2408. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1976 company wlll recover the additional costs .. (c) For purposes of this section: or who 1s entitled to benefits based on the for natural gas incurred by such company "(1) The term "local natural gas com­ attainment of a spec1fled age under title II as a. resul·t of increases in the price such pany• means any person (including any gov­ of the Social. Security Act. company pays for new natural gas and that ernmental entity) which purchases na.tural .. (3) The term •regulatory authority' the rates and and charges applicable to other tneans a State regulatory authority or a Fed­ classes of users of natural gas suppUed by ga.s from a natural gas company for trans­ eral regulatory authority. The Commission such company cannot reasonably be in­ portation, local distribution, and resale of shall be deemed to be the regulatory au­ creased to cover the full amount of such ad­ natural ga.s users. Such term does not in­ thority for purposes of subsection (b) if a ditional costs for new natural ga.s incurred clude a natura.l ga.s company. State agency or a Federal agency which 1s a by such local natural ga.s company a.fter the "(2) The term •senior citizen' means an local natural gas company has ratemaking effective date of this section. individual who is 65 yeaN of age or older authority with respect to its own rates." EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS PHILIP CAPUTO NIGHT and brutish of assignments in this cen­ During the past several years, the title tury's growing list of miniconfllcts." At VII program has grown in popularity. least 5 journalists have been killed and The elderly nutrition program, that I HON. MARTIN A. RUSSO nearly 2 dozen wounded. sponsored in the House, is designed to OJ' ILLINOIS Prior to the October attack on him, provide high quality nutrition services to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Caputo had been captured by Arab our Nation's senior citizens. Program Tuesday, February 3, 1976 guerrillas and held 1 week in a prison funds are used to bring aged people out of camp. His account of that, "Prisoner of their social isolation into a group setting Mr. RUSSO. Mr. Speaker, this Friday, Fedayeen," won bim the runner-up cita­ where hot, nutritious meals, recreational February 6, will be Phfiip Caputo Night tion for the Overseas Press Club's George services, and counseling are available to at the Union League Club in Chicago. Polk Award, given for "the best report­ them. As a result, the program caters to Mr. Caputo, an award-winning Chicago ing from abroad in any media, requiring elderly people's most important social Tribune foreign correspondent, Js being exceptional courage and enterprise." and health needs. honored for fine news reporting in a In 1973 he won the Tribune's highest In addition to the services I have combat situation. editorial award, the Edward Scott Beck just mentioned, the elderly nutrition I think special note should be taken Award. He was cited for hJs reporting program provides meals-on-wheels to of this man's exceptional courage and of the Yom Kippur war in the Middle people who are ill or incapacitated. news b91Ckground not only because he Js East, his vivid accounts of the Palestinian These people are the ones who are most deserving of such praise and recognition, guerrillas and on-the-scene reports from in need of program assistance because but because his story should be told as Italy, Greece, and Spain. He was the first they frequently have limited capacities to a tribute to all those correspondents who reporter to reach the banks of the Suez purchase and prepare foods necessary to face the enormous difficulties involved in after the Yom Kippur war began. sustain their health. covering a war. A 1964 graduate of Loyola University, Since this program caters to the most Journalists on such a dangerous pro­ Caputo became a general assignment re­ important needs of the aged, it has be­ fessional mission, as Mr. Caputo most re­ porter for the Tribune in 1969, after come a very popular Federal effort. Con­ cently was in Lebanon, could be pardoned working on ~The Trib," its suburban in­ sequently, many senior citizen centers, for occasionally permitting a lapse in the sert. In 1971 he was assigned to the Trib­ churches, and other sponsoring organiza­ flow of news while they "rest up." But une's investigative task force and in tions have applied for title VII funds and this does not happen. The journalistic 1973 this group won a Pulitzer Prize for vast numbers of elderly people have integrity of the men and women with­ reporting of a local fraud. sought program assistance. stands the morta~ and the harassment. He served with the Marines in the Far Unfortunately, many of the centers They manage to convey accurate infor­ East, 1964-67, and was among the first and people that have applied for aid mation and analysis to readers. We take marines to go ashore in South Vietnam have been turned down, or placed on for granted that, m the face of horrify­ in 1965. It is the Marine Corps Combat waiting lists, due to a lack of funds. It ing, inhumane, and mindless violence, Correspondents Association, Jim Hurl­ is this problem that the Labor-HEW ap­ the correspondent will remain strong, but Midwest Chapter, that is sponsoring propriations bill seeks to remedy. calm, and analytical. Sitting home com­ ,..Philip Caputo Night!' Under the vetoed bill, we appropriate fortably reading our newspaper, we can­ Mr. Caputo is home recuperating now, $125 mlllion for the title VII program. not relate to, nor understand, the frus­ writing a book and planning to return to We, also, adopt a provision that was ini­ tration-hazardous conditions, censor­ work in the spring. I know my colleagues tiated in the Senate: We require the ship and poor communication lines. But, join with me in commending him for his Secretary of HEW to spend $187.5 mil­ as Mr. Caputo's personal suffering re­ courage and fine reporting and in wish­ lion for the program during fiscal year veals, it is a challenging, gruesome and ing him a speedy recovery. 1976, ending June 30, 1976. By requir­ dangerous undertaking. ing that the ''level of operations" for On October 26, 1975, Mr. Caputo, the H.R. 8069-LABOR-HEW APPROPRIA­ the title VII program be established at Tribune's Middle East correspondent, was TIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1976 $187.5 million, we call upon the HEW shot in both feet by leftist gunmen. The Secretary to adjust the program's an­ incident occurred during fighting be­ nualized rate of expenditure right away tween Christian and Moslem forces. The HON. CLAUDE PEPPER to an amount that will cause $187.5 mil­ gunmen deliberately opened fire on him OF FLORIDA lion to be spent by local feeding pro­ as he walked along a Beirut street, after IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grams during the July 1, 1975, to June filing a news story. He was taken to a Tuesday, January 27, 1976 30, 1976, fiscal year. Moreover, the rate hospital in the war zone, itself under of expenditure should be readjusted attack, and finally he had to be evacu­ Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I was again, if necessary, to make sure that ated in the American Ambassador's lim­ pleased that both the House and the the $187.5 million is spent, and funds ousine through a hail of bullets. He was Senate overrode the President's veto of should be repositioned from one State to flown to the United States with his wife the Labor-HEW appropriations bill Jill and their two sons, Jeffrey and Mark. which affects the lives, the health, and another to make sure that this expendi­ So mindless has become the violence the happiness of millions of Americans. ture directive is fulfilled. of this war in Lebanon that Jonathan I strongly supported the override, and I The expenditure of $187.5 million Randal, the Washington Post corre­ want to call my colleagues' particular at­ will be accomplished by using $62.5 mil­ spondent there, points out that it is tention to the extraordinary importance lion of the funds carried over from pre­ judged by the relative handful of men of this bill to the continuing success of vious fiscal years. The $62.5 million in and women reporters, who lasted most the nutrition program for the elderly carry-over funds, plus the $125 million of the 9 months course of it, as "one that was established under title VII of in the appropriations btll, will provide of the moot dangerous, least rewarding, the Older Americans Act. the Secretary of HEW with the neces- February 4, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2409 sary funds to comply with the $187.5 Th.a.t lopsided result makes manifest the A DARING APPEAL FOR BASIC FREE­ million spending mandate. weakness. indeed. absurdity, of the case for DOMS BY PROMINENT POLISH I hope that this fiscal bnprovement covert American intervention ln Angola.. Bu\ INTELLECTUALS U the Acimlmstration ha4 tts wa.y abouc the in the elderly feeding program wm per­ rules, there would have been no such resull. mit us to serve many of the applicants There would have been no vote. and no de­ who have either been rejected or placed bate, because the adventure in Angola would HON. JAMES G. O'HARA on waiting lists for title VII aid. I com­ have been a secret. OF MICHIGAN mend the members of the respective It is fun to denounce leaks, and often Appropriations Committees in the House politically useful.