Branch, as a Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Torrance possesses both its own general member of the board of directors of the aviation airport and a public transpor­ Los Angeles Chapter, and as a member e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. tation system, George's extensive back­ of the Southern District. He is an active Speaker, since 1970 the city of Torrance ground in transportation has been a tre­ member of the Christ Episcopal Church, has been fortunate enough to enjoy the mendous asset to the council. Redondo Beach. leadership of George W. Brewster, whose George has contributed to many trans­ Mr. Speaker, George M. Brewster can expertise in the field of transportation look back on a long list of positive and deep concern over civic affairs have portation studies at various levels of gov­ ernment, including the California Trans­ achievements in his 14 years in civic gov­ been the hallmarks of his service on the ernment. He has exemplified the highest city council. Although he recently retired portation Study, conducted while I served as California's Lieutenant Governor. At ideals of elected officials, and donated from his duties, the benefits he leaves much time and energy toward the benefit for the people of Torrance will continue the Federal level he worked on the De­ partment of Housing and Urban Develop­ of his community. The entire South Bay to work on in their behalf. ment's Frontiers of Urban Transpor­ community will long remember him. Thus, when his former colleagues on tation Technology Study. He has par­ My wife, Lee joins me in congratulat­ the Torrance City Council honor George ticipated in various other studies on ing George Bre'wster and in wishing him at a dinner on June 29, 1978, the grati­ V/STOL aircraft, general aviation air­ the best of fortune in the years ahead. tude and respect which will be expressed craft, high-speed trains, electric autos, We would also like to extend our greet­ will come from a community well aware people-movers, surface-effects ships, ings to his lovely wife, Sheila, and their of his outstanding contributions. commercial aircraft, and mass transpor­ three children, George, Douglas, and Born on August 7, 1932, in Washing­ tation systems. Sandra. They can be justly proud of the ton, D.C., George received his early As a councilman, George has sought to accomplishments George W. Brewster schooling in the area around our Nation's has achieved in his careers in both local balance environmental needs with those government and private industry.e capital. He earned his Bachelor of Sci­ of economic growth. He has been active ence Degree in Business from North­ in developing transportation improve­ western University, and received his ments not only in Torrance, but through­ MBA from Harvard Business School in out the South Bay area. George has been 1960 after spending 4 years as an avia­ THE SALEM CROSSROADS HISTOR­ a highly effective spokesman for provid­ ICAL RESTORATION SOCIETY tor for the U.S. Navy. ing accessible public transit to the elder­ He has been a resident of the South ly, handicapped, and disabled. Bay area for over 17 years, and during Since 1963. he had been a member of HON. JOHN H. DENT much of that time he has been active in the board of directors, Southern Cali­ OF PENNSYLVANIA civic affairs. Besides his 8 years on the fornia Rapid Transit District, and has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES city council, George previously served for served as vice president of the board. He 6 ~e~rs on the Torrance Planning Com­ was chairman of the Marketing and Ad­ Wednesday, June 2.1, 1978 miSsion, as well as the Torrance Youth vanced Planning Committee of the • Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, I would like Commission, and the Torrance Environ­ R.T.D., and served on the Finance; Fa­ to take this opportunity to pay a fitting mental Quality Commission. As a coun­ cilities; and Governmental Affairs Com­ tribute to a group of men and women in cilman, George Brewster served on sev­ mittees. George was also a member of the my congressional district who have dedi­ eral committees, including transporta­ Governmental Affairs Committee, Amer­ cated themselves to preserving a rich tion; police, fire and public safety; pub­ ican Public Transit Association. part of our American heritage. lic works; community development; and Among his other affiliations as a public The Salem Crossroads Historical Pres­ finance. He has served as chairman of official were the Los Angeles District At­ ervation Society, founded in ·1971, is a ~e Public Works Committee; the Police, torney's Advisory Committee; the South­ nonprofit organization devoted to re­ Fire and Public Safety Committee· and ern California Association of Govern­ storing the original community of Salem the Airport Noise Abatement Comm'ittee.· ments Transportation and Utilities Com­ Crossroads. In addition, the society is The latter committee, under his able mittees; the League of Cities; and the studying the feasibility of establishing a leadership, drafted a municipal code Los Angeles County Transportation Com­ living historical farm to recreate rural governing noise control at Torrance Mu­ mittee. living during the first part of the 19th n~cipal Airport. George has also worked As president of Advisers General Man­ century. With the Legislative Liaison and Taxa­ The village of Salem Crossroads, now tion Committees of the Torrance City agement Corp., a business manage­ Council. ment firm, and as an active officer, known as Delmont, Pa., was a thriving director or stockholder in three com­ rural community during the period 1830 George Brewster brought many posi­ panies, it is hard to see how George has to 1870. It grew up on the northern pike tive qualities to city government, includ­ the time to devote to community service. stage route between Philadelphia and ing his own strong determination, lead­ Yet he was always willing to agree to Pittsburgh. Originally the crossroads ership, and ability not only to work with serve when asked to do so. Somehow, in provided fresh spring water for travelers others, but to inspire maximum effort by addition to his business responsibilities and horses. As the community developed his own example. His background also and many civic roles, George always around the springs, Salem Crossroads

Statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor will be identified by the use of a "bullet" symbol, i.e., • June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18345 served as a resting place where weary the conclusion of World War One. How­ church, revivals, dinners, reunions, and passengers could enjoy food and lodging. ever, after only 22 years as a self-govern­ participated in all the activities in his The 40 years which spanned Salem ing republic, Lithuania was invaded by small community. Crossroads existence were among the the Soviet Union and once again forced Ed will not be helping his friends of most dynamic in American history. They into subjection. Since 1940, the Lithua­ Flora any more. The smile, the nod, the witnessed the Civil War and the west­ nian people have had to endure the loss gesture, and the helping hand of the ward expansion. During this period of political, religious, social, and eco- friendliest guy in town was silenced as America grew from a rural economy to . nomic freedom. he was walking with his Bible in hand a bustling industrial giant, much of The fate of Viktoras Petkus serves as along a road near Kokomo. He apparently which was centered in western Pennsyl­ an example of what has happened to the was on his way to attend a friend's fu­ vania. individual rights of Lithuanians under neral when he was fatally injured. Ed did Mr. Speaker, the growing interest in Soviet domination. Petkus was first ar­ not drive but frequently walked wherever our history and the renewed interest in rested in 1947 for his activities in the he desired to go regardless of the weather preserving the past, makes the restora­ Catholic Youth Organization. He was or distance. Friends usually would rec­ tion of Salem Crossroads a very worth­ released in 1953 after serving 6 years in ognize him and pick him up. Last Fri­ while project. Many of the original prison. Petkus was arrested again in 1957. day evening he was struck and died later buildings are still standing in the village this time for possession of "anti-Soviet" in a Kokomo hospital. cluster and should indeed be restored literature-a collection of poems by Ed Kinzie, 60, had been silent in voice and preserved. An authentically restored Jurgis Baltrusatitis written in 1912. He since a childhood illness left him a mute, Salem Crossroads would provide more remained in prison until 1965. In late but his spirit and his name will be re­ than just a visual depiction of the past. 1976, Petkus and a number of colleagues membered for a long time by anyone who Properly planned and executed, it would announced the formation of the Lithua­ ever had the opportunity to meet him. also give one a better appreciation of the nian Public Group to monitor the Hel­ Joel Edward Kinzie of Flora, Ind., hopes, fears, ideals, and values of those sinki Agreements and seek their imple­ was a great guy. I am glad I knew him who came before us. Such a restoration mentation. The Soviets, however, quickly and could call him a friend.e would not only benefit the people of the put this activity to an end. Petkus was area but would serve as a reminder to arrested on August 23, 1977 and is now all who visit there. Ultimately, it would in prison still awating trial. earn a high place on the list of early Viktoras Petkus is only one of literally FEDERICO DEGETAU FEDERAL American communities that have been thousands of Lithuanians who have !elt BUILDING restored. the authoritative hand of Soviet op­ The Salem Crossroads Historical Res­ pression. It is easy to be discouraged after HON. BALTASAR CORRADA toration Society has received expert ad­ many years of little or no apparent prog­ vice on its plans from such noteworthy ress in the Lithuanian struggle for OF PUERTO RICO organizations as the Council of the Na­ human rights. Yet the struggle must con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional Trust of Historic Preservation, the tinue. We who enjoy so much freedom Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Smithsonian Institution, the Advisory must take the responsibility to aid others e Mr. CORRADA. Mr. Speaker, I am in­ Council on Historic Preservation Land­ in achieving it for themselves. Let us serting in the RECORD a copy of the Sen­ marks Planning, and the Pennsylvania look for inspiration to the thousands of ate Resolution No. 226, approved on Historical and Museum Commission. Lithuanians and Lithuanian-Americans May 30, 1978 by the Senate of Puerto Salem Crossroads has been included on who have not given up hope. They are a Rico. the Pennsylvania Register of Historic proud people with a glorious past, a This resolution is a further expression Places, and has been nominated for in­ defiant present, and, I am confident that of endorsement to my bill H.R. 4270, clusion on the National Register. with the help of the free world to over­ which was passed by the House on June 5, The men and women of the Salem come their current hardships, they will 1978. Crossroads Historical Restoration So­ have a bright future.e The text of the resolution is as fol­ ciety deserve the thanks of the Nation lows: for the work they are doing. They have "I, Hector M. Hernandez Suarez, Secretary dedicated themselves to preserving a part of the Senate of the Commonwe-alth of of American history not only for our ED KINZIE WILL BE MISSED Puerto Rico, do hereby certify: current generation, but for generations That the Senate of Puerto Rico in its Ses­ yet to come. I am proud that they are HON. JOHN T. MYERS sion of May 30, 1978, approved S.R. No. 226 among my constituents and I wish them which reads as follows: all the best in their endeavor.e OF INDIANA RESOLUTION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES To express the Senate of Puerto Rico's Wednesday, June 21, 1978 endorsement of H.R. 4270, which proposes that the structure that houses the offices of THE LITHUANIAN STRUGGLE FOR e Mr. JOHN T. MYERS. Mr. Speaker, the Federal Government in Puerto Rico and FREEDOM the name Joel Edward Kinzie will never the United States District Court for the aopear in any history books. The memor:v District of Puerto Rico, be denominated the of Ed Kinzie for what he gave to a small "Federico Degetau Federal Building" ("Edi­ HON. RONALD A. SARASIN rural community in Indiana will be re­ ficio Federal Federico Degetau"). STATEMENT OF MOTIVES OF CONNECTICUT membered much longer than the deeds of There is a Bill before the Congress of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES some of the names that will appear in those history books. United States, H.R. 4270, presented by the Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Honorable Baltasar Corrada del Rio, Resident Ed Kinzie was always around to help Commissioner of the Commonwealth of e Mr. SARASIN. Mr. Speaker, I feel it out his friends, delivering coffee to barber Puerto Rico in Washington, which proposes necessary to once again bring to the shops, beauty shoos, and others in the to designate the new Federal Government attention of my colleagues the plight of business section of little Flora. He raked Office Building, located in Hato Rey, as the the freedom-loving people of Lithuania. leaves, shoveled snow, washed windows, "Federico Degetau Federal Building" ("Edi­ It seems to be a fact of human nature swept floors, moved furniture, and ficio Federal Federico Degetau"). that we tend to forget or ignore the diffi­ helped anyone that needed a little extra If H.R. 4270 is approved, it will honor the memory of the eminent Puerto Rican, don culties of people whose problems we do help regardless of how menial the task Federico Degetau, who was the first Puerto not personally share. Since Americans might be-the kind of person that there Rican Resident Commissioner in the United have great individual liberties, it is nec­ are so few of any more. He was the kind States, and who served in said office from essary that we be constantly reminded of of guy one appreciated being with and March 4, 1901 to March 3, 1905. our less fortunate friends, lest we forget sharing a friendship. The Senate of Puerto Rico joins this noble their need. gesture, by endorsing the proposal that the He was more than all of these things, new structure, located on Carlos Chard6n After decades of subordination to the just nice to have around and appreciated Street in Hato Rey, which houses the Fed­ Russian Empire, the nation of Lithuania by all. He loved his fellow man. He eral Government offices in Puerto Rico and proudly proclaimed its independence at wanted to share with others, went to the United States District Court for the Dis- 18346 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 trict of Puerto Rico, be denominated as the Ambassador Spiers' letter follows: plications. I commend the Department "Federico Degetau Federal Building (''Edificio EMBASSY OF THE for its openness in this respect. While I Federal Federico Degetau"). UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, do not necessarily endorse the list in its Be it resolved by the Senate of Puerto Ankara, Turkey, February 6, i978. entirely, I wish to place it in the RECORD Rico : Hon. HAROLD S. SAWYER, so that all interested parties will have Section 1. The Senate of Puerto Rico ex­ House of Representatives, access to it. presses its endorsement of House Resol';ttion Washington, D.C. The material follows: 4270, which proposes that the structure that DEAR CONGRESSMAN SAWYER: Thank you for your letter concerning Katherine Zenz .CHECK LIST FOR TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF houses the offices of the Federal Government UNITED STATES AND COCOM EXPORT CASES in Puerto Rico and the United States Dis­ and JoAnn McDaniel, and your thoughtful­ trict Court for the District of Puerto Rico, ness in providing a copy of Public Law 95-144. For each case requiring technical pro­ be denominated the "Federico Degetau Fed­ The Government of Turkey has indeed ex­ grammatic and combat effectiveness evalua­ eral Building" ("Edificio Federal Federico pressed interest in entering into a transfer of tions all of the foJlowing questions will be. Degetau") . prisoners treaty with U.S. A treaty of this answered. Where appropriate, notations of Section 2. A copy of this Resolution shall type breaks no new ground for the TUrks as "Not Applicable" or "Don't Know" will be be sent to the Speaker of the House of Rep­ they are signatory to a similar treaty among entered. In formulating answers to ques­ resentatives of the United States, the Chair­ the Council of Europe countries which they tions regarding military significance, the man of Public Works and Transportation ratified last year. A draft proposal has been factors listed in Appendix I will be expressly Committee, to the Honorable Baltasar Cor­ prepared by the Ministry of Justice in re­ considered. rada del Rio, Resident Commissioner of sponse to our initial discussions, and is pres­ 1. ~elationship to US/ Weapons System Puerto Rico in washington, and to the in­ ently under consideration by the Ministry and Military Significance: formation media for its general diffusion. of Foreign Affairs. What predominant or important military Section 3. This Resolution shall take effect We are in constant touch with Ministry offi­ or military supporting end-use does this immediately after its approval by the Senate cials and urge them as much as possible to item currently have? expedite negotiations. While there have been of Puerto Rico. 2. Stated End Use: delays I still feel confident that tangible re­ Is the stated civil end-use reasonable and And for transmittal to Honorable Baltasar sults can be achieved before summer. appropriate? Corrada del Rio, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in washington, I issue this Cer­ I am concerned though about how long, 3. Diversion Potential: tificate in my office at the Capitol Building once negotiated, such a treaty will take to go (a) Could this item easily be diverted in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and set my hand into force. Parliamentary action is outside the from the stated civil end-use to a military and the Seal of The Senate, this thirty-one control of technocrats and even routine cul­ or military supporting program in the coun­ day of May of the year nineteen hundred and tural treaties can take two years or more for try of destination? If so, how? seventy-eight. ratification. I cite this only as an example of (b) Can adequate safeguards be devised HECTOR M. HERNANDEZ SUAREZ, the deliberate nature of Turkey's Parliament. either before or after the export to preclude Secretary of the Senate.e On the positive side I think the change in diversions? government will be a definite advantage. It 4. Technology Transfer: was the former Ecevit government (1974) (a) Does this item contain extractable that was responsible for the general amnesty technology of significance for military or TURKEY'S INSENSITIVITY TO resulting in a reduction of the girls' sentence military supporting production in the coun­ HUMAN RIGHT8-VI to 24 years, and it is possible that the new tJ,"y of destination? Ecevit government will be more receptive in (b) Would follow-on operation and main­ matters of this kind. tenance instructions, overhaul data, train­ HON. HAROLD S. SAWYER Meanwhile, we continue to explore alterna­ ing or US plant visits connected with this OF MICHIGAN tives for achieving the early return home of export involve a transfer of significant tech­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the girls and other Americans serving long nology? sentences in Turkish prisons. 5. Previous Releases: Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Sincerely, (a) To what countries/foreign companies • Mr. SAWYER. Mr. Speaker, the lack RONALD I. SPmRS, has similar US equipment or related tech­ of concern by the Government of American Ambassador.e nology been released? (b) Is there evidence of attempts at il­ Turkey for the fundamental human legal acquisition of the items or technology? rights of Americans serving harsh CHECK LIST FOR TECHNICAL EVAL­ If so, by whom? prison sentences in Turkey is deeply UATION OF UNITED STATES AND 6. Foreign Availability: distressing. I would like to include for COCOM EXPORT CONTROL CASES What is the present foreign availability my colleagues a copy of a letter which I of the item in quantity and quality? received from our Ambassador to Turkey, 7. Recommended Position: Ronald I. Spier~. which contain the faint HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM (a) What DoD position (approval, disap­ suggestion of the possibility for negotia­ OF NEW YORK proval, or approval with provisos) on this tions of a prisoner exchange treaty with case would be consistent with this technical IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES evaluation? Turkey. As you will note, the letter is Wednesday, June 21, 1978 (b) Would this position represent a de­ dated February 6, 1978. parture from preivous policy? If so, how and I think, perhaps, that the emphasis • Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, as chair­ to what extent? of this letter intimates that the most man of the Subcommittee on Interna­ 8. Name, Organization, Office Symbol, Date advantageous time has arrived for tional Economic Policy and Trade, from and Signature. favorable conclusion of this important time to time I receive inquiries from American business regarding the crite­ APPENDIX !- FACTORS RELATING To QUESTIONS agreement. We cannot afford to pass up ON MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE AND RELATIONS this opportunity. While this matter is ria that are applied by our Government in determining whether or not to grant TO U.S. WEAPONS SYSTEMS in the immediate attention of these of­ 1. Relationship to US Weapons Systems: ficials, we should pressure for the most licenses for the export of advanced tech­ (a) With respect to US military systems is immediate settlement possible. Treaty nology which might be strategically sig­ the item or the technology within the item guidelines are already intact, as they nificant. critical? As applied to questions ( 1) and (2) were established in treaties concluded by Too much of the export-licensing proc­ in the following its absence would degrade Turkey with other countries. ess is shrouded in secrecy. Too often our the performance of at least one of the pri­ exporters have no way of predicting mary missions. As should also be noted, Ambassador ( 1) Curren't systems; Spiers mentions that he feels "confident whether their product will receive an (2) Future systems; that tangible results can be achieved export license, or of knowing the rea­ (3) Research and Development; before summer." This has not been the sons for a rejection of their license ap­ (4) Diagnostic or maintenance systems. case. These delays cannot continue. I plication. There is a fundamental lack training, or operating instructions for either cannot emphasize enough the desperate of accountability and openness in the current or future systems? or, situation in which we are placing both process. The subcommittee has been (5) Design, manufacturing processes or working to remedy this and will con­ utilization know-how relating to any of 'the the American women imprisoned in above items? Turkey, as well as their families. We tinue to do so. (b) would release of equipment/ informa- must make it obvious that we will no Recently the Department of Defense tion reveal U.S. military equipment (vulner­ longer tolerate such delays by either the made available to the industry a list of abilities) (deficiencies) · (tactics) (intelU­ Government of Turkey nor our own De­ technical guidelines it uses internally to gence information) on our first line weapons partment of State. arrive at a DOD position on license ap- or space systems? June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18347 (c) Was the product specifically designed ADVANCED MATERIALS Arc Plasma Spray Technology, 89. for U.S. mmtary equipment or has a com­ Amorphous Metals, 33. Coherent Microwave Memory Technology, mercially developed version of the product Boron Fibers, 34. 90. been modified for the m111tary appUcation? Corrosion/ Erosion Resistant Coatings, 35*. Fast Fourier Transform Processors, 91*. In either case is there a significant trend Cubic Boron Nitride for Tooling, 36. High Performance A/ D Convertors, 92*. toward commercial exploitation of the Fiber Optics Materials, 37*. High-Performance Cathode Ray Tubes, 93. product or embedded technology? High Temperature Coatings for Superalloys High Performance Travelling Wave Tubes, 2. Military Significance/ Technology Trans­ & Titanium, 38*. 94. fer: Metal-Matrix Composites (Incl. Carbon- Millimeter Wave Tubes (e.g., 35 and 95 (a) Wl"th respect to the recipient country Carbon, Organic), 39*. GHz), 95. will the sale create a new or significantly Optical Thin Film Materials, 40. higher regional combat capab111ty? Phase Control Components, 96. Polyimides (Incl. Kevlar), 41. Ultra-Stable Oscillators, 97. (b) Is this item related to: Polymers (Incl. Piezoelectric, Pyroelectric INSTRUMENTATION ( 1) Nuclear, biological, or chemical wea­ and High-Temperature Elastomers), 42. pons. Powder Metallurgy (e.g., High Cooling Electron Accelators, 98. (2) Weapons or systems which provide Rate), 43*. Flash Radiography, 99. strategic reconnaissance or missile delivery Radiation Detection Materials, 44. Gravity Gradiometers, 100. capability. SaUd State Microwave Device Materials, High-Precision Clocks and Frequency (3) Weapons or systems with a significant 45. Standards, 101. tactical capabil1ty. Ultrahigh Carbon Steels (e.g., Superplas­ Inertial Navigation Systems (Incl. Gyro (4) Technical data or specialized equip­ ticity), 46. and Accelerometers), 102. ment which could contribute to indigenous ANTENNA & RADAR Nondestructive Thin-Film Measurement, 103. design, development or manufacture. of items Conformal Antenna Arrays, 47. (1), (2) and (3) above. Remote Sensing, 104. High Dynamic-Range Receivers, 48. Scanning Electron Microscope, 105. (c) Is this transaction related to any of High-Performance Clutter-Rejection Ra- the items on the preliminary Ust of dual-use dar, 49. Seismic Intrusion Sensors, 106. Structural Analysis and Integrity Assess- (military-commercial appUcation) critical Solid State Transmitters & Frequency Am- technologies generated during Defense Sci­ plifiers, 50. ment Systems Using Microprocessors, 107*. 108. ence Board Study (Bucy Report). Imple­ Specialized Space Antennas, 51. Ultra High-Speed Photography, mentation Effort (Appendix 2). Please de­ Synthetic-Aparture Radar, 52. Very Wide-Band Tape Recorders, 109. Vibration Test Equipment, 110. scribe the relationship. Wide-Band Low-Noise Receivers, 53. LASERS APPENDIX 2 COMPUTERS 54. Coherent Sources with Wavelengths Short­ Description and No.: Artificial Intelligence Software, er than 1000 A, 111. Biocybernetic Communication, 55. ACOUSTICS & UNDERWATER 56. Electrical Excitation Technology for La­ Computer Disc Systems, sers, 112•. Acoustic Displays, 1 *. Computerized Exchange Switching (Incl. Acoustic Propagation, 2*. Packet Switching), 57*. Far IR Lasers (more than 50 micrometers), 113. Acoustic Reception (Incl. Towed Arrays) , Distributed Data Base Systems, 58*. a•. Frequency Multipliers for Infrared Lasers, Large Memory Design (e.g., 101s Bits), 59*. 114. Acoustic Transmission (Incl. Transducers), Memory Technologies (Incl. Bubble Mem- 4•. ory & Logic, High Density Cores, Rapid Ac­ High-Energy Lasers (Incl. Electrical Dis­ Deep Ocean (RUWS/WSP), 5•. cess Erasable), 60*. charge, Gas Dynamic and Chemical) , 115 •. ADVANCED DESIGN & MANUFACTURING Natural Language Communications with Laser Gyro Technology (Incl. Ring Laser Design: Computers, 61*. Gyros), 116. Solid State Laser Diodes (Injection Laser Advanced Airfoil & Three-Dimensional Optical Computing, 62. Wing Design, 6*. Photo Interpretation by Computers, 63. Development), 117. Computer-Aided Design (other than for Photo-Recording Materials, 64. X-ray Laser Technology, 118. !.C.'s and machine tools), 7*. Processor Architecture, 65*. MAGNETICS Speech Processing Technology, 66. Control Configured Vehicle (e.g., fly-by­ High Magnetostriction Rare Earth Alloys, wire). a•. DETECTORS AND FILTERS 119. Deep-Drawn, Thin-Walled Metal Parts De­ Infrared Detectors and Materials (Incl. sign, 9. Normal-Conducting Homopolar Electrical High Resistivity Sil1con), 67*. Machinery, 120. Fracture Control Design Processes, 10*. Intensified Array Detectors, 68*. Platform StabiUzation, 11. Low Light-Level Imaging, 69*. Rare-Earth Alloy Permanent Magnets, 121. Tunable IR Filters (Acousto-Optical or Segmented-Magnet Motors and Genera­ MANUFACTURING tors, 122. Airframes (e.g., Wide Body Transports), Electro-Optical), 70*. 12*. Wide-Angle Narrow-Band Filters, 71*. POWER GENERATION Bearingless Rotors, 13. ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL COMPONENTS Centrifugal Compressors for Small Turbine Composite Filament Winding, 14. Solid State: Engines, 123 *. Diffusion Bonding (Incl. Titanium), 15*. Beam Lead Integrated Circuits, 72 •. Closed-Cycle Brayton Turbine, 124. Electrocatalysis, Chemical Modification of Charge-Coupled Device Signal Processing Electrolyte Battery Developments (Incl. Electrodes, 16. and Imaging, 73 •. Lithium-Inorganic and Low-Temperature Electroforming, 17. Galllum Arsenide Devices (Incl. Microwave SaUd), 125. Electrostream Hole Drilling, 18*. FET's), 74. . Photoassisted Electrochemical Cells, 126. Glass/Ceramic AppUcations, 19. Large-Scale Integrated Circuits (Incl. Mi- Photochemical Enhancement in Air­ High-Energy Rate Forging, 20. croprocessors, High Performance IlL, Breathing Engines, 127. High-Performance Welding (Incl. Explo- Schottky TTL) . Propulsion Controls, Materials and Sys- sive Welding), 21. Metal Oxide Threshold Switches (MOTS), High-Precision Manufacture of Large Pres- 76. tems, 128*. sure Vessels, 22. Millimeter Wave Devices (e.g., 35 and 95 Pulsed Power Generation, 129. High Vacuum Processes, 23. GHz), 77. Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, 130. Hot Isostatic Processing, 24*. Solid State Light Modulators, 78. Turbojet Engines (e.g., Composite Mate- Inspection of Advanced Composite Struc­ SaUd State Microwave Devices (Incl. Di­ rials, Polyamides, Bearings), 131 *. tures, 25*. odes, Silicon Bipolar Amplifiers and IC's). SUPERCONDUCTORS Non-Destructive Evaluation Technology, Surface Acoustic Wave Devices and Tech- 26*. . nology, 80*. Polymeric Superconductors, 132. Numerical Control of Machine Tools (Incl. Optical: Superconducting Electrical Machinery. Adaptive), 27. Adaptive Optics, 81. 133. Plasma Spraying, 28. Fiber Optics/ Integrated Optics, 82*. Superconducting Sensors and Oscillators Replicated Optics, 29*. High-Density Optical Recording, 83. (Incl. Josephson/Tunnel Junction), 134. Thixocasting & Rheocasting of Ferrous High-Power Optics, 84. Materials, 30. Superconducting Magnetometer Technol­ Infrared Focal Plane Arrays, 85*. ogy (Incl. Quantum Interference Devices), Vacuum Casting (Especially Air-Coiled Optical Fiber Cable Assemblies, Devices 135. Turbine Blades), 31 •. and Fiberguide, 86. Vapor Deposition (Physical & Chemical), Plasma Displays, 87. WINDOWS, COATINGS, AND MATERIALS 32. Other Electronic Components and Related Cooled Metal Mirror Fabrication, 136*. Instruments: High-Speed Diamond Turning of Large •Indicates high priority items. Advanced Microwave Transmission Line Mirrors, 137*. Components (Incl. Microwave Tubes), 88. Uncooled Mirror Materials, 138* ·• 18348 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 always seems to show up with a lawyer, in­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION To get back in the ball game, the presi­ dent's advisers (no doubt Hamilton Jordan, creasingly at public expense, who files writ the tiger of the Washington, D.C., singles after writ, delaying and sometimes defeating HON. ROBERT A. YOUNG lounges) advised the president to go on the what appears to be quick and simple justice. offensive. On being so advised, so he did. On In the eyes of the public, if it were not for OF MISSOURI big labor, big business, the oil cartel? Mr. · the lawyer and his hanky-panky, more crim­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Brezhnev, perhaps, or maybe even Fidel inals would be held responsible for their crimes. Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Castro? Heck, no. He took out after the lawyers. "How,'' the lawyer is always asked, "can • Mr. YOUNG of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, Big deal. you defend a man you know is guilty?" on Friday, June 16, 1978, I was un­ In the first place, it's about as dangerous But if freedom is to be maintained, the avoidably absent from the House. Had as attacking a geriatrics ward with a sharp lawyer must take seriously the constitutional I been present, I would have voted on stick. No one ever really loses, because the commandment that every man is presumed lawyers never fight back-they are too busy to be innocent; it is not and cannot be the matters coming before the House as writing the speeches of the people attacking role of the lawyer to usurp the judge and the follows: them. jury's province of determining guilt or inno­ "Yea" on rollcall No. 468, passage of Nor is it exactly a novel idea. Everyone at cence. H.R. 12927, making appropriations for times gets some mileage out of it. For 5,000 This, however, seems to have been the military construction for the Department years or more, everyone periodically has thrust of Mr. Carter's comment when he of Defense for the fiscal year ending been attackinz the lawyers-kings, emperors, spoke with disdain of the lawyers who repre­ September 30, 1979.• presidents, congressmen, editorial writers, sented the people in the South who were re­ public opinion polls. sisting integration. He forgot, or ignored, the The Iowa Legislature schedules a regular lawyers who went into Mississippi and the time for hate-lawyers discussion, right after other Southern states to defend unjustly ac­ BUREAUCRATESE CREATES OVER­ cused blacks and others who supported inte­ ' ABUNDANCE OF LAWYERS the morning prayer. Even lawyers attack lawyers. It's a time-honored custom, some­ gration, as the public is inclined to overlook times deserved, and even when not it has the fact that the lawyers involved in Water­ HON. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY its uses. Society needs a scapegoat for the gate were prosecuted, sent to jail and dis­ perplexities and frustrations it creates. barred by s>ther lawyers; and the President of OF IOWA It's hard to know just exactly if Mr. Car­ the United States, while represented by law­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ter has any real antipathy toward lawyers. yers, was a.t the same time forced out of office by lawyers. Wednesday, June 21, 1978 When he was campaigning for office and ap­ peared before the American Bar Association Which is the point I am trying to make. e Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. Speaker, I would Convention, he was most flattering, Come to The right, constitutionally guaranteed, to like to share with my colleagues this think of it, however, that was in the days a fair and impartial trial, carrying with it the when he was promising the Iowa farmer his presumption of innocence, cannot exist with­ article sent to me by the Honorable out the right of every person to be repre­ James E. Bromwell, former Member of undying support. Seriously, his charge that the country is sented by a lawyer, no matter how unworthy the U.S. House of Representatives. This over-lawyered is quite true. I join with any­ the person or ignoble his cause. It is the law­ item was written by the very distin­ one who wonders why he can't make out his yer's duty to use every legal and honorable guished David M. Elderkin, who has income tax return without a lawyer, or run means at his disposal to protect his client's practiced law in Cedar Rapids since 1937. a business without hiring lawyers to explain rights. If you would deny or limit this right, He is past president of the Iowa State (if they can) OSHA, ERISA or the pre·sent where would you draw the line? Bar Association, a member of the board Tax Reform Act of 1976. Parenthetically, if We have, at best, a difficult, uneasy society. of governors of the Iowa Academy of I am asked why a man can't confess to a There is a vast potential of disorder that lies crime without a lawyer, I can quickly tell beneath· an ordered surface. The tensions Trial Lawyers, and a fellow of the Ameri­ you why he can't, but I won't claim it makes on the surface are a mirror of the reconc111- can College of Trial Lawyers. much sense. ations, the balances, the disciplines for which Mr. Elderkin speaks out for the neces­ But the quantity of lawyers comes from all civilized societies on every scale must for­ sity of lawYers in our ever-increasing the demands of society. Congress enacted 200 ever search. It is not the responsiblity of the complex society. He points out "that bills in th last session with 7,000 rules and lawyer, at least the trial lawyer, to make this until the Congress of the United States regulations all of which require knowledge search and strike these balances. This is the and interpretation. Among them are the role of government. and the legislatures of the several States Yet, it has long been a grave question stop spewing such monstrous quantity of most complex and, in some instances, the most monstrous pieces of legislation ever whether any government strong enough to new legislation, we will need more law­ known to tax the brains and souls of man­ balance and control the tensions and the yers, not fewer." This is a point well kind. vast potential for disorder lying beneath the taken. They are written in bureaucratese which surface is not too strong for the Uberties of I wish Mr. Elderkin well and thank bears only a tantalizing resemblance to any its citizens. Mr. Bromwell for making this article spoken language. Do not belive the canard Herein lies the lawyer's role-to preserve that they were written by lawyers-they were individual liberty. Is our effort always of high available to us. The piece from the Cedar quality? Obviously not. Yet quite often. All Rapids Gazette of June 4, 1978, follows: not; as a matter of fact they stagger the patience even of Philadelphia lawyers numb­ in all, the American citizen, of whatever eco­ [From the Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 4, nomic status and of whatever race, creed or 1978] ing them to acquiescence. The Iowa Legis­ lature unfortunately is not far behind. color, has more individual liberty than any KICKING LAWYERS SATISFIES. BUT FREEDOM Definitely as Mr. Carter suggests there are citizen of any other country on the face of the RIDES ON WHAT THEY Do too many lawyers. But until the Congress Earth. (By David M. Elderkin) There are many factors and many influ­ of the United States and the legislatures of ences that bring this about, to be sure, but it Whatever one may think about President the several states stop spewing such mon­ strous quantity of new legislation, we will is also true-and not g:merally appreciated­ carter, one must admit he is highly re­ that at any given time, no person's Uberty sourceful. Since he took office, he has been need more lawyers, not fewer. Someone must amounts to any more than he or she can constantly criticized as a man in retreat. purport to study, understand and advise the get a lawyer to stand up-alone if need be­ His own party (Jackson, Moynihan) has ac­ rest of us on our rights, duties and obliga­ and defend. cused him of retreating before Soviet pres­ tions under all of this new legislation and This is true, Mr. President, from Sam sure on the issue of human rights, the neu­ the resultant administrative rules. A lawyer, Berkowitz to Bert Lance. For the role of the tron bomb and strategic arms limitation in this connection, is simply a person who, by lawyer is not to make society virtuous, but negotiations. study and training, is able to properly advise to try to keep it free to be. If it chooses.e Critics challenge him with having re­ us and many are needed. treated before the Soviet-Cuban rampage But I suspect that these are not the kind in Africa, abandoning Taiwan at the insist­ of lawyers the president refers to. I am sure ence of China and running away from South that he really finds his hostility toward those Korea. He has, of course, been accused of of us who practice that branch of the law THE STANFORD DECISION succumbing to pressure from Saudi Arabia, we call advocacy-the representation of peo­ Panama, Angola, and, mostly recently, Zaire. ple and people's problems in the arena of the HON. DAVID L. CORNWELL Domestically, he has been bullied by in­ courtroom. It is in the courtroom, of course, dustry on voluntary price controls, by big that the public sees the law in action; and OF INDIANA labor on voluntary wage controls, and by it is there that the oublic, as well as Mr. Car­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress on e.-erything, including energy, ter, forms its judgment of the legal profes­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Social Security, food stamps, welfare, em­ sion. ployment, educa.tion, hospital costs, urban In the area of criminal law, for example, no e Mr. CORNWELL. Mr. Speaker, I policy, defense and taxation. matter how brutal the crime, the criminal stand in the opinion that the day of May June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18349 31, 1978, will also be a day that will "live searched, and the persons or things to be The young men being honored this in infamy.'' On this day, the Supreme seized." year are Joey Edwards, Craig Fields, Court destroyed the· protection granted For many years, this was interpreted to mean that only weapons or the plunder of Greg Renick, Greg Simmons, Greg under the first and fourth amendments crime could be hunted. But in 1967 the Tucker, and Wendell White.• to the Constitution by reversing two Courts sanctioned the seizure of "mere evi­ lower court decisions requiring police of­ dence." The Standford raid an other, similar ficials to obtain a subpena duces tecum cases followed, broadening the searches to to search innocent third party property: papers an other effects of innocent third par­ MEDICARE-LOW VISION COVER­ the Stanford decision. The Court, in a ties, and now the Court has approved these AGE FOR THE LEGALLY BLIND 5-to-3 decision, interpreted the fourth also. amendment to hold that innocent third The Court's majority-commendably-did party property may be legally searched invite legislative action. It was not long in HON. MARTHA KEYS coming. Representatives Drinan and Jacobs OF KANSAS with the aid of a search warrant. It is and Senators Dole and Bayh, occupying a. with this narrow interpretation of the pretty wide polltical spectrum, are offering IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Constitution that the American free legislation to guard the personal privacy Wednesday, June 21, 1978 press will suffer unless immediate action made vulnerable by the Court. Cosponsors is taken. are many. • Ms. KEYS. Mr. Speaker, I am today My highest regards go out to Senator Any of these b1lls would give welcome aid; introducing legislation to provide medi­ ROBERT DOLE, Senator BIRCH BAYH, Rep­ the only question is whether they go far care coverage of low vision lenses and resentative RoBERT DRINAN, and specifi­ enough. Drinan's plan, for instance, confines illumination aids for legally blind in­ itself to the press-a vital consideration but dividuals together with coverage of ac­ cally Representative ANDY JAcoBs for only part of the problem. their action in response to the Stanford Dole and Bayh would require a. hearing for companying low vision services. decision. Through the action of these the innocent party before a search could be Research has established that ap­ distinguished colleagues may freedom of conducted, but would permit this to be proximately 80 percent of those persons the press continue to bless the United skipped if the pollee showed that the party, termed "legally blind" have some degree States of America. given warning, might destroy the evidence. of useful vision which can be maximized I wish to enter the remarks of Mar­ This arrangement would provide llttle through the use of low vision aids and vin Stone, reporter for the U.S. News safety against the most feared threat, an un­ training. Legal blindness is most pre­ scrupulous administration and a compllant & World Report, who exemplifies the valent among the elderly. However, there magistrate. But the Jacobs bill may have a are an additional 117,000 persons under ramifications of the courts decision and solution: Where the wanted evidence cannot promulgates some insight to our col­ be found without exposing other private the age of 65 who are eligible for medi­ leagues proposals : papers to inspection, all must be sealed with­ care through the Social Security Dis­ The remarks follow: out examination until after a hearing. If ability Insurance program as a result of A PERIL NOT ONLY TO THE PRESS properly structured, this procedure, which legal blindness. parallels the model code of the American Law To address the needs of these persons, (By Marvin Stone) Institute, averts danger of destruction while It is starting to sink in-with some in Con­ specialists have developed a wide variety protecting the individual. of optical lens systems which can enable gress at least--that the recent Supreme Whatever the action-and it must be Court decision approving search and seizure weighed with utmost care-now is the time. legally blind individuals to make use of in a. newspaper office has frightening impll­ Liberties that Americans treasure are being residual vision for reading and other ac­ cations. The decision is being rightfully re­ threatened and could easily be stolen away.e tivities. Low vision aids may range from garded as one more move to cancel safe­ hand-held magnfiers to more complex guards of the First and Fourth amendments, microscopic lens systems mounted on not only for the press, but for all citizens. The details require a. brief review. On April spectacles. 12, 1971, pollee came unannounced to the TWENTY-FIVE TO BE HONORED AT The American Foundation for the offices of the Stanford Daily, armed with a. 16TH ANNUAL COTILLION Blind estimates that the average com­ search warrant. They thought the Daily, bined cost of optical aids and profes­ though not itself suspected of crime, might sional services is approximately $200 per possess photographs showing who helped HON. DALE E. KILDEE person. Thus, we could provide low vision beat up nine pollcemen. The invaders ran­ OF MICHIGAN services to a person enrolled in medicare sacked photo labs, cabinents, desks and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wastebaskets, found nothing and left. The at a cost of only $10 million. Such cover­ paper sued local authorities. It won in U.S. Wednesday, June 21, 1978 age could restore sight to nearly 50,000 district court and appeals court. But the Su­ e Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I am elderly Americans and permit them to preme Court now has ruled that no clause in enjoy the same daily activities and in­ the Constitution bars what happened to the pleased today to draw the attention of dependence that nonhandicapped per­ Daily. my colleagues in the U.s. House of Rep­ sons take for granted. The potential perU to every indi~idual resentatives to the 25 young people from became evident in Justice Stevens' dissent: in and around Flint, Mich., who will ~e The legislation follows: "Doctors, lawyers, merchants, customers, by­ honored at the 16th annual Cotillion this H.R.- standers ... may have documents in their Saturday. Nineteen young women and A b111 to amend title XVIII of the Social possession that relate to an ongoing criminal six young men will receive special recog­ Security Act to provide coverage, under investigation." You could interpret that to nition from the National Association of the supplementary medical insurance pro­ mean that police, armed with search warrants gram, of certain lenses and illumination from judges or magistrates-any judges or Negro Business and Professional Wom­ aids for individuals suffering from severe magistrates-could invade the homes of third en's Clubs, whose Flint chapter sponsors limitation of central visual acuity and of parties and rummage through their files, let­ the annual affair. The Flint chapter has the services of an optometrist in prescrib­ ters, photos and documents as if they were contributed substantially to a better life ing such lenses and aids no better than common criminals. for many in the Flint area and is a re­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House The Boston Globe saw, as well it might, a spected and valued voice in the business of Representatives of the United States of "step toward a pollee state." Sam Dash, once community as well as the community at America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Senate's chief counsel in investigating large. section 1861 (s) of the Social Security Act Watergate, concluded that the new decision is amended- puts innocent people in a worse plight than The 1978 Cotillion Debutantes are Iva criminals. Alexander, Cassandra Barker, Sherri ( 1) by striking out "and" at the end of How did we come to such a state? Bryant, Angela Franklin, Marcia Hed­ paragraph (8), The Fourth Amendment, written out of (2) by striking out the period at the end rick, Debra Jackson, Tanya Edwards, of paragraph (9) and inserting in lieu there­ bitter experience, declares: "The right of the Roxann Jenkins, Edda Johnson, Comella people to be secure in their persons, houses, of"; and", papers, and effects, against unreasonable Monroe, Phyllis Oliver, Eleanor Powell, (3) by inserting immediately after para­ searches and seizures, shall not be violated, Lucille Shamley, Renee Turner, Kath­ graph (9) the following new paragraph: and no warrants shall issue, but l!pon prob­ leen White, Tanya Woodson, Lisa Mc­ "(10) lenses pJ:escribed by a physician to able cause, supported by oath or affirmation, Cloud, Melody Smith, and Rhonda aid the condition of limited central visual and particularly describing the place to be Conner. acuity, if the individual for whom any such 18350 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 lens is prescribed suffers from blindness (as Association of Chambers of Commerce The F.R.G. and Japan have started pro­ that term is used in section 216(i) (1) (B)).", and has been a valuable participant in grams more recently than France, the United and the Redondo Beach Round Table. States, the U.K. and. the U.S.S.R. Germany (4) by redesignating paragraphs (10) progressed rapidly at first but is experiencing through (13) as paragraphs (11) through As Charlie Garrett's term as chamber some difficulty with its SNR-300 schedule. ( 14), respectively. of commerce president comes to an end, Japan built its first breeder reactor, JOYO, (b) Section 1861(r) (4) of such Act is I ask the Members of this 95th Congress in a relatively short time; its second effort, amended by inserting "or establishing the to join me in this commendation for his MONJU, is in construction and is expected to necessity for and prescribing lenses (as well outstanding community service, and wish progress rapidly. as any illumination aid to be used in con­ him continued success in his future Of central importance to the future pros­ nection therewith) to aid the condition of pects for international cooperation on breed­ limited central visual acuity of an individ­ endeavors.• ers are the following: the close existing ual who suffers from blindness (as that term association between France and the F.R.G., is used in section 216(i) (1) (B))" immedi­ together with Italy, Belgium and the Nether­ ately after "lenses". lands; the U.S. indecision; and the relative (c) Section 1864(a) of such Act is amended ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION RE­ position of Japan. by striking out "paragraphs ( 10) and (11)" PORT ON "INTERNATIONAL CO­ The recommendations from chapter 7 of and inserting in lieu thereof "paragraphs OPERATION ON BREEDER REAC­ the report are: (12) and (13) ". TORS" The u.s. should continue to develop breed­ (d) Section 1862(a) (7) of such Act is ers as insurance against possible future re­ amended by adding immediately before the source depletion. For such an approach to be semicolon at the end thereof the following: HON. JOHN W. WYDLER credible, breeders should l;>e proven as an "(except that this paragraph shall not be OF NEW YORK option through the demonstration of com­ applicable to lenses described in section 1861 mercially sized units. (s) ( 10), and illumination aid prescribed by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The present LMFBR reactor and fuel cycle a physician to be used in connection with Wednesday, June 21, 1978 technology should be further developed in any such lens, nor to services of a physician its most proliferation-resistant form as the in determining the necessity for and pre­ e Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, I have technology of choice and in light of the scribing any such lens or aid)". been very concerned about the implica­ INFCE process. SEc. 2. The amendments made by this Act tions of the administration's nuclear po­ The u.s. should take steps to move back shall apply only to services furnished on or licy which has caused grave doubts on tnto a position of technological leadership on after the first day of the month following the part of the Soviets and Japanese as the breeder reactor and particularly on the the month in which this Act is enacted.e well as our friends in Western Europe. breeder fuel cycle and nonproliferation meas­ ures. These steps should include: In my discussions with European Gov­ Adoption of a policy which does not en­ ernment officials last summer and this courage premature commercial breeder de­ A TRIBUTE TO CHARLIE GARRETT winter the bankruptcy of the Carter ployment but fosters appropriate RD&D; nuclear policy was starkly evident. The Articulation of a policy of intent to sup­ recent decisions by the British and Jap­ port development of proliferation-resistant HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN anese on nuclear reprocessing have breeder technologies, including plutonium­ OF CALIFORNIA "broken the dike" on this misguided fueled LMFBRs; and policy. The Japanese decision to invest Careful and deliberate preparation of a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES breeder research, development and demon­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 in French and British reprocessing fa­ stration program plan. cilities was predictable to everyone but The U.S. government should recognize that • Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask you the Carter administration. I cannot continued exchange and cooperation on R&D, and my colleagues to join me in recogniz­ imagine how the United States could demonstration, and safety and licensing may ing an outstanding public servant in my expect the Japanese to turn their backs make nonproliferation-related agreements district, Mr. Charlie Garrett. On July 13, on the energy in spent nuclear fuel. easier to achieve. he will be retiring from his position of They are an island nation with no fos­ Current international cooperative activ­ president of the Redondo Beach Cham­ sil reserves and it is only common sense ities in R&D are judged to be effective and no ber of Commerce after a distinguished for them to look to conserving their en­ 1'\oecific recommendations are made in that term of service. reaard. riched U.S. uranium and reactor-made The U.S. and Japan, and possibly the U.K., One certain reason for Charlie Gar­ plutonium. should plan a joint breeder demonstration rett's tremendous success as president of I have submitted a report to the plant program. Eventual particioation of ad­ the chamber of commerce, and his other Science and Technology Committee on ditional countries, particularly the U.K., public service positions, is his colorful my European oversight findings and have should be provided for. background. After completing his formal prepared a companion report on my So­ The continental European breeder program education, he worked in a variety of posi­ viet discussions which I shall submit to is already closely integrated, and no specific tions from coal miner to boatswain's the committee this month. My findings recommendation is made in this regard. However, the U.S. and others should r~cog­ mate in the U.S. Navy. From these ex­ on the question of breeder reactor devel­ nize that the group is open to additional periences he molded a valuable talent, opment are strongly corroborated by the interchanges, particularly on a commercial the ability to understand and work with recent Rockefeller Foundation report on basis. people. This personal characteristic has "International Cooperation on Breeder The U.S. and Japan, and possibly the U.K., been a contributing factor to his remark­ Reactors." This is a particularly impor­ the F.R.G., France and the U.S.S.R., should able success as chamber president. tant and timely document and contains form a working group, possibly under IAEA In recognition of this tremendous the following major points. auspices, among their resoective licensing potential, in 1972, Mr. Garrett was agencies which would explore the merits The United States had the early lead in of increased cooperation in developing licens­ selected to attend the prestigious Insti­ developing experimental FBRs. It has put ing standards and procedures. tute of Humanistic Studies in Aspen, no new breeder reactors in place for some A clear international understanding of the Colo. This experience served to further time and has, at present, no firm plans for nonproliferation issue as it relates to LMFBR increase his knowledge of human inter­ doing so. fuel cycle should be sought by forming an action. Measured in terms of successful reactors international working group, perhaps orga­ Charlie Garrett has voluntarily offered .of progressively increasing scale, the French nized through INFCE • * (or otherwise inde­ his service as a member of the board of and the Soviets have a clear lead now. More­ pendently by the U.S., the F.R.G., France, the over, both nations have firm plans for con­ U.K., the USSR and Japan). The group's directors of the Redondo Beach Chamber tinued demonstration of scaled-up reactors. goals would be to standardize the assump­ of Commerce for the past 7 years. As the Measured on the same scale, the British tions, terminology and perspective of the is­ 1977-78 president, he led the organiza­ are not far behind the French and the sues, to identify specifically areas of agree­ tion to what has been called its most Soviets. However, the U.K. does not currently ment and differences of opinion, and to seek successful year. have a reactor in construction and so may means of resolvin~ the differences. His dedicated service has extended not keep pace. (The British do have a 250 Consideration should be given to forging beyond the Redondo Beach Chamber of Megawatt electric reactor operating at Doun- an industrial consortium or cooperative, suit­ Commerce and reached the entire com­ reay, Scotland.*) · able for the purpose of international fis- munity. He has been an active member of • *International Fuel Cycle Evaluation the board of directors of the South Bay *Mr. Wydler's comment. (INFCE). June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18351

sile material supply and control, out of cer­ with solar heating ($8,000 each) if the Fed­ the "trillions of dollars" be spent on new tain existing or planned sensitive nuclear eral Government paid the total bill. concepts for earthly transportation, agricul­ fuel cycle .facilities-specifically Barnwell, That leaves over two trillion dollars to ture, and political structures. "Whatever is Windscale, LaHague, Eurochemic, Tokai­ solve the R&D problems to upgrade the done, cannot be done solely on a national Mura, Gorleben and perhaps the planned storage capacity of existing solar systems basis," he says "A preparatio.n for a better Japanese reprocessing plant-and including and to develop solar cells for private home future must be on a (whole) earthly scale.''e provision for future participation and sup­ use to provide the necessary electrical power. ply options. It is obvious when one examines the eco­ A feasibiUty study should be undertaken nomics that it is more advantageous by far on the establishment of an international fuel for the Federal Government to buy every­ OPERATION YOUTH cycle authority responsible for the control of one a solar home heater than to build a fissile material. The analysis should be de­ satellite system. tailed and specific beyond the broad con­ I can't believe that Congress intends to HON. WILLIS D. GRADISON, JR. ceptual work already done on this topic by waste our money in this manner. OF OHIO the IAEA and other organizations .• Yours truly, BILL PILOT. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BETTY PILOT. Wednesday, June 21, 1978 SOLAR POWER SATELLITES-THE [From the St. Petersburg Times, May 28, e Mr. GRADISON. Mr. Speaker, in this PUBLIC REACTION 1978] time of great cynicism about our govern­ PREPARATION FOR FuTURE MUST BE ON mental processes, I think it is appropriate "EARTHLY ScALE" to call attention to a positive develop­ HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER (By Oharles Benbow) ment, the annual Operation Youth which OF NEW YORK A w1llful computer named HAL was the recently took place in my district. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES villain of outer space in 2001: A Space Od­ conference, held this year June 10-17 at yssey. More likely though, catastrophies in Xavier University in Cincinnati, has for Wednesday, June 21, 1978 sp·ace colonies will originate for the same 18 years provided interested young men e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, last reasons they occur on Earth. and women the opportunity to learn So said Jan Reiner, architect and educa­ week on June 14, I had the privilege of tor, during a luncheon lecture last week at about our system of government. appearing on public television's Mac­ the Arts Center in St. Petersburg. In the Seventy-seven high school juniors and Neil/Lehrer Report with my distin­ course of preaching his huma.nist's philoso­ seniors from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indi­ guished colleague from Alabama, Mr. phy he reviewed some of the projects pro­ ana participated in the program. In­ FLIPPO. The topic of the discussion was posed for development of gigantic Earth cluded in the agenda were speeches by the proposed solar power satellite and satellltes. He is not, however, an advocate leaders of government, industry, and edu­ Mr. FLIPPo's bill, which would in effect of such projects. Better to spend the money cation on such topics as "Political Image give the go-ahead to the SPS program. on rebuilding the cities of Earth. Despite precautions as to the nature of in America," "Freedom Preserves Val­ Since this bill will soon be considered by the "colonists" on these satell1tes Reiner ues," and "America's Ethnic Heritage." the House, I thought I would share with said, warfare could develop-wars within a The students were provided forums in my colleagues a representative sample colony between members of the population which to discuss these topics and other of the mail I have since received about with conflicting interests; wars between the current issues. In addition, the students the broadcast. colonies over resources; wars between the participated in a political simulation as The first letter gives one citizen's es­ colonies when "nationalism, chauvinism or they formed political parties and elected timate of $40,000 as the cost per home­ control of resources divide their sponsoring officials to a mock municipal govern­ nations in times of trouble on Earth." He owner using the SPS system-calculated even noted the possibility of war with ex­ ment. I am proud to recognize those stu­ with the designer's own cost figures, by traterrestrial beings. dents who were elected to office as well the way. This means that it would cost Recalling that the colonization of Ameri­ as those who participated in all other as­ far less for the Federal Government to ca was "real-estate ventures" of Old World pects of this valuable program. purchase a solar collector for every home entrepreneurs, Reiner foresees that mul­ They are as follows: Kevin Rue of in the Nation than it would to finance tinational corporations could build orbiting Hamilton Baden High School, mayor; the solar satellite program, it is calcu­ industrial colonies with the promise of high Maria Del Carmen Hidalgo of St. Ursula dividends to their stockholders. The Ameri­ Academy, vice mayor; Cathy Hines of lated. can colonies rebelled and Reiner hypothe­ The second letter contains an article sizes that inhabitants of self-sufficient, in­ Talawanda High School, city manager; from the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times, of dustrial colonies in space Inight refuse to Brian Kokensparger of New Lexington May 28, 1978, which was forwarded to pay tribute to Earth. High School, clerk of council; and coun­ me by the subject of that article, Jan Reiner used handsome colored slides and cil members Phil Buness of Goshen Local Reiner. Again comparing the cost of sat­ diagrams from NASA, Boeing, Rockwell, High School, Tom Gardner of Madeira ellites versus the advantages of terres­ Lockheed and others to 1llustrate the utopias High School, Jenifer McKitrick of trial solutions. the American miUtary-industrial complex is Greenville High School, Jeff McMahon of working on. They are vast cities with their Both these letters, as well as many own farms and factory components built on Loveland Hurst High School, Colleen others I have received, reiterate my feel­ ma.n-made planets sufficiently large enough Moosbrugger of Charminade-Julienne ing that the solar power satellite con­ to provide a comfortable "gravity" by means High School, John Morgan of Wyoming cept is a wasteful extravaganza. of their own axial rotation. High School, and Sardina Rivizzino of BILL PILOT Co., We're being "conditioned" to accept all Bishop Fenwick High School. Rockford, Ill., June 15, 1978. this, Reiner suggested. The urban crises, Also participating in the conference Representative RICHARD L. OTTINGER, the pollution debates and the oil and ener­ were Allison Behm, Kenneth Belleman, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. gy crises are helpful to this end, he said. Randy Berning, Cheryl Broka, Roy DEAR Sm: I saw you on the McNeil/ "Scare people enough about national securi­ Brown, Timothy Bruggeman, Lisa Lehrer report on Public TV. After I got some ty," Reiner said, "and you can get mo.ney of the figures that were presented on cost out of them." Bruemmer, Craig Calcaterra, James I made the following analysis. Scientist-authors have made various sug­ Curso, Gregory Delev, Thomas Fisher, I assumed cost per satellite station is gestions about the type of people who might Julie Franz, James Gabel, Paul Gerbus, 25 b1llion dollars. One hundred stations are inhabit these artificial planets, Reiner points Jill Gerhardt, Leonard Geshan, Mike needed in this country. I assumed 60 mil­ out-the ex.tremes being persons with com­ Girbert; lion homes in the country. I know from puters surgically implanted in their brains Gregg Greivenkamp, Joseph Gruber, personal experience that the cost of a com­ or, to save shuttle payload costs, they Shelly Harker, Evelyn Hassett, Patrick prehensive solar system in the Rockford area might be preconditioned, test-tube em­ can be built for approximately $8,000 per bryos carried into space in "shoeboxes." Haverland, Kimberly Hill, Roy Hobbie, · large home. It wm supply 60% of the heat Reiner said, orbiting solar energy col­ Kent Johnson, Lynn Jones, Kathy Kear­ and hot water needed. lectors alone will cost "trillions of dollars" ney, Mike Killian, William Klaus, Bar­ Simple arithmetic shows that satellite for the "acres" of solar cells needed to satis­ bara Kolbe, Janice Lahna, Lori Louis, power (100 stations) would cost 2.5 trillion fy Earth's power needs. Laurie Marggrander, Sharon Mikula; dollars. That's $40,000 per household. How­ Reiner concluded with a review of the Sieanna Miller, Barry Milliron, Chris­ ever it would only cost 480 b1llion dollars work needed to "entirely rebuild" cities on tine Murphy, Dennis 0. Connor, David to equip every home in the United States Earth to make them livable. He prefers that Oka, Cynthia Okuley, Patricia Olvera, 18352 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 Michael O'Rourke, Connie Race, Troy view, amrmed by the House on Wednesday, to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Richburg, Jeff Scholles, Monica Sertell, that Congress itself should operate the mikes designed to make the cumbersome machinery and, in the future, television cameras. As of ANCSA implementation serve the original, Precia Shenk, Mark Skoroz, Suzanne a matter of principle, we and most broad­ honorable purpose for which it was in­ Splain, Sharon Stanton; . casters object to that. What remains to be tended-protection and recognition of Native Mary Ellen Stoehr, Thomas Sucietto, seen is how much day-to-day difference land rights. Beth Szymanowski, Sue Tepe, Sandy House control will make. If the House does We hold the assumption that next year's Tye, Brad Van Etten, Patty Vesper, Mar­ provide first-class technical services and Congress wlll be more sympathetic to the tin Vettel, Suzanne Wahle, Baron Wair, grants broadcasters enough access and flexi­ Senators' pro-development stance to be tenu­ Judith Ward, Michael Weber, John Wer­ billty, the public will certainly gain. We ous at best. This premise is particularly ment, James Wilch, Susan Wilp, and trust that Mr. O'Neill w111 move quickly to shaky considering that veteran Washington expand broadcast opportunities so people Representative Lloyd Meeds, who fought long Paul Woodworth. everywhere can hear and eventually see more and hard, albeit unsuccessfully, in the House I would especially like to honor Mr. of their representatives at work.e for the type of d-2 blll that Gravel and William E. Smith, director of Operation Stevens want, will retire this year. Youth and professor of accounting and Senators Stevens and Gravel, should they education at Xavier University. His ef- choose to pursue their 111-conceived and ·forts, as well as those of his staff, Bryan ANOTHER VOICE OF REASON short-sighted filibuster, would surrender a Adrick, Brian Marrero, Leo Bowden, Al­ far better chance at altering the d-2 bill than IN ALASKA that provided by waiting for a different Con­ len Burke, Jan Thompson, Mark Waters, gressional attitude that might never mate­ Marilyn Mayer, Maureen Murphy, Paula rialize. Should they go along with the 1978 Schimpf, and Stephen Wilson, enabled HON. MORRIS K. UDALL d-2 deadline, they might find it relatively 77 young citizens to gain new insight into OF ARIZONA simple to extract concessions from environ­ the workings of democracy. With pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mentallsts anxious to have a bill on the grams such as Operation Youth, I am Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Presidents' desk by the end of the year. optimistic about the future of America.• A last point not accounted for in the Sen­ • Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, the vast ators' strategy is that prolonging the uncer­ majority of the proposed new national tainty over this federal land legislation can parks and wildlife refuges to be created only add to the deep-rooted pessimism one now finds throughout Alaska's economic LIMITING FREEDOM OF THE in H.R. 39, the "Alaska National Interest community. Far more than large parks and PRESS Lands Conservation Act" are in remote, wildlife refuges themselves, which will have interior Alaska. The lifestyle of rural positive economic value for the state, delay HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI Alaskans, those people who inhabit the in drawing final park and refuge boundaries scattered "bush" villages throughout in­ wlll only keep the brakes on Alaska's post­ OF KENTUCKY terior Alaska, will be directly affected by pipeline efforts to build financial stab111ty IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the outcome of this legislation. They, and security for the future.e Wednesday, June 21, 1978 after all, are the ones who actually live • Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, on June in these areas. How do they feel about 14, the House voted to prohibit the use this landmark conservation initiative? JEWISH LEDGER'S ANNIVERSARY of legislative branch funds for televising The newspaper of rural Alaska, the House proceedings if the cameras are Tundra Times, perhaps best sums up the controlled by persons not employed by feelings of "bush" Alaskans in a recent HON. RONALD A. SARASIN the House. editorial that concludes " ... delay in OF CONNECTICUT I wa.s very disappointed by this action. drawing final park and refuge boundaries IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES will only keep the brakes on Alaska's This action is, in my opinion, a limita­ Wednesday, June 21 , 1978 tion on the freedom of the press. And, postpipeline efforts to build financial it could have a chilling effect on broad­ stability and security for the future." • Mr. SARASIN. Mr. Speaker, the long­ cast journalism. Following is the complete text of the cherished freedom of the press has al­ I commend to the attention of my col­ editorial: ways been a pinnacle among the achieve­ leagues the following, which appeared in [From the Tundra Times, May 31, 1978] ments of our society. The resul~ has been the June 16, 1978, Washington Post: SENATE D-2· FILIBUSTER the publication of diverse material rep­ resenting and reflecting upon all aspects THE SOUNDS OF CONGRESS Alaska's two Senators have been threaten­ of American life. One area which has Some new sounds have been heard across ing for weeks to block passage of an Alaska the land this week: the voices of members federal lands bill in the Senate. The House been the focus of numerous periodicals of Congress in House debate. Until Monday, has already passed such a bill by a hefty is that of our various ethnic-religious citizens outside the Capitol galleries had no margin. backgrounds. I would like to take this way to hear proceedings on the House floor. Senators Ted Stevens and Mike Gravel, opportunity to recognize one of Connec­ They had to rely on broadcasters' summa­ who are strongly opposed to the House ver­ ticut's foremost such periodicals. ries or statements that lawmakers recorded sion of the comprehensive land classifica­ The Connecticut Jewish Ledger cele­ elsewhere. Now Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill tion package, seem hopeful that after this (D-Mass.) is letting broadcasters use the fall's general election, the halls of Congress brated its 49th anniversary in its June sound carried on the omcial system that wlll be inhabited by a greater number of pro­ 15, 1978 edition. This weekly paper is transmits floor proceedings to members' development legislators, assuming that a paragon of ethno-religious journalism omces. Some networks and stations have throwing the d-2 issue back to the House to and has long been the voice of Connecti­ already carried excerpts from this week's de­ start from scratch, which their delaying cut Jewry. It diligently reports events bates. tactics would do, would result in a "better" and issues of concern to its relevant au­ The new system is a welcome first step. House bill. On this assumption, the Senators dience; strives to educate and entertain; But it has practical limitations. The micro­ want to stop the momentum that has de­ comments on current events; and en­ phones do not pick up the background sounds veloped to complete d-2 work this year. In deavors to develop and maintain a sense that convey a real sense of the chamber's other words, they want to: atmosphere. More important, reporters may ( 1) prolong the uncertainty over how sub­ of community among its readers. Fur­ broadcast only from a gallery off the floor, sistence resources are going to be managed thermore, it has often served as a liaison where they cannot see what is going on. In by state and federal agencies, and threaten between Connecticut's Jewish commu­ contrast, the Senate, during its Panama de­ the protection of m1llions of acres of habitat ni ... y at large. bates, allowed National Public Radio to needed to support fish and wildlife; Any truly beneficial institution must broadcast from a balcony. The correspondent (2) delay Congressional blessing of the prove itself in the test of time, and the could watch events, identify all speakers State of Alaska's long awaited Statehood instantly, describe roll calls and inform land entitlement program; Connecticut Jewish Ledger's celebration listeners of off-mike events such as quick (3) complicate, rather than simplify, the of its 49th anniversary is a testimony conferences among senators. That kind of fight over some of the d-2 questions which to its success. I congratulate the Ledger on-the-spot, gavel-to-gavel coverage is prac­ the Senators feel the House has not answered on its accomplishments and look forward tically ruled out in the House so f·ar. in the best interests of Alaska; to many more years of its astute and en­ The system also embodies Mr. O'NeUl's (4) put off conslcteratlon of amenctments joyable publications.• June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18353 CARTER'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY tion and obligations of full peace as the goal It would seem in the interest of American of the process, inconsistent with the tradi­ strategy in the Middle East for President tional Arab position; hence the interpreta­ Sada.t to be encouraged to perceive that con­ HON. BILL FRENZEL tion of the U.S.-moderate Arab "special-re­ trary to his January Camp David expecta­ OF MINNESOTA lationship," hence the U.S. arms commit­ tions, Jimmy Carter cannot negotiate a better ments, breaking with past U.S. foreign policy deal for Egypt than Egypt can negotiate for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES behavior, and hence the Administration's itself. It would seem in the interest of peace Wednesday, June 21, 1978 systematic and prolonged overtures to the in the Middle East for President Carter again PLO. to assume a reasonable and fair mediating e Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, writing in However, despite this retroactively justified role, and to drop his self-annointed mantle of the Bulletin of American Professors for diplomatic method, it is difficult to view the compulsory-arbitrator. Peace In the Middle East, Mark Siegel, Carter Administration's behavior as far' re­ If there is to be peace in the Middle East, formerly deputy assistant to President moved from diplomatic madness, or at least it will be bec!l.use Sadat and Begin have ma­ Carter, has characterized the President's as erratic and unpredictable swervings that tured and adapted their positions in the Middle East policy "erratic" and "un­ acted to destabillze the potential peace proc­ long-term interests of their nations. It will predictable." ess. Inconsistency in strategy and goal, best be because they have come to decide that exemplified by the 111-conceived joint Soviet­ patronizing dogma about negotiations ema­ Siegel says that Brzezinski and Carter American communique on Geneva, seemed to nating from Washington cannot lead to mu­ are "the ultimate obstacle to peace in the characterize U.S. diplomatic behavior. tual and reciprocal response by Egypt and Middle East." Those are pretty harsh What is claimed to be the most dramatic Israel, but only to a rigid "let Jimmy change words from an ex-White House insider, "success" of the Administration to date­ them" attitude that will further prolong the but Siegel makes a strong, organized case the Sadat peace initiative-was not only not stalemate. Unless and until Carter and Brze­ in support of his statement. encouraged by U.S. foreign policy planners, zinski re-evaluate their positions and ad­ Because I think the Siegel critical but was viewed, a least initially and probably just their "bull-in-a-china-shop" incoher­ still, as inconsistent with the U.S. goal of re­ ence, their efforts will remain what I believe analysis is worthy of the attention of the they are today-the ultimate "obstacle to House, the article follows: convening the Geneva Conference and the achievement of a comprehensive, multi­ peace" in the Middle East.e WASHINGTON'S MmDLE EAST POLICY lateral Middle East peace settlement. (By Mark A. Siegel) The failure of the U.S. enthusiastically to In the current respite (to put it optimis­ endorse and publicly to embrace the Egyp­ tically) in the Middle East negotiating proc­ tian-Israeli bilateral peace initiative is the FORMER SOVIET SALT NEGOTIA­ ess, we can take stock of the Carter Admin­ most stgnificant error in a host of past and TOR URGES AMERICAN REARMA­ istration's record on the issues, successes and continuing Carter errors in Middle Eastern MENT !allures, and attempt at least to evaluate policy. The failure of Carter and, in this case, alternative plans for U.S. action in the short more specifically Brzezinski, to respond to and long terms. the changing demands of the situation, raises HON. LARRY McDONALD When the Carter Administration came to questions as to the competence of this set of OF GEORGIA power ln January 1977, the President, hls U.S. foreign policy decision-makers to act IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze­ effectively in the region. zinski and his Secretary of State Cyrus The clumsy and misguided U.S. Middle Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Vance were persuaded that 1977 was a year of East arms sales package, Introducing new e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, 2 major opportunity for a breakthrough in the and complicating variables into the peace months ago I was privileged to meet Arab-Israeli stalemate, for a number of rea­ negotiations, further inhibits Israel from sons: (1) a coincidence of "moderate" Arab taking the quantum leaps of faith that many Dr. Igor Glagolev, until October 1976 the leadership in the region; (2) the desire for believe may be in order. The goal of the sales, top expert on disarmament issues in the peace of all the parties to the confiict (in­ and most notably its timing and packaging, Institute of World Economy and Inter­ cluding President Assad of Syria and, at seem to me to go far beyond the arms sales national Relations of the Soviet Acad­ least initially, Yasser Arafat of the PLO); question, and indicate a simplistic tactic of emy of Sciences. He was a principal economic dysfunction in the region, particu­ pressure on Israel and an attempt at deliber­ analyst for the U.S.S.R. in the first larly in Egypt and Israel linked, at least in ate confrontation with the American Jewish the mind of the Carter Administration, to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and not community by Carter and Brzezinski that given to mincing words. As a Soviet wartime economic constraints; (3) mllltary can only have counter productive conse­ stalemate; a balance of mllltary power, mak­ quences in an Israel already consumed with analyst, he supported equality of arma­ ing war an unacceptable alternative for both self-q.uestioning about territorial, political, ments between the U.S.S.R. and the sides, and (4) the positioning of the U.S. as mllltary and, ultimately, psychic security. United States, because he "never imag­ a third party trusted by both sides, to act The incessant and overt U.S. criticism of ined that the United States would be so as a mediating force for change in the rigid stupid as to agree to Soviet superiority negotiating positions that had produced the Israeli positions, large and sm"'ll, without stalemate in the first place. any corresponding attempt to criticize Arab in this field." Furthermore, Dr. Glago­ intransigence (which, to date, makes Israeli lev had firsthand experience as to how The President's first goal was to limit the infiexibillty appear mild indeed by compari­ issues of the confiict. The Administration the Soviet Union uses its "peace" initi­ son) has led to the distinct impression in this atives and World Peace Council adopted the Brookings formula, of three n!l.tion and in the Middle East that tradi­ overriding issues--the definition and obli­ tional U.S. government support for Israel has as an instrument of war and arming of gations of peace, the relationship between significantly eroded. It has made many Amer­ terrorists and armies of invasion in territory and security, and the Palestinian ican Jews feel that Carter has, in deed and Southern Africa. question. Secretary of State Vance was sent in spirit, "tilted." Carter would have done far Statements and analyses Dr. Glagolev to the Middle East in February of 1977 to try better in generating more Israeli negotiating made to me are elaborated in the follow­ to get the parties to adopt this structure for innovation and change, by reinforcing, not negotiations and then a program for confiict ing interview with veteran investigative destroying, the inevitabillty and continuity Journalist John Rees, published in the resolution. Vance did achieve this limited of the U.S.-Israel special relationship. And (and limiting) goal. Through his efforts, and the President's incoherent negotiating style May 10, 1978, edition of the weekly news follow-up bilateral summit meetings between with the Israelis---cold and aloof to Rabin, magazine, the Review of the News. I Carter and Middle East heads of state, the warm and effusive to Begin, ley and brutal to highly commend this article to the at­ issues were so narrowed (if one could call it. Begin, glowing and spiritual to Begin-has tention of my colleagues: narrowed-since the three Brookings "super­ left Middle Eastern policy watchers not only issues" in fact encompassed all peripheral FORMER SoVIET SALT OFFICIAL URGES UNITED dizzy, but incredulous. Announcing a U.S. STATES To ARM issues of the thirty-year confiict). memorial to the victims of the Holocaust The President, in his effort to expand the while, at the same time, continuing a full­ (By John Rees) U.S. mediating role into a catalytic role, be­ court lobbying press on the Hill to arm the (Dr. Igor Glagolev, in his first published gan to articulate innovations in U.S. policy Jidda-oriented Saudis with an abundant interview, discusses what the Soviets are specifically designed, at least in terms .of the number of our most sophisticated air-to-air really trying to do with the SALT Administration's retroactive explanation, to and air-to-ground war planes may be viewed negotiations.) shake the status q.uo. Hence the Clinton, by some 1n the White House as good pubUc The mailbox at the house where your re­ Mass. endorsement of a Palestinian home­ relations. But it is viewed by a great many porter met Igor Glagolev was unmarked. His land, inconsistent with the traditional Israeli others, outside the White House, as warped telephone is unlisted, and his address la position; hence the expansion of the deflni- cynicism. known to perhaps a dozen people in the CXXIV--1165-Part 14 18354 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 world. Igor Glagolev is not hiding, but he is A. I came to the United States in October department in its central offices. It tries to taking every reasonable precaution so that 1976. As a historical and political researcher coordinate the activities of foreign Commu­ he can live to accomplish what he knows to I recognized that Communism was and is a nist Parties. The leaders of these parties are be an urgent task. He has deliberately chosen reactionary movement, and I was in favor and invited periodically to Moscow and the mem­ to leave his own country to warn Americans am now in favor of representative democracy. bers of the International Department discuss that they are in great danger. Q. You were involved in the first Strategic key problems with them and give them in­ At the height of a distinguished career Arms Limitation Talks on the Soviet side. structions. which took him to the top of the Disarma­ What was your role as a planner and what Q. How does the International Department ment Section of the Institute of World was the Soviet purpose of SALT? work with the K.G.B.? Does it have over­ Economy and International Relations of the A. I wrote several analytical papers for the sight functions of some activities? Can you U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, Dr. Glagolev Central Committee of the Communist Party describe the chain of command down from realized that he must sacrifice himself to and for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Politburo? take a stand against the oppressive Com­ published articles on the subject of strategic A. In my opinion, the International De­ munist Government that controls his arms limitation agreements. I was in favor partment and the K.G.B. cooperate very country. One of the Soviet Union's most im­ of a limitation agreement, and in all my closely, but it is difficult to say who oversees portant political analysts, he managed to papers and articles advocated a balance of because Andropov, who is chief of the K.G.B., reach the United States, and since his arrival strategic weapons between the Soviet Union is a member of the Politburo, the highest he has briefed authorities on the Strategic and the United States. But the U.S.S.R. was organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Arms Limitations Talks (SALT), human allowed more missiles than the United Union, while Boris Ponomarev, who is chief rights issues, and other important matters. States, and the a•zgregate yield of those mis­ of the International Department, is only a Igor Glagolev forcefully reminds us that siles was by agreement much larger than the candidate member of the Politburo. there is no freedom of thought or advocacy aggregate yield of the missiles of the United The chain of command is very difficult to in the Soviet Union and that the existence States. determine. For example, previously in some of strong factions of "Kremlin doves" is a We who were analyzing disarmament cases of which I know the Foreign Ministry fantasy created by K.G.B. disinformation supported the idea of actual equality of subordinated to the International Depart­ agents in order to deceive Western leaders weapons, never imagining that the United States would be so stupid as to agree to ment; Gromyko was invited to the Interna­ and Western public opinion. Of the "peace­ tional Department and just told to sign some ful" intentions of the Soviet leadership, Dr. Soviet superiority in this field. After that, papers on the Soviet side advocating equal­ documents. But now he has become a mem­ Glagolev says: ber of the Politburo, and the Politburo uses "The diplomats of the U.S.A. and of other ity were not published; were in fact sup­ pressed. And the fact of the agreed to Soviet both the Foreign Ministry and the Interna­ democratic countries have ceaselessly ap­ tional Department of the staff of the Central pealed to the present Soviet Government to superiority was not told to the Soviet peo­ ple. When I tried to publish this in my ar­ Committee. The influencing of foreign gov­ reduce, or at least not to increase, the vast ernments is usually done through the For­ weaponry of the U.S.S.R. Such requests, ticles to tell the people, I was told: "Oh no, this is not to be published, this is an error eign Ministry, and the influencing of the however, have been systematically rejected Communist Parties is usually done through by the Soviet leadership. Overt support by in the article." And, when I quoted Amer­ any Soviet citizen for an American proposal ican sources for the protocol Brezhnev had the International Department of the Central Committee. to reduce Soviet arms is inevitably inter­ signed, they insisted this was not to be pub­ preted by the party leadership as a sign of lished for the Soviet people. • Q. You were an official of the World Peace Council (W.P.C.), an organization which political unreliability. In the past, support That is the tactic now. However, I believe that once the "Soviet Union has increased its works with a number of U.S. groups ranging of U.S. proposals by some Soviet scholars has from the Communist Party, U.S.A., through resulted not only in their removal from the SALT-guaranteed strategic superiority over decision-making process but also in accusa­ the United States the Soviet leaders will say the disarmament coalition, the Coalition for tions of pro-Americanism, party penalties, so openly and will use that superiority to a New Foreign and Military Policy, to the dis­ blackmail the Free World. It is important transfers to interior positions, reductions in armament and anti-nuclear power Mobiliza­ that Americans understand this because, at tion for Survival. What can you tell us of this salary, and prohibition of travel abroad. If the present time, a relatively small increase members of a given section of a public in­ operation? in U.S. defense spendinrz for production of A. I know this program very well. The stitute or commission should express a de­ the delay-ed weapons, and for research, would sire to accept U.S. proposals, or even to dis­ World Peace Council is an organization close the gap and make such blackmail which is officially considered international cuss such proposals seriously, that section, unlikely. institute, or commission may be completely and non-political, but is actually subordi­ Q . How do you view President Carter's de­ nated to both the International Department abolished. Articles or books which express cision to stop production of the neutron approval of American proposals-where those of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee and to the bomb and the B-1 bomber? K.G.B. differ from the Soviet position-do not get A. These are examples of unilateral reduc­ published. In the actual process of diplomatic tions in the means of defense. The American The aim of the World Peace Council is negotiations, the proposals of the United decision not to build the B-1 bomber will to influence masses of people in the demo­ States are accepted only in those cases where lead logically to the elimination of the cratic countries. The leaders of the Com­ they do not hamper the military programs whole strategic aviation of the United munist Party of the Soviet Union try to of the Soviet Union." States because the B-52 bombers will not be suppress the peace movement in the Soviet As a result of his intimate familiarity with replaced by any other comparable bombers Union itself but they are interested in en­ the Soviet leadership's policy-making process and almost the whole fleet of medium-range larging its influence among the population and goals of expansion and domination, and strategic bombers has already been liqui- of target countries. The W.P .C. is used be­ the privileged position which enabled him dated. · cause the Communist Parties are not very to travel in the Free World, examine our The neutron bomb also involves a uni­ popular, but the slogans of "peace" and political and economic freedoms, and have lateral decision since the Soviet Union has "disarmament" are really popular both in ready access to Free World publications, Dr. not reciprocated. There are other decisions the Soviet Union and worldwide. Glagolev determined to do what he could of a similar kind, like the postponement of The International Department of the to fight Communism where it would hurt the Trident submarine program and the Central Committee, C.P .S.U., chooses mem­ the most. In October of 1976 he was given MX missile program. The United States has bers or prospective members of the World an opportunity to travel again to the decided not even to build replacements for Peace Council. It actually appoints them, West, making his way to the United States. the American land-based strategic missiles. both the Soviet citizens and the citizens of In the following exclusive interview he tells It may mean that the whole force of such the foreign countries. of the dangers that face Americans as our missiles will be allowed to deteriorate as There is a special fund the Central Com­ leaders succumb to Soviet deception and they become old and obsolescent without mittee uses. The money is collected by the yield to Communist aggression. any replacements. We are talking about uni­ churches in the Soviet Union and the be­ It should be kept in mind t hat while Igor lateral disarmament of the United States in lievers think this money will be used for Glagolev has a large English vocabulary, the face of a heavy Soviet buildup. a real peace movement. However, the Cen­ English is not his first language and some Q. Are you familiar with the activities of tral Committee usually invites only mem­ of his uses of words and phrases are differ­ the International Department of the Centra.! bers of the foreign Communist Parties to the ent from that of native-born Americans. For Committee of the Communist Party of thr~ meetings of the World Peace Council or example, Dr. Glagolev employs the term Soviet Union which has basically replaced people who do not officially belong to the "democratic countries" to include such the former functions of the Comintern? Communist Parties but who work for the mixed concepts as the Western allies of A. Yes, I am familiar with these activities Soviet Union, for the Soviet leadership. N.A.T.O., democratically elected representa­ because I worked for many years for this And it is interesting that this World tive governments, what is called the Free "Peace" Council is also used for arming ter­ World, and non-Communist countries in • It might be retranslated back to the rorist groups in the foreign countries. For general. American people to demonstrate to them the example, they use this World Peace Council Q. Dr. Glagolev, when and why did you undeniable evidence of their betrayal by to organize arms supplies for the terrorist come to the United States? their own leaders. groups in Africa. I participated in negotia- June 21!1 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18355 tions to provide arms to such terrorists in can Communist Party play much of a role they bribe them, paying certain journalists the name of "peace." irt the development of propaganda? for placing their stories. Q. Last year we found out that the World A. Yes, it plays an important role. I met By the way, it is very easy to see that cer­ Peace Council was acting as a conduit for personally with its secretary, who worked in tain journalists ALWAYS support the Com­ funds provided to the Chilean K.G.B. agent London, and conveyed the instructions of munist line-always. Thus it is quite clear Orlando Letelier; funds he was using to pay the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. to­ that they are somehow connected with the expenses of a United States Congressman, their agents, black and white, in South leadership of the Soviet Union. Of course Michael Harrington (D.-Massachusetts), to Africa. The Communists use racial hatred they try to use Western terms, Western ideas a meeting sponsored by W.P.C. Are you fa­ very widely in South Africa. They deceive about democracy, peace, detente; but they miliar with World Peace Council activities its black population so that some of its ALWAYS support the Soviet line and Soviet in the United States? members think they are struggling for the suggestions. A. Yes, the Communist leaders of the So­ interests of black people, but in reality many Q. What are some recent examples of viet Union try to influence the people of the of them are supporting the interests of the dis information or propaganda? United States through the World Peace white leadership of the Soviet Communist A. It is being done every day. For example, Council, and in general through the so­ Party. the correspondents of the Western news­ called "world peace movement." Q. What sort of timetable of developments papers and magazines who work in Moscow I participated in thousands of discussions do you see for southern Africa? may be invited to lunch in luxurious restau­ with Americans when I was a member of A. There is, of course, a Soviet scenario rants by agents of the K.G.B. and simply the Soviet Peace Committee of the W.P.C. that is explained quite openly in Pravda given a lot of false "information." A recent The ideas of peace and disarmament are and other Soviet publications. They speak case involved prices of meats that do not very popular in the United States and some of their agents coming to power in all these exist in the Soviet Union. Gull1ble jour­ Americans work for the leaders of the Com­ countries-Rhodesia, Namibia, and South nalists automatically repeat such nonsense. munist Party of the Soviet Union without Africa. They speak openly about their armies I read the imaginary meat prices cited in knowing it because they support the sug­ of invasion. the leading American newspapers recently. gestions of the Soviet leaders in these fields. Howeve·r, I think democratic elements are Or they describe Brezhnev or K.G.B. boss But "peace" suggestions may be directed growing stronger and stronger. For instance, Andropov as "Liberals". Really. The use of against peace. For instance, during the war important black leaders in Rhodesia decided psychiatric asylums for mental and physical in Vietnam, the Soviet leaders organized the to organize a multi-racial Government. One tortures is not a "Liberal" measure. But movement in the United States to stop re­ can hope that pro-Communist terrorist those asylums are being run by leaders sistance to the aggression of the North Viet­ groups will have some trouble in these coun­ described in American newspapers as namese Communists. In the Soviet Union, tries because they will encounter strong re­ "Liberals". however, the same "peace movement" advo­ sistance from the majority of the popula­ Q. Do you think there is a Soviet policy cated continuation of Hanoi's aggressive war tion. of encouraging U.S. groups and journalists against South Vietnam. Q . Dr. Glagolev, which Soviet agencies or to make attacks on American policies first, Q. Recently leaders of the American Civil departments coordinate manipulation of the before the Soviet media picks them up, in Liberties Union testified before the Senate press and communications media in the Free order to increase the "credibility" of the Judiciary Committee that their intent was World? attack? to urge such restrictions on F.B.I. intelll­ A. Many agencies: the International De­ gcnce gathering that never again could the A. Yes, I think this is being done very partment and the Department of Propaganda often. For instance, some American news­ Communist Party, U.S.A., be investigated on and Agitation of the C.P.S.U. Central Com­ grounds of its "affinity" for the Soviet Union. papers attack practically every major weapon mittee; the press agency Novosti; TASS; and, of U.S. defense, sometimes even before the Presently the C.P.U.S.A. itself claims to have many others. All of them try to influence lR,OOO members and over 100,000 sympathiz­ Soviet Union has time to attack such weap­ Western public opinion. They try to brloe ons. Just enumerate the new major weapons ers. In a population of 220 million, this is certain journalists and they try to use "Ltb­ small. How is the Communist Party, U.S.A., of defense under consideration by the United eral" attitudes to organize a psychological States-the Trident, the MX program, the useful to the Soviet Union? surrender and to prevent resistance to Com­ A. The Soviet leaders try to use the mem­ B-1 bomber, the so-called neutron bomb­ munist expansion. In Africa, the other con­ every one of these weapons is being actively bers of the Communist Parties in the United tinents, and in Europe, where there are sev­ States and the other democratic countries attacked by certain American journalists, eral Communist Parties which may come to systematically attacked and successfully as their agents. The leadership of the Com­ power, they seek to have Communists in­ munist Party of the United States is di­ attacked. The production of some of these cluded in the Governments, such as France weapons has already been stopped and other rectly subordinated to the International and Italy. Department of the Central Committee of the programs have been delayed. At the same So the Soviet agencies which try to in­ time the Soviet Union continues to produce Communist Party of the Soviet Union. How­ fluence Western public opinion try to pic­ ever, sometimes they have some difficulties. the same or more powerful weapons at a ture Communism as a "peaceful" political growing rate. And sometimes the Soviet leadership works movement. Of course they never mention the through the Socialist parties. not through huge human losses connected with the es­ Q. Dr. Glagolev, have you any suggestions the Communist parties, in certain countries. tablishment of Communist regimes in many as to how the Communist policy of expan­ Q. When International Department chief sion, of promoting dictatorships, can be countries. It is very well known that about blocked? Ponomarev was in this country recently, os­ 60 million people were killed-tormented to tensibly as a "Soviet parliamentarian," he death in the concentration camps or died A. Yes. It is urgent that the people of the met not only with Congressmen but later from artificial famine-in the Soviet Un­ West unite to create ·an informed publtc with leaders of the Communist Party, U.S.A., ion alone. In China, the same figure, 60 mil­ opinion that can make their Governments in New York. Was this usual for his activi­ lion, is mentioned. Here too there was a civil respond to this challenge. It is not too late. ties? war organized by the Communists, several We have great opportunities, but we must A. He gives them commands, instructions, waves of terror against the population and start immediately.e so this meeting was quite natural. the democratic opposition, and of course mal­ Q. Dr. Glagolev, what is the Soviet goal nutrition caused by Communist agricultural in Africa? · policies. A. It is well known that the main purpose Now they are kllling mlllions of people in PERSONAL EXPLANATION oi' the Soviet leadership's foreign policy is the Indo-China countries of Vietnam, Cam­ · to control the whole continent of Africa. It bodia and Laos; and carrying out wars of ter­ organizes several armies in Africa; it arms rorism in the African countries of Ethiopia, HON. WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD existing armies of dictatorial governments in Chad, Morocco, Mauritania, Rhodesia, South Africa; and, it influences these governments, Africa, and Angola. OF MICHIGAN these terrorist groups, and these armies This is a Communist offensive though the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES through its m111tary advisors. One of these Soviet propaganda describes it as a series of Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Soviet advisors actually commands the whole "national liberation movements" and sug­ Ethiopian army. gests that the democratic countries either do e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, on The purpose of Soviet policy in Africa is not resist this offensive or actually support May 19, when the House voted on final to establish pro-Soviet dictatorships in al­ it! passage of H.R. 39, the Alaska National most all of the African countries. It is Q. What are the Soviet agencies respon­ especially important to control South Africa, Interests Lands Conservation Act, I was sible for recruiting journalists in the West unable to vote because I was back in my Rhodesia, and certain other key countries to the Soviet cause? because of their huge mineral resources like A. The K.G.B. of course is heavily involved district fulfilling some longstanding gold, uranium, platinum, and other rare and in this process. Sometimes they use jour­ commitments. However, had I been pres­ valuable resources. nalists who are already in favor of Com­ ent, I would have joined my colleagues Q. Does the small and illegal South Afri- munism, giving them materials. Sometimes and voted for final passage of H.R. 39.e 18356 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: IPS's newest intelligence agency defector, artillery spotter planes piloted by Americans COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DIS­ John Stockwell, getting star treatment; into the Angolan battle zones" and that the Morton Halperin talking about that day's CIA had use of U.S. Air Force C-141 trans­ GUISED AS "WHISTLEBLOWING" conviction of David Truong and Ronald port jets which landed supplies at the Kin­ Humphrey of spying for the Vietnamese shasa airport for retransport into Angola via Communist government; Stavins extending small plane. HON. LARRY McDONALD his opening remarks (including a glowing A December 17, 1975, article in the Los OF GEORGIA tribute to his "dear friend," IPS co-founder Angeles Times by John D. Marks, director IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Marcus Raskin; and finally Ellsberg appear­ of the CIA Project of CNSS, quoted an un­ ing to give his keynote address. named "knowledgeable official" describing Wednesday, June 21, 1978 A feature of the program was a showing of the Angolan operation as "a mutual ante­ e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, on Fri­ the GAP film, The Case Officer [director: Saul raising, an inconclusive situation and a hell day, May 19, 1978, the Institute for Pol­ Landau; producer: Ralph Stavins; filmed by of a lot of dead Angolans." The CNSS pub­ icy Studies Denver, CO, as an executive. the audience. Later he was joined by Donald the Soviet Union, and toward the Soviet He wa s first contacted by the CIA while Jordan, a former CIA officer from the Agency's Union. While IPS has made a priority a student at the University of Texas, but not San Diego office; and Frank Snepp, a former of using its network of contacts in the until he was employed by the Gates Rubber CIA analyst and author of the recently pub­ executive and legislative branches of Company in 1964 was he recruited. His first lished book, Decent Interval; on a panel Government to influence policies in ways CIA assignments were in Africa where he moderated by American Civil Liberties Union favorable to the Communists. claims to have had personal contacts "pro­ (ACLU) attorney Mark Lynch, of the joint viding services" to an African head of state. ACLU and CNSS Project on Civil Liberties The Information Digest, a newsletter From 1972 to 1973, Stockwell was the Chief and National Security, who has been repre­ on U.S. political and social movements of the Kenya-Uganda Section at Langley. senting Snepp. published by John Rees, provided the From 1973 through the evacuation of Saigon, Speakers slated to take part in the 1\Iay 20 following report on the IPS conference he served as a CIA case officer in charge of GAP conference to be held as Washington's which I commend to the attention of my activities in Tay Ninh province in South International Inn include: colleagues who are doubtless interested Vietnam. On his return to the U.S. in 1975, Raymond J. Connolly, former analyst, he was chosen to be chief of the Angola Task Army Security Agency. in the distinction between "whistleblow­ Force and "so ran the CIA's secret war in ing" and counterintelligence fronts: Mike McDougal, former U.S. Army Officer. that country." Lt. Ronald McRae, U.S. Navy. IPS CONFERENCE ON WHISTLEBLOWING From the film, it would appear that Stock­ Renault Robinson, officer, Chicago Police In the early 1970s, the Institute for Policy well was a military adviser to Holden Roberto, Department. Studies (IPS) became concerned about the chief of the FNLA guerrillas and brother-in­ Sgt. Leah Wainwright, U.S. Army. problems faced by such "national security law of Zaire president Mobutu, and to Jonas Christopher Pyle, professor, formerly with whistleblowers" as Daniel Ellsberg (The Savimbi, leader of the UNITA forces, and Army Intelligence. Pentagon Papers); Victor Marchetti [The that he was responsbile for paramilitary John Bradley, formerly of the Defense CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, with John operations. However, under questioning, Communications Agency. Marks); Perry Fellwock, better known as Stockwell admitted to "running" a number Robert Aldridge, former top Lockheed mis­ Winslow Peck of Counter-Spy magazine and of locally enlisted agents as an intelligence sile engineer. the National Security (NSA); Morton Hal­ network in Luanda, Mossamedes and Ca­ John Bennett, nuclear technician, U.S. perin [National Security Council); and Rob­ binda-indicating a most unusual combina­ Navy. ert Wall [Federal Bureau of Investigation­ tion of "case officer" and paramilitary adviser James Conrad, Nuclear Regulatory Com­ Washington, DC, Field Office). roles. mission (NRC). To meet the needs of people such as these, After twelve years in the Agency, Stock­ Dr. Tom Mancuso, nuclear scientist, for­ IPS formed its Project on Official Illegality well resigned in April 1977, writing an open merly with Atomic Energy Commission. under the direction of Ralph L. Stavins, an letter to CIA Director Stansfield Turner that Dr. Ted Taylor, Princeton University, 1975 IPS fellow and lawyer. In 1976, this project was published in the Washington Post ex­ project director, NRC Safeguard Study. was expanded beyond the national security plaining his resignation. He then "kept his Senator James Abourezk [D-SDJ. agencies to include other branches of govern­ head down" in a summer cabin in Texas; Daniel Schorr, author and TV commen­ ment and was renamed the Government Ac­ took a $10,000 advance from the W. W. Nor­ tator, leaker of House Intelligence Commit­ countability Project (GAP). ton Co. for his book (just published). In tee report. GAP, now directed by Ralph Stavins and Search of Enemies: A CIA Story, [ 35,000 Charles Brennan, former director of the Margie Bernard and operating from IPS's hardcover copies sold as of May 191; and with FBI's domestic intelligence program. offices at 1901 Q Street, NW, Washington DC the IPS team made the film, The Case Of­ Adm. William P. Mack, former commander, 20009 [212/234-9382]. organized its first con­ ficer, probably in the early summer of 1977 in 7th Fleet, Vietnam. ference on whistleblowing in June, 1977. The Houston. Stockwell has two sons from his Robert L. Borosage, listed as "Director, In- second GAP gathering, the "Whistleblowers former marriage and an adopted Vietnamese stitute for Policy Studies." Conference on National Security," was held daughter. Marcus Raskin, "political philosopher," IPS. on May 19 and 20, 1978. According to Stockwell, his income since Gloria Emerson, author. The first part of GAP's 1978 conference, April 1977 has been the $10,000 publisher's Emory Swank, former U.S. Ambassador to organized by Stavins and Christy Macy of the advance and $15,000 from his savings: this as Cambodia. Center for National Security Studies (CNSS), compared to the $33,000 plus a year he Distributed at the conference was a pam­ opened in a Capitol H1ll meeting room under earned at the CIA. phlet, "A Whistleblowers Guide to the Fed­ arrangements made by Rep. Ronald Dellums In response to a question, Stockwell in­ eral Bureaucracy," price $3, with its printing [D-CA] with some 258 people in attendance. dicated that he had last had access to CTA "donated by the Playboy Foundation," and Because of the rules of the U.S. House of do·cuments in June 1976. He offered no ex­ supportive .. blurbs" from Ralph Nader, Rep. Representatives, drawn to attention by Rep. planation as to why it was ten months later Morris Udall [D-AZ]. Ernest Fitzgerald of Larry McDonald [D-GA 1. IPS's GAP was un­ that he resigned. C-5A cost overrun notoriety, and American able to collect the $25 registration fee for the It is noted that in January 1976, the IPS­ University law professor Robert G. Vaughn. "Whistleblowers Conference on National Se­ related CNSS published a newsletter, Jntel­ The pamphlet, by GAP staffer Mark Ryter, curity." Somewhat grudingly, GAP provided a ligence Report [Vol. 1, No. 1], subtitled states it is designed to be the "ideal compli­ coffee, cheese and sandwich reception for free. "CIA's Secret War in Angola," that in many ment" to showings of GAP's films, The Swine Depsite the inevitable late start, the con­ small details parallels the information now Flu Caper, and The Case Officer, available for ference keynote speaker, Daniel Ellsberg, was being given by Stockwell, The CNSS publica­ rent or for sale (prints cost $400 and $500 even later, not appearing unitl two hours tion cited unnamed "official sources" as pro­ respectively). after his scheduled 7:30 pm address. As a viding such operational details as that by In an introduction to the pamphlet, GAP's result, the evening's agenda was revised with December 12, 1975, the CIA had sent "five Stavins and Bernard announce that in ad- June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18357 vance of this "Whistleblowers Conference on spond to questions and, when appropriate, HISTORY OF INDIANA'S CONGRES­ National Security," IPS has set up a Govern­ make suggestions about ways of blowing the SIONAL DELEGATION ment Employees Advisory Committee of "gov­ whistle as effectively and safely as possiNe. ernment employees, lawyers, labor leaders, The panel wlll consist of the following at­ legislators and public interest groups" to aid torneys: HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. any who may wish to continue in the tradi­ Mr. John Bodner of the law firm of Bodner OF INDIANA and Bruce. Mr. Bodner represented Mr. Er­ tion of Marchetti, Halperin, Ellsberg, Stock­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES well and company. nest Fitzgerald in his successful legal strug­ The second day of the Institute for Policy gle for reinstatement at the Pentagon. Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Studies (IPS) Government Accountability Mr. George D. Crowley, an associate in the Project (GAP) "Whistleblowers Conference law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trow­ • Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, I insert the on National Security" took place in washing­ bridge. Mr. Crowley is presently representing following article written by Prof. Philip ton's International Inn on Saturday, May 20, Mr. Robert Sullivan, the GSA investigator A. Grant, Jr., concerning historical 1978, with some 175 people present. who publically disclosed the wasteful and aspects of Indiana's delegation to the Following an opening speech by Robert L. unlawful contracting practices of his Boston Congress. Professor Grant, at his own Borosage, director of IPS (and until recently office. expense, has paid for the marginal print­ director of the Center for National Security Mr. Joseph D. Gebhardt of the law firm of ing costs of this insertion; a thoughtful Studies (CNSS)), panels on military and Dobrovir, Oakes, Gebhardt and Scull. Mr. police intelligence and nuclear energy Gebhardt is the co-author of two publica­ gesture by a responsible citizen: "threats" were held. The featured luncheon tions: The Offenses of Richard M. Nixon: A HISTORY OF INDIANA'S CONGRESSIONAL presentation was by Senator James Abourezk Guide to His Impeachable Crimes ( 1973, DELEGATION [D-SD]. 1974) and Blueprint for Civil Service Re­ On March 9, 1933, the Seventy-Third Con­ The Senator launched an attack on the form : An Analysis of How Politics Have Made gress was called to order.l Summoned into Carter Administration for suppressing the a Mockery of the Civil Service Merit System. emergency session by newly inaugurated Lyle Report which he said "chronicles the Mr. John Shattuck is the director of the President ;.Tanklin D. Roosevelt, this Con­ Civil Service Commission's involvement and Washington Office of the American Civil Lib­ gress was to enact an impressive array of participation in illegal patronage activities, erties Union. major laws and thus begin the momentous possible perjury and document destruction." Caring for the Personal Needs of Whistle­ era. of the New Deal. Between March 9, 1933 Before concluding, the South Dakota. Senator blowers-The purpose of this workshop is to and the adjournment of the Third Session paid homage to the CIA's newest defectors, explore various methods of dealing with the of the Seventy-Sixth Congress on October 10, saying: personal needs of the whistleblower. Most 1940, the nation was destined to experience "Frank Snepp, John Stockwell or anyone individuals, when going through periods of a wide variety of serious economic and social else who joined the national security estab­ stress, experience varying degrees of anxiety problems, undergo the most sweeping domes­ lishment did not sign away their First and uncertainty. This is doubly true of the tic reform movement in its entire history, Amendment rights. They did not waive their whistleblower. • • • In addition to experienc­ and witness the ominous rise of totalitarian due process rights. And they did not vow ing the awesome weight of the federal bu­ aggression in Europe and the Far East. loyalty to Agency actions which were above reaucracy directed toward discrediting them, During this historic seven and one-half the laws of this nation." the whistleblower often experiences loss of year period the State of Indiana had a four­ He did not elaborate as to how these state­ communication with co-workers, strained re­ teen member congressional delegation. Like ments applied to Snepp or Stockwell's actions. lationships with family and friends, financial their colleagues from other parts of the na­ During the afternoon, three workshops took difficulty, long legal battles, long-term un­ tion, Indiana's two United States Senators place which were described by GAP in the employment, and fear about the future. and twelve members of the House of Repre­ following terms: The workshop panelists to provide analy­ sentatives had the ultimate responsib111ty of The Congressional/Executive Connection sis of services needed to support the whistle­ approving or rejecting the multitude of legis­ for Whistleblowers-This workshop will focus blowers were listed as : lative measures proposed by President Roose­ on how to improve the channels of communi­ Margie Bernard-liPS] Government Ac- velt. A substantial number of these individ­ cation between Congressional staff, White counta.b111ty Project, moderator. uals chaired standing committees in their House personnel, and the federal employee Steve Boyan-Washington Ethical Society. respective bodies and were identified with who wishes to report abuse. The historical Doug Carmichael-psycho-therapist. significant legislation. situation has been that directors or top level Bruno Heidik-Washington Pastoral Coun- Among the Indiana congressmen taking persons within a. government agency are the seling Service. their o!llths of office on March 9, 1933 were only voices heard on Capitol Hill. In the past, Edwin Mikkelsen-psychiatrist. Representatives Eugene B. Crowe of Bed­ their testimony has often been misleading or Representative of the American Federation ford, John W. Boehne, Jr., of Evansville, and incomplete at best. There is therefore a seri­ of Government Employees (AFGE) . Glenn Griswold of Peru, Crowe, Boehne, and ous need to open up new channels between The IPS/ GAP conference was concluded Griswold were staunch supporters of nearly policy makers in Congress and the Executive, with a panel discussion entitled, "Personal all the New Deal innovations of the first two and middle-level employees of the govern­ Conscience and National Securitv," in which Roosevelt Administrations. ment. Is there a way that this process can Charles Brennan, a former FBI Director A banker by profession, Crowe compiled a be systematized? Who should whistleblowers of Domestic Intelllgence, gave a. spirited de­ virtually unblemished record of support !or go to? • • • fense of FBI policies under its late Director, both the domestic and foreign policies of the A panel of Congressional staff and execu­ J. Edgar Hoover. New Deal. By 1940 he had be~ome the rank­ tive personnel will respond to questions and As the conference was ending, GAP direc­ ing Democrat on the Committee on Public help with suggestions on the above issues. tor Ralph Stavins announced the formation Buildings and Grounds and the Committee The panelists wlll include: of the National Security Association or on Territories. Crowe's most noteworthy Frank Silbey, staff, Cong. John Moss' Office. League which he said would provide assist­ achievement involved a pivotal role in the Jessica. Josephston, staff, Senator Jim ance to members of the intelligence com­ enactment of the National Defense Housing Abourezk's Office. munity, "especially those who have signed (Lanham) Act of 1940.2 He was also instru­ Blll Funk, staff on the Legislative Com­ secrecy oaths," who "have something that mental in the passage of numerous bills vital mittee, House Intelllgence Committee. they wish to disclose and need assistance." to the welfare of two future states, Alaska Mark Gittenstein, staff, Senate Select Com­ Stavins noted that three conference par­ and Hawaif.3 mittee on Intelllgence. ticipants, Frank Snepp, John Stockwell and Boehne was elected by his constituents in Donald Jordan, had agreed to become found­ southwestern Indiana to six consecutive Paul Rosenthal, staff, Senate Government ing (and by implication, organizing) mem­ terms in the House.' He was the only In­ Affairs Committee. bers of this new IPS project; and that the dianan assigned to the prestigious Commit­ Steve Simmons, White House staff. ACLU and JPS had agreed to provide assist­ tee on Ways and Means.s While obviously The Legal Options for the Whistleblower­ ance. In concluding, Stavins remarked that lacking sufficient seniority to exert domi­ The workshop wlll explore some of the legal the new group would help offset the "per­ nant influence on the Ways and Means considerations about which potential nicious influence" of the "other organiza­ panel, Boehne did actively participate in the whistleblowers should be aware. The work­ tion that represents Intelligence Officers in deliberations culminating in two landmark shop is geared toward helping whistleblow­ the Washington area." New Deal measures, the Reciprocal Trade ers to anticipate and avoid unnecessary A few days after the conference, partici­ Agreements Act 6 and the Social Security problems. The following types of issues wlll pants received a mailing requesting a. dona­ Act.7 be discussed. tion of $10 to offset the loss of over $1,000 An Attorney, Griswold was a former mem­ Legal expenses. caused by GAP's inability to require partici­ ber of the Indiana Railroad Commission.8 Attorney selection. pants to pay to attend the first session held Throughout the period between 1933 and Timing of disclosures. on Capitol Hill in the Rayburn House Office 1939 he served on the Committee on Labor. Congressional revelations. Building. Said JPS/ GAP's Margie Bernard: Griswold had the distinction of being desig­ Gathering documentation. "The conference expenses represented a nated to serve on the House-Senate confer­ Suits against superiors. sizable portion of GAP's current operating ence committees having the responsib111ty of Internal remedies, etc. budget, and • • • we suffered a. financial A panel of Washington attorneys will re- loss of approximately $1,000."e Footnotes at end of article. 18358 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 finalizing the details of the two foremost la­ tionist bloc in Congress. In addition to his (82.6 percent) in the Senate.42 Some, if not bor statutes of the New Deal period, the Na­ sustained efforts in behalf of strict neutral­ most, of Indiana's Democratic congressmen tional Labor Relations (Wagner) Act 9 and ity legislation 2s and in opposition to peace­ probably realized that they owed their seats the Fair Labor Standards (Wages and Hours) time military conscription,29 Ludlow pro­ to the landslide Roosevelt victories of 1932 10 Act. posed the constitutional amendment requir­ and 1936,43 and therefore were inclined to Also present at the opening ceremonies on ing a nationwide referendum as a precon­ support or at least resolve their doubts in March 9, 1933 were three other Indiana con­ dition to a declaration of war.ao favor of the New Deal. In November 1938, gressmen, Representatives William H. Larra­ Van Nuys, a former United States Attor­ however, the Republicans gained six House bee of New Palestine, Charles A. Halleck of ney for Indiana, served in the Senate be­ seats in Indiana, and in the following two Rensselaer, and Arthur H. Greenwood of tween 1933 and 1944.31 During the second years the popularity of the New Deal de­ Washington. Larrabee, Halleck, and Green­ Roosevelt Administration, he was Chairman clined appreciably. Notwithstanding these wood were destined to spend an aggregate of the Committee on Expend! tures in the 1938 reverses, the Democrats in Indiana from total of sixty-two years on Capitol Hill. Executive Departments and a member of 1932 to 1938 won all three Senate races and Prior to entering Congress in 1931, Larra­ the Committees on Foreign Relations and the thirty-nine of forty-eight House contests. bee had been engaged in the general practice Judiciary. Although generally sympathetic 11 The successes registered by Democratic can­ of medicine. Although representing a tradi­ to the New Deal, Van Nuys was distinctly didates seeking House and Senate seats in tionally Republican district he was acknowl­ independent in his approach to certain sen­ large measure explains why the Roosevelt edged as one of the most steadfast New sitive issues. He incurred the wrath of the Administration enjoyed such steadfast sup­ Dealers in the House. During the second Roosevelt Administration by strongly oppos­ port from the Indiana congressional dele­ Roosevelt Administration Larrabee became ing the controversial plan to enlarge the gation. Chairman of the Committee on Education membership of the United States Supreme In addition to the political complexion of and ranking Democratic member of the Court J2 and strenuously objecting to the its delegation, Indiana was fortunate to Committee on the Census. In these capaci­ President's decision to seek an unprecedented 33 have so many of its congressmen assigned to ties he presided over lengthy hearings on third term in 1940. As a longstanding major standing committees. Among · these the question of federal aid-to-education 12 member of the Judiciary Committee, he co­ panels were the Senate Committees on For­ and assisted in the passage of the Census Act authored the Federal Anti-Lynching (Wag­ of 1940, providing for the mandatory tabula­ eign Relations, Military Affairs, and the Ju­ ner-Van Nuys) Bill, a pioneer piece of civil diciary and the House Committees on Ways tion of population and various economic sta­ rights legislation,34 and reviewed the cre­ tistics.13 dentials of several prominent gentlemen and Means, Appropriations, Rules, and First sworn in as the Representative of In­ nominated by President Roosevelt to fill Labor. Inasmuch as these seven committees diana's Second District in August 1935, Hal­ vacancies in the Department of Justice and were responsible for producing approxi­ leck was one of the youngest members of the United States Supreme Court,a:; mately half of all New Deal legislation, it Congress.H From 1935 to 1939 he was the sole During the final two years of the second was certainly understandable why the In­ Republican on the Indiana congressional Roosevelt Administration, Minton was As­ diana delegation had the opportunity to delegation. Halleck eventually to serve a dec­ sistant Democratic Leader (Whip) of the attain such prominence. Even under ordi­ ade as Republican Floor Leader, was a fiercely Senate and Chairman of both the Committee nary conditions these seven committees partisan combatant and a highly accom­ on Pensions and the Special Committee to would have been quite important. Their im­ plished extemporaneous orator. A harsh and Investigate Lobbying Activities.3o Along with portance was greatly accentuated by the relentless critic of New Deal domestic pro­ Senators Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, numerous crises accompanying the Great gramsp he was especially vociferous in de­ Robert F. Wagner of New York, and George Depression and the advent of World War II. nouncing the Roosevelt Administration's la­ W. Norris of Nebraska, Minton was an ar­ The aforementioned members of the House 1 of Representatives and United States Senate bor o and welfare policies.17 Halleck initially ticulate and unwavering spokesman for the attracted nationwide attention at the 1940 New Deal. He readily challenged the Presi­ were chosen by the citizens of Indiana to Republican National Convention. At this dent's conservative critics on the floor of the · serve in Congress during one of the most gathering he delivered the principal nomi­ Senate 37 and staunchly defended the pro­ legendary periods in the country's history. nating for his fellow Indianan, Wendell priety of Roosevelt's quest for a third term.as Between March 9, 1933 and October 10, 1940 Willkie of Elwood.lB each of these gentlemen compiled records of Not only did he enthusiastically favor the 44 Greenwood, at the time of his retirement President's domestic policies, but also, un­ genuine accomplishment. Although Indiana in January 1939, had completed sixteen like most members of the Indiana delegation, accounted for less than three percent of the years of continuous House service and was he loyally supported Roosevelt's foreign poli­ nation's total population, its congressional dean of the Indiana delegation.19 More im­ cies. Perhaps his most notable effort oc­ delegation exerted profound and dispropor­ portantly he was a senior member of the curred in 1940, when, as a member of the tionate influence on Capitol Hill.';; powerful Committee on Rules, the organ Committee on Military Affairs, Minton helped FOOTNOTES vested with the prerogative of determining guide the Selective Service Act through the which of the various bills and resolutions Senate.au Largely because of his close identi­ 1 United States Congress, Congressional . reported by the other standing committees Record, Seventy-Third Congress, First Ses­ fication with the New Deal, Minton was nar­ sion (Washington: United States Govern­ would be approved for floor consideration.zn rowly defeated in his campaign for re-elec­ Greenwood assumed personal responsibility tion in 1940. ment Printing Office, 1933), LXXVII, 41, 67. for urging House consideration of three high Collectively the Indiana congressional dele­ 2 House of Representatives, Conference Re­ priority New Deal measures, the Agricultural gation compiled a record of firm support for port on the bill (H.R. 10412) to .exped.ite the provision of housing in connectwn wtth the Adjustment Act, 21 the Bituminous Coal New Deal legislation. A survey of thirty key (Guffey-Vinson) Act,22 and the Farm Ten­ votes in the House of Representatives be­ national defense, October 7, 1940; Congres­ ancy (Bankhead-Janes) Act.n Genuinely re­ tween March 1933 and October 1940 estab­ sic-nal Record, LXXXVI, 11868, 11874, 13~39, spected for his parliamentary expertise, lishes the fact that members from Indiana 13394; The Statutes at Large of the Umted Greenwood was also frequently selected by favored the . Roosevelt Administration on States of America, 1939-1941 (Washington: the Speaker to occupy the post of Chairman 80.1 % of the roll calls,•o while an examina­ 1941), LIV, 1125-1128. of the Committee on the Whole.z! tion of thirty important votes in the Senate 3 Statutes at Large, L, 258, 508, 900-902; The three most renowned congressmen indicates an 85.5 % level of support.41 Among LII, 590-591, 1174, 1230; LIII, 1219. from Indiana during the New Deal period Democrats the figures were 87.3% in the 4 Lawrence F. Kennedy (comp.), Biograph­ were Representative Louis L. Ludlow of In­ House and 91.5% in the Senate. On purely ical Directory of the American Congress, dianapolis and Senators Frederick Van Nuys domestic issues the proportions in the House 1774-1971 (Washington: United States Gov­ of Indianapolis and Sherman Minton of New and Senate were 93.1% and 92.7% respec­ ernment Printing Office, 1971), p. 881. Albany. Ludlow, Van Nuys, and Minton cer­ tively. "The Ways and Means Committee had tainly rank as three of the most illustrious original jurisdiction over all taxation, for­ In addition to the obvious talents and eign trade, and social insurance bills. A public servants from Indiana over the past abilities of the aforementioned gentlemen half century. scholarly account of this committee is John there were two major factors why congress­ F. Manley, The Politics of Finance; The After a lengthy and distinguished career men from Indiana wielded influence during House Committee on Ways and Means (Bos­ in journalism, Ludlow in November 1928 had the New Deal period. These factors were ton: Little, Brown and Company, 1970). been elected to the first of ten terms in the affiliation with the dominant political party 2 o Report on the bill (H.R. 8687) to amend House. v A member of the Committee on Ap­ and possession of desirable committee as­ the Tariff Act of 1930, March 17, 1934: Con­ propriations, he was Chairman of the Legis­ signments. gressional Record, LXXVIII, 4754; Statutes lative Subcommittee, 1933-1935, and the Between March 1933 and January 1939 the at Large, XLVIII, 943-945. . Treasury and Post Office Subcommittee, 1936- Indiana congressional delegation consisted • Report on the bill (H.R. 7260) to proVtde 1940. While chairing these organs, Ludlow of thirteen Democrats and one Republican. tor the general welfare by establishing a successively authored the annual laws to The 13-1 Democratic advantage (92.7 per­ system of Federal old-age benefits, and by fund the operation of the two houses of cent) was considerably in excess of the na­ enabling the several States to make more Congress 20 and two of the existing executive 27 tional average of the party's representation adequate provision tor aged persons, de­ departments. Especially well-publicized in Congress which varied from 310-117 (72.6 pendent and crippled children, maternal and were Ludlow's activities as one of the most percent) to 331-89 (78.4 percent) in the child welfare, public health, and the ad­ outspoken leaders of the bipartisan isola- House and 60-35 (63.1 percent) to 76-16 ministration of their unemployment com- June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18359 accounted for 2.6 % of the nationwide popu­ pensation laws; to establish a Social Secu­ LXXXIV, 1852-1889, 1938-1966, 2016-2044, 2761, 4866-4878; LXXXVI, 570, 606-614, 619- lation of 131,669,275. As a consequence of the rity Board; to raise revenue, and for other 1940 Census, Indiana lost one of its twelve purposes, April 5, 1935; Congressional Rec­ 649, 691- 705, 1676, 2807, 2885- 2887; Statutes congressional seats.e ord, LXXIX, 5155; Statutes at Large, XLIX, at Large, XLIX, 1827- 1854; L, 137-164; LII, 620-648. 120-148; LUI, 654-684; LIV, 55-79. s Biographic·al Directory oj American Con­ 2s Congressional Record, LXXXIV, 8015- gress, p. 1037. 8018; LXXXV, 485-488; Francis 0. Wilcox, 9 Conference Report on the bill (S. 1958) to "The Neutrality Fight in Congress, 1939," ANTINUCLEAR DEMONSTRATORS diminish the causes oj labor disputes bur­ American Political Science Review, October TO RETURN TO SEABROOK dening or obstructing interstate and foreign 1939, pp. 811-825. commerce, to create a National Labor Re­ 20 Congressional Record, LXXXVI, 11466- lations Board, and jor other purposes, June 11468. HON. LARRY McDONALD 27, 1935; Congressional Record, LXXIX, 9682, 3o H.J. Res. 199-A joint resolution pro­ OF GEORGIA posing an amendment to the Constitution 9688, 9694-9695, 9864, 10297-10300; Statutes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at Large, XLIX, 449-457. to provide for a referendum on war, Febru­ 10 Conference Report on the bill (S. 2475) ary 5, 1937; Congressional Record, LXXXI, Wednesday, June 21, 1978 to provide jor the establishment oj jair labor 9407-9408; LXXXIII, 276-283; Robert A. e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the standards in employments in and affecting Divine, The Illusion of Neutrality (Chicago: interstate commerce, and tor other purposes, University of Chicago Press, 1962), pp. 219- Clamshell Alliance, aided and abetted June 14, 1938; Congressional Record, LXXXI, 221; Manfred Jonas, Isolationism in America, by the Marxist disarmament advocates 8657-8661; LXXXIII, 6389, 7770, A2106-2108, 1935-1941 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, of the Mobilization for Survival Merrill 1935. The article follows: Company, Inc., 1963) . as Congressional Record, LXXXVI, 11535- Is TROUBLE BREWING THIS TIME AT SEABROOK? 21 Report on the resolution (H. Res. 136) 11536. providing jor the consideration of the con­ ~ ~Conference Report on the bill (S. 4164) (By John J. Metzler) ference report on H.R. 3835, May 3, 1933; to provide for the common defense by in­ Since its rr_a~sive 1977 May Day weekend Congressional Record, LXXVII, 3052, 3055, creasing the personnel of the armed forces demonstration, the Clamshell Alliance has 3060. of the United States and providing for its been actively preparing bigger and better !l2 Report on the resolution (H. Res. 146) training, September 13, 1940; Congressional publicity stunts aimed at stopping con­ tor the consideration of H.R. 4985, March 3, Record, LXXXVI, 9923-9924; Post, washing­ struction of the Seabrook nuclear facility. 1937; Congressional Record, LXXXI, 1808, ton, D.C., September 14, 1940, pp. 1, 4. The Clamshell Alliance, an umbrella orga­ 2026-2030. 4° Appendix A. nization whose nearly 40 groups range from 23 Report on the resolution (H. Res . 261) u Appendix B. the pacifist to the violent, plans to stage a for the consideration of H.R. 7562, June 24, 42 Democratic congressional representation rematch between its militant and the State 1937; Congressional Record, LXXXI, 6299, in other midwestern states between 1933 and of New Hampshire's authority on June 24. 6431-6443. 1939 was as follows: Ohio 82.1 % ; Illinois, While American opposition to nuclear 2 ' Congressional Record, LXXIX, 506, 77.1 % ; Iowa 63.6 % ; Michiga·.: 47.3 'fr ; Wiscon­ technology has not had the same violent LXXX, 1490; LXXXI, 1233; LXXXIII, 456. sin 41.7% ; and Kansas 40.7 % . tradition as that movement's European and 3 2ll Biographical DirectCYry of American 4 Appendix C. Japanese comrades, the U.S. antinuclear Congress, p.1314. "Halleck, Van Nuys, and Minton continued movement could well be on the verge of vio­ 26 Congressional Record, LXXVIII, 4427, in public life after 1940. Remaining in the lence. Occupations of nuclear sites ranging 4966-4978, 5037-5046, 5047-5077, 5194-5200, House until 1969, Halleck was Majority from Colorado's Rocky Flats to Seabrook are 6337, 7186, 7238-7242, 9155-9158, 9861-9862; Leader, 1947-1949 and 1953-1955 and Minor­ bringing together elements which when alone LXXIX, 7395-7425, 7504-7541, 7689-7718, ity Leader, 1959-1965. Van Nuys became are not inflammatory but when linked could 7746-7779, 9227, 10293-10297, 10660-10663; Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in well provide the chemical reaction needed Statutes at Large, XLVIII, 817-834; XLIX, January 1941. a position he occupied until his to produce an explosion. 459-477. death three years lat~r. Minton was a Judge Who comprises this latter-day Luddite 27 Congressional Record, LXXX, 1489- of the United States Court of Appeals Crusade about to swoop into peaceful Sea­ 1492, 1511-1535, 1597-1636, 1658-1693, 3868- (Seventh Circuit), 1941-1949, and an Asso­ brook? For the most part, the Clam~ (as 3869, 7249-7275, 8863, 10026; LXXXI, 1201, ciate Justice of the United States Supreme they call themselves) and their supporters 1233-1262, 1325-1350, 1356-1388, 1419-1449, Court, 1949-1956. are young students or professional people 2851, 4165-4167; LXXXIII, 455-489, 520-564, t u According to the Census of 1940 Indiana who have been active in ecology-related 592~06, 643-675, 706-715, 2695, 3806-3807; had 3,427,696 inhabitants. Indiana therefore issues. Most Clams are well-off white lib- 18360 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 erals, who, while genuinely concerned about (But sooner or later, organizations like the School in Jersey City and then, after 1 the environment, are not interested in the Clams are going to have to take. that plunge.) year - of high school, entered the work movement's Marxist bedfellows nor in its "Then the true purposes in store for the violence potential. majority Clams show through in brilliant force. Despite his limited formal ed­ Several radical strains are running crimson lettering: The central role which ucation, Mr. O'Brien displayed an in­ throughout the clam beds of the Northeast. nonviolence plays in Clam politics can also genious talent for solving complicated Groups such as the Socialist Workers Party be limiting." Using classic Marxist theory, _engineering problems. (SWP), the Youth Against War and Fas­ the reader is treated to a smorgasbord of That talent was also evidenced in his cism (YAWF), and the War Resisters radical statements shedding needed light other patented inventions which should League are very much interested in directing into the Clam's darker corners. After giving the ultimate course of this very malleable typical totalitarian reasons for the Clam's not go unnoticed. These include a port­ movement. A high degree of competition need for more directness, our writer says able voice generator that aided deaf among radical circles is a feature of this that individualism must be totally subordi­ mutes in communication and an elec­ underground trend. Oddly the pro-Soviet nate so collectivity can spring from the tromagnetic amplifier sound transducer U.S. Labor Party (USLP) has taken a firm Clambeds. The author's personal conclusion, used to convert acoustical waves into pronuclear stand to a large degree due to quite typical of radicals trying to make the amplified electrical waves. Mr. O'Brien their Moscow mentor's using much nuclear Clams a Marxist battering ram, is "the Clam­ was also granted 11 other patents. technology. The Communist Party of the shell Alliance should be open only to peo­ United States (CPUSA) has likewise found ple who want to contribute to its political Gerard J. O'Brien deserves credit for itself in an uncomfortable position with direction and participate in its collective his accomplishments and the role they anti-nukes at first again due to Moscow's actions." play in keeping ours a well-informed and position. The CPUSA now stresses disarma­ Extreme views are shown above are intelligent society. More importantly, ment issues and selectively uses anti-nukes naturally at loggerheads with many of the however, he has proven to be an out­ through many front organizations. counterculture Clams who still possess in­ standing citizen in his pursuit for a more Last year the SWP, an old line Trotskyist dividuality. Leadership in the Clam is dif­ progressive, modernized system of com­ group with a tradition of violence and politi­ ficult as many members are anti-leadership cal expediency, tried to take over the Clam­ of any sort. Nevertheless, anarchical trends, munication.• shell Alliance. While rapid exposure averted the countercultures and the ecology crowd the bid, the SWP remains close to the pose a far different specter from organized Clam's heartbeat. SWP still seeks promising bands of radicalized robots which many ex­ individual activists through the anti-Nuke tremists yearn to create. REV. ANZO MONTGOMERY: OUT­ crowd. There stands a strong possib111ty that the STANDING CHURCHMAN The Portsmouth-based Clarr_-shell has Clamshell and other anti-Nuke organizations been actively preparing for the June 24 will soon be affected by the radical fallout Seabrook onslaught. Prominent in this cam­ being tirelessly advocated by the few plan­ HON. LOUIS STOKES paign was the proliferation of Seabrook ning to dictate to the many.e OF OHIO demonstration exhibit tables sponsored by various organizations at the recent Mobil­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ization for Survival (MFS) Disarmament Wednesday, June 21, 1978 rally in New York. The MFS is actually one of a number of groups participat­ GERARD JO O'BRIEN • Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I rise on ing in the layer cake of CPUSA fronts­ this occasion to pay tribute to the Rev­ Clamshell is in turn a group working under erend .Anzo Montgomery, of Cleveland, the MFS banner. HON. JOSEPH A. LE FANTE Ohio, who is one of our city's most re­ Groups such as the War Resisters League, OF NEW JERSEY spected churchmen. Reverend Mont­ also in concert with the MFS, are offering IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gomery has served as the distinguished "nonviolence training" for the Seabrook pastor of the Lane Metropolitan CME bout; m111tant anti-Nukes are required to Wednesday, June 21, 1978 undergo four to six hours of training for the e Mr. LE FANTE. Mr. Speaker, the de­ Church for over 13 years. action. The participants going into the Sea­ velopment of communications through­ Mr. Speaker, Reverend Montgomery brook plant facmty must be willing to get out our Nation's history contributed will be leaving our city shortly. He has arrested and therefore make a time com­ significantly to our advancement as one recently been elected as the general sec­ mitment of four days. Affinity groups rang­ of the great powers of the world. In the retarv, board of evangelism of the Chris­ ing in size from 10 to 15 people are again to tian Methodist Episcopal Church. Those be the decentralized mode of action. Such past, New Jersey has been noted for the groups were used by Anarchist factions dur­ scientific achievements of Thomas Alva of us in Cleveland who know and admire ing the Spanish Civil War. Edison. Now the .time has come to pay Reverend Montgomery are pleased that While most participants are certainly go­ special tribute to another inventor from he has been selected for this significant ing to Seabrook in a nonviolent spirit, the the Garden State who contributed im­ honor. He will bring to his duties a solid situation could get out of hand should vio­ mensely to our country's growth by re­ background and wide experience in lent emotions be stirred. Radicals within the solving a communication problem that church and community relations. Never­ Clam representing the violent trend frankly had batHed scientists for over a century. theless, I am certain that I speak for despise the nonviolent Clams and don't hide In 1973, Gerard J. O'Brien of Jersey many when I say that we will also feel a this indictment in their literature. Both City, N.J., developed the "tap trans­ sense of loss, for Reverend Montgomery Trotskyite and Maoist communists have is a strong and dedicated leader who has shown their distaste for Clams who don't ducer," a modified version of the tele­ want to be involved in political action be­ graph which acts as a voice transmitter done much to promote the advancement yond the anti-nuclear issue. without all the intricate mechanisms of of our city and the black community. Most interesting perhaps is the recurring Mr. Bell's telephone. In doing this, Mr. So that my colleagues in the House theme taken by those radicals that the Clam­ O'Brien not only contributed valuable can better acquaint themselves with shell has not widened its scope-in a lead knowledge to science, but also provided Reverend Montgomery's career, I would article in Win Magazine (June 16, 23, 1977), a means for creating energy conserving like to take this opportunity to cite some an author lamented that "though we seek a of the highlights of his life and career. revolution in our political and social insti­ communication for an energy conscious tutions, this revolution cannot occur with­ people. Reverend Montgomery was born and out solid educational development, which O'Brien's tap transducer looks very raised in Jackson, Tenn. As a young often proceeds in an evolutionary fashion much like Morse's original telegraph, man, he was educated at Henderson before the revolution can occur ... therefore, but works at a much faster rate so that it Business College, Fisk University School we urge the Clamshell Alliance to recognize can transmit a voice much further and of Religion in Nashville, and Washburn the commonality of its struggle with other louder than the telephone, using one­ University. After pastoring several movements. Only when we join forces can churches in Tennessee, he was called to we truly succeed in making the radical third the energy. The tap transducer can changes we seek." also be used to detect earthquakes and Topeka, Kans., and the Lane Chapel. He Another author comments in the same find defects in airplanes and machinery. also became the president of the Topeka issue, that the single anti-Nuke cause "cer­ It has many communicative possibilities chapter of the NAACP. During this time, tainly isolates the Clamshell Alliance from that will make communication less ex­ Reverend Montgomery and five other wider support." Further the writer states pensive and wasteful. area ministers questioned the constitu­ "for now it would be premature for the Cla~ Born July 5, 1934, Gerard J. O'Brien tionality and morality of the segregated to declare itself a socialist organization." graduated from St. Patrick's Elementary Topeka public school system and paved June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18361 the way for the historic Brown against people printed suggestions for activities Furthermore, the general has devel­ the Board of Education case. that bring fun and strength to family oped an outstanding personal physical He also served as the pastor of St. life. fitness record. Having been involved in Mathew's· CME Church in Wichita, To help parents take positive steps to athletics since his school days, he will Kans., and continued his active leader­ prevent . family problems, participating become a member of the 10,000 Mile Club ship in community relations serving on restaurants will distribute a unique fam­ before he retires, designating that he the boards of the YM-YWCA, the Phyllis ily checkup, developed in consultation has jogged over 10,000 miles. Wheatley Children's Home and the Ur­ with some of the Nation's leading author­ Gen. · Samuel Jaskilka's retirement ban League. ities on family life. Entitled "Because marks the end of a long, illustrious Mr. Speaker, when Reverend Mont­ Your Family Matters," the brochure was career of dedicated service to our coun­ gomery was called to Cleveland in 1965, produced in cooperation with the Amer­ try. I am pleased to take this opportunity the Nation was going through one of the ican Family Society, a nonprofit, non-· to pay him honor and to express thanks most tumultuous periods in its history. sectarian organization headquartered in for a lifelong commitment to the United Urban unrest, violent assassinations, the the Nation's Capital. the guardian angel of the Jew­ Our reverence for the land and its life main­ to independence against overwhelming ish Prisoners of Conscience. She regu­ tained it in an unspoiled state for those odds. larly appealed to Soviet authorities and thousands of years. Maybe someone will As think I am being too emotional, but there a Congressman who has strongly the West in their behalf, corresponded must come a time when the American gov­ supported resolutions to protest the ille­ and visited with them. Both will be sorely ernment and the American people can be gal seizure of the Baltic States, I take missed by the Soviet Jewish community. emotional about the destruction of land and great pride in honoring the courageous Despite the pledges made at Helsinki of sacred things. Lithuanians, and I salute the Lithua­ to respect human rights and funda­ The flooding of our old valley has been nian-American community for its con­ mental freedoms, which include the right stopped temporarily because of a little fish stant efforts on behalf of its homeland. to emigrate, and the promise to facilitate that lives there and nowhere else. I have seen With the support and cooperation of the reunification of families, Vladimir Griffin Bell, The New York Times, and a. na­ Slepak and Ida Nudel were deliberately tional television network make fun of this millions throughout this country and little fish and I would like to ask why it is other nations, we can urge the Soviet separated from family members abroad. considered so humorously insignificant. Be­ Union to comply with the human rights For protesting the denial of their rights, cause it is little, or because it is a fish? provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and these courageous individuals are now It is this incredible arrogance towards other insure that the just cause of Lithuanian forced to spend years in an isolated part life that has caused such destruction in this self-determination will not be aban­ of Siberia away from their homes, their country. Who is Griffin Bell or the U.S. gov­ doned.• families, and their friends. Mr. Speaker, ernment to play God and judge the life or I urge my colleagues to speak out against death of an entire species of fellow-being this injustice and to join me in protest­ which was put here by the same power that JUSTICE-SOVIET STYLE put us here? Who has the right to destrqy ing conviction and sentencing of Ida a species of life, and what can assuming that Nudel and Vladimir Slepak.e right mean? HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM Let me be emotional: to me, that fish ts not just an abstract ···endangered species", al­ OF NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE AD­ though it is that. It is a Cherokee fish and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MINISTRATION ON BREEDER RE­ I am its brother. Somehow, it has acted to Wednesday, June 21, 1978 ACTOR DEVELOPMENT save my holy land, so I have a strong grati- tude for that fish. · e Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, today in The Cherokee people in Tennessee, Okla­ the Soviet Union another travesty of jus­ HON. GARY A. MYERS homa, the Carolinas, Georgia, and wherever tice has occurred. Soviet Jewish refuse­ OF PENNSYLVANIA we might be, are of one voice and of one niks Ida Nudel and Vladimir Slepak, in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mind that this dam, this degradation, be separate trials in Moscow, were tried and Wednesday, June 21, 1978 stopped. We want our universe, our Eloheh, convicted of "malicious hooliganism". with all of its fish and all of its life to con­ Both were sentenced to terms of internal e Mr. GARY A. MYERS. Mr. Speaker, tinue. And, we are sure that this cannot be as ranking member of the House Sub­ against tbe interests and wishes of the Amer­ exile, Slepak for 5 years and Nudel for 4 ican people.e years. As is becoming more and more fa­ committee on Fossil and Nuclear Energy miliar, the trials were commenced with Research, Development, and Demonstra­ little advance notice and in the case of tion, I am concerned about the lack of Nudel, at least, no friends or observers administration support for the demon­ LITHUANIAN OC'!CUPATION were allowed to attend. stration of fast breeder technology in a REMEMBERED The actions for which Slepak and Nu­ plant operating on a utility grid. de! were arrested and which comprise, While I do not oppose the concept of according to the Soviet Government, the administration-supported study, I HON. LAWRENCE COUGHLIN "malicious hooliganism" can hardly be support such a study only if it is carried OF PENNSYLVANIA considered criminal. Slepak and his wife, out concurrently with work on the ex­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Maria, frustrated at having been denied isting small scale breeder demonstra­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 the right to emigrate to Israel for over tion project. 8 years, hung a banner with the inscrip­ Our colleague, the Honorable JoHN W. e Mr. COUGHLIN. Mr. Speaker, it has tion "Let Us Go to Our Son in Israel" WYDLER has, as ranking member of the now been 38 years since the Soviet Union over the side of their apartment balcony House Science and Technology Com­ invaded the independent Republic of in downtown Moscow. Police broke into mittee, brought to light severn! of the Lithuania and forcibly deorived the the eighth floor apartment, tore the ban­ concerns involved in the breeder issue Lithuanian people of freedom self­ ner into three pieces and arrested Mr. in an exchange of letters with Mr. Harry det~rmination, independence, and other and Mrs. Slepak. Both were charged with E. Bergold, Jr.. Department of Energy bas1c human rights. Lithuania's at­ "malicious hooliganism." Mrs. Slepak, a Assistant Secretary of International Af­ tempts to retain independence have been physician, was released pending trial. fairs. I am appending copies of the cor­ in vain. Thirty-thousand Lithuanian Apparently, the Soviets intend to try respondence as a portion of my remarks, freedom-fighters died in the resistance Mrs. Slepak, who suffers from pancrea­ and I urge careful consideration of the to Soviet annexation and an eaual num­ titis, alone. points raised in view of the continuing ber perished in prison or in exile. Ida Nudel, who has been trying for disparity between congressional and Ex­ Documented cases of ruthless Soviet over 7 years to emigrate to Israel where ecutive views on breeder reactor devel­ Persecution of Lithuanians continue to her husband and sister live, attempted opment. June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18363 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, In April 1977, the President announced a TUITION TAX CREDIT GETS Washington, D.C., May 31, 1978. restructuring of the breeder reactor devel­ STRONG SUPPORT FROM EXPERT Mr. HARRY E. BERGOLD, Jr., opment program. Key factors involved in ON DESEGREGATION Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, this decision were nuclear power demand, Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. economic outlook, and proliferation con­ DEAR MR. BERGOLD: I read with consider­ cerns. Specifically, nuclear power demand HON. LAWRENCE COUGHLIN able interest the reply that you sent me at had changed markedly since the decision was OF PENNSYLVANIA the request of the President. I appreciate made to go forward with the Clinch River the courtesy but frankly I found some of Breeder Reactor. Projections of electrical de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES your key points unconvincing. mand for the year 2000 are now between one­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Certainly the question of nuclear power quarter and one-half of the presumed re­ demand is a chicken-egg issue. The difficult quirements when the Clinch River Breeder e Mr. COUGHLIN. Mr. Speaker, as the problems in delay of plant construction due Reactor Project was planned. Moreover, the case in support of tuition tax credit legis­ to design licensing requirements have played uranium resource base is projected to be lation continues to gain momentum, it a major role in slowing nuclear power de­ significantly higher than that used for plan­ pleases me enormously to be able to add mand by eroding utility and industry con­ ning the nuclear program including the to the growing list of active backers of fidence. Clinch River Breeder Reactor. These consid­ Only the nuclear fuels resource assessment erati-ons led to th.e conclusion that the sense this concept the name of James S. Cole­ program will answer the question of the level of urgency regarding the CRBRP was un­ man, a noted sociologist and professor of uranium resources we can project with warranted. at the University of Chicago, who is best confidence. As you know, several studies, We now have additional time to develop known for directing an influential study including that of the National Academy of options that assure the availability of an in favor of school desegregation in the Science, place our reserves considerably lower improved breeder that would meet our goals mid-1960's. The following article on than the Administration's optimistic figures. for low doubling time and proliferation re­ Coleman's views on tax credits appeared It will be five years before we can nail down sistant fuel cycles with safe and reliable in the Tuesday, June 21, 1978, issue of this figure and I am surprised that you reactor systems. This option is being assured the Washington Post. would contend that the reserves are "pro­ by our present base program that includes jected to be· significantly higher than that Coleman, speaking recently at a forum conceptual planning, systems studies, sys­ on desegregation sponsored by the Black used for planning the nuclear program in­ tem design studies, and development of cluding the Clinch River Breeder Reactor." plant components, fuels, and materials. Student Fund, expressed his strong sup­ You failed to address the question of a port for tuition tax credits, particularly focus for our breeder technology program. The new program direction maintains our position as the world's leading nuclear power at the elementary and secondary levels I have discussed this with officials of many of education. The sociologist effectively foreign governments and regardless of the nation. Nuclear electric generating capacity in the U.S. is unmatched by any other coun­ countered the argument that tax credits level of funding they will not take a breeder program seriously which docs not involve a try. For FY 1979 the DOE has proposed a would in fact promote segregation with plant commitment. On that basis, I cannot breeder reacter development budget of the statement that a tax credit "would agree with your statement that "the new around $400 million. It will support devel­ increase the opportunity of black parents program direction maintains our position opment of variations of the uranium/plu­ to escape from schools that they think a;;; the world's leading nuclear power nation." tonium and uranium/thorium cycles. In hurt their children." I believe Coleman's I cannot believe we will maintain nuclear carrying out this effort it will be necessary to remarks make a lot of sense and highly preeminence vs. the Russians, French, and draw heavily on CRBRP experience and pro­ fessional staff. We will also continue research recommend this article to my colleagues. British as they will accumulate considerable The article follows: plant experience by the ea!'ly 1980s. directed toward improving the efficiency and I endorse U.S. emphasis on systematic and safety of light water reactors. We believe DESEGREGATION EXPERT BACKS TUITION CREDIT comprehensive R&D with extensive compo­ that this program will assure nuclear power (By Lawrence Feinberg) options which can meet the requirements of nent testing but this activity is not incon­ the future. Sociologist James s. Coleman, who headed sistent with parallel design activity to build a massive infiuential study favoring school a technology demonstration plant. The Soviet Union is also proceeding rap­ desegregation in the mid-1960s, yesterday Finally, it is clear to me that the Presi­ idly With the development of breeder re­ strongly supported a tuition tax credit to aid df'nt's unfortunately strident rhetoric of last actors and the deployment of light water parents of private and parochial school April 20th has got him "out on a limb" on reactors. However, the U.S. and Soviet ap­ pupils. nuclear policy. I am pleased to see his recog­ proaches have differed enough to make Coleman, a professor at the University of nition of this in recent dealings with the point-by-point comparisons difficult. The Chicago, said he favors the tax credit-which Indian government. He can hardly afford to Soviets have preferred to construct reactors has been voted by the House but is bitterly treat any of our nuclear friends with less as quickly as possible and to correct the opposed by the Carter administration-be­ courtesy than he is showing Premier Desai. defects later. (The Shvechenko breeder has cause it would "increase the range of choice The Japanese announcement to proceed with not operated without significant problems, of low-income black parents." nuclear reprocessing is simple evidence of including steam genera tor leakages.) By Particularly in big cities, Coleman said, common sense. I am stunned that the Ad­ contrast, the United States has emphasized where large-scale public school desegregation ministration would have expected otherwise systematic and comprehensive research and is unlikely, a tax credit "would increase the from an island nation with nc fossil energy development reinforced by extensive proof opportunity of black parents to escape from reserves. testing of components prior to building dem­ schools that they think hurt their children." I can appreciate that it is a most difficult onstration plants. Opponents of the measure have contended chore for you and other officials to defend We do not believe that the United States it would promote segregation, hurt public a policy which lacks a sound basis in tech­ and other Western supplier states will lose .schools and mainly benefit middle- and nical fact or international political reality. world markets to Soviet reactors. The Nu­ upper-income groups. I trust you will convey the substance of clear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 should But Coleman said that because of the · my reply to the President and Secretary enable the United States to restore interna­ relatively modest size of the proposed credit, Schlesinger. tional confidence in its reliability as an ex­ $100 to $500 per student, "the principal effect Sincerely yours, porter of reactors and nuclear fuels. would be on lower-income famllies" sending JOHN W. WYDLER, The depth and breadth of our nuclear their children to relatively low-priced Ranking Minority Member. power program should clearly indicate to the schools. world and to the American people that we He said "a very large number of black DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, take this source of energy very seriously. children" already attend low-tuition catho­ Washington, D.C., May 13, 1978. President Carter has stated that we do not lic schools in big cities, such as Chicago, New Hon. JoHN W. WYDLER, regard the proliferation of nuclear explosive York and Washington, with generally posi­ House of Representatives, capability as an inevitable byproduct of the tive educational results. Washington, D.C. peaceful uses of nuclear energy. We intend Coleman spoke at a forum on desegrega­ DEAR MR. WYDLER: The President has to use our technological capabilities and our tion attended by about 60 persons at George­ asked me to reply to your letter of April 4. resource endowments to assure that inter­ town Day School, 4530 MacArthur Blvd., NW. You raise a number of important issues con­ national peace and security as well as world 'i'he forum was sponsored by the Black Stu­ cerning your energy discussions with the energy needs are served by the development dent Fund, which during the past decade has Soviets, the future of the U.S. breeder re­ and deployment of advanced, proliferation­ aided more than a thousand black students actor program, and the future role of nu­ resistant reactors, as well as sales of our . to attend private schools in the Washing­ clear power in this country. Let me assure current reactors. ton area. you at the outset that the President shares Sincerely, He was introduced warmly by Alice M. Riv­ your commitment to continued U.S. tech­ HARRY E. BERGOLD, Jr., lin, director of the Congressional Budget nological and industrial leadership in world Assistant Secretary Office, who later asked him to deal with the nuclear markets. for International Affairs.e "accusation" that programs to help blacks 18364 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 attend private schools are "detrimental" to Savings and Loan Association, Buena local government agencies. If a delivery sys­ public education. Park branch, and has long been active in tem is designed from scratch, the costs are "That's not a valid argument," Coleman formidable and the problem of achieving the rejoined. "Anything that allows for an in­ civic affairs. Other officers being installed are Jon Dowell of Meade Packaging required rapport between the system and the dividual to have greater opportunity can't as people to be saved may be insurmountable. be bad for the country." president-elect; David Hannemann of Both issues indicate that organizations which Besides favoring a. tuition credit on fed­ Movieland Wax Museum as vice presi­ are already an integral part of the c·ommunity eral income taxes, Coleman said he supported dent; AI Whitmore of Al's Automotive should be used to provide the technology ex­ proposals to give vouchers to parents to use as secretary, and Dick Pettit of the Auto­ tension service. for tuition at public or private schools. mobile Club of Southern California "Parents and children have a better sense as A set of institutions that have become of what's a good school context for them," treasurer. strong and well supported at the community Coleman said, "than do professionals who I ask the 95th Congress to join me in level and are committed to community serv­ must deal with a very large number of congratulating these new officers and ice are the 1200 community colleges located children. I trust the parents and children wishing them success in continuing ·to across the country and serving a. major share of the people. It is recommended that the more than the professionals. make Buena Park a better city.e "I think the stronger the private schools community colleges-which have the re­ are the better it will be for the public schools quired geographic distribution, service orien­ because the public schools will be forced to tation, constituency, and value system­ be better to stay in business." TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER should have a prominent role in a. national Overall, Coleman said, school desegrega­ R & D delivery system. tion since 1954 has had "no effect" on educa­ Universities, research institutes, and gov­ tional achievement of black students. HON. CARL D. PURSELL ernmental laboratories would operate in con­ "In the absence of turmoil," Coleman OF MICHIGAN cert with the colleges by conducting re­ said, "there seems to be an achievement in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES search that is responsive to local needs and crease." But so far, he said, this has been by obtaining from the R & D community re­ counterbalanced by reduced black achieve­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 sults and products that can be moved into ment in places where desegregation was ac­ • Mr. PURSELL. Mr. Speaker, several the economic stream. Substantial costs would companied by confiict and fear and "distrac­ be involved in establishing such a delivery tion from study." weeks ago, I participated in the National network; however, they would be a small In general, he said, integration has been Conference on Technology Transfer fraction (perhaps 1 percent) of the cost of most successful in well-disciplined schools which was held in Ann Arbor, Mich. This the current R & D enterprise. Also, the ad­ headed by strong principals. conference sought to discuss particularly ditional resources brought to bear are large Coleman stressed that the main finding of the role of community colleges in tech­ enough to have a major impact. In terms of his 1966 report, issued by the U.S. Office of nology transfer. Over 160 people from dollars, the operating budgets of the com­ Education, was that black students had community colleges in 21 States par­ munity colleges total over $5 billion per higher achievement in mostly white schools ticipated in the conference. year, and the enrollment is more than 4 mil- · not because of the skin color of their class­ lion students, with the majority in vocation­ mates but because of the middle-class back­ It is my feeling that we must recog­ al and continuing educational programs. ground and "educational resources" that nize and encourage the important role A pilot program has been in operation in the white children brought from home. which these colleges can play in tech­ Michigan with support from the Economic "Increasingly, class is less correlated with nology transfer. An article which ap­ Development Administration of the Depart­ race than it was 10 years ago," Coleman said. peared in Science San Francisco to Wash­ tions, fiscal 1979: them." They will decide which programs ington, D.C., Pete Strudwick has run and Rollcall No. 461, approval of the rule, to support and which services to con­ continues to run. The amazing accom­ House Resolution 1236, "yes." tinue and which projects to reject. The plishments of this footless racer continue Rollcall No. 462, to delete $90.8 million money saved in taxes can be contributed to be the subject of many news stories. earmarked for three water projects, to the community library, to the local He has appeared on numerous television "yes." youth band, to the civlc symphony and radio programs and continues to be Rollcall No. 463, to delete funds for orchestra, to the little theater and little an inspiration in the field of physical eight water projects, "no." league, to the civic light opera, to the well-being. • Rollcall No. 464, motion to resolve into community center, and the lists con­ the Committee of the Whole for consid­ tinues on and on. The point is that they eration of H.R. 12928, "yes." decide. The corporation, the business, the partnership, and professional and PERSONAL EXPLANATION Rollcall No. 465, to prohibit use of funds for production of enhanced radi­ the common, ordinary, unnamed, un­ ation weapons, "no." recognized citizen decides in the "mar­ HON. JOSEPH A. LE FANTE Rollcall No. 466, to recommit the bill ketplace" by his voluntary contributions what his community is to provide for OF NEW JERSEY with instructions to report back with an him. Tax deductions for all of these IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES amendment to reduce total appropri­ ations not required by law by 3 percent, contributions may very well find that Wednesday, June 21, 1978 "no." less money, not more, is going to Wash­ e Mr. LE FANTE. Mr. Speaker, I missed ington. This is the old-fashioned, radical Rollcall No. 467, passage of H.R. 12928, American way. This is the nuclear-age a number of votes in the House last week "yes." due to the fact that I underwent some "Boston Tea Party." Confiscatory taxa­ Rollcall No. 468, passage of H.R. 12927, tion and bureaucratic decisions are not preliminary medical testing and as a re­ appropriations for military construction sult of my participation as a congres­ acceptable. This is the real spirit of for the Department of Defense, fiscal America. Dreaming? Perhaps. But, if it sional adviser at the United Nations spe­ 1979, "yes."e cial session on disarmament. Had I been is just a dream, it is the rebirth of the present, I would have voted in the fol­ American dream. The time is now ripe lowing manner: for every citizen to become a "born­ Rollcall No. 437, condemning viola­ PROPOSITION 13-NUCLEAR AGE again" American. tions of human rights in Uganda, "yes." "BOSTON TEA PARTY" If any should be in too big a hurry to Rollcall No. 438, Toxic Substances say that Californians cannot measure up Control Act, "yes." to this commitment, let me remind you The following votes concerning H.R. HON. DEL CLAWSON that recent statistics reveal that only 12933, Transportation Appropriations, OF CALIFORNIA seven nations of the world rank higher fiscal 1979: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in gross national product than the State of California. California is ahead of our Rollcall No. 439, to prohibition use of Wednesday, June 21, 1978 funds to require vehicles to be equipped neighbor Canada, No.8, and just behind with passive restraint systems other than 0 Mr. DEL CLAWSON. Mr. Speaker, be­ the United Kingdom, No. 7. Even the seat belts. "no." fore and after the June 6, 1978, primary · county of Los Angeles, my home county, Rollcall No. 440, to permit use of funds in California the cries of gloom, doom, is No. 14 in the same category, gross na­ for research and development relating and despair were heard up and down the tional product, ahead of the next coun­ to passive restraint systems, "yes." State and across the Nation. In spite of try, the Netherlands, and following India. Rollcall No. 441, passage of H.R. 12933, all of these protestations, the people of In per capita gross national product, the "yes." California "shouted it out" loud and Los Angeles area is between No. 4 and 5 The following votes concerning H.R. clear. Fortunately, many messages were of these same nations. And, even using 12929, Labor-HEW appropriations, fiscal included in the expression of public population and gross national product 1979: opinion. The citizens were warned that statistics, California and Los Angeles the tax savings would all be drained off County rank among the top nations of Rollcall No. 442, motion to resolve into by increases in Federal income taxes. the world. the Committee of the Whole for con­ Estimates ranged as high as $2 billion. Mr. Speaker, we will measure up to the sideration of the bill, "yes." The prophets of doom pointed out that responsibilities and obligations of the Rollcall No. 443, to strike language pro­ the Federal Government would receive decision that we have made, but do not hibiting use of funds for abortions unless the largess from California if proposi­ spend that increase in Federal income the life of the mother was in danger, tion 13 carried. This would make it taxes just yet. Californians have very "no." necessary for the public officials of Calif­ fine methods of keeping their dollars at Rollcall No. 444, to substitute the com­ ornia to go as "beggars" with "hat in home where they will be spent far more promise language restricting use of funds hand" to Washington for a bailout as a judiciously than being funneled through 18366 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 the Federal bureaucracy. Far better that factories and well-heeled individuals who out his imprisonment and trial, his fam­ the Ways and Means Committee and the will benefit from substantial tax reduction. ily has been continuously harassed. Mr. In many cases, these taxpayers can be per­ Marshak commented: Congress find more tax deduction items suaded to give large chunks of their savings for our tax returns and let us have even back to their communities for parks, libraries, The closed trial and inhuman punishment more discretion in how our own money fire companies, or the like. Under federal in­ imposed on our high-energy physics col­ is to be spent, than to search for new come tax laws, such voluntary contributions league. Yuri Orlov, make it impossible for sources of revenue. would cost them nothing. me to attend the seminar in Moscow next After saying all of this, let me insert We hear lamentations about the cancel­ week. for the edification of all readers of the lation of summer schools and adult educa­ I fully support his position, and that tion classes. So what? Generations of Ameri­ taken by the other American scientists. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a column Of cans grew up to a reasonable literacy without James J. Kilpatrick in the Washington free summer school and free adult education. The Soviet Union has shown a con­ Star of June 20, 1978, which also has Charge a fee or let it go! What if Corona's tinuing disregard for the human rights some observations on "California after­ Little League ballparks no longer may be of their citizens. Their treatment of dis­ shocks": watered or lighted at public expense? When sidents is abhorrent. The trial of Orlov CALIFORNIA AFTERSHOCKS I was a boy, all we had for second base was is but the latest example in a continuing a busted-outpiece of an apple crate. Sweet (By James J . Kilpatrick) record of Soviet abuses in this area. are the uses of adversity! We raised some Ethnic minorities suffer heavily in the Two weeks have passed since the Cali­ pretty fair infielders that way. fornia earthquake, and the tremors have at Here in Washington, politicians are nerv­ U.S.S.R. Jewish scientists in the Soviet last crossed the Potomac. The House of Rep­ ous. They hear the tom-toms beating and Union who request permission to emi­ resentatives last week voted to cut the La­ they know the natives are restless out there. grate and are denied become known as bor-Welfare budget by $800 million. In terms What Howard Jarvis did in California, some "refuseniks," often cut off from the sci­ of a $500 billion budget, it wasn't much, but national leader might yet do for Washington. entific community, refused any oppor­ it was a start. Thank you, Howard Jarvis. It's a heady thought, and it won't go away.e tunity to support themselves and their Mr. Jarvis, of course, is the cantankerous apostle of the new political religion known families. as tax limitation. Since California's landslide In the near future, Anatoly Scharan­ vote of June 6 for his Proposition 13, his sky and Alexander Ginzburg are sched­ voice no longer cries alone in the wilderness. RESOLUTION REGARDING HUMAN uled to go on trial for crimes similar to All kinds of politicians have got religion, as RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE SO­ those allegedly committed by Orlov. If an examination of the 220-181 vote in the VIET UNION they are treated similarly, the message House will suggest. Some of the 220 had to the rest of the world will be clear: never cast a vote for economy in their lives. Here, as there, cries were raised that tore­ HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN There is no justice in the Soviet Union. duce public spending, especially in areas of OF NEW YORK For relations between our two coun­ tries to improve, the Soviet Union must healt h, education and welfare, amounts to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grinding the faces of the poor. In times past, first improve humanitarian conditions in such cries have proved marvelously effective; Wednesday, June 21, 1978 their own country. I urge my colleagues and as a consequence, the federal budget for • Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am intro­ to join with me in making this statement welfare has become bloated beyond recogni­ of congressional support for the courage­ tion. Until Brother Jarvis came along, there ducing today a resolution expressing the seemed no possibility that the Labor-HEW support of the Congress for the decision ous action taken by our scientists, and appropriation ever would be touched by of 21 American scientists not to attend in urging the administration to pursue fiscal sanity. Now the boys are running the recent physics symposium in the So­ with renewed vigor the enforcement of scared. viet Union. The resolution also calls upon basic human rights throughout the Some other things have been happening in the administration to take an active role world. these two weeks. The news that reaches us A similar resolution has been previ­ from California is mostly maddening news. in condemning the Soviet Union's disre­ gard of basic human rights, and requests ously introduced in the Senate. Daily we are deluged by pitiful stories of I insert the full text of this resolution libraries closing, of fire trucks immobilized, that all U.S. Government agencies make of police laid off, of school teachers dis­ a careful evaluation of their sponsor­ at. this point in the RECORD: missed, all as a result of that dreadful Jarvis ship of international conferences involv­ RESOLUTION man. On examination, it appears that most ing the Soviet Union. Whereas Yuri Orlov, a prominent Soviet of these doomsday tidings have to do with Nineteen American scientists, compris­ scientist, was convicted by the Soviet Union possible closings and possible cutbacks and ing the American delegation to a sym­ of selling "slanderous material to the West" possible reductions in services, depending after a trial in which he was denied the rep­ upon what the California legislature does to posium held in Moscow from May 22 to resentation of his choice and the right to save the day. May 26, unanimously decided to cancel call witnesses on his own behalf; If I were a California voter, witnessing this their trip. In addition, Robert Marshak, Whereas during the trial Orlov's family was defeatist reaction from officialdom, I would president of City College of New York. harassed and abused by the Soviet authorities start making lists-lists of those elected offi­ and Nicholaas Bloembergen. a Harvard and Mrs. Orlov was denied the right to visit cials who have responded with vindictive­ professor, canceled scheduled trips to the her husband; ness or ineptitude, or both, to the results on U.S.S.R. This represented a reversal on Whereas the entire 19-member delegation Proposition 13. At the first opportunity, I the part of Mr. Marshak, who in the past of United States scientists to the Sixth Joint would move heaven and earth to vote them U.S.-U.S.S.R. Symposium on Condensed out of office and to replace them with new has been vocal in his support of the Matter Theory announced on May 20 that officials dedicated to making the proposition exchanges. they were cancelling their scheduled trip to work. The decision of these American scien­ the Soviet Union to participate in the Sym­ California's highly paid state legislators tists not to journey to the Soviet Union posium because of the conviction of Yuri have the first responsib111ty for a sensitive, was taken in response to the harassment Orlov; intelligent response to the situation, but lo­ and abuse Soviet dissidents have received Whereas two prominent scientists, Robert cal imagination and local leadership could at the hands of the authorities. E. Harshak and Nicholaas Bloembergen, also count for vastly more. A dispatch from Co­ Yuri Orlov, a prominent Soviet sci­ decided to forgo visits to the Soviet Union rona, Calif., informs us dolefully that "the this week; and sleek new library on Main Street probably entist, was recently tried on the charge Whereas Jewish scientists who have been will close." Well, nonsense! The library won't of selling "slanderous material to the refused permission to emigrate from the close if Friends of the Corona Library will West," convicted and sentenced to 7 years Soviet Union, known as "refuseniks", have stop sniffling and raise the money voluntarily in prison, and 5 years of internal exile. lost their jobs, have been forbidden all con­ to take up the slack. This' harsh penalty was imposed upon tac.t with the scientific community, have The inference one draws from the post­ an individual whose only "crime" has been denied access to scientific literature, referendum news is that Californians have been to insist that the principles set and have been subjected to severe penalties become so absolutely dependent upon gov­ of imprisonment and banishment, as in the ernment, so weak and enfeebled, so patheti­ forth in the Helsinki Agreement be ad­ case of Anatoly Scharansky: Now, therefore, cally gutless, that they are unable to lift a hered to by the Soviet Union. be it finger in their own behalf. I do not believe it Orlov's trial was conducted arbitrarily Resolved, That it is the sense of the House for an instant. and without any regard for the defend­ of Representatives that- In every community affected by Proposition ant's rights. He was refused the right ( 1) the United States should support the 13, there are local industries, stores, banks, to call witnesses on his behalf. Through- action of certain United States scientists in June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18367 refusing to visit the Union of Soviet Socialist believe that the person holding the evi­ acting to correct this unfortunate de­ Republics in protest of the conviction of the dence was involved in a crime, and sec­ cision of the Supreme Court. The bill prominent Soviet scientist Yuri Orlov; ond, where there is probable cause to in­ which I have introduced goes far toward (2) the United States should assume lead­ dicate that but for the use of a warrant, correcting the problems created by the ership in condemning the violation by the the evidence might be destroyed. The Court's decision and toward restoring Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of the the rights of privacy and personal se­ basic human rights of its scientists and other bill's provisions are enforceable through citizens; and civil actions and include the granting of curity to all Americans. I urge the sup­ (3) the President should direct the heads general and punitive damages. port of my colleagues for this measure.• of the departments and agencies of the Gov­ In response to the Supreme Court's ernment to begin an intensive and careful decision there has been a great outcry evaluation of international conferences · and from the press against the ruling. Such exchanges of scientists with the Union of disparate commentators as James J. Kil­ PROPOSITION 13 Soviet Socialist Republics, sponsored by the respective departments and agencies, and patrick and Carl Rowan have joined in such an evaluation should continue until the their criticism of the Court's action. This HON. LEE H. HAMILTON Government of the Soviet Union expresses its concern of the press is justified because OF INDIANA willingness to comply with the human rights the opinion now makes it possible for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES provisions of the Helsinki Accords.e police to secure a search warrant and, unannounced, search newsroom files, Wednesday, June 21, 1978 desks, wastebaskets, and cabinets. In do­ e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would ing so they may seize only items speci­ like to insert my Washington Report for REPRESENTATIVE EDWARDS IN­ fied in the warrant, but before leaving, Wednesday, June 21, 1978, into the CoN­ TRODUCES A BILL TO PROTECT they may end up examining everything GRESSIONAL RECORD: THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC in the newsroom. The police raid on the PROPOSITION 13 AGAINST IMPROPER GOVERN­ Stanford Daily, designed to find photo­ In three of my Southern Indiana town MENT SEARCHES graphs of a crime, yielded none; yet the meetings this past weekend, a major topic of newsroom was rummaged by police for conversation was the California vote to slash over 8 hours. property taxes. Hoosiers seem to agree that HON. DON EDWARDS Speaking for a majority of the Court, the vote is a message to public officials every­ OF CALIFORNIA Justice White is sanguine about the where that taxes are too high and govern­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ability of law enforcement to keep itself ment performance not good enough. Wednesday, June 21, 1978 in check regarding such searches. How­ Whatever their counterparts in other states ever, most of us can recall only too re­ are thinking, California officeholders have re­ e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. ceived a signal that cannot be misinterpreted. Speaker, on May 31 the Supreme Court cently cases of gross governmental abuse By a two-to-one margin, Californians voiced delivered an opinion which drastically of power. Benjamin Bradlee of the Wash­ their objection to the outrageously high cut away at the constitutional right of ington Post noted that under the Court's taxes levied on their homes and business rule, the Pentagon Papers might never properties. Apparently, Californians also every American to be secure against Gov­ have been published, since they could want smaller, more efficient government. It is ernment search and seizure. In the case easy to sympathize with this anguished tax of Zurcher against Standard Daily the have been seized by police pursuant to a warrant. Furthermore, while searching protest and hard to quarrel with the view Court held that police may use an ex that government has grown too big and too parte warrant to enter and search the for information relative to a crime, the inefficient. For some time now there has been premises of a party not suspected of police will have access to reporter's in­ a feeling in the land that the burden of taxa­ criminal activity. The subject of the formation about confidential news tion and the government it pays for must be search in the case before the Court was sources. Ultimately, such risk of exposure trimmed back. the office of the Stanford University will effectively dry up these valuable The California proposal, Proposition 13 , newspaper, but the Court's decision news sources. stands as a powerful symbol of an emerging The Supreme Court's decision also political force: the disgruntled middle­ reaches far beyond the press. In the income and upper-middle-income taxpayer. words of the Los Angeles Times, "It impacts the rest of us. In his well-rea­ soned dissent in the case, Justice Stevens As ratified, Proposition 13 cuts the property renders every home and every place of wrote: tax rate to 1 percent of the 1975 cas.i.'l value o! business vulnerable to a surprise search real property, restricts increases in assessed by the police." Just as the witnesses who participate in an values to not more than 2 percent per year investigation or a trial far outnumber the unless property changes hands, calls for a In response to this serious threat to defendants, the persons who possess evidence two-thirds majority in the state legislature fourth amendment rights, I am today that may help to identify an offender, or ex­ for any new or increased state taxes, and for­ introducing the Citizens Privacy Protec­ plain an aspect of a criminal transaction, far bids substitute local taxes unless they are tion Act of 1978. This bill is designed to outnumber those who have custody of weap­ approved by two-thirds of the qualified elec­ protect individuals as well as the press ons or plunder. Countless law abiding citi­ tors. Overall, the proposal lowers property tax against unannounced invasions by any­ zens-doGtors, lawyers, merchants, custom­ revenues from $11.4 billion to $4.4 billion. ers, bystanders-may have documents in one acting under color of law. Where law th_eir possession that relate to an ongoing A $7 billion revenue loss is very significant, enforcement authorities need to secure cnminal investigation. but it is still too soon to predict what im­ evidence of a crime, the bill provides that pact Proposition 13 will have. There will no they do so only by means of a subpena The Court's ruling creates the poten­ doubt be legal and constitutional challenges tial for official mischief limited only by to it that could result in delay. The real issued pursuant to an adversary court implications of the California vote and the proceeding. the imagination of the police. Justice sentiment behind it remain to be sorted out. Writing for the trial court in the White's trust in judges and magistrates California will probably relieve the imme­ Stanford Daily case, District Court Judge to act as a restraining influence fails to diate fiscal pressure on cities and towns Robert Peckham recognized the safe­ give much comfort. Our experience with with assistance from the state surplus. How­ guards which this approach provides for wiretap warrants under the 1968 Omni­ ever, an examination of the structure and innocent third parties: bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act priorities of local government is inevitable and a hardhanded assessment of all public Unlike one suspected of a crime the third tells us that judges do not exercise mean­ ingful control over warrant applications. services will have to be undertaken. Since party has no meaningful remedy or protec­ Proposition 13 does not indicate how local tion against an unlawful search, with or From ~969 through 1976, applications government budgets should be cut, there will without a warrant, and an additional safe­ by police for search warrants totaled surely be a scramble to determine what is guard is necessary to assure that his Fourth 5,563; only 15 of these applications were fat and what is muscle in those budgets. Amendment rights are not trampled. That denied by judges or magistrates. In 1977, With possible budget reductions of up to protection is the obligation of law enforce­ 70 % slated for some communities and school ment to use a subpoena duces tecum unless not one of 626 such applications was de­ nied. These statistics demonstrate the districts, the choices will be difficult. There it is shown, through sworn affidavits, that it may be protracted disputes among the vari­ is impractical to do so. tendency of judicial officers to rubber­ ous segments of local government: police, The bill provides two exceptions under stamp applications for search warrants. fire, education, sanitation, recreation, and which a search warrant may be issued. In concluding, Mr. Speaker, I wish to so on. The elimination of some jobs is un­ First, where there is probable cause to emphasize the importance of Congress avoidable, and the possibility of strikes, slow- 18368 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 downs and other work disruptions cannot tive and tireless administrator. A mem­ be ruled out. Some mayors have already an­ How can we thank a man who has nounced far-reaching layoffs. ber of one of the most distinguished given of himself so greatly, who partici­ In the long run, one effect of Proposition families in Israel, his grandfather, a pated in events which, literally, "shook 13 and measures like it may be to transfer judge in Jerusalem, was a founding the world"? We are fortunate, indeed, to control of some local affairs away from local member of Hovevi Zion together with have him in our community and to be governments. The property tax has been a Rabbi Mohilever, a great-uncle of his the beneficiaries of his devotion and fiscal mainstay of local treasuries in the wife, Grace. Noah's father took an oath friendship. I ask the Members to join United States. It accounts for 80 % of all under his marriage canopy to speak only with his wife, Grace, his son and daugh­ local revenues. Because our federal system has stressed the importance of local control, Hebrew to his family. ter-in-law, Gilbert and Holly; grandson, a sharp reduction in the property tax repre­ Noah was educated at the Hebrew Joel Todd, and his many friends and ad­ sents a fundamental change in the ordering Seminary in Jerusalem, at the Hebrew mirers in this special tribute to Noah of that system. With less local money at University, and the London Law School. ben-Tovim.e hand, demand for state and federal assist­ His teachers praised him for his talents ance wm increase, particularly in cities and modesty, for his intellectual integ­ which are already too dependent on such rity and idealism. He was the first Boy assistance. One cannot help but wonder Scout in Israel; founder and president CITIES: AN ENVIRONMENTAL whether resentment toward taxes and gov­ WILDERNESS ernment has been taken out on the right of the National Student Body which tax. Looking to the state capital or to Wash­ gave heroic leaders to Israel in the war ington may be an easy answer, but it may for Jewish liberation; served as editor HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER also be the wrong answer. of a student magazine and of a daily The factors that brought about the Cali­ newspaper in Jerusalem. OF NEW YORK fornia tax revolt would be hard to duplicate In London, Noah was appointed to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES exactly in other states. In Indiana, for ex­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 ample, per capita state and local taxes rank represent the Betar of Poland before 43rd in the nation in percentage of personal the British Government, the House of • Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I com­ income, while California's are fourth. In­ Commons, and the House of Lords in the mend to the attention of my colleagues diana's per capita state and local tax burden struggle for immigration certificates into an important statement of policy by the is only 61% of California's. In addition, In­ Palestine. A volunteer in the British Honorable Barbara Blum, Deputy Ad­ diana's property taxes have been compara­ Army during World War II, Noah also ministrator of the U.S. Environmental tively stable while California's have soared. served in the Haganah and in the war of But the revolt wlll spread even if voters in Protection Agency. It was delivered May other states do not choose the California liberation under Menachem Begin, com­ 6, 1978, to the Sierra Club's 86th anniver­ model. It seems to me that echoes of frustra­ mander in chief. He received a British sary celebration in Berkeley, Calif. tion are e.lready skipping across the country. medal for brave conduct and the Aleh Ms. Blum eloquently states the need for They are being heard in Ohio where voters (the Medal for the Fighters of State­ environmentalists to emphasize the ur­ rejected a tax increase to help the schools hood) from the Government of Israel. ban environment, and for their own sake and in Tennessee where a llmi t has been At the end of the war of liberation, as well as for the sake of meeting the placed on the growth of state spending. the Honorable Menachem Begin founded most gaping environmental needs of the Moves to curb state and local government Shelach, dedicated to the rehabilitation spending are afoot in about half the states, Nation. The environmental movement and 23 state legislatures have called for a of his veterans. He assigned Noah Ben­ may well .founder if it does not move to constitutional amendment banning federal Tovim and Dr. Israel Lifshitz, his loyal include the majority of citizens who live deficits. At the federal level the revolt could officers, to direct operations throughout in our cities. As she puts it so well: result in the limiting of federal spending to the Americas. Ben-Tovim and Lifshitz The crisis of contemporary American envi­ a fraction of the output of the national econ­ planned and organized this hercuelan ronmentalism will not be resolved until we omy. task and accompanied their chief on the can find the proper balance between our In part, Proposition 13 and measures like historic journey through our country urban-industrial-chemical civilization and it are votes of "no confidence" in government. and Latin America. In New York over a the natural world. We need to see the city The manner in which public officials respond million people lined his route; thousands and the wilderness as interdependent, har­ to such protests may very well determine upon thousands flocked to see and greet monious parts of the same human and nat­ whether confidence can be restored. To re­ ural community. place lost revenue with new taxes would Begin everywhere they stopped. Presi­ countermand the will of the people. To re­ dents, parliaments, and the news media An elite environmental movement duce services in a careless or haphazard way paid tribute, in an outpouring of love, to which ignores urban needs is bound to would violate the public trust. It is clear the Jewish patriots who had accom­ fail. Again, Ms. Blum states so aptly: that the people now expect sharp reductions plished a miracle for their country. It's time to recognize that there is no place in government costs at all levels. They want Ben-Tovim was also entrusted with to hide. It's time for all urban residents, efficiency in essential functions and cur­ the first American publication of Mr. inner-city and suburban, to acknowledge that tailment of non-essential functions.e Begin's war memoirs, "The Revolt." A they share a common destiny. And it's time for the environmental movement to forge a 1948 autographed picture of Begin is a new urban vision and make a sustained com­ treasured possession of Noah's. It reads: mitment to create a healthy urban environ• To my Dear Friend Ben-Tovlm, the Faith­ ment. NOAH AMINADAV BEN -TOVIM ful of the Sons of the Fighting Family. I recommend my colleagues read the HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN The long and warm friendship be­ full article which is set forth below: tween the families Begin and Ben-Tovim REMARKS BY THE HONORABLE BARBARA BLUM OF CALIFORNIA is a source of joy to both. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When he became a resident of the CITIES: AN ENVmONMENTAL WILDERNESS We are gathered here tonight to celebrate Wednesday, June 21, 1978 United States, Noah came to Los An­ the a11n1versary of the Sierra Club's founding geles and served the city in many capaci­ eighty-six years ago in 1892 and to honor men • Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, on Sun­ ties for 14 years. He was president of the day afternoon, July 2, the Southern Pa­ and women responsible for their exceptional public utilities and transportation com­ achievements in improving our Nation's envi­ cific Region of the Zionist Organization mission; president of the traffic commis­ ronment. of America will hold a reception to honor sion; vice chairman of the housing au­ Tonight, I want not so much to pay tribute Noah Aminadav Ben-Tovim on the occa­ thority commission; human relations to the past of the environmental movement, sion of his retirement as regional commissioner and on the urban renewal I want to confront what I think is the most director. committee. He is presently a county important domestic challenge not only for We say of a few of the people of the environmentalists, but for all Americans. commissioner on the Martin Luther That challenge is rescuing our urban environ­ world who have been involved in its his­ King, Jr., Hospital Authority and pub­ ment. tory that they are "living legends," and lisher and editor of the Municipal Throughout our history, Americans have Noah Ben-Tovim is, indeed, such a per­ Guardian, a monthly publication dedi­ placed a special value on their environment. son. He came from the hills of Jerusalem, cated to good government; and is the co­ The first colonists risked all to create an en­ a Sabra, a Hebrew scholar and teacher author of "The American Testament," a vironment of bounty and freedom ln the New of Zionism; a writer and soldier; an ac- study of American history. World. Initially, the challenge came from the June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18369 howling wilderness, but from the start there bors of the urban poor who enjoy the fewest tributed to the underwriting of suburban was an urban vision too of building a city on products of American technology, but are sprawl in some metropolitan areas. That's a. hill which would be a beacon to all people. forced to consume its often lethal pollution. one past mistake that EPA will be turning In the years of discovery and coloniza"tlOn, The poor desperately need jobs, but as my around in the years ahead. America's seemingly inexhaustible natural friend Vernon Jordan of the Urban League In addition to correcting yesterday's errors, resources-fur, timber, minerals, and land­ has said, "We need jobs, but we also need there's a second facet to the Administration's acted like a magnet. Millions of immigrants to be healthy enough to hold those jobs." urban policy that should promote its success. left their homelands to settle in America The inner-city poor-white, yellow, brown The new partnership has an inventive touch, because of religious, political, and ethnic and black-suffer to an alarming degree from which reminds me of a story about Thomas persecution. what are euphemistically known as "diseases Edison. In the nineteenth century, as the Ameri­ of adaptation". These are not healthy adap­ Mr. Edison had a very beautiful summer can economy gathered momentum, the wil­ tations, but diseases and chronic conditions residence in which he took great pride. One derness was viewed either as something to be resulting from living with bad air, polluted day he was showing his guests about, point­ overcome to make way for "progress" or as water, excessive noise, and continual stress. ing ou.t all the various labor-saving devices a bonanza of untapped wealth to be plun­ Hypertension, heart disease, chronic bron­ on the premises. Turning back toward the dered at will. There were no institutions and chitis, emphysema, sight and hearing im­ house it was necessary to pass through a few traditions to induce Americans to con­ pairment, cancer and congenital anomalies turnstile which led onto the main path. The serve. The way West became the path of are all roughly fifty percent higher than the guests soon found out that it took con­ exploitation. level for suburbanites. Behavorial, neuro­ siderable force to get through the device. By the la:te nineteenth century, the in­ logical and mental disorders are about "Mr. Edison," asked one of his guests, dustrial city's unbounded appetite for nat­ double. "How is it that with all these wonderful ural resources was endangering the wilder­ Two-thirds of the 60,000 rat bites in the modern things around, you still maintain a ness. Men like John Muir who left their be­ United States are suffered by that one-tenth heavy turnstile?" loved mountains, and women such as Grace of the nation housed in the ghettoes of the Said Mr. Edison, his eyes lighting up with Greenwood who wrote so eloquently in de­ inner-city. laughter, "Well, you see, everyone who fense of wilderness preservation, came to the In the city, the rate for most kinds of pushes the turnstile around pumps eight city, and there fough't successfully to save cancer is rising twice as fast as it is in the gallons of water into the tank qn the roof." the wilderness from destruction. In the suburbs. For the urban poor it is rising faster Jimmy Carter knows that the Federal process, the Sierra Club was formed and en­ yet, and for non-whites it is rising twice Government alone can't do the job. That's vironmental protection began. as fast as for whites. And for cancer, there why the Administration's urban policy calls Thanks to the perseverance of the Sierra is no such thing as adaptation. There is only for the building of a new partnership among Club and other environmental groups, large mness and often death. all levels of government, the private sector parts of the wilderness have been saved. Al­ But as sprawl continues, environmental and neighborhood and volur.tary organiza­ though we must continue to guard the wil­ injury and insult come with it. The flight .to tions. I think we'll only have ourselves to derness, it is the urban environment and ur­ the suburbs is binding innercity and subur­ blame if we don't push the turnstile that will ban people, particularly inner-city people, ban people together in ways that the subur­ make urban environmentalism a major con­ who are our most endangered species. ban escapees did not anticipate. The air, tributor to the success of the new partner­ The crisis of contemporary American en­ water, and noise may be most lethal down­ ship. vironmentalism will not be resolved until town, but increasingly the metropolitan en­ One of the critical challenges of the new we can find the proper balance between our vironment is one continuous airshed, water­ partnership is to reach not just the well­ urban-industrial-chemical civilization and shed and noise basin. informed middle-class (who are already in­ the natural world. We need to see the city It's time to recognize that there is no volved). not just the public interest groups and the wilderness as interdependent, har­ place to hide. It's time for all urban resi­ (who are already committed) and not just monious parts of the same human and nat­ dents, inner-city and suburban, to acknowl­ the municipal-industrial complex (who ural community. edge that they share a common destiny. And either have large-scale incentives or sanction Ours is an urban civilization. Over three­ it's time for the environmental movement of the law to motivate them)-but the peo­ quarters of all America.ns live in a city whose to forge a new urban vision and make a sus­ ple who live in inner-cities. total environment has been sound in the tained commitment to create a healthy ur­ As a former psychiatric social worker and past, is healthy now, and is likely to remain ban environment. administrator of a clinic for the urban poor, so in the future. In my estimation, to achieve our ·J.rban en- I know first-hand that urban people des­ Daily our lungs breathe in messages of vironmental vision we must: perately need to gain control over their des­ warning. Our eyes smart. Our ears ring and Give top priority to the inner-city. tiny. They have had enough of other people our heads ache as the decibel count mounts. Eliminate environmental health hazards. planning their lives for them. We know that the environment in which the Clean up air and water and develop re- Inner-city residents are the first to suffer inner-city poor must live is frightening, un­ source recovery. the unintended consequences of technology. healthy and destruC'tive. Increase citizen participation. They are the first to get sick and die from Because the environmental movement has Conserve energy. environmental health effects because their focused so much of its attention in the past Reach out to urban people in their neigh­ physical and social surroundings are harmed on the wilderness, it has been charged as borhoods. and destroyed. elitist. We had better face the fact that Create environmentally useful jobs. We need not depend upon technological there is more than a grain of truth to this Form a national coalition committed tragedy to inform us when everyday, citi­ charge. equally to the enhancement of the urban en­ zens are assessing their technologies with No person is an island, and yet we all know vironment, and to urban investment and their eyes ("It's ugly"). with their ears ("It's that in our midst there are islands every­ employment. too noisy"), with their noses ("It stinks"). where, vast, ugly, dilapidated, teeming is­ Develop recreation. lands filled with poverty, unemployment, and above all, with their commensense gut Promote regional solutions. feelings and intuition ("Somehow this just chronic sickness, depression and sometimes In short, the talents and energies of en­ doesn't make sense"). despair and violence. These islands we have vironmentalism' must be mob111zed to help A critical test of our joint ability to build come to know as ghettoes, urban cores, and cities to once again become the magnet and central cities. this new partnership wlll be the success of the stage for all that is best about being the three-day conference which the National Ripping through these islands are the human. Urban League, The Sierra Club and the Ur­ ribbons of steel and concrete that whisk On March 27 of this year, President Carter ban Environment Conference will hold this suburbanites and exurbanites into and out submitted to the American people and to the coming January. This National Conference of town. In the last thirty years the exodus Congress proposals for a comprehen:;ive na­ wlll be funded jointly by EPA, the Depart­ to suburbia raised the nation's suburban tional urban policy. "This policy," said the ment of Housing and Urban Development, population 200 percent while the inner-city President, and I quote, "wlll build a New the Department of the Interior and the De­ population declined. With that migration to Partnership involving all levels of govern­ partment of Labor. suburbia went the fiscal rewurces for city ment, the private sector, and neighborhood We consider it vital that this Conference services. With it also went much of the and voluntary organizations in a major effort further define the vision of urban environ­ environmental conscience as well as the eco­ to make America's cities better places in mentalism and develop the national and re­ nomic and political power of the environ­ which to live and to work." gional coalitions that w111 begin the task mental movement. In developing the new partnership. Presi­ of translating vision into reality. Suburbanites ha.ve roughly triple the in­ dent Carter did not want to repeat the mis­ All major urban areas in the continental come of inner-city residents and consume takes of the past. Instead the entire Federal United States are in violation of one or more four times as much energy. But suburbanites Government took a year-long inventory of of the national ambient air quality stand­ are exposed to less than half of the environ­ the Federal policies that influenced American ards. All states with these non-attainment mental health hazards inner-city residents cities and found a substantial number of areas must submit acceptable cleanup plans face. programs that needed to be redirected. to EPA by January 1979. Most of the power plants and the heavily EPA's wastewater treatment facilities This past February, EPA made a joint polluting industries are the next-door neigh- grant program has unquestionably con- grant to the Sierra Club, Friends of the CXXIV--1156-Part 14 18370 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 Earth, the National Clean Atr Coalition and ted the economic feasibility and energy ef­ As I was getting ready to leave my office the American Lung Association to aid cities ficiency of recycling, and a number of states one of my staff told me a story. In the 1960's in meeting the requirements of the new Clean have already taken the lead on beverage con­ during the Watts riots, a friend was on an Air Act Amendments. During 1978, EO one­ tainer legislation. airplane. As the plane approached Los day workshops will be conducted in urban In addition to these EPA initiatives for air, Angeles, the pilot said to the passengers, areas in all parts of the country. water, and solid waste, the President an­ "Look out the window, folks, and you can Working together at these workshops will nounced government-wide employment and see smoke signals from the Great Society." be health and environmental groups, munic­ recreational initiatives. To me and to many other Americans, ipal officials, blue collar workers, labor or­ Already in place are new employment watts, Detroit, Harlem, and Washington, ganizations and women's groups as well as training programs for youth and public serv­ D.C. were much more than smoke signals! other civic organizations committed to ur­ ice under the Comprehensive Employment They were cries for helo! ban, environmental improvement. and Training Act. There are job opportuni­ During the flight from Washington, D.C., With the help of environmentalists across ties in waste treatment, resource recovery across the Nation to San Francisco, I the nation, we are convinced that all 50 states and pest and insect control, as well as in air couldn't help but think of all the possib111- can successfully develop acceptable cleanup and water pollution monitoring at the state ties of urban environmentalism. But, as I landed, I was aware once again that the plans. However, if such planning fails to level. achieve a workable consensus, EPA, as re­ Environmentalists should set a target of crisis of the urban environment is now and quired by law, will end up having to im­ 100,000 environmentally related jobs from that delay wm further increase the dangers. pose mandatory sanctions which, in turn, this program as their goal for the next year. we must not only avert this crisis, but will seriously restrict the flow of Federal In addition, EPA wm play a significant also seize this opportunity to create a funds for wastewater treatment facilities and part in the overall Federal effort to draw healthy and exhilarating urban environ­ mass transit. This would hurt our cities' minority businesses into the mainstream of ment. environment. It must not be allowed to American economic life. Specifically, the I cannot help but believe that together Agency will set target goals for the $4.5 bil­ we will make urban environmentalism the happen. leading force of the New Partnership. The If the President's urban proposal meets lion a year wastewater treatment facillties the Congressional approval, EPA, in coopera­ construction program to make sure that President's urban policy provides the tools. tion with other Federal agencies, will pro­ minority-owned businesses in urban areas re­ The rest is up to us-all of us. vide air quality technical assistance and $25 ceive an equitable share of contracts. We Thank you.e million for planning grants during the next mean business; we will use our funding fiscal year to help cities work out solutions power to insure that these go:1.ls are a~hieved . to the double-edged problem of achieving In announcing the new partnership, the FATHER EDWARD FELIX WOJTYCHA both clean air and economic growth. President said that urban communities will HONORED IN NEW JERSEY SENATE To achieve these ends, EPA will develop compete for $150 m1llion in funds to revive regulations that will permit localities to and rebuild parks and recreation facilities. "bank" reductions in air pollution and to One of the amendments to the Clean Water HON. JOSEPH A. LE FANTE transfer these reductions so as to accom­ Act provides that EPA assess the recreational OF NEW .JERSEY modate a margin of new growth. In effect, park and open space potential created as a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this "banking" policy adds flexibility to the result of the construction of wastewater emissions offset policy, which EPA pioneered treatment facilities. C::>mmunities can use a Wednesday, June 21, 1978 and Congress made law. portion of the available facility planning • Mr. LE FANTE. Mr. Speaker, recently On April 25th, EPA proposed a number of money for recreational park and open space Father Edward Felix Wojtycha was regulations to reduce sprawl by preventing planning purposes. the creation of unneeded excess wastewater Environmenta~ groups, long used to fight­ honored in the New Jersey Senate with a treatment capacity. One regulation will re­ ing for wilderness areas, national parks, and resolution hailing his accomplishments quire that population projections for all other grand designs, such as Gateway East in over the last 40 years. I extend my heart­ communities in a given state, when added to­ New York and Gateway West here in the felt gratitude to Father Wojtycha for en­ gether, not exceed the projections of the Bay area, need to focus their thinking about riching the Bayonne community so Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Depart­ recreation on the urban reality and the greatly with his service. ment of Commerce 'for that state by more wishes of inner-city residents. I would like to insert the text of the than five percent. This regulation will in­ Greenlining and other modest water recla­ New Jersey Senate resolution into the sure that those wastewater treatment facil­ mation recreation projects may be all that is ities that are built meet only reasonable possible in some cities. But emall parks can RECORD. This resolution outlines Father growth needs. accomplish miracles in muting sound, lower­ Wojtycha's many awards and endeavors, For the same reason, another of EPA's ing air pollution, and providing new recrea­ and encourages him to continue in the proposed regulations requires that, barring tional opportunities. same manner. I too wish .him continued special circumstances, the design period for The Sierra Club and other environmental success in his work. interceptor sewers be twenty years. Finally, groups, in developing projects like the one in Resolution follows: Boston Harbor, have already demonstrated in order to protect environmer:tally sensitive RESOLUTION areas such as wetlands, flood plains, and the inventiveness of urban environmental­ prime agricultural lands, EPA wm not fund ism. Whereas, Reverend Father Edward Felix collection systems which otherwise would Urban environmentalism will take a giant Wojtycha, ordained to the priesthood on encourage new growth on those areas. step forward when metropolitan regions, June 11 , 1938 for the Roman Catholic Arch­ which usually have the same boundaries as diocese of Newark, and a resident of the However, EPA's success in discouraging airsheds and watersheds, control simultane­ County of Hudson; and, wasteful sprawl is going to be very much con­ ously air pollution, water pollution, and Whereas, Reverend Father Edward F. ditioned by the impact of publlc participa­ resource recovery from solid waste. To real­ Wojtycha, served in the parish of Saint Vin­ tion. The Clean Water Act gives state water ize the potential inherent in this regional cent de Paul R.C. Church, Bayonne, New quality agencies the opportunity to expand approach, metropolitan areas are going to Jersey, as first assistant pastor and admin­ their management role for the wastewater have to go through the agony of long-range istrator from 1938 to 1963, a period priestly treatment construction grant program. As regional planning. dedication of twenty-five years; and you know, most state legislatures are dom­ What w111 make it worthwhile is that ur­ Whereas, Reverend Father Edward F. inated largely by suburban interests, as that ban areas will at long last regain control Wojtycha during that time brought great is where the bulk of the population Uves. over their environment and can take those acclaim to his church and community by Therefore, if areawide water quallty plan­ steps necesseary to insure that pollution is his unselfish service to all ethnic peoples of ning and the wasterwater treatment facility not allowed to enter the environment. The the City of Bayonne, New Jersey; and construction grant program are effectively to day of disaster-prevention through catch-up Whereas, Reverend Father Edward F. discourage wasteful sprawl, it's going to be cleanup will be behind us. Wojtycha bestowed great tribute to the because urban environmentallsm becomes an Air, water, solid waste, public service en­ State of New Jersey by involvement with the effective political force within each state. vironmental employment, recreation, and Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American In most cities, solid waste is the second comprehensive regional planning-these are Legion, by winning ten national champion­ or third largest i tern in urban budgets and some of the areas in which environmental­ ships, twenty three New Jersey State cham­ yearly becomes an ever greater problem as ists can use their expertise to make a pionships and other Tri-State and Provincial sites for disposal become scarcer. Technology unique contribution to the rejuvenation of championships in many of the states of our is now available for recovery of energ·• and our nation's cities. great nation, by his organization qualities in materials from waste. President Carter has I titled this talk, "Cities: An Environmen­ the establishment of the great Big Green requested $15 million from the Congress to tal Wilderness" becat:se I think that, up un­ Band, the St. Vincent Cadets Drum and help communities make the transition from til now, we have displayed the same atti­ Bugle Corps of Bayonne, New Jersey. A land disposal to resource recovery. tudes of bewilderment, hopelessness and real tribute to his untiring efforts on behalf Businesses, as well as environmental and destructiveness towards our cities as our of youth of the City of Bayonne, County of community groups, have already demonstra- ancestors did toward the wilderness. Hudson; and through the music of his Na- June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS 0}' REMARKS 18371

tiona! Champions graced the inaugural of THE FACTS ON ABORTION GET ABORTED well, that in any historical human society, the Governors of New Jersey and Presidents (By Michael Novak) short of utopia, abortions will sometimes of the United States of America during this Recently, Newsweek put the abortion story occur. O.ne recognizes, especially, that in an time. on its front cover once again. Abortion is a age of enormous preoccupation with sexual Whereas, Reverend Father Edward F. adventurism, with no social restraints upon big story the~te days. But it is always told in Wojtycha was appointed the first pastor of an aborted fashion. Nobody addresses the intercourse, the numbers of those who want our Lady of Mercy in Jersey City in 1963, ~he basic facts in dispute. sexual exercise but do not wish pregnancies city of his birth; and now the present pastor Newsweek quotes Mary Clark of the Cali­ will be unusually high. In such a time, the of Saint Andrew's R.C. Church in the City fornia Abortion Rights Action League, who market for abortions will be very large, in­ of Bayonne; and says without challenge that abortion "is the deed. Abortion will become big business, a Whereas, Reverend Father Edward F. most basic right a woman has. If a woman source of fabulous profits. Wojtycha was instrumental in helping over can't control her own body, she has no con­ Somehow, all these conflicting social de­ 16 men to ordinations as priests and was ac­ trol over the rest of her life." But is it a mands must find a point of compromise. tive in organizing many youth activities in scientific fact that the aborted is a part of a Those who are absolute about a woman's the both communities of the County of woman's body? choice, and those who are absolute about a Hudson; Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Sea Scouts, Biologically, genetically, emotionally, and ccnceived child's right to life, will find C.Y.O. and High School of Religion; and in every other way, the aborted is a distinct, compromise difficult, indeed repugnant. Such Whereas, Reverend Father Edward F. separate, living organism. The aborted indi­ morally serious persons provide an impor­ Wojtycha was an integral part of the com­ vidual does not have its mother's genetic tant social witness. Both must be listened munities he served in the County on Hud­ code. If male, the aborted does not even to. son and has been awarded many awards by have its mother's sex. The aborted is not But a society that chooses life, that shows our great service organizations; the Red "part of a woman's body." It is only being reverence for birds and plants and other liv­ Cross, Rotary Youth Award, Bayonne Junior carried by her, and is in her trust. ing things, will have to find a way to cut Chamber of Commerce "Man of the Year•'; One may deny-as many do--that the back the slaughter of more than a million National Junior Chamber of Commerce "Man aborted one is a "person," and one may dis­ individual human organisms every year, of the Year"; Bayonne Kiwanis Youth agree about whether personhood. begins at more than 3,000 every day.e Award; V.F.W. State Citations; Disabled Vet­ conception or with "quickening," or when­ erans award-national citation; V.F.W. na­ ever. But science absolutely forbids calling tional citation, Bayonne Girl Scout Award; the aborted one part of a woman's body. Drum Corps Hall of Fame, therefore Scientifically, that is one thing the aborted is LITHUANIAN ANNIVERSARIES Be it resolved by the Senate of the State not. of New Jersey, Call the aborted an "unjust aggressor," if That this Senate hereby congratulates Rev­ you like. But science and medicine know all HON. LESTER L. .WOLFF erend Father Edward Felix Wojtycha on too clearly that the fetus is not just tissue. OF NEW YORK his fortieth anniversary of ordination to the It was gynecologists, after all, who in the priesthood and wish him many more years 19th Century worked so hard to put abortion IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of health and happiness in the vineyard of laws on the books. For science was just then Wednesday, June 21, 1978 the Lord, whom he has served so well. unlocking the secrets of huiT-an reproduc­ Be it further resolved, that a duly authen- tion. The embryo--they saw then, and mod­ e Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, I would . ticated copy of this resolution, signed by ern sophistication recognizes in far sharper like to bring to the attention of the the President of this Senate, and attested by detail-is a distinctly individualized orga­ House two solemn Lithuanian anniver­ the clerk, be transmitted to Reverend Ed­ nism, with feelings and reactions of its own. saries that occur in June. June 15, 1940, ward F. Wojtycha.e Many good citizens have vast sympathies marks the Soviet invasion and occupa­ for defenseless seals, whales, sea gulls and tion of the independent Lithuanian Re­ louseworts. They have organized to protect CONSISTENCY AND FACTS IMPERA­ these from slaughter. What failure of imagi­ public. This second anniversary repre­ TIVE IN THE ABORTION DISPUTE nation prevents them from organizing to sents a series of events that took place protect their own kind? between June14 and 20, 194:. This period Is it racism, since the victims are dispro­ of massive terror and deportation was HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI portionately black, very young, and on wel­ an inevitable result of the first OF KENTUCKY fare? Is it money, since abortion is cheaper incident. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES than welfare? Lithuania's roots as a nation date Actually, the issue of abortion is more Wednesday, June 21, 1978 back to well into the 13th century when poignant because it has become entangled Lithuania first emerged as a unified • Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, Congress with the ideal of a woman's own "reproduc­ tive freedom." ,In reproduction, males and state. During the next century, Lithu­ again finds itself in the midst of the females are not equal. The biological respon­ ania evolved into a flourishing medieval medicaid abortion funding controversy. sibilities which flow from sexual commerce dominion and concerned itself with ex­ I am personally convinced that abor­ weigh differently upon females. pansion eastward and southward. Dur­ tion on demand is wrong and that Fed­ Some see the right to abortion as the only ing most of her history, until the 18th eral funds should not be spent for these way to regain mastery over their own life, in century when Lithuania was parti­ activities. However, there are thoughtful case of an unwanted pregnancy. Men do not tioned between Russia and her German and serious people who, as a matter of share this risk in the same way. Abortion is viewed by some as "the equalizer." neighbors, she existed as a Polish­ conscience, disagree with me. Such dis­ Lithuanian commonwealth. It was not agreement is inevitable in a democratic But at whose expense? The right of a woman to rid herself of an unwanted preg­ until the end of World War I that Lith­ society. nancy clashes with the right of the conceived uania gained her independence. But this With the same vigor that I oppose individual to be born and to have a life of lasted only until 1940, when the Rus­ abortion on demand, I hold the view his or her own. A movement for "liberation" sians occupied the small country and in­ that a genuine respect for life must span which depends on the denial of another's corporated her into the U.S.S.R. Lithu­ all issues-abortion, war, the arms race, right to life, and indeed upon another's ania has been held in Soviet bondage economics, health care, and the environ­ death, has forfeited ·its moral purity. ever since. ment. And, I have tried to be consistently That is why Clare Booth Luce and many "pro-life" in all of my legislative activi­ other ardent champions of women's rights One year after the Russian takeover ties. have protested agai.nst the portion of the the Soviets unleashed mass terror that women's movement which grounds itself in. resulted in the deportati.on of 35,000 Whatever one's social or moral views a systematic practice of death for others. Lithuanian men, women, and children to on the abortion issue, two things strike Suppose that seals, whales, sea gulls and the Gulag Archipelago, and cost 5,0.00 me as imperative: Those on both sides lousworts were subjected to the specific, ex­ lives. This was only the firs·t in a series of the question must strive for consist­ act means of death employed upon aborted of mass deportations of people who ency in dealing with all of the important humans: painful saline solutions, dismem­ were considered "politically unreliable" issues of the day; and, those on both berment, destructio.n. Sensitive people would find it hard to approve of such public to Siberia. By 1952, the toll struck a sides of the question must stick to the staggering mark of some 400,000 pe.o­ true, basic facts on the abortion issue. slaughter. One recognizes, of course, that ugly and ple. Most of them perished when faced I commend to the attention of my col­ even evil things must sometimes happen. with disease, arctic cold, and starva­ leagues the following article by Michael Sometimes humans have to make choices tion-among other inhuman conditions Novak which appeared in the June 18, between two evils, trying to discern and to that were typical of the Siberian slave 1978, Washington Star: embrace the lesser evil. One recognizes, as labor camps. 18372 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 Although the Stalin-type mass de­ to provide the same modest benefits for fe­ dollar of labor cost. Their cost study states portations have been discontinued, male employees as are provided for male that "temporary disability insurance contri-· Lithuanians who even attempt to ex­ employees. butions represent only 1.4% of the wage This means that for employers who already package for covered workers in private in­ ercise their basic human rights of free provide paid sick leave or disability and dustry and H.R. 6075 will increase that pack­ speech and thought which are guaran­ health insurance benefits for pregnancy re­ a?:e only to 1.5 % " (Hearings, S. 995, pp. 559- teed to them in the Soviet Constitu­ lated disabilities on the same basis as for 560). In other words, the increase would not tion, end up in Soviet prisons. Thirty­ other non-work related disabilities, the bill exceed one-tenth of a cent per dollar. eight years after the occupation of will impose no additional costs. There are The accompanying tables prepared by the Lithuania, the totalitarian regime has such employers in Michigan. The Interna­ Department of Labor and Department of undergone no basic changes. Thirty­ tional Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Commerce show that whether the average Workers, AFL-CIO-CLC, has collective bar­ period of disability is 6 weeks, 7.5 weeks or 9 eight years after the occupation, the gaining agreements with some 15 such Michi­ weeks, the increased cost is still less than Lithuanian people against overwhelm­ gan employers. 1/ 10 of a cent out of each dollar of labor ing odds, have maintained a strong de­ For employers such as AT&T, which is one costs. Thus, see the following tables (Hear­ termination to regain their freedom and of the largest, if not the largest, employers ings on S. 995, pp. 573-574). independence.• of women in the State of Michigan which al­ TABLE 8 ready provides the same fringe benefits for complications of pregnancy, hospital and Additional cost of extending temporary PREGNANCY DISABILITY medical insurance as for any other disability disability insurance benefits for pregnancy. as well as disability benefits for 6 weeks for (For average periods of 6.0, 7.5 and 9.0 weeks) absences due to normal pregnancies, there As a percent of estimated payroll. HON. CARL D. PURSELL would be no substantial additional cost­ Excluding Including OF MICHIGAN only benefits for women disabled more than Weeks of Administrative Administrative 6 weeks by a normal pregnancy, which rarely Benefits Cost IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES occurs-almost by definition disability of Cost [In percent] [In percent] Wednesday, June 21, 1978 more than 6 weeks connotes a complication and AT&T pays full benefits, sickness and • Mr. PURSELL. Mr. Speaker, as a mem­ 6.0 ------0.027 0.033 accident as well as hospital medical for all 7.5 ------0.044 0.072 ber of the House Education and Labor complications. 9.0 ------0.060 0.072 'Committee, and a cosponsor of H.R. For the auto companies, GM, Chrysler and 6075, the pregnancy disability bill, I Ford which already provide 6 weeks of dis­ TABLE 9 would like to share with my colleagues ability benefits, as well as full hospital and Additional costs as a· percentage of total a paper which I believe presents solid medical coverage, the only additional cost TDI Contribution Required o would arise from disability benefits for ab­ arguments in favor of this legislation. sences due to complications or for individ­ Excluding Earlier this year, Ms. Ruth Weyland­ uals disabled more than 6 weeks by a normal Weeks of Administrative Including who was the attorney involved in the pregnancy, which is unusual unless the Benefits Cost Admin. Costs General Electric against Gilbert case­ women is engaged in particularly strenuous [In percent] [In percent] heav:- work. The medical profession fix com­ presented testimony to the Michigan 2.2 State Senate Judiciary Committee on plications as usaully occurring in less than 6.0 ------1.9 5% of all pregnancies. 7.5 ------2.9 3.5 the State's version of this bill. Ms. Wey­ 9.0 ------4. 0 4.7 land presents clear and concise informa­ To a large extent, the effect of the bill will be gradual because the employers with dis­ 3 The percentages reflected in this table tion on this issue which, 1 'believe, will ability and health plans have been primarily provide a greater understanding of represent the additional costs (Table 6) di­ in industries which historically have em­ vided by the sum of total contributions (Ta­ pregnancy disability. ployed very few women. These companies are ble 9) plus the additional costs (Table 6). Following is Ms. Weyland's testimony. now beginning to employ women. The effect I hope my colleagues will consider these of H.R. 5257 will largely be felt only as these The figures of the Labor-Commerce report arguments carefully. campanies expand their work force. as to the percentage of each dollar of wages which goes to disability insurance, 1.4 %, I am co-chair of the Campaign to End Nor is the bill one which imposes costs without countervailing benefits to employers. without coverage for pregnancy, is higher Discrimination Against Pregnant Workers, than the figures by the Chamber of Com­ which is a temporary organization of rep­ Companies which have placed disabilities resentatives from more than 200 organiza­ from pregnancy on the same basis as other merce in their latest annual report for 1975 disab111ties, including payment of disability which showed 1.2 % for payments for time tions which support national legislation to not worked, paid sick leave. See attached amend Title VII of the federal Civil Rights benefits, have found that the return rate of women after childbirth improved mark­ Chamber of Commerce, Employee Benefits Act to prohibit discrimination in employ­ 1975. ment because of pregnancy. A par-tial list edly. Prentice Hall, in a survey of 1,000 com­ of organizations supporting the campaign panies, got reports of some employers experi­ When we are talking about increasing costs is attached hereto. The American Bar As­ encing a 100% return rate. Xerox, which of disability benefits, 2, 3, or 4 % and what sociation just last week voted its support pays full salary for up to 5 months, with a we are increasing costs only a cent or a cent of this federal legislation. I am also the smaller percentage of salary for periods after and a half, the amount of the increase is attorney who lost the case of General Electric the first 5 months, after placing pregnancy under a tenth of a cent. Co. v. Gilbert, 429 u.s. 125 ( 1976) in the disability benefits on the same basis as other Figures based on the actual experience of Supreme Court of the United States. This disabilities for all employees reported return various companies supplied by the com­ is the case which held that discrimination rates increasing from 46% in 1973, to 59 % panies themselves during the Senate and because of pregnancy is sex discrimination in 1974, to 69 % in 1975, to 73% in 1976. Two House hearings showed the following rate of because of sex. H.B. 5257 would make clear other companies following the same policies increase when they covered pregnancy dis­ that in Michigan for all employment pur­ are IBM, with a return rate of 74% and Po­ abilities on the same basis as other disabili­ poses, discrimination because of pregnancy laroid with a return ra.te of 80 %. All of these ties: Cummins Engine, Inc., Columbus, In­ is discrimination because of sex. figures were supplied by the companies in­ diana, 2.7 % increase (Hearings, S. 995, p. 9). H.B. 5257, if enacted, will impose no new volved and placed in the record of the hear­ Cummins began covering pregnancy disabili­ taxes. It will create no new administrative ings in the United States Senate (Hearings ties fully in 1976. Hourly workers receive a agency. It imposes no across-the-board ad­ on S. 995, 95th Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 531, fiat $100 a week for up to 52 weeks; salaried, ditional cost on business. For employers 536, 545 or in the Hearing on H.R. 6075, 95th their full salary for the first 3 months of who have no fringe benefit plans and no Cong., 1st Sess., Pt. 1, pp. 195-197; Pt. 2, disability, 75 % the next 3 and 60% there­ sick leave plans, the bill will impose no costs p. 165). after. During 1976, its bill for maternity whatever. The bill does not require any em­ Training new employees always involves related disabilities was $36,039 as compared ployer to establish a fringe benefit plan or some expense, and is sometimes quite expen­ to a total of $1,300,000 disability benefits for a sick leave plan if the employer does not sive. I remember an airline wage arbitration hourly employees, a 2.7% increase cost due to have such a plan. where TWA claimed it cost $850 to train the pregnancy coverage. For employers who do nave fringe benefit each new stewardess. With inflation, the fig­ Polaroid Corporation, with 11,000 employ­ or sick leave plans, the impact of the bill ure today would be much higher. ees of whom 3,300 are women, paid out over will vary from employer to employer. Thus, COSTS LESS THAN ONE-TENTH OF A CENT FOR $5 million in short term disability benefits, employers who have created generous fringe DOLLAR OF WAGES of which $130,000 was for pregnant related benefit plans to attract and retain the high­ The United States Departments of Labor disabilities, a 2 % increase. (Hearings, S. 995, est caliber of employees will be required to and Commerce prepared cost studies for the pp. 544-545). Polaroid paid full salary for up be equally as generous to their female em­ United States Senate and House hearings to one year for all employees with more than ployees who are disabled by pregnancy, while which show conclusively that the increase a year of seniority and 65 days for those with smaller, less affluent, companies are required costs are but a fraction of a cent of each less than a year of seniority. June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18373 Careful studies of cost presented to the survey of Hospital and Physician Coot for tor that rises amid the vineyards and medi­ Senate and House committees by the AFL­ Pregnancy and Delivery-Present Coverage eval villages here on the bank of the Rhone CIO placed the cost increase as even less than by Major Health and Insurance Plans. River. that computed by the Department of Labor. The cost entailed by H.B. 5257 will be less But Mr. Cregut, a robust 50-year-old en­ The AFL-CIO did not offer a figure as to the than 3.4 % of the cost of medical insurance gineer, has not decided to spend the rest of percentage increase in disability benefit costs because that would be the cost of adding his active years figuring out how to dis­ but in terms of increase in hourly wage costs maternity if it was not covered at all mantle the nuclear plants he has erected. which showed the increase would be between (Hearings, S. 995, p. 508). What portion of This is not a case of a conscience-stricken .004¢ and .01 <' (Hearings Senate, p. 202). If that 3.4 % will be required by this bill is un­ scientist converted to environmentalism. this increase was distributed evenly among known because we do not know to what ex­ Quite the contrary. Mr. Cregut is as con­ all workers, it would amount to $1.50 a year tent existing plans approach full coverage. vinced as ever that nuclear power plants will per worker. The survey shows that a third of major firms continue to grow as an essential source of Murray W. Latimer, formerly chairman of meet full coverage, and a third make some energy for the foreseeable future. the Railroad Retirement Board and now a approximation at full coverage. LIFETIME IS 20 TO 40 YEARS practicing actuary in Washington, D.C., pre­ But, a 3.4 % increase in costs of medical sented a detailed analysis of costs and came insurance is still in the fraction of a cent But nobody has yet been able to dismantle up with a figure of a 3.75 % increase in the area in terms of the labor dollar.e a commercial atomic reactor. With dozens of costs of disabUity benefits (Hearings, s. 995, nuclear plants reaching obsolescence p. 507). throughout the world, scientists and gov­ During the hearings before the committees ernments have begun facing up to the troubling problems of ridding the landscape of the U.S. Senate and House, none of the REACTORS: USEFUL FOR DECADES, opponents of the bill presented any compu­ . of these dangerously radioactive structures, tation in terms of the percentage of increase RADIOACTIVE FOR CENTURIES and estimates for the clean-up operations in costs, although the insurance industry are running into the billions of dollars. offered as estimate an increase of 5.9 % Reactors usually have a lifetime of 20 to (Hearings, Senate, p . 431). When it is under­ HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL 40 years. Like any other machine, they may stood that we are talking about increases in OF NEW YORK wear out from use, suffer irreparable damage an item that costs only 1.2 to 1.4 cents out IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from accidents, undergo repeated break­ of a dollar, even a 5.9 % increase is less than downs that become too expensive to repair, or a tenth of a cent per dollar increase. Wednesday, June 21, 1978 simply be rendered obsolete by new tech­ The State of Hawaii in 1973 passed a law • Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, for a long nological breakthroughs. requiring all employers in the state to pay Already 20 nuclear power plants have been time I have been deeply concerned with closed in the Western industrialized world- disability benefits of 60 % of wages for up the disposal of nuclear wastes from reac­ to a maximum of 26 weeks. The insurance 15 in the United States and 5 in Western Eu­ rates in effect in 1973 have dropped dras­ tors. An article in last Saturday's New rope, including 2 in France. By the year 2000, tically. For instance, Pacific Insurance York Times again drew my attention to there will be more than 100 inactive atomic dropped its rate of $2.43 per woman in 1973 perhaps the most perplexing form of plants. In addition, there are hundreds of to 67C (Hearings, Senate, p . 380). Letters nuclear waste, the obsolete nuclear reac­ smaller nuclear installations-research ac­ from insurance companies stating that they tor. celerators, fuel enrichment and reprocessing overestimated rates are printed in the Senate A nuclear reactor has a useful life of plants, navy ship reactors . .nuclear medicine hearings (pp. 354-356) . 20 to 40 years, after which it is either facilities-that have ceased to operate. None of the six insurance companies which All of them will remain radioactive, for write more than 80 % of the insurance in too run down to operate or so obsolete hundreds or even thousands of years. In Hawaii found it necessary to raise rates be­ that it is uneconomkal. However, hav­ many cases, these closed nuclear installa­ cause of the inclusion of pregnancy (Hear­ ing been operated for decades, the reac­ tions pose a greater threat than when they ings, Senate, pp. 350-357). Average weeks of tor is highly radioactive, and it will re­ were in use. Their security systems-the disability for females with pregnancy disabil­ main so for thousands of years. The antiradiation shields, alarms, ventilation, ity have dropped and in 1975 averaged 4.4 technology to dismantle a radioactive and detection devices-have been largely re­ weeks as compared with 5.1 weeks for men reactor simply does not exist. Until such moved. Even if they are guarded perpetually (Hearings, Senate p. 381). by security personnel, they are bound to de­ With respect to rates charged by insurance technology is developed-if it ever is teriorate and eventually leak radioactivity. companies, it appeared during the Senate developed-those reactors must be "Even if we entombed these plants, there and House Hearings that the disability in­ guarded and structurally maintained. be­ is no way to be certain that after 500 or 600 surance tabulars for coverage of pregnancy cause they are prime targets for terrorist years the protective casing will be physically disabilities had not been revised since 1948 attacks and tremendous sources of un­ maintained or guarded," said Mr. Cregut, when the birth rate was high due to the checked radiation in the event of nat­ who heads the French Government's pro­ baby boom following World War II. The ural disaster. gram. to deal with obsolete nuclear installa­ House Hearings on HR 6075, 95th Cong., 1st tions. "Do we have the moral right to leave Session, (Pt. 1, pp. 229- 249) printed excerpts This is one of the hidden costs of nu­ these plants in place knowing that it will from proceedings of the Society of Actuaries clear power. An inactive reactor, of which take hundreds, perhaps thousands of years for 1975 commenting on this fact and point­ we will have over 100 by the year 2000, before they cease to be dangerously radio­ ing out that experience was running at 22 % must be kept secure. It must be kept active?" to 40% of the expected cost for disability secure not just for our lifetime, or our This question is being asked by other gov­ insurance covering pregnancy while all other children's, or even our grandchildren's, ernments as well. Last year, in a report to disability costs were running 100 % of tabu­ but for thousands of years. Inactive nu­ Congress, the Comptroller General of the lars or higher. Hearings before the Senate clear reactors are a legacy that might United States criticized nuclear agencies and (pp. 243, 524) and House (Pt. 1. p. 207) private industry for ignoring the "problem showed many employers in 1973-74 found it well prove catastrophic for our descend­ of protecting the public from the hazards of cheaper to "self insure" pregnancy dis!:tbility ants. It is not right to leave a problem radiation lingering at nuclear faciUties benefits rather than buy insurance at the of this gravity to future generations. We which are no longer operating." high rates charged by some companies. Re­ have no business reaoing the benefits of Last month, the European Economic Com­ cently, employers seem to be having no diffi­ nuclear energy ourselves and leaving the munity proposed a five-year research program culty obtaining reasonable rates. costs for our grandchildren. We should on the problems involved in dismantling nu­ HB 5257 would require that policies which seriously rethink our construction of nu­ clear reactors. And the International Atomic cover medical expenses, both hospital and Energy Agency in Vienna has been calling at­ clear powerplants until we have com­ tention to the hazard at least since 1975. physician, for employees be available to fe­ pletely developed the technology to safely male employees and cover all their expenses In France. it was Mr. Cregut who first pro­ attendant upon pregnancy, childbirth and disassemble them. posed to the Government in 1974 that it start related medical conditions on the same terms I think that my colleatn}es would find a program to deal with obsolete atomic plants. as other medical expenses and without any the New York Times article of June 17 in­ He had just completed directing the con­ extra charge to the female employee. The teresting, informative, and a little fright­ struction of the Phoenix breeder, a type of health insurance industry h'3s often bragged ening. I urge you to find the time to reactor that is the focus of a controversy be­ as to its coverage of delivery expenses for the read it. The text of the article follows: tween West European governments and Presi­ dent Carter. who opposes it because it uses majority of babies born in the United States. A-PLANT BUILDER TuRNS TO DISMANTLING Charges filed with EEOC showed widespread and produces plutonium, which can be used discrimination because of pregnancy in poli­ OLD ONES for weapons. cies, sometimes by an additional deductible, (By Jonathan Kandell) "My boss congratulated me for handling other times by limitation in schedule MARCOULE , FRANCE .-For the last 20 years, the construction of Phoenix so well," said Mr. amounts payable. There are no credible Andre Cregut has built most of the impor­ Cregut. "I told him that I hoped ~e would studies as to the extent of the exclusions. tant nuclear power plants in France. includ­ congratulate me again when I figured out We have furnished this Committee with the ing the controversial Phoenix breeder reac- how to take it apart safely." 18374 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978

SHELVES OF DATA ON DISMANTLING the accomplishments and honors of the most repressive police apparatus in the Mr. Cregut then set about amassing studies Eagle Scout James David Klamo of my world. of the Phoenix plant during the next four district. WELCOMING SOVIET AGENTS years. The fruit of his labors is in a room next James, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and According to John Barron, author of KGB: to his office that has aisles of shelves from Mrs. John Klamo, is a lifetime resident the Ministry of Internal Affairs (M.V.D.) floor to ceiling and that he hopes includes the the Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, data necessary to dismantle the breeder of Gary and a student at Andrean High was a forerunner to the K.G.B. and remains reactor. School in Merrillville. He has been in­ a part of the Communist system of internal Mr. Cregut's plan follows roughly the lines volved in Scouting for the past 8 years repression. It has responsibility, among other proposed by other experts-mothballing, en­ and is presently a member of Troop 8 areas, for the investigation and harassment tombment and complete dismantlement. In of the Calumet Council. After many years of dissident groups, for key aspects of the United States, nuclear plant owners are of leadership, participation, and dedica­ counterintelligence, and for running the given an option of any one of these methods tion to his school and community, James slave-labor camps. Some people call it the to deal with their obsolete installations. Mr. is more than qualified for the award of Soviet National Police. · Cregut does not believe that the hazard ends Officers of the M.V.D. are trained and con­ until complete dismantlemer..t takes place. Eagle Scout which he will receive June duct t raining at institutions including the In mothballing, the reactor is welded shut 27 at the Izaak Walton League in Mer­ Sverdlovsk Institute of Law in the eastern with steel and the ftLcility is placed under rillville. foothills of the Ural Mountains. That is im­ permanent guard. This has been done at the I am proud to have this opportunity p ortant to our story because, some ten Marcoule GI plant, a military reactor that to recognize James Klamo for his out­ months ago, 33-year-old Anatoly Nikolaevlch produced plutonium for French nuclear standing contributions and services to Gusakov, a doctoral candidate at the Sverd­ weapons until it was shut down 10 years ago. our community. It is always very re­ lovsk Institute of Law and a captain in the But Marcoule GI has developed cracks, leaks warding to recognize such talented and M.V.D., came to the United States as an "ex­ radiation and, according to Mr. Cregut, will change student." He was a participant in have to be dismantled eventually. deserving young men. It is a pleasure for the Young Faculty Exchange program orga­ Entombment involves encasing the reactor me to ask my colleagues to join with the nized by the International Research and Ex­ in concrete. But it also requires permanent communitief. of northwest Indiana to change Board and promptly went to work monitoring and security over centuries. recognize the accomplishments of Eagle "researching" the tactics, equipment, meth­ Dismantling involves the complete removal Scout James David Klamo, and his ods, and operations of American police de­ of the reactor and the rest of the plant, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Klamo, and partments! the restoration of the site for other activity. to congratulate them upon James receiv­ Gusakov brazenly told California police­ No one has yet attempted it with a com­ men with whom he worked that he was a mercial-size nuclear reactor, and even in the ing scouting's highest honor.e Criminal Investigator in the Soviet National few cases involving smaller installations, it Police and a member of the Soviet Com­ has proved a difficult and expensive task. munist Party. Nevertheless, because he was "I think in this respect France has an ad­ SOVIET MVD OFFICER GETS 10 in America under the auspices of the State vantage over the United States or West MONTHS OF POLICE TRAINING IN Department, Gusakov was allowed to carry Germany," said Mr. Cregut. "Here the Gov­ SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA out his "research." ernment owns the nuclear plants and has The host International Research and Ex­ clear responsibility to deal with them when change Board (I.R.E.X.) was formed ten they become obsolete. In the United States HON. LARRY MtDONALD years ago and operates from a spacious mod­ and West Germany, a private company can ern suite at 110 East 59th Street in New York always go bankrupt, and then what happens OF GEORGIA City. Created by the American Council of with its obsolete reactors? How can they be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Learned Societies and the Social Science Re­ monitored for future generations?" Wednesday, June 21, 1978 search Council, I.R.E.X. has as its prime Nuclear experts in the United States and function the administration of academic ex­ Western Europe have suggested that new e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, with change programs between the United States atomic plants be designed with their eventual shock and surprise I have read in the and the Soviet Union. It is a small, but very dismantling in mind. But no one knows yet current edition of the weekly news selective, program that in the period 1976- what this would mean in terms of building magazine, The Review of the News, that 1977 brought 76 Soviet "senior research material and added costs. scholars, graduate students and young fac­ Meanwhile, it will still take years of re­ the Department of State permitted a ulty" to our shores. search on dealine with existing plants be­ Soviet MVD officer to enter this country When the Review of the News interviewed fore it will be known at what point radiation on a student exchange program which John P. C. Matthews, Deputy Director of levels are low enough to permit dismantling. enabled him to receive 10 months of I.R.E.X, we told him that a report recently Then the equipment needed to take the plant training in several southern California issued by Senator Edward Kennedy had apart can be designed. It will take additional police departments. The MVD or "Soviet reiterated facts first made public by the years to carry out pilot experiments with National Police" is responsible for op­ Senate Select Committeee on Intelligence smaller installations to build a reservoir 0f erating the slave labor camps of the establishing that ·•one quarter of the Soviet experience for use on larger commercial exchange students coming to the United plants. "Gulag Archipelago," for repressing dis­ States in a ten-year period were found to be "I feel we're at the same stage now in our sident groups of Soviet citizens who are intelligence officers." Matthews flatly de­ knowledge of dismantlement that we were denied by the Soviet state their basic hu­ clared: "That is not true; it can't be true. with Phoenix, say, back in 1958, when it was man rights, and for other aspects of If it had been said, I would have known." first conceived," said Mr. Cregut. "Phoenix counterintelligence and internal security. For the information of Mr. Matthews and appeared impossibly difficult to carry out 16 Admittance of an MVD officer as a "pol­ others, this information can be found in the years ago, and now it seems easy. At this ice science" exchange student is par­ Judiciary Qommittee Report on the Foreign point, dismantlement also seems just as diffi­ ticularly offensive when qualified, high­ Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1977, Page 21, cult. I'll have more confidence when the Paragraph 3; and in the Senate Select Com­ budget exists to let us do what we want to ly professional police officers from Free mittee on Intelligence, Final Report, Book 1, do." World nations are denied permission to Page 163. "By the time I retire, I want to have a clear increase their qualifications by taking The funds for programs such as the one conscience that everything I built can be training in America. that brought M.V.D. Captain Anatoly Gusa­ taken apart properly," Mr. Cregut said. "I For the information of my colleagues, kov to California to gather information on don't want peoole to think of me like that the article follows: police procedures and activities is provided genius who invented the plastic bottle and [From the Review of the News, June 21, 1978) by a handful of "prestigious" sources that never figured out how to get rid of the include the U.S. Department of State, the damned thing."e SECURITY Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Founda­ Police and public-safety officers from the tion, and the Chase Manhattan International EAGLE SCOUT JAMES DAVID KLAMO anti-Communist countries are no longer Foundation. trained in the United States on the grounds Remarkably circumspect about finances, that the skills they obtain may be used I.R.E.X. publishes no buC.p;etary figures in HON. ADAM BENJAMIN, JR. against "dissidents seeking their human its annual reports. Considering that it has rights." That is a pretty phrase often used a staff of 18 to operate an exchange of ap­ OF INDIANA to describe terrorists seeking to overthrow proximately 55 Americans and 55 Soviet-bloc IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES friendly governments as in Argentina, citizens, its ample offices and the amount Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Nicaragua, Chile. Iran. and South Africa. of. travel and subsidy provided the program Now the Review of the News has learned participants, the I.R.E X. budget must be e Mr. BENJAMIN. Mr. Speaker, I wish that our government has no such qualms over $2.5 million. That so much American to bring to the attention of my colleagues about training men from the Soviet M.V.D., money is used to bring Soviet intelligence June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18375 officers to t his country is odd to say the with him being in my Department; he was CALM ACTION, NOT COLD WAR least. Especially since this prestigious orga­ a guest of the United States. But he may RHETORIC, IS WAY TO DEAL WITH nization arranges the placement of these have been following a secret agenda of which THE SOVIETS Soviet agents and provides them with ere­ we were not aware." den tials to make their task easier. Very likely. In California, Gusakov was According to the Senate Select Committee busy asklng questions of a number of police HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING on Intelligence, citing an F.B.I. counterin­ officers about U.S. political groups, partic­ OF OHIO telligence specialist, "Various exchange ularly the Christian Defense League in groups provide additional opportunities for Orange County and the Jewish Defense Lea­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Soviet intelligence gathering within the gue (J.D.L.) , which has been in volved in po­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 United States . .. . During the past decade, litical activism against Soviet diplomatic the FBI identified over 100 intelligence offi­ and trade offices. This is especially interest­ e Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, it cers among the approximately 400 Soviet stu­ ing since a person using the old J.D.L. slogan, was with relief that I read in this morn­ dents who attended American universities "Never again," recentl:t' claimed responsibil­ ing's paper Secretary Vance's moderate, during this period as part of an East-West ity for the bombing of a New York City Rus­ low-key remarks concerning our rela­ student exchange program." sian-language newspaper. Reports described tions with the Soviet Union. This is in­ Based on the Senate figures, it can be esti­ it as an anti-Communist publication, giving deed a refreshing change from the "cold mated that I.R.E.X brought some 20 Soviet rise to speculation that the attack was a pro­ spies to the United States in the 1976-1977 war" rhetoric of recent weeks, and, we Soviet provocation. may hope, is evidence of a more mature, period. According to I.R.E.X. Deputy Director Criminal Investigator Gusakov, or M.V.D. Daniel C. Matuszewski, Gusakov openly Captain Gusakov, or Comrade Gusakov, or balanced approach by the administra­ stated on his application to do "research" Student Gusakov also asked innumerable tion with respect to the problems of deal­ in this country that his interests were in questions about pollee use of computers, ing with the Soviets and Soviet sup­ the "tactical methods" used by our police; ported activities in Africa and other in the collection and analysis of technical police-radio systems. electronic equipment, police literature; and, in our "patterns of in­ interrogation procedure, contingency meas­ parts of the world. vestigation into criminal activity." Can there ures for natural disasters or civil disorders, Of course, it is important to let the be much doubt that Anatoly N. Gusakov was and communication between police depart­ Soviet leadership know that there are "tasked" by the K .G.B. (with which his own ments-every possible area of American limits to the kind of arms buildup and organization, the M.V.D., is constantly ex­ police technology and operations. The Com­ munist M.V.D. Captain made himself partic­ foreign adventurism they can engage in changing personnel) to penetrate our West without weakening detente and under­ Coast law enforcement community? ularly well-informed on liaison procedures To aid Comrade Gusakov, I..R.E.X. ar­ between local, state, and federal law-enforce­ mmmg the prospects of a new SALT ranged for him to study at the U.C.L.A. Law ment agencies, and had access to F.B.I. re­ Treaty. However, past experience in School with Professor George Fletcher as his ports. dealing with the Soviets ought to have faculty advisor and mentor. Dr. Fletcher, an Neither State nor I.R.E.X. nor any of the taught us by now that they are far authority on Soviet law, told the Review of police officers involved now wish to comment more likely to be impressed by our the News that Gusakov had made "a very on how this could have been allowed. Typi­ actions and our resolve, communicated good impression" and that he was more in­ cally, Professor Dick Grace said: "Well, the by quiet diplomacy and reasonable rhet­ terested in "practical police matters" than State Department arranged for it and ap­ oric, than by unnecessarily provocative in classroom studies. Said Fletcher: "I proved it; and I have no wish not to co­ placed him in a course dealing with the operate with them." As I.R.E.X. put it: "We actions and by "hard-line" talk, to which rights of suspects, but he appeared totally never know exactly what the exc'hange stu­ they will simply respond in like manner. uninterested in individual rights; he was dents wlll do. Why to ask questions would In late May, the New York Times re­ really only interested in the techniques of be an infringement of their right to privacy." ported that one of the studies prepared investigations." Requests for an interview with Anatoly for the recent meeting of NATO leaders Gusakov's quest for information on the Gusakov were sharply rejected by I.R.E.X. in Washington concluded that the Soviet techniques of U.S. police investigation and officials who claimed not to know his present practical police work was fac111tated by po­ location, and then contradicted themselves Union has accepted parity with the lice science professor Dick Grace of Califor­ saying that he was on his way back to the United States in strategic nuclear arms nia State College at Los Angeles. Working Soviet Union. State Department spokesmen but is still unwilling to accept equality with Dr~ Fletcher, Grace made arrangements reluctantly provided the information that with NATO in conventional and nuclear for the Comrade Captain to visit and work a "security review" was conducted before tactical forces in Europe. Thus, accord­ with the Anaheim, Santa Ana, Santa Monica. Gusakov entered the United States. But, ing to the report, the Soviets will con­ and Los Angeles police departments, as well they said, the review showed only that A. N. tinue their military buildup in Europe as with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Gusakov was a graduate student at the despite growing economic problems re­ And, as Gusakov's visit drew to a close, his Sverdlovsk Institute. One State Department California police contacts, having become official admitted, "We don't really know if sulting from their continued high level acquainted with the Soviet officer, provided Gusakov is his real name." of military spending. him with introductions to the Las Vegas, Our interviews with members of the Cali­ On the other hand, on June 13, the Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York fornia law-enforcement community quickly Akron Beacon Journal reported that the City police departments as a customary established that Gusakov had admitted being Soviet Union has made a proposal for courtesy. an officer of the Soviet National Police equal ceilings on Eastern and Western We spoke with Chief Tielsch of Santa (M.V.D.) . But the State Department spokes­ troop strength in Europe and a mutual Monica where Gusakov spent a considerable man refused to adm~t any such knowledge amount of time. Tielsch confirmed that the declaring: "Even if he is, I don't consider it reduction of weapons located there. This Soviet M.V.D. man had "been involved in very awesome." is the first major move that the Soviets all facets of the activities of his Department; No State Department official would admit have made since the beginning of the he had been assigned to the investigative to sanctioning Gusakov's program of police European force reduction negotiations in division, the identification bureau, and penetration, explaining that the details were 1973. \Vhether this is just a tactical ploy the detective bureau." The Review of the arranged by "the college of his choice." And to blunt the recent efforts to strengthen News learned from Santa Monica pollee offi­ yet Professor Grace, Chief Tielsch, Captain NATO's defenses or is a serious move to cers that the Soviet M.V.D. Captain had McCarthy, Captain Stebbings, and a dozen worked with them in pollee operations and reach agreement remains to be seen. Ob­ other officers who were interviewed all recall viously, it should be seriously explored. had actually taken part in arresting Amer­ being told that Gusakov was their guest with ican citizens. State Department approval. Perhaps the Soviet proposal will turn On May 9, 1978, in Santa Ana, the police The Federal Bureau of Investigation de­ out to be the constructive response that cruiser in which Anatoly Gusakov was riding clined to comment on the case of Soviet President Carter said he would look for on street patrol was involved in a collision. agent Anatoly Gusakov, saying that neither at the time he decided to delay a deci­ The Soviet officer received a cut on the head nis visit to our country nor his course of sion on producing the neutron warhead. which required hospital treatment, and the studies had F.B.I. approval. "It was a State In any event, the Soviet proposal is more Santa Ana Register reported, "Russian Gets Department matter." Asked about national likely a r€sponse to the administration's Bang Out of Visit to Orange County." When security implications, the F.B.I. spokesman the Review of the News brought this to the readily confirmed the Senate Intelligence actions than to its recent spate of rhet­ attention of Gusakov's faculty advisor, Dr. Committee Report on the abuse of student oric. Indeed, we ought to be concerned Fletcher replied, "I thought that he may exchange programs by the Soviet bloc, but that continued escalation in the "war of have been injured making an arrest." added: "Of course we can make no comment words" does not create a climate in One of the senior police officers who hosted on any investigation in the counterintelli­ which negotiation of such arms limita­ Gusakov said, "I saw nothing very wrong gence area." e tion agreements becomes impossible. 18376 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 Mr. Speaker, an excellent article on struggle for local power. That inept move Because the Warsaw Pact possesses a this subject by Mr. Anthony Lewis ap­ brought the Cubans in. Since then we have numerical edge in troops deployed in Cen­ kept Zaire afloat while it supported a con­ tral Europe, Soviet negotiators until now peared recently in the Akron Beacon tinuing guerrilla war against Angola. We have sought mutual cuts that would main­ Journal, reprinted from the New York have foolishly refused to come to terms with tain the East's advantage. Times. Mr. Lewis says, with respect to an Angolan government that works easily The Western powers offered a proposal recent administration rhetoric: enough with the Gulf Oil Corp. Who is de­ in May which clung to the principle of It is unconvincing to react to Soviet be­ st abilizing whom? common ceilings but offered the Soviets havior as if one were discovering sin for the Of course the United States has to worry greater flexibility in choosing what units it firs.t time. about any sudden jump in Communist ambi­ would remove. tions in Africa. But the Russians have had In an apparent response to this initiative, He notes that the Soviets are not ample trouble of their own in Africa, as in Moscow last week agreed to the Western likely to be impressed by bluster, which the Middle East. Carter's policy has wisely demand that each side be limited to 700,- serves to blur what have to be discrimi­ been directed at trying to deal with the 000 ground forces in the region and further­ nating choices for this country. As he underlying African problems, notably white more suggested that a ceili.ng of 900,000 be says: supremacy in Southern Africa. Why suddenly placed on total ground and air manpower. encourage the American people to think it is Administration officials said that in addi­ We are right to be worried about Soviet all a Communist plot? tion to accepting the common ceiling ap­ intentions. But we have to understand that An even more puzzling question is why the proach, Moscow has agreed to the Western some accommodations may help us: notably administration should have tried to link SALT. In such a situation presidents and proposal, in the first phase of a troop cut, to their aides must be scrupulous in their Zaire, even by implication, with the strategic withdraw 1,000 American nuclear weapons arms limitation talks. No serious issue in the in Europe in return for a cutback in Soviet rhetoric. They must avoid legitimizing hys­ tanks. teria. world can possibly depend on developments in that post-colonial disaster area. And noth­ The Soviet proposal is described by offi­ Mr. Speaker, I offer the Anthony ing could be more serious than SALT. cials as the first major move that Moscow Lewis column and the Akron Beacon What is so odd is that Jimmy Carter really has made in the Vienna talks since they got under way in 1973 and, as such, it is thought ~ournal article for printing immedi­ cares about arms limitation-perhaps more ately following these remarks: than any other president. He understands to reflect a desire by Moscow to reach agree­ that a SALT agreement is urgently important ment. DETENTE RHETORIC ENDANGERS SALT TALKS to this country. In recent days he has gone Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cyrus R. (By Anthony Lewis) so far as to reject political advice that he Vance announced a complex pledge by the WASHINGTON.-"! think there Will be less should stall over the summer even if the United States not to use nuclear weapons red scare in the coming weeks." Russians are near agreement, because a treaty agai!'lst countries that do not have them. That remark, by an administration official, could not be taken up by the Senate until The pledge was designed to "extend a is an appropriate epitaph for one of the after election and would be a political prob­ feeling of security" to countries that re­ strangest episodes in Jimmy Carter's presi­ lem in the meantime. Carter has given nounce atomic weapcns and to improve the dency; the experiment with what could be orders to go ahead if a treaty is in sight. U.S. posture in the current disarmament called the New Toughness in foreign policy. It was also inconsistent with Carter's se!!sion at the United Nations, officials said. It developed while I was abroad for a instincts that many in Washington see some The pledge will have little practical effect month, so it struck me with particular force political motive for the toughness episode­ on U.S. policy on the use of nuclear weapons, when I returned at the end of May: the a hope of going up in the polls. I suspect a they conceded. strident tone of the administration's voice less-conspiratorial reasons, a desire to gain Nevertheless, officials hope the stateme.!'lt in talking about the Soviet Union and the some bargaining leverage with the Russians. will have a positive political input on na­ Communist threat. Now the stridency has But if so, the technique was hopelessly inept. tions such as India that have not yet signed abated. The President's speech at Annapolis The Soviets are not likely. to be impressed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.e · last week was a conscious and effective effort by bluster. More important, such rhetoric as to restore balance. What remains is for Car­ "the code of detente" blurs what have to be ter-and the rest of us-to learn something discriminating choices for this country. from the episode. We are right to be worried about Soviet in­ ANTITERRORIST BILL A first point is that it is unconvincing to tentions. But we have to understand that react to Soviet behavior as if one were dis­ some accommodations may help us: nota­ covering sin for the first time. The USSR has bly SALT. In such a situation presidents and HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN been a powerful adversary of ours in the their aides must be scrupulous in their OF CALIFORNIA world for a long time, and its standards of rhetoric. They must avoid legitimizing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES humanity have been nasty. To react to such hysteria. realities as if they were new is to appear Brzezinski has had the fame and the blame Wednesday, June 21 , 1978 ignorant or silly. for this episode. Soviet diplomats are saying • Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, recently, The Russians "maintain a vitriolic world­ that it confirms their view of him as "anti­ wide propaganda campahm against the the newly appointed Director of the FBI, Soviet." I think his fault is a different one. Judge William Webster, expressed con­ United States," Zbigniew Brzezinski said on He is a man of enthusiasms, of extremes, NBC's Meet the Press. They are carrying out with many good ideas but seemingly, some­ cern over the potential danger that ter­ a massive buildup in conventional arms, and times, to lack a center of gravity. rorists pose to the United States. Ac­ they are trying to "encircle and penetrate The moral for Carter and his administra­ cording to the New York Times of March the Middle East." Yes. And what else is 30, Judge Webster remarked: new? tion is that, in foreign policy, steadiness is "This pattern of behavior I do not believe all. But there is a warning here for the Experience tells us that when we have Russians, too. They may complain of Ameri­ epidemics like this around the world, it is is compatible with what was once called the very likely to come to the United States. code of detente," Brzezinski said. But the can attempts to "link" such disparate issues as Africa and SALT. But some linkage is a pattern is what we have to expect from the For many terrorists, the United States Soviets, and guard against. Detente is not a fact in American opinion. If the Soviets pro­ ceed to try to imprison Anatoly Shcharansky, is an object of their supr~me hatred. happy day of brotherhood. It is restrained It competition. To pretend otherwise is only to for example, I think no president could save is the leader of the capitalist world, create false expectations among Americans, a SALT treaty. the major financial arid military power inevitably followed by disappointment. It is of advanced industrial society. It is the to repeat the folly of Richard Nixon in [From the Akron Beacon Journal, June 13, source, according to several terroristic promising "a structure of peace." 1978] ideologies, of the ills of modern life. It The most peculiar business has been the SOVIETS PROPOSE 'TROOP CUT is not unreasonable to believe that the attempt to make a great East-West point out WAsHINGTON.-The Soviet Union has made United States would present a tempting of the rebel invasion of Zaire's Shaba Prov­ a proposal for placing equal ceilings on East­ target to the kamikazi terrorist squads ince. The Cubans in Angola may or may not ern a.nd Western military forces in Europe that have been roaming the world. No have tried to stop the inva-sion, as they that Carter administration officials said claim. But everyone knows that tribal rival­ Monday could be an important breakthrough crime is too outrageous for the terrorist; ries in the area are the fundamental issue. in the stalled negotiations over troop reduc­ for he is at war with society itself. It is Is it our view that the Cubans have the tions. well to realize that we, like Italy and duty to suppress them? And if so, what of In the proposal, Moscow said for the first West Germany, could also fall victim to our own record? time that any accord cutting back on East­ terrorist violence. In the Kissinger era the United States tried ern and Western air and ground units in Mr. Speaker, I do not think there is to keep the Portuguese in Angola, then Central Europe should set equal ceilings on any danger that we will fall victim to in­ covertly sent arms to the losing side in the the troops that remain. ordinate fear or alarmist appeals. But I June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18377 do fear that we may fall victim to com­ tempted bombings in 26 countries; 180 shoot­ Mr. Speaker, students of politics tell placency. Judge Webster's remarks are ings in 11 countries; 11 assassinations in 9 us that the most difficult and recurrent countries; 17 attempted murders in 11 coun­ question of politics is the reconciliation cause for rethinking our approach to in­ tries and 19 hijackings in 14 countries. ternal security. of personal liberty and political authori­ A decade's reality: seven terrorist actions a ty, the rights of the individual and the Modern terrorism is not simply an iso­ month; one incident every four days, day in lated set of violent attacks, but a more and day out for over the years; nine mur­ rights of the state. In drafting this leg­ sophisticated, and systematic assault on ders each month; one victim every three islation, I have been extremely sensitive modern states. Terrorism is now an in­ days; 20 people maimed each month; 22 hu­ to this problem. I sincerely believe that ternational phenomenon. Terrorist man beings held as hostages. my bill recognizes, reconciles, and en­ agents and organizations have received compasses these legitimate claims, and support and encouragement across na­ Mr. Speaker, it may be said that ter­ strikes a balance between the liberty of tional boundaries. Aden, Algeria, Cuba, rorism is bred in the depths of despair, the individual and the constitutional Czechoslovakia, North Korea, and Yemen among oppressed people who have little powers of the United States. No Ameri­ have provided lodging and training for or no hope. As a historical fact, that can's right to express any idea, or dis­ the death squads who go about the world may be the case. But no explanation is seminate any information, on behalf of bombing, killing, and kidnaping various identical with a justification. There is any cause, no matter how distasteful, civilian and government personnel in and can be no justification for a delib­ would be abridged by the passage of this pursuit of their own goals. According to erate war against an unarmed civilian legislation. a special report prepared by the Heritage population, against women and children. I have taken time to assure that the Foundation, "Terrorism in America: The Those who make war on innocent airline rights of conscience, speech, and ex­ Developing Crisis," the United States is passengers, civilians on a bus, or on a pression, as guaranteed under the first not immune from such penetration: beach, in a city square or public market, amendment, are congruent with the should be branded for what they are: In addition to our own indigenous terror­ constitutional powers of the Congress to ists, there is evidence that other terrorists cowards and criminals. They can never regulate the flow of interstate and for­ may be migrating to the United States. The be compared to true patriots who battle eign commerce and the precedents es­ presence of Arab terrorists, anti-Castro for the welfare of their people. Whatever tablished by the Immigration and Na­ Cubans, the Mexican radical group LC-23, grievances the Palestinian people have, tionality Act. and perhaps some European terrorists have a resort to terror will not resolve them. Of this much I am sure, we ignore been reported in the United States. In No­ Terror only begets more and more terror. vember 1977, the U.S. Coast Guard began the terrorist danger at our peril. Ter­ Outrages only give birth to more and rorists are at war with civilization; and patrolling waters near international airports more outrages. Terror makes an unjust in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia after it is the obligation of a civilized society Lufthansa airlines received threats of rocket eause beneath contempt, and it profanes to take those necessary precautions that attacks on its planes from groups claiming the cause of the just. will prevent the conflict from threaten­ to represent the Baader Meinhof Gang (Red Mr. Speaker, can anyone be sure that ing the society in which we live. The Army FactiO'tl or RAF). In December, several a representative of an organization-the great danger to a democratic society is Latin American countries reported that 19 PLO or any other organization-that not in taking strong preventative meas­ members of the RAF were present in the engages in terroristic activities in other Western Hemisphere and were planning an ures, but in the failure to take prevent­ "international action plan." lands will not resort to terroristi:: or il­ ative measures. I fear that if we do not legal activities here in the United States? act intelligently and prudently now, some Mr. Speaker, the recent opening of the Can we be sure that such representatives terrorist outrage, sometime in the fu­ Palestinian Information Office, being will not use the resources of a free and ture, will drive us into a fit of hysteria. subsidized by the Palestinian Liberation open society to recruit and indoctrinate Fearing for the safety of society, we Organization, occasioned my legislative political fanatics, preparing them for may enact truly repressive measures interest in this matter. I realize that a supportive violent assaults against the thus undermining the very foundations number of my colleagues will object to open society itself? The answer, of of our free society. my proposed legislation on the ground course, is that we cannot. No group that My legislation will do the following: It that the PLO is ol1ly disseminating infor­ is undeterred by the simplest sentiments will amend the Immigration and Na­ mation. But my bill will not prevent them of humanity, that is unsparing of inno­ tionality Act and related legislation by from continuing to disseminate informa­ cents, regardless of age or sex, can be excluding admission to the United States tion. It will, however, strengthen security expected to abide by the legal principles of any alien affiliated with a terrorist or­ measures that the actions of the PLO of the American polity-except for ganization; it will authorize the Attor­ most assuredly merit. purely tactical reasons. ney General to investigate any person In Washington, D.C., the PLO is dis­ No, Mr. Speaker, the Congress is not registered as a foreign agent of a terror­ seminating information. But that is not morally or legally required to admit alien ist organization, in order to determine the only thing that the PLO does. representatives of foreign terrorist orga­ whether that person is, or has, engaged Founded in 1964, the PLO has emerged nizations, whoever they may be, into the in any unlawful acts in connection with as an umbrella organization of the United States. Congress is not morally that organization; and it will forbid any world's most notorious terrorist groups: nor legally required to treat the agents of person registered as a foreign agent from Palestine Liberation Army, the Egyptian­ a terrorist organization as if they were knowingly and willfully receiving funds founded Al Fatah, the Syrian-sponsored ordinary, conventional representatives of from any foreign group engaging in acts Al-Saiqua, the Popular Democratic Front foreign principals, corporations, political of terrorism. The bill reads as follows: for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popu­ parties, partnerships or associations. Prudence alone dictates that we ought to H.R. 13184 lar Front !or the Liberation of Palestine, A bill to provide for the exclusion from the and the Iraqui-formed Arab Liberation strengthen our security procedures. We United States of aliens affiliated with Front. owe it to our citizens to insure that rep­ terrorist organizations, to require investi­ During the past 10 years, the PLO has resentatives of foreign terrorist organi­ gations of registered agents of such or­ been engaged in a whole series of out­ zations are not themselves engaging in ganizations, and for other purposes rageous incidents. On March 11 of this any illegal activities. It is the very least Be it enacted by the Senate and House of year, the PLO landed a squadron on an we cando. Representatives of the United States of Israeli beach and killed 37 civilians. For Finally, Mr. Speaker, I think it is wise America in Congress assembled, That (a) to seal off-once and for all-the im­ section 212(a) of the Immigration and Na­ a decade we have witnessed killings, tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)) , relating to bombings, and hijackings. According to portation of moneys from terrorist or­ general classes of aliens ineligible to receive Mr. Arnold Forster, general counsel of ganizations or groups into this country, visas and excluded from admission, is B'nai B'rith: and punish a breach of this inflow of amended- There have been incidents on six conti­ foreign moneys with the most severe and (1) by striking out the period at the end nents in which the PLO and its affiliates deterring penalties. Consider the pos­ of paragraph (32) and inserting in lieu killed 1,331 people, injured 2,471 and held sibility that blood money could be spent thereof a semicolon; and 2,755 hostages. These terrorist actions in­ in financing propaganda for bloodlet­ (2) by adding after paragraph (32) the cluded 308 bombings in 20 countries; 216 at- ting. The thought appalls me. following new paragraph: 18378 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 "(33) Any allen who is a member of or "SEC. 9. INVESTIGATIONS BY ATTORNEY GEN­ Mr. Lovins advocates allowing-even affiliated with an organization which the ERAL .-The Attorney General shall investigate requiring-electric utilities to invest consular officer or the Attorney General has the activities of any person registered under reason to believe is a terrorist organization.". this Act as an agent of a terrorist organiza­ their equity capital in conservation im­ (b) Section 212(d) (3) of such Act (8 tion in order to determine whether such per­ provements and renewable energy tech­ U.S.C. 1182(d) (3)), relating to waiver of ex­ son has engaged in lllegal acts in connection nologies as an alternative to investing clusions for certain nonimmigrants, is with such organization. In the case of a part­ in new central-station, thermal generat­ amended by striking out" (27) and (29)" and nership, such investigation shall be con­ ing facilities. Such investment would be inserting in lieu thereof " ( 27) , ( 29) , and ducted with respect to all the members there­ effected through low-interest, long-term (33)" each place it appears. of, and in the case of a person other than loans. (c) Section 212(d) (5) of such Act (8 an individual or a partnership, such inves­ U.S.C. 1182 (d) (5)), relating to parole au­ tigation shall be conducted with respec·t to The major barriers to widespread com­ thor! ty, is amended by inserting " (other than a'l the officers and directors thereof or per­ mercialization of renewable energy tech­ an allen described in subsection (a) (33))" sons performing the functions of such of­ nologies are not technological, or even after "any allen". ficers and directors.". economic; they are institutional. Our en­ (d) Section 212(d) (8) of such Act (8 U.S.C. (b) Section 1 of the Foreign Agents Regis­ ergy institutions are structured in such 1182(d) (8)), relating to admission for tran-:­ tration Act (22 U.S.C. 611) is amended by a way as to preclude rational considera­ sit of foreign officials, is amended by striking adding at the end thereof the following new tion of nontraditional energy sources out "and (29)" and inserting in lieu thereof subsection: "(29), and (33) ". and to prevent the implementation of SEc. 2. Section 241 (a) of the Immigration "(r) The term 'terrorist organization' alternative sources even when they are and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1251(a)). means any organization or group that has found to be more attractive. Mr. Lovins' relating to general classes of deportable carried out, states that it has carried out, or thesis directly addresses these problems. aliens, is amend-ed- attempts or threatens to carry out any of the (1) by striking out "or" at the end of following: killing, causing serious bodily If this Nation is going to get serious paragraph (17); harm, kidnaping, or violent destruction of about our energy problems, we must seek property, with the intent to coerce or intimi­ out the innovative solutions that address (2) by striking out the period at the end date the civilian population, any segment of paragraph ( 18) and inserting in lieu there­ the structural nature of those problems. thereof, or a government or international I strongly recommend to my colleagues of "; or"; and organization.". (3) by adding after paragraph (18) the Amory Lovins' article as such an inno­ SEc. 9. (a) Any person who is required to vative proposal. following new paragraph: register as an agent of a foreign principal " ( 19) is a member of or affiliated with a under the Foreign Agents Registration Act The article follows: terrorist organization.". of 1938, as amended, and who knowingly and ROBIN HOOD PROPOSITION-A NEO-CAPITALIST SEc. 3. Section 102 of the Immigration and wlllfully receives funds, directly or indirectly, MANIFESTO: FREE ENTERPRISE CAN FINANCE Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1102), relating to from any foreign group which such person, OUR ENERGY FUTURE appllcabiUty of title II t$> certain non­ at the time of such receipt, had reason to immigrants,is amended- know was a terrorist organization, shall be (By Amory B. Lovins) (1) by striking out "paragraph (27)" in fined $25,000 or imprisoned for a minimum The energy future will not be like the paragraph (1) and inserting in lieu thereof of ten years, or both. energy past. It entails a difficul+; transition "paragraphs (27) and (33) "; (b) For purposes of this section, the term away from reliance on oil and gas. But the (2) by striking out "paragraph (27)" in "terrorist organization" means any organiza­ nature of the trans! tion depends on how we paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof tion or group that has carried out, states define the problem we're trying to solve. If "paragraphs (27) and (33) ";and that it has carried out, or attempts or we try simply to expand domestic supplies to (3) by striking out "and (29)" in para­ threatens to carry out any of the following: meet projected total demands we will con­ graph (3) and inserting in lieu thereof "(29), kUling, causing serious bodily harm, kidnap­ tinue our "hard" energy path-a policy of and (33) ". ing, or violent destruction of property, with Strength Through Exhaustion that converts the intent to coerce or intimidate the civ111an SEc. 4. Section 243(h) of the Immigra­ ever scarcer fossil and nuclear fuels to population, any segment thereof, or a gov­ premium forms (fluids and electricity) in tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1253 (h)), ernment or international organization.e relating to withholding of deportation, is ever larger, more complex, more centralized amended by inserting " (other than an alien plants. described in section 241 (a) (19))" after "The But the costs of the hard path are intoler­ Attorney General is authorized to withhold ably high-in money, risk, even freedom-for deportation of any alien". ROBIN HOOD PROPOSITION it is inevitably centrist, autarchic, vulnerable, SEc. 5. Section 244(e) of the Immigration technocratic. It produces a word not of and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254(e)), re­ free enterprise and pluralistic choice but of lating to voluntary departure of aliens under subsidies, $100 billion bail-outs, oligopolies, deportation proceedings, is amended by strik­ HON. JAMES WEAVER regulation, nationalization, corporate sta­ ing out "or ( 18) " and inserting in lieu there­ OF OREGON tism-and perhaps Bertram Gross's "friendly of "(18), or (19)". IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fascism." Suppose, instead, that we start by asking SEc. 6. Section 277 of the Immigration and Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1327), relating to what tasks we want the energy for, and how aiding or assisting any subversive alien in e Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, today I we can do each task by supplying a minimum entering the United States, is amended by am inserting in the RECORD excerpts from of energy (and other resources) in the way striking out "or (29)" and inserting in lieu a most stimulating and important article, that is most effective for that task. We then thereof "(29), or (33) ". find that we need new supplies of heat (58 "A Neo Capitalist Manifesto: Free En­ percent of present United States needs for SEc. 7. Section 101 (a) of the Immigration terprise Can Finance Our Energy Fu­ delivered energy) and liquid fuels (34 per­ and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 (a)) is ture," written by Amory B. Lovins and cent), not electricity (only 8 percent-far less amended by adding at the end thereof the first appearing in the April 14, 1978 is­ than our current generating capacity) . More following new paragraph: power stations of any kind are not a rational "(42) The term 'terrorist organization• sue of Politicks. As many Members know, response to this problem. They take too long means any organization or group that has Mr. Lovins shook the energy establish­ to build, are far too costly, and provide a carried out, states that it has carried out, or ment with his "Energy Strategy: The higher-quality form of energy than we can attempts or threatens to carry out any of Road Not Taken" in October of 1976. In use economically. the following: killing, causing serious bodily harm, kidnaping. or violent destruction of that prescient masterpiece, he showed SMOOTH TRANSITION property, with the intent to coerce or intimi­ that-theoretically-this Nation could We can construct a smooth transition, over date the civ111an population, any segment meet its energy demand through energy 50 years, to a virtually complete reliance on thereof, or a government or international or­ conservation, renewable technologies and renewable energy sources by doing three ganization.". transitional uses of fossil fuels. In the things, starting now: using far more SEc. 8. (a) The Foreign Agents Registration article that I am placing in the RECORD efficiently the energy we have: relying in­ Act of 1938, as amended (22 U .S .C. 611 et. he creasingly on "soft technologies"--nuclear proliferation. of the economy-leading to a net loss, di­ insulation and solar heat. Some utlllties already loan money to con­ rectly and indirectly, of about 4,000 jobs per Gus Speth, now a member of the Presi­ sumers for insulating their homes (see Busi­ thousand-megawatt power station built. In dent's Council on Environmental Quality, ness Week, July 18, 1977) because insulation contrast, conservation and soft technologies once proposed a refinement that could in is a cheaper heat source than new power make more jobs per dollar invested, and practice help to substitute for pricing fuels stations or new gas fields. Several states, leave more dollars available to create jobs at the cost of replacing them in the long run. such as Oregon (H.B. 2157, 1977), are man­ elsewhere in the economy. He suggested that utilities should not get dating such loans. I too would have utlll­ Utillties, while continuing to supply pres­ their Certificate of Public Necessity and ties-competing with heating-oil distribu­ ent lighting and appliance needs and per­ Convenience to build a plant until they tors, banks, insurance companies, the Fed­ haps eventually evolving into a distribu­ prove that they have exhausted the potential eral Housing Administration. The Veterans' tion system similar to the telephone com­ for energy efficiency improvements, peak­ Administration, the Department of Housing pany (based largely on dispersed renewable load management, and soft technologies and Urban Development, farm loan organi­ sources), would avoid astronomical new in­ that ( 1) would do the same jobs for con­ zations, and other institutions-loan money vestments to electrify space and water heat­ sumers as the proposed plant, (2) compete to householders (and to others ranked ac­ ing. Adding a completely solar heating with it economically, and (3) could have cording to how difficult it is for them to get system to a heat-conserving house requires been financed by transfers of the capital al­ cheap capital now) for fuel-saving invest­ about half as much capital as building a located to build the plant. Only if these con­ ments. nuclear and heat-pump system to heat the ditions were met would the plant econom­ EQUAL ACCESS same house, and one-fourth as much capital ically and efficiently meet its customers' en­ as building a nuclear system with resistance ergy needs. Further, to encourage realistic But two conditions should be added. First, heaters (the kind now commonly used). the utlllties should loan the money at the Building solar heating for a whole neighbor­ cost estimates and careful cost control, the same rate of interest at which they would hood rather than for a single house would amount the utillty could add to its rate base, otherwise loan themselves money to build, roughly double the capital saving. Heat con­ if it did build the plant, could be limited to say, a new power station. Second, borrowers the real plant cost it assumed in making should repay the loan (through their ut1Uty servation requires approximately one-sixth to one-thirtieth as much investment as a the above comparison. This would keep utlU­ bllls) at or below the rate at which the fuel­ nuclear-powered heat-pump system: in new ties from simply passing on their uncon­ 'Saving investment is expected to save them trolled cost overruns to consumers. It is a. money. (The saving could be computed buildings, 1t can even reduce total construc­ tion costs. simple control mechanism that could make against the energy price the consumer would While a power station often takes 10 years investments more socially responsible with­ have paid if the utlllty had met his or her out requiring a stifling bureaucracy. needs by building a new plant instead.) The to build and then 30 years more to repay its first condition is meant to ensure that hard cost, conservation and solar investments take LARGER PATTERN and soft technologies enjoy equal access to days or weeks to build and pay for themselves Capital transfers, whether or not linked capital; the second, that loan repayments do in about one to 10 years. If utillties invested with the utility certification test, are part in the latter systems rather than in the for­ of a larger pattern of efforts to meet people's not increase consumers' ut111ty bills. mer, they could turn over their money faster The utillty would only loan the money. It energy needs fairly and at a reasonable cost. and improve their effective rate of return, Yet economically efficient ways of allocating should neither execute nor control the proj­ which they are sentimental about. Thus the ect, either directly or indirectly (for instance energy-or food or water or shelter-are al­ transitional process, which they once saw as ways inequitable because some people start by setting equipment standards). The loan a threat, would become an opportunity-a would not be added into the utmty's rate off rich and some poor, and rich people can better business to be in than building power always buy things that poor people cannot base (its total investment on which it earns stations-and a former enemy of soft tech­ a regulated return): People who choose not afford. A society worth living in wlll ensure nologies co-opted as a merchant banker for that even its poorest members can afford the to take part in capital transfers should not them. (Already, util1ties in New Jersey and have to pay for those who do .. The utlllty's energy (and other things) needed for a de­ California that fought industrial cogenera­ cent life. But should we do this by fighting profit, at the normally regulated rate, would tion for years 're scrambling to finance it be from interest on the principal loaned and because they can find neither money nor poverty or by subsidizing the innumerable would equal the return that the utllity sites for conventional power stations that things poor people need but cannot afford? would otherwise have earned from a new would b~ worse investments anyway.) The latter approach means making energy plant. The utlUty's normal operations would A healthier cash fiow would improve utill­ (for example) artificially cheap-several continue-as would needed efforts at util­ ties bond ratings, reduce the rate of return times cheaper than what it costs us to re­ ity rate and structure reform. they need to maintain those ratings, make place it. But while this puts some energy in The loan would have the same legal status their equity worth more, avoid dilution of reach of the poor, it always means giving and remedies for default as any other. It existing stockholders' equity by new issues, cheap energy to rich people. And if we want 18380 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 to use energy prices as an instrument of of the ground or into the country. This tax same collector, and you need not agree, in distributional equity, why not do the same would automatically become embodied in all advance or afterwards, about why you built for food, housing, education, travel, and goods and services according to their total it. everything else? direct and indirect energy content. Admin­ If we can use all the kinds of energy h us­ An alternative approach is to price energy istration would be relatively easy because bandry and renewable sources that people (and other things) at levels reflecting actual the machinery is already in place-the sev­ agree about, these will be enough. We can costs and simultaneously to make poor peo­ erance royalty is like a depletion allowance then dispense with the hard technologies ple less poor by other means. Redistributing backwards-and because the royalty is that people don't agree about, because those wealth or income, though it requires more simple and universal. will be superfluous. political nerve, is a more direct, honest, and End-use excises hit the poor hardest, be­ Our tendency at times to focus the energy effective · way to achieve social justice than cause poor people spend the largest fraction debate more and more on less and less re­ tampering with prices in a futile attempt to of income on direct energy purchases. But a minds me of a woman who, while living in make everything seem cheap enough to be tax imposed on primary fuels would not be India, once called in a carpenter to fix a afforded by people whom we haven't the significantly redistributive, because the frac­ window frame. He followed her sketch too compassion--or political will-to help di­ tion of income that Americans spend directly literally and botched the job. When she asked rectly. and indirectly on energy does not vary signif­ why he had not simply used his common Energy that looks cheap may actually be icantly with income (with a minor exception sense, he drew himself up and replied with very expensive everywhere else in the econ­ in the highest income bracket) : Higher-in­ great dignity, "But common sense, Madam, is omy-especially for poor people. Sooner or come people simply spend a large fraction a gift of God. I have technical knowledge later, too, the high cost of replacing his­ of their energy budget on indirect energy only." torically cheap fuels will come home to embodied in goods and services, and the "Technical knowledge only": perhaps a roost. In fact, we are already paving these royalty would affect direct and indirect en­ good epitaph for a civilization. But I think costs: newly ordered nuclear electricity will ergy purchases equally. Further, revenues a tolerant common sense is alive, and living cost, in heat equivalent, about seven times from a severance royalty could be rebated with the people, and will not be denied.e today's OPEC oil price. promptly to poor people or to especially hard­ Renewable sources now available are much hit regions or groups, or used to finance effi­ cheaper than nuclear or synthetic-fuel sys­ ciency improvements or soft technologies for tems for the same jobs-though many cost those who need them most. PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES somewhat more than today's oil and gas. Nor would a severance royalty lead to the OF THE ENERGY CRISIS Thus whether we use soft technologies or unbalancing side effects of more selective, not, energy prices will rise because the fuels special-case fuel taxes, because it applies as on which we have long relied are becoming much to uranium as to oil, gas, coal, oil shale, HON. THOMAS L. ASHLEY scarcer and harder to get. The question is etc.: All are depletable fuels. It would not OF OHIO not whether prices will rise, but how fast, disturb the present cost disadvantage of predictably, how controllably, and who will nuclear power. Rather, it would highlight the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES get the money. economic advantages of soft over hard tech­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 TWO INDUCEMENTS nologies. Depletable fuel prices need not be made higher than soft-technology energy • Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, on June There seem to be only two noncoercive prices-at which virtually all hard technol­ 17, 1978, I was privileged to be in at­ ways to induce investors to save money by ogies would still be very uncompetitive (to tendance at the commencement exer­ building soft technologies in time to replace say nothing of their nasty sirle effects). We the oil and gas but before the artifically cises of the University of Toledo in my would then have achieved indefinitely stable district, and to hear the excellent com­ cheapened average energy prices would make energy prices lower than if we had done noth­ them profitable. The first way is to subsidize ing. And while we might want some subsidies mencement address given by the distin­ soft technologies so they can immediately meanwhile to help conservation and soft guished Secretary of Energy James R. "compete" with those average prices. But technologies compete with the more heavily Schlesinger. My good friend and col­ this subsidy to supply perpetuates an illu­ subsidized hard technologies, it is better eco­ league in the arduous enterprise of sion of cheap energy (with all the indirect nomics not to subsidize any energy invest­ forging a comprehensive national en­ costs that implies) and merely transfers ments. Conservation and soft technologies costs from our energy bills to our already ergy plan took this most significant can look after themselves on their inherent occasion to eloquently warn all of us of swollen taxes. economic merits; only hard technologies can­ The second method-which is much better the problems and the challenges posed not survive true competition. by ever-dwindling energy reserves and economics-is to charge ourselves realistic Capital transfers are not a subsidy; they prices, reflecting true replacement costs, for correct an imperfection in capital markets. our increasing dependence on foreign oil. those no-longer-cheap fuels we are rapidly But wider tax reform would also be helpful. Of particular interest in this stimulat­ burning up. But how can we get our prices For example, we should reform the policy ing and informative address was the Sec­ right? An across-the-board energy tax would that lets businessmen write off fuel as a busi­ retary's stark answer to those who re­ be unfair and ineffective: We want only to ness expense but forbids them from similarly fuse to recognize and act upon the cer­ raise the price of depletable fuels toward deducting the capital costs of renewable sys­ tain drastic consequences in years hence, that of their long-term sustainable substi­ tems; or reconsider the outmoded ;Jractice of tutes, the soft technologies. Further, an if we do not immediately get about the taxing labor and subsidizing capital; or en­ business of providing for the future. Dr. abruptly imposed fuel tax could be as dis­ courage durability by making excise taxes on ruptive as the sudden 1973-74 rise in OPEC consumer ephemerals (such as cars) inverse­ Schlesinger's refutation of these "energy oil price. Any tax should be introduced grad­ ly proportional to the length of the warranty. optimists" should be required reading for ually, perhaps over a decade or more: It And while there is no natural monopoly on all those concerned with the national need only outpace rises in real wages and solar energy, abuses of market rower are just energy plan, and I am pleased to have interest rates. But people must be able to as possible there as in agriculture, minerals, this opportunity to insert the text of his anticipate future energy prices in today's and industry generally, so vigorous antitrust address into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. investment decisions, so the tax should be enforcement and control of antisocial gigan­ phased in on an anticipatory schedule, tism are important parts of a sound energy The address follows: avoiding the unpredictability and possible policy. COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BY JAMES R. abruptness of deregulation. Such taxation SCHLESINGER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO does not raise prices simply to satisfy some HELL WILL FREEZE OVER I am honored to have been invited to be masochistic prejudice that high prices are Much though we need innumerable social your Commencement speaker. On this occa­ desirable. Rather, it anticipates and softens reforms, oil depletion will not wait for them. sion, for you both festive and sobering, the the inevitable, encouraging us to substitute If we make the resolution of our ideological first expression should be one of congratula­ soft technologies for oil in good time to disputes-capitalism versus socialism, price tions to all those who today receive their de­ minimize long-term energy prices-and en­ versus regulation, the future of the oil com­ grees-a reward for past efforts and a symbol suring that the money will be used in ways panies and indeed of our whole society-a of future challenge. Also, heartiest congratu­ that remain under political control. prerequisite to addressing the energy prob­ lations to the parents of degree recipients, SEVERANCE ROYALTY lem, hell will freeze over first. whose financial obligations may or may not Many kinds of taxes on depletable fuels But a soft energy path can cut across these be at an end. might serve this purpose. We now tend to increasingly sterile arguments. If, for ex­ On a personal note. I should take the use excise taxes on final fuels, such as gaso­ ample, you are an economic traditionalist, occasion to pay respect to your Congressman line; these require rebates for equity, so they you can build a solar collector because it is and my friend, Lud Ashley, whose per­ have high administrative costs and lead to a cheaper than competing sources; if you are a suasiveness was added to the University's in swamp of intricate rules and exceptions. A worker, you can build a solar collector be­ bringing me here today. Congressman Ashley much simpler approach would be a sever­ cause it gives more and better jobs than is in the great tradition of Ohio legislators ance royalty-a uniform Federal tax on all power plants; if a conservationist, because it which includes such names as John Sherman depletable fuels, charged according to their is benign; if a social transformationalist, be­ and Robert Taft. Lud and I have been to­ energy content, and levied as they come out cause it is autonomous. Yet it is still the gether in a foxhole in Washington's energy June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18381 war. And together we look forward to vic­ mand estimates made by DOE as well as in worldwide. The imbalance would be consid­ tory-sometime before Judgment Day. other forecasts. To expect even lower levels erably exacerbated if the Soviet Union and As one of Ohio's most faithful sons-in-law, of demand to occur naturally, without fur­ the East European nations become net im­ who has spent considerable time in Ohio ther large price increases, is another rna tter. porters of oil, instead of continuing to ex­ over the past quarter century, I am delighted The argument of the "energy optimists" port one million barrels of oil a day, as they to return to Toledo on this special occasion. proceeds from the assumption that the indus­ do today. I must take note of the remarkable growth trialized countries are helpless in determin­ Although the world's energy future is ex­ of the University of Toledo in recent years­ ing long-run economic growth and must tremely serious, it is not the only reason for which reflects, I believe, the vitality of the accept slower economic growth dictated by the United States to take actions to reduce City of Toledo as a whole. relative shortages and higher prices. In ef­ dependence on imported oil. The national Toledo has grown from its early days pri­ fect, the solution to the energy problem security implications of excessive depend- . marily as an industrial community-a city would depend on worldwide economic stag­ ence and the balance of payments impacts, created and shaped by America's first great nation. I would agree that restraining eco­ coupled with the deterioration of the dol­ economic transformation during the indus­ nomic activity and accepting surging energy lar and the fragllity of the world monetary trial revolution of the nineteenth century. prices would inevitably bring supply and de­ system, provide powerful reasons for a vig­ Within the last decade, however, a cloud mand in balance, but at an incalculable cost orous national energy effort. Many of the has appeared on the horizon which, if un­ to the aspirations and well-being of vast "optimists" do not even discuss these ad­ attended, could interfere with industrial de­ numbers of people. Indeed, that concern lies verse effects--or the increased burden of in­ velopment and economic expansion. I refer at the heart of the argument for vigorous flation and recession which it is taken for to the developing energy problems of this national policy that can ensure a smooth granted the American people w111 have to nation. Toledo and the rest of Ohio have ex­ transition from an era of abundant conven­ bear. perienced some of the initial shocks of this tional energy supplies to one of prospective While novel and optimistic estimates of budding crisis, which is introducing another scarcity. It is this goal of a smooth, long­ energy supply and demand do add spice to period of profound economic change that term transition that the Pre~ident's policy the energy debate, the ultimate question will determine the future well-being of the proposals are intended to achieve. comes down to whether the United States country. In the past two years, this state Energy optimists also take a sanguine view should base its policies-and our national has been sharply buffeted by severe energy of supply prospects. They suggest that OPEC future--on the hope that the prevailing pro­ shortages--first a natural gas shortage, then capacity is much larger than actual produc­ jections might be wrong. With nothing less a coal strike. Ohio has thus paid a price for tion and that large finds, on the scale of the than the survival of our economic system the failure of this nation to adopt a com­ Alaska North Slope and the North Sea are at stake, the United States cannot drift prehensive energy policy. Thus, unutllized realistic possibilities in the near term. In along, waiting to see whether--or when­ gas can be available in Texas, yet, however fact, the slight and transitory excess of pro­ the day of reckoning finally comes. sorely needed, it cannot be used in Ohio. ductive capacity-caused in large part by in­ There is nothing inevitable about drastic With such curtailments of gas supply, Ohio creased production from the Alaskan North energy supply/ demand imbalances. Serious industries must shift to oil, adding to the Slope and the North Sea, and by the after­ national peril-can be avoided-if we do nation's severe balance of payments drain. math of a worldwide recession-wlll quickly what we must do: take advantage of the The rising demand for oil in Ohio is sympto­ be overtaken by continued increases in world time available to make adjustments before matic of the burgeoning world demand for demand. To meet such increases in world de­ the day of reckoning. oil, leading to the serious situation which mand would require a new Alaskan North Once the American people-all of us-fully faces the United States and the world. Slope every six months or a new North Sea recognize our potential perils, we have the The problem is really quite simple: growth every year and a half. It is highly unlikely ablllty and the resolve to take the actions in world oil supply-a finite resource-can­ that finds of that magnitude wlll occur-and necessary to avert that future crisis. Indeed, not keep pace indefinitely with world oil de­ virtually impossible for such finds to be con­ with the energy legislation now pending in mand. The world oil production level, cur­ verted into actual production by the mid- Congress as the necessary first step, we shall rently above 60 million ·barrels a day, is not 1980's. be well on our way towards accomplishing likely to increase beyond 75 million barrels Outside the OPEC countries, oil discoveries this goal. For the near term, we can make a day. In the course of the next decade, we in recent years have hardly been encourag­ the necessary adjustments. For the longer shall reach a practical limit on the world's term-as the generation represented here to­ productive capacity for oil. Sometime in the ing. The last substantial United States Oil Discovery was at Prudhoe Bay in 1968. Since day by this graduating class comes to matu­ 1990's conventional production of oil will rity-we shall, through our technical sk1lls, peak, and begin a steady decline. All govern­ 1970, discoveries of new reserves and addi­ tions to supply have been considerably less develop permanent, long-term answers to the mental and virtually all private forecasts energy problems. We shall bring forth new reach essentially these same conclusions. The than half of the country's total production of oil. In the lower 48 states, proved reserves and inexhaustible sources of energy supply vast reservoirs of oil created over hundreds that will ultimately remove our dependence of millions of years will have been largely of oil are now only 7.5 times greater than dissipated in little more than a century­ annual production. With the exception of on fossil fuels. roughly in the period from the introduction large new oil discoveries in Mexico, no other These are sobering thoughts, but they are of the motor car and the conversion of the major discoveries have occurred worldwide hopeful thoughts. They represent your chal­ British Fleet from coal to oil. since the substantial OPEC prices increases lenge. With dedication and skill, I am con­ in 1973-1974. The evidence of the past four fident that you-and your fellow Ameri­ In the face of these stark and compelllng years has not been reassuring-small returns cans-will surmount this challenge. realities, there are· still some "optimists" on and dry holes off the Coast of Florida, in the Finally, it is incumbent on commencement energy matters who suggest the energy crisis Gulf of Alaska, and most recently, off the is not real and will solve itself without vigor­ speakers to offer to the departing graduates ous action by the Government and other Atlantic Coast. some comprehensive philosophy, some eternal sectors of society. These observers argue that The question then comes down to the verities--to guide them on their way. How­ a temporary oversupply of petroleum in to­ ability-and wlllingness-of OPEC to con­ ever, the Duke of Wellington offers the best day's world market is a precursor of ample tinue to meet rising world oil demand. Since advice to a speaker on occasions such as this: supplies of oil in the long term, that con­ there is little additional capacity to expand "Don't quote Latin, say what you have to sumption of energy will not increase as fast production outside of Saudi Arabia, the say, and sit down." It is excellent advice­ as the rate of economic growth in the future, technical capacity and willingness of the even, despite this academic setting, this that the rate of world economic growth will Saudis to increase production is of critical stricture on avoiding Latin. Let me, there­ (happily) remain low and thus restrain significance to the economic well-being of fore, simply offer once again my heartfelt the growth of demand for oil, and that the the entire world. Saudi Arabia has come to congratulations to the degree recipients--for world's supply and production capacity are be regarded as an energy cornucopia. Esti­ what you have already achieved and for the greater than conventional estimates. The mates of future Saudi production, which are challene:es that you will face in the future. overall impression is thereby left that the pure speculation, have in recent years gone Good luck and God speed.e energy picture is much improved today over as high as 20 million barrels a day. That is what it was last April when the President sheer speculation, if not fantasy. We cannot presented his National Energy Plan. · realistically expect Saudi Arabia to be the But the opposite is regrettably true. In world's oil panacea. At this juncture it ap­ PROTEST SOVIET ARREST OF major respects the energy outlook today is pears that Saudi production level of 12 mil­ H. JAY CRAWFORD even worse than it was a year ago. lion barrels a day by 1985 is realistic, that The hope that substantial reductions in would result in a total OPEC production demand will rescue the world from an energy level of 37-39 million barrels a day by 1985, HON. DAN QUAYLE compared to estimates of around 45 million crisis belles recent history and common OF INDIANA barrels a day just a year ago. sense. The fact that the ratio between energy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES demand and economic growth has dropped Even with efforts to conserve by major since the 1973-1974 embargo-as industry importing oountries other than the United Wednesday, June 21, 1978 and other consumers have adjusted to the States, there will likely be a gap between five-fold increase in prices-is no revelation. worldwide demand and worldwide supply by • Mr. QUAYLE. Mr. Speaker, 10 days These reductions in estimated future growth 1985-A gap that would bridge rapid price in­ ago on a Moscow street Soviet police in defll.and have been incorporated in de- creases and reduced output and employment suddenly dragged F. Jay Crawford, an 18382 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 American citizen and Moscow service sian Republic Criminal Code. Surely your of the genocide that is practiced whenever representative for the International government does not condone storm trooper Communism gains power. tactics on foreign nationals. Here is how Alexander Solzhenitsyn de­ Harvester Co., from his car placing him The treatment of Mr. Crawford and his scribes one of the reasons for the West's under arrest and he apparently will be continued detention without formal charges silence in the face of Communist barbari­ charged with currency violations under being lodged will undoubtedly deter other ties: "There seems to be little doubt, as article 88 of the Russian Republic Crim­ American businessmen in attempts to trade many now realize, that what is going on in inal Code. with the Soviet Union. They can only wonder the USSR [and other Communist countries) The arrest and detention of Mr. Craw­ whether they might someday experience is not simply something happening in one ford, who is a legal resident of Mobile, similar treatment. country, but is a foreboding of the future of International Harvester, which maintains man, and therefore deserving the fullest at­ Ala., should be of concern to all Ameri­ a large facility in the 4th District of Indiana, tention of t he Western observers. No, it is cans and especially to U.S. businessmen long has been a friendly trading partner not any difficulties of perception that the who are doing business with the Soviet with the Soviet Union. I am, to say the least, West is suffering, but a desire not to know, Union. puzzled that an International Harvester em­ an emotional preference for the pleasant It is incumbent upon those of us in the ployee would be the subject of this strange over the unpleasant. Such an attitude is gov­ Congress to join in protesting this storm­ arrest. erned by the spirit of Munich . .. ." trooper-like action by Soviet policemen. In my opinion, Mr. Crawford is being held Available evidence indicates that perhaps Other American businesses attempting as "hostage" in reprisal for the recent arrest 100 million persons have been destroyed by in this country of two Soviets who were the Communists; the imperviousness of the to trade with Russia can only wonder members of the United Nations Secretariat Iron and Bamboo curtains prevents a more whether their representatives will be sub­ staff on espionage charges. However, in this definitive figure. The Communist system of ject to such harassment in the future. instance, t he U.S. Courts have formally ar­ forced starvation, concentration camps, and According to press reports, Mr. Craw­ raigned the suspects, established bail, and slave labor is remarkably similar to that of ford may be a pawn in the current diplo­ set trial dates. the Nazis, whose policies claimed approxi­ matic maneuvering between the United Mr. Ambassador, I urge that immediate mately 6 million Jewish victims. States and the Soviet governments. He clarification be given of the circumstances Herewith, a partial catalogue of Commu­ is, in fact, a hostage in reprisal for the regarding Mr. Crawford's arrest. In the inter­ nism's record of inhumanity: est of the continued goodwill and friendly SOVIET UNION recent arrest in this country of two So­ relations of our two great Nations, I ask that viet.s who were members of the United if Soviet criminal code has been violated, he From its beginnings the Soviet Union has Nations secretariat staff on espionage be granted speedy and fair justice. If, on the fed on organized terror. Lenin himself spoke charges. other hand, he is only a pawn in current dip­ glowingly of the "real, nationwide terror, which reinvigorates the country." He added However, our courts have formally ar­ lomatic maneuvering between our govern­ ments, I demand that he be promptly freed. that the "energy and mass nature of the raigned the espionage suspects, estab­ Sincerely, terror must be encouraged." lished bail, and set trial dates. The Soviet DAN QUAYLE, Historian Robert Conquest calculates that police are continuing their pretrial in­ Member of Congress.e it has cost between 21.5 million and 32.2 vestigation of Mr. Crawford and he has million lives to "reinvigorate" the USSR. not yet been formally charged. (The late Senator Thomas Dodd estimated the cost at between 35 million and 45 mil­ There is little question that we may be lion lives.) Specific examples of this terror entering into a new and dangerous era THE HUMAN COST OF WORLDWIDE include ( 1 ) the trials and executions of in our relationship with the Soviet COMMUNISM children, (2) the government-inspired fam­ Union. The arrest of Jay Crawford and ine of 1932 that killed 5 million persons, and the manner in which he was taken into (3) Stalin's labor camps, which sent 12 mil­ custody can only result in a further de­ HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL lion Russians to their deaths. terioration of the spirit of detente and OF ILLINOIS The goal of Communist terror is to destroy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES all potential opposition. According to a the relations between Russia and the Ukranian party official in the mid-1930s, the United States. Wednesday, June 21, 1978 famine "was a test of our strength and [the It is important that we speak out and • Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, there is a peasants') endurance. It took a famine to assure the safety of American citizens curious sort of historical amnesia that show them who is master here. It has cost whether they are tourists or attempting afflicts many influential media and po­ millions of lives but the collective farm sys­ to do business with the Soviet Union. I tem is here to stay. We have won the war." litical opinion-makers in the United The Soviet execution rate may have been have today sent a letter of protest to States. Asked to comment on the num­ reduced since Stalin's Great Terror, but the Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin in Wash­ ber of political prisoners in Chile they Gulag continues at full force. The essential ington requesting immediate clarifica­ immediately respond with computer-like nature of Soviet Communism remains un­ tion of the intentions of the Russian accuracy. Asked about the record of changed. Government in regard to Jay Crawford. worldwide communism in its long and EASTERN EUROPE I urge my colleagues in the House to still vigorous war against human rights, Communist terrorism in Eastern Europe join in this protest. began with the 1939 Soviet invasion of these same articulate, informed men and Poland (at that time the Communists were Under leave to extend my remarks in women mumble generalities about "cold allied with the Nazis) . At Katyn Forest, the RECORD, I include the text of my let­ war rhetoric" and walk away. Mr. Todd Soviet troops machinegunned more than ter to the Soviet Ambassador to the Culbertson of the Richmond News 5,000 unarmed Polish prisoners of war. United States: Leader has taken the trouble to set the In 1944 the Communists refused to aid the JUNE 21, 1978. record straight concerning the record of Warsaw Uprising, which was timed to coin­ Hon. ANATOLY F . DOBRYNIN, communism. I hope this detailed and cide with the arrival of Marshal Konstanin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten­ persuasive article will help jog the mem­ Rokossovsky's First Belorussian Front. But tiary, Union of Soviet Socialist Repub­ instead of liberating Warsaw he halted his lic~. Washington, D.C. ories of those whose selective amnesia troops and watched as the Germans forced DEAR Mr. AMBASSADOR; I wish to express my makes them incapable of remembering a surrender. Approximately 15 ,000 Poles died; deep concern and register a strong protest or commenting upon Communist atroci­ those who escaped to Rokossovsky's lines over the arrest in Moscow of Mr. F . Jay ties. were arrested and sent to Siberia. Crawford, an American citizen and official At this point I wish to insert in the The Red Army's suppression of the Hun­ of the International Harvester Company, on RECORD, "The Human Cost of Worldwide garian Revolt of 1956 caused 15,000 casualties June 12, 1978. I respectfully request that this Communism" by Todd Culbertson, from in Bud3.pest alone. Communist troops fired protest be transmitted by you to the leader­ on-among others-nurses, Red Cross work­ ship of your Government in Moscow. the Richmond News Leader, June 9, 1978: ers, and children. More than 200,000 refugees The arrest of Mr. Crawford and the cir­ · fied to the West. cumstances surrounding his sudden appre­ THE HUMAN COST OF WORLDWIDE COMMUNISM In "The Bridge at Andau," the definitive hension can only result in a further deterior­ history of the Hungarian Revolt, James Mich­ ation of the spirit of detente and the rela­ (By Todd Culbertson) ener wrote, "At dawn, on November 4, 1956, tions between the Soviet Union and the The recent telecast of "Holocaust" awak­ Russian Communism showed its true charac­ United States. ened many viewers to the reality of Adolf ter to the world. With a ferocity and barbar­ It is inconceivable to me that an American Hitler's "final solution" for Europe's Jews. ism unmatched in recent history, it moved citizen would be dragged from his car by So­ Yet while the Free World is committed to its brutal tanks against a defenseless popu­ viet police on questionable charges of cur­ preventing a recurrence of Nazi barbarism, lation seeking escape from the terrors of rency violations under Article 88 of the Rus- it remains relatively unaware of the extent Communism, and destroyed it." June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18383

In Czechoslovakia the Communists purged of rule in mainland China under Mao Tse­ Feliciana Talanga, a refugee, describes Jews, Slovak nationalists, the Catholic clergy, tung. The cost in human terxns ... stands Angola under the Communists: "The troops and the middle class. In one six-week period as a formidable indictment of a half-century came in and set fire to our homes, driving more than 10,000 Czechs were "enrolled" in of Communist experience in China. us into the forest. Then a helicopter began concentration camps. "Operation Class War­ "There can be no rationalization for the shooting, killing, and wounding. We have fare" in 1949 caused the burning of many attack upon those qualities that have made lost everything ..." In the words of another of the country's libraries. Three years after the Chinese among the world's most ci v111zed refugee: "I was one of a handful of people the Communists seized power, 152,000 per­ humans. Their civilization has a long mem­ to survive out of a community of 700. I have sons had been executed or sent to slave-labor ory, and this is a period which wlll be re­ fl ve children. They were taken away and camps. membered as a blot on their approach to the killed, and my husband has disappeared." Writing about the Communist takeover in human condition.'' Thus an incomplete accounting of Com­ Czechoslovakia, New York Times correspond­ CAMBODIA munist genocide. Since the Russian Revolu­ ent Dana Adams Schmidt has noted, "I of­ tion 61 years ago Communism has been re­ ten felt I had been through this before. It Cambodia is today's most visible example sponsible for the death of 100 million inno­ was in Nazi ~rmany where I was a corre­ of Communist enormities. According to es­ cent persons-not including the terrorism spondent for two years .... The chief ob­ timates made a year ago, approximately 1.2 inspired by Communists in free countries. jects of the police persecution carried on by million Cambodians were murdered during The total cost in human suffering and grief the Nazis, with their race theories, were the the first two years of Communist rule. New is beyond comprehension. Jews. Under the Communists, with their estimates indicate that perhaps 2.5 million Many who watched "Holocaust" comforted class warfare, the pariah group is the bour­ have died since the Communist takeover in themselves in the belief that Nazi-inspired geoisie, who are the chief-although by no 1975. (If Cambodia's execution rate were ap­ genocide was a one-time occurrence, some­ means only--objects of police terror." plied to the U.S., more than 57 million Amer­ thing that "won't happen again." That is a Other Eastern European countries have icans would have to be killed.) delusion. State terror did not end in 1945. suffered similar consequences of Commu­ Life for Cambodians who thus far have It is continuing today in Africa, Asia, Europe, nist domination. In Bulgaria more than 16,000 avoided execution is little better than death and Latin America-wherever CommuniSm persons were liquidated in the first months itself. City dwellers have been force-marched wields power. of Communist rule. The Communist take­ to the countryside for slave labor. All persons It is popular to compare countries in terms over in Rumania was accomuanied by mass aged 15 or older must work 16 hours a day; of human rights. Indeed, President Carter arrests and executions. In Yugoslavia, Josip those under 15 work 12 hours. Children who has asserted that Cambodia is the world's Broz Tito ruthlessly eliminated opposition try to rest during work hours are killed. Love worst violator of them. Yet such pronounce­ to his Communist dictatorship and sup­ is outlawed; marriages are ordered by the ments miss a fundamental point: Commu­ p.ressed the Serbian and Croatian national­ government for reproductive purposes only. nism itself violates every moral precept that ists. Thousands of anguished and despairing has contributed to mankind's progress. Cam­ BALTIC STATES Cambodians have committed suicide. bodia merely is the latest example of Com­ The decades-long Soviet occupation of Lat­ The Communist regime is so brutal that munism's inherent barbarism. The Free via, Estonia, and Lithuania has been telling one former official who escaped to the West World's abiding failure to depict Commu­ and grotesque. As many as 1.2 million Lith­ because he could take no more claims that nism's true face is willful blindness surely uanians were liquidated or deported to slave Cambodian authorities have deliberately in­ equaling the West's blindness to the Holo­ labor camps during the first 15 years of stigated border battles with Vietnam and caust four decades ago. Communist rule. In 1962 the population of Thailand to reduce the number of refugees. The Lithuanian Jewish leader Julius Mar­ Lithuania was less than it was in 1939. VIETNAM golin, who survived seven years in a Com­ In hts autobiography, ballet dancer Valery Under the leadership of the late Ho Chi munist concentration camp, has provided Panov, who defected from the Soviet Union Minh, North Vietnam was one of the Com­ eloquent testimony to Communist brutality: in 1974, describes how as a child he watched munist bloc's most ruthless dictatorships. "Until the fall of 1939, I had assumed a the mass deportations of the Lithuanian The so-called "Land Reforms" of 1953-1956 position of benevolent neutrality toward the middle class: "The convoy returned toward sent 500,000 persons to their deaths. The USSR. .. . The last seven years have made tw111ght. It made for the railroad station 1956-1959 "People's Tribunals" ordered the me a convinced and ardent foe of the Soviet with a cargo of families crushed into each execution of another 200,000. system with all the strength of my heart and cart and truck. Guarded by soldiers with Since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, all the power of my mind. Everything I have tommy guns, the adults already wore a con­ the Communists have been exporting their seen there has filled me with horror and dis­ vict look, made even more haggard by their brand of terror to the South. Some 30,000 gust which will last until the end of my days. inability to explain their uprooting to their Vietnamese who worked with Americans were "I feel that the struggle against this system bewildered children .... rounded up in one drive; 1 million South of slavery, terrorism, and cruelty which pre­ "All evening packed wagons passed by, Vietnamese have been forcibly shipped to the vails there constitutes the primary obligation people moaning inside them. Even children North; yet another 500,000 languish in con­ of every man in this world. Tolerance or ·sup­ my own age were weeping. Pregnant women centration camps, which are euphemistically port of such an international shame is not had fainted. I ran home, where my father called "Re-education Camps." permissible for people who are on this side ordered me to be worthy of myself as a So­ Nguyen Cong Hoan, a former member of of the Soviet border and who live under viet lad, since 'those people are the bourgeois the Communist government, says that normal conditions.... enemy.'" 100,000 persons have been slaughtered and "Since they came into being, the Soviet RED CHINA that 1 million more have been forced out camps have swallowed more people, have ex­ According to Richard Walker, director of of the cities and into the "New Economic ecuted more victims than all the other the Institute for International Studies at Zones"-i.e., into agricultural collectives. Be­ camps-Hitler's included-together... . the University of South Carolina, Commun­ cause the conditions are so primitive in the "And those who in reply only shrug their ism-connected casualties on mainland China collective, few are expected to live. shoulders and try to dismiss the issue with 64 may exceed million persons. In just the LAOS vague and meaningless generalities, I con­ Political Liquidation Campaigns (1949-1958), Laos is so cut off from the West by its sider moral abstainers and accomplices in 30 million Chinese may have been killed. banditry."e Walker notes, "It is worth remembering overlords that little is known about the ex­ that at the very moment in June, 1971, when tent of Communist terror there. Yet 200,000 [Western] reporters were commenting on Laotians, in a country with fewer than 4 Mao Tse-tung's creation of the new Chinese million, have fled. man (see for example Seymour Topping's CUBA JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH TALKS dispatches in The New York Times), troops Cuba ranks among the world's most vicious ABOUT OUR ECONOMY of the People's Liberation Army were ma­ and pervasive police states. Castro's prisons chinegunning scores of their fellow Chinese hold more than 20,000 political prisoners. As who were attempting to escape to Hong Kong a percentage of total population, that is the HON. HENRY S. REUSS from Mao's new paradise. highest concentration of political prisoners OF WISCONSIN "Many of the youths drowned in the at­ to total population of any country anywhere. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tempt, and others-the few-who made it Moreover, the Cubans are busy exporting told stories which were reported in the Hong Communist oppression to Africa and Latin Wednesday, June 21, 1978 Kong press, but were omitted in the euphoria America. • Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, John Ken­ that surrounded the first American direct ANGOLA neth Galbraith recently addressed our access to Communist China for journalists During the past several months, Cuban colleagues at a dinner sponsored by the and a few specialists in more than two stormtroopers supporting the Communist decades." Congressional Clearinghouse on the Fu­ regime in Angola have murdered more than ture, and he warned that tax cuts and Walker continues: 70,000 women and children. Cuba also has "The time is at hand to break away from entered the slave trade: Angolan children be­ other measures designed to stimulate the kind of double entry moral bookkeeping tween the ages of 10 and 17 are taken from the economy are only temporary solu­ which has characterized the approach of all their parents and shipped to Cuba to work tions. The text of his presentation too many Western intellectuals to the facts in the cane fields. follows: 18384 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978

The best way to look at the tuture is to needed in the future, I would prefer a change Q. If we assume we are not going to solve look at the historical process. For the next in fiscal policy rather than monetary policy. the energy problem and if government ten years, we wUl see that the central prob­ Fiscal policy changes cut consumption while doesn't move any faster, what will be the lem is how democratic societies come to grips monetary policy takes it all out of capital scenario that you see? What effect will our with the realization of the democratic per­ formation. doing nothing have on the total economic sonality-of people realizing that they can The second reason is that we have larger activity? take control of their lives. Other industrial military expenditures. The Germans and FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN U.S. RISKY countries are making substantial progress Japanese are industrial successes because of in this area. It is time for us to catch up. A. I am not sure how it would affect in­ their loss in WWII which limited their mili­ ternal economic activity. I am worried about Economics is a way we have of looking at tary expenditures. Our defense spending is the imbalance which produces a lot of money what is happening in our society, but you a constant drain on our capital resources. which among other things leads to massive need to remember that when you are deal­ Q. Would you comment on the Puritan investment in this country. I don't think ing with economics you are dealing in dy­ work ethic. As we have increasing world this is a prudent risk to run. namics. In inspection into the nature of eco­ population, industrialization and cyberna­ Q. In the 60's, 3% was a bad rate of infla­ nomics reveals that it has a rapid rate or tion, we are destined not to be able to have tion. What level would you settle for if we change. Economists think they possess static full employment. did limit incomes? and eternal truths, yet when they were asked A. I don't think that's right. I think we A. I'm not sure. We should not expect that what to do about the depression, they didn't have a surplus in some areas of the U.S.­ any system will wipe out inflation. But have much to say and were of little help. like the urban areas. I would argue against you've put your finger on the tendency to A golden age of economics were the post­ your proposition that a modern industrial accommodate inflation with unemployment. war years ... the 50's and 60's. Prices were economy runs short of work. I would at­ We should not expect any system of re­ stable, we had high employment, we ex­ tribute it to something else-liquidation of straints to set flat prices; 3-4-5% would be panded the economy by reducing interest rural poverty. I see this as a temporary sur­ better than rigidity. rates, and public expenditures expanded. It plus. The day will come when we will run Q. I come from a state in which the gov­ was always pleasant. During the 60's there out of workers to do the labor of our society. ernor recognizes that "small is beautiful." was a vigorous discussion between Walter Then we will look abroad. A characteristic Do you share that view and what kind of Heller and myself. Heller thought that you of the modern economy is the way we have economy fits into that view? should reduce taxes to expand the economy to look abroad for as~embly-line labor. Yet A. I was reminiscing with Jerry Brown and I argued that you s~ould expand expend­ we don't talk about it. The Swiss work force about Fritz Schumacher a few weeks ago. itures. Both of us knew that President is made up of 25% non-Swiss. Germans no You know Fritz was my assistant during Kennedy would like to hear what both of us longer I!lake automobiles. Can you imagine WWII. He was one of the finest men I have had to say. It was a good time to be an econ­ what food prices would be in this country ever known. The concepts of limits to growth omist. if Americans picked it? and small is beautiful are very important. The next period has brought us into a Q. I have two questions. (1) We are lec­ But Fritz saw much more flexibility in eco­ realization of the democratic ethos. More tured by foreign countries about our eco­ nomics than in fact there is. But there is people want to have control over their lives nomic balance and trade deficit and our an intermediate stage that might be appro­ and that means they want to have control energy problems. It's very difficult to com­ priate tb lesser stages of development. The over their income. There has come to be a municate these problems to the people in our notion of limits was very valuable when desire to escape from imp~rsonally deter­ district. Would you comment on how we Fritz brought it up. People with fresh points mined income and prices. Large corporations might improve that situation? (2) How far of view are important-those who think the have control over prices and the individuals do we go in extending free trade when there "impossible" is possible. in it have control over their income. The up­ is no reciprocal arrangement? Q. People who have control bver income ward pressure of income and prices is a new A. I will address the last question first. aren't hurt by inflation. But some people force in the economy. And the inward pres­ I have never been totally in favor of free are hurt by it, so some are talking about sure of income gains strength as time passes. trade. The notion of an interrelated trading . indexing. What would happen then? This is the dilemma we are contending with community is a good one. But it doesn't re­ and will be contending with for some years A. That is an important question. I have to come. quire suffering of particular groups or polit­ been reluctant to endorse mass indexing. ical suicide. American agriculture is enor­ It's complex and difficult. Hbw do you index Today, economists have again gotten out mously dependent on foreign markets-so it personal savings, for example? If we accepted of phase with the times. They think that in serves as a barrier to protectionism. Multi­ indexing, it probably wouldn't help much. a modern economy there can be no shortage national corporation are also barriers to But I accept indexing for cost of living ad­ of purchasing power and that something wUl protectionism. justments in wage/price adjustments. This occur to restore equilibrium. But we see an On your first question, we need to get our is part of the bargain. You can have selected adjustment which is the spiral of unemploy­ oil imports under control, put a ceiling on indexing. ment. The older economic ideas offered inap­ them and adjust domestic policy so that we propriate policies for solution ... such as can live with what we can afford. I think INFLATION AND CONSTITUENTS interest rate hikes, increased taxes, or cuts in your constituents could understand that if Q. Inflation is on the mind of our constit­ the public expenditure. Only after substan­ we could begin taking action. uents. How do we respond to them when tial unemployment is there a restraint put they say that temporary wage/ price re­ on prices. This is the reason the Administra­ Q. The phenomenon of people wanting au­ straints cause problems when removed, and tion is struggling with voluntary restraints, thority over their income interests me. You permanent ones affect the nature of our trying to encourage labor unions to adopt mentioned wage/ price restraints. Do you economy? voluntary restraints. They recognize this recommend that government impose such problem. restraints? How do you reconcile this with A. Every incentive worked into the tax the need for control over income? system has the possibility of becoming a How should Congress react to the subject loophble. I do not think that this changes of economics? You must remember that we A. You cite the basic conflict here: we the structure of our economy. Our economy tend to learn economics not from professors, are defining the problems. This is the heart changed when large corporations began to but from situations. of the economic/ political problem which I produce so much. Changing from private to don't want to minimize. But we can't accept public restraints dbes not change the nature QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS unemployment as a way to control the of the economy. I would not like to say that Q. I have a growing feeling that a major economy, nor can we accept inflation. Both are unevenly distributed. The impact is al­ restraints should be permanent, but in a economic problem of the future will be cap­ world of large corporations, it is necessary. ital formation. Capital is formed on a much ways on the weak. The challenge is to evolve more limited basis than before and by large a consensual arrangement with trade unions NO TAX CUT corporations. This used to be done by entre­ and mandatory sanctions for non-complying Q. What do we do now in Congress? Pass preneurs. Do you agree and what reasons do employers. This is not needed for small busi­ a tax cut or none or a medium-sized one? you give for this development? ness where the economic system still works. A. None. The economy needs stimulation. A. I couldn't agree with you more. This is But we must allow for cost of living in­ If we need fiscal stimulation, do it in central an extension of the historical process I creases. cities. That is the least infia tionary part of sketched. The first reason for it is that in The Germans and Austrians have a social our economy. I'm encouraged by your re­ the last ten years, with inflation, the easiest market policy where the prices will not go sistance to a tax reduction and urge you to way to deal with capital formation has been out of line with wages. The British have a continue to persevere. to turn to the Federal Reserve and increase formalized system. The French also have Q. We Members of Congress wonder if interest rates. But this is the source of money such a system. We are the only industrial we are merely tinkering with our society­ for small business poeple. Relying on mone­ country which is coming to this develop­ doing a little with pieces here e;nd there. tary policy is relying on a system of restraints ment last. Other industrial countries have Does this change the way decisions are made that hurts the small business. If restraint is resolved this to some degree. in the private sector? What other tools June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18385 should we use? How could we be more bold Today, I am introducing a bill to en­ In about three-quarters of the industries, in the next 2-5 years? courage the commercialization of meth­ productivity growth was less in 1977 than A. The system lends itself to infinity of anal/ethanol-producing plants for the 1976. This slowdown is consistent with the patching. I would like to see an emphasis on situation in the nonfarm business sector of the problem of public management. We production of alcohol fuels. The bill has the economy where productivity grew 2.2 per­ don't press for a measure of public perform­ two provisions: The first is designed to cent in 1977 as compared with 4.1 percent in ance as we did in the past. More attention make construction of a methanol/etha­ 1976. needs to be paid to managerial skills. But nol plant more attractive for private Among the key industries covered, motor that's not what I would stress. I would stress enterprise by providing for a rapid amor­ vehicle manufacturing recorded an above­ welfare reform; get some incentive into that tization period of 5 years, the second average gain of 7.0 percent, reflecting a large system. It would also lift a load off the big would provide for a Federal excise tax increase in output of 14.5 percent, as demand cities. was up for all types of motor vehicles, and a We must recognize that where there is a exemption on fuels at least 10 percent alcohol. gain of 7.0 percent in employee-hours. This basic fiscal defect in our system-urbaniza­ productivity advance was slightly lower than tion, population growth, high standard of The rapid amortization period should the 8.7 percent increase in 1976, which also living-the public costs go overwhelmingly be an attraction for industries interested was based on a very large gain in output. On to the big cities. But revenues accrue to the in energy development. An exemption the other hand, the steel industry posted a federal government. The problems go one below-average increase in productivity of place and the remedies go to another. Welfare from the Federal excise tax for alcohol/ gasoline blends will provide an incentive 1.5 percent, based on a gain in output of reform would redistribute this. In the past we 2.4 percent and an increase in employee­ corrected the problem in the area of agricul­ for consumers to try this new fuel. An hours of 0.9 percent. This small productivity ture. I would like to see the welfare burden average car with a 15-gallon tank could gain contrasts sharply with the 7.3 percent removed from the citi'es. save 60 cents per fill-up by buying alco­ advance in 1976. Q. Are you concerned about the concentra­ hol/gasoline-blended fuel. People would tion of wealth in the hands of a few? Productivity increases were recorded by a A. Power associated with ownership of also have the satisfaction of knowing number of other manufacturing industries. assets hasn't concerned me. Capitalists that they are contributing to develop­ The largest gainers in~luded the sugar indus­ (owners) lose power and it goes into the ment and utilization of alternative fuels try, which posted an advance of 16.4 percent; bureaucracy. That's why rich people go into which are renewable and cause less synthetic fibers, which grew 14.0 percent; politics. There is no power in private owner­ pollution.• metal cans, with 7.6 percent; major house­ ship. But I think a good society spreads hold appliances, with 7.3 percent; gray iron wealth as much as possible, so from that foundries, with 6.1 percent; and hydraulic perspective such concentration disturbes me. cement, with 5.9 percent. In contrast, sig­ Income redistribution needs to be more PRODUCTIVITY: THE FIGURES TELL nificant productivity dec'ines were recorded equitable in America.e by a number of manufacturing industries in THE STORY 1977. These .included clay refractories ( -7.4 percent), ftour and other grain mill prod­ ucts ( -7.1 percent), footwear ( -4.3 per­ HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE cent), and hoisery ( -3.7 percent). GASOHOL DEMONSTRATION OF NEW YORK All of the mining industries covered reg­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES istered declines in productivity in 1977. The Wednesday, June 21, 1978 most noteworthy was coal mining, which HON. DAVID F. EMERY posted its ninth consecutive decline in pro­ OF MAINE e Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, the lag­ ductivity, dropping 1.2 percent. A slight out­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ging productivity of the American econ­ put increase of 1.2 percent combined with a production-worker hours increase of 2.4 per­ Wednesday, June 21, 1978 omy is a subject which has long con­ cerned me. When American-made prod­ cent to produce the productivity decline. In • Mr. EMERY. Mr. Speaker, there is a ucts are no longer competitive in the iron mining (usable ore), productivity fell considerable amount of interest both by 6.4 percent, while copper mining (recov­ world markets, it is too easy to look out­ erable metal) and non-metallic minerals here in Congress and across the Nation side for causes and excuses, when one both dropped 1.5 percent. in the potential of alcohol fuels. The large part of the problem can be found Among the transportation industries, pe­ possibility of decreasing our dependence within industry itself. Sluggish growth in troleum pipelines recorded a large gain of 8.1 on foreign energy sources while provid­ productivity is the responsibility of both percent, as output posted a large advance ing a new market for agricultural sur­ the American worker and the industry due in part to the opening of the Alaska pluses increases the attractiveness of im­ for which he works, and protectionist pipeline. Intercity trucking was up by 5.9 plementing alcohol fuels into our society. remedies are only temporary solutions percent, with output growing 8.9 percent. Witness the statewide trend across the to a problem that ultimately will demand Air transportation gained 4.7 percent, as Nation of subsidizing State gasoline tax output grew 7.4 percent, while railroads the attention and efforts of us all. (revenue traffic) grew 2.4 percent, as output exemptions on each gallon of gasohol One June 14, 1978, the Bureau of Labor posted an above average gain of 3.7 percent. sold. Iowa, Illinois, Colorado, and Ne­ Statistics released figures on productivity In other nonmanufacturing industries, braska each participate in this. Califor­ growth in several U.S. industries, gasoline service stations had a significant nia is nearing a similar program, while and these figures are telling. Not increase of 7.6 percent, laundry and clean­ New York is close to approving a test only does the United States compare ing services grew 4.6 percent, telephone :fleet of gasohol-fueled cars. Nebraska communications was up 4.4 percent, and has also aided in organizing approxi­ poorly with the rest of the industrial franchised new car dealers gained by 4.3 world, but our productivity growth has percent. Small increases were posted by gas mately 20 States into the National Gaso-: slipped substantially behind the rates hoi Commission. and electric utilities (1.6 percent), hotels of just a year or two ago. In some in­ and motels ( 1.0 percent) , and retail food Witness the gasohol demonstration stances there has even been a decline in stores ' 0.8 percent), while eating and drink­ sponsored thus far by 15 Congressmen, the rate of productivity from 1976 to ing places dropped by 1.0 percent. Senators, and the American Automobile 1977. We cannot sit idly by and allow this The attached table presents indexes of Association, to be held June 28-30. To state of affairs to continue. Government, output per employee-hour for the selected demonstrate the applicability of gasohol, labor, and management must join forces industries for the last 7 years. Additional a tankful of blended 10 percent alco­ to improve both productivity and the data for these measures, such as average hol/90 percent gasoline will be offered to rates of change for all the components of the quality of working life in American in­ measures, are available from the BLS upon Members of Congress, the executive, dustry. interested organizations, and the media. request. The forthcoming bulletin, "Produc­ A summary of the BLS report follows: tivity Indexes for Selected Industries, 1978 For details see the CONGRESSIONAL Edition," will include data back to 1947 for RECORD June 19, page 18243. BLS REPORTS ON INDUSTRY PRODUCTIVITY FOR 1977 many industries. Data on output per hour Finally, witness the administration's of all persons and related cost measures for national energy plan. While the Senate's Productivity, as measured by output per employee hour, increased in 1977 in more the private business sector as well as non­ tax version of the plan provides :lor a than half of the industries regularly covered farm business, manufacturing, and nonfi­ Federal excise tax exemption on fuels at by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. nancial corporations are reported in the least 10 percent alcohol, the House ver­ Department of Labor. In 1976, productivity quarterly BLS press release, "Productivity sion does not. increased in almost every industry measured. and Costs." CXXIV--1157-Part 14 18386 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978

INDEXES OF OUTPUT PER EMPLOYEE-HOUR IN SELECTED INDUSTRIES, 1971-77, AND PERCENT CHANGES, 1976-77 [1967=H01

Percent SIC Code Industry 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 11977 f~M-~7

MINING2 lOlL .•••.•.••...•• Iron mining, crude ore ••••••••••••••••••••••• 117.1 124.4 126.7 118.1 117.0 119.3 112.8 -5.5 1011 •••••.••..•••.. Iron mining1 usable ore •••••••••••••••••••••• 112.4 118.8 119.9 108.7 107.0 106.7 99.9 -6.4 1021...... •••...... Copper mimng, crude ore ....••.•••••••••••••• 121.2 118.1 117.7 117.6 128.9 143.2 136.3 -4.8 1021. ..•.•.•.•.•..• Copper mining, recoverable metaL •••••••••••• 104.9 102.5 97.0 89.0 96.4 112.8 111.1 -1.5 111, 12L •••..••••. Coal mining ....••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 19.0 84.2 83.9 82.6 74.9 73.4 72.5 -1.2 121. .•..••.•...... Bituminous coal and lignite mining •••••••••••• 91.5 83.9 83.4 82.1 74.7 72.9 72.5 -.5 14 ••••.•••••••••.•• Nonmetallic minerals •••••••••••••••••••••••• 117.2 121.7 127.5 124.8 122.5 125.3 123.4 -1.5 142 •••••••••.•••.•. Crushed and broken stone •••••••••••••••••••• 121.9 128.2 139.5 136.9 137.6 133.6 128.3 -4.0 MANUFACTURING 203 •.....•.•.•..••. Canning and preserving •••••••••••••••••••• :. 112.6 114.8 125.6 122.6 124.8 132.4 (I) 204 ..•••••••••.•.•. Grain mill products •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 114.1 116.9 115.8 123.9 124.9 131.7 (3) ~:~ 2041 ..•...•...... Flour and other grain mill products •••••••••••• 110.0 114.3 lll. 9 116.2 116.8 119.6 lll.1 -7.1 2043 .•••••.•••.•. __ Cereal breakfast foods ••••••• __ ••• __ •• _••••• _ 106.7 112.8 lll. 0 105.3 107.7 112.8 (l) 2044 ••.•.•.•••. : ... Rice milling .•• ••••••••••••••• ------. 102.2 115.3 100.3 115.2 lll. 7 109.7 2045 ••.•...•..•.... Blended and prepared flour •• ..••••••••••••••• 112.1 103.6 103.5 116.4 104.7 108.2 3) 2046 ...... ••.... Wet corn milling ______106.9 138.9 123.3 150.6 152.7 168.7 3) ~!!(I t(3) 2047, 48 ....•...... Prepared feeds for animals and fowls ••••••••• • 119.9 115.9 118.5 127.1 129.5 138.3 108.1 113.7 113.1 112.9 112.7 112.8 115.9 2.<'J ~~i~62~6"3.~~~ ==~== g~~:?_ ~~~~~~~s_·:~= = == ~ ~=== ~= ~======~ ~ ~ 110.1 117.4 114.0 110.0 108.1 lll. 4 129.7 16.4 2065 •.••...... •..• Candy and confectionery products ••••••••••••• 114.6 128.7 137.3 149.0 136.0 126.9 (3) (3) 2082 ••...... ------_ Malt beverages ------••••• 125.1 139.3 153.2 157.2 175.3 192.9 188.5 -2.3 2086 ...••..•.••••.. Bottled and canned soft drinks •.•••••••••••••• lll. 2 114.2 119.5 120.9 129.5 142.6 147.4 3.3 2111,21, 3L ...... Tobacco products-totaL •••••••••••••••••••• 109.7 110.0 108.1 lll. 9 114.2 119.3 118.9 -.3 2111, 31.. .•••••••.. Cigarettes, chewing and smoking tobacco •.••••• 105.6 106.1 104.9 106.5 110.3 114.1 113.7 -.3 120.1 120.1 116.8 128.6 126.5 137.1 137.0 -.1 U~~~ 5L: ~= ~ ~ ~== ~: 2~s~~~~;_·:::: =~~=: =~~ =~~ ~ =~ ~ ~: ~ ~ ~~ ~~= :::: ~ ~: 120.9 139.2 147.7 168.5 191.6 219.5 211.4 -3.7 2421. •.....•...... • Sawmills and planing mills, generaL •••••••••• 110.0 120.6 112.9 108.2 112.7 118.2 116.6 -1.4 2611,21,31, 61. ••.. Paper, paperboard and put~ mills ••••••••••••• 119.9 130.0 135.4 135.2 128.0 139.5 138.6 -.6 2653 ••.••....•.•... Corrugated and solid fiber oxes •••••••••••••• 118.5 121.6 130.2 137.7 142.2 148.0 146.5 -1.0 2823, 24 ...••••••... Shnthetic fibers ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 140.7 162.2 176.8 173.1 187.2 198.4 226.3 14.0 2834 ••.•.•.....•... P armaceutical preparations . ••••••••••••••••• 125.7 134.9 132.1 141.3 145.4 152.2 158.8 4. 3 285L •....•••••••.. Paints and allied products •••••••••••••••••••• 114.4 119.1 111.8 123.3 128.7 131.9 (I) (3) 2911...... •..... Petroleum refining_.------·················· 109.5 120.5 132.4 121.4 123.7 128.3 132.7 3.4 3011...... •...... Tires and inner tubes ••••••••••••••••..••••.• 114.0 118.2 116.7 116.3 115.7 127.6 128.6 .8 314 ...... •...•.•.•. Footwear ••• ____ •• ______•• __ •••• __ •• ____ •• 105.9 103.1 102.0 100.3 104.8 105.5 100.9 -4.3 322L ...... __ ------Glass containers ••••• __ •• ______.••••• ______.• 107.8 107.7 112.9 121.6 120.9 121.2 118.6 -2.2 121.5 123.7 129.7 119.0 110.6 120.7 127.7 5. 9 ~~~~::: :::::::::::: ~fr~~~~~;l ~~~:~t_._:: :::: :::::::::::::::::: =~ 122.8 127.3 131.7 134.6 132.0 138. 1 132.7 -3.9 3251, 53, 59 .••••.... Clay construction products.------126.7 130.4 133.0 130.7 132.2 140.1 136.0 -2.9 109.3 116.4 125.6 143.9 127.6 130,3 120.7 -7.4 111.7 113.7 115.9 116.4 113.3 116.3 (1) 102.5 104.8 109.0 105.7 102.7 104.0 ~·>I) (I~ !!!!~ ;~~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~1~~~~?!~~?!~~~~~e~~~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ 104.8 111.1 123.9 123.5 108.6 116.5 118.2 1. 113.0 118.9 124.2 128.0 126.7 125.6 133.3 6.1 ~~~k2L :::::::::: g~=~l i{g~n~r~;:_r~~~:::: :::::::::::::::::::::: 100.4 106.0 107.6 118.'5 113.6 lll. 5 111.4 -.2 3331, 32, 33 ....•.... Primary copper, lead, and zinc ______121.4 135.2 140.6 127.6 125.6 141.7 144.9 2. 3 3334 •.. ____ .. __ .... Primary aluminum •••••.. __ •. __ •• ______•• __ 113.8 112.2 111.1 122.8 105.8 110.8 112.5 1. 5 3351. ..•...... Copper rollinll and drawing ______109.6 112.2 117.7 106.3 94.7 105.4 108.5 3.0 3353, 54, 55 .••••.... Aluminum rolling and drawing ______119.9 140.5 154.7 157.9 142.5 166.0 166.0 (') 341L .. ______Metal cans •••••.•• __ •• ______105. 1 108.0 109.2 113.3 116.0 122.3 131.6 7.6 3631, 32, 33, 39. ____ Major household appliances •••••• ______121.4 133.0 135.1 134.9 140.7 145.3 155.9 7. 3 3651. •••..• ______Radio and television receiving sets ••••• ______111.6 132.2 128.5 124.4 125.0 135.3 (1) (I) 371..------·---- Motor vehicles and equipment. ••••••••••••••• 119.0 123.7 126.7 121.1 129.4 140.6 150.4 7. 0 OTHER 401 Class'------Railroads, revenue traffic ______lll. 9 121.7 133.2 129.6 124.0 127.7 130.8 2. 4 401 Class I.------Railroads, car-miles ______108.2 115.5 119.2 116.2 115.5 117.7 117. 1 -.5 4213 PT •••••••••••• Intercity trucking •------113.6 120.9 123.4 120.5 121.2 134.7 142.6 5. 9 4213 PT ·--- ______Intercity trucking (general freight) • ______108.0 114.7 122.1 118.9 109.8 (1) (1) 116.8 128.7 131.3 133.0 134.6 146.7 153.6 4,<•J :~g~iL:: :::::::: ~~tr~eni~o~l~~ft~:s.-~: :::::::::::::::::::::: 124.1 142.7 156.4 156.5 154.5 153.2 165.6 8. 1 481 L ____ .. ______Telephone communications. ______•• 118.7 123.2 129.9 139.3 152.6 168.1 175.5 4. 4 491,92, 93 .••...... Gas and electric utilities ______123.3 128.6 131.2 128.8 132.3 135.8 137.9 1.6 54 ______Retail food stores a______114.9 113.2 107.1 103.5 106.1 105.0 105.9 .8 5511 •...... •...... Franchised new car dealers ______113.3 116.9 119.5 116.2 122.4 130.6 136.3 4. 3 5541. .. ------Gasoline service stations a______124.6 127.2 136.1 142.6 136.8 149.4 160. 7 7, 6 58 ______Eating and drinking places a______103.1 104.4 105.4 103.5 105.4 106.3 105.2 -1.0 7011.·------Hotels and motels a______92.0 109.4 109.9 102.9 101.2 105.4 106.5 1.0 72L ______laundry and cleaning services a______102.9 107.0 109.6 107.3 104.1 105.5 110.4 4.6

1 Preliminary. • Output per employee. 2 Mining data refer to output per production worker hour. s Output per hour of all persons. 3 Not available. e Less than 0.05 percent. e

THE BIRDIE AND THE BEAR Reston's column warns the Soviets of curately re:fiects the quality of his polit­ the terrible risks of allowing golf to ical insights. I will let you think about :flourish in the workers' paradise: that one for a while, Mr. Speaker, while HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL It diverts an inordinate amount of time I insert into the RECORD at this point, OF ILLINOIS from work, separates families, encourages "Moscow's Fatal Mistake" by James Res­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES excessive drinking and leads inevitably to ton of the New York Times: self-doubt and long agonies of psychological Wednesday, June 21, 1978 depression. Moscow's FATAL MISTAKE • Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, James I think that is a rather gloomy assess­ (By James Reston) Reston of the New York Times recently ment of the game. Golf can be a very The first hot-weather or silly-season news of the year comes from Moscow. It was an­ pointed out that there soon may be an good way of learning the truth about nounced there the other day that Armand 18-hole golf course in the Soviet Union. one's self and one's fellow man. I have Hammer of Texas, Russia's favorite capital­ At present there are no golf courses in had the pleasure of playing golf with ist, had offered to build the first 18-ho1e that country, a fact which may or may the distinguished Speaker of the House championship golf course in the Soviet not be a provocative act under interna­ and I can say without fear of contradic­ Union, and that the offer had been accepted tional law. tion that the way he plays golf very ac- personally by President Leonid Brezhnev. No June 21, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18387 doubt they will call it the Hammer & Sickle be careful. Let him build it, with the widest 1:00 p.m. Country Club. possible fairways, no traps, no high rough, no Conferees This may be Moscow's biggest mistake glass-fast greens, and no publicity. On S. 1633, to extend certain Federal since the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact. Every­ You may be able to deal with the Chinese, benefits, services, and assistance to the thing abtmt golf goes against the Soviet you have produced 900 million people partly Pascua Yaqui Indians of Arizona. view of life. Golf is not a collective but a because they stayed home and didn't play 8-207, Capitol highly individualistic enterprise. It takes golf, and you may be able to handle the JUNE 26 land out of agricultural production. It di­ Japanese, who are nutty about golf, but you 9:30a.m. verts an inordinate amount of time from can't conquer the world and conquer golf at Select Small Business work, separates families, encourages exces­ the same time. You will have to choose Monopoly and Anticompetitive Activities sive drinking, and leads inevitably to self­ between Hammer and his golfing anvil. The Subcommittee doubt and ltmg agonies of psychological de­ guess here is that you can either conquer To resume hearings on the Federal Gov­ pression. This is not exactly what the Soviet the world or learn to play golf, but that you ernment patent policy. Union needs, considering all its other prob­ can't do both.e 318 Russell Building lems. 10:00 a.m. No doubt Mr. Hammer made his offer in Energy and Natural Resources the spirit of detente and the reduction of Parks and Recreation Subcommittee international tensions, but gt>lf is an addic­ SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS To hold hearings on S. 3163, proposed tion, like vodka, and produces more physical Urban Park and Recreation Recovery and mental tensions than any other form of Title IV of the Senate Resolution 4, Act. human activity, with the possible exception agreed to by the Senate on February 4, 3110 Dirksen Building of sex. 1977, calls for establishment of a system Governmental Affairs Be very careful with this deal, Mr. Brezh­ for a computerized schedule of all meet­ Energy and Nuclear Proliferation Sub­ nev. If you're worried about the invasion of ings and hearings of Senate committees, committee ideas and habits from the West, golf may be subcommittees, joint committees, and To hold hearings on postal reorganiza­ the most subversive of them all. It is a game committees of conference. This title re­ tion legislation. of traps, pitfalls, bushes, and ambushes, defy­ 3302 Dirksen Building quires all such committees to notify the Judiciary ing all biological facts. Put it to the Soviet Office of the Senate Daily Digest-des­ Academy of Sciences and they will tell you Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee that it goes against all the laws of physics ignated by the Rules Committee-of. the To hold hearings on oil company owner­ to swing the human body around in curves, time, place, and purpose of all meetings ship of common carrier pipelines. and still hit a small ball straight onto narrow when scheduled, and any cancellations 2228 Dirksen Building little rivulets of green grass surrounded by or changes in meetings as they occur. Joint Economic Saharas of sand. The history of this devilish Priorities and Economy in Government As an interim procedure until the Subcommittee conspiracy should be sufficient warning to computerization of this information be­ any prudent Communist. As is well known, To meet in closed session to receive golf was invented by the Church of Scotland comes operational the Office of the Sen­ testimony from CIA Director Turner as a punishment for the sinful nature of ate Daily Digest will prepare this infor­ on a review of the economy of the man. After the border wars, it was Scotland's mation for printing in the Extensions of U.S.S.R. revenge for the arrogance of England, and Remarks section Of the CONGRESSIONAL 5302 Dirksen Building there are historians of sound mind who hold REcORD on Monday and Wednesday of 3:00p.m. it directly responsible for the decline of the Conferees each week. On H.R. 11504, to improve Federal credit British Empire. Any changes in committees scheduling Even today, wherever you find bitter strife assistance programs for farmers, in the world, you will usually find golf: will be indicated by placement of an ranchers, and rural communities and Ireland, South Africa, Rhodesia, Israel, India, asterisk to the left of the name of the businesses. and Pakistan. The first thing your bearded unit conducting such meetings. 8-207, Capitol buddy, Fidel Castro, did when he seized power Meetings scheduled for Thursday, JUNE 27 in Cuba was to close down the Havana Coun­ 8:00a.m. June 22, 1978, may be found in Daily Energy and Natural Resources try Club and plow up every other golf course Digest of today's RECORD. on that island. By this act alone he liberated Energy Production and Supply Subcom­ over 40,000 Cubans for the conquest of Africa. MEETINGS SCHEDULED mittee. To hold hearings on S. 3189, to authorize Mr. Brezhnev has clearly not considered the JUNE 23 the Secretary of the Interior to ex­ basic conflict between golf, an expensive, 9:00a.m. elitist sport, and the Constitution of the change Federal coal leases and to en­ Judiciary courage recovery of certain coal Soviet Union. To each according to his needs, Improvements in Judiciary Machinery etc., as the Soviet Constitution says, would deposits. Subcommittee 3110 Dirksen Building. require that all Soviet citizens have a golf To hold hearings on S. 2857, proposed handicap of at least forty, and that the Judiciary Customs Courts Act. Improvements in Judicial Machinery Sub­ Hammer Memorial Country Club course, 4232 Dirksen Buiding would be available to everybody. At tee-off committee 9:30a.m. To resume hearings on S. 2857, proposed time, this could be quite a problem in Energy and Natural Resources Moscow. Customs Courts Acts. Research and Development Subcommittee 4232 Dirksen Building Even so, introducing golf into the Soviet To hold hearings on an Office of Tech­ 10:00 a.m. Union has its points. It would demonstrate to nology Assessment report on the uses the world during the 1980 Olympic Games in Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of solar energy. To resume markup of S. 50, the Full Em­ Moscow that the Soviet Union has finally 3110 Dirksen Building accepted the three great Scottish inventions: ployment and Balanced Growth Act. 10:00 a .m. 5302 Dirksen Building golf, whiskey and McDonald's hamburgers, Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and that it also has the authority to amend To resume hearings on S. 72, to restrict Energy and Natural Resources the golfing rules of the royal and ancient golf the activities in which registered bank Parks and Recreation Subcommittee club at St. Andrews in Scotland. holding companies may engage, and To continue hearings on S. 3163, pro­ What the game of golf needs, as any dub to control the acquisition of banks by posed Urban Park and Recreation Re­ can tell you, is a whole new set of rules and holding companies and other banks. covery Act. golf course architects. We need the authority 5302 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building of the state to rescue all golfers from adver­ Foreign Relations Governmental Affairs sity. We need fairways as wide as the Soviet Foreign Economic Polley Subcommittee Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit­ Union. To hold hearings on the reserve role of tee Anybody can tell you, that all golfers want the dollar and its implications for the To hold hearings on S. 3209, proposed the elimination of bunkers. We also want U.S. economy. State Community Conservation and computerized clubs that won't sllce or hook, 4221 Dirksen Building Development Act. magnetic golf balls that sink into larger mag­ *Government Affairs 6202 Dirksen Building netic holes, even if we're off llne, and, above Federal Spending Practices and Open Gov­ Governmental Affairs everything, the elimination of the four-foot, ernment Subcommittee Federal Spending Practices and Open Gov­ downhill, side-hill putt. To continue hearings on the GSA in­ ernment Subcommittee If you could do all this on Mr. Hammer's vestigation of government contract To hold hearings on efforts to reduce new Moscow golf course, Comrade Brezhnev, fraud. the Federal paperwork burden. maybe it would be all right, but you'd better 3302 Dirksen Building 3302 Dirksen Building 18388 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 1978 Special on Aging JULY 12 2:30p.m. 9:30a.m. Conferees To resume hearings on the degree to which older Americans are purchas­ Environment and Public Works On S. 9, to establish a policy for the man­ Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee agement of oil and natural gas in the ing more private health insurance than needed to supplement •Japs in To resume hearings on S. 2775, to im­ Outer Continental Shelf. prove the siting and licensing process 3110 Dirksen Building _ the Medicare programs. for nuclear power reactors. 457 Russell Building JUNE 28 6226 Dirksen Building S):30a.m. 10:00 a .m . 10:00 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Natural Resources Joint Economic F.nergy Conservation and Regulation Sub­ To hold hearings on the nomination of To continue hearings to review economic committee Omi Gail Walden, of Georgia, to be an conditions, and to discuss the future To hold oversight hearings on the De­ Assistant Secretary of Energy. outlook. partment of Energy's administration 3110 Dirksen Building 5110 Dirksen Bullding of the crude oil entitlements program Governmental Affairs JULY 13 and its impact on the domestic refin­ Energy and Nuclear Proliferation Subcom­ 9:30a.m. ing industry. Environment and Public Works 3110 Dirksen Building mittee To resume hearings on postal reorga­ Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee To continue hearings on S. 2775, to im­ Environment and Public Works nization legislation. prove the siting and licensing process Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee 4232 Dirksen Building for nuclear reactors. To resume hearings on S. 2775, to im­ Judiciary 6226 Dirksen Bullding prove the siting and licensing process Penitentiaries and Corrections Subcom­ 10:00 a.m. for nuclear power reactors. mittee Joint Economic 4200 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the To continue hearings to review economic Financ·e Bureau of Prisons, with emphasis on conditions, and to discuss the future Taxation and Debt Management Generally west coast prison facilities. outlook. Subcommittee 2228 Dirksen Building 2168 Rayburn Building To hold hearings on S. 3065, 2608, and 2428, proposals affecting taxation of Select Indian Affairs JULY 18 capital gains. To consider S. 2460, the Indian Self-De­ 10:00 a.m . 2221 Dirksen Building termination and Education Assistance Act amendments; S. 2712, the Indian Human Resources 10:00 a .m. Health and S<:ientific Research Subcom­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Program Evaluation and Needs Assess­ ment Act; S. 3069, to provide that the mittee To continue markup of S. 50, the Full To resume mark up of S. 2775, the Drug Employment and Balanced Growth Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe shall have a preference right to purchase Regulation Reform Act, and S. 3115, Act. to establish a comprehensive disease 5302 Dirksen Building certain North and South Dakota lands held in trust by the U.S. for tribal prevention and health promotion Energy and Nat ural Resources members; and S. 3153, the Rhode Is­ program in the U.S. To mark up proposed legislation desig­ land Indian Claims Settlement Act. 4232 Dirksen Building nating c~rtain Alaska lands as na­ 5110 Dirksen Building Joint Economic tional parkland. To resume hearings to review economic 3110 Dirksen Building Joint Economic To receive testimony from Federal Re­ conditions, and to discuss the future Governmental Affairs serve Board Chairman M111er on U.S. outlook. Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit­ monetary policy. 2168 Rayburn Building tee 6226 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on S. 3209, pro­ JULY 19 posed State Community Conservation 2 :30p.m. 10:00 a.m. and Development Act. Conferees Joint Economic 6202 Dirksen Building On S. 9, to establish a policy for the To continue hearings to review economic conditions, and to discuss the future Judiciary management of oil and natural gas in the Outer Continental Shelf. outlook. Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee 5110 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on S. 1927, to pro­ 3110 Dirksen Building mote competition in the energy in­ JULY 20 JUNE 30 dustry. 9:30a.m. 9 :30a.m. 2228 Dirksen Building Joint Economic Veterans' Affairs Joint Economic To continue hearings to review economic To hold hearings to review economic Compensation and Pensions Subcommit­ conditions, and to discuss the future conditions, and to discuss the future tee outlook. outlook. To hold hearings on S. 379 and H.R. 6501, 2168 Rayburn Building 1202 Dirksen Building to provide increased a wards of service­ 10:00 a.m. Rules and Administration connected compensation to certain Human Resources To receive testimony from Senators on veterans who have suffered the loss or Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ S. Res. 405, making the Select Com­ loss of use of paired extremities; S. mittee mittee on Indian Affairs a permanent 2828, the Veterans Disability Compen­ committee of the Senate; and to con­ sation and Survivor Benefits Act; and To resume mark up of S. 2755, the Drug sider other legislative and administra­ S. 1929, to establish, for purposes of Regulation Reform Act, and S. 3115, tive business. paying dependency and indemnity to establish a comprehensive disease 301 Russell Building compensation, a presumption of death prevention and health promotion 2 :00p.m. from service-connected disab11lty in program in the U.S. Conferees the case of certain blinded veterans. 4232 Dirksen Bullding On S. 9, to establish a policy for the 6226 Dirksen Building JULY 21 management of oil and natural gas in 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a .m. the Outer Continental Shelf. Human Resources 3110 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Merchant Marine and Tourism Subcom­ Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ JUNE 29 mittee mittee 9 :30a.m. To hold hearings on H.R. 6503, to pro­ To continue mark up of S. 2755, the Drug Environment and Public Works vide for a just and reasonable rate of Regulation Reform Act, and S. 3115, Nuclear Re•Julations Subcommittee return or profit for common carriers to establish a comprehensive disease To continue hearings on S. 2775, to im­ by water in intercoastal commerce. prevention and health promotion prove the siting and licensing process program in the U.S. for nuclear power reactors. 235 Russell Building 4232 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building JULY 11 Finance JULY 25 Taxation and Debt Management Gener­ 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. ally Subcommittee Joint Economic Budget To continue hearings on S. 3065, 2608, To resume hearings to review economic To hold hearings on the second concur­ and 2428, proposals affecting the tax­ conditions, and to discuss the future rent resolution on the Congressional ation of capital f!ains. outlook. Budget for FY 1979. 2221 Dirksen Building 6226 Dirksen Building 6202 Dirksen Building June 22, 1978 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 18389 Joint Economic Budget CANCELLATIONS To resume hearings to review economic To continue hearings on the second con­ JUNE 22 conditions, and to discuss the future current resolution on the Congression­ 10:30 a.m. outlook. al Budget for FY 1979. Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2220 Rayburn Building 6202 Dirksen Building Merchant Marine and Tourism Subcom­ mittee JULY 26 AUGUST 2 To resume hearings on S. 2873, proposed 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Ocean Shipping Act. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Governmental Affairs 235 Russell Building To mark up H.R. 10899, proposed Inter­ JUNE 23 national Banking Act. Federal Spending Practices and Open Gov­ ernment Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building Environment and Public Works Budget To hold hearings on the quality of pa­ Water Resources Subcommittee To continue hearings on the second con­ tient care in nursing homes. To hold hearings on S. 1592, to terminate current resolution on the Congres­ 3302 Dirksen Building further construction of the Cross­ sional Budget for FY 1979. AUGUST 3 Florida Barge Canal project. 4200 Dirksen Bullding 6202 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Governmental Aff?-irs JUNE 29 JULY 27 9:00a.m. 10:00 a.m. Federal Spending Practices and Open Gov­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ernment Subcommittee Consumer Subcommittee To continue markup of H.R. 10899, pro­ To continue hearings on the quality of To hold oversight hearings on auto posed International Banking Act. patient care in nursing homes. odometer requirements. 5302 Dirksen Building 3302 Dirksen Building 235 Russell Bullding

SENATE-Thursday, June 22, 1978 (Legislative day of Wednesday, May 17, 1978) The Senate met at 1:30 p.m., on the Mr. HASKELL thereupon assumed Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, expiration of the recess, and was called the chair as Acting President pro tem­ I move to reconsider the vote by which to order by Hon. FLOYD K. HASKELL, a pore. the nominee was confirmed. Senator from the State of Colorado. Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, I move to lay that motion on the table. PRAYER RECOGNITION OF LEADERSHIP The motion to lay on the table was Rabbi Israel Goldstein, rabbi emeri­ The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ was agreed to. tus, Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun, New pore. The distinguished majority leader York, on the 60th anniversary of his is recognized. ministry, offered the following prayer: Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, LEGISLATIVE SESSION Sovereign of the universe, Thy bless­ I ask unanimous consent to proceed for Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, ing we invoke upon all who seek Thee in 1 minute. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate truth. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ return to legislative session. Do Thou enlighten the counsels of this pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ legislative body. Bless our Nation that it pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. may go from strength to strength in en­ larging the boundaries of brotherhood THE JOURNAL SPECIAL ORDER and peace among men and nations. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, The technical sciences have reduced I ask unanimous consent that the Jour­ The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ the barriers of distance between men nal of the proceedings be approved to pore. The Senator from Alaska. and nations. Grant, 0 Lord, that man's date. Mr. CRANSTON. Will the Senator spiritual outreach may reduce the gaps The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ yield very briefly? of ignorance and prejudice which di­ pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. STEVENS. Yes. First, let me ask vide men and nations. the Chair, is the Chair recognizing me Grant that our Nation may match as the first of the three special 10-minute its strength with its greatness, its wis­ EXECUTIVE SESSION orders? dom with its vision. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ In the words of the psalmist we pray, Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, pore. The Senator is recognized under "The Lord bless you out of Zion and I have a nomination in my hand which that order. behold the good of Jerusalem." Amen. has been cleared all around. This nomi­ Mr. STEVENS. I thank the Chair. I nation was reported earlier today. I yield to my good friend, the majority ask unanimous consent that the Senate whip. APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESI­ go into executive session for not to ex­ DENT PRO TEMPORE ceed 1 minute to consider the nomina· The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tion, which I now send to the desk. UNITED STATES-SOVIET RELA­ clerk will please read a communication The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ TIONS: THE ADMINISTRATION'S to the Senate from the President pro pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. VIEW tempore (Mr. EASTLAND). The nomination will be stated. Mr. CRANSTON. Mr. President, in The assistant legislative clerk read testimony before the House International the following letter: Relations Committee on Monday, June U.S. SENATE, DEPARTMENT OF STATE 19, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, The assistant legislative clerk read the speaking on behalf of President Carter, Washington, D.C., June 22, 1978. nomination of Warren Demian Manshel, made a comprehensive and specific state­ To the Senate: of New York, to be Ambassador Extraor­ ment on the present state of United Under the provisions of rule I, section States-Soviet relations. 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I dinary and Plenipotentiary of the United hereby appoint the Honorable FLOYD K. States of America to Denmark. The statement is particularly welcome HASKELL, a Senator from the State of Colora­ The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ because it removed any ambiguity which do, to perform the duties of the Chair. pore. Is there objection to the nomina­ may have remained after the President's JAMES 0. EASTLAND, tion? Hearing none, the nomination is speech at Annapolis in which he referred President pro tempore. considered and confirmed. to choices between "cooperation" and

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