February 25, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5701 the Senate deletion of title X from the The very real concern for environmen noncivil rights amendments, on which legislation. tal impact which all mining activities there will be a time limitation of 1 how· I am strongly in favor of the concept must demonstrate is more than sufficient on each amendment. establishing mineral resources institutes. justification for this program of research Mr. President, there is a possibility of For this reason, I cosponsored S. 635, and training. It is timely, and I strongly rollcall votes on Monday, and the pro legislation to establish such institutes urge that the Senate conferees refuse gTam for Tuesday next will be stated on throughout the Nation. to accept title X of the House-passed Monday. This legislation was considered by the legislation and instead insist on a pro Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Com gram for mineral research and develop mittee and passed the Senate on July 15, ment as established under S. 635, legis ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. MON 1971. The bill is expected to be consid lation previously passed by the Senate DAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1972 ered shortly in the House of Representa and to be shortly considered by the House Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres tives. of Representatives. ident, if there be no further business to The Mineral Resources Research Insti Mr. PELL. Mr. President, I suggest the come before the Senate, I move, in ac tutes established under S. 635 are pat absence of a quorum. cordance with the previous order, that terned on the highly successful Water The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk the Senate stand in adjo.urnment until Resource Research Institutes for which will call the roll. 10 a.m. on Monday next. the Congress provided several years ago. The second assistant legislative clerk The motion was agreed to; and at 5:53 This program has been highly success proceeded to call the roll. p.m. the Senate adjowned until Mon ful, and there is every reason to believe Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres day, February 28, 1972, at 10 a.m. that a similar program for mineral re ident, I ask unanimous consent that the source research would be successful also. order for the quorum call be rescinded. The approach provided in S. 635 is far The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without CONFIRMATIONS superior to title X of S. 659 which pro objectiol}, it is so ordered. vides the mineral conservation educa Executive nominations confirmed by tion program that is not adequate and in the Senate February 25, 1972: addition very clumsy and indirect since PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF STATE it would be administered by the Commis Robert Stephen Ingersoll, of Dlinois, to be sioner of Education only with the advice Mr. BYRD of We.st Virginia. Mr. Pres Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotenti and consent of the Secretary of the In ident, the program for Monday next is as ary of the United States of America to Japan. terior. Is the middleman truly necessary? follows: · William A. Stoltzfus, Jr., of New Jersey, a. Furthermore, since S. 635 is an amend The Senate will convene at 10 a.m. Foreign Service officer of class 2, now Ambas After the two leaders have been recog sador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of ment to the Mining and Minerals Policy the United States of America to the State Act of 1970, in which the responsibility nized under the standing order, there of Kuwait, to the State of Bahrain, and to of the Secretary of the Interior with re will be a period for the transaction of the State of Qatar, to serve concurrently and spect to the state of domestic mining routine morning business, not to exceed without additional compensation as Ambas and so forth, is clearly stated, the Secre 30 minutes, with statements therein lim sador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of tary should also be designated as the ited to 3 minutes, at the conclusion of the United States of America to the Sultanate administrator of a mineral research and which the Chair will lay before the Sen of Oman and to the United Arab Emirates. training program authorized by the Con ate the unfinished business. ACTION gress. . The unfinished business will be the Kevin O'Donnell, of Maryland, to be an In addition, the provtsion of S. 635 committee amendment in the nature of Associate Director of Action. a substitute to the House amendment in w1ll insure that research conducted un OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR der the program is not diluted and that the natw·e of a substitute to S. 659. BY TRADE NEGOTIATIONS the research and development under the virtue of the unanimous-consent agree William Rinehart Pearce, of Minnesota, to program will provide valuable results. ment which was entered into earlier to be a Deputy Special Representative for Trade Much productive activity can be and is day, the pending amendment by Mr. Negotiations, with the rank of Ambassador. being undertaken at the graduate level. Scott and Mr. Javits will not be the OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION With the Federal assistance under S. 635, pending question on Monday; but that The following-named persons to be mem this effort can be materially increased amendment will go over until Tuesday, bers of the Board of Directors of the Over and in time there can be sufficient feed along with all other so-called civil rights seas Private Investment Corporation for back so as to furnish incentive for in amendments. On Monday, the commit terms expiring December 17, 1974: structional activities at the advanced un tee substitute will be open to further Dan W. Lufkin, of Connecticut. dergraduate level. amend.rnent with respect to so-called J. D. Stetson Coleman, of Virginia. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS NATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY economic stability and at the same time economic advisers: "Senator Muskie has of maintain economic freedom. fered Senator McGovern Arthur Okun and a first round draft choice from the 1972 crop HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. I ask unanimous consent that the edi of Ph.D.s in exchange 'for Kenneth Galbraith, OF VmGINIA torial entitled, "Economic Fun and but McGovern says it's no deal unless Okun IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Games," be printed in the Extensions of grows a beard." Remarks. When Mr. Stein gets to the heart of his Friday, February 25, 1972 There being no objection, the editorial topic he can also be rather humorous, though Mr. BYRD of Virginia. Mr. President, was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, perhaps less intentionally so. The basic situ the Wall Street Journal of February 18 as follows: ation, as anyone can see, does have its ele contains an excellent editorial on the ments of comedy. ECONOMIC FUN AND GAMES To begin with the Nixon administration subject of national economic policy. According to recent advlces from Washing came into office proclaiming the virtues of The editorial focuses on the recent re ton, some administration officials complain free enterprise, the folly of constant manipu marks of Mr. Herbert Stein, Chairman that the press paid all too little attention to lation of the economy. For a while the Nixon of the Council of Economic Advisers, be some remarks by Herbert Stein, the Presi men were almost as good as their word, but fore the National Press Club. It is pointed dent's principal economist. If so that's a then they began to reap the results of the in out that while Mr. Stein was able to deal defect that we'll help correct. flation inherited from the Democrats. with the Nation's economic problem in a Mr. Stein, after all, 1s an economist to So what dl the Republlcans do? For a clever and humorous way, the thrust of treasure, since he firmly believes that eco while they tried to work both sides of the his message was deeply serious. nomics need not be a. dismal science. In his street. In 19'11 B.C. (Be'!ore Controls) finan The editorial stresses that much hard remarks at the National Press Club, for in cial policy became highly expan.stve, but ad work will be required if we are to abhieV'e stance, he suggested that Democratic presi· ministration om~lals even now would Uke CXVIII-360-Part 5 dential hopefUls now were b'usily lining up e>"'ery'one to tielieve otherwise. 5702 EX~ENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1972 In explaining why Mr. Nixon finally opted chairman of the Senate Foreign Rela who--in the name of Marxism-Len1nlsm for wage-price controls, Mr. Stein puts it this tions Committee. In my judgment, the have deprived their peoples of their Uberty way, without even cracking a smile: "If we determination by Mr. FULBRIGHT to kill and freedom. We know that you have asked for many years over and over again that the had been concerned only with infiation we Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty is could have stuck it out with a classic pre transmissions of the broadcasting stations scription of fiscal and monetary restraint." as poor a behavior as I have ever seen in "Free Europe" and "Liberty" be terminated. On August 15, when controls were imposed, the Congress. It represents a monumen We know that you say that the continued the government had recently finished a fiscal tal setback for the necessary programing broadcasting of information from the free year with a budget deficit of $23 billion, com of news to the captive peoples of com world amounts to a manifestation Olf the cold pared with less than $3 billion the year be munism. war. fore, and it was beginning to sink even Mr. Speaker, I insert at the conclusion There are also some individuals in my deeper into red ink. The Federal Reserve of this statement a letter addressed to country who would like to cooperate in ac System, meanwhile, was infiating the money complishing the goals of Communist propa supply at a merry pace. That's the sort of Senator FuLBRIGHT by the chairman of ganda, namely to silence those whose voice restraint that most classicists would disown. the German Christian Democratic continues to maintain the hope of enslaved Despite the Republican policy of unre Party's Defense Policy Committee which and oppressed peoples that freedom and hu strained restraint, the Democrats were still is pertinent to the remarks I have just man rights cannot be permanently sup snipping at them. Infiation, unsurprisingly, made: pressed. was roaring right along an d the economy, DEAR SENATOR FULBRIGHT; Yesterday, we Dear Senator Fulbright, I myself have no also unsurprisingly, was finding it hard to received the news of your speech in the Sen connection whatsoever with any of the afore make headway among the confusion. ate in which you requested that the radio mentioned institutes or stations. The Democrats' proposals were also pre stations "Free Europe" and "Liberty" should I write this letter exclusively in my ca dictable: even more economic intervention. terminate their operations. pacity as a freely elected member of the par It was surely a joke on the Democrats when Since we know of your political importance liament of the German people because I can the GOP largely took their opponents' ad and infiuence, Senator Fulbright, many peo still recall how during the Nazi regime my vice. ple in my country were deeply disturbed parents and I listened to English broadcast At least Mr. Stein seems to find it pretty by the news of your speech. They saw in ing stations each night 1n order to renew funny. "Does anyone propose a more stimu your request to terminate the operations of our hope that a dictatorship will not and lative fiscal policy if that means a bigger these radio stations-in spite of the con cannot prevail over freedom. I also write deficit?" he asks. Do the "Democrats propose tinued stlfiing of liberty and freedom in East this letter to you because I know that the to control wages more rigorously?" So far as ern Europe-another manifestation of Amer last rays of hope would be extinguished in we've noticed, no Democrat has been able to ican disengagement. We noticed with deepest Eastern Europe if your proposal should be ac come back with a clever reply. regret that another result of your speech cepted. Please remember that hundreds of The Nixon administration, Mr. Stein would be the termination of the pra.ctically thousands of intellectuals and even many boasts, is "running the biggest budget deficit irreplaceable "Institute for the Study of the members of the ruling Communist bureauc ever, except for World Warn.... We have USSR". The scholarly activities of this In racy listen to the broadcasts of the stations the most comprehensive price-wage control stitute have very essentially assisted in spot "Free Europe" and "Liberty". system ever except during the Korean war lighting the actual meaning of Soviet reality I appeal to you to support policies which and World War n .... We have suspended which would have otherwise remained hid are intended to multiply the outlets for the the convertib111ty of the dollar" and, through den in its carefully fostered semi-obscurity. distribution of free instead of manipulated negotiation, achieved devaluation. How, he If the news which we received is correct, information. Please do not support those implies, can the Democrats do anything you referred to the activities of these two whose only wish is the utter destruction of more? broadcasting stations as "a.nachronistic". 1 the means by which free information can be Mr. Stein is probably right when he sug regret to say that many of my frtends and I distributed. gests that many of the Democratic presi myself fail completely to understand how Sincerely yours, dential hopefuls will wind up by promising you could possibly arrive at such a conclu Dr. WERNER MARx, to do about what the Republicans are doing sion. For what reasons do you wish to deprive Chairman of the Committee of the CDU1 but somehow to do it better. "Me-too" plots those who assist us in breaking down the CSU Parliamentary Pai'Ity for Foreign-, have never been especially successful in barriers isolating Eastern Europe from their All-German, Defense-, and Develop politics, but they seem to be a staple of politi sources of information of the very means ment Policy. Chairman of the Federal cal farce. which enable them to continue their work? Committee of the CDU for Defense Politicians find economic intervention Incidentally, the very concept of such an Policy more fun than the hard work needed to isolation is alien to ·men of western civiliza eliminate even the excuses for such manip tion. Why do you say that their work ls ulation. If unions and businesses possess ex anachronistic? Don't you understand, Sena cessive power, set up elaborate controls to tor Fulbright, what it means to millions of FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA., UNDER police them; don't bother to try to reduce people in East Central Europe, 1n the Bal TAKES EXPERIMENTAL SOLID the power. If there isn't enough spending to kans, in great parts of the Soviet Union, in WASTE PROGRAM IN THE MOUNT keep the economy perking along, take the the Baltic countries, and in the wide open money from the public in taxes and infiation spaces of Siberia, to hear in their own lan VERNON AREA and spend it; the people don't know what's guages sound information with up-to-date best to do with their money. comments during day and night? HON. WILLIAM B. SPONG, JR. Heading back toward economic freedom Indeed, there are many millions for whom won't be easy, even if the politicians finally the news of the stations "Free Europe" and OF VIRGINIA find the will. However delightful it may be "Liberty" are the only connection with the IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES to have a little comic relief in the dismal non-Communist world. They are the only Friday, February 25, 1972 science, economics was never meant to be all voice which reaches them from the far-away fun and games. countries in which liberty and freedom pre Mr. SPONG. Mr. President, public vail. For these millions, stations "Liberty" understanding and appreciation of the and "Free Europe" are the only means to economic and social costs of solid waste hear from the West specific news of what is increasing, and a concept of solid waste EFFORT TO KILL EUROPEAN RADIO happens 1n their own countries and in the STATIONS "SOcialist block." Have you forgotten, Sen management is evolving. The growing ator Fulbright, that stations "Liberty" and technology and affiuence of American "Free Europe" were the first ones which in society have laid a heavy burden on solid HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI December 1970 broadcast the terrifying news waste facilities. Refuse collected in the OF ILLINOIS of what happened in the Polish-renamed Nation's urban areas has increased from ports of Danzig, Stettln and Zoppott when IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2.75 pounds per person per day in 1920 the Communist dictatorship had hundreds to more than 5 pounds today. :rt is ex Thursday, February 24, 1972 of desperate workers shot and killed? The news was broadcast by these two stations pected to reach 8 pounds by 1980. Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I in a way which made it ilnpossible to obscure According to a bulletin from the Na direct the special attention of the Mem- these events any longer. At that time, all of tional Center for Resource Recovery, a bers to the unfortunate impasse in the Poland heard the voice of the free world. nonprofit corporartion organized by in House Senate Conference on the bill to And this voice o! the free world came from dustry and labor to monitor and coordi provide assistance to Radio Free Europe the two American broadcasting stations, nate technology and research in the area and Radio Liberty.· "Free Europe" and "Liberty." of solid waste: The irilpasse is cauSed by the obstinacy Needless to se.y, we are a~are of the furious People are increasing at a rate of 1 per of -one individual, that person being the opposition fostered for many years by those cent, ·sqnd WR$te at 4 to 6 per cent. Wh~t is February 25, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF 'REMARKS 5703 particularly worrisome about this pollution needs for reclamation and recycling. Their Church, and of this Archdiocese is a mystery is that at the same time this trash in preliminary studies indicate that the concept to us. It is almost unbelievable that he who creases resources shrink.... We must develop of disposal must be abandoned and be re so recently played so active a part in this a total system-in which we reduce the pro placed with plans for resource recovery. community has now passed from us and will duction of waste, reclaim useful materials be with us no more. and recover the value of discarded resources. There is a certain mystery to his going at A TRIDUTE TO FRANCIS X. such a young age with so much promise The Environmental Action Committee GALLAGHER ahead, so much to do, and with so many who of the Mount Vernon area of Fairfax depended upon him. The mystery is solved County has translated a concern over the only in terms of our Christian faith. solid waste problem into action. The HON. PAUL S. SARBANES Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ accom citizens' group approached the Fairfax OF MARYLAND plished his mission from the heavenly father in !ewer years than were granted to Francis County Board of Supervisors with a pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Gallagher. The Gospel tells us that unless posal for an experimental recycling pro Thursday, February 24, 1972 the seed falls to the ground to die it remains gram. The board agreed, and instructed only a seed. If it does die, new life springs county officials to implement the pro Mr. SARBANES. Mr. Speaker, it is with forth. Again, the same Gospel indicates to us gram. great sadness that I bring to the atten that our life is to be valued in terms of our The result is a 10-week experiment tion of my distinguished colleagues the service to God and our fellow ··man a.nd in during which the county will collect tragic death of Francis X. Gallagher, one terms of Christian faith and hope. paper, glass and aluminum placed at of Maryland's truly outstanding citizens. When we think back on the life of Francis Francis Gallagher died on Friday, Feb Gallagher our first memory is likely to · b·e the curb by homeowners in three sub his brilliant mind, ready wit, and pleasant divisions of the Mount Vernon area. The ruary 11, in Baltimore after an extraor humor; a. mind capable of sizing up a situa materials will be sold by the county for dinary career of service to his commu tion in its entirety and going to the very recycling and reuse. nity, his church, and his fellow man. It heart of it. Beyond this, we think of his great While this is only a trial program, it was a career all the more unique and all devotion to so many people. He accomplished is tangible evidence of a willingness by lo the more tragic because it lasted for so so much during the short span of his life. cal government to undertake a recycling brief a time. Had he lived, today would But we value a man, not for what he has have been Francis Gallagher's 44th birth accomplished but for what he is, the qualities program. It also represents an excellent he develops in his life. example of a citizens' group working in day. Francis Gallagher was a man of great and concert with local government to solve a Occasionally, Mr. Speaker, we are for singular integrity; his word was his bond; serious problem. tunate to have in our midst someone he was trusted implicitly; a man of his own Mr. President, the County of Fairfax whose mind and heart and character ex conscience. Although his loyalty to his coun and the Environmental Action Commit emplify all that we hold to be good and try was sincere and above all suspicion, and tee of the Mount Vernon area are to be true in our own lives. Francis Gallagher although he was united to · the Catholic was such a man. To have known him Church with bonds of strongest faith; he was commended for their joint effort on this not the Government's man; nor was he the ma-tter. An article published January 15, and the warmth of his spirit, the keen Archbishop's man; he was his own man with 1972, in the Alexandria Gazette explains ness of his :mind, the depth of his faith, his own conscience. He was a man of deep the program in greater detail, and I ask and his commitment to a just and decent faith, one might say unquestioning faith, if unanimous consent that it be printed in society was indeed to have been fortu such a thing can exist today. But it w~ Jn the RECORD. nate. He brightened the lives of all with ·his all-embracing love that the quality of There being no objection, the article whom he came in contact and-left. upon his Christian character shone most brightly. He had the ability to see a spark of . goodn~s was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, each a lasting and enriching impression. It is upon such men that the strength of in every man. He was beset by many; I have as follows: never known him to turn from any man EXPERIMENTAL RECYCLING TO START MONDAY our Nation rests and his passing leaves because he considered him. unwor·thy of his The first collection in the Fairfax County our democracy lessened and our spirit interest, his attention, his help. experimental recycling program begins Mon diminished. He was in.many ways Uke the great Chris day and will continue for 10 weeks in Hollin Mr. Speaker, at the funeral last week tian lawyer, St. Thomas More. He had the HUls, West Grove, and Tauxemont. It is· an in the Cathedral of Mary, Our Queen, same unbounded energy, the same embracing innovative attempt to solve the solid waste two deeply movi:~1g tributes, both in character of St. Thomas More. When More problems of a growing suburban area. cluded below, were paid to Francis Gal mounted the scaffold to lay his head on the County trucks wlli pick up newspapers tied lagher. The first was given by His Emi block, he protested that he died "the king's in bundles, glass containers rinsed and sorted good servant but God's first." So Francis by color--clear, brown, and green, and alu nence, Dawrence Cardinal Shehan, Arch Gallagher could have said that he lived the minum. All recyclable materials of this type bishop of Baltimore. The second by his State's good servant and the Church's good are to be placed at the curb by the home brother, Father Joseph Gallagher. They servant--but God's first. owner and will be picked up by the county are important not only because of what Like More, too, he had his own mar the day before the regular collection day. they say about Francis Gallagher, but ~yrdom-a long life of constant and often Containers used to hold the recyclable mate also because of what they sa-y, in speak excruciating pain from which the best in rials will not be picked up. The county will ing of him, about the meaning of a good medicine proved incapable of bringing him sell the materials they collect. Such items are life. I hope that all will take a few mo relief. This pain, however, never interfered reused in a variety of ways including making with his work nor with that spirit of good recycled paper and building materials. ments to read these tributes. will and pleasant humor which was so char This program was instituted as a direct In addition, Mr. Speaker, much was acteristic of his life. We shall miss him in result of work by the Environmental Action written in the press about Francis Gal deed, and we shall remember him tender:Iy. Committee of the Mt. Vernon area, a citizens lagher's accomplishments and contribu We express our profound sympathy to his group concerned with local and state envi tions. I have set out below a portion of wife and children, his mother and his brother ronmental problems. Herbert E. Harris II, those comments so that those who did Joseph, and to all his family and many rela Fairfax County supervisor from the . Mt. not know him might have a better under tives and friends. Whlle we mourn his passing Vernon district, endorsed the program and our . hearts are filled with the hope that requested the Publlc Works Department to standing of how v~ry much he meant to springs from the knowledge that to a Chris implement a pllot program. V. Tlelkemeier of our community. His passing is a tragic tian death is but the beginning of a better the Division of Solld Waste organized the loss and we shall all miss him deeply. My life-a life in which all o~ us one day will experimental program. If it is successful the wife joins me in extending-our deepest join witb him. plan wlll be expanded around the county. sympathy to his widow, Mary, his five During World War II it was common prac children, and the other members of his EuLOGY GIVEN AT THE M'ASS FOR FRANCIS X. tice to recycle and reuse as much material as family. - GALLAGHER BY FATHER JosEPH GALLAGHER, possible. After the war the practice was dis THE FIRST OF HIS .MANY BROTHERS continued. HOMU.Y GIVEN BY LAWRENCE CARDINAL SHE In the name of my brother's stalwart ' wife The National Center for Solid Waste Dis HAN AT THE FuNERAL MASS FOR FRANCIS- X. and his five captivating children, ln the posal, Inc., a nonprofit corporation in Wash GALLAGHER name of my .mother, who fl.ist taught ·him ington, D.C., is concerned with finding prac The vast gathering here is in itself a suf-: tenderness ~ arid of II:lY . younger brother and tical solutions to the solid waste problem. ficlent homily for the occasion because it sister and myself, ·who were the first to It provides services, primarily educational, to teaches us. the value of the:.life that we have profit frQm his manly and fortifying pres t;he general community and performs re lost. The· passi*g of F.rancis G~llagher who ~nce, I Wish to thank all of those people, search and develop:~Pe:nt ot the technological iS so rec~ntly - .a P.~ o!_o~ : i;io:es, a p~rt .Of - t.J;l~ st!i~in~ · ~t'?: : car_~~!" ~~~J:t~~ : - wh~ . ~ave 5704 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1972
honored my brother so highly, mourn hl.m the "better place" the world is because of risburg trial at the request of Cardinal so deeply, and have consoled. his family so it. What a still better place it could have Shehan. heartfully. been but for the frailties which held him The profoundest wellspring in my brother back and which stopped him in the end. But RAN FOR GOVERNOR was a passionate love for life-despite all its what a special courage it took, in the cir During his polltical career Mr. Gallagher aches and shadows, with which he was not cumstances, to carry him as far as he went. was an unsuccessful candidate for governor unacquainted, and of which I never heard in the legislative election in 1969, a one-term him oomplain. (From The Sun, Feb. 14, 1972] delegate to the General Assembly, and a campaign official for Senator Joseph Tydings, What he loved most about life was people, FRANCIS X. GALLAGHER people as people, in all their wonderfullY President Lyndon Johnson and presidential wild variety-black and white, Protestant, It is always shocking to hear that a vital candidate Robert F. Kennedy. Catholic and Jew, believer and unbeliever, community figure has been fatally stricken Mr. Gallagher grew up in Baltimore, tbe "important" people, and just plain people, in the prime o'f life. The fact that Francis X. oldest of four children in what his brother, Democrats and, as he would probably say, Gallagher was able to pack so many achieve the Rev. J. Joseph Gallagher, described as a "even" Republicans. ments into his brief 43 years makes it no less "typical, Irish cathollc family." What he loved most about people was the disturbing. GREGARIOUS SCHOLAR As chief legal adviser for the Baltimore chance to befriend them in their need, to Father Gallagher said his older brother ease their pa;in even though it magnUled Archdiocese, he served Cardinal Shehan dur ing a restless period that saw the church early earned a reputation as a gregarious his own-that pain which he never out scholar. He excelled in debate when be at witted, but which he held in heroic con move closer to the temporal mood of the times. When Pope John XXIII initiated the tended. Loyola IDgh School and became, ac tempt. By the alchemy of his boundless cording to a fellow student, "Mr. Everything" drive, resourcefulness, generosity and avail Ecumenical Movement, Mr. Gallagher was at Loyola College. ability, he transmuted his own sufferings available to open local channels with other men of goodwill. If civil rights activists justly Before graduating magna cum laude from into a soothing medicine for countless that institution, he edited both the school others. sought wider employment opportunities for blacks, he quickly set the machinery in mo newspaper and the yearbook, was active in The truest comfort to be found in our the debating and drrunatic societies and was present pain is the astonishing and blazing tion. His character sharply refiected that elected president of Alpha Sigma Nu, the witness of the healing use to which he al which 1s decent in contemporary America. national Jesuit honorary society. ways cheerfully put his own. In that regard, Mr. Gallagher worked. While studying law at the University of We are none of us surprised that his great eagerly through most of his life in the politi Maryland be was elected to his first political heart gave out, for his heart was giving out cal community. As a member of the Maryland position--delegate to the Democratic State all his short life long, and that was the part House of Delegates, then people's counsel to Convention of 1952. of himself he used the most. the Public Service Commission, and finally After big holiday meals, my brother loved as adviser to numerous candidates 'for office, CITY SOLICITOR to quote the words: "We thank you, Lord, he lifted politics and public service to a Upon admission to the bar he was ap for this brief repast; many a man would have higher level. Whatever the goal, he always pointed city solicitor of Baltimore. called it a meal." Grateful for the feast of seemed to deliver twice the effort of any Six years later he was elected to the Gen him, we might aptly say today as our Grace normal man. And to his tasks he brought a erel Assembly from the city's Third District , After Him: "We thank you, Lord, for his sharp wit and warmth that constantly re receiving more votes for the House of Dele brief sojourn; many a man would have minded the vain and the mighty that they gates than any other candidate in the city. called it a lifetime." were merely mortal. In 1961 Mr. Gallagher resigned his seat to Perhaps one of his beautiful children He was the product of a "typical, Irish become the first people's counsel to the Mary spoke most simply and eloquently for us Catholic family," whose offspring went to land Public Service Commission. While hold all. Learning of his father's death, he said parochial schools and some on to Loyola High ing that office, he argued a number of cases in a tone of measureless loss: "He was so School and College. Such training, when it successfully, including an appeal against a nice." So he was. so he truly was. took, fitted a man with self-discipline, gen telephone rate hike. erosity and moral courage. It was understand Mr. Gallagber was noted as a raconteur and [From the Evening Sun, Feb. 14, 1972] able that he would be working, practically as an advocate-often behind the scenes up to his death Friday, on further proposals of liberal causes including civil rights and FRANCIS X. GALLAGHER for state aid to parochial schools. In a very housing. Francis X. Gallagher's bubbllng good na real sense, Francis Gallagher represented the But, as representative of the archdiocese, ture disarmed his opponents and warmed best that system had to offer. Mr. Gallagher split with liberals when he his allies. It was a quality which, coupled fought against abortion and for government with an intelligence that showed. him [From the Baltimore Evening Sun, Feb. 12, aid to parochial schools. quicker than most where the real truth lay, 1972] marked him for leadership in his church, in SERVED WITH TYDINGS politics and in civic life. Men smiled when FRANCIS X. GALLAGHER DIES AT AGE 43 Mr. Gallagher served in the House of Dele Francis Gallagher appeared; but they Francis X. Gallagher, the witty, indefatig gates with Joseph Tydings. He later became stopped to hear what he had to say. Only able attorney, polltical organizer and advo a law partner with Mr. Tydings and served close friends understood two other qualities cate of Uberal social reform died last night as campaign treasurer in the successful 1964 which ran largely unseen behind the jolly, of a heart attack at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Tydings campaign for the United States perceptive exterior. One was a purposeful He would have been 44 February 25. Senate. morality, a determination to speak up for At the time of his death, Mr. Gallagher, Senator Tydings was Mr. Gallagher's con the weak when the weak needed help and, long-time attorney for the Archdiocese of tact with President John Kennedy and, after for the strong, to steer them in the direc Baltimore, was a defense attorney for the two the assa.esination, with Robert Kennedy. tion of their better instincts instead of their Baltimore priests accused in the Harrisburg During the 1968 campaign Mr. Gallagher worse. But from a darker side Mr. Gallagher antiwar conspiracy trial. headed the Kennedy forces in Maryland and was surely destined to move as high in pub MASSIVE HEART ATTACK at the Chicago convention cast his vote for lic affairs as anyone of his generation. This John Evelus, Mr. Gallagher's law partner Senator Eugene McCarthy. side was a series of deb111tating physical ill since 1962, said the attorney was admitted He served in a number of civic and public nesses which, time after time, cut him back to the intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins offices. In 1966 he became the president of just when the hour seemed to strike for him Hospital Wednesday after complaJ.ning of in the Hospital Council of Maryland, and in that to move for the top. As it was, he died at digestion and an upset stomach. same year was appointed acting chairman of Baltimore City Hospitals. 43 with more substantial accomplishments He died. at 11 P.M. yesterday after suffer behind him than most men his age but with ing a massive beart attack. In the early 1960's be was vice president his great potential stlll unrealized. A spokesman tor the family said Mr. Gal of the Maryland Reapportionment Commis Annapolis knew blm in the late 1950's as lagher was _not known to have a heart con sion. Later he was a delegate to the Maryland a darting young legislator, unafraid of dition prior to his admission to the hospital. Constitutional Convention. cl}ange when reform was in the air. Joe The attorney was frequently cited for his Tydings and young Tommy D'Alesandro SSRVICJ!:S TUESDAY civic activities. were larger men, and more successful cam Funeral services were tentatively set for 10 In 1961 the Junior Association of Com paigners, because in the background of each A.M. Tuesday at the Cathedral of Mary Our merce of Baltimore awarded him 1ts distin stood Frank Gallagher and his human wis Queen. guished service aw-ard &.s outstanding young dom. Later, it was the Catholic Church Cardinal Shehan is scheduled to be chief man of the year. which benefited and turned more fiexible concelebrant at the services. That same year he received the first an notably in its attitude toward racial rela In the weeks before his admission to Johns nual Metropolitan Civic Society Award. The tions-because of the Gallagher advice. Hopkins Hospital, Mr. Gallagher commuted National COnference of Christians and Jews Death caught him, characteristically, hard almost dally to Harrisburg, where he was presented him with a special citation in at work defending Father Wenderoth and assisting in the defense of the Rev. Joseph 1967. Fatber McLaughlin in tbeir Harrisburg trial. Wenderoth and the Rev. Nell McLaughlin, Mr. Gallagher was married to the former Carc:Jinal Shehan bit lt rlgbt when he both of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Mary Inez Kelly in 1951. spoke of J"rank Gallagher's "courage'' and of Mr. Gallagher beC8me ln:volved ln the liar· In a.t!dltton to his wl!e, Mr. Gallagher is
-- ~ February 25, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5705 survived by his daughter, Mary Ellen and If Lt is not too late, we had better reverse No 71-27: Release of land for Brown four sons Francis, Jr., John Joseph, Patrick this trend before we completely revert to the Slough/ Bethel seawall project. Edward and J-ames Lawrence, his mother, law of the jungle. No 71-28: AVCP's recognition and designa Ellen M. Gallagher, of Baltimore, two tion of YUT Regional Housing Development brothers, the Rt. Rev. J. Joseph Gallagher Corporation as regional housing development and Thomas Galvin Gallagher, Los Angeles mechanism. and a sister, Mrs. Mary Burdell, Dundalk. No. 71-29: Request for secondary road con RESOLUTIONS OF THE ASSOCIA struction between Napakiak, Oscarvme and TIONOFVTILAGECOUN~PR~ Bethel. !DENTS No. 71-30: Opposition to and request !or NO HOLDS BARRED repeal of State statute to permit subsistence fishing. HON. N·ICK BEGICH No. 71-31: Designation of AVCJP Education Board as policy advisory board for the Bethel HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI OF ALASKA OF NEW YORK Broadcasting Corporation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES No. 71-32: Establishment and support of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, February 24, 1972 Executive Director and Administrative Direc Thursday, February 24, 1972 tor positions for the Yukon-KuskokWim Mr. BEGICH. Mr. Speaker, one of the Health Corporation and approval of sa.lary Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, the kidnap 12 regions established in the Alaska Na levels for these positions. ping of a 70-year-old woma-n by two tive Claims Settlement Act, which re No. 71-33: Assistance for road improve teenagers very understandably has cently became law, is the Association of ment of Stony River. aroused the ire of the editor of a sub Village Council Presidents. This region, No. 71-34: AFN consultation with AVCP urban Washington, D.C., newspaper. His board for actions pertaining to AVCP region. which represents numerous villages along No. 71-35: Radio-telephone request from observations are worthy of reading: the Lower Yukon and Lower Kusko State of Alaska for the vlllage of Stony (From the Enquirer-Gazette, Upper Marlboro, kwim Rivers, han long been one of the River. Md., Feb. 17, 1972] strongest, most organized and vocal of No. 71-36: Electric generator request by No HoLDS BARRED the various Native regional organizations. vlllage of Stony River for radio use. No. 71-37: Request for funds and construc The kidnapping this week of a 70-year-<>ld Recently, I received in my office anum tion of sidewalks for the v1llage of Toksook woman by two 13-year-olds causes us to look ber of resolutions passed by the AVCP at Bay. with dismay &~t the decadence of th1s nation a recent regional meeting. While the res No. 71-38: Implementation of Crooked over the past 50 years which has finally olutions are too lengthy for complete in Creek Airport proposal ... at an earller date. reached down to the cradle. clusion here, I have prepared a list of No. 71-39: To inform legislators, state and Up until that time this great nation was a the positions taken in these resolutions federal agencies of the need for bridges over safe place to live in, even in the ghetto sec which I want to share with my col two creeks at the vlllage of Crooked Creek. tions of our large cities. This was achieved No. 71-40: Request for BIA housing at the by adhering to strict laws and restrictions, leagues. I take pride in doing so for two rea village of Kongiganak. thoughtfully designed by our forefathers to No. 71-41: Request for State of Alaska to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. sons. First, I believe these resolutions bulld 3,000 feet of sidewalk through the vil This even reached down into our school sys indicate the bToad range of issues al lage of Kipnuk. tems where the chlldren were punished for ready being addressed by the regional No. 71-42: Request for Wein Consolldated misbehavior and when they went home they organizations. Second, I hope that my Airlines to build cargo and waiting room at were repunished by their parents. colleagues will note the substantive village of Mekoryuk. Certain artmes were pun.lshable by Ufe im No. 71-48: Land eUgibility and selection prisonment or death penalties to keep per merits of these positions. Complete cop ies of all resolutions will be available rights for people on Nunivak Island. sons capable of such crimes out of society. No. 71-44: AVCP to purchase land with This left very little chance for unmanage in my office for all those who wish more settlement funds. able children to do serious harm and orlml details: No. 71-45: Request that portions of Alaska nals very little chance to become repeaters. LisT OF POSITIONS Native Claims Settlement Act of the House Since that time some social critics decided No. 72-1: AppoinWl.ent of Orga.nJzing Di which ellmlnates subsistence hunting and that our laws were cruel a.nd inhumane and rectors for new regional corporation. fishing be eliminated. somehow sold the ideas to thoae in power No. 72-2: Designation of new AVCP No. 71-46: Request for new school at the th&~t everyone should have a second chance geographical area. v1llage of Alakanuk. (which now amounts to a third, a fourth, No. 72--3: Notification of all future musk No. 71-47: AVCP release of lands to the etc.). oxen transplants. village of Kwethluk. Parents were urged to use psychology on No. 72-4: Re: Cooperative retan store in No. 71-48: Establishment of Native Health their children instead of the rod and teachers Bethel. Task Force to investigate mercury and other were hardly allowed to correct them. This No. 72-5: Improved air carrier services in metal contamination of marine biology. genera.tlon has now reached tnalturlty and the Bethel area. No. 71-49: Request for the PHS and YKHC with the mellowing of the penruties for crime, No. 72-6: Request for village radios for the to construct water well for the village of many do not know the meaning of fear or communities of Kotlik and Ohefornak. Marshall. foreed. restriction W'hlch 1s so essential to the No. 72-7: Realloca-tion of B.I.A. funds for No. 71-50: Request for legislators and FAA preserv-ati-on 0! society. student schol-arships aJt the University of to complete alrfleld at the village of Chefor A great many of these youngsters are so Alaska. nak. disturbed that they are on dope, they have no No. 72-8: Designation of suibsietence and care about their appearance and they do not hardship land use for Scammon Bay, Chevak care about the future. Their parenlts shun and Hooper Bay and prevenrtion of subsur their duties a.nd &hip them off to some spe face exploration in the Clarence Rhodes FLUSHING AIRPORT cial school to mingle with others with the Wlldlife Range. same illness. Once they Me out of these No. 72-9: PHS assistance for water 'Well for schools, they do not know right from wrong. the village of KwigUUngok. HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL For tnstance, one recent young man who No. 72-10: Assistance in procurement of OF NEW YORK was killed in the commission of a crime, had tractor !or the village of Kwigllllngok. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1n his possession a little book recording 50 No. 72-11: Request for "seed money'' for rapes, a former capital puniShment crime. grocery store from the National Campaign for Thursday, February 24, 1972 A 21-year-old man who killed two aduLts Human development of the Cathollo Church Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the and a child was tried under juvenile law and, of America. even though convicted, will be back out on No. 72-12: Request for instaliatlon of tele city of New York, with the help of Fed our street1; 1n less than a year. phone on porch and a private Une at the eral funds, plans to spend upward of $11 I! it 1s cruel or inhumane to keep this YUT Housing office. mUllon to upgrade and expand an air kind of people out of society, then let's look No. 72-lS: Support for project to provide port that should instead be closed at once at the other side of the picture. What about recre81tlon, gathering place and social activi as a safety hazard. the victims of these robbers, rapists, kidnap ties in Bethel Heights area. I have long opposed not only the ex pers and perpetrators o'f heinous crimes? No. 71-25: Village o'f Crooked Creek radio pansion but the mere existence of Flush Are they not also members o! this great schedule and rSidlo ownership transfer. land of the free? Under our Constitution No 71-26: Request for travel funds for Hu ing Airport as a threat to the safety of aren't they gu.a.t'latlteed protection from the man Service Aides o! State Department of persons living nearby and a potentially irresponsible law-breakers who are seeking to Health and Social Services, Division of Family dangerous source of increased air traffic have their pleasure a.t other's expense? and Children Services. in already overcrowded airways. 5706 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1972 The Flushing Airport Development In 1968, the FAA began granting im have cars driving across lawns, through Study made for the city by R. Dixon munity from enforcement action to per stores and houses, under the single con Speas Associates actually supports my sons reporting near mid-air collisions dition that they do not hit one another. position that Flushing Airport is another NMAC. They got about as many reports Private pilots, and their defenders in example of city hall's misconception of that year alone as in all 3 previous years FAA, will howl at these restrictions. I progress and its calloUs disregard for the put together for the New York City area. already have impassioned and bitter let wishes and welfare of the residents of an Some 89 were deemed by FAA to be "haz ters from private pilots who want to area affected by its building programs. ardous incidents." "ground" me from further incursions This time it plans to spend millions Everytime we fly we are needlessly ex into their area of private pilot "rights." and millions of dollal'S to provide a place posed to danger because the present air But, unless we "thinout" our airspace for corporate executives to land their traffic system is based on the concept of by allowing only pilots with higher mini private planes 5 minutes closer to their equal rights for all pilots. mum standards to fly planes equipped plush Manhattan offices. Three-hundred fifty passengers flying with basic navigation and communica This amounts to sacrificing public at 600 miles an hour in an incredibly tions equipment, under the same flight safety on the altar of corporate con complex and fragile airliner have no rules airlines must follow, we will have venience. This facility is also a haven for more priority in the congested airspace more and more near-misses, and their those private pilots who wish to avoid over New York than a Cessna 150, the eventual product: midair collisions and too rigorous safety regulations of a con Volkswagen of the sky, flown by a pilot planes plummeting down on unsuspect trolled field such as LaGuardia. How with 35 hours of training and without ing citizens. many pilots using Flushing Airport ac radio, radar, or anything other than $10 Increased traffic for already over tually take advantage of the control an hour to rent this "flivver." crowded skies is but one of the predictions tower at LaGuardia, and how many sim How private pilots can misuse this apparent in the Speas study of Flushing ply fly in unannounced? airspace as can be seen from an anal Airport. That study fails dismally in its If Flushing Airport is so vital and so ysis of the near-miss reports received by efforts to gloss over the flaws and short important, then perhaps it should have the FAA. Most involved at least one pri comings it detects at Flushing Airport, its own control tower. But why do not we vate plane. All-and everyone knows the such as: hear Commissioner Leedham ask for reported number is a small fraction of Dangerous proximity to one of the Na one? Is it because the pilots who use the total near-miss-represent a deadly tion's busiest air terminals. Flushing do so because they want to hazard to innocent people on the ground "Extremely poor" subsurface soil con avoid just that? LaGuardia has the clos or on airliners. ditions that would require millions of est control tower, but it does not handle I do not question the private pilot's dollars and years of effort to overcome. Flushing traffic except as requested by a "right" to fly, although I do not believe The hazards of surrounding obstruc random flight. that public policy, the rights of the ma tions. I will tell you why, in one word, I op jority, or minimal commonsense should Uncertain sources of funds for capital pose Flushing Airport. Safety. I will re allow him to fly amidst the jets. expansion and operations. peat that word for those who didn't hear A partial answer is limiting private Threats of noise and air pollution. it or find it alien. Safety. planes to certain airports or banning Vocal and vigorous public objection to I believe, I am convinced that Flushing them entirely from places like Chicago's the airport. Airport, in its present location, is a haz O'Hare or New York's Kennedy Airport. It calls for spending $11 million to up ard to the safety of the community But, this just pushes the same number grade Flushing's facilities in 1969 dol around it and to air traffic as well. of small planes from one home base to lars, which would actually be more like The Federal Aviation Administration another. They still use-and misuse-the $12 or $13 million today. shrugs off criticism of Flushing Airport same congested airspace over our urban Projections of the airport's success with the same disdain it shows for air and areas. Such limitations do, of course, hang, to a large degree, on the city's noise pollution caused by aircraft. The reduce air congestion to the immediate nubulous plans to develop a college point FAA is traditionally oblivious to the pub airport area, which is_a help to people industrial park adjacent to the site. lic interest, preferring to act like a client who are airport neighbors. The following, in detail, are some of the of the industry it is supposed to regulate I propose that the Federal' Aviation reasons why Flushing Airport should not rather than the watchdog it was set UP Agency use the power it has to restrict be expanded but instead closed; all are to be. private planes and pilots over our large based on the Speas report itself: There are those who say that oppos cities. This can be done by: At a time when the airways around ing Flushing Airport · is opposing prog First, requiring small planes to have New York City, and especially over ress. That is tantamount to saying that the same equipment we demand of air Queens, a:re saturated, this study pro fighting pollution is being opposed to liners. Those small planes and pilots posed quadrupling the number of small technological growth. Both contentions which can meet the tougher rules should airplanes weaving in and out of the jet are equally ridiculous. be allowed to fly with the airliners. This congested skies. I do not question the need for an air means, basically, that all planes would It talks of improving and extending port such as Flushing, only its location. be under positive control of the air traf runways while one of the present strips is There is a definite need for reliever and fic· system. closed to all tramc because a Western satellite fields, but they must be located Second, giving airliners an explicit Electric plant is being built at one end at safe and reasonable distances from priority in ~he skies, especially over our of it. Unless Western Electric puts its the busy air traffic centers they are sup cities. Three hundred and fifty passen plant on hydraulic lifts and lowers it posed to avoid. Flushing does not meet gers in a jetliner should have rights, by beneath ground level or plans to tear those criteria. To put a satellite reliever virtue of their number, over two passen down its new plant, it will continue to be in close proximity to a terminal hub air gers in a private plane when it comes to a barrier to tramc taking off into the port defeats lts basic purpose. That is using the airspace over large cities. The northeast or landing from that direction. the case of Flushing Airport. Located as first step in giving this priority, however, Instrument operations are not feasible it is unaer the wing of LaGuardia, one is to pe able to control all p!anes by the at Flushing, the report points out. This of the world's busiest, Flushing is inhib equipment and pilot standards recom means that bad weather would force air ited and it puts a crimp in LaGuardia mended above. craft bound for Flushing Airport to divert as well . . Compared to automobile travel, what I to already congested LaGuardia Airport, Flushing Airport must be moved to a suggest for airspace control is quite making a bad situation worse. safer, more suitable site, or it must be modest. Instead of having planes fly ab Fill and drainage would cost more than solutely wherever they want, they would, $6 million-1969 dollars-because of ex closed. over urban areas, fly specified routes, tremely poor subsurface soil conditions. Flushing Airport's location at the cen with equipment· and pilot training like It would be necessary, according to the ter of one of. the world's most hlghly tl}at protecting the majority of air pas study, to institute a hydraulic overfill traveled aviation crossroads as well as sengers who fly the airlines. project to raise elevation. The overfill its proximity to LaGuardia Airport raises If we let autos use our land surface will settle for many years and will re· the danger of midair collisions. as private planes use airspace, we would quire· periodic runway overlays. Place of February 25, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5707 fill and construction of runways will re makes the skies nearly as congested as Plans to improve and not close Flush quire an estimated 3 years for comple the streets below. ing AirPort represent a grievously dis tion. Flushing is a primitive, non-tower ordered sense of public priorities. Any The development program for the air airport located 2 miles from LaGuardia, plans to modernize or expand it should port is limited by both operational and one of the Nation's busiest terminals. be abandoned and a phaseout program environmental factors which include the As long as this airport exists, private designed and executed. The safety and following: planes will be drawn into an already welfare of the residents of Queens de First. The site offers limited area for overworked air traffic pattern over our mand nothing less. development and poor foundation soils. city. I will continue to oppose city-spon Second. The access road-20th Ave This report proposes spending $11 sored plans for the expansion of Flush nue--offers limited opportunity for re million-more than half of it to shore ing AirPort and will use all the influence alinement. up extremely poor subsurface soil condi I have to see that no Federal funds are Third. Proximity to LaGuardia Air tions-to expand the airport to handle committed to maintaining or enlarging port results in less than ideal airspace more traffic in 2 hours than it now an essentially defective and unsafe air availability. handles in a full day. It calls for quad facility. Fourth. The rising terrain and existing rupling the present traffic, from approxi development surrounding Flushing Air mately 54,330 annual operations to about AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNA port present obstruction in excess of 100 200,000. TIONAL LAW'S STUDY PANEL feet in elevation within 2,000 feet of the The report tries to dismiss the noise PROPOSES INTERNATIONAL MON site. problem created by Flushing and totally ETARY REFORMS Fifth. There is a reticence to condemn ignores the pollution question. additional property to achieve desirable It says "noise generated by 98 percent runway lengths and ideal parallel aline of the activity-at an expanding Flush HON. HENRY S. REUSS ment with LaGuardia Airport. ing airport-would be insignificant" and OF WISCONSIN The airport operator has had to set "essentially no complaints" are expected IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a number of operating restrictions be from area residents although the noise Thursday, February 24, 1972 cause of such problems as proximity to may "interfere occasionally with certain LaGuardia Airport, ground obstructions, activities." Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, a distin and the lack of specialized equipment. This leads me to think that the guiding guished panel of economists, laWYers and The report states: philosophy behind this study was "My Government officials, sponsored by the Safe operation of the two airports (Flush mind is made up, do not confuse me with American Society of International Law, ing and LaGuardia) would require improve· the facts." last week issued a thoughtful report on ments 1n the form of visua.l approach aids. The researchers would have had to do long-term international monetary re their work in a soundproof booth not to form. The specific thrust of the study The major control problem encoun was to propose improved methods of ad tered in the operation of Flushing Air be aware of the noise produced by the airport and the protests of its neighbors justment among nations' currencies. The port is keeping arrivals of runway 36, opening sections of the panel's report- the primary direction at Flushing, sep and victims. They dismiss the noise problem by the explanatory forward, the introduc arated from arrivals on runway 31 or tion, and an outline of the proposal departures on runway 13 at LaGuardia. saying the din probably would be ab With the refurbished Flushing Airport sorbed or drowned out by noise from itself-follow: attracting more and more itinerant traf LaGuardia and Whitestone Expressway. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW fie, generally unfamiliar with the field Safety, however, is the moot impor PANEL ON INTERNATIONAL MONETARY POLICY this situation will become more critical, tant factor. Because of the proximity to FOREWORD according to the Speas study. LaGuardia, aircraft using Flushing are The American Society of International Law Flushing, as proposed, will not be able relegated to a pattern tucked below that decided in 1969 to convene a study Panel on to handle the corporate jets and heavier of the neighboring field. Straight-out International Monetary Policy, a panel which departures are prohibited. Special turns would be interdisciplinary in composition and twin-piston or turboprop aircraft, the forward-looking in concept. It focused its study contends. This statement is made and maneuvers to avoid LaGuardia traf concern on the reforms which should be made in the face of the projection that more fic are necessary. Flushing's operations in the international monetary and trade than one-third of the aircraft to be based must conform to LaGuardia's active run structure to deal with persistent imbalances at Flushing would be business planes. In way use. in international payments and to provide for light of the corporate trend to jets and The current airport operator is an improved methods of adjustment among cur other heavier aircraft, Flushing would aviation veteran with admirable creden rencies. tials and a fine professional reputation. The Panel's discussions of this subject have apparently be useless to one-third of its benefited by the interaction of international projected customer-users. What as He is a vigorous advocate and practi lawyers and international economists and by surances are there that Flushing would tioner of air safety. the preparation of a number of working not eventually be developed into a cor But all his talent, efforts, and dedica papers by members of the Panel. porate jetport? Just because it is not tion cannot overcome the inherently un A principal result of the Panel's delibera written in any master plans now or be safe situation of Flushing Airport. And tions has been the conception and drafting of cause of some verbal denials, there still what will happen after he is gone? a "Proposed Economic Policy Coordination are no firm guarantees that this expan As long as this airport is allowed to Amendment to the Articles of Agreement of operate, it will attract private pilots of the International Monetary Fund." The sion program is not the first step in the amendment is designed to help avert the development of a corporate jetport. varying degrees of experience and with sort of international monetary crisis which Revenue projections are shaky and widely diverse equipment on their planes. has gripped the world in recent months, appear based on imagination more than Bringing such pilots and planes into especially since August of 1971. It is the belief anything else. They envision such things the New York City airspace and over of Panel members that, 1f the amendment as $7.56 million in State and Federal aid congested residential areas is dangerous were adopted, the International Monetary and cannot be made otherwise. Fund and the governments of the world to expand the airport, increased fees and would be in a significantly better position rentals, additional traffic and prosperous The presence of unknown traffic, such as the mail planes flying in and out of to deal with problems of currency adjustment concessions such as a restaurant and Flushing, operating in heavily congested in a manner which would maximize interna parking lot. tional trade and the common welfare. Estimates of the economic impact of air terminal areas such as LaGuardia This report consists of an introduction of closing Flushing Airport are outrageously presents a hazard to navigation and a the problem, the text of the proposed amend exaggerated. The city would lose less threat of mid-air collisions. ment, and an extended commentary upon it. than $20,000 a year-a small price to pay Although the city has said it has no That commentary draws upon some of the plans to expand Flushing Airport in the working papers which Panel members were to insure the safety of thousands, if not good enough to prepare, notably papers by millions of persons. near future, it continues to harbor the Professor Andreas Lowenfeld, Mr. Frank The airlanes over Queens are saturated thought, as evidenced by the Speas study. Schiff and Professor Thomas D. Wlllett. The with traffic now and cannot take any Pressures for expansion will continue as material drawn from their papers is acknowl additional burden. The swarm of planes long as Flushing remains open. edged by foortnotes in the body of the text. 5708 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 197.2 The Panel's Report binds no member of sions of the Fund Articles-Article IV on par tion of the Job Development Credit and on the Panel, still less any institution with values and exchange rate margins, and Ar authority to apply the excise tax on auto which he or she is or was associated. The ticle VIII governing convertiblllty-were mobiles solely to foreign vehicles. These ac Report does express the consensus of the de deemed by a. large number of members to be tions demonstrate that there is increasing liberations of the Panel, a consensus reached so out of touch with economic realities that support in the Congress for more restrictions through discussion and not voting. It does their legal obligations had to be ignored. The on imports. Not only has there been an in not necessarily express the views of every General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade faced creasing pressure for restrictions on imports, member. In no measure does it express the slmllar difficulties as its provisions prohibit but Congress has also recently authorized views of the American Society of Internation surcharges but permit quotas which tend to the establishment of Domestic International al Law-which does not take positions as a. be even more restrictive. Sales Corporations (DISC) to give a tax in Society on problems of public concern-or With the Group of Ten agreement on a centive to increase exports. any other institution. new pattern of exchange rates which was Restrictions have also appeared in the field The members of the Panel (whose affilia reached in Wra.shington on December 18, of capital movements. In the United States tions are noted only for the purposes of iden 1971, the immediate job of finding an in various selective measures to limit capital tification) are: Hans Au!richt, formerly of terim solution to set the system working outflows have been imposed-the Interest the International Monetary Fund; Bruce again has been done. The task of devising a Equalization Tax, the Foreign Direct In Bassett, Columbia. University; Murray J. Bel reformed system will take time--probably vestment Program, and the Federal Reserve man, of the District of Columbia. Bar; Roy some years, judging from the com.plex issues Voluntary Restraint Program for banks and Blough, Columbia. University; David E. Bod involved. The Panel's efforts have been di other financial institutions. Recently Europe ner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; rected to this task of long-range reform in and Japan resorted to extensive programs of Michael Bradfield, United States Treasury the hope that a contribution could be made restricting capital inflows as a means of lim (Rapporteur of the Panel); Mitchell Brock, to re-construction of the international eco iting or preventing appreciation of their of the New York Bar; Richard N. Cooper, nomic-legal system which is so crucial to currencies. Yale University; William B. Dale, Interna world prosperity and security. The tendency toward increasing restric tional Monetary Fund; Thomas L. Farmer, The Panel started from the premise that tions on international trade and payments, of the District of Columbia. Bar; Richard N. the system had worked well but was now in already evident in 1969, has today become Gardner, Columbia University School of Law; need of change to meet the requirements of a matter of serious concern for both eco Dr. Hendrik s. Houthakker, Harvard Uni a grea;tly changed world. It was recognized nomic and political reasons. In many quar versity; Robert H. Knight, of the New York tha.t many of the key objectives of the Bret ters fear is being expressed that a trade war Bar; John M. Letiche, University of Califor ton Woods planners have been achieved-the will develop and that the Western World nia. (Berkeley); Cynthia C. Lichtenstein, years since World War II have seen an un will break up into hostile regional monetary Boston College Law School; Andreas F. Low precedented reduction in tariff barriers and and trade blocs employing various kinds of enfeld, New York University School of Law; in quantitative restrictions. They have also restrictive devices to assure inter-bloc bal Lawrence C. McQuade, PROCON Incorpo seen the elimination of almost all exchange ance in trade and payments relationships- rated; M. C. Miskovsky, of the District of restrictions among industrial countries with an eventual adverse impact on polit Columbia. Bar; John Rhinelander, Depart (even, in most cases, on capital account), ical relationships. The possibilities of this ment of State; Walter S. Sala.nt, The Brook and restoration of external convertibility. eventuality are real, although they have ings Institution; Frank W. Schiff, Commit These developments played a major role in diminished as a result of the Group of Ten tee for Economic Development; Fred B. permitting an unprecedented expansion of -agreement on exchange rates. To assUTe Smith, Syracuse University Research Cor world trade-from $&5 billion in 1950 to $311 t hat further restrictions do not develop, it poration; Stanley S. Surrey, Harvard Law bllllon in 1970. will be necessary to make mutual adjust School (Chairman of the Panel); Walter Yet today's world is far different from that ments that will lay the foundation for bring Sterling Surrey, of the District of Columbia. in whi-ch the Bretton Woods planning went ing the texts of international agreements Bar; Thomas D. Willett, Cornell University; forward. August 15 was not only a demon into conformity with new realities and new and Alan w. Wolf, United States Treasury. stration of American economic power, it was objectives. Some fundamental changes of This and many other study panels of the also an explicit recognition that American perception will be required, and it will take Society are funded by a. grant of The Ford dominance had been successfully ohallenged more than technical devices such as wider Foundation. On the Society's behalf, I should by the growth of other centers of great margins and more freely movable parities to like to express its deep appreciation and that wealth and economic strength: the Euro make the system work smoothly. of the members of the Panel to the Founda pean Common Market and Japan. Yet, at the The international monetary and trading tion. same time that this welcome diffusion of system worked fairly well and with a mini STANLEY S. SURREY, economic power has occurred, there has also mum of consultation on or coordination of Chairman, Panel on International Mone been a. burgeoning growth of restriction!sm countries' economic policies only so long as tary Policy. that has put some of the fundamental pre the United States and the rest of the world cepts of Bretton Woods in full retreat. It were prepared to accept large and continu PART I-INTRODUCTION would be fair to say that the Oommon Mar ing international payments imbalances. After The Panel on International Monetary Pol ket-particularly its common agricultural many years of U.S. deficits, and a severely icy of the American Society of International policy, its growing framework of preferential declining trade account, it has become abun Law first met at a high point in international arrangements, and its restrictions on Japa dantly clear that continuation of the imbal monetary cooperation. On that day-sep nese imports--has not been as outward look ances is neither politically nor economically tember 26, 1969-the Board of Governors of ing in trade matters as had been promised acceptable to this country and its trading the International Monetary Fund approved by its most fervent supporters at hom~ and partners. a. resolution calling for the allocation of $9.5 abroad. Japan, the other great industrial Yet it is not clear that the free world econ billion Special Drawing Rights oveT a period center, oan hardly be said to have been fol omy can function without restrictions unless of three years beginning on January 1, 1970. lowing liberal trade policies. Regional group a substitute is devised for the role the United Yet it was clear even then that the inter ings are growing up in many areas of the States has played over the last thirty years. national monetary system was undergoing world, which may also turn out to have a. As Professor Richard N. Gardner has stated, extreme strains and needed fundamental restrictionist bias. In many countries-both American post-war planners "were prepared changes to function effectively. In a rela developed and less developed-there is in to devote a considerable amount of Ameri tively short span of time prece
HOUSE OF REPRE,SE·N·TATIVE.S-.lJionday, February 28, 1972 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. THE JOURNAL H.R. 7871. An act for the relief of Robert J. Bea.s. The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex D.D., offered the following prayer: amined the Journal of the last day's pro The message also announced that the Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive ceedings and announces to the House his Senate had passed a bill of the follow approval thereof. ing title, in which the concurrence of the those who trespass against us.-Matthew House is requested: 6: 12. Without objection, the Journal stands Our Father God, in this hallowed mo approved. S. 2423. An act to amend the Federal ment of prayer we come to Thee seeking There was no objection. Aviation Act of 1958 to provide for the light for our way, love for our hearts, and suspension and rejection of rates and prac tices of carriers and foreign air carriers in life for our souls. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE foreign air transportation, and for other Forgive us that so often we have not purposes. responded to the gentle touch of Thy A message from the Senate by Mr. spirit nor have we been receptive to the Arrington, one of its clerks, announced call of Thy Word to proceed in peace and that the Senate had passed without to live in love. amendment bills of the House of the fol PERMISSION FOR COMMITTEE ON During these holy days of Lent may we lowing titles: HOUSE ADMINISTRATION TO open wide the doors of our hearts and H.R. 1824. An act for the relief of Clinton Fn.E REPORTS have our whole being flooded with the M. Hoose; Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey. Mr. beauty and glory of Thy presence, then H.R. 2828. An act for the relief of Mrs. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that help us to forgive as we are forgiven, to Rose Sca.nio; love as we are loved, and to serve as we H.R. 2846. An act for the relief of Roy E. the Committee on House Administra want to be served. Carroll; tion have until midnight tonight to file We pray for our President, may his H .R. 4497. An act for the relief of Lloyd reports on certain privileged matters. B. Earle; The SPEAKER. Is there objection to efforts for peace and cooperation among H.R. 4779. An act for the relief of Nina the nations be fruitful in all good works Daniel; the request of the gentleman from New and in all good ways: to the glory of H.R. 6998. An act for the relief of Salman Jersey? Thy holy name. Amen. M. Hilmy; and There was no objection.
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