29026 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19'76 H.R. 15012. August 2, 1976. Judiciary. Au tinuation through fiscal year 1977 of specified ment during any fiscal year do not exceed thorizes the issuance of a visa to a. certain grants under the Indian Elementary and Sec the total receipts of the Government during individual notwithstanding membership in a. ondary School Assistance Act, the Elementary such fiscal year and that the Federal in class of excludable aliens under the Immi and Secondary Education Act, and the Adult debtedness is eliminated. gration and Nationality Act. Education Act. H.J. Res. 1054. August 24, 1976. Post Office H.R. 15013'. August 3, 1976. Public Works H.R. 15018. August 3, 1976. Ways and and Civil Service. Designates March 13 to 19, and Transportation. Amends the Federal Means. Authorizes any amount received from 1977, as "National Community Health Week." Aviation Act of 1958 to require identifying appropriated funds as a scholarship by a. H.J. Res. 1055. August 24, 1976. Post Office markings on aircraft so as to be readily iden member of a. uniformed service who is receiv and Civil Service. Designates March 13 to 19, tifiable by persons on the ground whenever ing tr&ining under the Armed Forces Health 1977, a.s "National Community Health Week." such aircraft is operated at low altitudes. Professions Schq,larshlp Program from an H.J. Res. 1056. August 24, 1976. Post Office H.R. 15014. August 3, 1976. Agriculture. educational institution to be treated as a. and Civil Service. Designates the third week Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural scholarship, excludable from gross income of September of 1977 as "National Reha Development Act to authorize the Secretary under the Internal Revenue Code for calen bilitation Week." of Agriculture to make and insure loans un dar years 1976, 1977, and 1978. H.J. Res. 105·7. August 24, 1976. Post Office der such act for the solar heati:qg or cooling H.R. 15019. August 3, 1976. Ways and and Civil Service. Authorizes the President of residential structures on family farms. Means. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the to issue a. proclamation designating the week H.R. 15015. August 3, 1976. Banking, Cur United States to limit the importation of beginning October 3, 1976, and ending Octo ber 9, 1976, as "National Volunteer Firemen rency and Housing. Stipulates that the cost mus~rooms. Week." of furnishing water to public organizations HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS for waterfowl conservation pu rposes in the H.J. Res. 1058. August 25, 1976, Post Office H.J. Res. 1051. August 23, 1976. Judiciary. and Civil Service. Designates September 8 Grasslands areas of the San Joaquin Valley in Proposes a. constitutional amendment to as California shall be nonreimbur5able where of each year as "National Cancer Prevention sure that the total outlays of the Govern Day." specified conditions are satisfied. ment during any fiscal year do not exceed H.R. 15016. August 3, 1976. Veterans' Af the total receipts of the Government during H.J. Res. 1059. August 25, 1976. Judiciary. fairs. Authorizes the Administrator of Vet such fiscal year and that the Federal in Proposes a. constitutional amendment which erans' Affairs to make loans and loan guaran debtedness ls eliminated. provides that the term of office of the Presi tees to ·veterans for the purchase of solar H.J. Res. 1052. August 23, 1976. Post Office dent and Vice President shall be six years, heating and cooling systems to be used in and Civil Service. Designates January 13, and no person shall be elected to the office any dwelling or farm residence to be owned 1977 as "Religious Freedom Day." of President more than once. and occupied by the veteran as his home. H.J. Res. 1053. August 24, 1976. Judiciary. H.J. Res. 1060. August 25, 1976. Post Office H.R. 15017. Augu~t 3, 1976. Education and Proposes a. constitutional amendment to as and Civil Service. Designates February of Labor. Authorizes appropriations for the con- sure that the total outlays of the Govern- ea.ch year as "American History Month."
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS INCREASED BENEFITS FOR SSI monthly benefit-which for an indivi AN AVIATION PIONEER-GONE RECIPIENTS dual is $167.80 and for couples is WEST $251.80-be stretched? Clearly, this monthly benefit is being stretched to th€ HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN breaking point. But increasing these HON. DALE MILFORD OF NEW YORK benefits may mean the difference be OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tween starvation and survival for this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, September 2, 1976 Nation's needy citizens. It means money Thursday, September 2, 1976 to purchase food, to pay the rent or the Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, today I am winter fuel, and to meet the everyday Mr. MILFORD. Mr. Speaker, this Na introducing legislation to provide in economic needs of survival: tion has lost a leading citizen and a true creased benefits for the needy aged, the This week the House overwhelmingly pioneer, Maj. Bill Long. blind, and the disabled under the sup passed by a vote of 374 to 3, H.R. 8911, Anyone with a pilot's license number plemental security income program. the Supplemental Security Income consisting of six digits or less, is prob Under my proposal, SSI benefits fOJ;" an Amendments of 1976, making certain ably very familiar with Maj. Bill Long. individual recipient would be increased equitable changes in the SSI 'program. Many knew him personally. !rom $1,752-the current cost-of-living Mr. Speaker, in the interest of continu In the next monthly meeting in "Quiet adjustment is $2,013-to $2,500; for ing to meet the needs of SSI recipients, I Birdmen" hangars, . all over the world, couples, the SSI benefits would be in am inserting the full text of my bill at Major Bill's name will be specifically creased from $2,628-the current· cost this point in the RECORD, and I wel mentioned in the traditional toast to "all of-living adjustment is $3,021-to $3,750. come the support of my colleagues on QB's who have gone West." For the non The estimated cost of these increases for this measure: flyer, the "Quiet Birdmen," more popu the calendar year 1977 would amount to H.R. 15432 larly known as the QB's, is a professional approximately $3 billion. A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Se pilot's fraternity with local cha.pters Mr. Speaker, these increased benefits curity Act to provide an increase in the hangars-located throughout the world. would be targeted to more than 4.3 mil benefits payable to aged, blind, and dis Major Bill's membership in the frater lion needy aged, blind, and disabled citi abled individuals under the supplemental nity dates back to its origin. zens who currently receive SSI bene security income program I was privileged to know Major Long fits-2.3 million needy aged, 75,000 blind, Be it enacted by the Senate and House personally, as did practically every pilot and 1.9 million disabled-citizens who of Representatives of the United States of in the north Texas area. We loved him are on the threshold of poverty and America in Congress assembled, That (a) sec and we will miss him. whose eligibility for SSI benefits are tions 1611(a) (1) (A) and 1611(b) (1) of the Mr. Speaker, I feel that this man's limited to savings of less than $1,500- Social Security Act are each amended by record is an outstanding example of good excluding home, car, and personal striking out "$1,752" and inserting in lieu citizenship, worthy of the attention of thereof "$2,500". the U.S. Congress and the citizens of this effects. ' (b) Sections 1611(a) (2) (A) and 1611(b) It is my understanding that the na Nation. (2) of such Act are each amended by striking I asked an outstanding aviation jour tional poverty level for an individual is out "$2,628" and inserting in lieu thereof pegged at $2,352, and for couples, it is "$3,750". nalist, Mr. Al Harting, to take pen in $2,958. Obviously, these figures mask the SEC. 2. The amendments made by the first hand and outline a sketch of the char-• fact that the poverty-level threshold section of this Act shall apply (notwith acter and life of Maj. Bill Long. The varies from State to State and from re standing any increase under section 1617 of following is the characterization com gion to region, but one fact is unmis the Social . Security Act taking effect prior piled by Mr. Harting: takenly clear: Increasing the SSI bene to January 1, 1977, but subject to any in AN AVIATION PIONEER-GONE WES; fits for these needy citizens barely meets crease under such section taking effect on or (By Al Harting) their needs for economic survival. After after that date) with respect to payments This Nation lost one of the legendary all, how far can the J-uly 1976 SSI for months after December 1976. architects of American airpower when Major September--2, 19 76 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS '29027 William Francis (Blll) Long passed away in Aviation School until selling the property in la-coach, Irene Moreno, Joan K. his homet9wn of Dallas on Thursday night, 1961. He was among the first distributors of Schmidt, Claudia Schneider, Albert August 19, 1976, at the age of 81. such early-day commercial airplanes as the Schoen.field-assistant manager, Tim A. A World War I pilot-observer in combat Laird Swallow, Stinson, American Eagle, overseas, Major Long became one of America's Eagle Rock, Buhl, and others. Shaw, Dwight E. Stones, Rodney first civilian flying school operators at Dallas' ~ In partnership with his close friend Billy Strachan, John Van Blom, Martha Wat-· Love Field. He was among eight such men to Parker, the famed chief pilot of Phlllips son, and Leslie Wolfberger were members be summoned to Washington, D.C., by his Petroleum, Bill Long for many years sold of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team which re friend, the late General H. H. (Hap) Arnold, more advanced, multi-engine business air- recently finished competition in Mon for a meeting in 1939 in Room 1020 of the planes. · treal, Canada. War Munitions Building that marked the He was a founder and chief executive of I am sure that al~ of us in the Con birth of this country's mighty World War II two commercial airlines-Long & Hari:µon Air Force. which sold its routes to Braniff in the late gress feel a deep pride in the achieve He quoted General Arnold as saying 1930's, and Pioneer which merged with Con ments of the Olympic team at Montreal. "Gentleman, make no mistake-we are next tinental in 1954. But few of us can understand the sacri on Germany's list. As of the moment, I have Bill Long was a friend of the legendary fice these athletes have made and the 1,006 airplanes that wm fly, and 1.,042 of names of aviation who often taxied up to painfully hard work they have invested ficers who can ·fly them after a fashion. visit and seek his advice at Love Field in reaching the Olympics. The Olympic "I want you to go home, mortgage your names like Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, athlete and coach are the personifica houses, sell your wives' furs, borrow all the Jimmy Doolittle, Admiral Richard Byrd, tions of self-discipline, commitment, and cash you can lay your hands on, and build Frank Hawks, Roscoe Turner, Doug Cor the world's best flying schools. At the end of rigan, Wiley Post, Al Wllliams, and others. competitive excellence, and each of these the month, I'm giving you each 100 cadets In addition to m111tary pilots for World individuals represents the finest of these and on July 1 I'm giving you all the govern War II, Major Long's Dallas Aviation School ideals. ment planes and training equipment I can turned out a legion of airline captains and It is the obligation of the Congress not find." professional pilots commanding business and only to assess the liabilities of our coun Through fierce patriotism and deep-seated executive airplanes in every corner of the try but to call attention to its assets. faith in General Arnold, Bill Long joined the land. Men and women such as these clearly others in following the General's request. After selling his service and training fa fall into the latter category. It is my He began training U.S. cadets in old wire c111ties, Bill Long remained on his beloved spoked PT- 3's at Dallas Love Field which had Love Field in a suite of offices where he privilege, therefore, to enter the names of begun in 1917 as a pilot training base for frequently met with his old friends and these individuals into the RECORD of the World War I. Some months later, he received worked as a wise and genial aviation con Congress of the United States and to the first young Britishers to come to this sultant to all comers. At the time of his commend them for their outstanding country to win their wings for combat duty death he was an active director of the Gates achievement. with the Royal Air Force. They trained first Learjet Corp., Wichita, Kansas, and of the at Love Field and then Major Long created a Hillcrest State Bank in Dallas. He was a facility exclusively for them at Terrell, Texas, member of the elite Conquistadores del Cielo, east of Dallas. comprised of the country's top avi"'tion in WALKER COLLEGE CIRCLE K CLUB Through all the war years, Major Long dustry executives, and cherished meetings operated U.S. Air F6rce contract training with the group twice each year---0ne of schools at Dallas, Terrell, Fort Worth, and them annually a week-long session at a Brady, Texas. By the time history's greatest Rocky Mountain ranch. He also was a mem HON-. TOM BEVILL air armada had helped crush Nazi Germany ber of the Dallas Gun Club where he still OF ALABAMA and Japan, his schools had turned out nearly shot remarkable rounds of skeet, the Calyx IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 25,000 pilots and technicians. Club and the Cipango Club. He was a QB For these services, Bill Long received the (Quiet Birdmen) . Thursday, September 2, 1976 President's Certificate of Merit and was made Blll Long was an extremely well-read and Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, on Au a member of the Civil Division of the Order "practical" scholar with interests ranging of the British . Empire by King George VI. through history and nearly every known pur gust 17, the Walker College Circle K Hap Arnold had put his trust in the right suit of man. He was a religious man, with Club was named the most outstanding man at a time of unparalleled national crisis. a profound love of God. He was a yarn-spin chapter in the entire Circle K Interna William Francis Long. was born in 1895, ner without equal, embell1shing his narra tional organization. the son of a farmer near New Florence, tives with hearty good humor. He liked I want to use this RECORD as a means Montgomery County, Missouri. As a lad, he fashionable clothes, gourmet food and Rolls of congratulating the outstanding develop a free spirit of adventuring and a Royce and Cadillac automobiles, but was at Walker College Circle K Club on this love of the land and animals that character home with men and women in every walk monumental accomplishment. ized this unique man throughout· his long of life. He was a humble person who had the and eventful life. common touch. For those who might not be familiar Until the time of his death, Bill Long Major Long and his lovely, vivacious wife, with the organization, Circle K is the loved his vast Rough Creek Ranch near Wal Wayne, made their home at 3525 Turtle Creek college affiliate of Kiwanis International. nut Springs, Somervell County, Texas, where in Dallas. Since 1956, I have been privileged to he raised some of the Lone Star State's .serve on the board of trustees of this finest Hereford cattle and restored the land greatly admired 2-year institution. Dur and the native game to conditions of a cen LONG BEACH AREA ATHLETES ing these 2 decades, I have continually tury past.- He and his beloved wife, Wayne PARTICIPATE IN OLYMPICS been impressed with the way the college Pettit, herself a member of one of Texas' has progressed. pioneer families, regularly spent days and weeks at the ranch enjoying the rolling Under the leadership of its president, meadows, the lakes and spring-fed streams. HON. MARK W. HANNAFORD Dr. David Rowland, Walker has devel Blll Long for many years in his prime OF CALIFORNIA oped a reputation as an institution totally was a noted horseman and polo player. dedicated to serving the academic and Mounted on a thoroughbred horse, he was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES extracurricular needs of its students. an aggressive and sk1llful master of the Thursday, September 2, 1976 The fact that more than 85 percent of • game who gave no quarter-and asked none. its graduates go on and obtain degrees He was an expert marksman who competed Mr. HANNAFORD. Mr. Speaker, I take in-and often won_:ghooting contests in this opportunity to laud the accomplish at 4-year institutions reflects the image both North and Latin America. ments of 30 young men and women from Walker College has fostered for itself. When World War I ended, Major Long re- . the Long Beach area in southern Cali So the faClt the school's Circle K chap mained in Europe with the Army of Occupa fornia who will be honored by the Long .ter has been afforded such a lofty honor tion, returning in 1920 to qualify for com Beach Century Club on September 14, comes as no shock to me, since it seems mercial pilot's license No. 476. He sold sur 1976. Deborah A. Ayars, Jack Babashoff, to fit in comfortably with the school's plus CUrtiss Jennies and Standards both in Les Berman-coach, Sherry L. Calvert, overall goals. San Antonio and in Dallas and throughout Gene Davis, Pat Donnelly, Rayfield Du But the thought of what went into Latin America. He also was a barnstormer, making the Circle K award a reality is bringing the miracle of flight for the first pree, Lelei A. Fonoimoana, Bruce M. Fur time to thousands of rural Americans, and niss, Steve C. Furniss, Lisa C. Hansen, staggering. he flew payrolls in and out of Mexico. Lawrence T. Hart, Annette L. Hilliard, The award is one which most chapters In 1926, he acquired several World War I Joni Huntley, Francie Larrieu, Joan L. would only dream about. hangars at Dallas Love Field where he Lind, Mark E. Lutz, Karen Mccloskey, When the judges at the Circle K In operated Dallas Aero Service and Dallas Thomas McKibbon, Anthony J. Montrel- ternational Convention named Walker 29028' EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19'76 College the most outstanding chapter in But Congress must stay out of it. I shredded, flaked, chunked, or otherwise the organization's largest classification, greatly fear the tendency of politicians processed had entered the continental the gold division, literally thousands of to reduce standards to enable everybody United States this year as of August 20. hours of work took on new degrees of to succeed, regardless of merit. In the In other words, more than enough meat ·satisfaction. military ranks of our country, merit must has passed through the Puerto Rican After being named the No. 2 chapter never be replaced by mediocrity. processing plant to cause total U.S. im in Circle K International in 1975, the I have confidence in the responsible ports to exceed the trigger level for this Walker club put in more than 7,500 man officers and the corps of cadets. Their year. hours of community service during the proud and historic institution, which has In mid-August, USDA announced a past year in an effort to take home the served our country with great honor. has proposal that certain meats being proc top prize. been sorely shamed by the current scan essed in foreign trade zones would count Much of the credit for the club's suc dal. They will remedy the problem. And against the Nation's meat import limita cess must go to Hank West, a political they will do it in a way that preserves the tions. We commend Secretary Butz for science instructor at Walker College who standards of moral excellence which is this action, but nonetheless, it is not as serves as dub sponsor. Under his guid the tradition of our service academies. comprehensive a solution as the one ance, the club has risen from the ranks which our bill proposes. The spectre of of the ordinary to the pinnacle it finds unlimited processed meats which are itself on today. shredded, flak:ed, and so forth in the Since the Walker College club was re AMENDMENT TO 1964 MEAT IMPORT country of origin continues to loom in the vitalized 5 years ago, it has become in.: ACT background, in spite of the USDA pro creasingly dominant in district and na posal. tional competition with other chapters. HON. JOHN KREBS In addition, the Foreign Trade Zones The latest honor bestowed on the club OF CALIFORNIA Board has repeatedly announced that is a fitting tribute to an organization hearings will be held to decide whether and an institution dedicated to high IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES imports of the meats processed in Maya standards of excellence. Thursday, September 2, 1976 guez are detrimental to the public inter Mr. KREBS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today est. However, no positive action has to express my deep concern over the occurred to date. Again, we are pleased that Secretary Richardson has directed CHERISH THE HONOR CODE ever-increasing amount of processed meats entering the United States through the Department of Commerce to investi the foreign trade zone in Mayaguez, gate this matter. However, even if hear HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT Puerto Rico. This meat, originating in ings are held, a positive finding is made, OF MARYLAND large part in Australia and New Zealand, and meat processing in Mayaguez is cur tailed, the problem could well recur in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by virtue of the processing to which it is ·subject, directly violates the intent of the the future in Mayaguez or in another for Thursday, Sep~ember 2, 1976 Meat Import Act of 1964 and the volun- eign trade zone. Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, the Person- tary agreements correspondingly nego Next· year, the voluntary restraint nel Subcommittee of the House Armed tiated with exporting countries under agreements, if they are instituted, may Services Committee is presently hearing authority of section 204 of the Agricul well take into account processed meat witnesses regarding the violation of the tural Act of 1956. and require that it be included as a part honor code at the U.S. Military Acad- In an effort to stem this unrestrained of the level established in the voluntary emy. flow of processed meat imports, which is agreements. However, once again, this is The academies must do considerably a significant factor in the economically a solution which is only temporary in more than produce officers with physical perilous situation facing domestic live nature-1 year-the duration of the and technical skills. They must produce stock producers, my colleague, the Hon agreement-and lacking in comprehen officers committed to duty ~nd honor, to orable BERKLEY BEDELL, and I are today siveness. Processed meat originating moral excellence. Their strength of char- introducing a bill to limit the amount of abroad would not be covered. acter is an important part of the strength processed meat imported into the United We feel strongly that limitations on of our Nation in a very hostile and dan- States. This measure closes a loophole in the importation of such meat are vital to gerous world. Those who cannot achieve the Meat Import Act of 1964---Public Law assist in the recovery of our American the standard of moral excellence do not 88-482-which fails to limit the amount livestock. industry which has suffered belong at the academies. of processed meat entering the United from extremely low returns and rapidly The current cheating scandal is a States. Public Law 88-482 simply places rising costs over the past 2 to 3 years. source of grievous c'oncern to me. Cadets an upper lid on the amount of fresh, In the interest of easing some of the are facing expulsion because of cheating chilled, or frozen beef or veal which we oppressive market pressures facing our in an examination. The Secretary of the import into the continental United domestic cattle industry, it is imperative Army has modified the penalty to allow States. Under that law, import quotas are to enact a measure such as this one. applications for readmission after 1 year . . mandated when estimates of imported There is little we in the Congress can do This penalty seems to be an honest meats equal or exceed 110 percent of an about rising costs of production, but we effort by the Secretary to cope with this adjusted base quantity. That base quan can alleviate unfair market competition difficult problem, especially when we con- tity was established at a time when proc by amending the 1964 Meat Import Act sider that the academies must be dedi- essing was not commonly employed to extend its coverage to take into ac cated to a moral standard much higher 1959 to 1964. Thus, those who drafted the count processed meats. than that prevailing in civilian life. legislation probably did not find it neces- As we deliberate on the problems of sary to include processed meat within the West Point, I am shocked by the attitude base quantity. COST-OF-LIVING PAY INCREASE of some Members. They seem to want to Our bill sets a base amount for proc ' FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS abolish the honor code because it has essed beef and veal, determined by aver been violated. age amounts imported over a recent I commend those who have brought 10-year period-1966 to 1975. When 110 HON. WILLIAM J. GREEN this matter to the attention of this sub-- percent of that adjusted base quantity is OF PENNSYLVANIA committee and the chair.man for holding exceeded, quotas would be imposed-just IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES very revealing hearings. They have shown as mandated by the' 1964 law for fresh, Thursday, September 2, 1976 strongly that if the honor code at West chilled, and frozen beef or veal. Point has flaws that need correcting, then The U.S. Department of State has Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I do not responsible officers and the corps of ~a- negotiated voluntary restraints for this believe that Members of Congress should dets must do the correcting. If enforce- year at 1.223 billion pounds. This is just receive automatic cost-of-living pay in ment and disciplinary procedures need 10 million pounds below the level at creases. If the Members of this body feel improvement, responsible officers and the which quotas would be imposed. However, that their salaries are insufficient, then corps of cadets must do the improving. 29 million pounds of meat ground, the House should take up the matter in September 2, 19·76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29029 a public fashion and accept the respon teed privately financed program that built even used up the certificates (for federal sibility. the original complex in 1968. subsidies) that we have. Realtors won't rent Mr. Speaker, had I been present yester In a project already rife with ironies, the their nice apartments if they know someone day, I would have voted for the Shipley arrival of the bulldozers at Baber Village's is on subsidies. We need legislation that will vandalized and neglected 220-unit complex force all complexes to accept them and not amendment to H.R. 14238, which elim coincides with a fiercely escal•ating debate just those in the inner beltway." inated the automatic cost-of-living pay over just how much low-income housing the The housing complex, though, symbolizes increase for Members of Congress during county should support more than the problems of subsidized hous this coming fiscal year. That debate has been symbolized by an ing. Almost one-quarter of the apartment other low-income project called Pumpkin stock in the county could deteriorate as Hill in Laurel, built, like Baber, under HUD's Baber Village has within five years, accord section 221-D-3 funding program, · which ing to an independent study released this HOUSING COMPLEX DOOMED allowed a private builder to construct a summer. Most of those complexes are the housing project under a federal government hastily and shabbily constructed projects of insured mortgage. Both projects had a fed the '60s that have made "garden-style apart eral commitment to give substantial monies ment" almost a mockery in some eyes in the HON. RON PAUL for rent supplement programs to the proj county. OF TEXAS ects' managers. Despite that, and Kelly's opposition to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Back in the mid-60s, Prince George's similar projects, the newly constructed quickly became the center for low-income Baber Village will remain an across-the Thursday, September 2, 1976 housing project construction in the Wash board subsidized project. TenantS wHl be Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I am happy ~ngton area. Today those projects, many selected on a basis of need and will pay no to have the opportunity to praise the charge, are centers for crime and, as Kelly more than 25 per cent of their income for himself says, "magnets for the poor." the two and three-bedroom apartments. Washington Post. On August 26, it ran To change the county's image, Kelly has an excellent articl~ about the problem proposed a "new quality" campaign to create with public housing in this country. a "solid middle-class" county. He has decried This article details the demolition of a what he c·alls the county's unfair share of HAMILTON SUPPORTS EDUCATION low-income housing project in Prince low-income housing projects and said he LEGISLATION Georges County called Baber Village. \Vlants no more to be built there. One way ~parently it has come as a great sur to breal.t up the concentration, he said, is to individually subsidized low-income families, HON. LEE H. H MILTON prise to the Department of Housing and OF INDIANA Urban Development that people who pay rather than subsidize entire projects, such as Baber Village. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES little or nothing for housing do not take At the time of l:ts COJ;lstruction, Ba.ber very good care of it. This is what led to Village was hailed by HUD Secretary Robert Thursday, September 2, 1976 the· downfall of Baber Village. The peo Weaver as the ideal coupling of private in Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, the ple who lived there simply decimated the genuity with public financing. 84th Congress has taken several im place. Shortly after constructl:on of the complex, portant steps, with my support, to im Actually, anyone with any foresight or Baber's dev-elopers, which included Charles prove the quality of American education. understanding of human nature could S. Bresler, a friend of then-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, deeded the project over to About one-third of our population is have predicted that someone who gets the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The directly involved in the educational something for nothing is not likely to developers then left the project with their process, and our society depends on edu take the same care of it as someone who own profits assured. cation in many vital ways. must work to pay for it. This is the weak The church served as a sponsoring group This Congress acted on a great deal of ness of all public housing programs. Con and was responsible for managing the com education legislation. Among the bills sequently, so that iny colleagues may plex and meeting mo.rt~ge payments, ac already enacted in the past 2 years are avoid similar mistakes in the future, I cording to Earl Morgan, county housing these: urge them to read this article: director. "The church group brad no experience in First, a law extends the Rehabilitation HOUSING COMPLEX DOOMED-ONCE LAUDED Act through fiscal 1978 to assist States BABER VILLAGE BEING DEMOLISHED this field. They had trouble managing it and the developers got off scot-free," said Kelly. to meet the needs of handicapped indi (By Elizabeth Becker) Within three years, 22 of the units that viduals. Bulldozers yesterday began demolishing received 100 per cent rent supplements liad Second, another law provides financial Prince Georges County's decaying Baber Vil deteriorated so badly that they were con assistance to the States to insure the lage, eight years after the housing complex demned by the county. Despite citations from was hailed at its opening by federal qfficlals housing authorities, the garden-style apart right to an education for all handicapped as a model of how government and business ments went from bad to desperate and by children. can build housing for the poor. 1973 Baber Village was synonymous with the Third, a new law authorizes funds for a Touted as one of the first of a new wave vandalism, debris, boarded-up windows and demonstration project on dissemination of su'.ch federally guaranteed but privately decayed buildings that characterize the dead of health, education, and public or social financed projects, this $2.9 m1111on low end street of poverty. service information via the broadcast income housing project was being torn down At that point HUD agreed to spend $2.7 media. because it didn't work. milllon to rehabilitate the project. But be Fourth, nationwide reading improve In the opinion of County Executive Win fore HUD's offer could be implemented, the field M. Kelly, Jr., and many other county church defaulted on its mortgage last year ment projects have been authorized. officials present at the demolition yesterday, and the eyesore became the burden of the The Congress also enacted two bills the project had deteriorated to such a point government. In a check passing agreement, over the President's veto: A bill extend that the best solution was to destroy most the county bought the complex for $1 mll ing and strengthening the National of 1t and spend $2 m111ion constructing a lion in funds granted it by HUD for that School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act, new apartment complex and rehab111tat1ng purpose. and legislation appropriating funds for one salvageable building. "Every time you talk about subsidies they Federal education-support programs for The $2 million for construction and re (the officials) say they don't want another fiscal 1976. habilitation wm be paid by the Department Baber Village. But they're the only ones who of Housing and Ul"ban Development under its can prevent it," said State Senator Tommie Other measures await final congres conventional public housing grant program. Broadwater (D-Prince George's) at yester sional action this year. I am hopeful that That comes on top of the $2.9 million day's demolition. "It's not the poor people action can be completed on them before mortg~ge thia.t the federal government, as who are completely responsible. It's the way adjournment. They include legislation gual'\antor of the private loan, had to aibsorb the programs are managed." to: when the church ~oup that took over man Like other officials present yesterday Extend the Library Services and Con agement of the project defaulted on repay Broadwater, who represents this primarily struction Act for 5 years, through fiscal ment of the mortgage last year. HUD also black community, said the demolition was 1981; gave $1 million to the county so it could a long time coming. But he emphasized that, purchase the project from the federal gov although the project would continue to be Reimburse State and local educational ernment. subsidized, it would not carry the old stigma. agencies for the costs of educating Indo Ironically, HUD's financing for the new It would be designed for 100 fewer units and chinese refugee children; Baber project is being made under a public have ample recreation space. Extend and expand the guaranteed housing grant program that was to have been "Individual subsidies aren't the only an student loan program and to curb the replaced by the kind of government-guaran- swer," said Broadwater. "In fact, we haven't rate of defaults under this program; CXXII--1830-Part 23 29030 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19·76 Authorize funding through fiscal 1977 From June to July, the increase in June 1974. The 26 stores surveyed each for Federal higher education efforts in food prices in the 10th District was the month are members of the following the areas of student assistance, con smallest increase in nearly a year. The chains: A & P, Dominick's, Jewel, Kohl's, struction, and community college and price of a 27-item market basket of food National, and Treasure Island. The occupational education aid; and items and household supplies rose an stores are located in Des Plaines, Evans Extend the Vocational Education Act average of only 0.1 percent, from $20.31 ton, Glenview, Lincolnwood, Morton for several years, with increased funding. on June 19 to $20.33 on July 17. Grove, Niles, Northbrook, Park Ridge, I look forward to working with mem Of the 32 items surveyed, only 12 items Skokie, Wilmette, and Winnetka. bers of the educational community to increased in cost, which is the largest Of all the supermarkets surveyed, the pass this and other legislation that number of unchanged prices since Octo Jewel stores had the lowest average price improves the quality of education in this ber. The most constant price has been as a chain for both the 27-item market country. that of a 20-ounce loaf of bread, which basket and the meat case items on July has held at an average of 57 cents since 17: $20.10 for the market basket, a drop April. The greatest drop in the price of of 1.9 percent from the June total of lOTH DISTRICT FOOD PRICES a single item is that of a pound of fresh $20.49 and $10.66 for the meat items, a STABLE green beans, a seasonal item, from an drop of 5.9 percent from the June total average price of 59 cents on June 19 to of $11.33. 42 cents on July 17, or a drop of 28.8 The July sm:vey was conducted by the HON. ABNER J. MIKVA percent. following members of my high school in OF ILLINOIS The average prices of the six super tern program: Mary Anderson of Des IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES market chains we surveyed showed the Plaines; Esther Levin of Evanston: Rich smallest price difference for the 27-item Berman of Northbrook; David Barclow, Thursday, September 2, 1976 market basket since September 1975. Dina Ciccia, and Bob Wagner of Park Mr. MIK.VA. Mr. Speaker, food prices The item that displayed the greatest Ridge; Greg Marmel of Skokie; Chuck in the 10th District of Illinois seem to average price increase from the June to Cohen, Mindy Cranous, Ann McCoskri be leveling off, according to the latest the July survey was sirloin steak, which and Larry Shulruff of Wilmette; and survey of majo grocery stores in the has been a constantly fluctuating item. Lynn Fitz-Hugh of Winnetka. district conducted by my staff. This Steak rose 10.3 percent in price, from Peter Burchard, Joel Lieberman and trend varies from the national average $1.55 a pound in June to $1.71 in July. Carol Markin of my Des Plaines staff co food prices, which appear to be decreas · My staff has been charting food prices ordinated the survey. ing slightly. in 10th District grocery stores since The information follows: FOOD SURVEY RESULTS, CHANGE PER STORE FROM JUNE 19, TO JULY 17, 1976
Market basket Meat case Market basket Meat case Percent Percent Percent Percent Town and store Price change Price change Tow'n and store Price change Price change
Niles: Evanston: . , Jewel ______Dominick s ____ ------$20. 30 +1.4 $10. 67 +2.2 20. 05 -3.8 10.49 -11.2 JeweL ______------20. 08 -.3 10. 25 -9.1 National.. ______------______20. 79 +1.3 11. 85 +8.8 Park Rid~e: , Morton Groye:, Dominick s______------20. 39 +2.9 11. 92 +12.3 Dominick s______20.19 JeweL ______------______+2.9. 11.11 +7.2 JeweL ______------20.15 -.4 10.43 -5.0 20.15 -J.9 10. 58 -8.0 Wilmette: Glenview: 20. 05 -1.4 10.88 -1.8 JeweL ______------National..Dominick's ______------__ 20.38 +3.5 11. 92 +13.0 National (Skokie) ______------20.48 +.1 11. 70 +7.6 20. 79 -.4 11. 60 +.2 National (Central) ______---- 20. 62 -2.8 11. 66 +.8 Skokie: Dominick's ______------Treasure Island ____ ------·----- 20; 55 +1.o 11. 44 +1.4 JeweL ______20.44 +3.1 11. 21 +7.2 Lincolnwood: 20.23 -.4 NationaL ______------______10.67 -fJ.] Kohl's ______------20. 42 +4.8 11.09 +6.7 20. 53 +.5 11. 77 +8.3 NationaL ______-- __ ------20. 75 +1.7 12. 52 +15.2 Winnetka: District average __ ------20.33 +.1 11.22 +2.1 A & P------20.45 +1.5 10. 99 -3.6 By chain:_ . , JeweL ______------20.07 -4.8 10. 97 -4.9 Dominick s_ ------__ 20.34 +2.6 11.87 +9.5 Northbrook: National.. ___ ------~ ____ 20. 54 -.1 11. 76 +6.6 20.17 -2.6 11. 08 -4.6 JeweL ______------______JeweLNational.. ______------______------____-- 20.10 -1.9 10. 66 -5.9 20.37 -.5 11.56 +6.2 20. 45 +1.5 10.99 -3.6 Des Plaines: 20.42 Treasure Island ______· +4.8 11. 09 +6.7 Dominick's __ ------20.32 +1.4 11. 41 -15.1 ~aM:::======20. 55 +LO 11. 44 +1.4 Jewel _____ ------19. 99 -1.2 10.58 -1.7 NationaL ______------____ 20. 01 -1.3 H.40 +6.1
FOOD SURVEY RESULTS-CHANGE PER STORE FROM JUNE FOOD SURVEY RESULTS 19 TO JULY 17, 1976 Chamber, I missed some rollcall votes on [Change per store from June 19 to July 17, 1976) August 9. Had I been present and voting, I would Percent Percent Item Price change have voted in the following manner. Item Price change No, on rollcall no. 621; Meats: Canned fruit: Del Monte peach halves (29 oz)_ $0. 62 +1.6 . No, on rollcall no. 622; Sirloin steak (with bone) ____ ------$1. 71 +10.3 Staples: Crisco shortening_------ • 59 -1. 7 Yea, on rollcall no. 624, and Boneless rolled rump roast______1. 45 -2.0 Miscellaneous prepared foods: Pork chops, loin/rib ______1.94 +1.6 20-oz: Heinz ketchup ______. 63 +1.6 Yea, on rollcall no. 625. Oscar Mayer beef hot dogs ______1. 27 -1.5 Peter Pan peanut butter______.69 0 Chicken, whole fryers ______. 57 -9.5 Strawberry Jello ______• 21 0 Round steak (with bone) ______1. 42 +2.9 Campbell's chicken noodle soup ______. 21 0 Ground beef (75 percent lean) ______.98 0 Kai-Kan chunky beef (dogs and cats) __ _ ."31 3.1 Armour bacon ______-- __ 1. 87 +5.6 Nonfoods: THE STEPHEN E. JOHNSTON BEACH Produce: Scott paper towels (double roll) ______.69 0 AND PAVILION Bananas ______. 27 0 Tide detergent (49 oz)_------1.36 0 String beans ______------. 42 -28.8 Reynolds aluminum foil (75 ft) ______• 95 0 Iceberg lettuce (per head) ______. 59 +3.5. Dairy: Eggs (dozen, grade A large) ______.83 +6.4 PERSONAL EXPLANATION HON. RI CHARD L. OTTINGER Y2 gallon 2 percent low-fat milk. __ _ . 79 0 OF NEW YORK Kraft American cheese (16 slices) __ _ 1. 09 . 9 Small curd cottage cheese (16 oz) __ _ . 79 +1.3 HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Bake.Jlo~d~~ubcr~~d (20 oz) ____ ------. 57 0 Thursday, September 2, 1976 OF PENNSYLVANIA Nabisco salted saltines __ ------__ . 65 +1.6 Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, on Au Kellogg's special K (11 oz) ______. 73 0 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Frozen foods: gust 15, 1976, the village of Mamaroneck, Frozen mixed vegetables __ ------ .53 +3.9 Thursday, September 2, 1976 Swanson's hungry man turkey N.Y., dedicated the Harbor Island beach dinner ______------1. 30 +1.6 Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. and pavilion to Mr. Stephen E. Johnston Minute Maid frozen orange juice (12 oz) ______------.66 Speaker, because I was absent from the in honor of "a man whose devotion to September 2, 19·76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29031 youth and aquatics shall always be re gave of himself freely and unselfishly. He course, though, we have instead gone the membered with affection and esteem." worked to restore confidence in our Gov proverbial two steps forward and three Born and raised in Mamaroneck, Mr. ernment. He cared. He was loyal. He had steps back. Johnston's contributions to his commu a patriot's commitment to our Nation What we have done is to return almost nity span over 50 years. He played base and exemplified good citizenship in his exactly to the situation where we have ball and basketball with several clubs in activities. ·no salary adjustments whatsoever, where the area. He organized Mamaroneck All How we will miss him. rknow my col Federal executives and judges are sub Stars football team in 1923. In 1924-25- leagues join with me in extending deep ject to an intolerable wage freeze and 26-27-28 his team won without a loss. He est sympathy to his children and to Ann, there is no rationality or order to the coached basketball teams; umpired high his beloved wife of 37 years. procedures followed. school and semipro baseball; refereed Mr. Speaker, by my "no" vote yester basketball games. He also coached com day, I sought to indicate my unwilling petitive swimming for 45 years and REVERSAL OF VOTE ON PAY RAISE ness to participate in this charade. taught thousands of children swimming. AMENDMENT I was willing to acquiesce and vote He was a director and instructor for against the congressional pay raise, be the American Red Cross, Mamaroneck HON. CHARLES A. MOSHER cause I continue to believe the present Branch, Water Safety and First Aid. In OF OHIO system is inexcusable, but I cannot jus addition to these activities, Mr. Johnston IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tify penalizing civil servants and justices served as village fire chief for 52 years, for our own perverse purposes. Merely and as a member of countless civic orga Thursday, September 2, 1976 because we in Congress have been stung nizations. Mr. MOSHER. Mr. Speaker, 2 days ago by the criticisms of public and private Stephen Johnston continues to reside I placed a statement in the CON gadflies who object to the miserable sys in Mamaroneck, and has remained active GRESSIONAL RECORD, referring to a pro tem we adopted last year, this is not rea in the life of the community. Today, his PoSed amednment to the legislative ap son enough to justify our swinging about favorite hobby is playing in the Larch propriations bill, to bar Members of Con wildly and inflicting injury on innocent month and Mamaroneck Senior Citizen gress from.receiving a cost-of-living sal bystanders. Orchestra. ary increase during the coming fiscal Instead of playing· political games with We are all familiar with men and year. the appropriations bill, Mr. Speaker, we woinen who go through life working tire In that statement I said, "I expect to should be buckling down to the serious lessly for the benefit of others. At times vote in support of this amendment." Yes business of enacting meaningful reform their good works are publicly recognized; terday, when the bill was debated, I voted legislation. Until we do this, we will con- at other times, life slips by so quickly that against the amendment. . tinually have to go through this silly their good deeds never receive acclaim. Consequently, I am making this brief routine. Nevertheless, these selfless people are the statement to explain what caused me to heart of a healthy and flourishing society. change my decision as to how I would I am thankful that such good people ex vote. TRIBUTE TO AL HAUFFE-A LIFE ist, and am pleased to join the commu Basically, my attitude and position re TIME OF SERVICE TO RURAL nity of Mamaroneck in publicly thanking mained constant, but the proposed ELECTRIC PROGRAMS Mr. Stephen E. Johnston-a man who amendment was changed, and I found has dedicated his life to make this world the propasal in its revised form to be HON. LARRY PRESSLER and his community a better place in unacceptable. which to live. As it was originally proposed, the OF SOUTH DAKOTA Shipley amendment would simply have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES barred Members of Congress, but no one Thursday, September 2, 1976 ' ' LARRY PIANTO else, from receiving the automatic cost Mr. PRESSLER, Mr. Speaker, the rural of-living pay increase that is due next electrification movement lost a genuine HON. MARTIN A. RUSSO month. As I said Tuesday, I approved of friend and leader when Al Hauffe, Leola, this idea,. although I also added: S. Dak., passed away recently. OF ll..LINOIS I regret that we must attempt to correct Al ·served as president of the South IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our previous legislative mistake by means of an amendment to an appropriations bill. Dakota Rural Electric Association for 21 Thursday, September 2, 1976 Also, I regret that the House has totally years; he was South Dakota's representa Mr. RUSSO. Mr. Speaker, for many failed to respond to repeated suggestions tive on the NRECA board for 27 years, years I was fortunate enough to have as that we improve ·our system of salary de serving as president for 2 years, vice termination. president for 2 years and secretary for 5 a friend, an exceptionally good and de years. cent human being. Now that he is gone, Well, Mr. Speaker, instead of improv I realize with dreadful certainty the gap ing the system yesterday, we may have There has been no more dedicated and his passing will leave in my life. And I enthusiastic supporter of the rural elec worsened it. tric program than Al. Although my am eqµally aware, having seen the re Before we had a chance to vote on it, sults of his work and commitment in my the Shipley amendment was changed so formal association with Al has been district, the impact his death will have that it freezes the salaries not only of short, it has been a high point of my on the entire community. He touched · Members of Congress, but also those of service in Congress to have gotten to many lives and those lives were greatly Federal judges and of the so-called know Al Hauffe. enriched by his presence. supergrade civil servants. Now, why A fine tribute to Al by Tom .Fennel ap When Larry Pianto passed away on should these people be penalized because peared in the South Dakota Rural Elec August 7, he was, as ever, involved in his of our political machinations? tric Association's weekly notes. Tom community. In his hometown of River It is my long-held belief that congres speaks for all of us in his tribute to a fine dale, he was serving as park commis sional salaries should not change be gentleman-Al Hauffe. sioner, as he had since 1971. He also was tween elections. We should not change The Tr.j_bute follows: clerk of Calumet Township, a post to We'll miss him. Boy, how we'll miss him! our own salaries whenever the spirit Al Hauffe: family man, farmer, cooperative which he was first elected in 1973. Larry moves us. Rather, because of our unique leader and as solid a citizen as I've had the was employed by the Chicago Metropoli position as the only Federal officials able privilege of knowing died Wednesday. tan Sanitary District and was a mem to raise or lower their own salaries, we I first met Al when I was being interviewed ber of the Blue Island Sertoma, a good should allow the public a proper voice by for the job of High Liner editor by then will organization. He was an active vol deferring salary changes to the subse SDREA Manager Dall Gibbs back in 1963. Al unteer in the Riverdale Little League quent Congress. That is, we should pro was president of SDREA at that time and and his strong belief in our governmen also was serving as president of our national vide that you cannot receive an agreed association, NRECA. 'If I live to be 101 111 tal process meant countless hours of upon salary increase until after you are never forget the sight of this tall, rawboned work and personal contact in furthering reelected and serving in the next Con South Dakotan presiding at the first national that belief. gress. meeting of NRECA that I ever attended. It In his all-too-short lifespan, Larry Instead of moving toward that logical was down in Dallas, Texas, and I can assure 29032 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19·76 you that it wa.s an impressive sight to watch which cost it nearly $1.3 billion. Quaker Oats My colleagues and I want to make Al at that podium before 10,000 people, ap is accountable to 27 federal agencies, and known to the Soviet Union and to the pearing as relaxed and comfortable with Goodyear to 36. While last year it spent rest of the world that we strongly oppose that audience as he would be back in Ips $27 million on compliance, Goodyear projects appression of this nature. As Represent wich presiding at a meeting of the FEM this year's outlays for regulation near $38 million. Eli Lilly, the drug manufacturer, ex atives in a nation which is dedicated to Board. the principle of freedom to pursue life, But that was Al. He WJaS comfortable pends $15 m11liqn to complete 27,000 reports with people of whatever level of society pr for the federal government. liberty, and happiness, we hope that our in whatever numbers and I guess that's why In 1970 Dow Chemical Company paid out opposition will be noted and will lend he made such a great cooperative leader-he $164,000 to meet federal standards; in 1975, impetus to a change of philosophy on the just naturally liked and understood people. the figure was $1.5 million. part of the Soviets toward those wishing I only knew him for 13 years. Many of you Yet the nation, not the individual com to begin life anew in another land. were privileged to know him much longer. pany, pays the regulation bill in terms of But, of whatever the length of friendship, higher prices and potential unemployment. we're all better off for having known Al and The Office of Management and Budget es for having had the plea.sure of working with timates that regulation will absorb $130 bil him in the rural electric program. lion this year alone, approximately 8.1 % STATEMENT OF MR. RAILSBACK ON of the Gross National Product; another $60 THE OMNIBUS ANTITRUST BILL ')llllon is now taken from the taxpayers to finance the 60,000 employes who administer the 24 agencies Congress established between HON. TOM RAILSBACK THE COST OF REGULATION 1962 and 1973. Moreover, if current policies OF ILLINOIS remain law, the New York Stock Exchange, - Chase Econometrics, and General Electric at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. DALE MILFORD test that future investment will fall short Thursday, September 2, 1976 OF TEXAS of that necessary to provide for high employ ment by $500 to $600 billion. However, if less Mr. RAILSBACK. Mr. Speaker, in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES than half of regulatory costs were diverted reading certain newspaper accounts of Thursday, September 2, 1976 to fixed investment, more than 700,000 pri the Senate debate on H.R. 8532 and even vate jobs would be created, an employment in reading remarks made by Members of Mr. MILFORD. Mr. Speaker, Federal figure near 70% of that for proposed public the other body in the CONGRESSIONAL regulation of businesses continues to cost that is, taxpayer financed-jobs. RECORD, I believe that there is a great our economy millions of dollars in lost Thus, regulation diverts capital abroad and misunderstanding as to the nature of the funds. These funds are lost in meeting to unproductvie domestic uses. Domestic in restrictive, and often unnecessary, guide vestment and production are impaired; prices proposal which is now being considered. are inflated. Certainly, federal regulations are There seems to be a general misimpres lines, and are lost to foreign nations, sion that some agreement has been where our own firms may do business an expense from which Congress's and the taxpayer's attention has been diverted for too reached between Members of this body without the cost and delay of redtape. long. and Members of the other body con An editorial in the Arlington Daily cerning the final shape of the antitrust News, the Grand Prairie Daily News, and bill. That is not correct. the Irving Daily News-all members of HELSINKI FINAL ACT There has been no compromise agreed the News Texan Group-deals with the to between the House and the Senate. problem. There has been no compromise agreed I share it with my colleagues: HO~. JAMES M. HANLEY to between the House conferees and the [From the Irving Daily News, Aug. 29, 1976] OF NEW YORK managers of the bill in the Senate. THE COST OF REGULATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In fact, there has been no meeting Is federal regulation of business beneficial? Thursday, September 2, 1976 between the House conferees and the Since many of the purported results of managers of the bill in the Senate. regulation-cleafler air, safer products-are Mr. HANLEY. Mr. Speaker, all of the Contrary to the publicized misunder simply difficult to price, a categorical cost nations which signed the Helsinki Final standing, the House conferees met by benefit analysis of regulation is difficult. Act, including the Soviet Union, pledged themselves and collegially decided how Fortunately, an account of costs imposed to do everything possible to reunite fam by federal agencies is readily available; and far they could go in compromising the Mr. Milton Copolus, under the aegis of The ilies separated by political boundaries. House and Senate positions. This com Heritage Foundation, has published a paper Because the Soviet Union is not living promise was put in written form and ("The Costs of Regulatory Agencies") which up to that promise, Members of Congress transmitted at the staff level to the refutes the alleged insignificance of regu are conducting a vigil on behalf of the other body. Thereupon without the con latory costs. Regulation inhibits domestic families which remain separa1ted. currence of any member of the House investment and productivity; it imposes A case history of these families en conference committee, significant enormous costs on individual corporations titled "Orphans of the Exbdus" dramati and the economy. changes were made to the House proposal Investment diverted overseas, primarily to cally details this tragic problem, and at before it was introduced in the other Japan or Germany to avoid unnecessarily re this time I would like to bring to the body as the proposed Senate amendment. strictive red tape at home, hinders domestic Members' attention the situation of the Let there be no mistake. Although the productivity and, thus, stimulates inflation. Yankilovich family-Isaac and his wife, Senate proposal does in large measure American fixed investment, which between Ninel, and their children, Marina and reflect the position proposed by the House 1960 and 1973 accounted for only 17.5% of Grecia, who have been detained in Mos conferees if one judges solely by the form the Gross National Product, has lagged be cow despite their request in August of hind that of 11 other major industrial coun and the words used in the proposal, the tries. Of course, the fiight of American capi 1972 to emigrate to Israel. It is contended changes unilaterally made by the propo tal stimulates higher levels of investment that since Ninel worked in the Russian nents in the other body go to the heart abroad, where capital is looked upon a.s nec aviation industry as an economic engi and soul of the legislation. essary to a nation's future employment. neer she had access to secret informa Frankly speaking, I believe that the This attitude contrasts with Congress's, tion and because of this her request to House versions on the premerger notifi which emphasizes the confiscaition of, rather emigrate was denied. Ninel left that posi cation title and the civil investigative de than the production of, wealth. Conse tion in 1971 and has not worked since. quently, productivity, increasing annually by mand title were superior to the versions 4% from 1948 to 1954, dropped to 3.1 % in Not only has emigration been denied the adopted in the other body, and were gen the next ten years, and declined further to family, but their telephone has been dis erally recognized as such. The Senate 2.1 % in the decade following. Unfortunately, connected to preclude contact with her versions, perhaps inadvertently, were it has failed to improve: the current rate is mother who now lives in Israel. Her hus seriously :flawed. In view of these :flaws, 1.5 % , a figure half that of other Western band has never had access to secret Rus there really was no choice but to accept industrial economies-even Great Britain's. sian information. Although a graduate the House versions. In part because of lower productivity, infla road construction engineer, her son has But the parens patriae title is another tion which was 4% in 1966, rose to 5% in 1969, and surpassed 12% in 1974. been denied a job in his field and has had matter. The Senate proposal now under Corporate balance sheets more directly in to accept work as an ordinary laborer. consideration does not at all embody dicate the increasing expense and complexity This oppression is obviously retaliation the provision adopted in the House and of fedeTal regulaition. General Motors must by the Russian authorities as a result of the proposal suggested by the House obey the proscriptions of 29 federal laws, the Yankilovich's request to emigrate. conferees. September 2, 19'76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29033 The proposal under consideration in ment which is growing larger and less Here again, is another mark of the meas the Senate guts the House position in respansive. What is not needed is more ure of the man that was Ollie Carter. I two significant respects.' First, the House agencies being created. Let us take a look was privileged to work with him in this rather convincingly rejected attempts to at the position ot the Democrat platform campaign and never once did he show water down the absolute ban on con on this issue. any sign that the final result would be tingency fees. The purpose of the House CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY anything but victory. We all know what ban was to insure that a State would Propasals for a Consumer Protection happened in 1948. It was, of course, the not bring a lawsuit unless it was com Agency on the Federal level have raised scrappy, determined, hard work of fight mitting its own resources to the case and much controversy. Small businesses par ers such as Harry Truman and Ollie Car to promote further the development of ticularly are concerned with the addi ter which made it possible. in-house expertise in the various States. tion of yet another agency which will Mr. Speaker, much has been said about The Senate proposal guts the House ban bury them under paperwork and only add Ollie.. Carter since his death, ·but one of by permitting contingency fee arrange to costs. . the finest commentaries on this great ments wherever the court approves of The Democrat platform comes out man was by Earl G. Waters, an old friend the fee as a reasonable one unless the foursquare for another agency and an of mine and of Ollie Carter's. Earl had fee contract between the private attor other level of bureaucracy. In part, the known Ollie and watched him with affec ney and the State is phrased in terms of platform supports "the creation and tion for many, many years. His column a "percentage" of the recovery. These maintenance of an independent consum on the late Judge Carter, "A Great Son of apparent restrictions on the use of con er agency with the staff and power to California," was written from the heart tingency fee arangements are minimal intervene in regulatory matters." and I include it to be inserted in the REC in view of the fact that as a general ORD at this point so that others in this matter the court will oversee the award House may know and appreciate the type of attorneys fees in such cases and be of man that was Judge Oliver J. Carter: cause there is no difficulty in drafting JUDGE CARTERr--A GREAT SON OF LATE JUDGE CARTER A GREAT SON OF CALIFORNIA contingency fee contracts on some basis CALIFORNIA (By Earl G. Waters) other than a percentage of the recovery. The passing of Federal Judge Oliver J. The effect of this Senate change which Carter removes from the scene one of oaii we have not agreed to is to convert a HON. HAROLD T. JOHNSON fornia's truly great sons. It is, in a sense, consumer's bill into a laWYer's bill. And OF CALIFORNIA unfortunate that his greatest fame was the that is directly in opposition to the House IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES result of·a notorious trial involving a tragic happening in another great California family. position. Thursday, September 2, 1976 For Darter will now be remembered by most A second significant change incorpo Mr. JOHNSON of California. Mr. as the judge who presided over the trial of rated in the Senate proposal over the ob Patty Hearst. A lifetime of achievement will jection of the Houses conferees is the Speaker, this summer California and the be over-shadowed by that one case. provision in the House bill which per Nation lost a man whose dedication to It was, of course, fitting that Carter should mitted treble damages to be reduced to his profession, whose unimpeachable be the judge for such a trial. For he brought single damages where the defendant integrity, and whose compassion for his to that difficult role 25 years of experience fellow man sets an example all of us as a trial judge. But he brought far more could show that his violation was in than that. good faith. The House position is that the would do well to follow. The Honorable Oliver J. Carter, presid He brought unimpeachable integrity with damages awarded should be commensu an innate back country humor and wisdom, rate with the wrong and that it is unjust ing judge of the U.S. District Court of along with an overwhelming balance of fair to inflict treble damages on any defend Northern California, achieved a notoriety ness and self-deprecation. ant that has relied on prior judicial or of sorts in the few months before his His own opinion of himself was almost as administrative precedent, reasonably be death because it was he who had presided if Tennyson had known Carter when he lieving that his actions-later found to over the trial of Patty Hearst. During wrote: be illegal-were exempt or immune from that trial, he was described as "a blunt, "In me there dwells no greatness, the antitrust laws. The House specifically old fashioned, Trumanesque man "' ~· * "save it be some far off touch of greatness who would brook no nonsense, but who "To know I am not great." adopted this reasonable approach when could laugh at himself." This is an apt the bill was before it last March. The Although born in San Francisco, the city~ Senate proposal rejects this approach. description, but having known Ollie Car in which he was to die, he was raised in As far as I know, no member of the ter for many, many years, I find it inade the backwoods of Shasta County in the town quate because it fails to reach to the of Redding where his father, Jesse W .. Carter, House conference committee has sug heart of the individual who, I believe, practice'd law. He attended Stanford Uni gested to any Member of the other body was one of the State's and the Nation's versity and graduated from Hastings College that these two significant changes- of Law to return to Redding and join his which go to the heart and soul of this outstanding jurists. father's firm. I have known Ollie Carter since the Shortly thereafter his father was elected legislation-are agreeable to the House mid-1940's when he was a California conferees or to the House itself. In my to the Senate, only to be named soon after . State Senator. I was attracted first by his to the State Supreme Court by Gov. Culbert opinion, if the Senate continues on its vitality, his concern for his fellow man L. Olson where he served until his death. present course, the entire antitrust pack and most of all by his devotion and dedi The appointment opened the door to a age is in serious trouble. I have serious cation to serve the people. No challenge political career for Oliver Carter who, at 29, doubts that the Senate- proposal can was too great for him. Wlien a job was to became the youngest state senator to serve clear the House floor and the President's up until that time. He was also one of the be done, he tackled it and solved it. He few legislators ever elected to directly suc desk in its present form. In my opinion · never backed away from a task, no mat the refusal of the Senate managers to ceed a father, family dynasties not being ter how difficult. well received in this state's politics. accept the proposal of the House con Judge Carter was elected to the Cali His election was to be a test of his mettle. ferees place the life of the antitrust bill fornia State Senate to succeed his father, ThrQwn into a forum where the average age in jeopardy. the Honorable Jessie W. Carter, who had was near 60, he was viewed as somewhat of been appointed to the California State an upstart, best seen and not heard. Another obstacle was that of being a Demo Supreme Court. At that time, he was the crat in a house long dominated by Republi MORE BUREAUCRACY? youngest man ever to serve in the Cali cans. As such his views weren't likely to be fornia State Senate, but youth was not welcomed regardless of his age. . an obstacle. He quickly won the respect But Carter, constrained though he was by HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK and admiration of his colleagues, many age and party affiliation, was to develop fast, OF OHIO of whom were of his father's and grand winning both the respect and friendship of his elders. For he had an affability that was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES father's generation. A devoted Democrat, Ollie Carter hard to reject and when he did rise to speak Thursday, September 2, 1976 his fairness, logic and sound expositions of spearheaded the· Northern California the law earned him the attention of his peers. Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the campaign for Harry Truman in 1948. As In the torrid battles which ensued in the American people are opposed to the ever we all recall this was the campaign that late 1940s over the gasoline tax proposals to increasing si21e of the Federal Govern- was supposed to be doomed for failure. finance the freeway programs proposed by 29034 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19·76 Sen. Randolph Collier, it was Carter who was National Conference of Attorneys General This legislation requires the installa chosen by the Senate as the mediator be and served on the Tidelands Committee un tion of automatic sprinkler systems in tween opposing forces. While Collier gets the til June 20, 1955. credit for launching California's ·modern He was appointed to the bench as Associate all nursing homes receiving medicare or highway system, it was Carter's equanimity Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit Court, medicaid funds. Additionally, it provides which ma.de it possilble, a fact duly recog which includes Cecil County, by Governor direct loans to the afiected homes for nized at the time by Gov. Earl Warren. McKeldin in June, 1957. In an election held the purpose of installing these systems. Because legislators were paid only $100 a Nov. 4, 1958 he was elected for a 15-year term Between 1951 and 1974 there were, month in those days, financial pressures as Circuit Court judge. according to statistics compiled by the forced Carter to retire from the Senate after Judge Rollins was a member of the Ameri National Fire Protection Association, 68 two terms. He had planned to devote his full can Bar Association, the Maryland Bar Asso attention to his law practice but he was pre ciation, the Cecil County Bar Association and nursing home fires in which three or vailed upon to take the chairmanship of the the Second Judicial Circuit Bar Association. more people died. These fires, known as State Democratic Central Committee. • . He was a member of the Board of Directors multiple-death fires, took 629 lives . It was the year of 1948 and President Harry of Union Hospital and :was finance chairman Moreover, each year some 300 to 500 of Truman was seeking election in his own in 1941 and 1943 in charge of raising funds our elderly citizens perish in single right. Republican Thomas Dewey had already for the erection of the new hospital. death fires. been elected by the polls, the media and al In 1944 he was an alternate delegate to the Elderly Americans living in nursing most everyone else except the people. Carter Republican National Convention and a dele homes are easily victimized by smoke had much to do with Truman carrying Cali gate to the Republican National Convention fornia and defeating Dewey. in 1952. and flames. The average age of a nurs As a result, Truman, who had intense loy During World War II, he served as chief air ing home resident is 82. These individ alty for those who helped him, named Carter raid warden in charge of Civil Defense in uals are often plagued by a variety of to the federal court. His nomination was held Cecil County. physical and mental disabilities. Some up for more than a year while Nevada's Sen. Judge Rolllns was a. member of the Ameri patients may be heavily sedated or con Pat McCarran, as chairman of the Judiciary can Legion and 40 et 8 Society and had served fined by artificial restraints when a fire Committee, sought to compel the appoint as commander of Cecil Post 15 in Elkton and strikes. ment of his candidate to a judgeship in his one term as Judge Advocate of the Legion's As these fires spread, Mr. Speaker, home state. Department of Maryland. Judge Carter served on the federal bench He was a member of the Benevolent and some patients may struggle with those for 26 years and handled many important Protective Order of Elks, the Kiwanis Club of attempting to rescue them. Others run cases. But, like his contributions as a state Elkton and the Knights of Columb'l!s of toward the flames. At times unable to senator, those decisions will be blotted from Elkton. · adapt to the realities of advancing age, public memory by his last case. Judge Rollins received the "Citizen of the or unwilling to succumb slowly and pain Fortunately, then, his conduct in that ex Year" award from the Elkton Chamber of fully to a terminal illness, the elderly emplified a lifetime of honor and a.blllty. Commerce on Feb. 13, 1968. may :find fire the most accessible method In 1974 he was general co-chairman of the of suicide. Cecil County Tricentennial celebration that marked the 300th anniversary of the coun The elderly, then, Mr. Speaker, are THE HONORABLE E. D. E. ROLLINS, ty's formation. tragically easy to kill and, far too often, SR. Born in Baltimore, Judge Rollins was all too hard to save. That makes it im reared there, where he attended public perative that we in Congress insure that schools. After being ·graduated from Balti their living quarters are as safe as we more City College, he enlisted in the United can possibly make them. Study after HON. ROBERT E. BAUMAN States Navy. OF MARYLAND study has shown that there has never Later he returned to Baltimore, where he been a multiple-death fire in a nursing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES entered the Law School of the University of Maryland from which he was graduated in home equipped with a complete auto Thursday, September 2, 1976 June, 1922. matic sprinkler system. Approximately Mr. BAUMAN. Mr. Speaker, many In 1921 he became secretary of the Medical one-half of our Nation's 16,500 nursing Marylanders were saddened recently by Service of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, homes are not required to have auto the passing of the Honorable Edward with which he was connected until 192'7, matic sprinklers. H.R. 14406 would help D. E. Rollins, Sr., of Elkton, Md. Judge when he moved to Elkton and entered the close that gap. private practice of law. In January and February of this year Rollins was a distinguished member of He married the former Miss Elizabeth the judiciary in the State of Maryland, Regina Andrew in 1925. two nursing home fires in the Chicagc as well as having served with distinction In 1931 he was elected state's attorney of area took some 30 lives. I invited the as the attorney general for the State of Cecil County and served for three successive House Select Committee on Aging, which Maryland from 1952 to 54. I was proud to terxns until January, 1943. is chaired by the distinguished gentle know this great man and to call him my Funeral services were scheduled for 11 a.m. man from Missouri Pagano of Vienna, Va., 13 grandchildren and · and experience in these matters, talked man. one great-grandchild. about the tragic fire at the Wincrest . Memorial contributions may be made to Nursing Home, in which 23 people Mr. Speaker, at this point I include in Immaculate Conception Church Building perished. the RECORD a copy of an article from the Fund. I hope my colleagues will read with Cecil Whig of July 7, 1976, which takes care the words of Chief Murphy as he note of the career of Judge Rollins: called for the installation of sprinklers JUDGE E. D. E. ROLLINS, SR., FORMER STATE SPRINKLERS FOR NURSING HOMES in every nursing home. ATTORNEY GENERAL, DIES ' Mr. MURPHY. Gentleman, you know, your Judge Edward D. E. Rolllns Sr., of Elkton, mother, my mother, your father, can we who was attorney-general for the State of HON. MARTIN A. RUSSO put a price on their body? There is no money Maryland from 1952 to 1954, died Monday, OF ILLINOIS in this world that can put a price on their July 5, at the age of 76 in Union Hospital in body. Elkton. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES So I say let us go the full route. And the A former Circuit Court judge here, he had Thursday, September 2,' 1976 best thing that I know of is a sp·rinkler been ill several months. His home was at 131 Mr. RUSSO. Mr. Speaker, I wish to system which is 98 percent perfect. So why East Main Street, Elkton. fool around and why not go for the best. Appointed attorney general for Maryland take this opportunity to announce my by Governor Theodore R. McKeldin, Judge cosponsorship of H.R. 14406, and to dis Mr. Speaker, I hope we will heed the Roll1ns assumed his duties on Nov. 14, 1952. cuss my support for this important words of Chief Murphy and pass H.R. He was prominent in the activities of the legislation. 14406 as soon as is humanly possible. September 2, 19'76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29035 THE SPACE PROGRAM'S SURPRIS demolition of buildings and bridges. Instead niques, industry researchers have now de ING SPIN-OFFS of blasting in all directions, the specially signed a device that recharges the pacemak shaped charges cut an entire structure as er's battery from outside the body. Before cleanly as a torch or saw. Placed at the base the life of a pacemaker was about two years. of the main supports of a QUilding, the When power•ran out, surgery was necessary HON. BARRY M. GOLDWATER, JR. charges slice through the girders and the to implant a new battery. Now, once a week, OF CALIFORNIA building collapses. patients simply put on a charger vest that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In July the Viking Mars landers w111 waft passes an electromagnetic field through their chests, recharging the battery in an hour. Thursday, September 2, 1976 gently to that planet's surface, suspended from a large parachute by only three straps. MEDICAL ADVANCES Mr. GOLDWATER. Mr. Speaker, a The mwterial used fro- these straps is five A transducer is a small device for moni recent article in the National Observer times stronger than steel. A tire company is toring changes in mechanical or sound pres entitled "The Space Program's Surpris adapting this material for cords for radial sure aboard a space craft. It can pick up the ing Spin-Offs," outlines the almost in tires that a.re expected to boost tread life to vibration in the wall of a space vehicle and 10,000 miles. change it into an electrical impulse that can credible down-to-earth benefits our space Xenon-arc lights, developed to test space program has produced. then be printed out by a computer on earth. equipment, have been re-engineered into an NASA transducer technology is now being Since this aspect of 'the space program intense, battery-powered portable search used in early detection of arteriosclerosis, or is so easily forgotten and ignored, I pre Itght. It weighs seven pounds, lasts 200 hours, hardening of the arteries. sent the article for my colleagues' edifica and is 50 times brighter than an auto's high The normal test involves inserting a hol tion: beam headligbts. low needle into the artery to measure the [From the National Observer, July 3, 1976] PROGRAM PAYS ITS WAY arterial pulse, a process that is both time THE SPACE PROGRAM'S SURPRISING SPIN-OFFS: To get off the ground, the Saturn rocket consuming and painful. Now an "arterial SPORTS TOGS, PACEMAKERS, SEWAGE TREAT- guzzles thousands of gallons of fuel every pulse wave transducer," placed next to the MENT minute. Its pumping system is being adapted patient's skin, can determine the flexibility (By Jaime Friedman) to douse shipboard fl.res with huge amounts of arteries externally in only a few minutes. The device uses a transistor that converts A Cleveland fireman with specialized medi of sea water. The transfer of technology from space to the pressure of blood against the walls of the cal training rushes to help a 62-year-old blood vessels into electrical signals; they woman, a heart-attack victim. Artificial res other uses has become a major issue for the National Aeronautics and Space Administra then can be recorded on an electrocardio piration produces no pulse. He pumps an graph. intravenous mixture of dextrose and water tion in its budgetary battles with Congress and the Administration. For years the moon The ability of the space program to com into her veins to prevent their collapsing, pete for Federal funds increasingly will de then tries repeated blows to her chest. St111 race produced generous support for the space program. But now that the race 1s over and pend on the technological spin-off it can no response. generate. Says Mogavero: "You can see the In the tense moments that follow, he does earthbound economic and social problems hold the limelight, the once open hand 1s impact of space technology across the whole something to save her that wasn't possible economy; in computer science, in farm plows, a year ago. With a two-way radio hookup, he turning into a tighter and tighter fl.st. NASA annual budgets have dropped from about $4 building materials, packaged foods; in safety transmits her electrocardiogram to a moni devices, sewage treatment, pollution detec tor, in a hospital miles away. Under a doctor's billion in 1969, the year of the moon walk, to $3.5 b1111on in 1976. tion, energy conservation, and exploration. moment-to-moment direction\ the fireman Whether these spin-offs are enough to change uses electroshock to jolt the woman's heart Louis Mogavero, director of the NASA Technology Utilization Offlce, says funds have the doubts about investment in space pro.. back to beating and keep her alive until she grams is hard to say." can get intensive medical care. been cut back because "people aren't aware This device for relaying and monitoring a of the contribution the space program has heart-attack victim's condition is part of a made to almost every aspect of dally life." "Telecare" emergency package derived from DISSEMINATING INFORMATION VOTING RECORD the Skylab telemetry system that transmits NASA has an ambitious program to dissem an astronaut's vital signs from space to earth. inate its technological information. "Tech Now used by rescue squads in Cleveland, Briefs," a free booklet issued quarterly, an HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN Houston,· and other cities, Telecare is a dra nounces potentially transferable technologi OF OHIO matic illustration of the many ways advanced cal developments. The agency has set up six IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . space technology is being applied on earth. Industrial Applications Centers around the DOWN-TO-EARTH APPLICATIONS country, mainly on university campuses, to · Thursday, September 2, 1976 The space-exploration program required provide scientific and engineering assistance Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, in the development of new inventions in prac to industries. a continuing attempt to provide my tically every field of science and engineering, This network can tap a giant data bank that contains more than eight m111ion tech voting record for the first session of the among them, metallurgy, chemistry, and 94th Congress for the benefit of anyone electronics. Break-throughs had to be made nical documents and grows by 50,000 docu in miniaturizing products, cutting their ments each month. Several thousand compa who wouid like to examine that record, I weight, and achieving new standards of relia nies use this data bank each year. NASA also would like to have printed here my votes bility. There has always been speculation has fo~r biomedical teams and three tech on matters ranging from military con that the technology of the $60 billion space nical-assistance teams to help municipal, struction appropriations to emergency program might have a wide-ranging practical state, and Federal agencies adapt space tech housing assistance. The material fol impact on life on earth. nology to problems in fields such as health, lows: Communications and weather satellites are pul'.>lic safety, construction, and transporta tion. H.R. 10029. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIA• the most fammar applications of space tech TIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1976 nology. But there are numerous products in In co-operation With fl.re departments in everyday use that appear to have nothing Houston, Los Angeles, and New · York City, Amendment to delete $64.9 million from at all to do with the space program yet would NASA researchers have developed a lighter, the bill for the construction of an armed not have been developed without it. more compact air tank and breathing system services medical school in Bethesd1a, Mary Take the suit developed to ensure that for firemen, based on concepts and materials land rejected 161-255, No. astronauts returning from the moon would designed for moon walking. Final passage of a bill to appropriate $3,- not contaminate the earth with unknown PRACTICAL CONSUMER GOODS 518,723,000 for Defense Department con struction projects in FY 1976 and $359',100,- and possibly dangerous micro-organisms. A space contractor who developed a quartz This special outfit was worn between the 000 for the budget transition period, passed crystal for the precision-timing equipment 353-51, Yea; 10-8-75. time the astronauts splashed-down and when used in Apollo missions has adapted the de Conference report on the bill to appropri they were placed in quarantine on a recov vice to make more accurate mechanisms for ery ship. Today a similar suit has been deve ate $3,585,014,000 for military construction timepieces. · projects in the U.S. and overseas in FY 1976 loped for those children born without normal Sportswear manufacturers have taken a and $359.1 million for the budget transition immunities; the suit envelops the child, has form of alumlnized mylar, created first for pe~iod, passed 349-59; Yea; 11-18-75. its own purification system, and provides a space-suit insulations, to make jackets, ski germ-free environment that lets the easily parkas, sleeping bags, and other gear. H.R. 5210 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION infected child spend as long as four hours Space technology has been widely applied AUTHORIZATION outside hospital confinement. in medicine. The pacemaker, which delivers Amendment to cut $562,000 from the bill Take another example. The precise explo• small, regular electric shocks to pace an ir for construction of facilities at Pine Bluff, sive devices created to separate the Gemini regular heartbeat, grew out of the miniatur Arkansas to produce binary nerve gas muni space craft from the Titan launch vehicle ized, solid-state circuitry developed in the tions, adopted 219-185, no; Amendment to have now been adapted for the controlled space program. Using NASA-developed tech- cut $64.9 million for continued construction 29036 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 1976 of the Uniform Health Services University Conference report on the bill to authorize require school dis.tricts to bus students be of the Health Sciences at Bethesda, Mary $3.1 blllion for foreign economic and devel yond the school closest to their homes for the land, rejected 191-221, No. opment assistance for FY 1976 and FY 1977, purpose of school integration, concurred 260- Final passage of the bill to authorize $4,- adopted 265-150, Nay; 12-9-75. 146, No; 12-4-75. 067,523,000 for military construction proj H.R. 5884 COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL Motion to postpone until January 27, l976, ects in FY 1976 and the three month transi ECONOMIC POLICY AUTHORIZATION an override attempt to President Ford's Veto tion period, passed 369-47, Yea; 7-28-75. of the blll appropriating $45-blllion for the Final passage of the bill to authorize $1,- H.R. 9721 INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Departments of Labor and HEW and related 657,000 in FY 1977 for the Councll on Inter agencies for FY 1976 and the July-September Adoption of the rule (H. Res. 817) provid national Economic Policy, passed 345-58, 1976 transition period, agreed to 319-71, Nay; ing for House Floor consideration of the bill Yea; 7-9-75. 12-19-75. to authorize $2.25 blllion as the U.S. share H.R. 9968 TAX TREATMENT ON mRIGATION H.R. 9500 CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COLLECTIVE of the replenishment of the Inter-American FACILITIEE· BARGAINING Bank and to authorize participation of up to Motion to suspend the rules and pass the $25 blllion in the African development fund, Final passage of the bill to establish Within blll to amend Section 103 of the Internal the Department of Labor a committee com adopted 353-24, Yea; motion to recommit Revenu9 node to grant tax-exempt status for and thus k111 the bill to authorize $2.25 bil posed of labor and contractor representatives development bonds used to construct dams to assist in negotiating new contracts to sta lion as the U.S. share of the replenishment if they are used substantially for irrigation of the •Inter-American Development Bank bilize the collective bargaining process within purposes at a reasonable cost to the public, the construction industry, passed 302-95, and to authorize participation up to $25 passed 286-111, Yea; 10-6-75. million in the African Development Fund, Nay; 10-7-75. H.R. 5900 COMMON-SITE PICKETING rejected 140-276, Nay. S. 267 COLORADO NATIONAL FORESTS Final passage of H.R. 9721, passed 249-166, Amendment to require that the issues of Final passage, a motion to suspend the Yea; 12-9-75. the labor dispute at a construction site do rules and pass the b111 to add 235,230 acres in H.B. 3035 TAX AND LOAN ACCOUNTS not involve employees of an employer who ls the sta.te of Colorado to the Na.tional Wilder not engaged prlmarlly in the construction Motion to suspend the rules and pass the ness Preservation System, passed 369-1, Yea; business industry, rejected 176-223, Nay; 12-1-75. bill to require the payment af interest on Amendment to prohibit common-site picket certain funds of the United States held on ing where state laws require direct and sep H.R. 1589 AMEND THE FOOD STAMP ACT OF 1964 deposit in commercial banks and to provide arate contracts on state or municipal proj Final passage, a bill to prevent an increase for reimbursement to commercial banks for ects, agreed to 229-175, Aye; Amendment to in food stamp cost becoming effective 3-1-75, services performed by the Federal govern prohibit common-site picketing on all direct passed 374-38, No; 2-4-75. ment, agreed to 391--0, Yea; 12-15-.75. and separate contracts, rejected 176-222, Aye; H.R. 4592 FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS H. CON. RES. 133 SENSE OF THE CONGRESS Amendment to prohibit an extension of prod Final passage, a blll to provide $3,498,420,- The Federal Reserve should bonduct mone uct boycotts, to an entire construction site, 000 for FY 1975, adopted 212-201, Nay; 3- tary policy in the first half of 1975 so as to agreed to 204-188. Aye: Amendment to ex 13-75. lower interest rates, adopted 367-55, Nay; empt residential structures less than three Conference report passed 193-185, Nay; 3-4-75. stories and without an elevator from the 3-24-75. Conference report adoption of report of provisions of the bill, rejected 200-202, Aye. Conduct of Monetary Policy, adopted 335- Final passage of the b111 to protect the eco H.R. 7706 DAY CARE CENTERS 46, Yea; 3-24-75. nomic rights of labor in the building and Conference report of a blll to suspend the construction industry by providing for equal duty on imported natural graphite until 1978 H.B. 4415 INTERGOVERNMENTAL PERSONNEL treatment of cra:(t and industrial workers and to suspend staffing requirements for fed ACT AMENDMENTS through the use of secondary boycotts, erally funded day care centers until Jan Amendment to delete a committee provi passed 230-178, Nay; 7-25-75. uary 31, 1976, adopted 383-10, Yea; 10-9-75. sion requiring the Federal government to Conference report on the bill to make it H.R. 9019 HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION continue paying 75 percent of the cost of legal for a construction union With a griev AMENDMENTS programs to strengthen state and local gov ance against one contractor to picket all Motion that the House resolve itself into ernment personnel systems through October the other contractors on the ~ame construc 1, 1978, (Under existing law, the Federal share the Committee of the Whole for Floor con tion site and. to establish a Construction In sideration of the bill, adopted 347-0, Not of the program costs would drop to 50 percent dustry Collective Bargaining Committee, on July l, 1975), adopted 226-168, Aye; voting. · adopted 229-189, Nay; 12-11-75. Final passage of the bill to modify or re Amendment to the pending Rousselot H.R. 8069 LABOR-HEW APPROPRIATIONS FY 1976 amendment to delete a section of the· bill peal provisions of a 1973 act (PL 93-222) pro to authorize grants to employment orga Amendment to prohibit any funds in the viding federal assistance to health mainte nizations under certain circumstances, re bill from being used by the Occupational nance organizations, which provide a range jected 189-213, Aye. Safety and Health to issue penalties for first of services to patients who pay a set monthly (The Rousselot amendment which would violations of Federal safety and health rules fee in advance rather than separate fees for have barred the use of grant funds for pro by firms employing 25 or fewer persons, re :each service after it ls actually provided, grams relating to labor-management rela jected 186-231, aye; Amendment to appropri passed 309-45, Not voting; 11-7-75. tions subsequently was rejected by voice ate $30,949,000 for maternal and child health H.R. 5546 HEALTH MANPOWER PROGRAMS vote, and the bill was passed by voice vote.) programs, adop·ted 279-138, no. Interstate and Foreign· Commerce Commit Final passage of the bill to make appropri H.B. 8773 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIA tee Amendment to require students in health ations of $44.9-blllion for FY 1976 and the professional schools either to repay the TIONS FISCAL YEAR 1976 subsequent three month trans1;1Jion period, Amendment increase appropriations for amount of the basic federal assistance paid to for the Department of Labor, the health and on their behalf to their schools or to prac acquisition of wetlands as a habitat for mi welfare divisions of the Health, Education tice in a medically underserved area for as gratory birds to $10 m111ion from $1 mlll1on, and Welfare Department and relwted agen many years as their schools received this adopted 220-203, No; 7-23-75. cies, passed 368-39, Nay; 6-25-76. assistance in their behalf, adopted 209-153, Final passage of the bill to appropriate Motion . to recommit to conference (and No; Amendment to delete provisions of the $4,101,962,000 for FY 1976 and $1,143,572,900 thus klll) the bill to make FY 1976 a.ppropri bill that would have limited the number of for the July 1--8eptember 30, 1976 transition ations for the Departments of Labor, HEW post-graduate residency training positions in period for the Interior Department and re and related agencies, rejected 156-265; Yea. the U.S., beginning in 1978, and require pri lated agencies, passed 417-8, Yea; 7-23-75. Conference report to make FY 1976 appro vate professional organizations to allocate Conference report on the bill to appropri priations of $36,073,748,318 and transition residency positions by ·specialty, adopted ate $4,234,621,000 for FY 1976 and $1,155,538,- period approprLations of $8,933,216,000 for 207-146, Aye. 900 for the July 1-September 30, 1976 transi the Department of Labor, HEW and rela.ted Final passage, a bill to authorize $1.76 bil tion period for activities of the Interior De agencies, adopted 321-91, Nay; 12-4-75. lion for FY 19.76-78 for federal health man partment and related agencies, adopted 407- Motion to concur with a Senate Amend power assistance programs, passed 296-58, 5, Yea; 12-11-75. ment barring the. Department of HEW from Nay; 7-11-75. H.R. 9005 FOREIGN ECONOMIC AID using any funds in the bill to require school H.R. 4925 HEALTH SERVICE PROGRAMS AUTHORIZATION di.stricts to bus children beyond their neigh Motion to recommit to the House Com Amendment to forbid aid to countries ~hat borhood schools with a modification to allow consistently denied internationally recog HEW to order busing to the school closest or merce Committee the bill to authorize $1.4 nized hum.an rights to its citizens, adopted next closest to the student's home, rejected b11lion 1n FY 1976-77 for health services pro 238-164, No. 133-259, yea; 12-4-75. grams, including formula grants to states, Final passage of the bill to authorize $2.9 Question on whether the House should family planning, community mental health billion dollars for foreign economic and de concur in the Sena.te amendment to prohibit centers. migrant health centers and com velopment assistance for FY 1976 and FY the Department of HEW from using either munity health centers for the medically un 1977, passed 244-155, Nay; 9-10-75. directly or indirectly any funds in the bill to derserved. The blll would also extend the pro- September 2, 19'76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29037 grams through FY 1975 at the FY 1974 au improper" activities, passed 286-120, Yea; Portant problem in every State in our thorization level of $663 million, rejected 2-19-75. Nation is highway bridge safety. Like 9-352, Nay. H. RES 591 HOUSE SELECT INTELLIGENCE rail-highway grade crossings, it com S. 66 HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COMMITTEE mands little publicity until a tragedy Vote to override Presidential Veto of the Amendment to abolish the House Select occurs, such as the collapse of the Silver bill to authorize $2 billion in FY 1976-78 for Intemgence Committee· established by H. Res. federal health service program and the Na 138 on February 19, rejected 122-293, Aye; Bridge in West Virginia that claimed 46 tional Health Service Corps, passed 384-43 Amendment in the nature of a substitute, to lives. Then, the sensationalism of the Nay; 7-29-75. abolish Select Intelligence Committee created disaster strikes an anguished chord in H.R. 4114 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS February 19, and direct the House to create the sensibilities of most Americans, ·a perm.anent House-Senate committee on which unfortunately fades swiftly and Final passage of a bill to extend and re intelligence, rejected 178-230, Aye; Motion vise the National Health Service Corps pro without fanfare. Yet, 150 bridges col that a Committee of the Whole rise, thus lapse each and every year, and fully gram, passed 399-4, Yea; 5-7-75. halting further debate on the resolution, H.R. 7988 HEART, LUNG AND BLOOD DISEASES motion ·agreed to 242-162, No; Amendment 90,000 bridges are in critical need of re Final passage of the bill to authorize $1.2 to restrict the House investigation of the U.S. placement. billion over two years, FY 1976-77, for federal intelligence activities to the Central Intel I am proud that my good friend and programs to combat heart, lung and blood ligence Agency and to lower the membershLp colleague from Pennsylvania, H. JOHN diseases and to provide research training for Olf the Select Committee from 10 to 7 mem HEINZ III, has faced up to this problem graduate and post-doctoral students in '3Cien bers, rejected 125-285 Aye; Amendment to and done somethiQg about it. Congress tific fields, passed 375-5, Yea; 10-20-75. allow members of the Select Committee cre man HEINZ, who represents a district in H.R. 30 HELLS CANYON ated by H. Res. 138 on February 19 to become members of the new committee authorized Pennsylvania with 19 unsafe bridges, is Final passage of the bill to establish the by H. Res. 591 if they choose, rejected 119- not unfamiliar with the problem and has Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. in 274, No; 7-17-75. devoted a great deal of time and effort Oregon, Idaho•and Washington and thus pre to develop a legislative proposal that venting the proposed construction of two H. RES. 335 SELECT COMMITTEE ON MIA'S hydroelectric power dams on the Snake River, Adoption of the resolution to establish a. makes sense. His bill, the Bridge Safety passed 342-53, Yea; 11-18-75. select committee to investigate United States Act of 1976, would address the nation servicemen missing in action in Indochina., wide disgrace by focusing on areas of H.R. 3787 HIGHWAYS AND THE ENVIRONMENT severe need now, while guaranteeing a Final passage of the motion to suspend the adopted 394-3, Yea; 9-11-75. · rules and pass the bill to make clear that, if SEN. CON. RES. 23 PRINTING AUTHORIZATION long-term Federal commitment for re adopted by Federal officials, state-prepared Motion to recommit the House Admin pairing or replacing all identified unsafe environmental impact statements were ac istration Committee the resolution to au bridges. ceptable for Federal highway projects in thorize the printing of an additional 20,000 As ranking minority member of the New York, Vermont and Connecticut, passed copies of "The Congressional Program of House Surface Transpcrtation Subcom 275-99, Yea; 4-21-75. Economic Recovery and Energy Sufficiency," mittee, with jurisdiction over bridge pro H .R. 8235 FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM with instructions to substttute Democrat for grams, I enthusiastically support the Amendment to reduce annual authoriza Congressional, rejected 133-264, Yea. Heinz bill as a thoughtful, pragmatic, tions for Interstate Highway System con Final passage of Printing Authorization Resolution, passed 262-138, No; 5-7-75. yet forceful, solution to unsafe bridges, struction for FY 1977-78 ,by $750 million and and I commend him for taking the ini delete language giving the transportation H. RES. 46 CODE OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT tiative in this critically important area. secretary discretionary authority for distribu Adds clause to H. Rule 43 stating that any tion of $750 million ruinually in FY 1977 and member who pleaded guilty to a crime or In a recent address before the 1976 FY 1978, rejected 103-309, Aye; Amendments was convicted and sentenced to two or more Republican National Convention Com to provide that (1) the oost of interstate years imprisonment, should refrain from mittee on Resolutions, Congressman highway projects rejected in favor of mass voting on the Floor or in Committee, adopted HEINZ eloquently described the nature transit or other highway projects be based on 360-37 Yea; 4-16-75. and scope of the problem and his pro 1972 cost estimates; (2) the interstate mileage H.R. 4485 EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE posed solution. Unsafe "killer bridges" withdrawn from a system in one state be Motion to order previous question end have no political affiliation and demands available for redesignation in another state bipartisan attention. Therefore, Mr. only; and (3) the proceeds from sale of right ing further debate and possibility of amend of-way purchased with Highway Trust Fund ments on rule, H. Res. 337, agreed to 242-142, Speaker, I include the statement by Con money be ·returned to the Federal govern No; Amendment to Conunittee amendment gressman HEINZ to be inserted in the ment, rejected 122-294, Aye; Amendment to to Section 7 to include other areas, rejected RECORD at this Point, and I urge my col roll back the maximum weight of trucks 101-274, No; Amendment to provide not leagues to carefully heed the message allowed on interstate highw.ays to 73,280 more than 50 percent of aggregate mortgage contained therein: amounts may be allocated for use with re pounds f.rom 80,000, rejected 139-275, Aye; ORAL TESTIMONY OF HON. H. JOHN HEINZ III, Amendment to allow cities of over 200,000 spect to existing previously occupied build ings not substantially rehaibilitated and for AUGUST 9, 1976 population that supplied over 50 percent of I appreciate this opportunity to discuss funds for an area program to plan a highway new, unsold dwelling units prior to bill's enactment; no more than 10 percent of the very serious issue of unsafe bridges in project and to submit a plan directly to the the United States. Transportation Department for funding if aggregate mortgage amounts approved to be allocated with respect to dwelling units The subject is not exactly alien to most, the state had not forwarded the plan to the if not all, of you and certainly not to myself. department within a year of the plan's ap v,alued in exce5s of $38,000, rejected 46-207, Aye; Amendment requiring that a home Not quite ten years ago the Silver Bridge proval, rejected 121-290, No. between Point Pleasant in West Virginia and Final passage of the blll to s.uthoriZe owneT commit 25 percent of his income toward payment of principal, interest, taxes Kanaqua in Ohio tore loose from its supports $10.94 billion for federal aid highway pro and·insurance in order to qualify for a mor,t and thundered into the Ohio River during the grams in FY 1977 and FY 1978 and $4 billion gage subsidy, rejected 137-229, Aye; Amend height of the evening rush hour. annually for construction of segments of the ment in the Ill8iture of a substitute to provide The 1,753-foot suspension bridge carried 46 Interstate High way System through FY 1988, additional housing assistance by expanding adults and children to their deaths. passed 410-7, Yea.; 12-18-75. 1974 Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Last year, near Winston-Salem, North H.R. 5398 EMERGENCY MORTGAGE RELIEF Act, rejected 126-242, Aye. Caronna., a bridge over the Yadkin River PROGRAM Final passage Emergency Housing Assist collapsed killing four persons and injuring Final passage of an authorization of $500 ance, passed 259-106, Nay; 3-21-75. sixteen others. million to establish a temporary Federa.1 loan And bridges continue to collapse all over program to aid unemployed persons faced our country at the rate of about 150 a. year. ffiGHWAY BRIDGE SAFETY NEEDED Notwithstanding widespread news cover with the loss of home·s due to mortgage de.:. age of these disasters and notwithstanding faults, passed 321-21, Yea; 4-14-75. renewed focus and national attention, State H. RES 138 SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE HON. BUD SHUSTER and Federal efforts directed at bridge safety Amendment to provide Committee with an remain totally inadequate. equal number of Democr.ats and Republicans, OF PENNSYLVANIA Spurred by the tragedy at Silver Bridge, rejected 141-265, Aye. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress established the Special Bridge Re Adoption of resolution to estaplish Select Thursday, September 2, 1976 construction and Replacement Program as Committee on Intelligence to determine part of the Federal Highway Act of 1970. whether Federal law agencies (enforcement Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, a fre Among other things, that Act required the and intelligence) had engaged in "illegal or quently overlooked but en,ormously im- inspection and rating of all bridges in the CXXII--1831-Part 23 29038 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19·76 nation. The inspection is now almost com Virginia, 1,180; South Dakota, 1,123; Florida, Rank and file workers may well wonder plete. 1,040; and Georgia, 988. The results are not comforting. Recently, I introduced the Bridge Safety what possible advantages will come from Let's take a look at the results, compiled Act of 1976. the alliance of their leaders with the dis by the United States Department of Trans This act resulted from months of study and aster lobby of environmental misfits who portation; consultation with highway and transporta place jobs and industry on a very low There are more than 563,000 bridges in the tion officials throughout the country. The priority. Never mind the gradual loss of United States; Safety Act recognizes that the problem of Of that number 89,800 have been classi unsafe bridges in the United States is so American jobs and the increase in im fied as "critically deficient." great that it will never be solved by pie«._e ported products because of the environ That is a euphemism for saying that one meal legislation. mentalists and Ralph Nader, radical lib out of every six bridges across our great This Act builds on the present Federal Aid erals stick together as witnessed by this country is a Killer Bridge. Highway Act by providing $720 million per article: Add to those unhappy results, the follow year for the Special Bridge Reconstruction [From the New York Times, May 4, 1976] ing: and Replacement Program, an amount that 407,000 of the 563,0000 bridges in the is realistic and commensurate with the mag \VOODCOCK CALLS FOR AN ALLIANCE . OF LABOR United States, or 72 per cent, were built nitude of the nationwide problem that my AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS prior to 1935. Act will solve. It also extends the highway (~y Glad win Hlll) Most of the older bridges were designed trust fund through 1990 to provide sufficient BLACK LAKE, MicH.--One of the nation's for the lighter, slower tramc of more than a time to get the job done. Most importantly, top union leaders called last night for a generation earlier and .certainly and obvi this Act provides for the immediate repair "new alliance" between labor and environ ously not for the highspeed, heavier traffic of the Killer Bridges, thus reducing the threat mentalists in the political arena to thwart of today. to human life. And by repairing these Killer industries' "environmental blackmail" and Let me call to your attention the signif Bridges now, the effect of inflation and the hasten full employment. icant fact that the average age of bridges cost of total replacement later wm be greatly in the Un'11ted States is more than 40 years. reduced. Only such collaboration, !Said Leonard And that on August 1 of th.is year a Although the Bridge Safety Act of 1976 will Woodcock, president of the United Automo bridge over the Danube River in Vienna be of great benefit to all states, it also recog bile Workers, will help resolve, on the one collapsed because of metal fatigue, killing nizes that for various reasons, including hand, workers' fear of environmentally in and injuring a Dll.lmber of people. their essentiality for public use, topography, duced unemployment and, on the other, some corporations' resistance to pollution That bridge over the Danube was exactly population~ length spans, load carrying ca 40 years old. pacity, certain States and counties depend on abatement. In our traditional dealings with high bridges much more than others. Mr. Woodcock spoke at the opening of a way problems, we have addressed ourselves This bill directs the Department of Trans five-day national conference of 300 union to the questions of roads and streets. portation to identify these areas and to give officials, ecology activists and community Bridges, somehow, were ta.ken for grant first priority to those with the most critical leaders aimed at exploring common interests ed-as if there were no major difference need. and easing friction between environmental between a piece of pavement and the Sltruc Moreover, a certain percentage of the total and economic progress. ture needed to cross a river. appropriation each year will be set aside so The conference, entitled "Working for En For this reason those Klller Bridges still that individual counties may apply for emer vironmental and Economic Justice and span the countryside, menacing our travel gency funds, irrespective of their State's Jobs," is sponsored by the U.A.W. and more ling public with the uncertainty of when appropriation. than 100 other labor, environmental and tt is tha.t they will no longer withstand the The Bridge Safety Act of 1976 is aimed, not civic organizations. It is being held at the ravages of time and inadequate construc at the abandonment of bridges: auto union's Reuther Educational Center tion. But the rehabilitation of bridges. here. The problems of the unsafe bridge is What we are talking about is what all of CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE naitionwlde. us are concerned with; Initial conference discussion groups It touches every state in our nation. Making our public resources safe and use brought forth pronounced differences in out We must iadopt a na.tionwide solution ful again. look among the participants, with union of to the problem. What we are talking about is revitalizing ficials expressing some of the same appre And we cannot ti.fforo to waste any time. our nation. hensions cited by Mr. Woodcock. Because tomorrow 1lt might be you or me "We often find ourselves caught in the or our children who are crossing one of our middle between the movement to clean up Killer Bridges. · the environment and our mission of pro The biggest impediment to bridge safety UAW LEADER JOINS ENVIRONMEN tecting workers' jobs," said Tom Donahue, is money. TALISTS' DISASTER LOBBY executive assistant to George Meany, presi During its entire history, the Special dent of the American Federation of Labor Bridge Reconstruction a.nd Replacement and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Program. has not had sumcient funding to carry out 1lts directive. Currently only $180 HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK "We don't see eye to eye with the envir million is authorized each year for the next OF OHIO onmental community in its opposition to nuclear power. On the other hand, we thor two years. But we need, without hesitation, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES between $10 a.nd $31 billion to replace bridges oughly supported legislation to regulate that OUttently are classified by the Depa.rt Thursday, September 2, 1976 strip mining. ment of Transportation as being candidates "We haven't agreed with them on banning for replacement. Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. ·speaker, the nonreturnable containers, but we're with Moreover, these estimates exclude con New York Times on May 4 carried a them in seeking national land use legisla sideration of continued deterioration of headline which reported the alliance of tion." preeenitly deficient bridges, normal deteriora labor's most radical leader and the radi Dr. Barry Commoner, Washington Univer tion of safe bridges, and inflation. cal environmentalists. A few days ago I sity ecologist, suggested that as a basis to To date, there have been only 670 bridges noted in the RECORD that this same ward reconc111ng the divergent interests replaced under the federal program, a rate Leonard Woodcock was joining a group law in a needed reorientation of the nation's of about one bridge, per sitate, per year. economy ~way from "inefficient" use of both At ithls rate it will take a minimum of 80 of leftists and dupes to advance the energy and capital in ways prejudicial to la years to bring OW' Nation's bridges to a cause of giving our Communist enemies bor. standard of safety which cirtizens of this in Russia trade advantages and taxpayer He suggested: "We face a big debate on country have every right to expect. support. how we're going to devote resources for the For those who remember the Silver Bridge One wonders when the rank and file common good rather than for private profit. disaster, 80 years is too long a time to g{l.m will wake up. Their leaders support There's a whole question of inventing a new ble that more rotting bridges won't collapse. forced busing, aid to the Communists, form of socialism." As an example of the magnitude of the COMMON CAUSE problem in individual states, a 1975 report gun control and inflationary spending to Congress by the Comptroller General of despite the strong feelings of the aver Organized labor and the environmental the United States listed 960 bridges in my age union member for exactly the oppo community, Mr. Woodcock said, ha.d common state of Pennsylvania as being unsafe. Al site policies. ,cause in fighting "the corporate tactic of try legheny County, my district, has 19 bridges How can Leonard Woodcock join those ing to make workers and communities choose that are candidates for replacement. Yet, between jobs and ending pollution" by Pennsy·lvania ranks 13th among the states radical zealots who block nuclear gen threatening to close down or move. having unsafe bridges. Those that exceed erating plants and harm their jobs? "It's frequently a false conflict," he con Pennsylvania are as follows: Oklahoma, 2,783; The answer is·simple: He is a liberal first, tinued, "but to a worker confronted with the Louisiana, 2,618; Illinois, 2,071; Nebraska, last, and always and the rank and file loss of wages, health care benefits and pen '\,676; Kansas, 1,563; Arkansas, 1,320; West can be damned. sion rights, it can seem very real." September 2, 19'76' · EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29039 MARION G. FOWLER'S NOTES ON the exhibition of clothing, furniture, live undeniable truth: Hostility toward Solzhen. THE HISTORY OF CANFIELD, stock, appliances, and automobiles. The itsyn within the policymakmg machinery OHIO, TRANSCRIBED BY KAY SIT largest attendance was 449,010 in 1971, headed by SecTeta.ry of Staite IDssinger has TIG not subsided since June 1975, when tt con the centennial celebration when the fair vinced President Ford he should snub the lasted 6 days. The Canfield Fair still Nobel laureate. At the State Department, HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY maintains its reputation as one of the Solzheniltsyn ts still viewed as a threat to finest fairs in the Nation. world peace rather than a symbol of free OF OHIO In addition to the history of Canfield, dom. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mrs. Sittig includes a pictorial survey of Judging from his reluctance to accept the Thursday, September 2, 1976 the architecture of Canfield-from the Solzhenirtsyn plank at Kansas Oiity, Mr. Ford early Georgian style of the colonial pe shares this view as he does Dr. Kissinger's Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, in keeping riod, to the Italianate mode of the post other positions. Nor is he likely to be chal with our Bicentennial celebration, Mrs. lenged on this point by Jimmy carter, whose Civil War period and the Queen Ann foreign policy advisers agree wt.th Foggy Bot Kay Sittig has transcribed the notes of style of the Victorian era. One of these Marion G. Fowler on the History of Can tom in branding Solzhenitsyn as a sllghitly field, Ohio. Marion Fowler (1890-1973) houses, known as the Loghurst House, balmy rnth century Russian mystic. was part of the underground railroad Thus, the bipartisan foreign policy. estab probably knew more about Canfield than before the Civil War, which served as a Hshmenrt has been successful in dO·}V'ngrad any person. She had an extraordinary station for helping slaves get from the ing Solzhenitsyn since his triumphant ar memory for people, places, and events, South into Canada. riv.a.l here a year ago. He has been a key tar and she took copious notes. Because of Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this get of the detenttsts, both in the Kreml,in her background with the Mahoning Dis opportunity to heartily commend Mrs. and on the State Department's seventh floor. patch, a weekly newspaper owned and The view from the seventh floor was re Kay Sittig for her civic pride in writing vealed in Lord's Aug. 19 session with the stu published by the Fowler family for 91 this concise and interesting history of years, she gathered a great deal of in dent inter.us when he was asked about Sol Canfield, Ohio, based on the notes of · zheni.tsyn. He rep11ed that Lt had been a. mis formation about the early Western Re Marion G. Fowler. take· not to invite the Russian expatriate to serve and Canfield. From the tape re the White House-an admission that is now cordings, speeches, and notebooks of State Department doctrine. Marion G. Fowler, as well as from per Lord went on to praise Solzhenitsyn's bril sonal conversations with her, Mrs. Kay THE HOSTILITY TOWARD liance and courage but added that his views, Sittig produced this history of Canfield. SOLZHENITSYN if carried out, could threaten world peace. During the early 1700's, both France Then, as reported immediately thereafter by and England laid claim to the lands west one intern and later confirmed by others, of the Allegheny Mountains. After the Lord said in matter-of-fact tones: "Let's HON. LARRY McDONALD face tt, he's just a.bout a Fascist." He con Revolutionary War, 7 of the original 13 OF GEORGIA cluded by saying Solzhenitsyn fulfilled a de States claimed this land. One of the 7, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sire by many Westerners to feel moral. Connecticut, retained a portion of its When asked ·to confirm or deny this, Lord original claim known as the "Western Thursday, September 2, 1976 told us: "I did not call him a Fascist. He's Reserve." The Connecticut Land Co. pur Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the na not a Fascist." As to whether he used the chased this land from the State and sold tionally syndicated columnists Rowland word "Fascist," Lord said he would have to it to various groups of people. One of Evans and Robert Novak have recently consult the transcript. However, no transcript these groups bought part of the Reserve was kept. written a column giving additional back The spirit of what Lord said was faithful now known as Canfield Township. The ground on the hostility of the "foreign to private views held inside the Ford admin author traces the journey of one of the policy establishment" toward Alexander istration. That explains the fierce opposition members of this group of landowners, Solzhenitsyn. The column, appearing in to any mention of Solzhenitsyn in the Re Mr. Nathaniel Church. the Washington Post on September 2, publican platform. When Mr. Ford backed On May 24, 1798, after nearly a month 1976, related the circumstances under down rather than risk a disastrous :floor fight of rigorous travel on horseback and on which Mr. Winston Lord, director of the with ,the Reagan forces, Kissinger was furious. foot, eight men led by Nathaniel Church State Policy Planning Staff, came to call He even threatened to resign the next day if arrived in wha.t is now Canfield. These Mr. Solzhenitsyn a "Fascist." That in it the amendment were accepted (prompting an men spent the spring and summer clear admonition from one sharp-tongued Ford self is a strange term for Mr. Lord to oper~tive that he ought to quit today, not ing, surveying, and developing the land. use-it is the same term the Commu tomorrow, to generate more delegates for the In the spring of the following year, set nists nearly always apply to their President). tlers began to move into this area and enemies. Anyone who has read Mr. The Ford-Kissinger attitude is duplicated named it Canfield, in honor of the largest Solzhenitsyn carefully, realizes he still on the Democratic side, A pro-Solzhenitsyn landowner, Judson Canfield. retains a grea.t deal of respect for so plank was quietly rejected by the Democratic In 1845, the Ohio State Legislature es cialism, while aibhorring its brutal ex platform-drafting group and never reap tablished a separate county with the peared in open sessions. Key advisers, con cesses, but he is not a F'ascist. The real tending that Solzhenitsyn has taken on a county seat at Canfield. At one time, crux of the matter is that Solzhenitsyn right-Republican coloration, advise Carter Canfield was larger than Youngstown. was and is speaking a;bout the real world not to raise the matter in speeches or in Mrs. Sittig points out, however, we live in and to accept his views is to forthcoming debates with the President. As Youngstown increased tn size partially see detente for wha't it really is~sur Since Solzhenitsyn is neither a right-wing due to river transportation which made in render on the installment plan. I com Republican nor a Fascist and might be con dustry possible, the city began to agitate to mend the column to the attention of my sidered r81ther moderate consid&"ing his life's have the county seat ta.ken from Canfield to colleagues : experience, the real objection is not to his Youngstown. Finally the legislature granted ideology but to the threat he poses to detente. the change and the records were moved in THE HOSTILITY TOWARD SOLZHENITSYN That threat was expressed bluntly in the August, 1876. Many tales have been told pf (By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak) State Department's memorandum to the how the records were stolen at night but this Two days a.frter the Republic,an naitioneJ. White House on June 26, 1975: is pure fiction. Charles C. Fowler, who was platform extolled Alexander Solzhenitsyn as "The Soviets would probably take White born in Canfield June 17, 1859 and spent his a "great beacon of human courage and House participation in the affair (a banquet entire life in the community, was a teen morality," one of Henry !Gssinger's top aides honoring Solzhenitsyn) as either a deliberate age boy at the time of the moving of the rec used the word "Fascist" in describing the negativ;e signal or a sign of administration ords. He said there wasn't a. hand raised and anti-Communist Russian novelist. weakness in the face of domestic anti-Soviet that one afternoon the records were loaded The comments were made Aug. 19 by the pressures.... Not only would a meeting with on forty wagons and taken to Youngstown, highly respected Winston Lord, State Depart the President offend the Soviets but it would without disturbance of any kind. That day, ment policy planning director, in a.n off raise some controversy a.bout Solzhenitsyn's however, was a sad one for the village. the-record session wLth the department's views of the United States and its a.mes .... stJudent interns. Some of the interns pres We recommend that the President not receive One of the most important events each ent quote Lord as saying Solzhenitsyn "ts Solzhenitsyn." year in the State of Ohio is the Can just a.bout a Fascist." Lord says he did not While that recommendation i!> now con field Fair. The first fair was held in 1847 cail the writer a Fascist but does not deny ceded to be a p0Ut1cal error, the philosophy in a park. Today, the fair covers an area using the word. behind the memorandum flourishes in the of 212 acres with many fine buildings for Behind this unfortunate hyperbole is an Ford administraition. When Winston Lord j 29040 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS · September 2, 1976 told student interns that the Russian ex from the MFA and from Sturbridge Vlllage, der Massachusetts law, a.re integrated with patriate's political views threaten world to teach early American crafts. The stu regular students. peace, he was unveiling the hard consensus depts-90 of them-learned to work like Looking beyond the current patrings in of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, early Amerioans and solve some of their prob Boston, Hawley said: ..I would like to see which now seems the conventional wisdom lems at woodwork and tinsmith benches in programs become an integral part of the in Washington. the school basement. school curriculum and that we could develop And the experience carried over when they a funding for it." went back to their classroom to study in To that end, the collaborative, even before CULTURAL EDUCATION dustrial technology, family life, survival its break with the alliance, had sought pas COLLABORATIVE problems and government by comparing sage of a bill in the Legislature to authorize Colonial patterns to today's. programs that would encourage school sys Bob Harrington, project director at the tems to make use of the education programs Champlain, said the program involves all 96 offered by cultural institutions. The bfil has HON. JOHN BRADEMAS sixth graders at the Champlain and that in passed the Senate and is now in House com OF INDIANA struction in their core subiects-English, so mittee. cial studies, science and math-was coordi The measure only authorizes programs. A IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nated with what was being taught in the separate appropriation blll would have to Thursday, September 2, 1976 crafts program. be filed later. A study found that 100 of the In addition, he said, all students made at state's cultural institutions could provide Mr. '.BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, the least three trips each to the MFA and went field trips or performances for two million Boston Globe recently carried a most in on field trips to Plimoth Plantation and the· students and in-depth programs for 47,000. teresting story concerning the work of Saugus Jron Works. Hawley said that many institution officials the Cultural Education Collaborative of The Champlain is one of 20 Boston schools see the pairings with Boston's schools as a Boston, Mass. paired with 14 cultural institutions this year. way to expand their educational programs. As The Cultural Education Collabora ·The Harvard Museum of Comparative Zo a result, sihe said, a number of institutions tive--CEC-is an organization· working .ology provided special programs on animals have brought on education directors, many and human cultures for students at the of them former teachers. in cooperation with over 100 cultural in Shaw School in Dorchester and the Fuller Marion VanArsdell, a memlber of the City stitutions and school districts through School in Jamaica Plain. Students there wide, Education Coalition who has monitored out the State of Massachusetts to bring came to the museum and worked on their some of the school pairings with cultum.l cultural programs to the public schools. program at their schools as well. institutions and screened some proposals, Since the program was originated 3 The approximately 100 Shaw and Fuller said that while- "some of the programs a.re years ago in Boston, the demand for such students studied the role of animals in four excellent" others suffered from little coordi services has greatly increased and has different human societies: China's T'ang nation between a school and an i,nstitution spread to other communities in Massa dynasty, late medieval Germany, the classic before the project was approved. Mayan culture and a, West African tribe. That situation, she says, is improving for chusetts. Part of the project involved the students' next year. But she said the situation is stlll Mr. Speaker, I commend the CEC, and putting together their own museum while a long way from being a "marketplace" so 1t.s able director, Ms. Anne Hf).wley, for employing-and reinforcing, say program that parents, teachers and students from a this innovative use of culttlral resources coordinators-basic sk1lls in social science, school can choose any museum or perform and insert at this point in the RECORD science, reading and writing, especially in ing arts program they want for their chil the text of the Globe article: preparing displays. dren. Stage One, a performing arts group Even though some parents feel the pro PUPILS LEARN COLONIAL CRAFTS FROM BOSTON worked with 40 students at the Hernande~ grams are "fluff" when their children really MUSEUM ExPERTS School in Dorchester, introducing them to need basic skills, she said, "these kinds of (By Jrames Worsham and Phyllis Coons) the theater world while helping the students programs can offer a lot to the Boston schools write, rehearse and perform their own play, in that children can learn a lot of reading Michael Reynolds learned about tinsmith which involved language skills. and math if they really get interested i,n ing, Ed Hamlett and Mona Lofton found out their (museum) project." about colonial dress first-hand and Theresa Other institutions invol:ved this year in cluded: New England Aquarium, Boston Anrig sees the cultural institution pair Barry and Maria Garcia made their own ings in Phase 2 as an expansion of their wooden ladle. Zoological Society, Dorchester House Arts Program, Concert Dance Company, Museum roles. "They've been open in the past, but All are students at the Champlain Middle never in a way in which they can. get their School, nestled among the frame houses of of Transportation, Theater Workshop of Boston, Pocket Mine Theater, Jazz Coalition, teeth into working with a school," he said. working class f,amilies in Boston's Dorchester "The cultural institutions have had to section. Proposition Theater, Coouerative Artists In stitute, Children's Museum and Neighbor change" says Anrig, "and I think that's And all are in an American Crafts program, hood Arts Center. healthy." carried out with the aid of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), a Fenway landmark that · Joining the programs next year will be is one of the nation's most prestigious cul eight more institutions bringing the total to tural institutions. 23. They are are Learning Guild, Next Move The unlikely relationship between the Workshop, Shakespeare & Co., Children's Art A COMMENT ON THE GAO'S Champlain and the MFA came about as part Center, New England Conservatory of Music, SYNTHETIC FUEL REPORT Boston Ballet, the Museum of Science and of the historic Phase 2 desegregation order the Theater Company of Boston. for Boston's schools in which US District This year, some 6000 Boston school stu HON. GEORGE E,. BROWN, JR. Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. enlisted the help dents were involved in the programs, and of area colleges, universities, cultural in OF CALIFORNIA stitutions and businesses. the Cultural Education Collaborative, which The Champlain is one of a score of Boston administers the programs, expects aooo to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 9000 Boston children involved in programs public schools now benefltting from the next year. Thursday, September 2, 1976 Phase 2 "pairings" as well as the outreach approach now !being taken by museums and The collaborative, which began as the edu Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speak performing arts groups, spurred on by state cation project of the Metropolttan Cultural er, earlier this week the Committee on desegregation aid and a chance to be a part Alliance, screens proposals before sending Science and Technology and the Com of the historic Boston school desegregation them to the State Dept. of Education as can mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com saga. didates for state desegregation did under merce held open hearings to review Museums have for years welcomed students the 1974 amendments to the 1965 racial im balance law. the conclusions of the General Account for day-long tours but, says state Education ing Office concerning synthetic fuel de Comr. Gregory Anrig, "here they're taking Anne Hawley, director of the collaborative, the institution to the people and finding out says that for the next year, each of Boston's velopment in the United States. Many how to make it appeal to a great diversity of nine school districts has been allecated a Members were concerned with the con kids." certain amount of money for cultural in clusions of this report, which were quite It's also part of a national trend, says Gaby stitution pairings. negative toward synthetic fuel demon Dundin, education director at the Museum Programs are 'being proposed and approved stration projects, at least partly because of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. "Mu in that context. This format fl.ts in with the state Dept. the GAO report differed so dramatically seu~ are going to the general public now, from other reports on the same subject. and not just seeing themselves as curators of Education's aim of spreading state and and keepers of things," she says. Federal funds more evenly among Boston's My own observations on the GAO re 162 public schools, she added. • port de13tlt with the energy demand and For the children at the Champlain School, Hawley said that several programs at the being "pa.ired" with the MFA turned out to Hernandez School are tailored for bilingual price assumptions used by the GAO. be more than just visiting and getting out of students, and that many programs had in While it is necessary to make some as schools for a day. Thf:s pa.st year, artists came cluded special education students, which un- sumptions, the continued demand for September 2, 19'76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29041 liquid fuels and gas is unlikely to end, CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON OF PENN economy. I have joined Mr. BROYHILL of and the need for domestic production :sYLVANIA URGES THOROUGH North Carolina and Mr. MCCOLLISTER of of synthetic fuels is likely to grow. STUDY OF FTC HOLDER-IN-DUE Nebraska in cosponsoring H.R. 15082. Obviously there are alternatives to oil COURSE RULING Briefiy, H.R. 15082 will suspend, pending and gas that are more desirable than review, the effect of the Commission synthetic fuel, such as energy conserva rule. The General Accounting Office is tion and solar energy. Unfortunately, the · HON. ALBERT W. JOHNSON directed to examine the Commission's energy demand is not going down as rap OF PENNSYLVANIA basis for issuing the rule, the effect of idly as I would like to see. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the rule on consumer credit markets and The Los Angeles Times reviewed this Thursday, September 2, 1976 present a venues of consumer redress for grievances arising from consumer sales. same GAO report, and had similar re Mr. JOHNSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. action. GAO will then submit its written report I would like to insert this editorial Speaker, I appreciate this opportunity to Congress and the Commission as to its to off er additional remarks with respect findings and recommendations on the in the RECORD at this time: to a trade regulation rule which has been SYNTHETIC FuEL: A SYNTHETIC VIEW desirability of promulgating the rule. promulgated by the Federal Trade Com Having considered the report and fol The General Accounting Office 1s a highly mission pursuant to the Magnuson-Moss respected agency that, in its role as a fiscal lowed appropriate rulemaking proce watchdog, has done a lot to advance the warranty-Federal Trade Commission dures, the Commission may repeal the cause of more efficiency and less waste i.n Improvement Act-Public Law 93-637- rule or give it effect either in its present government spending. Unfortunately, the and a proposed amendment to that trade form or as amended. GAO has taken a very shortsighted view in regulation rule. The rule requires that Mr. Speaker, H.R. 15082 provides the its study of synthetic-fuel development. a prescribed notice be included in con In a report released last week, the agency "prudent gradualism" needed at this sumer credit contracts in order to fore time: concluded that oil and gas produced syn close the Possibility of a creditor becom thetically from shale or coal are "not price IMPACT OF DUE-COURSE CHANGE: BANKS VS. competitive" with foreign petroleum, and ing a holder-in-due-course or an as FTC that the federal government should therefore signee or lender not subject to consum A Federal Trade Commission rule abolish refrain from subsidizing expensive pr9jects ers' claims and defenses. ing the holder-in-due-course doctrine went for synthetic-fuel development. Mr. Speaker, I believe the Commission into effect last May 14 amid predictions of a It would be better national policy, the has failed to adhere to congressional in serious impact on consumer lending and the GAO suggested, to emphasize energy-con tent both as to the manner in which the economy. servation measures and development of solar preservation of consumers' claipls and A period of less than four months is too and geothermal energy-meanwhile depend defenses rule was promulgated and to short to gauge the effect with any certainty, ing, to the extent necessary, on rising oil the rule's unlimited application. I ad but several attempts have been made and imports. dressed this aspect of my concern on results of surveys released. The findings dif- 011 produced from co:al or oil "Shale could fer. · cost as much as $18 a barrel, the report August 10, 1976, and the appropriate re "To date, elimination of holder-in-due pointed out, compared with the present price marks appeared in the CONGRESSIONAL course provisions has had little impact on of $12 a barrel for imported petroleum. Gas RECORD. the consumer credit policies, practices and produced from coal would cost roughly twice In those remarks I stated that the rule activities," said the FTC itself. as much as the celling price recently set as presently drafted would have a perva That agency, which has spent more than by the federal power commission for new sive effect upon all participants in this five years formulating its rule, engaged the natural-gas supplies. firµi of Yankelovich, Skelly & White to in There is no question that, partly as a re Nation's consumer credit community and that adverse ramifications may terview 127 lending institutions in four sult of environmental considerations, syn states. The FTC submitted some of the pre thetic-fuel technology is still uncertain. abound for marginal and low-income liminary results to Congress last week. Knowledgeable people understand that syn consumers due to the fact that the finan Two banking organizations presented their thetic fuels .are almost sure to cost more than cial institutions of this Nation may be findings Tuesday to the subcommittee on the present price of oil. But it ls a long leap exposed to inequitable and innumerable consumer protection and finance of the from there tO the conclusion that growing legal actions. House Interstate and Foreign Commerce reliance on imported oil is a sensible alterna As you are aware, the rule pertaining Committee, and viewed the results with fore tive. boding. There ls no reason to assume, as the GAO to sellers became effective May 14, 1976, did in making its cost-effectiveness compari and the proposed amendment applicable Whereas the Yankelovich/FTC survey sons, that foreign oil will continue to sell for to creditors is presently before the Com reached only about 20 banks, the American $12 per barrel. The Organization of Petro Bankers Association surveyed 104 banks and mission. The Commission has clarified said a significant number have begun to leum Exporting Countries is widely expected the seller rule to some degree, however, cut back on several types of indirect loans. to agree on a new price increase later this additional clarifications and necessary year, to the degree that U.S. reliance on the Walter W. Vaughan, vice president of Lin foreign oil producers' cartel increases, fur refinements remain. coln First Bank of Rochester, N.Y., testifying ther price boosts are bound to occur. Mr. Speaker, my concern as voiced :for the ABA, said the banks cutting back on U.S. dependence on foreign oil supplies al earlier last month appears to have been indirect home improvement loans increased ready ls far higher than at the time of the appropriate. Recently, hearings have from 13% in April to 24% in July, and those Arab oil embargo. And with imports from been conducted by the Subcommittee on cutting back on indirect auto loans in Canada and Venezuela down sharply, the Consumer Protection and Finance of the creased from 7% to 13% in the same period. reliance on Arab oil has doubled in the past Committee on Interstate and Foreign "The cutback in direct loans was not dis year alone. cernible," Mr. Vaughan went on, "presum Even in the absence of another embargo, Commerce. The testimony offered at ably because many banks have been ad there can be no guarantee that Saudi Arabia, these hearings clearly discloses the con vised by counsel that direct loans a.re not the chief Arab oil producer, will continually fusion surrounding this rule and the ap yet subject to the FTC rule." increase its output to satisfy U.S. needs if prehension existent within the consumer The Independent Bankers Association of a policy of holding the oil in the ground credit community. A factual editorial America surveyed its members on Aug. 7 and might suit its own needs better. with respect to these hearings appeared obtained responses from 1,784. Chales o. A vigorously pursued energy-conservation in yesterday's issue of the American Maddox Jr., !BAA president, said they show program will help; so will oil from Alaska's Banker. The editorial concludes with this the FTC rule cannot be justified, "given the North Slope and from expanded offshqre pro disruptions it is causing for consumers and duction. But this country has vast reserves statement: small businessmen obtaining financing." of oil shale and coal that must be exploited But the surveys presented so far to the Mr. Maddox said 61 % of the !BAA banks as part of a sensi·ble long-range national House Subcommittee demonstrate most cut back auto loans as a result of the rule energy policy. clearly that statistics can be found to speak and 51 % cut back mobile-home loans. Of Very real obstacles exist--economic, tech on any side of an issue, and what is needed the banks which have not curtailed lending, nological and environmental. The name of here is a thorough, objective study of the most have taken steps to reduce their liabil the game, however, must be to recognize effects of the FTC rule. ity by the use of recourse agreements or these problems and overcome them as soon tightening lending policies. as possible. I wholeheartedly concur with this con In reporting on the Yankelovich survey, Synthetic-fuel production would be ex cluding statement. I believe Congress the FTC said virtually no lenders had pensive, but excessive reliance on undepend should rigorously examine in detail not changed their interest rates on direct loans. able, cartel-controlled foreign oil would be only the Commission's action, but the Mr. Maddox said 326 of the IBAA respond even more expensive. rule's possible effect upon our Nation's ents had increased their rates as a result of 29042 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Septmnber 2, 1976 the FTC rule. But he said at least 600 of the MISINFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM . gram costs. In the last three months alone, banks do not buy or sell consumer paper, so The Committee started its work under the over one mll11on people have left the they would not have felt the full impact. weight of a distorted public view of the Food program; projected fiscal 1977 costs have The FTC and ABA also differ in their find Sta.mp Program, a view shared by many been lowered $1.8 billion from the Adminis ings on dealer relationships. Members of Congress. This public percep tration's figure of $7 .3 blllion one year ago. Said the FTC: "Except in six out of 123 tion was not based on fact, but instead The Congressional Budget Office currently cases, cutoffs of dealers have been selective, formed by overblown rhetoric, political par projects a co~t of $5.5 billion. affecting at most 13 % of the total number of tisanship, and a number of simple manipu THE PROBLEMS IN THE PROGRAM dealers dealt with by any given lender. lations of the truth. It was fueled by decep True reform of the Food Stamp Program Lenders described the dealers they have cut tive advertisements in the nationail medta involves rewriting the law so that the benefit off as 'shady' and 'fly-by-nights.' " ("You can make up to $16,000 a year and delivery system ls structured to encourage Said the ABA: "A number of banks re qualify for Food Stamps"), by the Ford Ad participation. not disjustification do we need for who their successor might be, have warned Presidency. keeping an independent prosecutor in the us to be alert. These men, who ought to It is through' the mechanism of the board line-up? Would it not be ill-advised at this know, would feel more comfortable if a spe that the President could act on his own initi time, in view of the exceedingly skept,ical cial prosecutor were weighted down with ative; be prodded into acting; or restrained mood of the electorate, to bench the prose some of the same checks and balances that from acting, when his motivation might be keep other officials in line. Yet to put a lea.sh self-aggrandizement. Watergate has alerted cutor, and to try to justify this with a decla on an independent prose.cuter would seem ration that probity in officialdom is back to us to two perils stemming from a President's to destroy his raison d'etre. direct involvement in law enforcement. "normal"? So we come to an apparent dilemma, Mr. I submit, Mr. Chairman that we certainly First, without really wanting to act, he might Chairman. If we agree that a new institu pretend to do so, by creating a distraction ough.t to bench the special prosecutor, but tional arrangement is needed to restore and that there are valid and more credible rea (the John Dean "investigation"). Second, he sustain public trust in our Federal officials; might use his powers to thwart justice by sons for doing so. Among these reasons, three if we must reject all governmental entities stand out. covering up for himself or others (John except the executive branch as the locus for Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichma.n), First. instead of making it clear to the this powerful new instrumentality; if we or by misusing a governmental agency he American people where the buck stops (Presi contemplate putting it in the Justice Depart controls (the CIA, the IRS). But under the dent Truman took pride in advertising that ment but then conclude that simply fitting proposal I present here, Mr. Chairman, the it stopped on his desk) , establishing an office such a unit into the existing structure there President would be a Siamese twin of a board of independent prosecutor would cause the would prove ineffectual; 1f we ponder the es whose members could tug him in the oppo buck to be passed back and forth-or to tablishment there of a special and autono site direction. His being conjoined with the stop short of the White House. . I doubt that mous prosecuting omce, only to hold back board means that the members would be we would want to allow our chief enforce because doing so would blur lines of respon looking over his shoulder, tending to inhibit ment officer the political luxury, when it suits sibility, or because this strategy would seem any malfeasance by him. For comfort's sake, him, of ducking the responsibility we have to promise more than it could deliver, or be the President would quickly learn that, first, vested in him. Confusion would arise as to cause we fear that we might create a Frank he must march, and second, that this would who is really responsible-the see-no-evil, enstein monster-then what possibility re be painful unless he were in step with the hear-no-evil President or the special prose mains? board. cutor who, while appointed by the Presi In my opinion, Mr. Chairman, what re The board would be an independent body dent, operates autonomously on a turf where mains is the best possible arrangement we the boundaries cannot be precisely defined. divorced from the rest of the executive bu could devise. It is innovative, but it requires reaucracy. Its members-two Democrats and Second, the prosecutor at times might have no drastic overhaul of our government. It is two Republicans-would be appointed by the to pay too dearly for his putative independ in accord with the Constitution, and there President with the advice and consent of the ence if he pushes it too far. He could be de fore it need not bring into play the slow, Senate. As a. guarantee of their independence, nied the full cooperation of the expert, well cumbersome process of amending it. It is the board members would need lifetime ap staffed enforcement agencies that form part likely to work, because it is based on the pointments, in the manner of the federal of the President's administration. This foot same premises a.bout human nature and in judiciary. A member' appointed to a fixed dragging by other officials would not always tra.governmental relationships that have ac term could be confronted with the need to be provable by the prosecutor or even visible corded longevity to our Constitution. make a particularly sensitive decision on the to him, let alone to the people. But he might My proposal, Mr. Chairman-and, ·with suspect it, and then be tempted to make a brink of the expiration of his term; he might your leave, I will need a while longer to ex then vote-or be suspected of voting-in a quiet accommodation rather than bear the plain it-is to establish a federal board of way to best assure reappointment by the public sting of losing his case. As to any open ethics at the White House level, and to put clash with the President or chieftains in the the President in charge of the board as its President. In exchange for indefinite terms Congress, the prosecutor would have to start chairman. He could of course function that could be ended only by impeachment, with the handicap of having no popular con through a surrogate, but the latter would the board members would be disqualified stituency. The voters might not side with act in the name of the President. The inter from ever holding another office should they him because they do not really know him. action between the President and the board, step down. This would prevent the boa.rd They could be persuaded by the pQliticians and the separate and shared responsibilities from being used as a. launching pad by mem to whom they entrusted their vote that he of each of them, would be such as to afford bers with political ambitions. And it would was acting in his own interest rather than us maximum assurance that they could ac assure the public of the integrity of board tn the public interest. complish their mission-without any abuses decisions. A determined prosecutor would then have of power-while operating at the highest Since most board members would survive a to reach for his ultimate weapon-the threat level of visibility. The voters, looking on, President who appointed them and since, in to res~gn. But martyrdom might not become would be witness to the fact that they finally any event, he could not oust them, we could him or his cause as it did Archibald Cox. do have a couple of tough cops on the beat be confident that the White House connec It was strictly the uncommon notoriety of and, furthermore, that the two cops are tion would not compromise their independ Watergate that finally produced a victory for watching each other. ence. With no stake in any program admin Cox. Yet, Mr. Chairman, we ought not be Why should the President be in charge? istered by the executive br·anch, and sharing worrying just about the Watergates; our pri Our first answer must be that, in any en none of the institutional or personal loyal mary concern should be day-to-day honesty forcement operation under our Constitution, ties that develop in the bureaucratic princi-· in government. Battles have to be fought he already is-and ought to be. Normally, this pallties, the board members would have no regularly inside the bureaucracy, where en responsiiblity is delegated to an agency such reason to gloss over an incident merely to trenched officials have the advantage. In as the Justice Department, but we have al protect an official, his agency or its mission. these ever-recurring, convoluted little wars ready reviewed what is likely to come of this. Having no concern, either, about who is the special prosecutor would constantly be The issue of governmental integrity is so im elected or re-elected to the Congress, the forced to play David against the govern portant to the American people that it would board need not feel inhibited about taking mental Goliath. Such odds, Mr. Chairman, please them, for a change, to have the respon on a member of the House or Senate. And will ultimately wear a David down. sib111ty for it elevated to the White House having no role in the selection of judges, the 29046 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 1976 boa.rd would have no reason to indulge those BERNARD G. SEGAL AWARDED mer ch'airman of th.e board, American Judi who betrayed that office. AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION'S cature Society, and a Fellow of the Institute We could take steps to preclude either the ABAMEDAL of Judicial Administration. President, acting alone, or his two party Segal received B.A. and LL.D. degrees from members, acting with him, from manipulat the University of Pennsylvania, of which he ing the board for partisan ends. First, we HON. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD is a Life Trustee and a member of the Execu could require that at least four members con OF CONNECTICUT tive Board. He has received honorary degrees stitute a quorum. Second, we could stipulate from several universities including his alma that the President could vote only to join in a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mater. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania unanimous decision of the board or to break Thursday, September 2, 1976 Bar in 1932. a tie. Should it ever become necessary for him Segal was the youngest Deputy Attorney to ca.st a tie-breaking vote, maximum public Mr. DODD. Mr. Speaker, I was re General in the history of Pennsylvania from attention would be focsued on him a.nd he cently pleased to learn that a lifelong 1932-35 and was Chancellor of the Phila would have to answer convincingly for his family friend, Philadelphia attorney delphia Bar Association in 1952 and 1953. action. But it is evident tha.t in most cases Bernard G. Segal, has been awarded the Segal has also been a member of the Federal he would wield little control because he American Bar Association's ABA Medal. Judicial Center Committee on the Workload would not be participating in board actions Mr. Segal was presented the American of the United States Supreme Court, by ap as a voting member. Yet the board would pointment of Chief Justice Warren E. Bur have the clout that comes from functioning Bar Association's highest award on Au gust 11, 1976, during the association's ger; the Administrative Conference of the in his na.me, and the President would be un United States, and the United States Com der an obligation, too, to exercise leadership. annual convention in Atlanta. mission on Executive, Legislative and Judi A McCarthyite board need not be feared. I congratulate Mr. Segal on receipt of cial Salaries, of the Ninety-third Congress. Extremist action could not be mounted by the ABA a ward, and would like to insert Last week he was appointed a member of the one aberrant member; he would need the in the RECORD the following article from commission in the current Congress. concurrence ·of his colleagues. Besides, we the Legal Intelligence regarding Mr. Earlier this year, he was elected by the could expect the President to exercise a re Segal's distinguished record of public and World Association of Lawyers as president straining influence, if it came to that. Also, for 0 the Americas. the courts would be watching from a dis professional service: tance and Congress could disestablish any BERNARD G. SEGAL VOTED AMERICAN BAR such board, writing it off as an unsuccessful ASSOCIATION MEDAL experiment in ethical enforcement. Philadelphia attorney Bernard G. Segal has To needle the President, as required, the been selected unanimously by the American LIBERAL CENTRAL PLANNING: board would have the power of subpoena and Bar Association's Board of Governors to re HERE WE GO AGAIN authority to conduct public hearings. But ceive the ABA Medal, highest award given by we ought not to overlook the fact that a the 208,000-member organization. well-motivated President might actually ABA President Lawrence E. Walsh will pre welcome the help of the board. An observer sent the medal to Bega.I on August 11th in HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK of presidents has noted that bureaucrats Atlanta during the association's annual OF OHIO chronically fa.ii to report anything to their meeting. superiors that might reflect badly on their The medal is awarded for "innov,ative con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agencies . or the programs they administ.er. tribution to American jurisprudence, that Thursday, September 2, 1976 He concluded: "A President doesn't get is, the search of the American people for true much straight talk from his subordinates." and universal justice." Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the However, the board-by maintaining its In making the announcement, Walsh said U.S. Departments of Conunerce and La distance from all three branches-would be that Segal is known not only nationally, but bor have recently released their :figures strategically situated to receive information also internationally, as a "champion of hu for the second quarter of 1976. The :fig on a confidential basis. Civil servants would man rights." ures show some interesting changes. not have to worry that their tip about an Last October, Segal was given the World agency would reach the boss himself; they Peace Through Law Center's World Lawyer First, economic improvement has some could feel confident that their information Award for "inspiring the legal profession .. . what slowed over the last quarter. At the would be investigared, rather than brushed to as,sume a leadership role in the critical same time the rate of inflation has aside. In fa.ct, there could develop a sym process of curing the afllictions of our time." increased. biotic relationship between the President Segal has a distinguished record of public While the in:fi,ation rate is not at the and the board. The board would need the and professional service. He was president same levels of a few years ago, any in President to enforce its decisions; the Presi of the ABA in 1969-70 and has served in the dent would need the board to feed him in association's policy-making House of Dele creases in the rate must be viewed with formation. The board would have the ad gates', and as chairman of several special and concern. A constantly increasing cost of vantage of being on the White House stage, standing committees. living hurts the homemaker, the worker, while the President could retreat behind the Segal was appointed by Presidents John F. the retired person, the businessman. board when his friends or allies are under Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as co What is not needed is a rebirth of the old assault. chairman of the Lawyers' Committee for liberal notion that a little bit of inflation No such board could operate without a Civil Rights Under Law. is all right and even good for the coun large staff-its own built-in bureaucracy. Other government posts in which he has But because I believe that the people need served have been as chairman of a. congres try. As has been seen in this country and another agency Mke they need more corrup sional Commission on Judicial and Congres in many others, what some consider a lit tion, I propose that in establishing the board sional Salaries by appointment of President tle inflation can quickly turn into a dou we disestablish the Federal Elections Com Eisenhower; a charter member of the Stand ble digit increase. The cost of living mission, which even today is not known ing Committee on Rules of Practice and Pro skyrockets. to the average American, and where the cedure Judicial Conference of the United Although the liberal economic theory leadership lacks a popular following. The States, by appointment of Chief Justice Earl board would necessarily operate anyway on Warren; and a member of the United States of spending more and more has come up the Commission's turf. In addition, we could Attorney General's National Commmittee to against hard reality, there are still too reduce the size of some other governmental Study the Antitrust Laws. many in Washington, D.C., who refuse entities-such as the Civil Service Commis Segal also served on the Executive Com to recognize the fact. Some liberals are sion-to the extent that we cause them to mittee, United States Attorney General's Na willing to castigate big government and cede to the board some of their authority. tional Conference on Court Congestion and in speeches they may oppose continuing As the central clearinghouse for ethical con Delay in Litigation; National Citizens' Com increases in Federal spending but their cerns in the government, the board could mittee for Community Relations; Advisory proposals and votes usually tell differ work with Congress in helping to anticipate Committee to the United States Mission at a and solve problems. For instance, it could United Nations; Department of State Ad ent story. They propose and vote for big recommend a single standard as to what visory Panel on International Law; and spending programs. ·constitutes a confiict of interest, applicable chairman, Executive Oommtttee of the Na One of these proposals is the Hum to all three branches. I submit, Mr. Chair tiona.I Advisory Committee on National Legal phrey-Hawkins bill. It..s proper title is man, that the taxpayers would not begrudge Services Program of Office of Economic the Full Employment and Balanced payment for this type of service. Opportunlty. Growth Its title is impressive; Thank you Mr. Chairman, I would be He is a director, member of the Executive Act. its happy to answer any questions you might Committee, and life member of the American contents are less impressive. have-orally now, or later in writing. It has Bar Foundation, first vice president of the The basic thrust of the bill is to get been a pleasure to appear before this distin American Law Institute, former president of the Federal Government further involved guished panel. the American College of Trial Lawyers, for- in the economic life of this country. The September 2, 19·76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29047 Federal Government would become in TROTSKY!SM AND TERRORISM: picture of a guerrllla. pointing a gun at the PART VI-TERRORISTS ACTIV reader. In answer to a. question a.bout the volved in comprehensive economic split in the republican movement, this planning. It would place responsibility ITIES IN EUROPE anonymous spokesman said: for the economic life of our Nation in the "Well, we have seen the inevita.b111ty of hands of central planners in Washing such a. split occurring for the last eight ton, D.C. For example each year the HON. LARRY McDONALD years. We did not particularly favour it since, President would be required to prepare OF GEORGIA unfortunately, it happened over wrong is and submit to Congress a national eco IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sues. In the official section, we have an amalgam of peaceful roadmen, reformers, and nomic plan. Thursday, September 2, 1976 lef.t-wingers; and within the Provisionals, In my opinion the bill seems to be Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker we have more militant elements, but right modelled on the failures of the socialism GREAT BRITAIN AND mELAND wing politics. In practice, we have found our in Great Britain. The American free en selves more closely aligned to the Provi terprise system would not be improved The British section of the Fourth In sionals, it is among those elements that we but exchanged for a centrally directed ternational has always been under the draw a. lot of our support. economic system that has had consist domination of the International move "Of course, it is important to draw a dis a ment. In 1963, the British section was re tinction between the leadership and the ent record of failure and weakness. This rank-and-file in both these organisations. country does not need more bureaucracy organized by the Fourth International and cadres were sent from Canada to Both leaderships seem equally opposed to us and red tape. But that is where the and equally capable of spreading slanders Humphrey-Hawkins would lead. It is supervise the operations. Alan Harris was one of these and had his salary paid by aibout us, whereas with both rank-and-files past time to bring the Federal Govern 1 we have very much in common. We a.re grate ment under control. It is not the time the Fourth Intemational. ful for the help that Ca.tha.l Goulding, the to greatly expand its costs and involve The British section now called the In chief of staff of the official IRA, sent in rela ment in American life as this bill would ternational Marxist Group later com tion to Frank Keane's case. But we con do. plained that Harris was being subsidized demn unequivocally their actions in issuing by the Socialist Workers Party to carry disclaimers and thereby helping police to out factional activities against the IMG finger our organization in the Arran Quay 2 robbery." leadership. The leadership of the IMG The representaitive described the origins of BICENTENNIAL FLAGS WA VE OVER support the pro-terrorist International CLAYTON his organization in this way: Majority Tendency of the Fourth Inter '.'I'll have to go back to the '60s and trace national. Harris works with the SWP in the development of the Republican move the Leninist-Trotskyist faction. ment. After the failure of the mid-'50s m111- HON. PAUL FINDLEY Ernest Mandel ts now in complete con ta.ry campaign in the Six Counties, a certain OF U..LINOIS trol of the IMG. He even wrote the polit amount of disillusionment set in within the IRA and Sinn Fein. People saw the futmty of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ical resolution for the 1976 IMG con a. purely military campaign not backed up Thursday, September 2, 1976 vention. That resolution was adopted at by some form of polltica.l action. In the early the December 22-23, 1975 meeting of the '60s some people connected wt th the London Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the flags United Secretariat of the Fourth Inter based 'Irish Democrat' joined the movement. are flying in Clayton, Ill.-Bicentennial national and then presented to the Eng Their Stalinist politics were not accepted flags that is. I have the honor to repre lish section. 3 overnight, but on account of the lack of sent this small midwestern community The IMG supports the terrorist activ clear-cut politics within the Republican as a part of the 20th District and I am ities of a small grouplet in Ireland. This movement, the position was that any brand very proud to report to this House about of politics was a.ccepteq. With the influx of organization called Saor Eire considers these people, political classes were started, Clayton's outstanding Bicentennial itself part of the IRA, but has engaged which were good in themselves, as they gave project. in assassinations of other IRA members. many members of the Republican movement Not content with any of the usual Flag A history of the relationship between the their first knowledge of left-wing politics; Day proceedings this past June, the com IMG and Irish terrorists was given by but hand in hand with the growing poU.tical munity of Clayton decided to decorate SWP member, Gerry Foley, in a lengthy awareness, there began a. running-down of their Main Street with 25 hand-sewn discussion article entitled "The Test of the armed section, the IRA. This unfortu nately led to a. lot of people equating left flags, each representing a different seg Ireland." Foley wrote: wing politics with reformism. Many of our ment of American history. The flags were The first sign of the IMG's interest in the members at this stage started to voice their designed to display such themes as the Ofllcial republican movement came when the objections to this running down of the IRA. Viking, New England, the Union, Bunker May 19·70 issue of the Red Mole reprinted These people were either dismissed on Hill, and also included replicas of the an interview with the Ofllcta.l leader Ma.lachy trumped-up charges or left of their own ac continental and colonial flags. McGurra.n from Intercontinental Press. Con cord. Other members saw through the poll tacts seem to have developeq subsequent to tics of Stalinism and left on a. polltica.l Over 100 local citizens were involved that, leading to Comrade Purdie's visit to basis. in the project. Church organizations Belfast in July 1970 and to the Ofllcia.l Ard "At this time too, many English-based worked to create the flags and the local Fheis in December 1970. But at the same revolutionary groups started to spring up. Boy Scout troop painted the fire hydrants time, the IMG ca.me in contact with, or be People saw in these groups alternatives to and planted flowers in the park in honor gan to take more seriously, a group of ad the Irish Communist Party and to the cur of the Bicentennial flag ceremony. At the venturers expelled from the republican rent Stalinist orientation of the Republican celebration to unveil the flags there was a movement in the 1960s. These adventurers movement, and thought that may1be, through program of music and speakers along were associated with Gery Lawless, an "in such organisations, a new fusion could be dependent" Trotskytst who had broken with made between left-wing politics and the with the firing of a cannon by the Muz the republican movement in 1955, accusing traditional military of Republlcanism. Some zleloaders of the 37th Regiment of Lt of reluctance to begin the guerrilla oam people who had been involved in the Trot Quincy. All enjoyed the calliope music pa.ign for which it began preparing with the skyist English-based Irish Workers' Group that ended the day. arms raids in the early 1950s. Many of them formed an 1mportant section of Saor Eire and The flags will continue to grace Maine were ex-members of the Irish Workers Group, began to form links with these dissident ele Street through the summer. I am in a heterogeneous grouping led by Comrade ments of the Republican movement. This re Lawless which disintegrated in early 1968. sulted in a. loose organisation being formed spired by this endeavor as I know the The IMG's interest in this group seemed rto in Dublin about three to four years a.go, residents of that outstanding commu increase at the end of 1970 when Comrade which carried out some arms raids and .some nity are when they walk down that beau Lawless joined the IMG and became the co bank raids in an attempt to try to get a tiful street. In this Bicentennial Year, leader of its Irish work. militant politically conscious,, armed group their actions symbolize more than ever AN DUSH ERP off the ground. the individual freedom and commitment In its January 1-16, 1971, issue, the Red "After these initial actions there was which serve as the cornerstone of our Mole published an interview with a repre not such a mass movement toward this great Nation. The flags remind each of sentative of thls grouping, Sa.or Eire, which grouping as was expected, since its actions us of the sacrifices which have been re offered a different version of the movement were seen as more in the tradition of the toward poU.tics in the omcial IRA. This in international revolutionary movement, as quired to both achieve and sustain our terview was announced on a cover with a. opposed to the Irish movement. Th~ next Nation's precious heritage. Long may period was spent in discussion with various they wave. Footnotes at end of article. political groupings, and with various mem- 29048 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 1976 bers of the Republican movement, in an been, at some time or other, members of men have stated in recent weeks that they attempt to win them over to this new con Trotskyist groupings."' were not responsible for every bank raid cept of political action." carried out in the 26 Counties. The method by which this tiny adven When Peter Graham, an active mem "One thing is certain. Whoever was re turist group hoped to stimulate a "mass ber of IMG and Saor Eire, was murdered sponsible for the murder is in a rather deli movement" toward itself was explained as by a rival IRA group strong statements cate position. As one London Trotskyist said follows: advocating violence were made by IMG ominously: 'There is an awful lot of anger "Saor Eire is a left-wing armed group activists. Concerning this Foley wrote: about the shooting of Peter Graham.' " which is attempting to act as a fuse or Boyne's version of Comrade Ali's remltrk detonator to the Irish revolutionary struggle. THE TROTSKYIST MARTYRS; OR THE INTERNA TIONAL "SECRET ARMY" was: "We have our own ways of dealing'with It is attempting to step up the tempo of such people." development of political life. It is part of But it is not necessary to wait for the truth the Republican tradition but also draws about Comrade Graham's death to draw some There is unfortunately no doubt that the from the international revolutionary move conclusions about the way the IMG and its !MG appireciated this kind of publicity, ment, both politically and in a military European cothtnkers responded to this tragic with all its exciting suggestions that the sense. As opposed to past forms the Repub incident. Fourth International was engaged in inter lican struggle took, Saor Eire ts centered "After recalUng Peter Graham's life as a national ..gun-running and had its "own around the cities and could be called an revolutionist, Comrade Tariq Ali issued a ways of dealing" with assassins. Comrade urban guerrilla group, inasmuch as it sees warning: 'At present we do not know what Ali in fact protested because Interconti the main struggle taking place in the cities, criminal brute shot Peter Graham to death; nental Press did not reprint this flattering and within the working class directly." but we wm find out; and when we do we article in full. As for Saor Eire's activities, although they have ways of dealing with this type of indi In fact, one organ of a section supporting did not exactly depend on mass support, vidual.' the !EC Majority Tendency seemed really to they were designed to win mass sympathy: "An investigation is now in progress, but strain itself to present the situation of the "Unfortunately due to publicity given to as Saor Eire declared (cf. Rouge, no 126), any Irish Trotskyists in the most heroic light. us by the bourgeois press, people seem to investigation must be directed at the om.ces "In difficult conditions after the cowardly think that we are only involved in robbing of the Special Branch (political police) in assassination of Peter Graham and the mys banks and living high lives, etc. etc. This Dublin." (Rouge, November 6, 1971.) terious death in January 1972 of Mairin Kee could not be further from the truth. We Comrade Ali's solemn warning could not gan, another leader of the RMG, our com have robbed many banks and taken respon fail to make the headlines. This was par rades of the Irish section are assuming an sib111ty for them. But we have also been ticularly true since the Dublin papers were enormous task. They have to offer real sup involved in armed raids, in industrial dis giving sensational coverage to the Graham port to the two branches of the republican putes, in direct confrontations with the killing, treating it as a mysterious gang war movement (the Official and Provisional IRA). state and its agents, also in local disputes among the republican and far-left fringe. to develop Marxist analyses of the Irish ques and tenants' disputes. The money expro Comrade All's threats 'iere made even more tion, and above all to coordinate the struggles priated from the banks ts used to purchase newsworthy by an article in the independent in the North as well as the South because arms and equipment for the forthcoming left-liberal news weekly This Week by Sean they alone of all the revolutionary organiza struggle in Ireland. A lot of our finances :Boyne. tions have a base both in Ulster and the Re have gone to aid the Catholic population public." (Rouge, June 3, 1972.) "The Dublin Trotskytst leader Peter of the North who have been under attack Tragic as Comrade Keegan's death was, it from British imperialism. This took the Graham (26) may have peen murdered in the middle of a gun-running operation. In was not unexplainable. She died of a. long form of money, ammunition, and equip. illness. She was, however, a member of Saor ment. The money is also used for the main formed sources in both Dublin and London link him with a plan to smuggle guns Eire, as a member of the RMG pointed out at tenance of our revolutionaries in the field, a memorial meeting held for her in London. who, at the moment, number quite a few. through the 26 Counties for the IRA war against British troops in the North. "She was not simply an armchair Marxist, It is also used for political education, the she allied theory to action. In May 1968 in arrangement of classes, camps, and all of "Graham would have been in a key posi tion for any such operation. He was the Paris she took part in the struggle of the the other running expenses that any armed workers and students which has opened the group is liable to. We're also involved in Irish representative of the Fourth Interna nattonal, an infiuentlail, pro-IRA Trotskylst . new era of working class revolution. And in military training of members of other left 1969, back in Ireland, as a member of the wing groups in Ireland, people from the organisation with a world-wide network of branches amd previous gun-running experi Dublin Citizens Conunittee and more impor North, and the broad Republican movement, tantly Saor Eire, she gave aid to the national who have not been able to get this training ence. He had very close contacts with Saor Eire almost since its inception. He was re revolution that has been developing in within their own organisations." (Emphasis Northern Ireland .... in original.) ported to have had access to large sums of Despite a certain autonomy from the money and he was held in very high esteem "I might conclude by wishing a long life masses, Saor Eire was not, it was explained, by important members of the Provisional to the FI (Fourth International) but this a foquista group: "We don't believe that IRA. would be contrary to that body's aims. It the foco itself can become the party or has "There is no ·evidence that the Fourth wants world revolution and the world in any monopoly on the revolution. But small International has been involved in gun cludes Ireland as soon as possible. So I prophesy a short and successful life to the guerrilla groupings, to a certain extent inde running to Ir~land. But through the orga pendent of the working class, can help to nisation he would have been able to make FI and to Saor Eire. Let our enemies which raise the level of the working class and so valuable contacts abroad. The Fourth Inter are those of the working class beware. We are help to create the party." (Emphasis in national in recent years has supplied arms only beginning." (The Red Mole, January 24, original.) for the rebell1ons in Cuba, Algeria and 1972.) In fact, Saor Eire was a very special kind Hungary, and it has now decided on a policy The dangers that this kind of romantic of guerrilla group, one sympathetic to the of 'maximum support' for the IRA. rodomontade by the supporters of the IEC Fourth International and .especially to the "But even if Graham had been running Majority Tendency represent for the entire International's support for "armed struggle," arms, and there is no conclusive proof fOd" International are only too obvious. From the an Irish facsimile of the Argentine Ejercito this, who should want to kill him? His standpoint of revolutionary morality, more Revoluctonario del Pueblo! An exemplifica close associates in Dublin have ruled out the over, it was extremely dubious. It did not tion of the correctness of the line of the possibility that he was sentenced to death honor Graham's sacrifice but exploited it, Ninth World Congress . ... as an informer by Saor Eire or any Republi threatening to build a farcical tissue of ro "As regards the Fourth International: we can organisation. mantic pretensions around this death that could only discredit the Irish Trotskyists. recognise the revolutionary role it has played " 'Peter Graham was no informer and he since its inception; how it came to the aid was most security conscious,' said Tariq Ali, At the same time, this type of 'boastfulness of the Algerian revolution with arms and sentiments which were echoed by all who and lurid imagining had a powerful momen weapons while other· so-called revolutionary knew the dead man. The Young Socialists tum. For many months after the death of organisations failed to fulfill their duty. we have however recalled some . allegations Comrade Graham, adventurist fantasies also admire how they came to the aid of the made some weeks · ago by Saor Eire that tended to dominate the discussions in the CUban and Vietnamese revolutions and de "murder squads" had been formed among RMG. This was particularly noticeable in the fended them against imperialism, in America right-wing gardai [police] and Special conference of February 1972. The representa and throughout the world. We are particu Branch men .. A;nd a London-based friend of tive of the !MG, Comrade Lawless, t o his larly sympathetic to the political assistance Graham's has mentioned the possibility of credit, stopped this trend at one point in the it is giving the Irish struggle at the moment. a move by British Intelligence to thwart a discussion as it reached a da,.ngerous point. While the Stalinists have consistently dilly Trotskylst intervention in the Northern (As for the representative of the Int erna dallied and vacillated on the question of Ire Ireland situ::.-,tion. tional leadership, he was apparently not dis land and on the role of armed struggle in turbed by it and in fact was an xious t o re Ireland, the Fourth International is probably "But there is also a theory that the shoot ing may have been ordered by some rival assure me when I showed signs, no dou bt, · the only organization which has consistently of getting rather agitated.) However, it is given it support. A lot of our members have bank-robbing group to Saor Eire which for some reason wanted to teach the 'Trots' a clear from the line of The Red Mole and t he Foctnotes at end of article. lesson. It may be significant that Saor Eke IMG speaker at Comrade Graham's funeral September 2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29049 that the British organization and the Inter ' International Internal Discussion Bulle for heart disease and diabetes; that 1s for national leadership encouraged precisely this tin, Volume X, No. 17, Octdber, 1973, p. 15-17. the med.icaJ. illnesses. The conditions tha.t sort of thing. It ls fortunate that Comrade 6 Ibid, P. 37-38. require treatment for the mother in order Lawless decided to retreat from the logic of 6 International Internal Discussion Bulle to save her life are today ilimJJted to cancer. their adventurist line. One wonders what the tin, Volume X, No. 23, November, 1973, p. 10. This amendment would not prevent this IMG would have done if this kind of talk 1 Intercontinental Press, July 21, 1975. treatment and the loss of fetal life would be had resulted in an actual adventure and 8 Internal Information Bulletin, No. 3, incidental to the radiation treatment or the victimizations. Would they have sent a com April, 1971, p. 28. hystereotomy, if required. One other item mando team to "avenge" the Irish comrades? there are many examples of some chronic It ls much more likely that a few more illnesses improv.ing wirth pregnancy when a.t martyrs would have been exploited to add one time the medical community believed to the luster of the "revolutionary pole of at DR. RON PAUL: FEDERAL FINANC pregnancy increased the severity of the traction." 6 ING OF ABORTIONS disease. Many use ais the .justification to abort, the Alan Harris also complained that the potential . birth of a malformed child. This IMG was, "giving full support to a small HON. HENRY J. HYDE to me is the worst reason conceivable. Thds group that was expelled from the Re literally justifies the elimination of newborn publican movement, Saor Eire, an anti OF ILLINOIS defective Life and those who are apparently Leninist terrorist grouping based in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES useless. Most would classify this as murder Irish Republic." 6 Thursday, September 2, 1976 and even many of the pro-abortionists would agree. However, there are many who reason The British press, however, has ac Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, the following that the decisionmaking should ex,tend up cused Saor Eire of doing some of the is a speech delivered before this to 1 year of life. The question you must be bombings in London and other English body by my colleague, Dr. RoN PAUL, dur forced to ask then is, Wha.t a.bout defective cities. · ing the debate over Federal financing of and useless ideas that disrupt society. Hlstory The SWP has given considerable pub abortions. When Congressman PAUL'S re shows that others have justified this also in a.nd destroyed l:ife for causes such as reli licity to a group Ireland called the marks originally appeared in the RECORD, gious and political beliefs. Irish Republican Socialist Party. There there was an error in printing which I did not always draw raJther stringent is reason to believe that this group is caused a portion of his statement to be lines on abortion until I was forced as a closely linked to Saor Eire. In an inter left out. Dr. PAUL has been a physician young phy.sician to face up to the problem. view with an IRSP leader, Seamas Cos for 15 years and was in the practice of I was called to ·assist one day as many young tello, the SWP's Gerry Foley asked about obstetrics and gynecology prior to com residents are in an operation performed by a the warfare between his group and the ing to Congress. staff member. Lt turned out to be a official IRA. hysterotomy, a type of caesarian section with I now commend Dr. PAUL'S corrected the removal of a 2-pound infe.nt that cried Q. The "Officials" say thait a shra.dowy mm statement to the attention of my col and breathed. The infa.nrt was put in the tary organization linked to the IR.SP has leagues, many of whom may not have trash and left to die. At tha.t time it was carried out attacks on their members. They been present on the floor to have the even in defiance of all current l·a.ws. We as draw two different conclusions from this. benefit of his views on the day they were physicians oan now save ma.ny infants that Some say that you don't control it. Others expressed. Since this matter is still under a.re born weighing 2 pounds. The Supreme say that you are trying to use it as your court now permits abortion up to 6 months assassination squad wLthout takLng respon debate in a House/Senate conference, we likely will be voting on it once again be of gestation and later under special circum sib111ty for what it does. What is the relation stances. Frequently this will involve infants shl:p between the IRSP and the military fore Government funding of abortions is weighing as much as 3 pounds. Following this groupings that have expressed support for resolved once and for all. His well-rea experience I reconsidered my position of it in the conflict with the "Officials"? soned arguments merit the thoughtful "necessary abortion" and came up with an A. Well, the rel·ationship with the PLA consideration of my colleagues: entirely different perspecrtive. One physician {People's Liberation Army) and the other STATEMENT BY DR. RON PAUL who ran an abortion clinic for years and armed g·roups that have acted in this way ls Mr. Speaker, abortion and its ramifications supervised thousands of abortions has re as follows: The PLA and other groups that is probably the most complex, controversial, cently joined me in reassessing his position haven't chosen to say publicly what their social, legal, religious, . medical issue of all and now opposes abortion due to the callous names are offered to assist us in defending times. Th.ere is no simple answer to satisfy ness with which it is administered. Young our members against the "Officials." This all persons involved. Those who believe there people came to my office asking for an abor followed the death of one of our members in is an easy solution are kidding themselves. tion ss if lit were requesting an aspirin for a Belfast. The Belfast Regional Executive Sincere deliberation with the hope and in headache. This· lack of concern for human accepted that offer. The basis of this accept tention of reducing the subjective emotional life 1s an ominous sign of a decaying culture. ance was that as long as the"Officials" at response to objective reasoning is of the ut We as a Congress must not contribute to this rtacked IRSP members, these g.roups would most importance if the social antagonism decay. defend IR.SP members against such actions that has arisen over this issue is to be al Civil libertarians must oppose tax dollars and retaliate for such actions. leviated. Those who would belittle its impor for abortion if they choose to be consistent. It's true to say that we don't control the tance fail to see the significance of the im The 'use of tax dollars for abortion flaunts individual actions carried out in pursuit of pact that Presidential aspirant Ellen Mc the first amendment protection of religious thi's policy, any more rthan the Army Council Cormtck has made this past 6 months. What liber.ty. The advice I give to the pro-abor of the "Official" IRA controls the individual other single social issue sin~e slavery has tionists ls "Do not use the dollar of citizens actions of members of its organization. But prompted such political activism. wtth devout religious beliefs against abortion we are quite satisfied that as soon as a.g:ree Today we must decide whether or not to to carry out this prooedure." This is like ment is reached ·between the IRSP and the continue to support Mr. HYDE'S proposal to wav.ing a red flag in front of a bull and pro "Official" IRA and as soon as we ha'ie some prohibit Federal tax dollars from being used viding an incentive for the antiabortionist concrete indication that the "Officials" are to promote or perform abortion. I am in to organize and rally with great strength. going to call off its campaign, there will be agreement with Congressman HYDE and op Just remember how the antiwar groups ral no difficulty whatsoever about ensuring that pose the use of tax dollars to perform abor lied and changed a bad situaJtion in the 1960's there are no a.ttacks on members or support tions. when kids were forced to serve and die a.nd e.rs of the "Official" IRA.7 Up until April of 1976 I had been prac taxpayers forced to pay for an undeclared ticing obstetrics and gynecology. I have been 11legal war pursued by an ill-advised admin IMG leader, Tariq Ali, has publicly involved in medicine for 19 years. After medi istration. supported terrorism and boasted that if cal school the specialty training that I re The 14th amendment prQtects depriving Governor Wallace had visited his univer ceived took 5 years. In other words, I have . any person of life. Government exists to pro sity he would have killed him.8 treated thousands of obstetrical cases and tect life, not to destroy it. Those of you who FOOTNOTES delivered an estimated 4,000 babies. During · still believe that life is not involved need to this period of time I never saw one case visit more operating rooms and possibly you 1 Report of the Fact-Finding Commission which required therapeutic abortion in order would be converted like I was. of the United Secretariat on the internal to preserve the life of the mother. The issue Legally there is good historic precedent to situation within the International Marxist of "the 'threat' to the mother" is not realis establish the rights of the unborn and to Group, British section of the Fourth Inter tic since it is so rare. This is emotionally recognize their legal existence. Right of in national, Maroh 12, 1972, p. 18 and 22. concocted and does not do justice to those heritance is recognized for the conceived but 2 Ibid., p. 11 and 13. who use this as the reason for legislation. unborn infants when the death of the father a Mairy-Afice Warters Memo, January 15, When 1rt; does exist the Hyde amendment occurs prior to the birth. The right of suit by 1976, Report by stateman and minutes of would not prevent treatment to the mother. rthe unborn is recognized in accidents that United Secretariat. Today we do not need to abort women k111 or injure an unborn. The right of suit by 29050 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19 7 6 the unborn is recognized in injury that harm tent to restrict his activities to the im illegal narcotics trafficking into the the unborn in such cases as drug injury. The portant work of religious guidance to United States. injured unborn can sue MD's after birth for his parishioners, but an active force for The geographical areas of greatest malpractice if we as physicians injure the infant with bad medical judgment. From good in the entire community. His dra concern to narcotics control officials have day one in medical school we are taught two matic organization of a "God Squad" to traditionally been Mexico, Southeast lives are involved and the responsib111ty is combat vice and delinquency il) Mount Asia, and the Middle East. In particular, ominous, in that we need to give deep con Vernon, his involvement in virtually Turkey was, for many years, the primary cern for the new life to be and protect it in every worthy community activity, be it provider of opium to the dealers who the best way possible so that it can enter help to the poor, housing, recreation, eventually brought heroin to the streets its new environment free of injury since its youth programs, has been a force for of our cities and towns. more vulnerable predelivered state is so pre carious and needs specific help,• assistance, good in Mount Vernon that will be sorely In 1971, the Turkish Government or protection, and consideratlon. missed. dered a cessation of poppy growing which The sickest argument for abortion is that We all wish him well in Boston, and resulted in a significant reduction in the the poor black population needs to be re shall always remember the special care heroin entering this country. Subse duced. Keep them off the welfare rolls some he gave to his friends and neighbors in quently, an· executive agreement was conservatives argue. Even liberals have ar Westchester County. signed by the leaders of the two nations gued with me that since I oppose the welfare In paying tribute to Father Bede, the aimed at solidifying the opium ban. state this would flt into my desire. I am Chamber of Commerce of Mount Vernon Then, abruptly last ye{tr, in apparent for reducing the welfare state but certainly contravention of this agreement, the not this way. The welfare state wm be re presented him with a well-deserved cita duced when the welfare ethic of material tion which I would ilke to share with Turkish Government ended the ban on istic redistribution by force is challenged and you today: opium growing, thereby opening up once changed. MESSAGE AND PRESENTATION TO REV. FATHER again the threat of a vast potential sup Frequently abortion is performed at the BEDE FERRARA, OFM, PASTOR OF OUR LADY ply of this dangerous plant. desire of an aggressive social worker who OF MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH Fortunately, despite resumption of fears food may become scarce and for var (Made by Salvatore Quaranta, Executive Vice opium growing, the predicted increased ious other personal prejudices. Teenage Preside:qt of the Mount Vernon Chamber fiow of illicit narcotics from Turkey has abortion now is done with specifl.c exclusion of Commerce) not materialized. In this respect, Turkish of parental consent, if the Government so I am pleased to have this opportunity to officials clearly deserve praise. They have chooses; another attack on religious convic express best wishes and appreciation to regulated the actions of the opium farm tions regarding the sanctity of the family. Father Bede. Opposite to this is the abortion for the ers in accordance with guidelines estab mother of the pregnant girl "to save face." During the past several years, I have had lished by their Government in consulta In the private practice I had, this was the the opportunity of becoming involved in com tion with the United Nations Division of strongest motivating factor for abortion. The munity programs in association. with Father Narcotic Drugs and the International pregnant girl usually had a great psycho Bede. Narcotic Control Board, and, most im logical need and desire to be pregnant and In addition to his chosen avocation in portantly, their oversight in conjunction deliver a baby. A symbol to her of something serving God, he devoted endless hours to that represented love and affection. Abor serving the total community. His interests with the implementation of a new har tion carelessly given, financed by the Govern have extended to the concern for the reli vesting process, has apparently resulted ment, hardly will settle this deep psycho gious, social health and recreational needs in a massive redm;tion in the quantity of logical problem. of our community. Turkish poppy origin heroin reaching the My entire political philosophy is built on In the two areas close to my field of work, United States. the fl.rm conviction of the absolute right to namely the Chamber of Commerce and the I should make it clear that despite, the one's life and property but precludes all United Way, Father Bede has been of im impressive statistics concerning the di violent activity. Some challenge my position measurable help and for this I am most versionary efforts by the Turkish Gov on abortion as saying that I violate the grateful. mother's right to her life by preventing abor And to this most concerned gentlemen, I ernment, I remain deeply disturbed by tion. Since the key lies in whether or not one have the priviledge of presenting to him a the resumed growing of opium. Although or two lives exist my decision is based on my Citation which reads· as follows: I certainly recognize both Turkey's right medical knowledge that life does exist prior "Citation for community Service Awarded to make decisions which are in her own to birth and after conception. If the mother to Rev. Father Bede Ferrara, OFM, Pastor national interest, and the fact that the can reject that same life in her body be of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in executive agreement was signed by lead cause it just happens to be there she could Recognition of Outstanding Achievement ers who are no longer in power, I feel reject that same life in her house. Besides in Serving the Human Needs of Our Com strongly that the agreement should have a strong argument exists that the mother's munity" rights are violated by a newborn, screaming remained in force or at the very least hungry, naked infant much more so than by In closing, I extend most sincere best been renegotiated. I now only fervently the inconvenience of an innocent silent wishes to Father Bede and thank him for hope that the strong enforcement actions warm contented unborn. The newborn de he has helped to make the Community of by the Turkish Government will continue mands a much greater amount of care, con Mount Vernon, New York, a better place in which to live, worship, work and do business. to yield satisfactory results. cern, time, and effort, and therefore is a I am pleased to insert the following so-called violation of the mother's rights and Good Bye my friend, may you be blessed by yet we recognize caring for a child as a re everlasting good health so that you may en excerpts from comments made by United sponsib111ty both legal and moral once birth joy serving the needs of all the people in Nations officials who toured Turkey in occurs. your new assignment in the Boston area. July of this year. This release from the Turkish Embassy is important both be cause of its verification of the results TURKEY, DRUGS, AND which had been claimed previously and A SPECIAL THANKS TO FATHER THE UNITED STATES for the spirit of cooperation between BEDE Turkey and the United Nations of which HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL it is a symbol. HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER The quotations follow: OF NEW YORK U.N. OFFICIALS PRAISE TuRKISH CONTROLS OF OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OPIUM POPPY CULTlVATION IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, September 2, 1976_ Prof. Paul Reuter of France, President of Thursday, September 2, 1976 the International Narcotics Control Board: Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, the recent "We believe that Turkey has set an un- · Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, the creation of the Select Committee on Nar precedented example in this field. She has community of Mount Vernon, N.Y., re cotics Abuse and Control is representa fully implemented her decisions and also cently honored a most extraordinary tive, I feel, of a long overdue recognition the proposals made to her for a solution to person, Father Bede Ferrara. I would by the Members of this House, of the this issue (the 111egal use of the Turkish like to join in their admiration of this seriousness of the narcotics problem in opium poppy crop) . man, and thank Father Bede for the this Nation. Its existence will provide the "The success registered in the purchase o! time and energy he spent to improve all unlanced poppy capsules by the Gov Congress with an arm with which it can ernment not only has shown the effectiveness the life of his parish and his community. oversee the entire world drug scene and of this method, but also proved that the He is an extraordinary man, not con- thereby, hopefully, significantly reduce Turkish nation is a 'developed country' in September 2, 19'76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29051 this field, for this method is not expected to gendarmarie controls. These forces are well of the United States. The valuable informa succeed so well in every country. In this re organized and efficient. Turkey is a developed tion they gather is processed and published spect, Turkey has a special position among country in this regard. In other countries by the Environmental Data Service, another other countries." poppy cultivation is done on hillsides and major component of NOAA, and becomes a Ambassador Jacobus Gilbertus Debeus of other areas that are difficult to reach, and valuable part of the Nation's weather his Holland, Executive Director of the U.N. this hinders controls. tory. Fund for Drug Abuse Control: "The personnel of the Soil Products Office "Last year a certain percentage of the have greatly contributed to the success of Fund budget was set aside for technical as controlled poppy cultivation in Turkey. Also, sistance to Turkey in the control of poppy the understanding and good faith displayed ENERGY NEEDS production. With these funds, the jeeps used by the Turkish farmers cannot be denied. by the control teams were equipped with The farmers express their satisfaction with two-way radios and the teams were provided this system." HON. JIM LLOYD with additional vehicles. This year an air OF CALIFORNIA plane will be furnished for aerial control. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Turkish Government did not apply for JULIUS A. POLANSKY, WEATHER the $5 million fund that had been ear OBSERVER, RECEIVES AWARD Thursday, September 2, 1976 marked to offset the loss the Turkish farm Mr. LLOYD of California. Mr. Speaker, ers might have suffered as a result of sell ing their poppy capsules without lancing in 1952, the President's Materials Policy them. In fact, the Turkish Government did HON. J. J. PICKLE Commission published a report, "Re not even mention it. Because it precluded any OF TEXAS sources For Freeodm," which warned of loss to the farmers by_implementing a satis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the energy crisis this Nation would face factory price· policy. We are pleased by this Thursday, September 2, 1976 in the 1970's if we did not commit our attitude of Turkey. The success of this vital selves to seek alternative sources of fuel project is not fully known by _other gov Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, in the last and adopt meaningful conservation ernments and the general public in other few years, various social observers and measures. Because oil was cheap and countries. The Turkish Government is be critics have expressed dismay about the ing very modest about this subject and is plentiful, few paid attention to that re not publicizing it adequately. This project lack of the volunteer spirit in America. port. Today, however, we can no longer has succeeded with the cooperation of the It seems to me that many have stated afford to ignore the long-term energy Turkish farmer and the determination of his that no one will do anything unless he crisis that still confronts us. Government. We must; work to make the is paid for it. During my first term in Congress, I whole world aware of this." Perhaps this is a legitimate concern, have received many letters from con Dr. George M. Ling of Canada, Director of but I continue to see example after ex stituents of the 35th Congressional Dis the U.N. Division of Narcotic Drugs: ample that the citizens of this country "This is the most successful program car trict about energy issues. Some offered ried out by my department to this date. are willing to perform selfless deeds. suggestions which have been translated The trust of the Turkish people in this pro Such an individual is Julius A. Polan into law. I would like to outline specific gram, their honesty and realistic attitude, sky, who lives in the 10th Congressional action the 94 th Congress has taken to the smooth coordination among the relevant District at Dime Box, Tex. For more than meet our present and future energy Turkish agencies and the effective control 30 years Mr. Polansky has been a volun needs. ' of prescriptions by the Ministry of Health teer rainfall observer for the National Energy policy: The Energy Policy and have all been highly instrumental in this. Weather Service. Conservation Act established a compre "W,hen the alkaloid factory starts its pro Recently, Mr. Polansky was recognized duction, the Turkish people will be able to hensive national energy policy that buy medicines cheaper, and Turkey's export for his outstanding accomplishment in brought down gasoline prices in the first possibilities will be increased. We view this this meaningful area, by being selected half of 1976, and provides for oil price factory with great appreciation." for the John C. Holm Award, an an decontrol over 40 months. The act also In another press conference held in An nual National Weather Service award authorizes a strategic petroleum reserve kara. on July 14, 1976, a question was raised sponsored by the U.S. Department of and provides for energy conservation, regarding the allegations in the Greek and Commerce. energy efficient cars and appliances, and Greek Cypriot press to the effect that opium I include a news release from the De aid to small coal mine operators. The bill poppy was being cultivated in the Turkish partment of Commerce with more in sector of Cyprus and was being smuggled to became law. other countries. Prof. Reuter and Dr. Long formation about this prestigious award: ERDA authorization: The House and answered these allegations: WASHINGTON.-Julius A. P.olansky, a vol Senate are soon expected to agree upon "'Dhere is not the slightest evidence or in unteer rainfall observer for the National fiscal 1977 authorization for the Energy dication that opium is grown in the Turkish Weather Service at Dime Box, Texas, has Research and Development Administra sector of Cyprus. It is not possible' to con been selected to receive the John Campanius tion-ERDA. Included in this bill will be clude that just because contraband opium Holm Award. The names of 35 winners se was discovered on a ship sailing under Tur lected nationwide to receive this annual increased funding for solar energy re kish Cypriot fiag, the narcotic originated award were announced today by the U.S. De search and development. Earlier this in the Turkish sector. It is always possible partment of Commerce's National Oceanic year, ERDA had requested $116 million that it could have been gotten on board from and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for all solar programs for fiscal 1977. other sources. Since we have witnessed many parent agency of the National Weather Congress, however, recognizing the great times that countries with disputes with eacih Service. potential of solar energy, is expected to other try to discredit one another with such John Campanius Holm Awards, created in provide over one-quarter billion, in effect, false propaganda, we investigate these alle 1959 by the National Weather Service, are doubling the ERDA request. ERDA is also gations very carefully and thoroughly. An al made annually to honor volunteer observers legation made by a certain country to the for outstanding accomplishments in the field strongly supporting nuclear, synthetic, effect that narcotics were being smuggled out of meteorological observations. The award and traditional fuel research and devel of mainland China, took us four years to in is named for a Lutheran minister who is opment. vestigate. At the end we determined that the the first person known to have taken system FEA authorization: The fiscal 1977 accusation was baseless. Similarly, no evi atic weather observations in the American Federal Energy Administration author dence was found to prove that opium poppy colonies. The Reverend John Campanius ization includes a 3-year program to help was being cultivated in the Turkish sector made records of the climate, without the low-income persons weatherize their of Cyprus." use of instruments, in 1644 and 1645, near At the same press conference the U.N. offi the present site of Wilmington, Delaware. homes; a series of demonstration pro cials were asked whether programs were being These observations were published in grams to encourage other homeowners carried out in other countries similar to that Sweden by his grandson, Thomas Campanius to weatherize their homes to save fuel; in Turkey and what was their degree of Holm, in 1702. information for homeowners on the costs success. Their comment was: Mr. Polansky has been an accurate, con and savings of energy conservation in "Different programs are being implemented sistent observer for 35 years. He has gener vestments; and a loan guarantee pro in different countries. But it is true that ously shared these daily observations with gram to encourage large energy users to none of them is as successful as the one in this community in south central Texas. His Turkey. The reasons for this are evident. rainfall amounts a.re also published by the make energy-saving improvements in 'I1he poppy cultivation area in Turkey are Giddings, Texas, newspaper. buildings that could not be reasonably close to one another. Also, communications The National Weather Service has nearly flnanced with Federal backing. fac111ties are sufficient and well organized. 12,000 volunteer observers who make and re Automobile research bills: Congress Furthermore, there exist effective police and cord daily weather observations in all parts voted to establish a 5-year, $160 million 29052 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2~ 19·7 6 project for research and demonstration using new or improved energy tech duction is being approached simultaneously nologies when such innovations are in in a variety of ways: solar thermal collection, of electric and "hybrid" cars using new wind power, ocean thermal gradient, and fuels or using fuels in a new way. The the public interest but cannot be accom fuels from biomass. , bill now goes to President Ford for his plished by industry acting alone. Ac Several types of solar thermal collection signature. The House also approved a cordingly, it is the Federal Government's techniques are being brought to the pilot House-Senate conference version of a intent to minimize the public financial plant phase of development to test systems bill to authorize $100 million through commitment and to press for the highest concepts and validate economic projections. fiscal 1978 for research into cars that pol levels of industry cooperation and in These include a 5 MWe solar thermal test lute less. volvement. This approach was chosen in facility and the conceptual design of a 10 order to accelerate the development of MWe central receiver pilot plant, both to be Natural gas: Legislation to encourage completed in FY 1977. natural gas production by reregulating new technologies, to make maximum use A photovoltaic program aimed at systems the price for major producers and de of industry's expertise and speed the definition and cost reduction of photovoltaic regulating it for independents has passed process of bringing technology into use. cells represents another unique approach to both House and Senate in different The private sector has the primary the development of solar energy technology forms. responsibility for developing and bring for electric power production. A price of less Coastal Zone Management Act ing into use the technology needed to ful than $2000 per peak kilowatt (its present fill our en~rgy needs. Accordingly, ERDA cost) for planar solar cells and the establish amendments: This bill accelerates the ment of the viability of the technology by orderly development of vast offshore re believes that industry should play a sig 1982 are primary objectives of the ERDA serves. Perhaps the most important fea nificant part in the development of fu program. . ture of this bill is that, for the first time, ture plans and programs. The ERDA is The wind power program will build and recognition is given to State and local encouraging the participation of the pri test successively larger wind-powered electri governments in our Federal energy pro vate sector to help insure the economic cal-generating machines to determine appli gram. They will become partners with viability of research and development ef cations and economic feasibility. the Federal Government in the develop forts supported by the Government. Ocean thermal gradients offer potential for ment of our offshore oil and. gas fields. This document does not commit the energy production in several forms. The fed Federal Government .to support specific eral program for this technology currently Elk Hills: Congress enacted a law emphasizes system studies, criteria develop which will convert the 33-billion barrel larg·e demons·trations, but identifiies ment for testing facilities, and component Alaska naval petroleum reserve into a projects that may have potential and design and testing. national reserve and authorize produc warrant further consideration. I offer a Agricultural and f9rest residues and ma tion from Elk Hills, Buena Vista, and brief summary from the ERDA report on rine biomass offer potential for clean fuels Teapot Dome Reserves. Strict production promising alternative energy sources: and industrial chemicals. The federal pro limitations will match reserves for a na FOSSIL ENERGY gram emphasizes the demonstration of an tional defense emergency. Research, development, and demonstration economically feasible technology for the de Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Sci activities are supported by the federal gov velopment of this energy source. ence and Technology Committee, I have ernment to assist industry in developing and GEOTHERMAL ENERGY had the opportunity to review the work bringing into use technologies to extend the Program efforts are intended to aid in the recoverable base of domestic oil and natural establishment of a geothermal industry to being done by the Energy Research and gas resources, and to make coal and oil shale encourage the commercial use of existing Development Administration-ERDA more economically and environmentally at technologies to recover useful energy from in identifying alternative energy sources tractive. low-salinity hydrothermal resources. Federal and the role the Federal Government can The coal program comprises several RD&D support includes geothermal resource ex play in commercially developing these activities designed to assist industry in devel ploration and assessment, the development sources. The ERDA has published a re oping second generation technologies to and demonstration of improved plant com port, "Creating Energy Choice for the convert coal to more widely useful and clean ponents, and a loan guaranty program. er synthetic fuels; develop environmentally Other program highlights consist of ad Future," w.hich I recommend to my col acceptable and economic methods to burn leagues. How tragic it would be for this vanced technology development activities de coal; and find more efficient means to gen signed to improve means to recover en'ergy Nation if we ignored this report, in the erate electric power from coal resources. from higher-salinity hydrothermal resources, same manner as was done in 1952. Petroleum and natural gas programs are including verification of the use of binary "Creating Energy Choices for the being conducted jointly with industry to cycles, demonstrating the feasibility of re Future," a proposed national plan for en determine the optimum application of ter moving useful energy from hot dry rock ergy research, development, and demon tiary recovery and stimulation techniques to sources with circulating fluids, and continu stration, describes programs now under the multiplicity of domestic resource re ing research on concepts for economical ex serves. traction of energy from geopressured zones. way and supported by the Federal Gov The unique aspects of in-situ resource ernment. It does not include energy Federal coordination is effected through a recovery techniques are being explored and Geothermal Advisory Council. The Council research and development in industry or developed for potential application in coal advises one the direction and relevance of elsewhere unless Federal funds are in gasification and shale oil recovery in an the research, studies, educational programs, volved. It describes technologies being other program receiving federal support. land leasing policies, environmental stand investigated and activities underway and Programs in resource appraisal and extrac ards development, and the other federal planned in Federal energy research and tion technologies seek to determine the agency activities that must be coordinated extent and quality of domestic fossil fuel to bring about viable technical and indus development programs. It presents resource and improved methods for mining ERDA's views on the courses of action trial bases for geothermal energy develop that incorporate greater efficiency and safety ment. that the Federal Government should and enhance environmental integrity. take in assisting the private sector in CONSERVATION SOLAR ENERGY Federal programs in this area attempt to :finding solutions to the na\ional energy Solar heating and cooling is comprised of assist industry in developing technology to problem. those technologies that make use of the aid in reducing wasteful patterns of energy The primary responsibility for bring radiant energy of the sun on a decentralized consumption and increasing efficiency of ing new technologies into use for energy basis to provide space conditioning and hot equipment used in energy conversion, distri conservation and expanding domestic water for a variety of uses. The technologies bution and consumption. The aim is to en energy production rests with the private are now at a sufficient level of sophistication courage more efficient patterns of energy use sector. The Federal Government's re to allow for practical application, but have through the development of new technologies failed to achieve effective market penetration and approaches that will have a major im sponsibility is to assist the private sector owing to a number of constraints, notably pact on energy consumption in the future. in the development and market penetra economic and institutional. The federal ef The RD&D Conservation efforts are sup tion of new energy technologies by es fort is largely centered on demonstration ported by the following programs: Electric tablishing an appropriate policy for pri programs in cooperation with industry de Energy Systems, Energy Storage Systems, In vate action, sharing risks with the pri signed to show.: the applicability of solar dustry Conservation, Buildings Conservation, vate sector in some cases, and conducting heating and cooling systems to a number of Transportation Energy Conservation, and En a supporting research, development uses and in a number of environments. These ergy Conservation. program. include residential and commercial space Representative ongoing activities include: conditioning and hot water production, and testing of alternative energy-saving building Overall, the Federal energy research agricultural crop drying. designs; development of building design and development program provides The longer-range goal of harnessing the standards; testing of devices to reduce en assistance to industry in developing and sun's radiation for centralized energy pro- ergy losses in existing structures; improve- September 2, 19·75 EXTENSIONS OF R:EMARK.S 29053 ment in the energy efficiency of processes will be realized with the successfuI commer I urge my colleagues to join me in sup (such as distillation) common to many in cial introduction of breeder reactors which port of this legislation to etch in coin dustries; development and testing of alterna have the capa.b111ty to increase energy avail tive transportation vehicle propulsion sys able from the reactor by a factor of sixty. one of the most meaningful events of our tems; testing of approach to improve driver The availability of breeder reactors can as history-a symbol and reminder of the operation and maintenance practices; devel sure our nation clean and economic energy spirit and strengtn which makes us free. opment of electrical system management for centuries. The text of my legislation follows: techniques and components to meet future Substantial involvement of the private sec H.R. 15420 needs for efficient and reliable operation and tor 1s necessary to ensure that the technolo A bill to provide for the striking of medals exploration of processes and components gies which are being developed and improved. commemorating the 200th anniversary of (e.g., storage devices, heat recuperators, and are commercially viable. A major federal in-.. the encampment of the American Army combustion processes) fundamental to end volvement is necessary because of the long during the bitter winter at Valley Forge use energy efficiency in a number of areas. term payoff inherent in the program. Safety and environmental research activities are Be it enacted by the Senate and House FUSION POWER R&D of Representatives of the United States of The Fusion program· comprises two sub uppermost in the development program due to public concern, although the safety record America in Congress assembled, That (a) in stantially different technological approaches commemoration of the 200th anniversary of to the production of usable energy from con ot fission power 1s unequaled by any other industry. the encampment of the American Army com trolled thermonuclear reactions: magnetic manded by General George Washington dur confinement, and inertial confinement. FY Mr. Speaker, as demonstrated by leg ing the bitter winter at Valley Forge, Penn 1977 fundtng (Budget Authority) for the islation considered. and acted upon by sylvania, ·the Secretary of the Treasury (here program has increased a substantial 57 per the 94th Congress, and by the ERDA re inaUer in this Act referred to as the "Secre cent over FY 1976 levels, most of which ls tary") shall strike and deliver to the Valley required to sustain the technical directions port, . we have begun to deal with the Forge Historical Society, Incorporated, Valley already in progress. Primary programmatic energy crisis. We have much more to do, Forge, Pennsylvania (hereinafter 1n this Act emphasis is shifting from basic physics re but we have taken steps to offer viable referred to as the "Society"), not more than search towards more practical systems devel short- and long-term energy alternatives fif,ty thousand sterling silver and bro:nee opment. Such a transi~ion inherently in to the American public. medals, 1 5/16 inches in diameter, with suit volves costlier equipments and facil1ties, and able emblems, devices and inscripti_ons to be larger and more diverse technical staffs. determined by the Society, with the concur The magnetic confinement approach has rence of the Commission on Fine Arts, sub recently achieved reactor-level temperatures STRIKING MEDALS TO COMMEMO ject to approval by the Secretary. and a ten-fold increase in plasma confine (b) Such medals- ment conditions in a magnetic mirror device. RATE VALLEY FORGE ( 1) are national medals within the mean A similar advance was achieved in a toka ing of section 3551 of the Revised Statutes mak device. Current work includes further (31 U.S.C. 368); and testing of a superconducting magnet system HON. RICHARD T. SCHULZE OF PENNSYLVANIA (2) may be disposed of by the Society at for plasma confinement, and completion and a premium. operation of a rotation target neutral beam IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEc. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection source for plasma heating. Thursday, September 2, 1976 (b), the medals authorized to be struck and NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE R&D AND SAFEGUARDS delivered under section 1 shall be delivered This effort consists of six major program Mr. SCHULZE. Mr. Speaker, as the at such times as may be required by the activities: Uranium Resource Assessment, ranking minority member of the House Society in quantities of not less than two Support of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Waste Banking, Currency and Housing Subcom thousand, but no such medals shall be struck Management (Commercial), Nuclear Mate mittee on Historic Preservation and after December 31, 1978. rials Security and Safeguards, Uranium Coinage, I am proud to introduce legis (b) The Secretary shall deliver- Enrichment Procesi:i Development, and Ad lation today which would provide for the ( 1) five hundred sterling silver medals, the vanced Isotope Separation Technology. The first two hundred and fifty of which shall program activities in this effort are wide in striking of medals to commemorate the be in sequence, and scope. For example, activfties are directed 200th anniversay of the encampment of (2) five thousand bronze medals, toward assessing the extent of uranium re the American Army during the bitter by September 1, 1977. sources, and assisting industry in overcom winter at Valley Forge---1777-78. This SEc. 3. The Secretary shall cause the medals ing technical and institutional uncertain action appropriately follows enactment authorized to be struck and delivered under ties in the areas of fuel reprocessing and of legislation which I sponsored to pro section 1 to be strUQk and delivered at not recycle and waste management, and devel vide for the establishment of the Valley less than the estimated cost of manufacture, oping and demonstrating efficient and effec including labor, materials, cUes, use of ma tive safeguards systems for the light water Forge National Historical Park in the chinery, and overhead expenses, and security reactor and advanced fuel cycle systems. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. satisfactory to the Director of the Mint shall Other activities are directed toward con Now that Valley Forge will secure its be furnished to indemnify the United States tinuing the development of gaseous diffu proper ident:fication in our national life, for the full payment of such costs. sion technology for use in increasing produc it is appropriate that we commemorate tion capacity at existing gaseous diffusion the bicentenn,ial of the event which - plants, continuing the development of gas forged the cause of our American free centrifuge technology to be available for doms. PROTECTING PROPERTY RIGHTS early use by an expanding domestic uranium OF THE WIFE uNDER FEDERAL enrichment industry. Finally, there are My bill will provide for the manufac activities to investigate and develop addi ture of up to 500 silver and 50,000 bronze ESTATE TAX LAWS tional isotope separation processes which National Mint medals---each bearing a have the potential for significantly reducing common design approved by the Treas the cost of enriched materials and en ury Secretary and concurred with by the HON. ROBERT W. KASTEN, JR. hancing the introduction of these tech Fine Arts Commission. OF WISCONSIN nologies into the marketplace. I have inserted a new provision in this · IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FISSION POWER bill which provides that the designs of Thursday, September 2, 1976 There are six major program areas: Liquid the medals be approved by the Commis Metal Fast Breeder Reactors; Water Cooled sion on Fine Arts. They have the author Mr. KASTEN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Breeder Reactors; Gas Cooled Reactors; Light ity, in accordance with an Executive or I introduced an amendment to H.R. Water Reactor Technology; Supporting Activ der issued by President Harding, to ap 14844 which would modify section 3 (c), ities; and Reactor Bafety Facilities. "Fractional Interest of Spouse," to allow Near-term increases in the amount of prove the designs of all coins and medals. energy produced from nuclear sources may Although this practice has not been exclusion from the value of an estate be possible through cooperation with in utilized in recent years, I believe, and the of a spouse's interest in any joint ten dustry to improve 11censab111ty, construct General Counsel of the Mint concurs, ancy after December 31, 1976. ab111ty, and operating availab111ty of light that it is appropriate to include the pro One of my original concerns with Fed water reactors, which are now being marketed vision in the bill since the Commission eral estate tax reform was the failure by industry and operated by the utilities. has recently expressed concern over the of current law to recognize joint ten Mid-term impact 1s possible on both energy ancies by allowing a wife to exclude her supply and energy resources through con fact that their function is being by tinued improvements in these reactors which passed. I am a firm believer of the role share of the property from the value of make more efficient use of available nuclear that the Commission is, by law, man her husband's estate. fuel. Long-term impact on energy resources dated to perform. A typical example of the inequity of 29054 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 1976 the current law would be the case of a widely from State to State. I believe the extent or for more than a few weeks. couple who purchased a small farm, lit Federal role should be to give recogni There are not that many rich people, erally on a shoestring, 20 or 30 years ago. tion to State laws in this regard by al and there are too many poor people. The effects of inflation, particularly dra lowing exclusion of the spouse's interest Therefore, the politically hypnotic slo matic appreciation of land values over where a joint tenancy exists in accord gan, "soak the rich," is a fool's catch the years, and the capital improvements ance with State law. phrase. The rich are not soaked. They made by an industrious couple have re It also is not my intention to single have their family equity trusts that re sulted in· a moderate-sized operation out any particular kind of property for move them from the tax collector's with a paper value many times their special treatment. A family's home should grasping hands. Their estates are not original investment. qualify as well as their business, farm, held personally, so they do not suffer the They have long since established joint or antique collection, if the property is effects of the estate tax. The famous ownership under State law and, by all jointly owned. family of the Vice President-grand standards, the wife has been an equal I strongly urge my colleagues to look father, father, brothers, or cousins-has partner in building what they have closely at the difficulties inherent in ig not been "soaked" by the estate tax. But a.chieved. Yet, when the husband dies noring a wife's share of the family's average upper middle-class farmer has the entire property, in the eyes of the property when computing the value of no knowledge of the family equity trust. Federal Government, will be treated as the husband's estate. This amendment He has not set up an inexpensive Dela though he were the sole owner. will correct a longstanding injustice, and ware corporation for his family. He has Under current law, the wife will not I urge its inclusion in the estate tax re only worked hard, poured his earnings be allowed to exclude her half of the form bill. back into the improvement of his land property from the value of the estate Mr. Speaker, the second amendment I and equipment, and when he dies, his and will, in fact, have to pay estate have offered is to Mr. BuRLESON's sub assets wind up in the hands of the tax tax on what she herself has earned. stitue for H.R. 14844. Mr. BURLESON'S collector. Recognizing the injustice of similar amendment, which is identical to the lan Those who wanted to "soak the rich" policies} States are moving to correct guage of H.R. 1973, does not contain any through discriminatory legislation have their own inheritance tax laws. Just provision recognizing joint ·tenancy in seen the fruition of their envious this year the State of Wisconsin enacted terests of a spouse. Therefore, my amend schemes: The soaking of the not-so-rich. legislation allowing up to a 50-percent ment would add a new section to Mr. It will be interesting to see whether Con inheritance tax exemption for all sur BuRLESON's bill identical to section 3 Cc) gress will acknowledge the error of the viving joint tenants. Past law required of H.R. 14844, "Fractional Interest of present levels of estate taxation and re proof of contribution "in money or mon Spouse," as amended by my proposal to move the burden imposed on the not-so ey's worth" to the estate's value in order eliminate gift tax liability in creating a rich. I hoPe we do. When we finally get to qualify for the exemption. joint tenancy. this odious tax levied only on the truly It was encouraging when the Ways rich, then it will become a dead letter, and Means Committee addressed the in which it dearly deserves to become. I do equity in Federal law by including a sec not worry too much about the very rich, tion in H.R. 14844 allowing half of a THE POWER TO TAX INVOLVES THE for they have their tax lawyers, their ac jointly held property to be excluded from POWER TO DESTROY countants, their tax-free trusts on 'the the estate tax. Grand Cayman Island, their family However, close examination of this equity trusts, and all the other so-called provision reveals a cure that, in some HON. RON PAUL "loopholes" that we in Congress yell cases, could be worse than the illness. At OF TEXAS about but will not, cannot, and should best, it offers a tradeoff as to which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not close. kind of tax you want the Federal Gov What this country needs is "loopholes" ernment to impose. Thursday, September 2, 1976 for everyone. Let the little guy get a The allowance in the committee bill Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, Chief Justice piece of the "loophole" action. Let every for exclusion of the wife's half of the John Marshall, in his famous decision, one get out from under the massive bur property is only under the condition that "McCulloch 'against Maryland" (1819), den of taxation that has been placed on after Decem~er 31, 1976, the husband and set forth the incontrovertible principle, his back, all in the name of soaking the wife elect to create a joint tenancy, and "the power to tax involves the power to rich or helping the need~. The people elect to take the tax liability of trans destroy; * * *" The estate tax is the helped are the upper middle-class bu f ering a gift to each other. They are worst tax of all taxes that might be con reaucrats who administer these boondog subject to the gift tax liability even if ceivetl, for the power to tax a dead man's gles, and now the inflation tax is catch they already have established joint ten estate confers on the civil government ing up to them, too. ancy under State law. the power to undermine the integrity of' What this country needs is a loophole In other words, Mr. Speaker, even if the family. in every pot and two-family equity trusts the property is al-ready jointly owned, we The estate tax should be abolished at in every garage. More loopholes and few are saying, "You have a choice: the Fed the Federal level, the State level, and any er tax .lawyers. Democratize the loop eral Government will tax your joint other level of civil government that at holes. property now; or we will tax it twice tempts to impose it. I will vote if I have And, of course, cut Federal spending to later, once when your husband dies and the chance to raise the exemption figure accommodate the loopholes. again when you die." to $200,000, not because I think it is right In defense of my statement that the Mr. Speaker, it is patently unfair to or wise to tax an estate that is worth inheritance tax or estate tax is the worst impose a gift tax on that which is not· more than $200,000, but because this pro of all possible taxes, since it jeopardizes a gift, and joint property is owned half posal will at least remove many families the integrity of the family, I offer the by each. out from under the atrocious burden of analysis of Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony: How can we justify taxing it as a gift this odious tax. If I had the opportunity Where the father possesses private property if we are serious about "reforming" the to vote for a proposal that would exempt and provides for his children's care and fu major inequities in the Federal estate estates up to $200 million, I would vote ture, and controls thej.r inheritance, it is the tax laws. · for it with equal enthusiasm. authority of the father which governs the My amendment to H.R. 14844 elim family. Where the state assumes the respon This tax is the product of envy, one of sibility for the welfare and education of the inates the gift tax election and redefines the most devastating evils of the human children, and assures them of future social a "qualified joint interest,, as any joint personality. Envy wants to tear down security, it is the authority of the state which tenancy between a husband and wife, ap anything that is above it, socially, eco governs the children. Power over property is plicable ·to all estate after December 31, nomically, and culturally. No one who has authority. Where the state controls property, 1976. studied the distribution of wealth in this income, and inheritance, power has been It is not my intention to establish Nation could sensibly believe that a re transferred to the state. Federal guidelines as to what kind of in distribution of wealth from the very rich No one should consider the estate tax terests can qualify as jointly held prop to the whole population could raise the bill and its provision for raising the ex erty. That is a legal question that varies level of income of the poor to any great emption without being aware of Rev- Septemberi 2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29055 erend Rushdoony's analysis, which ap state. The Soviet Union, two years after the a great deal of space to laws of inheritance pears in his ouUitanding little book, "Law Revolution, announced, "The family has Rdger Sherman Galer, in his classification of and Liberty," Craig Press, 1971. I am in ceased to be a necessity, both for its mem Biblical law, takes more than seven pages bers and for the State." Women were "freed" merely to list these laws (Roger Sherman serting the relevant passages into the from the kitchen only, to become the un Galer, Old Testament Law for Bible Students, RECORD for the consideration of my col skilled labor force of the Soviet Union. Ac New York: Macmillan, 1922, pp. 85-101). leagues: cording to Zimmerman and Cervantes, among Where the father possesses private property THE FAMU.Y AND INHERITANCE the means taken by the Soviet Union "to and provides for his children's care and fu Property is power, and' the control of prop abolish the family" were the following: ture, and controls their inheritance, it is the erty is therefore the key to power. Basic to "The forbidding of parents to give religious authority of the father which governs the all control of property is the control of in instruction to their children, the encouraging family. Where the state assumes the respon heritance. According to the Columbia, Ency of children to denounce their parents, the sibllity for the welfare and education of the clopedia, inheritance in law is the "right to abolishing of inheritance, the equalization children, and assures them of future social acquire property on the death of the owner. of the 'nonregistered marriage' with the security, it is the authority of the state which ... In Anglo-American law inheritance is by registered one, the promulgation of three governs the children. Power over private the grace of the state, which may exercise forms of common menage contract: for an property is authority. Where the state con any degree of control over the property of the indefinite period, for a definrte period, for .a trols property, income, and inheritance, decedent (i.e., the owner who dies), includ single occasion. This latter legal expedient power has been transferred to the state. ing the total escheat (i.e., government acqui was a propaganda piece aimed to demolish Honor and authority go hand in hand, and, sition of title)." "By the grace of the state"! the difference between prostitution, promis where parents have authority, they are more And how much grace does a state have? cuity, and monogamy. The legalization of readily honored. The Biblical law declares, Since when has the state been the source bigamy and the abolishing of the legal differ "Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy of grace? ences between legitimacy and illegitimacy days may be long upon the land which the When the state enters into the question of were other minor steps with the same pur LORD thy God giveth thee" (Ex. 20: 12) . It is inheritance, property gradually is transferred port of the destruction of the family." because God gave this law that He gave also from the family to the state. The inheritance "Free love in a free state" became the ideal. the laws concerning private ownership of tax is simply a first step in that program of Family life was declared to be "especially property and the right of inheritance. The confiscation. For the ' family to maintain harmful to collective life" (Carle C. Zimmer two go hand in hand. God forbids adulte-ry, itself, the family must control inheritance, man and Lucius F. Cervantes, Marriage and because He has ordained and established the and the Biblical laws of inheritance are en the Family, Chicago: Regnery, 1956, p. 525). family as the basic and central social unit of tirely family laws. The Bible kept property In the United States, the attack on the mankind. God therefore commands private immune from taxation and from anything family is being steadily mounted. The state ownership of property and private control of but family control of inheritance. increasingly claims jurisdic'tion over the fam inheritance in order that the family may be Inheritance, according to the Bible, was a ily, its children, income, and property. The maintained in its honor and authority. We do sign of faith, character, and godliness on the state assumes that. it knows what is best for not honor the family or parents if we strip part of a man. The Bible declares, "A good the children, and it claims the right to inter them of their powers. man leaveth an inheritance to his children's fere for the children's welfare. As a result, the In fact, we are now being told that the family is progressively weakened in order to children" (Prov. 13 :22). And, as H. B. Clark, family is obsolete. One prominent and mfiu a law editor, stated in his study of Biblical strengthen the power of the state. The au entlal churchman has said that the family is, Law, "There is nothing in Jewish law to thority of parents is legally weakened and like the tribe, a relic of the past. The tribe warrant the belief that the King or the State children• are given legal rights to undercut served its purpose and is now gone; the has any right to inherit property upon the their pa.rents. According to Zimmerman and family, a great institution for its time, has death of the owner without lawful heirs." Cervantes, the reality today in our courts is also seen its day, and it must make way for The control of property and inheritance is a very startling one. They report: a new struqturing of society. entirely within the jurisdiction of the family "Thus in New York, Chicago, and Boston, The death of the family is therefore children are now allowed to sue second planned, and, on every continent, the execu in Biblical law. spouses of a parent some years later for What was the consequence of the Biblical tioners are at work. Together with the death 'alienation' of the love and affection of the of the family, the "death" of God is also pro l·aw of inheritance? It meant simply that parent. In New York and Chicago the chil power was concentrated into the hands of claimed, and we are assured that the new age dren have won these cases, but they are still has no need for God or the family. The men the family. This meant that the authority of pending in Boston. Thus, also, we have the the family over its children was a very real ace and intensity of dedication of these hos New York case where a divorced mother tile forces cannot be underestimated. They one, and an undiminished power. The disci custodian of children-was imprisoned for pline of the parents over their children was are an active, powerful, and highly organized neglect some years after the divorce. The force in modern society. unquestioned, because authority and eco husband was safe because he was not given nomic power rested in the family. The Bible But, even more, we dare not underestimate custody, although the earlier 'discoloration' the power of the triune God, Who rules the is a realistic book. God knows that man theory would have blamed him also" (ibid., respects only authority which has power nations and fulfills His holy purpose despite p. 598). all the vain conspiracies and wild imagina behind it. When an order is given, that order Such powers, when given to the child, are is futile unless it can be supported by the tions of men. But none can share in God's not for the child's welfare. They are destruc victory unless they stand forth clearly in power to enforce it. If power is tr.ansferred tive of the family and of the child, and the from the family to the state, then the ablltty terms of Him and His holy cause, unless they more the state legislates over the family, sup separate themselves unto Him. Jesus Christ rto give orders and to maintain order ls trans posedly for its welfare, the more it destroys ferred from the family to the state. Educa said, "He that is not with me, is against me: the family. ' and he that gathereth not with me, scat tional philosophers begin to speak of "the No institution can long exist if it is not children of the state," because parental au free. The more controlled an institution be tereth abroad" (Matt. 12:30). And you, where thority has been transferred to the state. comes, the less life it has. Its life and func do you stand? According to Carle C. Zimmerman and tions are transferred to the controlling agent, Lucius F. Cervantes, in their study, Marriage or they simply cease to be. How long would and the Family. Western society has had a a club last, if its every act were controlled THE INTRODUCTION OF FEDERAL , family organization since Christianity be by the state? The life and authority of the SHARED-RISK INSURANCE ACT OF came the faith of the West. A man's life, from family depends on the liberty of the family, 1976 birth to death, is guided, affected, and col and the economic expression of the family's ored by family relations. The basic unit of independence is the righrt to private owner the social order is the family. The family is ship of property and the right of inheritance. HON. THOMAS L. ASHLEY the socially stable unit where the family has Now· where the family controls inheritance, OF OHIO liberty and property. it also controls marriage. This . Frederick As a result, ithe totaiitarlans hate the Engels noted in his study of The Origin of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES family and declare it to be the enemy of the Family, Private Property, and the State. Thursday, September 2, 1976 social change. Totalitarianism hates the But the Bible long ago plainly recorded it. family because it is the basic thesis of a-11 When Jacob became the heir, his father Isaac Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, we are all totalitarians that man's first loyalty must be "blessed him and charged him, and said unto -rery much aware that existing housing is to the state, whereas the Christian family's him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the this country's primary housing resource first allegiance is to the triune God. The daughters of Canaan" (Gen. 28:1). In other and that preservation of that housing totalitarian therefore seeks to abolish the words, the father had the power to require stock is of paramount importance if we faimily. Lenin said, "No nation can be free a godly marriage; because Isaac was leaving when half of the population is enslaved in a sizable inheritance, he had a stake in the are to achieve our national goal of pro the kitchen." As a result, the Communist future, and because he had a stake in that viding decent and adequate housing for state abolished the frunily as a legal entity future, he had a right to control it by requir all Americans. However, we are now con until 1936, and the f.amily since then has ing a godly marriage. This was a legitimate fronted with the continuing waste of that merely been a legal breeding ground for the and godly power. The Bible .as a result gives valuable resource through neighborhood 29056 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Septernber 2, 19·76
decline. As new, suburban communi~ies would have to be secured by residential surance-are to be found in many older, and neighborhoods have appeared, older, property located in a qualifying area and residential neighborhoods. The bill may, residential areas lying closer to the core the borrower would be required to have however, serve to complement the efiorts of our central cities have gone through a minimum of 15 percent equity-down of NHS in turning around declining a process of costly decline. The continua payment--in the property. The fund, an neighborhoods. Equally as important, it tion of this decline and the resulting independent corporation, although ini will serve to encourage lending in neigh depletion of existing housing stock im tially capitalized by the Government, borhoods not presently served by NHS measurably atiects our ability to provide would be required to operate on a :fiscally programs. decent housing for every citizen. sound basis and would be managed by This, in essence, is what the Federal However, the problems of housing, and a three-person board of directors, ap Shared-Risk Insurance Act of 1976 is, those of urban decline in particular are pointed by the President and confirmed and what it will and will not do. I am diverse. Their causes are numerous, com by the Senate. committed to the goals that this legisla plex, and often interrelated. These prob I would like to now highlight certain tion would help us achieve and I am en lems will not be solved by a single stroke. things the bill will do and certain things couraged by its potential. I urge its early Rather any numJ>er of approaches will it will not do. ' consideration. be required if we are to achieve our goal. First, the bill will represent an oppor The proposal for an alternative mort tunity for the exercise of private initia gage instrument tailored to meet the tive in meeting the problem of urban A DEEPER ANALYSIS OF CARTER'S needs of a specific segment of the pub decline. The fund will rely on determi REFRAIN lic seeking housing, which Senator nations made by the depository institu BROCK and I introduced, is an example of tions seeking to use the insurance. Use of HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER the type of approach that will be re this insurance will be wholly voluntary. OF WISCONSIN quired. The bill I am introducing today, Reliance on the private sector obviates IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Federal Shared-Risk Insurance Act the need for creation of a bureaucracy of 1976 is analogous to the Housing In attempting to administer from afar to Thursday, September 2, 1976 centive Investment Act. It, too, is spe local needs. Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin. Mr. cifically designed to alleviate one facet of Second, the bill will provide a con Speaker, each night's newscasts bring us the problem of urban decline-that of the structive use of the information collected film clips of former Gov. Jimmy Carter reluctance of mortgage lenders to make pursuant to the Home Mortgage Disclo asserting that "it is time," pause, "that certain loans in certain urban neighbor sure Act as this information may serve we had a President," pause, "who will hoods. The bill would establish a cor as the data base on which the decision work with harmony with Congress." pa.ration to provide mortgage loan insur as to which neighborhoods qualify is - This theme itself requires a pause-a ance. The availability of this insurance made. pause perhaps less for effect than for would enable the Government and pri Third, the bill will encourage sound deeper analysis. vate lenders to share the risk of loss in underwriting on the part of the lenders. In a short but eloquent essay on this situations where the risk is greater than Insurance coverage is limited td' a maxi theme, the Washington Star's columnist private lenders can reasonably be ex mum of 80 percent of the risk of loss. Edwin M. Yoder points out that "har pected to bear on their own. This bllI will The remainder of that risk of loss lies mony" such as President Johnson found make additional mortgage funds avail with the lender. This sound underwriting, when he sought support on the Gulf of able for lending on existing homes lo together with the statutory mandate that Tonkin-to pick one example-is not cated in older, residential neighborhoods. the Fund operate on a :fiscally sound quite what Mr. Carter may intend for However, it should be stressed that the basis, distinguishes this proposal from the people to remember. insurance company created in this blll the massive subsidy approaches which I commend the Yoder column because would avoid the problems and pitfalls of have too often led to disappointment and it bears rereading: previous, well-intentioned efforts to "in failure. [From the Washington Star, Aug. 26, 1976] sure the inner city." Rather it would only Fourth, this bill will create a :flexible provide the • assistance and impetus program. Although the recent lending A CARTER THEME THAT NEEDS RE-THINKING necessary to encourage private lenders history of depository institutions will be (By Edwin M. Yoder, Jr.) to voluntarily make safe and sound loans the primary factor in the insurance When clearer words fail, the political cor respondents call Gov. Jimmy Carter a "popu on older properties without impairing qualification process, the fund is granted list" or "neo-populist." They seem to mean a their own safety and soundness. sufficient discretion to enable it to target politician who extols the unfiltered wisdom I would like first to outline the pro its resources to those areas where maxi of the "average man." The Average Man, that posal and then to highlight certain mum benefits will obtain. Further, this paragon of judgment, turned up several times things that it will do and certain things flexibility should enhance the attractive in the governor's Los Angeles speech this it will not do. ·ness of the insurance to the private week. Briefly, the Federal Shared-Risk In market. , . "We have seen a wall go up," Mr. Carter surance Act of 1976 would establish a Thus, the bill will do a number of had said in his New York acceptance speech, self-sustaining corporation, the Federal things, but so too, there are a number of "which separates us from our own govern ment. . . . Each time our nation has made a shared-risk insurance fund, which would things it will not do. First, it will not serious mistake, the American people have insure mortgage loans made in neighbor totally solve the problem of urban de been excluded from the process." This is in hoods with a recent history of low mort cline. The insurance is neither envisioned deed the populist theme pure and simple gage investment. Areas qualifying for the nor designed as a cure-all for urban de very simple. Government goes awry only insurance program will be determined by cline. However, the bill will provide an when it ignores or thwarts popular wisdom; - reference to the actual lending activity additional, and I believe, important tool its errors are an imposition on an innocent of depository institutions in prior years. to those who seek to preserve existing and infallible public. Only loans made in areas that received neighborhoods. Governor Darter's populist theme isn't less than a certain percentage of the Second, the bill will not be effective in going to cost him votes. People don't vote no to flattery. But there ls a certain mindless overall average dollar amount of loans terminally blighted neighborhoods char ness in this theme tha.t could become tire originated per area would be eligible for acterized by extremely low incomes, some. In Los Angeles, again, Mr. Carter said the insurance. Census tracts would be heavY absentee ownership, severe van "there is something seriously wrong when utilized to establish the geographical dalism, abandonment, and demolition. the members of Congress, all of whom were boundaries of the "shared-risk" areas. But it will be useful in those neighbor elected by the people, repeatedly passed leg Depository institutions would certify hoods which are in the beginning stages islation th~ country needs, only to have it that a particular loan is eligible for in of a cycle that would probably lead to a vetoed by an appointed President." Mr. Ford surance, under guidelines established by blighted condition if not stayed. has vetoed too many bills, he said, more than 50 in an. the fund. This insurance would be avail Third, the bill will not replace the Politically, the gravity of the charge would able to all federally regulated depository Neighborhood Housing Services program depend on a piece-by-piece analysis of the institutions and would insure up to a which is already successful. NHS pro bills vetoed, which was not supplied. In maximum of 80 percent of the risk of loss grams have amply demonstrated that stitutionally, the charge comes near being on eligible loans. To be eligible a loan safe and sound loans-even without in- vacuous. September 2, 1976· EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29057 There is a dirty Uttle secret about Amer energy picture. The costs and benefits of Now, with the economy recovering, in ican government that seems t,o have esc&ped any single energy source can be ration dustri·al use is no longer declining. Total Governor Carter's consideration. American consumption in the first 32 weeks of the year ally evaluated only by taking into ac has ·grown 5.2%. and the growth rate is government functions in this wicked way count the availability and desirability of by the design of the founders, who wLth "moving upward," an Edison institute topheavy congressional majorities in mind other energy sources, rational projections spokesman says. The institute expects loaded the Constitution with every conceiv of energy demand, conservation oppor growth to reach 6 % for the whole years. able device of dilution, delay and dilatori tunities, and the consequences of f allure UNEVEN IMPACT ness. Theoretical democrats, they made the to meet the demand. Although all utilities would be affected by people sovereign; but they shrank from A refreshingly comprehensive article an unexpected surge in demand, some com equating the instant judgment of any tem by Hal Lancaster, which appeared in the panies and areas would be particularly porary majority with wisdom. Wall Street Journal, describes the di troubled. One such area is the Southwest, Alexander Hamllton's defense of the presi where the power industry is having its more dential veto, which appeared in one of the lemma in which the utilities find them spectacular conflicts with environmentalists "Federalist Papers" in March, 1788, speaks to selves as demand for electricity continues and where utilities already are straining to the point: to increase while the cost and difficulty cope, with a boom in population. "It may perhaps be said that the power of of adding all types of generating capac Utilities in those s•ix states-California, preventing bad J.aws includes that of prevent ity continues to increase. Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Col ing good ones. But this objection will have His description of the problems of di orado-haven't ignored the fact that the litt1e weight with those who can properly minishing gas supply, expensive oil, un area's population gain, at 8.2 % since 1970, estimaite the mischief of that inconstancy has far exceeded the 4.8% national average. and mutabi11ty in the laws which form the resolved problems of air pollution and They have projected powe·r growth rates greatest blemish in the character and genius strip mining associated with coal plants, highe.r than most utilities'. But within the of our governments. . . . The injury which and the snarls of red.tape and long lead past year or so they, too, have lowered their may possibly be done by defeating a few good times impeding the use of nuclear power, projections on the assumption that energy laws will be amply compensated by the ad offer a valuable insight into the situation conservation was here to stay. Now some of vantage of preventing a number of bad we face. those reduced projections are being overrun. ones." Southern Oalifornia Edison Oo., for ex:am On yet another score Mr. Carter's charge The article follows: ple, originally predicted a powe·r consump falters. If President Ford, an "appointed WORRIED UTILITIES: ELECTRICITY USE BEGINS tion growth rate of 6% a year for the next President," lacks a national elective man To TOP FORECASTS, STmS FEAR OF LAG IN few years, and gradually lowered it to 4.1 % . date, so does Congress. Governor Carter may CAPACITY-PICKUP IN INDUSTRIAL DEl\IIAND But the company, one of the nation's biggest be impressed by the congressional tendency CHILLS HOPE FOR CUTBACKS IN POWER utilities, has chalked up actual growth of 5% to put national interest ahead of regional PLANT SPENDING through July, and demand is still picking up. and parochial interest. But that tendency has (By Hal Lancaster) Even utilities managing t,o stay within eluded most observers of its recent labors A year or so ago, the nation's problem lowered forecasts now discern the begin on energy legislation-and much besides. plagued electric ut111ties thought they saw a nings of a surge in demand. An unusually Strictly speaking, President Ford is no glimmer of hope. mild winter kept .power consumption in more an "appointed President" than were They projected a slackening in the growth bounds at both Arizona Public Service Co. Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman and by of demand for power as huge rate increases, and Public Service Co. of Colorado through some relevant considerations less so. After forced by a surge in fuel prices and other May. But Arizona PS had 13% increases in all, a Democratic Congress weighed and ap costs, spurred conservation of electricity. June and July from a year earlier and the proved his elevation to the vice presidency, They expected demand to be moderated fur Colorado utllity about 8%; both r·ates topped even with good reason to suspect that Mr. ther by slower population growth. And thus forecasts. Nixon's days were numbered. By contrast, no they hoped to be able t,o cut back costly LITTLE LEEWAY congressional hearings attended the "ap projects to add generating capacity. However, utilities in the Southwest and pointment" of other vice presidents who But the hope may be fading. elsewhere hiave little reason to be seriously assumed the presidency. On the face of the The utmties are beginning to see indica concerned about consumption just yet; it matter, it can be argued that Mr. Ford was tions that demand may exceed the sharply will take much longer to see whether the for better or worse the most carefully reduced forecasts made in the wake of the preliminary indications become a long-term scrutinized "appointed President" we have Arab oil embargo. A resurgence of demand, trend. But if they do, power companies will had in this century. Perhaps Governor Car if continued, would have serious import for have to try t,o meet the extra demand at a ter's real quarrel is with Congress, or with ut111ties and power buyers. time when their options are severely re the 25th Amendment. Ut111ties could face unexpected strains on stricted. The point of all this is not to quarrel with their capacity. And higher-than-anticipated Even now, fuel supplies are a major prob Mf. Carter's assault on the "negativism" and demand would aggravate their other prob lem. Experts agree that supplies of natural "dormancy" of Mr. Ford's presidency. It is lems: uncertain fuel supplies, huge increases gas, the cleanest source of boiler fuel, are in only to say that the proposition calls for in plant costs, environmental opposition, an irreversible sl'ide. Most utllities already deeper analysis. · tangles of regulatory red tape, and dimin· have had to stop using gas as boiler fuel ex "It is time," proclaimed Mr. Carter in Los ished financing capacity. cept in emergencies, and some industrial Angeles, "that we had a President . . . who Power buyers could face blackouts and users of gas are seeing their supplies inter will work with harmony with Congress for a brownouts in some areas. Some pessimistic rupted more and more frequently so that change." Maybe so. But as Mr. Madison and observers already are predicting industrial · residential and commercial customers can get Company foresaw, the dangers of mindless production cutbacks, lost jobs and occasion enough. To save fuel, Arizona has banned all "harmony" between the President and Con ally juiceless households. new gas hookups, and California is curtailing gress sometimes exceed the dangers of mind ENERGY MALNUTRITION low:-priority uses. Meanwhile, plans to im less conflict. Has Mr. carter forgotten that port liquefied natural gas and to make gas the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed Con "We've already cast the die for trouble.· gress with only two dissenting votes? Oh, We are headed for energy malnutrition," says from coal are still untested on a large scale for a bit of "dormancy" then! Chauncey Starr, president of the industry and are certain to be costly. supported Electric Power Research Institute. With gas fading as a generating fuel, addi Environmentalists battling big generating tional pressure will be put on nuclear, coal projects argue that the power companies are and oil suppliers. No one sees much help crying wolf. But evidence that lower growth coming before the' end of the century from ELECTRIC DEMAND INCREASING in demand is far from a certainty keeps so-called exotic sources such as geothermal SHARPLY trickling in. energy, solar power and wind. "Anyone who Figures from the Edison Electric Insti says differently is perpetrating a fraud on the tute, another industry group, show the public," declares Mr. Starr of the Power Re trend. Following 1973's 6.8 % raise in total search Institute. HON. MIKE McCORMACK electricity consumption-for many yea.rs, Nuclear power passed a severe test in June, OF WASHINGTpN a typical gain--growth conapsed t,o zero in when California voters defeated a proposal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1974 in the wake of the otl embargo and was that utllities say would have throttled the only 2.2% in 1975. But last year was decep use of nuclear energy in the state. To placate Thursday, September 2, 1976 tive; a sraable decline in use by industry. antinuclear sentiment, however, the legisla Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, as we which generally was operating far below ca ture passed stringent safety bills that will in pacity because of the recession, masked a crease lead times and costs of new plants. continue to try to forge a rational energy substantial rise in residential and commer And 15 to 20 other states are preparing simi policy for this Nation, we too often hear cial use. Clearly, families and shopkeepers lar measures. But in any event, nuclear power arguments relating to an isolated aspect had become accus·tomed to the higher elec isn't suitable for meeting unexpected of our energy situation which fail to tricity rates and weren't switching off the demand quickly. Nuclear plants cost more make sense in the context of the total lights 01S much as expected. than any other type, and red tape makes it 29058 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19'76 nearly impossible to get them from the pro many states, rate hearings have dragged on I have submitted Novak's comments posal stage into operation in less than 10 for 18 months or more, and when finally here along with some of my own thoughts years. granted the new rates (often far less than on the future of the Olympics in an ac More oil is being burned by gas-short util the companies had sought) already had been ities. But oil, though currently in ample sup outstripped by inflation. The companies' companying article: ply, involves the danger of another em short-term debt ballooned, their earnings [From the National Review, Sept. 3, 1976) bargo since so much of it is imported. Also, suffered and their coverage of bonded debt WAR GAMES: FACTS AND COVERAGE air-quality standards in some areas practi shrank. Bond ratings fell, raising the cost of (By Michael Novak) cally rule out anything but low-sulphur oil, borrowing. Investors, noting the havoc, cooled on utility stocks, and share prices When sportswriters turn to political com which is in hot demand world-wide and, mentary-especially the more pretentious at about $15 a barrel, is the most expensive slumped. Many utilities were forced to sell common stock at bargain-basement rates. commentators-their minds turn sentimen of generating fuels. tal in a new way. The old sportswriters were Coal is relatively cheap and is abundant Despite some recent recovery, the industry sentimental about petty things, like Babe domestically, particularly in the West, and still has major financial woes. "We just Ruth, or the Dodgers, or dear old Alma many ut111ties use it ex~ensively. They plan finished selling stock at 53 % of our book Mater U. The new sportswriters are senti to use more; an Arthur D. Little & Co. study value," laments Charles Lenzie, vice presi mental about weighty things, like world rev indicates that power companies' appetite for dent, finance, at Nevada Power Co. "We were olution, socialism, universalism, and eye coal wm double1by 1980 to 925 mlllion tons dragged into it, kicking and screaming. But wetting "humanistic" values. a year. the banks get pretty exercised when you run Thus, Dick Schaap took three minutes, on But coal-even low-sulphur coal-raises your short-term debt up to $85 mlllion." To NBC news to tell us that a brilliant Cuban many environmental problems. Needed ·re raise money, San Diego Gas & Electric Co. recently sold and leased back its own head runner, Alberto Juantorena, was running serves may not be developed, due to resist solely for the honor of a "poet and former ance to strip-mining projects and the possi quarters building; its stockholders didn't want dilution of their equity through more baseball player," Fidel Castro, and for the b111ty of tough federal restrictions on them. Revolution-which is even more incredible Coal shortages and higher prices are likely, stock sales. than saying Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers Bruce Old, senior vice president of Arthur D. There isn't any assurance utilities will be give their all for the love of Charlie Finley. Little, says. And even if utllities get enough healthier four or five years from now, when Howard Cosen, too, only tells about half of coal, they face increasing resistance to burn they wlll have to build heavily. Meanwhile, it like it is, that half composed of shilling ing it; in a growing number of places, coal they are trying to squeeze the most out of entertainment values-touting new favorites simply can't be burned at all, even with the present plants with power pooling and ex as Ed Sullivan used to tout new jugglers and latest antipollution equipment, because of periments in trying to flatten peak us-age rock stars. The comments from the press tightening air-quality standards. (ut111ties' capacity must cover the peaks in box are not investigative, calm, reportorial, Ut111ties say a constricting net of environ daily or seasonal demand, not just average full, accurate; they sell entertainment and mental legislation and regulations also is demand). Some are charging more for power the newest chic politics. Cosen couldn't even stifling their plant-building plans. For ex during peak hours. But what really is needed, get the names of the opposition right: he re ample, preparation of environmental-impact they insist, is quick rate relief and higher sorted to calling them "the Bulgarian," "the statements alone can cost several million permissible rates of return on investments Russian," "the Pole," while treating the dollars and has added about two years to the in new plants. Americans to lavish nicknames and lavish "lead time" for major projects. Then still One possible solution is an indexing plan praise. more time is consumed in negotiating with, similar to New Mexico's, under which utility Marvin Kitman of Newsday voted "the and getting approvals from, a horde of other rates are raised or lowered quarterly in ac stone medal" to ABC for its incompetent federal, state and local agencies. cordance with a formula based on all of a coverage of the Olympics. Most of Europe (I COSTLY DELAYS company's costs and the level of its earn am told) saw eight or more hours of sports ings. In effect for a year, indexing h·as al each day-and they saw sports. Most of what The delays have had a crushing impact. ready saved Public Service Co. of New Mex After seven years, Pacific Lighting still is ABC showed us was Jim McKay talking end ico about $2 million in interest costs alone, lessly, night club sports, romantic "Up Close trying to nail down the more than 100 regu Je.rry Geist, president, says. latory approvals from 40 different agencies and Personals" to shame Grantland Rice, and needed before it can build a big coal gasifi Jim McKay talking endlessly. cation plant in New Mexico. During the One lucky day, I had the chance to watch years of paper-shuffiing, the plant's proj Canadian television. In 45 minutes of CBC ected cost has risen from $600 million to $850 FIRST IN 1980 OLYMPICS I saw more athletic action than in any four mlllion; at that price. Pacific Lighting says, hours of ABC. The CBC used tapes to show it must get federal loan guarantees, or fi each attempt of the broad-jumpers-short nancing can't be obtained and the project is HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE cuts, each several seconds long, so that one dead; in addition, a utility group led by OF NEW YORK could see the cumulative efforts in a single Southern California Edison has already given IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES sequence. In this fashion, whole events can up on plans 'for a mammonth coal-fired plant be summarized in a few minutes. The beauty in Utah; years of delay had pushed the costs Thursday, September 2, 1976 of these deeds stays in the mind. out of sight. Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, the mean ABC has not yet discovered that what fans Plant costs have soared also because of big want to watch is sports, not the travelogues wage settlements with construction unions ing of the international Olympics can that corporations produce for high schools. and the extra expense of legally mandated often be attributed to its symbolization of Jim McKay seemed all agog that ABC could safety and pollution-control gear. Southern · excellence and achievement. The teams show us so many events live. Whq cares? California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Unit with the greatest display at the Olympics With tape, ABC could have multiplied the No. 1 cost $215 per kilowatt of capacity in command the respect and admiration of number of events we witnessed fivefold. 1968; two additional units currently under other competing countries-whether Soccer, which we missed, is the most construction will cost about $1,000 a kilo they be free nations or Third-World popular planetary game. Field hockey and watt. In six years, prices of some coal-fired water polo would have been delights to countries. see. Volleyball, fencing, shooting, archery plants have tripled, mostly because of pollu Although it may be infrequently ver tion-control equipment. Utah Power & Light dozens of events were barely, if at all, Co. is spending $54 million to flt its Moun balized, the implication is evident that scanned by ABC. The version of the Olympics tain No. 3 unit with a coal scrubber; that's the Olympics is a confrontation of not shown in the United States was over-inflated, $2 million more than the whole unit cost in only athletes and nations, but also a con narrow, parochial, star-struck. When ABC's 1971. test of national beliefs and morals. Keith Jackson twice informed the world tha"t; Such cost increases, along with projected It is to America's distinct advantage "our leader," Roone Arledge, had been a high declines in consumption growth rates, have at this point in time to cultivate greater school wrestler, nausea rumbled in at least led utilities to cut back or delay construc one disgusted stomach. A stone medal is too national support for our Olympic athletes good. tion plans, even though right now they and to vigorously pursue a better Olympic would have difficulty meeting a big surge in victory record. With this might come the THE ONE-WORLDERS OF SPORTS demand. Many plants originally scheduled to Yet ABC's confusion of spot'ts With "enter operate in the late 1970s won't open until subtle triumph of the free democracy tainment" ls like that of Silver Screen, Screen the 1980-85 period, when the industry is ex philosophy. Romances, or New York magazine. At the pected to go on a spending spree-if it can I think Michael Novak has said it suc level of The New York Review of Books, the get the money. cinctly in his recent article printed in most commonly bruited ideas about the MONEY-RAISING PROBLEMS the National Review: Olympics were also pretty silly. The idealists Utilities' ability to attract capital at rea If a free society could prevail against the of the press would like to ban "nationalism'"" sonable rates h'8.S been drastically reduced by totalitarian disciplines ~ .. the moral -satis from the Games, and celebrate "individual the soaring costs. Rate-setting regulators, faction for the rest of the world would be excellence." James Tuite of The New York aghast at the huge rate increases the ut111- very great indeed. Power in our world is very Times countered this trend effectively by ties were seeking, dug in their heels; in much affected by symbolic status. pointing to the tears in the eyes of many September 2, 19·76 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29059
of the U.S. basketball players on the victory the Olympic Games a fair en.ough sense of overdeveloped (perhaps it 1s merely an East stand as the flags were raised and our the distribution of moral, cultural, and po European seriousness about such things); National Anthem was played-and to the litical power in the present world: Germany but I would prefer to win before I tried to intense national pride exhibited at the box 129, USSR 125, U.S.A. 94. One realizes why make my moral points. I would like to see ing and swimming contests. Let's face it, he Germany was kept divided. the U.S. go to Moscow in 1980 and come wrote, nationalism is the name of the game. The incredible performance of the East home with the highest point total of any I hap.pened to be at the Finn Fest in Mich ern bloc tells us something very important nation in the world. If the Ea.stern bloc igan's Upper Peninsula when Lasse Viren won about psychic power in our world. Combined, wants a fight, let's stick it to them right the 10,000 meters. To imagine that Finns, the athletes of the USSR, East Germany, in Moscow. Frank Merriwell would have done either Finnish-Americans or visitors, reacted Poland, Yugoslavia; Rumania, Czecho no less. What cheers would echo through the to his victory as they would have to one by slovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria won 328 world, even to the farthest cell of the Gulag someone from any other nation is to mis medals out of a possiQJ.e 615. When Moscow's Archipelago! understand the nature of human beings. We Literary Gazette intones tha.t "The Olympic are nearly as limited as plants-each of us Games are not just a major sports festival [News from Congressman John J. LaFalce] rooted in the belly of a single woman, in a but are one of the fronts of fierce struggle THE FUTURE oF THE OLYMPICS single family, a single village or city, region, between the supporters and opponents" of The thousands of Americans who attended and nation. No one of u s speaks for the whole the way Communists view the world, we get the Olympic Games in Montreal, and the human race, for it is the nature of our race the message. On this front, they are de- millions who watched them on TV, swelled to be diversified by flesh, culture, and his monstrably superior. wit h pride when the swimmers and boxers tory. God made human diversity, Aquinas And what is this front? It is not mere ex- from the U.S. gave such creditable perform wrote, to mirror back God's infinity, each cellence. It is not mere "sport." It is assured- ances. We shared an inner glow when the variation reflecting a different glory of the ly not entertainment. It is not even a money- two 400 meter hurdlers--one black and one Infinite. maker; on the contrary, its financial costs white-embraced after their thrilling one/ Theologically, our one-worlders are gnos are very high. It is deadly serious discipline, two finish in that race. tics, thinking it a scandal that flesh, time, dedication, morale, work, organized effort, Our athletes performed ably, from the and history diversify us. The Christian and individual sacrifice-in order to prevail. first victory by John Naber in the swim~ · "mystery" of the Incarnation, like the It is a kind of war. Socialism is not only ming events to the brilliant record per Jewish "mystery" of Jah weh's election' of a physically obtrusive in the Olympic Games; formance by Bruce Jenner in the decathlon. single chosen people, flies in the face of it prevails. And they did what they did under a severe gnosticism. Our flesh and finiteness are as Bill Dwyre of the Milwaukee Journal ' handicap-lack of total support by the integral to our identity as our "universal tried to show in an intelligent column that American people. reason." One value of sports in our world is American sportswriters were confusing For while we watched a lot of victories and that the)t are by their nature a scandal to politics with sports, especially in the case . medal-winning performances by the Ameri gnosticism. They are embodied. of the East German wom~n, who thr~hed cans, the overall standing of the U.S. team They depend on a supporting poll tical and the U.S. women. He doesn t like the win- was third, behind both the Soviet Union and economic system. Many of our commentators at-all-costs sentiment that prevails in most East Germany. That country is smaller in seem to think that communications, a sports circles in the U.S." Let East Germany, population than New York State, yet it shrinking world, and the Coca-Colanization or all the Communist countries, he argues, spends $50 million a year on its sports de and Pepsificati on of the planet tend to consider it a high-priority item to win velopment programs. "unite" the human race. They miss the great Olympic medals. Let them pursue that goal In 1980 the Olympics will be held in Mos fact of the last third of the twentieth cen and choose their lifestyle accordingly. We cow. I think that the U.S. should make it tury: modernization engenders, not unity, should not. a national goal to regain its supremacy in but intense feelings of identity, loyalty, and WIN AT WHICH cosTs? sports by that time. Jesse Owens reminded difference. Not only is Great Britain now Shouldn't we? That depends. "Win-at-all- Hitler about the strength of Americans and more weakly Great, it is less and less a United costs" is a weasel word. Which costs? Surely, our society in Berlin in 1936; what could be Kingdom, the Scots and the Welsh feeling there ad"e many costs that a free people can more fitting than to duplicate that demon new impulses toward independence. "Na willingly sustain in order to reach certain str.ation in Moscow four years from now? tional Liberation" is proving to be a human goals, goals themselves morally neutral or A number of ideas have been presented to tendency deeper than International Social good. Surely, too, a free nation can so orga- beef up our sup.port for the Olympics. I be ism. Homogenizing tendencies spread across nize itself, not only freely but nongovern- lieve that now is the time to look into this the world's surface, but the deep dynamism mentally, to attain such goals. There is no issue in depth and come up with one or more of our times is differentiation, not conformity. reason why free societies cannot pt"evail in ways to help our athletes. In this column I The very conception of the Olympics re fair competition. will review some of the suggestions which flects a dual awareness of this truth. The If a free society could prevail against the have been put forth, but I also want to ask Games are international and help to focus totalitarian d.isciplines of athletes single- all of my readers to forward any ideas they world attention on a shared set of symbols mindedly dedicated to proving the superiorLty might have on this subject .as well. in one system of laws and rules. But the of their regimen, the moral satisfactions for GOVERNMENT FINANCING only source of energy, p·assion, interest, and (not incidentally} money capable of bring the rest of the world would be very ga-eat East Germany is far from alone in sub- ing off an international event of such mag indeed. Power in our world is very much sidizing its sports programs, although on a nitude is national loyalty-and, if not nec affected by symbolic status. per capita basis it niay be into this area essarily the nation-state, committees nation Sports transcend both entertainment and more he·avily than most other countries. A ally organized for the Herculean task. Our business. They also transcend politics. Los- great many nations subsidize, in whole or in gnostics may say that we should cheer ex ing a basketball game is not at all like los- part, their athletes and the development pro ing a tank battle (as the Czechs and Slovaks grams which produce them. I don't think, cel~ence wherever it is found, and in part we do. But television's practices prove that at lost one in 1968); being inferior in swim- frankly, that we should emulate this ap the same time we do not. Cameras follow na ming is not at all like being inferior iri proach, although there are some limited areas political independence. Besides, to partici- where I do think government involvement tional heroes. Intensity of feeling builds up pate at all is to accept international rules might be justified. around national rivalries. . that, in principle, transcend political inter SPORTS AS WAR ests. But if we are to "tell it like it 1.s," we VOLUNTARY SUPPORT FROM PRIVATE ENTERPRISE The Olympics without the intense feeling have to say that the left-wing critics of In its "wrap-up" coverage of the Olympics, th·at marked the volleyball battle between sports in America are right about the polit the American Broadcasting Company made the Poles and the Russians-a feeling that icization of sports, but wrong about the a big point o! plugging for America's free reaches back hundreds of years-would be central source of the politicization. The en terprise system to rise to the occasion and fiat, indeed. More than physical excellence is Eastern bloc does regard sports as one front support Olympic athletes by giving them jobE: at stake; rootedness and spirit are at stake. in a political battle that they wage on every which permit them to train, etc. I hope that The Olympics are what William James so front--in literature, in science, in religion, ABC puts its money where its mouth is and earnestly sought everywhere except where it as well a.s in sports. We have two choices: does just that, as an example to other private might be found: a moral equivalent of war. Pretend differently. Or accept their chal firms: And I would like to see this idea catch Great passions may here be purged. Even a lenge. on in a big way, for I agree that this is the single gold medal can enthrall a nation; vir Were we to accept the challenge and win, kind of support which our society ought to tually every nation wins (gold, silver, then we could say that sports transcend provide. It's not a proposed feather-bedding bronze) something. Even a nation of 17 mil politics. Then we could say that just because scheme, but rather an idea which calls on lion like East Germany, which is smaller in we prevail at the Olympics, we do not be private firms to do what they're best at population than California, can become a lieve that athletic pre-eminence is the be doing-devising innovative and flexible solu superpower if it has the native culture to au and end-all of a free society. As winners, tions to difficult problems. support the required disciplines. we could say our piece and even speak con- REORGANIZATION OF THE AMATEUR ATHLETIC Put the two halves of Gerntany together vincingly of love. As losers, now, we sting SUPPORT STRUCTURE East Germany with ninety medals and West like a butterfly. The President's Commission on Olympic Germany with 39-and one seems to get in Perhaps my competitive instincts are Sports, in a preliminary report in February 29060 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19·76 of 1976, recommended that an initial step against the St~te of Israel for political pur founding principles of this great nation that toward providing better support for our poses has been a common practice among we apply those same concepts of freedom Olympic effort should be to reform the or the Arab states for more than 25 years. Gen from repression, non-discrimination and ganizational structure governing amateur erally, these efforts have been met with little rights of religious tolerance to the conduct athletics in the US. They called for estab- opposition due to their lack of enforcement of commerce . . lishment of a "highest sports authority" to and success. However, with the imposition of Accordingly, I urge my colleagues on this coordinate policies, programs, and other as the oil embargo, new strength and life was committee to support the. concepts contained pects of this issue and eliminate the present added to these efforts. The shocking results in the anti-boycott proposals before you in chaos and confusion. The Commission went of these new efforts have revealed broad order to end the divisive effects of these dis on to tell the President that it is studying scale coop era tion by American business to the criminatory acts. details of this proposal as well as fiscal and threats and demands of one nation against Mr. Chairman, I request permission to in other problems. another. , sert, in full, at this point in the record, the I think the call for re-organization of our The Arab embargo against Israel is not the Charlotte Observer Editorial dated June 14th, amateur athletic system is long overdue, and center of this controversy. The right of one 1976, entitled "Arab Intrusion". I support it heartily. nation to refuse direct interaction with an SOME POSSIBLE CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS other is not a question. What is at stake is [Editorial From the Charlotte Observer, the extension of this embargo to U.S. firms June 14, 1976] Congress may be asked to act in this situ in an attempt to prevent them from trading AR.AB INTRUSION-JONES' ADVICE Is WRONG ation. One idea has already been circulated with Israel. This type of boycott extends far by one of my colleagues-a proposal to per beyond any recognized right of one nation Neither common decency nor the best in mit a $1 check-off, like the presidential cam to prevent trade with its enemies. terests of the United States are served by the paign financing check-off-on an individ This form of economic blackmail must not practices acknowledged by Edwin L. Jones ual's tax return. I don't favor this approach, be allowed to continue. Even the slightest Jr. of Charlotte in his testimony Thursday but we certainly should begin to consider forms of cooperation encourage more and to a House committee. Mr. Jones, president of some forms of limited government support more demands that extend far beyond eco J.A. Jones Construction Co., said his company for some aspects of our athletic program. nomic matters and take aim at U.S. foreign in some instances has gone along with de Whatever comes before us, I hope it will be policy. This not so subtle attack which pits mands by Arab countries to boycott Israel. soon and that it can contribute to a first one American against another because of his Why? Not to create jobs for Americans, but place finish in Moscow. We should try for racial, ethnic or religious background must to make money. The company does a sub nothing less. , be stopped. stantial business in Saudi Arabia. As a recent editorial in the Charlotte Ob Mr. Jones' testimony showed that while the server points out, the issue of Arab boycotts company is responsive to the Arab coun is much greater than the struggle of one tries' foreign policy requirements it is ignor OUTLAWING ARAB BOYCOTTS nation against another. ing American policy. We think the ·company "The larger question, however is one of has no business acting, for whatever reason, morality. The Arab boycott and blacklisting in a matter that is against the policy of the HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN of firms has been aimed not only at Israel but United States. Arab pressures of various kinds have been OF NEW YORK also against American Jews. If an Arab nation wants to do business with an American firm, brought to bear upon ,American companies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES it can abide by this country's rules of decency Many firms have been blacklisted because Thursday, September 2, 1976 and fair play-or go elsewhere. We doubt they had Jewish ownership or high-level that those countries, which. are being devel Jewish executives; some of the biggest cor Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, this week oped largely by American enterprise, would porations in America have been blacklisted the House International Relations Com go elsewhere." for other reasons, chief among which, appar mittee, of which I am a member, marked The United States as a nation must take ently, is that they do business with Israel. up legislation to extend the Export Ad a sta.nd on this issue. We must not allow In other words, some of the Arab coun foreign governments to manipulate the in tries not only have told American companies ministration Act. One of the most impor they cannot do business with both Israel and tant amendments to be considered deals ternal affairs of this country. We must remove the pressures that are brought to bear on Arab nations; they also have brought subtle with the prohibition of compliance by individual companies to comply or face the pressures to bear which might persuade some the U.S. firms with the Arab boycott repercussions of discrimination. The solution companies to violate American law by dis against Israel. to this problem, as the Observer's editorial criminatory practices within. Congress has In June of this year, I testified before states, is: "the best way to counter the Arab declared the first part of this to be against the International Relations Committee governments' pressures is to have a law on American policy; the second part is against on the subject of foreign trade boycotts, the books which requires them not to yield. the law. Then they could simply tell Arab govern As we said some time ago, this is a repre and on that occasion, I pointed out that ments: We have no choice but to comply with hensible and unacceptable intrusion in although present U.S. policy states its the American law." American affair!'· No American company opposition to such restrictive trade poli We can and should prevent boycott com should accept such interference. cies and boycotts, the very fact that they _pliance and the appropriate vehicle is now In his testimony before the House Inter continue to occur deDilonstrates the need before us, the Export Administration Act. national Relations Committee, Mr. Jones not for more stringent Federal laws. We need While the present U.S. policy states clearly only acknowledged that his company has not only to discourage such practices but its opposition to such restrictive trade policies yielded to the boycott-Israel pressure but and boycotts, the fact that these practices do also urged Congress not to enact proposed we should also prohibit them. The ap occur demonstrates the need for stronger fed legislation which would make this a punish propriate vehicle to effectuate this eral laws. The policy statements in the cur able violation of law rather than simply. an change is the Export Administration Act. rent Export Administration Act are com expression of d.lsregard for American policy. I have cosponsored several pieces of mendable but ineffective. We need not only He should have been on the opposite side, legislation to end these discriminatory to discourage such practices, but to prohibit as are many American business executives. practices of foreign trade boycotts and I them. I urge the adoption of ru:nendments to _ They know that the best way to counter the am currently a cosponsor of the prohib outlaw the disclosure of discriminatory in Arab government's pressures is to have a law formation and participation in the restrictive on the books which requires them not to iting amendment now before the com trade practices of foreign nations including yield. Then they could simply tell Arab gov mittee. both secondary and tertiary boycotts. ernments: We have no choice but to comply I would like to urge not only the mem Currently, there are several pieces of legis with American law. bers of the House International Rela lation before this committee aimed at the Would that put them out of business in tions Committee but all of my colleagues heart of this problem. I am a co-sponsor of the Arab world? It is conceivable, though un to join in supporting this legislation. The H. Con. Res. 173, offered by Congressman likely, that in a few cases it would. But it is full text of my testimony before. the Addabbo, H.R. 6431 offered by Congressman virtually inconceivable that those developing Drinan and H.R. 11463 offered by Congress countries would choose to do without Ameri House International Relations Commit man Koch. In addition Congressmen Bing can technology, American scientific devefop tee follows: ham and Rosenthal have both offered con ment and American management know-how. STATEMENT OF HON. BEN.JAMIN A. Gn.MAN, structive proposals that deserve your con Such a law, in our view, overnight would A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE sideration and support. break the back of this impudent intrusion in STATE OF NEW YORK, JUNE 1976 As we proceed to consider the Export Ad American life. Mr. Chairman: I welcome this opportunity ministration Act, I am convinced tha.t from The larger question, however, is one ot to appear before the Committee on Interna these proposals and the committee delibera morality. The Arab boycott and blacklist tional Relations to express my strong support tions that will follow, an effective policy ing of firms has been aimed not only at Israel for proposed legislation to end the discrim against the discriminatory practices of boy but also again~t American Jews. If an Arab inatory practices of foreign trade boycotts. cotts can be achieved. It is only fitting that nation wants to do business with an Ameri The implementation of economic boycotts in this bicentennial year, as we reflect on the can firm, it can abide by this country's rules September 2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29061 of decency and fair play--0r go elsewhere. ternational majority to the Decemtier symbolic action is part of the worldwide We doubt that those countries, which are be 2-6, 1972, United Secretariat meeting:. wave of protest developing in the wake of the ing developed largely by American enterprise savage murder of sixteen unarmed Argen would go elsewhere. Incidentally at the opening of her re tine revolutionists by the mercenaries of Congress should make American policy port Waters listed "six comrades who are Lanusse. On the defensive today politically, not a bune'h of oil kings and sheiks. members of the United Secretatiat the imperialists and their watchdogs are Adair, Hans, Juan, Pedro, Stateman, and escalating their extortions and crimes in Therese." 2 Comparison with other in Latin America and throughout the world. TROTSKYISM AND TERRORISM: ternal Fourth International documents " 'They will not go unpunished because the PART V-TERRORIST ACTIVITIES indicates that Adair is the Canadian Alan day is near when the Argentine and Latin IN EUROPE Harris who was sent by the Fourth In American masses, mobilized by their van guard on the road of revolutionary war, will ternational to Great Britain to help lead sound the death knell of the murderers' sys HON. LARRY McDONALD the British section; Hans is an alias for tem and make them pay the full retribution SWP National Secretary, Jack Barnes; for their accumulated debt of blood. OF GEORGIA Juan was Joseph Hansen; Pedro is Peter ' IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "'Long live the Argentine socialist revolu Camejo and Statemen is apparently tion. Thursday, September 2, 1976 Barry Sheppard. "'Long live the Latin American revolution. Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the The Waters report which was of course "'Hasta la victoria siempre. Venceremos. Trotskyite Communist Fourth Interna rejected by the majority attacked "vio "'Cuarta Internacional'" tional not only has been vociferously sup lent minority actions": The signature of the communique falsely porting terrorist activities-bombings, ~he wrote: gave the impression that this was an action kidnappings, assassinations, and armed Let us turn now to one of the most im approved by the Fourth International and robberies, "expropriations" as the revo portant questions being debated in the Euro carried out by its forces. lutionaries term them-by non-Trosky pean movement-a question so vital that it can prove fateful for our sections in the im "Cuarta Internacional" is of course ite revolutionaries and nationalist mediate future. The issue is what several Fourth International. Despite Water's groups, but also has conducted terrorist comrades of the Ligue Communiste refer to denial of responsibility, Pierre Frank, a activities itself. as the need for "a deliberate somewhat vol FRANCE leader of both the French section and the untaristic initiative by the vanguard" to re International took full responsibility for During the 1960's, the French section introduce "violence" into the class struggle. of the Fourth International led by Pierre [See Appendix, "The Debate in the Ligue the terrorist acts. Frank was able to recruit some of the Communiste."] Waters went on to say, violence-oriented New Left. These New This idea is not developed clearly in the The rationale for such actions has been European document, but the essence is in explained at length in a number of articles Leftists recruited by Frank, were similar in Rouge. in their outlook and desire for street vio cluded in Section 19, which states: "The ~pirit in which our sections will have to edu For example, the June 10, 1972, issue car lence to the SDS Weatherman faction cate the ·entire mass vanguard moreover, is ried an article entitled "Terrorism and Revo which led major street riots in New York, this: to show the bourgeoisie in practice that lution" by Daniel Bensaid, a member of the Berkeley, Boston, and Chicago during the price it will have to pay for any attempt Political Bureau of the Ligue. He states: 1969 and 1970 before disappearing under to establish an open dictatorship will be a "As far as we're concerned, we have not ground. civil war in which both camps will use arms." hesitated to resort to violent minority actions In April 1966, a New Left segment split (p. 25. Emphasis added.) when the actions were tied up with mass away from the Communist Party cop One interpretation of this line has already activity. In December 1970, at the time of the been initiated in France to a sufficient degree Burgos verdict, the Ligue Communiste sup trolled Union Estudiants Communistes de ported the attack of a group of m1Utants France and declared itself Trotskyist. It to indicate what it entails. The May 13, 1972, issue of Rouge, the offi against the Bank of Spain, but that was affiliated with Pierre Frank's Fourth In cial paper of the French section of the Fouth parallel with leading the mass campaign on ternational section which was then called International, prominently featured a "last behalf of the Basques threatened with death. the Parti Communiste Internationaliste. minute" news bulletin that announced: We also led actions against General Ky when The youth group, led by Alain Krivine, he visited Paris, against the U.S. consulate, "In response to the intensification of im an action that led to the indictment of Alain was then called the Jeunesse Communiste perialist aggression in Indochina, on Wednes Krivine, and we supported the action led by Revolutionnaire and expressed its strong day, May 10, at 6:30 a.m. re·1olutionary militants against the firms profiting from admiration for Castro and Che Guevara. militants attacked the offices of Honeywell the U.S. war. But this was parallel with sys For their prominent role in leading Bull and the machine display at the Trade tematic mass work on behalf of the Indo Center. Molotov cocktails were thrown and chinese revolution, within the framework of the student and worker riots which nearly the machines were seriously damaged. Simul precipitated a civil war, in April 1968, the taneously, a similar action took place against the FSI [Front Solidarite Indochine-Indo French Government outlawed the Trot the Toulouse headquarters of Honeywell china Solidarity Front] in particular." skyite group. However, the Trotskyites Bull. Such actions, we, are told, have a basis in merely changed the names of their or "The Ligue Communiste supports and theory-the theory of the "dialectics of mass ganizations and continued to function. salutes the revolutionary militants who have violence and minority violence." According The Jeunesse Communiste Revolution thus demonstrated their determination not to this "theory," violent actions organized to let the new arrogance of imperialism go by a small group can show the way, stimulate naire became the Cercles Rouge-Red actions "by the masses of workers through Circle-then changed its name to Ligue unanswered. By these acts they have de nounced the war profiteers who furnish the raising their combativity, and prove to the Communiste. For its involvement, in con materiel for imperialist aggression. And they workers that they can and should use vio tinuing violence the Ligue was dissolved have demonstrated their solidarity with the lence on a mass scale. again in June 1973, by the French Gov Indochinese people-at the very moment For example the June 10 article takes up ernment. However, the Ligue merely when the French government was trying the question of kidnapping factory owners or changed its name again to Front Com vainly to ban the mass demonstrations that supervisors. "It is clear that the occupation took place Wednesday night." of a factory that mobilizes a mass of workers muniste Revolutionnaire, LCR. LCR's top to control the means of production and even leaders include the aging Pierre Frank, On September 2, 1972, Rouge carried tually passes over to active administration Gerard Vergeat, Alain Krivine, Charles another special article, which approvingly has a far greater significance than the kid Micheloux, and Daniel Bensaid.1 reproduced the press release issued by a com napping of a supervisor or a boss ... But if The involvement of the French Trot mando squad that firebombed the Argentine the kidnapping expresses a genuine anger, if embassy in Paris, following the murder of it is not presented as an end in itself, a pure skyites in terrorism was revealed by SWP the Argentine comrades in Trelew. As Rouge Political and National Committee mem revolt, but rather as a means of breaking up reported it: a passivity and resignation of the masses by ber, Mary-Alice Waters, alias Therese, "In France in the dawn hours of August 25 beginning to overthrow its hierarchical idols, who is one of the SWP members on the revolutionary Marxist militants attacked the then kidnapping can be a correct initiative Fourth International United Secretariat. Argentine embassy with Molotov cocktails. the workers ought to defend and even in On behalf of her minority faction, Waters The following communique was issued by certain cases promote." submitted a report attacking the "ter these revolutionists shortly after their ac rorism now" position of the Fourth In- tions: Waters argued, however, that Trotsky "'Today revolutionary Marxist militants ites should engage violence at the proper Footnotes at end of article. attacked the Argentine embassy in Paris. This time: CXXII--1832-Part 23 29062 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 2, 19·76
The Leninist method of educating the alt the actions taken on by the Ligue Com NEED FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAMS working masses in effective anticapitalist muniste that had a minority character. But AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL action is not through the exemplary action the Ligue concretely showed the contrary CONSIDERABLE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR ENERGY of small, clandestine groups, violent or other within the framework of solidarity actions SAVINGS THROUGH THE CONSERVATION OF wise. It is by organizing and leading the toward the Indochinese revolution. On the ELECTRICITY • masses in struggle to achieve their demands. day after the presidential "elections" in Sai As :those struggles unfold, the masses them gon, the Ligue clandestinely organized a dem Because of the dramatic changes which selves come to understand the need to defend onstration of 400 militants in front of the have taken place in the supply of energy their interests against the violence of the American consulate in Paris. This demonstra within the last three years, there presently rulers. As that point approaches, we help the tion, like the others (agalI}st the South Viet exists considerable potential for a shift to a masses to organize their defense of their namese consulate in Paris, Honeywell redu<:ed dependence upon electric energy per struggles. Bull ... ) politically prepared the January 20, unit of goods and services consumption by As in every other aspect of the struggles 1973, demonstration, in the course of which the household, government, and business of the masses, we play a vanguard role. We 15,000 demonstrators violently confronted the sectors of the economy. This is not to say take the initiative within the masses on such that total electric consumption by these sec . police in order to make their way to the tors will not increase as output and con questions as the formation of strike pickets American Embassy. That demonstration even and workers milltlas or, in certain situations, sumption expands in the future, but signifi had an echo in the ranks of the French CP. cant adjustments have yet to take pJace in guerrilla units to defend the mass struggles It represented a step forward in the anti of the peasants. We take these initiatives as the economy to adapt to the reality of higher imperialist mobilization. It would have been energy costs. members of the mass organizations, and in much more difficult to carry out if it hadn't the name of the mass organizations, even been prepared by the Ligue.' ADAPTATION TO NEW ELECTRICITY PRICES WILL if initially few besides ourselves are involved. BE SLOW The course followed by Hugo Blanco in Peru Ernest Mandel, writing under his Even though the price of electric power and the course followed by the Trotskyist pseudonym Ernest Germain, answered has increased by a multiple factor over the leaders of the 1934 teamsters strike in Min the charge that the French section last three years, we can expect that economic neapolis offer instructive examples.3 wanted the terrorist violence to escalate adjustments to the new prices will be slow. Pierre Frank answered: into guerrilla warfare. Mandel wrote: This is because, unlike most purchases, the We repeat: what we threaten the fascists consumption of electricity is indirect. A The use of force is not in itself terrorism with is not "guerrilla war," but civil war of durable piece of equipment is required as the and it ls ne<:essary to take care not to use the Spanish type, which, let us repeat again, vehicle through which electricity is con the critiques made in our classics, for exam was started by relatively limited vanguard sumed. ple against the Narodniks, incorrectly. Let's forces.5 When a business, household or government listen to what Trotsky himself said: FOOTNOTES consumer considers the alternatives avail "It must be said that the Narodnik ter able to utilize his dollar income on the pur rorists took their own words very seriously: 1 Trotskylte Terrorist International. 2 chase of electricity-using equipment, the bomb in hand they sacrificed their lives. We Internal Information Bulletin, January, 1972, No. 1 in 1972. consumer must include in the calculation argued with them: 'under certain circum the future stream of costs for repair, main stances a bomb is an excellent thing but we s Ibid. •International Internal Discussion Bulle tenance and certain imputs to the long-term should first clarify our minds.' " (P. 79, In utilization of the equipment. Often these Defense of Marxism.) tin, Volume X, No.14, August, 1973. 5 future costs are larger in total than the cost Under certain circumstances a bomb is an International Internal Discussion Bulle tin, No. 4, April, 1973. of the equipment at time of purchase. Absent excellent thing! Under certain circumstances, evidence to the contrary, consumers gen Trotsky, according to Comrade Mary-Allee, erally assume that present prices of repair, fell prey to adventurism and terrorism. . maintenance and inputs (e.g. electricity) are The article in question denounces two "ad TESTIMONY OF COMMISSIONER a reasonable guide to prices which will pre venturist" actions, the one against the Ar vail over the lifetime of producer or con- gentine Embassy and the one against Honey THOMAS K. STANDISH, CONNECT ICUT PUBLIC UTILITIES CON sumer equipment. · well-Bull. They were "in no way related to Stocks of electricity-using equipment ex the needs of the masses or of any section of TROL AUTHORITY, ON ELECTRIC isting in the economy today were purchased the masses." (P. 25) UTILITY REGULATORY REFORM at a time when electric energy costs were In our opinion, the crime of Trelew re relatively low and the design of these stooks quired an immediate response and, as every reflects past input costs. At today's electricity one knows, one cannot always summon up HON. CltRISTOPHER J. DODD costs this equipment is wasteful. The prob mass demonstrations. Thus the question of OF CONNECTICUT lem is, however, that because of the inability a vigorous action was posed, and we were of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to rapidly shift to equipment which is less the opinion that the Trelew crime required electric-energy intensive, consumers are more than a telegram or a customary gesture. Thursday, September 2, 1976 forced to use electricity at or near rates of But in the question of Honeywell-Bull, one Mr. DODD. Mr. Speaker, at hearings consumption (per unit of output) which finds a problem posed that Comrade Mary prevailed prior to the energy crisis. The shift Alice didn't seem to suspect. Why did revolu before the Senate Committee on Com to less wasteful patterns will result as con tionary m1litants attack this American firm merce, testimony was presented by Com sumers (1) make investments in retrofit if not because it made material used against missioner Thomas K. Standish, of the modifications of existing equipment (insula the Vietnamese revolution? We are for the Public Utilities Control Authority in my tion, motor rewiring and the like) ( 2) make defense and victory of that revolution, of the State of Connecticut, on the subject of investments in new equipment which has workers state of Vietnam. On this question legislation to reform electric rate regu been designed to adapt to present electric we are not just for mass actions but-also for lation by the Federal Power Commission prices, and (3) as producers make available the sabotage of the capitalist troops and of and by State regulatory bodies. durable equipment which has energy saving their armament: "The Fourth International technology embodied in it. has established firmly that in all imperialist Commissioner Standish presents a countries, independent of the fact as to clear and straightforward picture of the IF LEFT ALONE, PRICE MECHANISM WILL EVEN whether they are in alllance with the USSR complex issues involved in electric rate TUALLY PRODUCE A ONCE-OVER SHIFT TO ELIM or in' a camp hostile to it, the proletarian regulatory reform; this issue is one INATE ECONOMIC WASTE parties during the war must develop the class which has long been a concern to me, Even if no conservation program is under struggle with the purpose of seizing power. and I know, to many of my colleagues. taken, it is certain that the price mechanism At the same time the proletariat of the im will eventually bring a.bout the adjustments perialist countries must not lose sight of the Legislation to reform the electric rate which a.re necessary to shift consumption interests of the USSR's defense (or of that regulatory process is pending further patterns away from the waste of electric en of colonial revolutions) and in case of real action by both bodies of Congress, and is ergy. At some point in the future, old equip necessity must resort to the most decisive expected to come to the floor before the ment will have been phased out and an action, for instance, strikes, acts of sabotage, close of this session. In light of the im classes of consumer will have adjusted their etc.'' (P. 30, In Defense of Marxism.) portance of this legislation, I know we equipment stocks to account for the new The action against Honeywell-Bull, sym electricity price level. This process will, in all will all want to be fully informed when likelihood, take more than 25 years to ac bolic as it had been, fell into this category. it comes before us for consideration. I It was "related to the needs" of the Viet compilsh if no steps are taken to accelerate namese masses, and one can simply regret therefore include the following excerpts the shift. that there weren't more of them and more from the commissioner's testimony in the INCREASING DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL RE vigorous ones. RECORD, and I commend them to the at QUIRES IMMEDIATE RESPONSE ON CONSERVA In peremptorily asserting that minority tention of my colleagues: TION PROGRAMS violence and mass violence cannot be com [Testimony of Commissioner Thomas K. Dependence upon foreign sources of oil has plementary, that they are politically contra Standish Before the Committee on Com grown from 13 % of our consumption needs dictory, Comrade Mary-Allee rejects en toto merce, U.S. Senate, April 27, 1976] in 1950 to 37% in 1974; 'and in January the September 2, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29063 Federal Energy Agency announced that for inputs, will put the region at a comparative standard under today's economic conditions. a brief period 50% of America's oll needs disadvantage in the competition to retain Further, I believe that, because of the fatal came from imports. This trend can be ex and attract this important type of industry. defects in the use of marginal cost as the pected to continue in the near future. Ac SHORT RUN EFFECT OF ADOPTING CONSERVATION standard for rate design, fair and reasonable cording to the Energy Research and ·nevelop.:. RATES FOR ELECTRIC POWER MAY BE TO IN rates can only be achieved for electric cus ment Administration, U.S. production of oll CREASE COSTS · FOR "REGIONAL EXPORT" IN tomers 1f an alternative standard is em wm peak in the late 1980's and natural gas DUSTRmS ployed. Let me first address the defects in the use of full marginal costs as the standard production in the U.S. will peak in the early If the adoption of electric rates on the basis 1980's. of conservation, load management and/or for rate design and then the issue of an ap In the longer run, programs to develop full costing principles is to be nondis propriate alternative standard. nuclear, coal and other suppliers of energy criminatory, then it is probable that such Although a. complete analysis of tradi will reduce the energy gap between U.S. pro rates must be adopted for all classes of cus tional micro-economic theory cannot be un duction and demand; until the U.S. energy tomer. There is reason to believe that cer dertaken here, an exposition of some of the supply strategy bears fruit, however, the tain industries would bear a greater hard underlying assumptions wm clearly indicate risk of supply interruptions at the political ship than others, particularly in the short the obsolescence of the traditional theory. whim of foreign nations will increase. This run, if the existing design were changed by The important assumptions, with editorial fact makes it imperative that, in the short regulatory agencies to conform with con comment, are as follows: run (until 1985), a demand strategy be de servation, load management and/or full cost 1. That a general. equlllbrium can be at veloped to reduce the waste of energy. In principles. Hence, even if regulators in a tained wherein all firms in all markets are states (like Connecticut) in the northeastern geographic jurisdiction favor the adoption producing at their optimum point of equi part of the United States where dependence of time-of-day or interruptible rate for elec librium. This assumption 1s critical because, on foreign oil is the highest, the abiUty to tric consumers, they are effectively prevented once out of equ111brium, the interaction be implement conservation programs to curb from doing ·so because of the certainty that, tween supply and demand in individual mar demand is critical to our development over undertaken unilaterally, these rate reforms kets has the result of altering the income the coming decade. will inhibit new investment in certain of distribution which, in turn alters demand THE FORD ADMINISTRATION'S PROGRAM ON · those industries which are the lifeblood of which, in turn, alters supply offerings which, CONSERVATION IS HIGHER PRICES regional economic development. in turn alters the income distribution-and so on. The fact that the national administration As outlined later in this testimony, the has allocated only 1 %-2 % of its total energy adoption of rates which lead to electric load 2. That there is no government sector in budget to conservation indicates that em leveling does have a long run beneficial effect the economy. This assumption is necessary braced a price-mechanism strategy in this for all ratepayers. National minimum stand because the "pricing" of services and the important area. In this light I take as a posi ards for electric ratemaking, such as those levels of output in the government sector are tive development . the announcement on found in S3310, are an essential context for determined according to non-market prin April 19, 1976 that ERDA w111 give "the high regulatory reform at the state level. In this ciples which conflict with the. allocation of est priority" to conservation of energy, plac context, the design of rates which wm pro resources according to competitive market mote the conservation of energy and effici principles. To gauge the degree to which the ing it on a par with the development of new relaxation of this assumption will impair the energy supplies. ency of electric power generation can be usefulness of marginal cost theory, Federal, BECAUSE OF INTER-REGIONAL COMPETITION, CON implemented. State and local governments produced out SERVATION PROGRAMS FOR ELECTRIC POWER CRITICAL IS THE CHOICE OF THE STANDARD USED put equal to 39.5% of gross national prod INDUSTRY MUST BE FEDERAL IN THE DESIGN OF RATES TO ACHIEVE CON uct, annualized for the 3rd quarter of 1975. The principle of the division of powers SERVATION, AND EFFICIENCY IN ELECTRIC 3. That long-run marginal costs are not and responsib111ties between the State and POWER GENERATION increasing nor decreasing. This restrictive as Federal government 1s important to suc Fair and reasonable rates ,gauged in past by sumption is needed to prevent regulated in cessful regulation of public utility indus marginal cost standard dustries from making exorbitant profits (in tries. In most instances, the geographic and The design of rate structures for public the case of increasing lnog-run marginal economic uniqueness of each state makes it utmty companies must have the result of costs), or incurring excessive losses. Most ob more efficient to regulate at the state level. not being unreasonably discriminatory be servers believe that the electric utility indus The case of ut111zing electric power rates as tween and among customer classes and must try is presently operatng under conditions of an instrument to promote conservation and be fair in their impact upon ( 1) the publlc increasing long-run marginal costs; thus, to economic efficiency is an exception. While it at large, (2) consumers of ut111ty service and price electricity equal to long-run marginal 1s my belief that implementation of pro (3) upon ut111ty investors. In the past, the. costs will virtually assure electric utility grams to reinforce the price mechanism standard of economic efficiency, drawn from companies of huge excess profits (Not with (such as those which will operate within traditional micro-economic theory, has been standing Section 203(d) of 83310). the constraints set forth in Sections 203 and used as a measure of the "fairness" and "rea 4. That all firms and all markets for re 204 of S3310) should be on a state by state sonableness" of rates. This economic reason sources in the American economy are per basis, the operation of the competitive sys ing, and the social welfare precepts following fectly competitive. Translated in the real tem makes it imperative that the Federal from it, was fully developed in the period world, this means that there are no unions, government set the standards for such pro from the late 1860's to the turn of the cen no large firms which dominate markets; in grams. This ls because those states which, tury. In essence, this complex system of essence, this assumption requires that the on their own, undertake to implement time thought can be summarized as follows: If very fabric of the American economy be ig of-day pricing or shift to a new principle the prices charged consumers are the result nored when using the marginal cost stand of electricity pricing will be placed at a com of perfect competition and, if perfect com ard for ut111ty rate design. Suffice it to say parative disadvantage in the competition for petition exists in all markets for products, that 500 firms now produce over 70% of all new industry investment. services, and resources (including labor), industrial output in our economy. Although approximately 40% of economic then the prices which are thereby charged 5. That private costs, internal to the firm, activlty•is non-market oriented, the under consumers w111 be equal to the full marginal are the only costs which are appropriate in pinning of our economic system is the com costs of producing each good and service determining prices for goods and services. petitive market. On a geographic basis, the in the economy. Further, it can be demon This assumption has two serious defects; economic system ls comprised of many strated that, under these restrictive assump first, even if all the other assumptions essen regions which compete with each other for tions, the effect of full marginal cost pricing tial to the theory were descriptive of condi new investments. The Atlantic region com will be to bring about an optimum, the most tions in the real world, social costs of produc petes with Baltimore, Houston, etc. To be economically efficient allocation of soqiety•s tion such as pollution, income distortions more specific, within each metropolitan resources. of social welfare, cannot be reflected in mar region certain industries-those which ex For regulated industries, the conclusion ket prices and, second, once the existence of port a good or service to the other regions which fiows from this theory 1s that, a-bsent the government sector is admitted into the and parts of the world-are the foundation the forces of competition to bring about full theory, it is impossible for prices of goods upon which the rest of the regional economy marginal cost pricing of ut111ty services, a and services produced in the private sector 1s built. Two examples of such industries regulatory result should be imposed where to reflect total economic costs of production. in the Hartford region are the insurance and upon, to the extent practicable, rate struc This is because federal subsidies, municipally aircraft industries. It 1s these "regional ex tures are designed to be reflective of full financed industrial parks, tax diiferentials, port" industries which bring dollars into the marginal costs. government supported labor training, and regional economy, which are the major the myraid government programs which alter source of tax payments to local a.nd state Margfnal cost standard fs fnappropriate for private costs of production have the effect of government, and which are the first step in the design of rates "socializing" private costs. It is exactly this the income multiplier process · supporting It is my belief that the full marginal cost phenomenon which is produced when one other industries and businesses which serve standard for the design of electric ut111ty state or municipality competes against an only the local market, An increase in the rates is not only theoretically inaippropriate other for new business and industry. Each costs of operation for regional export indus for use in the design of rate structures for government competitor is attempting to so tries, either directly, or indirectly through electric utility companies but, more impor cialize a greater portion of private costs in those businesses which supply them with tant, it is virtually impossible to apply this order to attract and retain investment. In the 29064 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Sep_tember 2, 19'76 real world, the full cost to society of produc RESOLUTION ON THE RELIGIOUS The Czechoslovak ecclesiastical hierarchy ing goods and services does not ~ven approxi SITUATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1s a burning problem of Church-State rela mate the prices paid by the consumer. tions. The Communist regime in Prague per 6. That monopoly, perfect competition fected the absolutist centralized power and other industry organ~zations will tend to which tw.o hundred years ago culminated in promote the same rate of technological HON. JOSHUA E.ILBERG the absolute monarchy in Vienna. As once change. Reduced to its simpliest form, this OF PENNSYLVANIA the Austrian Emperor Joseph II (1780-1790) assumption requires that large firms and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Vienna, so also the present absolutist government in Prague considers bishops to ·be the complex of industries which supply them Thursday, September 2, 1976 will not promote technological progress at a state officials and usurps the right to ap faster rate than small firms operating in Mr. EILBERG. Mr. Speaker, the Con point an obedient ecclesiastical hierarchy. competitive markets. ference of Czech hierarchy, clergy and The parallel of the 200-year anniversary is 7. That income transfers; the many regu laymen of most of the Cai;holic institu this: in the United States-freedom-in latory agencies at the local, state, and fed Czechoslovakia-tyranny. Emperor Joseph eral level; public support of research and tions and organizations in America and II, however, was enough of an enlightened development; and any other institutional others elsewhere, held under presidency monarch not to force the subjugated bishops deviation from general equilibrium condi by the Most Reverend John L. Morkov to preach atheism. Less enlightened and can tions do not exist. sky, Bishop of Galveston-Houston in did are the rulers of today's Czechoslovak Rather than continue any further, I be Texas, on Monday, August 9 at Chestnut Communist regime, who by law (October 14, lieve that it is clear that the theory of mar Hill College, Philadelphia, deliberated 1949), established the Government Bureau ginal cost pricing cannot be used as a stand concerning the tragic religious situation for Church Affairs with such a wide juris ard for rate design in the electric utmty in diction as was promulgated by Cabinet dustry. I am of the opinion that the concept in present-day Czechoslovakia. They Decree (November 4, 1949) as to make the of marginal cost pricing is being promoted at have decided to call this critical situa Church a slave of an atheistic State. The this time precisely because the long-run tion to the attention of the authorities monstrosity of the Penal Code of 1950 and costs in electric power have turned upward of free nations with the urgent request of the Administrative Penal Code, issued by within the last few years and, under these that they extend their help to restore the Czechoslovak Ministerium of the Interior conditions, use of the concept in rate de religious freedom in Czechoslovakia, to on August 1, 1950, by which the Communist sign will tend to promote excess profits for stop the blatant violation of precious hu State terrorizes the Church, seems to exceed electric utility companies. I urge this Com the cruelty of infamous tyrants of the past. mittee to strike from S3310 and reference man rights, which should not and cannot It is urgent that, in the name of human to costs which might be constru~d as relat longer be condoned. decency, these laws be abrogated without ing to the marginal cost standard of rate The following resolution of protest and any delay. design. indignation at these blatant violations by The Czechoslovak eoclesiastical hierarchy the Czechoslovak Communist regime, is was liquidated in the staged trials of the FEDERAL STANDARDS NEEDED TO REQUIRE THAT early 1950s. In November, 1950, in Prague, STATES IMPLEMENT RATE FORMS WHICH PRO aimed at awakening the conscience of nine church dignitaries were tried, of whom MOTE CONSERVATION AND LOAD MANAGEMENT the world and at eliciting the sympathy Abbot Dr. Stanislav Jarolimek was sentenced The widespread adoption of peak load, and solidarity with those suffering much to 20 years, Abbot Jan Opasek to life im time-of-use pricing promises to produce a under the yoke of Communism. It reads: prisonment, and Bishop S. Zela to 25 years regulatory result consistent with two goals RESOLUTION in prison, to name but a few. In January 1951 found desirable by government agencies at The people of Czechoslovakia call you from in Bratislava, Bishops Dr. M. Buzalka and the federal, state, and local levels. First, it is Philadelphia in the United States because P. Gojdio were sentenced to life, and Bishop expected that this rate form wm promote the they cannot call from Prague in Czechoslo Jan Vojtassak to 24 years in prison. In 1951 conservation of petroleum and gas used in vakia. They call for your attention from the the dissolution of the church organization the production of electricity conservation of 41st International Eucharistic Congress in was roughly achieved and the Church was petroleum and gas used in the production of Philadelphia, held from August 1 to 8, 1976. separated from its center in Rome. electricity and, second, it is expected that Representatives of Czechoslovak Catholics In Czechoslovakia, there were two Roman peakload rate forms will foster internal effi gathered in Philadelphia wish to thank the Catholic cardinals who went through both ciencies for electric companies. Almighty for the freedom enjoyed by the Nazi and Communist prisons; after their According to the theory of peak load, time people of the United States of America and deaths the episcopal sees remained vacant. of-use pricing, the consumer will shift con they pray that the Czechoslovak people may Cardinal Joseph Beran (Dec. 29, 1888- sumption of electricity from on-peak to likewise participate in its benefits. Almost May 17, 1969) was the last Archbishop in off-peak periods if sufficient price and tech 200,000 Czechoslovak citizens of a total of CJ:echoslovakia. Cardinal Stephen Trochta nological incentives exist in the marketplace. some 15 million were obliged to leave their (Mareh 26, 1905-Aprll 6, 1Q74) was the last This levels the load for the electric power native land because the biggest tyranny of residing bishop in Bohemia and Moravia. supplier, producing the following effects: modern history has since 1948 engulfed All seven episcopates in Czech Lands are 1. The percentage of base load units in the Czechoslov·akia. They wish to thank God that vacant. Two dioceses are administered by generation mix increases. Because base load a significant portion of the population of Titular Bishops-Apostolic Administrators units have more efficient heat rates than in Czechoslovak descent living in the United (Praha, Olomouc), and five dioceses (Llto termediate cycling or peak-load units and, States ( 1 % and numbering more than 2 mil merice, Hradec Kratove, Ceske Budejovice, because intermediate cycling units tend to lion of a total of American citizenry well over Brno, Tesin) administered by Capitular burn oil or gas as fuel, load leveling reduces 200 million) has been saved from a 1?imilar Vicars appointed under government pres the amount of these fossil fuels burned per fate. sure. In Slovakia are seven episcopates: two KWH. The conservation effect of load leveling The principal conditions of a free de are occupied (Nitra, Banska Bystrica); one will be even more pronounced as the per velopment of the human personality are administered by a Titular Bishop-Apostolic centage of nuclear base load units continues the freedoms of thought, of conscience and Administrator (Trnava); and four dioceses to increase over time. of religion. These basic human rights have (Roznava, Spis, Kios1ce, . Presov) are also 2. All fossil units on the generation system in Czechoslovakia the value alone of a his vacant. · will require less minute-to-minute incre torical document, because they exist only on The Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia has mental control and can operate a greater per paper of the Helsinki Conference of Au been a most powerful mainstay of the centage of the time at optimum efficiencies. gust 1, 1975 (Art. VII) and of the Czecho thousand-year old Christian tradition. Be This too has both a conservation effect and slovak Constitution of July 11, 1960 (Art. fore World War II, the Roman Catholic an efficiency effect on system operation. 32). Yet, the Concluding Act of the Helsinki Church had 10,831,669 (73.54%) and the 3. Those fossil units which operate at near Conference was signed by thirty-five na Greek-Catholic C'huroh 585,041 (3.97%) ly constant loads, because of the increased tions, including as well the President of members out of a total of 14,729,536 inhab off-peak load and the reduced peak load, the United States of America, and the itants of the country. After the Coup d'Etat have reduced thermal and physical stresses President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Re (February 25, 1948) no official statistical data &nd corresponding reductions in mainte public. about religion were published, but these nance costs. Freedom of religion requires for its exist results of the persecution of Church and 4. Certain planning and management effi ence not alone the inner freedom of thought religion are known: ciencies result from a more stable load pat and conviction, but likewise the freedom of Approximately 8,000 Roman Catholic tern. public expression of religion. Man is not priests were in Czechoslovakia before World In light of the above and, taking into con only a thinking but also an acting creature War II. There are now fewer than half in sideration that these conservation and effi who wishes to express himself by partici the Church administration. Being a priest ciency effects increase in the long run and, pating in religious acts. In Czechoslovakia, is a hazardous and dangerous profession. considering that there is likelihood that peak however, any form of participation in re Many clergy are in prison because they load, time-of-use rate forms will not be im ligious liturgy and dissemination of religion fought atheism from the pulpit or dissemi· plemented absent federal constraints which by word is persecuted as a foreign and sub nated religious literat\lre. Some are seriously require state regulatory agencies to imple versive ideology which, according to the ill without medical attendance (Rev. J. ment such rate forms, Section 204 of 83310 Czechoslovak Constitution, contradicts the Studeny); some were executed during the will have a constructive effect on the state state ideology of Marxism-Leninism (Art. forced collectivization (Babice, Mora.va, 1951) public uti11ty regulatory process. 16). or beaten to death in prison (Rev. J. Toufar). September 2, 19 7 6 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29065 Liquidation of the Church organization is munist Government in Czechoslovakia, be Mr. Speaker, I have known this dedi still the main goal of the struggle in which made properly known to the public of the cated and highly qualified woman for not the old but other equally effective United Staites of America and of all the free methods of force are being used. Priests are world; that the Governmen•ts of the f!l.'ee many years. While she has been an out removed from the ecclesiastical administra countries, when dealing with Czechoslovakia, standing teacher, she has also dedicated tion and transferred into production or pre be aware of the violations of basic human many years to civic, social, and political maturely retired, or, on the other hand, state rights; and that they persist in reminding activities in our community. Mrs. Sweet approval for their priestly profession is de their Communist partners of these facts at has been one of the NAACP's most active nied. At the end of 1974, more than 500 every suitable occasion; that the public of and ardent supporters. priests were denied state approval, forbidden all free countries, especially Christian to pursue their ecclesiastical profession, and Churches and their leaders, help the op Mr. Speaker, those of us who know even to say Mass in private. More than 16DO pressed and endangered Christianity in Dovie Sweet cannot imagine her com Roman Catholic parishes of a total of 4600 Czechoslovakia. plete retirement. .She will probably be remained vacant; many churches were closed We appeal to the Holy See also, in her even more involved in her community or turned into museums or warehouses. It lauda.ble eff.ort to help the Church in Czech now that she is not restricted to her is not an infrequent case that one priest is oslovakia, not to oonfirm the ecclesiastical teaching activities in the schools. in charge of six or more vacant parishes in structure insofar only as it helps to build up today's cultural Czechoslovakia, as in un the authentic Christianity in human hearts. Mr. Speaker, I submit for the RECORD civilized countries elsewhere in the world. We are asking finally all who believe in a recent article which appeared in the Monastic life was illegally liquidated (in God to help by their prayers those who are Cleveland Call and Post regarding Mrs. the night of April 14-15, 1950) when police endangered by the militant and intolerant Dovie Sweet and I call to the attention invaded the monasteries and drove the ar atheism of the totalitarian Czechoslovak of my colleagues her beautiful poem en rested monks into concentration camps. This regime. titled: "My Closing Career." action, apPropriately called "Night and Fog" The m9re than a thousand-year-old Chris (according to the London Catholic Herald), tian tradltion cannot be buried even by to Mr. Speaker, I am sure that you and hit all the monasteries: 226 male monasteries day's Czechoslovak Communist regime. The all of my colleagues in the U.S. House of with 2,221 monks, of whom 881 were still eternally young Christian tradition has sur Representatives join with me in congrat alive after the Prague Spring in 1970, and 720 vived revolutionary changes of history and ulating Mrs. Sweet for a job well done. convents for women, with 10,448 religious, of was at the grave of great despots and tyrants. DOVIE SWEET RETmES F'ROM 26-YEAR TEACHING whom 3,247 died in concentration camps. Since the arrival of the Slavonic missionaries, CAREER The Communist regime in Czechoslovakia Saints Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia After 26 years of teaching with the Cleve liquidated all monasteries and confiscated (863), the Czech and Slovak Lands have con land Board of Education School System, their property, while the absolutist regime of tributed greatly to the world of culture, and Dovie D. Sweet announced her retirement Joseph II had abolished approximately half their skies are lighted by many stars of na from the field of teaching at the monthly the monasteries and used their property to tional saints of the past. faculty meeting of Harvey Rice Elementary Reflecting on this glorious Christian past, establish a Religious Foundation. School. E. 115th & Buckeye, on May 12. one is impelled to highlight Karl Marx's Com According to the Czechoslovak Constitu With no regrets, Mrs. Sweet stated she had tion, citizens have the right to education munist Manifesto of 184.8 with ou:r call: Christians of all lands. unite! Help to liberate paid her dues and done her work. She said (Art. 14), but this constitutionally guaran from hate and assist the restoration of funda she would miss her children at school but teed right does not cover catholic education mental civil and religious freedom. Help in felt confident that someone younger would in theological seminaries. The strict numerus our struggle against the terror of communis~ replace her and give the students the love, clausus limits Catholic access to theological and the present equal rights for all Catholics. patience, and understanding they need. education in such a way that 90 % of the ap Many of Mrs. Sweet's fellow teachers were plicants were rejected. In the Czech Lands, Tolerate not that Catholics and other reli there is one Theology Faculty in the city of gious bodies and Churches in Czechoslovakia tearful as they congratulated her and ex be but second-class citizens because they tended regrets over the school's loss. Litomerice (since 1953) and in the school Alfred Aiello, principal of Harvey Rice Ele year of 1976 only 20 students of the 200 peti never submitted to the government doc tioners were accepted-not in accordance trine of Marxism-Leninism. Help to gain free mentary School, commented that he envied dom for the people who suffer under com her but added that she deserved a break from with the recommendation of the hierachy but munism's yoke. Protect the religious, cultural many years of tireless and sometimes thank of that of the Communist Party and Police. and national freedom, which postulate for less service. In 1950 the Communist regime abolished the their existence not only the internal freedom Aiello remarked that Mrs. Sweet was still Theological Faculties in Prague and Olomouc, of thought and persuasion, but also freedom youthful and had much to give. where even the Emperor Joseph II had once for its public cultural and religious expres In keeping with her involved and con founded General Seminaries. sion. Help the people of Czechoslovakia to cerned nature, Mrs. Sweet plans to notify Schools in Czechoslovakia today are the kindle a spark of hope for the emergence by personal letters the parents of her center of anti-religious and atheistic propa of a Czech free man who well may be fore students, who do not as yet know of her ganda which is spread freely in text books. runner of a "free religious man." In the retirement. On the other hand, dissemination of rellgion euphoria generated by the Bicentennial of Dovie states that she is leaving the field of is punished just as the dissemination of the U.S.A., it is easy to forget the sober teaching but not the field of education. "I'l1 forbidden literature. Religious education ing fact that one-third of the world, and well be some place getting education over in a contradicts the state doctrine of Marxism over half the world's population, suffer under different way," she says. Leninism. Therefore, it is not permitted. the crushing yoke of communist tyranny. . Dovie Sweet wrote the following poem, "My Only exceptionally is religious instruction This should be a salutary warning to all. Help Closing Career" to sum up her sentiments allowed in some schools, for one hour in two the people of Czechoslovakia in pursuit of about the career she chose at age six. weeks or in a month, but this is extremely happiness in freedom: cultural freedom and MY CLOSING CAR'EER difficult to get. For this parents face retalia religious, that they may enjoy the dignity tory measures of social and economic pres of man created in the image of God. (By Dovie D. Sweet) sure. The children are, as a rule, excluded I've come to my conclusion from higher education. But a small fraction In the field of education; (2-4%) of those attending grammar or high DOVIE SWEET'S CLOSING CAREER I hope that I have made it felt schools have the courage to apply for re Throughout the entire nation. ligious instruction, while the greater major ity yields to the religious terror wrought By training adults, boys and girls by the Communist regime. HON. LOUIS STOKES To read, write and count; OF OHIO· To find out things for themselves Because the faithful are second-class citi And I am s·ure it mounts. zens, the constitutional principle of equality IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of citizens (Art. 20) is violated. Believers live Thursday, September 2, 1976 I said when I was six years old under constant existential terror which hits Just what I wanted to be: hardest the clergy. The priest is isloated even Mr. STOKES. Mr,. Speaker, I have on That was my first day in school in the church where he by himself carries many occasions brought the achieve And the teaching rubbed off on me. two small cans since without wine and water ments of different Clevelanders to the at I wanted to train boys and girls he cannot offer mass even in an empty tention of my colleagues in this House. To spell, and read, and write, church. In deserted parishes, the chilly It is a special treat for me to bring to To count and play together autumnal sleet and the winter weather of Being sure there we·re no fights. blizzard and icy wind within the damp walls your attention and to the attention of of an empty church, he ts sometimes alone. my colleagues, the retirement of Mrs. I said to Mamma when I went home Without a single believer, the priest makes Dovie S.weet from the Cleveland Board I want to be a teacher; a sacrifice, next-to-the-last step to sanctity. of Education school system. Mrs. Sweet I want to help the boys and girle Considering these harassing measures of retires from an active teaching position Who o.11 would be our future. the Prague regime, we ask, therefore: that in the Cleveland public schools after 26 My mother said, just study hard the actual situation, concealed by the Com- years in the field. Do wha.t the teacher says: 29066 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE September 7, 1976 Regardless of the other crowd. amendment to the Labor-HEW appro What we have here is a misguided pro Get A's at the end of the day. priations bill, I call attention to the fol posal to make therapeutic abortions more I put forth every effort lowing WTOP commentary by James J. dimcult for the very class of women least To do my very best in school; Kilpatrick of August 30: able to fend for themselves--the poor women I studied all the books I had WTOP COMMENTARY on welfare. The amendment won't prevent I obeyed all the rules them from getting abortions. It will merely (By James J. Kilpatrick) drive them into the hands of the under And now the time has come ft>r me There is something esp~cially cruel, point To lay my life's work down; ground abortion mills; or it will :roster the less, and indefensible in the position taken birth of more unwanted children who will I feel that I should make a place by the House of Representatives In the latest form a new gen~ration o:r supplicants on the For some of our young. controversy over abortion. The House is in sisting upon an amendment to the pending public dole. $57 billion appropriations bill for HEW. The No useful public purpose will be served RADIO COMMENTARY ON ABORTION amendment would prohibit the expenditure by the House amendment. The money that of Medicaid funds for the purpose of abor might be saved will be spent, now or later tions. The Senate has refused to go along. in aid to families with dependent children. HON. M. CALDWELL BUTLER If the effect of this amendment were abso Middle-income and upper-income women, OF VIRGINIA lutely to prohibit abortions anywhere, any able to afford abortions, will get them. Only IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time, by anybody, :ror anybody, perhaps it the poor will be denied the safety and secu Thursday, September 2, 1976 would make some sense. But congress has rity of proper medical care. Maybe this is no such power to define abortion as a crime good politics--! doubt it-but it is a mean Mr. BUTLER. Mr. Speaker, with ref and to impose a sweeping ban. That is the spirited act. I hope the House retreats. I'm erence to the recent debate on the Hyde business of the separate States. James J. Kilpatrick.
SENATE-Tuesday, September 7, 1976 The Senate met at 12 o'clock noon, on THE JOURNAL to consider the role of U.S. corporations the expiration of the recess, and was Mr. in South Africa. called to order by Hon. RICHARD STONE, ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem a Senator from the State of Florida. I ask unanimous consent that the Jour nal of the proceedings of Wednesday, pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR OF THE COMMITTEE PRAYER September 1, 1976, be approved. ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. President, L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that the Sub prayer: committee on Labor of the Committee on Eternal Father, God of all history, Labor and Public Welfare be authorized whose goodness and mercy has followed COMMITTEE MEETINGS to meet on September 8 to consider rail road retirement. us all our days, and whose love will not COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS let us go, let the words of our mouths The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. and the meditations of our hearts be I ask unanimous consent that the Com acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, our SUBCOMMITTEE ON OHILDREN AND YOUTH OF Strength and our Redeemer. mittee on Foreign Relations be author THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC Renew our faith in the victory of Thy ized to meet today to consider ambassa WELFARE purposes. Bring us to a new and simple dorial nominations and S. 3309, authoriz Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, trust in Thee. Show us the way to direct ing distribution of a USIS film on George I ask unanimous consent that the Sub ness, to clarity, to simplicity. Deliver us Washington, H.R. 14681, investment in committee on Children and Youth of the surance and guarantees issued by OPIC, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare from confused thinking and ambiguous and H.R. 14973, the Tiajuana flood con speech. Nourish our minds by the grace trol project. be authorized to meet on September 8 and truth of Thy Word. Hold us securely and 9 concerning children in foster care. to the eternal verities which make a peo The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem ple great and good and strong. pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. pore. Without objection, is it so ordered. We pray in the name of that One COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON MULTINATIONAL CORPORA whose life is the light of the world. Amen. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, TIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN I ask unanimous consent that the Com RELATIONS mittee on the Judiciary be authorized to Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESI meet on September 8 to consider nomi I ask unanimous consent that the Sub DENT PRO TEMPORE nations. committee on Multinational Corpora The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem tions of the Committee ·on Foreign Re will please read a communication to the pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. lations be authorized to meet on Septem Senate from the President pro tempore COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS ber 9 and 10 to continue hearings on the (Mr. EASTLAND). Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, Grumman Corp. The legislative clerk read the follow I ask unanimous consent that the Com The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem ing letter: mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs be pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. U.S. SENATE, authorized to meet on September 8, to REQUEST FOR COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, WELFARE TO MEET ON SEPTEMBER 14 Washington, D.C., September 7, 1976. consider bills on which final action is To the Senate: assured this Congress. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, Being temporarily absent from the Senate The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem I ask unanimous consent that the Com on official duties, I appoint Hon. RICHARD pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. mittee on Labor ·and Public Welfare be STONE, a. Sena.tor from the State of Florida, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS OF TBB authorized to meet on September 14 to to perform the duties of the Chair during COMMrrTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS consider black lung legislation. my absence. Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. President, on be JAMES 0. EASTLAND, Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, President pro tempore. I ask unanimous consent that the Sub half of several other Senators, I respect committee on African Affairs of the fully object. Mr. STONE thereupon took the chair Committee on Foreign Relations be au The ACTING PRF.SIDENT pro tem as Acting President pro tempore. thorized to meet on September 8 and 9 pore. Objection is heard.