22168 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 28, 1973 By Mr. YOUNG of South Carolina: H.R. 9060. A bill to distinguish Federal pro- counts by financial institutions for 60 days; H.R. 9054. A bill to amend the act entitled . curement and grant-type assistance trans­ to the Committee on Banking and Currency• "An Act to authorize the Secretary of Agri­ actions, standardize use of legal instruments By Mr. MADDEN: . culture to execute a subordination agreement for procurement and grant-type assistance H. Res. 475. Resolution amending clause 5 with respect to certain lands in Lee County, transactions, and authorize use of a procure­ of rule I of the Rules of the House of Repre­ S.C.; to the Committee on Agriculture. ment or grant-type instrument, as appropri­ sentatives; to the Committee on Rules. By Mr. MAHON: ate, under existing authorizations to enter By Mr. MONTGOMERY: H.R. 9055. A bill making supplemental ap­ into contracts, grants or similar transactions; H. Res. 476. Resolution providing that propriations for the fiscal year ending June to the Committee on Government Operations. clause 5 of rule I of the Rules of the House 30, 1973, and for other pul'poses. H .R. 9061. A bill to provide policies and of Representatives be amended; to the Com­ By Mr. ADAMS (for himself, Mr. procedures for the procurement of property mittee on Rules. DIGGS, Mr. FRASER, Mr. FAUNTROY, and and services by Federal agencies; to the Com­ Mr. HOWARD): mittee on the Judiciary. H.R. 9056. A bill to reorganize the govern­ H.R. 9062. A bill to provide for the resolu­ mental structure of the District of Columbia, . tion of claims and disputes relating to Gov­ MEMORIALS to provide a charter for local government in ernment contracts awarded by executive the District of Columbia subject to accept­ agencies; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Under clause 4 of ruie XXII, ance by a majority of the registered qualified By Mr. LEGGETT: 267. The SPEAKER presented a memorial electors in tha District of Columbia, to dele­ H.R. 9063. A bill to designate certain lands of the Legislature of the State of California, gate certain legislative powers to the local in the Mendocino National Forest, Calif., as relative to providing adequate protection for government, to implement certain recom­ the "Snow Mountain Wilderness" for inclu­ the coastal fisheries against excessive foreign mendations of the Commission on the Or­ sion in the national wilderness preservation fishing; to the Committee on Merchant Ma­ ganization of the Government of the District system; to the Committee on Interior and rine and Fisheries. of Columbia, and for other purposes; to the Insular Affairs. Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mrs. MINK: By Mr. FAUNTROY: H.R. 9064. A bill to provide for Federal H.R. 9057. A bill to assure the availability grants and loans to small business concerns PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS of certain public records in the District of which are adversely affected by transporta­ Columbia; to the Committee on the District Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private of Columbia. tion disputes; to the Committee on Banking bills and resolutions were introduced and By Mr. HEINZ (for himself, Ms. AnzuG, and Currency. severally referred as follows: By Mrs. SULLIVAN: Mr. CONTE, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. COUGH­ By Mr. BURTON: LIN, Mr. DULSKI, Mr. EILBERG, Mr. H.R. 9065. A bill to amend the act of Oc­ tober 12, 1968, to increase from $5 mllllon H.R. 9066. A bill for the relief of Robert HAWKINS, Mr. HUNT, Mr. JOHNSON Dona; to the Committee on the Judiciary. of California, Mr. KEMP, Mr. RAILs­ to $7.5 million the amount authorized for By Mr. GUDE: BACK, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. RIEGLE, Mr. grants to Eisenhower College, Seneca Falls, STOKES, Mr. TALCOTT, Mr. WIDNALL, N.Y., and to provide authorization for grants H.R. 9067. A bill for the relief of James A. ' Horkan; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and Mr. CHARLES H. WlLSON of Cali­ to the Samuel Rayburn Library, Bonham, fornia): Tex., for establishment and maintenance of H.R. 9068. A bill for the relief of Morris and Lenke Gelb; to the Committee on the H.R. 9058. A bfll to amend the Vocational a Dwight D. Eisenhower Study Center; to the Rehabilitatimi Act to provide a more equita­ Judiciary. ble method of alloting funds for vocational Committee on Education and Labor. rehabilitation services among the States; to ByMr.HARVEY: . the Committee on Education and Labor. H.J. Res. 847. Joint resolution proposing PETITIONS, ETC. By Mr. HOLIFIELD (for himself and an amendment to the Constitution of the Mr. HORTON): United States; to the Committee on the Under clause 1 of rule XXII, H.R. 9059. A bill to create an Office of Fed­ Judiciary. 248. The SPEAKER presented a petition of eral Procurement Policy within the Execu­ By Mr. PATMAN: Thomas J. Garvey, Philadelphia, Pa., and tive Office of the President, and for other H.J. Res. 64.8. Joint resolution to extend others, relative to protection for law enforce:. purposes; to the Committee on Government the authority for the flexible regulation of ment officers against nuisance suits; to the Operations. interest rates on deposits and share ac- .committee on the Judiciary.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS JUNE DAIRY MONTH it comes to food commodities, partic­ bration will renew interest in consumer pur­ ularly meat, the law of supply and de­ Ghases of nature's most" nearly perfect food. mand is of critical importance. No gov:. Most of us, although living in America's HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER ·ernmental policy can increase beef pro­ Dairyland and close to this great industr~. OF WISCONSIN need the annual reminder that milk and duction faster than cows can produce dairy foods are at" the top of the list of en.. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ·calves and farmers can feed them so they joyable and nutritious foods. _ Wednesday, June 27, 1973 :can be marketed. At least 50 Wisconsin county June Dairy , America's farmers have done a re­ Month committees have taken this respon­ Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin. Mr. markable job of sUpplying sufficient food sibility every year and are prepared for the Speaker, the rise of prices for needed not only for our country, but for otherS · 1973 edition. commodities has been a concern of . This year, however, JDM promotional com .. American consumers since our country throughout the world. Even while meet­ roittees, have a second opportunity to ad­ was born. In recent years, we have seen ing these fantastic demands, they have vance the cause for their dairy food economy prices make especially large increases, enabled U.S. families to spend far less of in Wisconsin. It has to do with infiation, and consumers have grown more vocal their family budget for food than fami­ the rising costs of all foods and the lack of in expressing their grievances. ·lies in any other country in the world. information reaching consumers as to the We, in Wisconsin, pride ourselves as position of dairy products as well as all foods Earlier this year, there was a meat being residents of "America's Dairyland." in the price increases during the recent years. boycott, as thousands of Americans gave ·Each year we celebrate June Dairy For instance, how many of the people real­ up meat for a time in an effort to drive ize that, in the past five years, 1968 through prices down. In addition, the President Month in recognition of the daii·y indus­ 1972, the cost of -living rose by 38 per cent, imposed a ceiling on meat prices. try which means so much to our State. yet retail costs of all foods increased by only All of this has made it appear that An editorial which appeared in the 23.5 per cent. In the same period dairy pro­ farmers are key figures in creating the June 7 Chilton Times-Journal presents duct prices advanced by 1:7.1 per cent. an excellent discussion of some of the . Since the first of the year, retail meat price spiral. In fact, they are victims costs have gained the most attention, bring­ of that spiral. thoughts we need to consider during dairy month. I now insert that editorial ing a "boycott" movement. The problem Few people realize that farm prices are there is that homemakers admit that if the up only 6 percent over 20 years ago. The in the RECORD: price of zneat goes down, they will buy: more. House Agriculture Committee reported JUNE "DAmY MONTH" But the sad fact is that there is not "more recently that farmers have just now · June Dairy Month 1973' can, and should, meat" to be had at the immediate time. take on a double meaning for Wisconsin While meat prices were escalating in 1972, l'aised themselves to the economic level residents. the cost of mllk and dairy products rose only of 20 years ago. Traditionally, the month-long dairy in­ by 1¥2 per cent, as all foods went up 5.1 Too many have forgotten that when dustry and dairy product promotional cele- per cent. Personal income, according to the June 28, -1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22169 Bureau of Labor Statistics, continued its ad- tion · should be provided with adequate ting away some of the governmental under­ vance by 8 per cent. · resources to achieve its important goals brush, however, things are not altogether The hue and cry over ril:!ing food expendi­ and fulfill its vital mission. H.R. 8510 straightened out and satisfactorily de-red· tures can easily be understood since everyone ·taped yet. ·buys food on almost a· daily basis and thus provides a realistic- funding level, and This was pointed out quite recently by is most conscious of food price inflations. will enable the Foundation to first, in­ newspaper critic Ben Bagdikian, the roving June Dairy Month committees can remind crease the base of scientific knowledge; correspondent for the Columbia. Journalism people that over the past 20 years rents in­ second, find ways to deal with scientific Review,when he was here for Mankato State creased by 57 per cent, medical care costs problems through the civilian sector; College Media Days. "We still have a very long are up 128 per cent and furniture and house­ third, promote international cooperation way to go with declassification," Bagdikian hold equipment are 2.7 times higher. The through science; and fourth, improve the said. committees can ask consumers to do their quality and effectiveness of U.S. science A case in point is the recent experience of own arithmetic, comparing their own income the New York Times, which requested 50 increases with the family expenditures over education. I urge immediate and favor­ old and presumably "safe" documents, but the past five or 10 years. Their records will able action on this important legislation. received only five of them, none of which had show that their food now takes about 16 per any value to the Times. cent of their disposable income today-re­ Others were denied on the ground that the duced from more than 20 per cent of a decade request "did not contain enough particulars ago. CLASSIFIED RUBBERSTAMPING ON to find the document." "Still others were de­ A review of what has happened in the DECLINE nied on the ground that secrecy was, in food industry the past 30 to 40 years also their case, yet an imperative. should add to the understanding of rising Some of those denied on the basis of not food prices. Since World War II, this country enough being known about them were well­ has switched to an "industrial" food supply. HON. ANCHER NELSEN known but hitherto only partially alluded-to Today ingredients are grown, wherever soil, OF MINNESOTA documents dealing with the Bay of Pigs in­ weather, taxes, labor costs and investment IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vasion of 1961. Certainly, it would seem about climates make it most expedie11t. time-as long as the country knows it Foods are then separated into a variety Wednesday, June 27, 1973 blundered and that the CIA gave poor advice of useful components, later reassembled, with Mr. NELSEN. Mr. Speaker, according to JFK which caused him to act with poor a variety of flavors, dyes, texturizing and im­ to Kenneth Berg, editor of the Mankato, judgment-to release something as old-hat proving agents. The results are convenience Minn., Free Press, President Nixon has and raked over the coals as the Bay of Pigs foods, snacks and other complex creations. papers. Such manufactured foods do need a great received far too little appreciation from But apparently, what power government deal of industrial-labor, vastily more expen­ the press for his commendable effort to classifiers may have lost through the past sive than farm labor, making them more ex­ reduce the number of classified govern­ year's reduction of their numbers has more pensive to produce every year. ment documents that have created exces­ than been compensated for by the enduring These highly processed foods now account sive secrecy in government. zeal of the remaining core. for more than 59 per cent of the present food In a recent editorial, Mr. Berg pointed And that is just as ominous a prospect as supply. out that as a result of President Nixon's overclassification. June Dairy Month promotional people lik~ For, in centralizing and trimming classi­ challenges-here ls a tremendous opportunity Executive order of March 8, 1972. fication personnel, a random stamp-pad-mad to serve their communities hy adding to their The number of officials authorized to class­ philosophy may have been diluted; but an­ traditional dairy programs. ify secret documents has been reduced by 63 other may take its place-a philosophy born percent, from 48,814 to 17,883. Likewise, 71 out of the survival of an elite few who will percent of the number of officials authorized take it upon themselves to be more reserved to stamp material_have lost that authority; ·and therefore less arbitrary but no less equiv- the number nc;>w stands at 1056 as compared NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ocating and secretive about things· which to a previous high of 3643. Elsewhere, in the should be made general knowledge, not CIA, there has been an 81 percent reduction ·buried in dusty archives. of. top se?ret classifiers. History, after all, is the record of nations' HON. TOM RAILSBACK Certainly, all this is welcome, and I .mistakes as well as of their successes. A na­ OF ILLINOIS tion which impedes the full recording of his;. include Mr. Berg's editorial in full at tory will only enhance in its citizenry a IN THE HOUSE. OF REPRESENTATIVES. this point 'in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. naievete about history that is at the very Wednesday, June 27, 1973 DECLASSIFYING HISTORY least threatening to its good political judg­ Whatever else may offer up Richard Nixon ment, at worst a mocking c'ontradication of Mr. RAILSBACK. Mr. Speaker, the as sacrificial grist for the mill of criticism, he the sounder principles upon it which it was National Science Foundation today com­ has accomplished one noteworthy thing that 'founded. mands a position of eminence. While it has received far too little attention in the retains the support of basic scientific re­ press. search at the core of its mission, it has By executive order on March 8, 1972, the YOUTH CRIME also stepped into the forefront of sup­ President established the Interagency Clas­ porting efforts to find answers to many 'sification Review Committee, after the Penta­ of our most pressihg scientific problems. gon papers dispute brought charges of exces­ Among these are problems related to en­ 'sive secrecy in the government. HON. LAWRENCE J. HOGAN As a direct result of that executive order, OF MARYLAND ergy research and technology, problems the number of officials authorized to classify rel,ated to specific regional environments, .secret documents has been reduced by 63 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and problems related to municipal and per cent, from 48,814 to 17,883. Likewise, 71 Wednesday, June 27, 1973 human services needs. per .cent of the number of officials authorized I have watched with great interest the to stamp material have lost that authority; Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, when I first progress of the Foundation's new ex­ the number now stands at 1056 as compared came to Congress, I introduced· legis)a­ perimental research anbrother Tyrone, 19, have entered innocent "The truth of the matter is that is the could get together at this gate to the world's pleas and are awaiting trial. most difficult job of everything we are get­ largest Army base, a place called Long Binh. Marshall pleaded guilty in April, five days ting ready to do. So that is the toughest It had an American name, too. It was called before his 22d birthday. Persons who enter one." Clements said in his press conference. The Meat Market. "I certainly wouldn't expect any significant guilty pleas before they reach 22 are eligible Over Long Binh for a sentence under the more lenient Youth problem," Spangenberg said when asked Corrections Act, instead of an adult sentence. about the shift in the plane's center of NoRTHSHIELD. Now the Americans are gone. Marshall was ordered to the Petersburg, gravity. "That never entered my mind. It is They have felt the world's largest Army base Va., federal youth facility by U.S. District a relatively small weight. It is inconceivable and tons of debris. There are no friends here Judge Joseph C. Waddy. At the end of 60 that that could be a problem." But redesign­ now, just relics and remembrances of past days, corrections officials are to report to the ing the F-15 to operate off a carrier, he triumphs, of mistakes and expenditures. court whether they feel Marshall will benefit said, would require "a new structure from Over wreckage from treatment under the Youth Correc­ nose to tail." NORTHSHIELD. There were billions of dollars tions Act. At another point, Spangenberg termed worth of goods, hundreds of thousands of "absurd" a statement by Clements that the people sent here. What is left behind is electronic equipment amounted to half the wrecked and used and dead. costs of the plane. SUBSTITUTE PROTOTYPE PRO- Baby in crib If the Pentagon followed Clements' pro­ GRAM FOR F-14 totype approach, adopted the modified F-15 NORTHSHIELD. Except for this-also left e.nd bought a total . of 696 planes-part behind-but doomed to live. HON. ANGELO D. RONCALLO F-14 and part modified F-15-the total cost ACT I would come to $10.6 billion or $15.2 million Over freeze of birth OF NEW YORK apiece, Spangenberg said. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NoRTHSHIELD. All babies are born naked, soiled, protesting, shocked. Wednesday, June 27, 1973 Action begins Mr. RONCALLO of New York. Mr. THE SINS OF THE FATHERS­ NORTHSHIELD. Most Of them get over it. Speaker, I read with interest the follow­ VIETNAM'S DYING ORPHANS Before dissolve to Quang Tri ing article by Orr Kelly in today's Wash­ NORTHSHIELD. But to be born in Viet Nam ington Evening Star and Daily News is to begin where the apocalypse had just concerning the high cost of a prototype HON. PATSY T. MINK ended. This is what remains of Quang Tri program to find a substitute for the OF HAWAU city, the way it was when we filmed there NavY's F-14 fighter plane and I wish to in February, 1973. This is the place where the share this information with my col­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES four horsemen rode. They were called Plague leagues. Wednesday, June 27, 1973 War, Famine and Death. ' CLEMENTS CHALLENGED Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, in a recent Over cemetery (By Orr Kelly) National Broadcasting Co. television NORTHSHIELD. To live in the presence of The cost of a prototype program to find death is common and even necessary here. program, the American people saw a This place, in the heart of Saigon, is a ceme­ a "cheap" substitute for the Navy's F-14 shocking indictment of their Govern­ fighter plane will run to more than a half tery. But refugees began living among the billion dollars-at least twice as much as ment's inaction in the tragedy of Amer­ tombstones 20 years ago. Now the grave estimates given to Congress by top Pen­ ican-fathered Vietnamese orphans. markers are houseposts and lamposts and tagon officials last week, the Senate sub­ The program depicted the orphan's playground toys. Few in Viet Nam can re­ committee has been told. plight in pictures, in a way that words member a time when there was no war. The testimony-frequently couched in ·could not accomplish. I hope the public Just before incubator caustic and irreverent terms-came yester­ learned the extent of their great need, NORTHSHIELD. It is not a promising place day from George S. Spangenberg, who re­ for many of the orphans are dying of to begin living. tired last week after 38 years as a Navy malnutrition, disease, or simply the lack civilian expert on fighter plane development. On incubator Chief target of Spangenberg's testimony . of a loving parent. NORTHSHIELD. For those who survive the was Deputy Defense Secretary William P. As the author of legislation, cospon­ apocalypse, who get to breathe of the Clements Jr., who told the Senate tactical sored by 60 of my colleagues, which will cleansed air ... more trouble may lay ahead. a1r war!are subcommittee last week that he help remove immigration obstacles to It has been written that "the sins of the wanted to continue limited production of American adoption of these orphans, I fathers shall be laid upon the sons." It mat­ the F-14 while searching for cheaper alter­ commend NBC's attention to this prob­ ters very much who the fathers are. It is native to the $19.2 million plane. lem. important to know that the Vietnamese are Although Clements said cost studies were racists. They have always been. still underway, he stimated that the proto­ While the written narrative conveys NoRTHSHIELD. All these people are refugees type program, in which modified versions .of only a partial concept of the visual pres­ from the war in VietNam but they are seg­ the F-14 and the Air Force F-15 would be entation, I am inserting it at this point regated by an old Vietnamese concept. Over built and tested against each other, would in the RECORD so that my colleagues can in the solid buildings are Vietnamese re­ cost in the neighborhood of $250 million. have the benefit of this information: fugees. On this side of 'the road are people But Spangenberg showed the committee THE SINS OF THE FATHERS of a different color. They live in hot filthy Navy estimates that the cost of developing tents far from home. TEASE an alternative to the F- 14 will run to at They are a very subjugated minority. least $582 million. NoRTHSHIELD, This place, Viet Nam, is like Instead of spending money on a proto­ most of the world. It is more involved in sur­ On Montangards, after SOF type program, Spangenberg said, the coun­ viving than in living, more committed to NoRTHSHIELD. These people are called Mon­ try could save more than $1 billion simply mere existence than to enjoyment. Like most tangards. That's a French word that sup­ by building the F-14 planes at the most of the people of the world, those who live posedly pertains to people from the moun­ economical rate of 72 a year. here have black hair, black eyes and terrible tains. But it doesn't. As part of the language When asked what he would do to lower hungers. But Viet Nam is special too. It's a of the Vietnamese majority, it is applied to the price of the F-14, Spangenberg replied scar on the conscience of all men. It's a junk any of the 33 aboriginal tribes, those who without hesitation: pile where old weapons rust and new little look different and live differently. A Mon- June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22171 tangard is as Vietnamese as a Navaho -is ·he isn't what his mother is and what his has, not even an exceptional family. The American. In Vietnamese-Montangard is a friends are and there's something wrong with average family can give a child so much very dirty word. About like "nigger." him and he doesn't know why. more than the most fantastic institution. Montangara camp, just before dissolve to NORTHSHIELD, What's wrong With him is Slums mixed children that he's just a small statistic. MUNRO. The position that the United States NORTHSHIELD. Maybe. The average family NORTHSHIELD. So Viet Nam had a special government has taken, and particularly my here is not only hungry but large. There are . feeling for different-looking people before office, is that the best way to help the racially­ about 15 million people in the country and they ever were born. And if your mother is mixed child is to st-rengthen the services half of them have been refugees at one time Vietnamese and your father American . . • across the board in VietNam for all children or another. One of seven still is. That's near­ any color American . . . you are aware of because after all, the Vietnamese govern­ ly a million. that feeling. It is almost certain that you ment sees these children as Vietnamese chil­ NORTHSHIELD. The city iS Where most Viet ­ have no father around. It is likely that you dren and there are many other children be­ namese people huddle now, trying to hide will be segregated from the rest of the com­ sides racially-mixed kids that have special from a war that hasn't ended, trying to find munity, possibly in an orphanage. needs. work and food and some spirit of survival. In orphanage over babies in cribs Quoi. Our country has borne the greatest responsibility and damage and we have allies NORTHSHIELD. In the whole population of MuNRO. So we have focused more on what who come here and help us. If we consider Viet Nam, there aren't very many of them. is it we can do to help children in Viet Nam, the orphans and the abandoned children are U.S. aid mission and within this, the racially-mixed children victims of the war and if we say this war is GARDNER MUNRO. The Ministry of Social may be one group of kids with special not our war alone, I feel our allies would Welfare has reached, a, determined a figure problems. have some responsibility to help us in help­ of ten to fifteen thousand racially-mixed NORTHSHIELD. Viet Nam has many prob• ing these children. lems. Those of the racially-mixed children children, most of them living in the extended Doctor Wertz community or with their families with a few are far down the list of priorities. That's hundred living in orphanages. We certainly understandable. Unless you are one of them. NORTHSHIELD. They used to help a lot. support this figure. ACT II Doctor Wertz used to come to an orphan­ NoRTHSHIELD. And when you speak of ten age on his time off from patching up helicop­ NORTHSHIELD. A ZOO that's well-stocked ter pilots. Now he's home and so are most to fifteen thousand racially-mixed, are most offers a spectator a wide array of representa­ of those by American fathers? of his patients. But the litle ones he helped tive species. This is the Go Vap orphanage are still in DaNang, still needing him and MUNRO. Well, there•s no way of knowing, in Saigon. It's a zoo. A visitor can see starv­ of course, how many are by American fathers not getting him. ing children, maimed and crippled children, Gls or fathered by any other foreign nationals, dying children, far too many children. but we would assume that the large increase NORTHSHIELD. A COUple Of million Ameri­ in the number over the last six or seven Go Vap Portraits cans came here on a military mission. 46 years has been as a result of American troops NoRTHSHIELD. They got here the hard way. thousand of them were killed here. It being here. But I have to make the point Most of their fathers were killed in the war changed American history, and spread that there have been many other troops that has destroyed nearly a generation of tragedy through American society. It changed here also, and many civilians. Viet Nam's young men. Many of their moth­ this society, too. There were other things Ministry of social welfare ers were killed, too. But an appalling number these giants brought along with their guns of them got here by being lost from their and tanks and bombs. Now all the Americans PHAN Naoc Quoi. Up to this time we con­ mothers, abandoned by them. It was the are gone. They took with them much of the sider the mixed blood children in Viet Nam easiest way for the mothers to handle the compassion and caring these children ever Vietnamese children. I do realize their needs shame of their motherhood. There are 700,- knew. They took with them a show of charity might be different sometimes but a, as a 000 orphans or half-orphans in the Repub­ and wealth the children never will know whole, the majority of the Vietnamese people again. They cared but they had leave. think they belong to this country. lic of VietNam. If the United States had the to same percentage of its population in that There is a generosity gap that cannot be NoRTHSHIELD. What problems will a mixed filled. blood child, particularly a half-black child, condition; there would be 10 million Ameri­ face in later years? can children without parents, without Quoi. We would be grateful to any help PHAN Naoc Quoi. Well, if their families are homes, without hope. Go Vap is the largest ·given to us to help these children. But I do not want them to be singled out because we needy families, if their mothers and relatives OJ;phanage of more than 130 here. It's cannot take care of them-by taking care of neither the best nor the worst. There are never know who is their father and we them I mean providing a good education for about 12 hundred little people here and don't want to feel that they are different or them-loving them and so on-they might only 12 nuns to take care of them. Taking they are better or they are worse than other have problems, a, in the neighborhood, in care has come to mean keeping alive. Suc­ children. school, because they don't have the necessary cess is limited. If they survive, most of these Blind help they need at home. people will remain penned here until they NORTHSHIELD. To be blind, black and or­ are adults. They are symbols of the apoc­ Volunteer social worker phaned in this place is to be very special. alypse, especially of an awful famine. They A disproportionate number of the children MicHELLE w·ENTZELL. The mothers who are starving for love. here are half-black. That's because they are have these children are discriminated against. the ones most apt to be abandoned, to be They cannot get jobs in the normal Viet­ Eating NORTHSHIELD. Much Of the stuff of life left in orphanages. The Vietnamese feel that namese society. Now when there were large it's not as bad to be half-white so children concentration of foreigners here, especially comes from the United States aid program, through the Ministry of Social Welfare of of white fathers often are kept by their American troops, they were employing thou­ mothers. There aren't more black children, sands of these women. the government of Viet Nam. It amounts to five cents worth a day for each child. just more of them in orphanages. That's You didn't ask a woman when you em­ where they wait, grateful for tiny favors, ployed her if she had any mixed kids. You Dying area hopeful and doomed. employed her. The Vietnamese will not hire NORTHSHIELD. Every day, new babies are ACT III a woman who has mixed children to work born and abandoned to places like this. for them in any capacity except the very, Many of them die here. . . . 70 per cent of Hudson at Sacred Heart the most menial imaginable: part-time fill­ those who come here, usually in the first NORTHSHIELD. Captain Hudson used to be in for their maid when she goes on vaca­ few weeks, sometimes more slowly. Most of a helicopter pilot based at DaNang. At Sacred tion-that sort of thing. If the mother has them die of malnutrition. They are under­ Heart Orphanage he met a little girl and not stashed away some money, she's in nourished in every way. The opposite of chose her to be his daughter. From among trouble. She can't even feed the child, let love is not hate; it's indifference. Indiffer­ the many, he selected this one and she is part alone give it the extras that she would like to. ence, even unavoidable indifference, is a of an American family. Captain Hudson is Quox. 'J:f the families love them enough I cause of death. home in the state of Washington now and think they have a chance to grow up in this Quor. I understand and I realize that our so is she. country like other children. Probably some­ abandoned ai}.d orphaned children don't Over orphanage scenes times people might see that they are different. have a family or a home of their own. That NoRTHSHIELD. When you sit in an American Over black child _walking is why voluntary agencies as well as the living room and watch a television program, Quox. They might have difficulties like government try to do our best to provide it is likely that you feel that adoption of other people who have some kind of a them a llome. It can be an orphanage but these abandoned children is the clear solu­ handicap of those who are underprivileged. we try to help them. tion to a simple problem. It seems apparent WENTZELL. Now picture a child, all right, WENTZELL. An orphanage in Viet Nam is that almost any American home is better going to school. A little boy, a little girl, and not physically equipped to handle all of the than an orphanage or an alley or a jungle. everybody saying to him "you're an American orphans that exist here. It isn't financially But while the problem is simple, the solu­ child, you're an American child, you're this equipped, it isn't equipped with sufficient tion is not. Antiquated, complicated laws or that," and, and from the time he can personnel and it isn't equipped with the govern adoptions in Viet Nam. The Amer­ understand his language, he's being told that emotional stab111ty that the average family ican laws are not much more helpful. Tlie 22172 EXTENSIONS . OF REMARKS June 28, 1973 orphanages are generally reluctant to put Army fathered a great many children, lost fore they should be given the opportunity at themselves out of business by giving up their a war and got out. Those remaining chil­ some point in life to opt for American citi­ children. And many of the orphanages are dren, under French law, were afforded French zenship. Now this is a, a, it would give them operated by religious groups that insist on citizenship and a free education in France, very sectarian placements. the opportunity to either stay in Viet Nam or if their mothers chose to send them. There at some point in their life opt to leave for, for Vigorous attempts within the Congress of is no precedent for this in the American ex­ th e United States to make adoptions more the United States whe,re there's a possibility perience. Indo-China never was a colony of the conditions would be much better for sim ple and American responsibility more ob­ · the United States, the Vietnamese never their acceptance in the society. Because I vious haven't worked. In large numbers, the were connected to America through citizen­ children wait and grow. In much smaller believe in Viet Nam this, it's going to be a, ship or occupation. The mothers of these a very, very difficult thing for them to become numbers, people work to make adoption the children of French fathers still send their fully integrated in the society. answer. children off to France to school and a dif­ SRINIVASAN. I was separated from my WENTZELL. I don't think the orphanage ferent life. They gather at Tan Son Nhut air­ should be the last stop, I think it should go father when I was about two years old, I port to say "adieu." Literally. Of nearly 7 believe, I didn't know that, and, a, I lost my beyond that. I think it should go to a fam­ thousand children sent to Europe, only 10 ily. I think every child has a right to a fam­ mother when I was ten years old. That means ever have returned to Viet Nam. I became a totally abandoned child when I ily and there are families, there are families Pullback to victor in the United States and Europe who want was ten years old. And I know what I missed, these children and I think that's where they NoRTHSHIELD. The United States, and I know what these children are missing: should be going. through aid programs, with much food and the love, the care and the personal attention. money and effort, supports all the social wel­ So it's a sort of personal thing for me that Over N .Y. adoption fare programs of the Republic fo Viet Nam. I want to give to these children what I NORTHSHIELD. A few get out. Now there are The Pearl Buck Foundation specifically helps missed when I was young. international organizations beginning their the racially-mixed children. And so does TROTT. I know myself in terms of my life, work with the government of South VietNam a tiny, new organization called the Viet­ a, you, you find yourself ostracized. You find to make successful adoptions more likely. namese-American Children's Fund. It aids yourselves being referred to as, say, as But the laws and ideas are old and cumber­ in adoptions and orphan care from an apart­ "nigger." But here it probably would be a some. For each baby brought happily to a ment in Saigon. much stronger term. Your mother would waiting American family, there are dozens Vietnamese-American Children's Fund be called a prostitute, a, and you'd be re­ unhappily growing up in orphanages far ferred to, a, in various derogatory terms and away. VICTOR SRINIVASAN. I have more or less these are the sorts of things that really get Over black baby cu about sixteen kids under my personal care home to you. at the moment. Three of them are totally NORTHSHIELD. And there is another ques­ abandoned. One a, a the parentage could Over orphanage scenes tion: where does each child belong? not be established, but I think one of my TROTT. One must always think in terms Quoi. Adoption is a very good solution for little girls is half-Cambodian and a another "where do I fit, where do you belong and abandoned and homeless children, but over­ girl is fathered by a black American and, a, how I fit into a.ny particular setting or situ­ seas adoption is a very difficult process. I the boy also, I believe, a boy, the features I'm ation?" So the individual must be able to, think a few of our children need overseas talking about, was fathered by a black Amer­ a, in his own terms, evaluate his own situ­ adoption and among these I think many of ican. These three children are staying with ation and be able to figure out how he fits in the mixed blood children might benefit from me right under my, under our roof, and we what particular setting amd, but the condi­ overseas adoption but I don't think that if are taking care of them, me and my wife. tions, a, are such that, a, we.'re not always a child is mixed he necessarily needs overseas Apart from them, I have a few more chil­ able to be free. adoption. .dren who stay with the mothers but I help Orphans CUs I feel people who want to adopt children these children go to school, to a boarding NoRTHSHIELD. Freedom's just another should be people who feel that they are able school, and I pay the school fees. They to provide a loving home, a good home for the word for nothing• left to lose, according to stay in the school where they have their a song stm popular. Freedom also has been child. At the present time many people feel education, food and everything, and on compelled to adopt Vietnamese children be­ denied as the possession of choices. There weekends, every Saturday, the mothers go to are very few choices if you're the wrong color cause they feel that they have some respon­ the school, take the child to her home and sibility for that. So you might consider, call in a place where color matters. It's critically bring the child back to the school on Sunday important for everyone to determine where it a guilty complex, and I feel that in adopt­ evening. ing children these things should be ruled he belongs. It's somewhat more simple to out. Mother and children in market know where he doesn't belong. It's even more On trucking shot of cribs NORTHSHIELD. However many half-Amer­ difficult to know where you belong if you're ican children there are in Viet Nam, most not ~?,.ure what you are: half-black, half­ NoRTHSHIELD. Miss Quai must question brown; or half-brown, half-white: if you've motivations because she has a single-minded are with their mothers. Each Uves the same fatherless difficult life as any other half­ brutally been told and shown how different motivation herself. She must be concerned you are. To know where you don't belong is with nothing but the welfare of each child. orphan. But they are young and so is the incipient feeling here of anti-Americanism. difficult. To know where you do belong is On walk Both the children and the feeling of hos­ essential. Not to know is not to live. NORTHSHIELD, Most Of the adoptions tility can be expected to mature. Misfortune ACT V come from orphanages but sometimes Miss takes many forms, more here than in most China Beach family Wentzell must search further. places. This woman, for instance, was NORTHSHIELD. One day, a year ago, the Over walking shot married to an American soldier. Their three man went home. The woman thought he had WENTZELL. I've found that there are children have U.S. passports. But they can't promised to arrange for her to follow and many different types of orphanges and use them because they don't know where become his wife. She still waits near the many different types of mothers, of children to go to join their father. He left a year and empty Marine Corps base where she worked with problems in this country. There are a half ago and sent money to his family here and lived. She waits and the three children many different situations, and each one has for nine months. For the last nine months, wait and the community shuns them. It's to be looked at for what it is. he has sent none. He's a black man in Amer­ beautiful here. And lonely. For the children, WENTZELL. It's too big a problem for ica and no doubt has problems of his own. there are few friends. But they do have a the country to handle alone. It's our re­ SRINIVASAN. I do definitely recognize a mother. And love. special problem with these mixed-blood chil­ sponsibility, too, and we want to help them. In hamlets I want to help them, there are a lot of peo­ dren because, a, because of their parentage. ple who want to help them. The people who When they grow, they're definitely going to NORTHSHIELD. This is another fortunate are trying to adopt want to help them. They encounter some kind of embarrassing situa­ child. She has a mother. Her father is an un­ want to take a life and bring it into their tions in the society, a, especially the black known soldier, somewhere else. Her mother home and make something beautiful out of ones. I'm quite sure they're not going to sort used to have eight children and a husband. a child's life that would have been very sad of, a, they'll be the odd-balls in the society The husband has been dead for seven years here despite the most desperate efforts of and, a, the white ones . . • they're liked and so are three sons who were killed in the orphanages and mothers and even the gov­ by most of the Vietnamese people. But even war. This daughter was born after the woman ernment. They just can't handle the prob­ then, sometimes or other a crude remark worked at a U.S. Army Base. This one is lem. One has to help them. can be passed about how the child was lucky, too. She has a mother and a grand­ born, you know, somebody can call them a father. Her father probably doesn't know she On weeping woman bastard or something like that. exists. Surely she doesn't know that he ever NoRTHSHIELD. This woman has had four Regional Director, Care did. These people are in hamlets in the children by American fathers. One has been scarred countryside of South Viet Nam. In adopted. She is pregnant with a fifth. RoBERT G. TROTT. In terms of a, the, a, the black child in particular, I think that patri­ years past, many of the young girls went to French children mony might be one way of assisting these the cities, where the Americans were, where NoRTHSFIELD. France used to own this children. In other words, these children have the jobs were. They worked as maids or bar­ place. In its last years here, the French been fostered by American soldiers so there- girls or prostitutes. Now they are back. Most June . 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22173: of them with babies have kept tli"em and · know that he will be enjoying the begin- WHAT IS COMMUNISM­ kept hope and trust. ning of what we hope will be many happy CHAPTER V Birth years of a well-deserved retirement. NoRTHSHIELD. From now on, almost every new person born in Viet Nam can enter his HON. ROBERT PRICE country, sure of his race. He, like each of us, will begin naked, soiled, protesting and PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER OF TEXAS shocked. But he will not be racially-mixed in EDUCATION SHOULD RETAIN TAX IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a place where that's important. INCENTIVES Wednesday, June 27, 1973 Orphanages NoRTHSHIELD. Soon there will be no more Mr. PRICE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as half-American children born here. But there HON. ROBERT P. HANRAHAN part of my continuing series of state­ still will be at least 25,000 of them resting OF ILLINOIS ments analyzing communism as a sys­ unwanted, waiting. The governments of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tem and idealogy, today we shall ex­ United States and of the Republic of Viet Wednesday, June 27, 1973 amine an aspect which strikes close to Nam agree that there are fewer than 25,000. home, that is, the role of a Communist Responsible social workers know there are Mr. HANRAHAN. Mr. Speaker, there in the parliament-or when a legislator more. Whatever the number, each small per­ is much talk these days of great reforms son is unique and each is in trouble. The is actually not a legislator. two governments also agree that the racially in our Federal tax structure. Most as­ v mixed children must not be separated, must suredly, movement in this direction is It is held as an axiom in communism not be helped in special ways that accen­ a healthy and progressive indication. The that the economic forces of produc­ tuate their differences. The two governments dedicated Members who serve on the agree that something muf?t be done about tion-base-determine the type and na­ Committee on Ways and Means have ture of social, political, and cultural in­ speeding up the adoption process. They agree heard long and careful studies on the but there has been no acceleration. The war many facets of this complex issue. They stitutions-superstructure. In effect, the is over-for everybody else. are to be highly commended for their State is a part of the superstructure, Singer continuing perserverence to the many and in a capitalistic society, the State NoRTHSHIELD. The most popular song­ noble goals that fall under the banner of is a tool of oppression of the bour­ writer in South VietNam writes only about "tax reform." geoisie--owner-class. war. He's against it. So the government and As Marxism-Leninism holds that com­ the Viet Cong-equally-consider him dan­ There is one aspect of tax reform that I hope the Members consider particu­ munism can only come into existence gerous. Only the people love him. This is when the proletariat-worker class­ what Trinh Cong Son has written: larly carefully, though. While they strive seizes control of the state, an essential I pass to you a mother's gift to achieve more equitable schedules for A sad VietNam, a mother's gift Federal income, gift, and estate taxes, I commitment to revolution must follow. A thousand years of Chinese reign hope the financial dependence of private Violent revolution is a tactic which Com­ A hundred years of French domain institutions of higher learning on such munists do not hesitate to employ when Full twenty years of civil war, incentives will not be overlooked. Such expedient, but the use of violence has A mother's gift: a heap of bones its limitations and Communists are A mother's gift: a hill of tombs institutions function to a large degree on pirv~te donations. To discourage this Machiavellian enough to believe that the A full 20 years of civil war, end justifies the means. Hence, at times A mother's gift is barren land support by unfavorable altering the tax A mother's gift is burning hands structure would be to critically jeopar­ nonviolence is a more practical form of A mother's gift is half-breed men, dize the quality of education in this revolution, and Communists have learn­ . A mother's gift is two-faced men. country. ed to make skillful use of nonviolent rev­ Over black child freeze frame Let me repeat that I have every con­ olution in its various forms. One special NoRTHSHIELD. An Ernest Hemingway short fidence in my ·colleagues who are in­ target of nonviolent revolution is the story begins with th.is sentence: "In the fall, volved in writing a tax reform package in seat of power in all capitalist "bour­ · the war was always here, but we did not go which this Congress will be able to take geoisie democracies"-the parliament. to it any more." The title of the story is great pride. I simply take this oppor­ When necessar.y, Communists seek to "In Another ·country." tunity to urge that this important con­ influence the parliament by the use of sideration not be slighted. Accordingly, devices such as strikes, demonstrations, I submit herewith a resolution adopted petitions, front organizations, et cetera. FRANK E. BATTAGLIA RETIRES at the 200th annual meeting of the board But even more effectively, where possible of trustees of Dickinson College. This the Communist Party seeks to elect one resolution was brought to my attention or more of its members directly to the HON. HAROLD R. COLLIER by Samule W. Witwer, President of the parliament. OF ILLINOIS Board of Trustees at Dickinson. I am Somewhat surprisingly, the role of a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES very grateful to President Witwer, who is Communist in the parliament is not to Tuesday, June 26, 1973 a long time friend, for his genuine inter­ enact laws as much as it is to frustrate est and concern over this· matter: Mr. COLLIER. Mr. Speaker, the retire­ the will of the non-Communist parlia­ mentary majority and to exploit the ad­ ment of Frank E. Battaglia on June 30 TAX LAW ON CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS RESOLUTION vantages inherent to an elective office will mark the end of an era. Only 10 of Whereas, the charitable contribution and the present Members were here 30 years for the purpose of promoting party long-standing governmental policy of provid­ propaganda and programs. A Communist ago when Frank began his labors in the ing incentives in the Tax Law for Charitable House of Representatives. Giving comprise a basic tenet of the Ameri­ in the parliament does not view himself Durhg the three decades in wilich he can way of life; and, as a legislator nor does he regard himself has served the people's Representatives, Whereas, in the best tradition of citizen­ to be obligated to the rules, decorum, or he Las been faithful, loyal, and c _.lscien­ ship, the charitable contribution is seen as general purposes of the parliamentary a voluntary, discretionary act in the interest system. tious. I have been amazed at his ability to of others; and, take down the torrent of words that flows Although the Marxi-st-Leninist notion Whereas, the quality and diversity of col­ of revolutionary parliamentarism has • from our lips day.after day, without los­ lege and university education rely substan­ ing his equanimity. No matter how often tially on private giving; and, through the years undergone certain the words are mispronounced, the infini­ Whereas, voluntary financ-ial support has cosmetic changes and refinements, the tives split, and the metaphors mixed, been a hallmark of American higher educa­ essential ingredients have remained con­ somehow Frank and his associates tion since colonial days; stant. As defined in the authoritative straighten them out and we read them Now therefore be it resolved, that the Thesis of Statutes of the Third Commu­ in all their purity the following morning Trustees of Dickinson College, by this resolu­ nist International, the revolution is to tion, do hereby assert and record their unani­ be advanced within the walls of the par­ in the RECORD, mous support for the retention of present tax Mr. Speaker, when we return to this incentives which, to a large extent, have en­ liament in the following manner: historic Chamber after the Independence abled the College to perform its socially valu­ REVOLUTIONARY PARLIAMENTARISM Day recess, Frank will be gone. We will able educational services for two hundred 1. The Communist Party in general and miss him, but it will be some comfort to years. its Central Committee should, during the 22174 EXTENSIONS OF REMAR{(S June 2B, 1973 preparatory stage, before th& parliamentary Amendment to H.R. 8916 offered by Mr. financial misconduct in Federal cam­ elections, inspect very carefully the quality RAn.sBACK: of the personnel for the parliamentary frac­ On page 35, at lines 13 and 14, strike "$181,- paigns. This new Agency would take the tions. The Central Committee should be re­ 278,000" and insert in lieu thereof $83,372,- responsibility for monitoring campaigns sponsible for the parliamentary Communist 000". and enforcing the law out of the hands fraction. The Central Committee shall have On page 36, line 23, strike "$12,200,000" of political appointees who may be the undeniable right to reject any candidate and insert in lieu thereof "$12,909,000". tempted to overlook infractions by their of any organizations, if it is not perfectly benefactors. convinced that such candidate will carry on a real Communist policy while in parliament. CONTRmUTIONS LIMITATIONS 2. When the elections are over, the orga­ Second, to rid the electoral process of nization of the parliamentary fractions must FEDERAL ELECTIONS REFORM ACT the corrupting influence of the special in­ be wholly in the hands of the Central Com­ terests and the big money fatcats, this mittee of the Communist Party-whether proposal would limit contributions from the party in general is a lawful or unlawful HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON one at the given moment. The chairman and OF CALIFORNIA any one source to $1,000 for cor~gres­ the bureau of the parliamentary fraction IN THE HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES sional and senatorial campaigns and of Communist must be confirmed in their $2,500 in Presidential campaigns. functions by the Central Committee of the Wednesday, June 27, 1973 While present law prohibits contri­ Party. Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. butions exceeding $5,000, it is so fraught 3. The Central Committee of the Party Speaker, the tragedy of the Watergate with loopholes that it has become al­ must have its permanent representative in scandal is not so much its indictment of most meaningless. My proposal, however, the parliamentary :fraction with the right would insure effectiveness by requiring of veto. On all important political questions those who abuse the power with which the parliamentary fraction shall get prelim­ they were entrusted, but the implication candidates to provide written authoriza­ inary instructions from the Central Com­ that all in Government operate in a tion before any political committee mittee of the Party. shady atmosphere where corruption, could receive contributions, or make ex­ 4. A Communist delegate, by decision of bribes, and dirty tricks are rampant. penditures in their behalf. the Central Committee, is bound to combine Granted, the current method of financ­ FINANCING CAMPAIGNS lawful work with unlawful work. In coun­ ing political campaigns can lead to cor­ tries where the Communist delegate enjoys But, rather than rely on the wealthy a certain inviolability, this must be utilized ruption. few to finance a campaign, I believe that by way of rendering assistance to 1llegal Granted, some who participate in the public financing should supplement the organizations and for the propaganda of the electoral process do so solely for financial small, private contributions. party. favors bestowed by the winner. Thus, this bill provides for a system 5. The Communist members shall take all Granted, big-moneyed interests can whereby tax credits, small contributions, their parHa.mentary work dependent on the buy willing politicians. and matching payments from the Fed­ work of the Party outside the pa-rliament. Granted, the special interests play for eral Treasury would be combined to pay The regular proposing of demonstrative meas­ high stakes in elections. ures, not for the purpose of having them the costs of congressional, senatorial, passed by the bourgeois majority, but for the But, Mr. Speaker, simply because a few and Presidential campaigns. purpose of propaganda, agitation, and orga­ abuse the system, this does not mean First, the current tax credit for polit­ nization, must be carried on under the direc­ that all-or even most-of those who ical contributions would increased from tion of the party and its Central Committee. seek elective o:ffice are tools of big­ $12.50 per taxpayer to $50. 7. The Communist deputies must try to get moneyed power brokers. Second, each contribution of up to $50 in touch (under the control of the party) Simply because a few individuals are from an individual would be matched by with the revolutionary workingmen, peas­ willing to sell their souls to the highest an equal sum by the Federal Treasury. ants, and other workers either by corres­ bidder does not mean that all are for ACCESS TO RADIO AND TELEVISION pondence or otherwise. They must in no way act like the Dociaa. Democratw deputies, who sale. Due to the great expense involved in carry on mere business relations with the The broad brush of the Watergate, getting the candidate's name and mes­ constituents. They must always be at the however, has touched everyone in public sage to the voters, campaigns are costly, disposal of the Communist Organizations for life and the public is, indeed, cynical re­ but are not necessarily educational. prop&g18.nda. work in the country. garding the meaningfulness and integrity When 30 seconds of television time is 8. Each Communist member must remem­ of our electoral process. sold for $5,000, very few candidates can ber that he is not a "legislator" who is bound Certainly, the time is ripe for a drastic afford to use this medium, and, when to seek agreements With the other legislators, reform of the campaign financing system but an agitator of the Party, detailed into they do, it is usually for the shortest the enemy's camp in order to carry out the that has tempted too many, with too time possible. orders of the Party there. The Comm.unistt much, with too little accountability. Yet, the critical decisions which face member is answerable not to the Wide mass The slush funds, the suitcases stuffed our country are not simple-they can­ of his constituents, but to his own Commu­ with cash, the laundered money flowing not be explained in 30 seconds-they are nist Party-whether lawful or unlawful. from Mexico, and the backdoor big not analogous to the benefits of spray 9. The Communist member must speak in money deals must be halted, and faith in deodorant or a certain type of soup. parliament in such a way as to be undel'Sitood the integrity of the electoral process must by every workman, peasant, washerwom.an, Issues are complex and positions must be restored. be explained, often at considerable shepherd; so that the Party :may publish his As a first step toward preventing future speeches and spread them to the most re­ length. mote villages of the country • "Watergates," I am today introduc~ng Thus, my proposal would provide can­ legislation which would: First, estabhsh didates for Federal office with 30-minute The next chapter shall deal with the a bipartisan Federal Elections Commis­ blocks of publicly subsidized air time. vanguard-the Communist Party. sion with complete investigative and Presidential candidates would receive prosecuting authority; second, impose a five half-hour blocks; senatorial candi­ fiat $1,000 limitation on contributions to dates, three; and House candidates, two. candidates for the House of Representa­ AMENDMENT TO H.R. 8916 tives or the Senate, and a $2,500 limita­ CONCLUSION tion for Presidential candidates; third, Mr. Speaker, I firmly believe that the HON. TOM RAILSBACK encourages small contributions and per­ public demands a reform of our current mits partial public financing; and fourth, system of elections, and I believe that OF n.LINOIS allows a reasonable amount of free TV a:ffirmative congressional action is des­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time for candidates for Federal o:ffice. perately needed to restore confidence in Wednesday, June 27, 1973 FEDERAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION our system of goyernment. The Watergate scandal is certainly a Mr. RAn..SBACK. Mr. Speaker, I will Rather than permit o:fficials to, in ef­ blot on our history, and it has scarred introduce the following amendment to fect, police their own campaign activities, and ripped our political fabric. Jlut, if State, Justice, Commerce, and Judiciary the bill I atn offering today would estab­ nothing else, it points to the need for (1ppropriation bill on Friday, June 29, for lish an independent bipartisan Federal reform, and it issues a very real challenge the review of my colleagues. I insert the Elections Commission charged with the to those of us in public o:ffice-a chal­ following: authority to investigate and prosecute lenge that we must accept and revive tbe June 28, 197·3 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22175 public's faith in our political institutions of having legal counsel present and not resides, the district where he is served or the and the persons who populate those schooled in the five pointS of consti­ district where he is ordered to appear'. tutional and criminal law, may answer 5. It provides a right to quash a grand institutions. jury subpoena or vacate a contempt order if questions which could constitute implied . the court finds that a primary purpose of the waivers of fundamental constitutional appearance is to obtain evidence regarding rights or lead to incarceration. Not only the activities of a person who is already un­ FEDERAL GRAND JURY REFORM must the witness appear without benefit der indictment for such activities. of counsel, but grand jury witnesses may 6. It provides a right to quash a grand jury HON. BOB ECKHARDT be subpenaed to distant cities, sometimes subpoena or vacate a contempt order if com­ by several grand juries, without any re­ pliance would be unreasonable or oppressive OF TEXAS quirement of a showing of probable in other respects, such as cases involving IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES repetitive appearances before a grand jury cause or reasonableness on the part of or where merely cumulative testimony is Wednesday, June 27, 1973 the Government. And as a culminating sought. Mr. ECK~ARDT . Mr. Speaker, today blow to individual rights, a witness may 7. It provides a right to quash to grand Congressman CHARLES RANGEL and I have be indicted on evidence illegally obtained jury subpoena or vacate a contempt order if introduced legislation entitled "The Fed­ and inadmissible at trial. Even though ~primary purpose in imposing or continuing the evidence may be suppressed when of­ mcarcerat10n is to punish a witness for his eral Grand Jury Reform Act of 1973." refusal to testify. Because of the extreme importance of fered at trial, the defendant must suffer 8. It provides for a stay of the appearance the grand jury's role in our criminal jus­ the unnecessary rigor of a public trial. of t?-e witness before a grand jury until a tice system, I wish to take this oppor­ The grand jury as we know it today is mot10n to quash his subpoena is decided. tunity to call my colleagues' attention the result of an evolutionary process 9. It provides a right to appointed counsel to the bill. of the common law. Congress has never in contempt proceedings if the witness is During the last few years there has systematically defined the substantive unable to afford his own counsel. powers and purposes of the Federal grand 10. It provides a .rigbt for a witness to have been growing concern among those in­ counsel present in the grand jury room dur­ volved in the judicial process that the jury. Instead, tradition and precedent have resulted in a system in which the ing his testimony, but for legal advice only. grand jury has ceased to serve its tra­ Cou~el may not disclose grand jury pro­ ditional role as a guardian of individual cardinal principles have been formulated ceedmgs except when r..cting in his capacity rights and an instrument of truth, and on a case-by-case basis for judges. It as counsel for the witness, who is permitted instead has become an instrument used is time now for legislators to replace the to disclose grand jury proceedings under judges, to take an overview of the sys­ present law. to harass political dissidents and quash · 11. It provides a right for a witness to ·in­ opposition to governmental activity. As tem, and effect the changes necessary to restore the grand jury to its dual role as spe~t and copy a transcript of his grand jury a result, there have been calls for both ·testimony. Free transcripts are made avail- the reform of the grand jury and for its protector of individual rights and in­ able to indigent witnesses. · . complete abolition. vestigatory body . 12. It requires the attorney for the govern­ The Grand Jury Reform Act of 1973 Foilowing is a summary of the major ment, when he starts seeking the indictment answers these calls. Both Congressman provisions of the Federal grand jury of a certain individual, to inform the grand ·RANGEL and I believe that the grand jury reform bill of 1973: jury of his _intentions, and also inform the SUMMARY OF ECKHARDT/ RANGEL GRAND JURY · g::a~d jury _of its right to subpoena such in­ can serve a vitally important role as an dlVldual to appear if it so desires. arbiter of governmental prosecution, and REFORM BILL · 1. .It reduces the maAimum permissible 13. It requires s~ven days notice after the al'i such it . should be preserved. But -period of impTisonment from 18 months to service of a subpoena before a witness must .changes _must be made in the current _appear. before the grand jury, excepf upol,l _six .mortths f9r civii contexp.pt for refUsal to a showmg qf special need by the pr-osecutor. grand jury system, and our· legislation testify l:!efore a grand jury a~ter immunity would: make the necessary changes. 14. It requires a subpoena to p.otify a wit­ has been gr~nted. It prevents so-called "rei't'­ ness of his right against self-incrimination The fifth amendment to the Constitu­ erate~ c.:ontempt" proceedings · by making tion states: ·the s1x month limit cumulative, applying it and his right to counsel, including his right to successive periods of incarceration for re­ to appointed counsel, if he is indigent. No person shall be .held to answer for a .. 15. It prohibits the introduction before a · capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless .fusing to testify before prior, subsequent or other gr_and juries engaged in related in­ grand jury of evidence obtained in violation a presentment or indictment of a Grand _of an individual's constitutional rights. cur­ Jury . . .. vestigations. rent Federal law prohibits the introduction 2. It requires a ten-day interval between of evidence obtained by illegal electronic sur­ At the time the Constitution wa~ . the notice of a contempt hearing given to a veillance before a grand jury. This provision ·adopted, the grand jury had become ac­ . witness for refusing to testify and the date of the bill extends the prohibition to other cepted as a screening device to allo\v of the hearing, in order to give the witness adequate opportunity to prepare for a hear­ illegally obtained evidence. . prosecution of only those persons whom ing that may result in his confinement for .1?. It restricts "use" immunity by pro­ it had probable cause to believe were contempt, and thereby end the current grand . h1b1ting compelled testimony from being . guilty of a crime. Given the Founding jury railroad by which witnesses may find used against a witness in all cases except per­ Fathers' .fears of an oppressive Federal jury before the grand jury or giving false themselves subpoenaed in the morning, im:­ statements to the grand jury. Present law Government, it is not surprising that munized by noon, and jailed for contempt being read to allow such testimony to be used they would include the grand jury re­ by evening. . .in other unrelated perjury or·false statement quirement in the document designed . 3. It requires bail on appeal of conte~pt prosecutions. . orders, unless the Court finds that the ap'­ ·specifically to protect individual rights. 17. It provides a right to counsel or ap­ _peal is frivolous or is taken 'for delay. For Unfortunately, the grand jury of to­ persons not admitted to bail, it requires pointed. counsel in immunity hearings. d~y bears little resemblence to the grand appeals to be disposed of as soon as prac- 18. It prohibits immun,ity from being jury of 1789. Then, the grand jury was a . ticable, pursuant to a:q expedited court granted unless adequate safeguards are taken truly independent body initiating prose­ schedule, in order to alleviate the burden im­ to ~inimize the danger that a foreign prose:­ cutions through presentments based on -posed on appellate courts by present law _cutlOn may be brought against a witness, which requires such appeals to be decided ir{ based on compelled testimony under an im­ the personal observation and knowledge munity order. of its members. Tije royal prosecutor was 30 days. · . 4. ·It provides a right 'to qu-ash grand jury 19. It requires the court to find before ail - ~ot only a.llowed into the grand jury immunity order is granted, that' the testi­ subpoena or va~ate a contempt order if the room. T~day, the prosecutor is not only court finds that the choice of venue of the mony sought is relevant to a legitimate law allowed mto the grand jury room he grand jury would impose a substantial and enforcement investigation. - totally dominates the proceedlngs. unnecessary hardship on the witness· or his 20. To insure that the compelled testimony Rat~er ~han an independent body con­ family. In making this determination, the of a witness granted "use" immunity is not ductmg mquests and preferring charges court may conside:t: the distance involved, later used against him, the bill requires the the significance of the overt acts taking place government to submit a summary of evidence on-its own initiative, today we have a relating to criminal activity by the witness. grand jury that is used as an investiga­ in the jurisdiction, the existence of related investigations in more convenient jurisdic­ 21. It limits "use" immunity to the investi­ tory tool for the prosecutor. The grand tions, and changed circumstances since the gation of serious offenses (those for which jury hears the witnesses asked questions witness was originally subpoenaed. The wit­ electronic surveilance under court order is the prosecutor wants to ask. ness may move to quash the subpoena in currently available). The bill requires the The grand jury witness, denied ·benefit any of three districts-the district where he "transactional" form of immunity to be 22176 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 2.8, 1973 granted if immunity is desired in the investi­ as they marched through a dense jungle to coming,'' said Francisco Santana, equivalent gation of other offenses. destroy a marijuana plantation. of lieutenant governor of Baja. 22. If a witness who is compelled to testify He added, "It is like trying to hold back a under an immunity order is later charged TOP UNDERCOVER MEN SLAIN Seven of Mexico's top Federal Judicial strong river. Until you dynamite its source with an offense, the bill requires his indict­ you can't stem the flow." ment to be handed down by a grand jury Police undercover men have been murdered by the drug underworld. Castellanos Everardo has ordered a con­ ot her than the one before which he testified. tinuing search and seizure campaign by the 23. It requires detailed annual grand jury Two Mexican agents were shot to death State Judicial Police. raports by the Attorney General for each as law enforcement forces converged on a large-scale drug operation run by the Cantu Federal Judicial Police units and army Federal judicial district, describing grand troops have also waged a strong campaign in jury investigations and immunity grants, in­ family near the village of China, 80 miles Baja California. cluding the number of requests for immu­ south of Laredo, Tex. More than 36 police officers have been as­ Federal District Attorneys Carlos Roncaglia n ity, the number approved, the number of in Ensenada and Alfonso Lopez Quiroga in contempt orders, the duration of confine­ sassinated in Nuevo Laredo, 150 miles south of San Antonio, Tex. Tijuana have spearheaded intensive investi­ ments for contempt, and the number of con­ gations and maintained a tough prosecution victions obtained through immunity orders. Federal Judicial Police Commander Ever­ line on arrested drug violators. The bill also requires the reports to describe ardo Perales Rios was machine-gunned last data banks and other procedures by which July on the street. WIDE VARIETY OF DRUG RUNNERS grand jury information is processed, stored, A young American ex-Marine working Contraband drug runners include Ameri­ and used by the Department of Justice. undercover with Mexican agents was found can college students and other young adven­ dead in the northern desert where he had turers, professional persons and businessmen. been bound to stakes and his tongue cut Recently a middle-aged woman in an ad­ out--a warning to informers. vanced stage of pregnancy was caught at the Federal District Attorney Salvador del Toro border with a station wagon load of mari­ MEXICO GAINS IN WAR ON DOPE juana. TRAFFIC-PART I Rosales has been warned by the underworld he is marked for assassination. Drugs are transported across the border in light aircraft, cars, campers, vans, cabin POLICE COMMANDER THREATENED cruisers and ocean-going freighters. HON. BOB WILSON Federal Judicial Police Commander Alberto Recently the famous Mexican ship, Don Francisco Peral Orea has also been threaten­ OF CALIFORNIA Miguel, was raided in Los Angeles harbor ed. But the two officials continue to investi­ after arriving from Mazatlan with a large IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gate, raid and prosecute in Nuevo Laredo. cache of marijuana aboard. Wednesday, June 27, 1973 As Mexican officials and army troops fight Even more recently a young American the drug traffic and die, the stream of drugs clutched a pillow in his arms at a Hermosillo Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, in continues to flow steadily northward from police station, and giggled as he stared at a recent years our neighbor to the south the rich agricultural states of Sinaloa, Jalisco, tall Mexican detective while his two com­ has made remarkable strides in dealing Guerrero, northern Michoacan and from panions watched nervously. with the illegal drug traffic. In commu­ Latin American countries that traffic through Federal District Attorney Francisco Saha­ nities like San Diego in close proximity Mexico as an international crossroads. gun Baca quietly studied the plastic bag con­ Five months ago, Mexican and American taining 15 ounces of high quality heroin, to the border, we face a particular prob­ law enforcement officials joined forces in a worth $125,000 on the street in the U.S., that lem with smuggled narcotics. Many newly-organized, tough task force that has the detective had just fished out of the pil­ :Americans are not aware of the major turned the 2,000 mile border into a sweeping low held by the giggling youth. drug cleanup effort being undertaken by chess game. "He's high,'' the detective remarked as he Mexican officials and I would like to call Cutting off the flow of marijuana is one looked at the wide, dilated pupils of the the following special report from the main goal of the strike force. Heroin is an­ American's eyes. "They didn't used to let the June 17 San Diego Union to the atten­ other. Cocaine is another. users run this stuff but we are seeing every­ tion of my House colleagues: A multitude of other drugs have also been · thing now." scooped up in Mexico including ampheta­ THREE ARRESTED AT ROADBLOCK ABOUT 100 LAWMEN SLAIN-MEXICO GAINS IN mines, barbiturates, peyote, hashish, and The three had been picked up in a road­ WAR ON DOPE TRAFFIC mushrooms that produce a psychedelic effect. (By Vi Murphy) block on a Sonoran highway as they drove ALONG BORDER, INTO INTERIOR back to the United States from Mazatlan. Although more than 100 law enforcement The smuggling war ranges along the bor­ Sahagun Baq_a relaxes on his rare days away personnel and Army troops have been slain der and into the interior of Mexico. from the office flying around the state in a 1n a running battle against narcotics smug­ The border town of Nuevo Laredo, 150 miles light plane spotting new roadblock locations gling, Mexico is continuing an intensive in­ south of San Antonio, Tex., has been a and scrutinizing the cars moving below. ternal war to staunch the flow of contraband notorious battleground for more than a year. The Mexican drug traffic is organized into drugs. more than a half dozen underworld organiza­ Across the sprawling deserts and through San Luis, 20 miles south of Yuma, Ariz., has been one of the most bizarre combat tions, each headed by a leader known to au­ the lush plantation areas, combat rages thorities on both sides of the border. against the tightly organized smuggling areas in Mexico, the hub of a five-month running battle that isn't over yet. The Mexican drug families once moved racket which ma:r:kets billions of dollars of about Mexico with ease. Some enjoyed social 1llegal drugs annually in the United States. Federal troops keep a watchful eye on the rugged mountain country east of Culiacan prominence. But now they are hunted, mem­ It has been a desparate battle with a fear­ bers are being arrested and some have been ful loss of life and equipment sustained on where one of Mexico's most powerful drug barons, Pedro Aviles, is reportedly hiding out. forced into hiding. both sides. In a 13-month period ending in February But officials in the United States and Mex­ "The Mexicans are doing the best they can with what they have in a tough situa­ this year, 5,500 plantations and farms grow­ ico feel progress is being made. Informants ing cannabis sativa, the hemp plant produc­ report the price of drugs is going up on the tion" said Joseph Arpaio, regional U.S. Bur~au of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs di­ ing marijuana and hashish, were destroyed street and the quality is going down. by Mexican authorities along with 6,949 Also, recently, Mexican law enforcement rector for Latin America, who has been headquartered in Mexico City for 3¥2 years. opium poppy farms. units were reinforced by American agents A spokesman for the Mexican Justice De­ and equipment to create an international He explained, "The Mexican authorities ·partment, headed by cabinet minister Pedro strike force that has scored several dramatic have seized a tremendous tonnage of mari­ Ojeda Paullarda, said that in the same 13- victories against the racketeers. juana and an impressive amount of other month period, 310 pounds of heroin was The vast international drug traffic has drugs. seized, 438 tons of marijuana, 41 pounds of been squeezed the last five months in a giant "They are doing a tremendous job that they morphine, 270 pounds of cocaine and 15,025,- pincer movement as Mexican and American are not being fairly recognized for doing." 000 barbiturate capsules and pills. :federal agents moved in from both sides of Gov. Milton Castellanos Everardo of Baja the border. The past four months, 2,300 marijuana and California. unleashed a strong offensive at the 8,215 opium poppy farms and plantations More than a half dozen of Mexico's most border drug traffic after he took office in have been raided, according to officials in the powerful drug operations have been caught December, 1971. Mexican Justice Department, agency super­ 1n a 2,000 mile border dragnet but the vic­ the war. tories have been costly tn lives of Mexican Within seven months, more than $80 mil­ vising drug law enforcement and public funds. lion worth of marijuana, heroin, cocaine and DRUG CONFISCATIONS SINCE FEBRUARY Mexico has lost more than 100 policemen, pUis had been seized and destroyed by the Drugs confiscated in Mexico since February federal judicial officers, undercover men and state Judicial Police headed by Commander include 155 tons of marijuana, a half ton army troops in the past two years in the Salvador Hirales Barrera. of cannabis seeds, 1,400 pounds of hashish, fight against drug smugglers. "We thought we could hit them hard and 90 pounds of opium, 55 pounds of heroin, 152 An entire squad of Mexican soldiers was let them know we meant business and run pounds of cocaine and 1,200,257 barbiturate wiped out by machine gun fire from ambush them out, but the smugglers just kept on capsules and pills. June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REiviARKS 22177 More than 11,736,000 amphetamine cap­ I do not believe I could stomach being (WEVD) on the program "Adventure in sules and pills were captured in the 13-month called an American if my country would Jobs" and gave widespread publicity to the period ending in February and another 805,- grant amnesty for those who didn't have the work which was being carried on at St. 000 have been seized since then. stomach to live up to their obligations to Nicholas Cathedral. Mexican drug arrests for the 13-month their country. Men died obeying the law and In December 1948 Father Feodor was as­ period included 2,356 Mexican nationals, 54 men have been badly crippled because they signed to St. George Serbian church in Pitts­ of whom were farmers and plantation own­ served their country. Now please don't make burgh which had been organized before the ers, and 394 foreigners, many of whom were their sacrifices worthless by granting turn of the century and was in the jurisdic­ Americans. amnesty. tion of St. Nicholas Cathedral. In early 1949 Since February, 765 Mexican nationals have I firmly believe that those who served he was temporarily assigned to care for the been arrested, including 136 farmers, and should not be dishonored by those who did St. Seraphim of Sarov mission parish in Cam­ 132 foreigners, including Americans. not. bridge, Massachusetts to which belonged Arpaio said Americans are in prisons on Very truly yours, noted scholars from Harvard, and, which narcotics convictions or charges in Baja RoNALD J. SVIHEL. was organized by the late Princess Poutiatin, California, Nogales, Hermosillo, Acapulco subsequently Mother Seraphima. and Mexico City. A couple of summer months in 1949 were Confiscated equipment used for running spent in the Mid-west, at the "home parish" drugs included 743 ground vehicles, 15 air­ RT. REV. ARCHPRIEST FEODOR where Father Feodor had grown up. He took planes and two ships during the 13-month KOVALCHUK care of the Holdingford, Minnesota parish period. and was able to get a priest assigned to the Since February, the Mexicans have con­ church by our bishop. He was then sent to fiscated 197 ground vehicles, 31 airplanes and HON. CHARLES J. C'ARNEY Holy Trinity parish in Baltimore, Maryland which was to experience much activity: three ships, the Justice Department official OF OHIO said. Among the many-sided activity of Father In addition, sizable supplies of contraband IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Feodor there was the parish cemetery which drugs slipping through the Mexican net are Wednesday, June 27, 1973 had to be transfered to a new location, the caught at the international border by Ameri­ temple and the rectory were completely re­ can authorities. Mr. CARNEY of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, novated, religious education classes for every­ U.S. CUSTOMS LISTS SEIZURES last week marked the 25th anniversary one were instituted, etc. Two young men of of the ordination of the Right Reverend the parish began to study for the Priesthood U.S. Customs officials reported seizures in and are presently serving the Holy Church 1972 included 68.6 pounds of heroin in 352 Mitred Archpriest Feodor Kovalchuk, as priests. Since his assignment to Nativity seizures; 22 grams of opium in five seizures; pastor of Nativity of Christ Orthodox ­ of Christ in Youngstown, another young 39.9 pounds of cocaine in 135 seizures. Catholic Parish. It was my privilege to man, encouraged by Father Feodor, was or­ Customs agents also captured 302,806 participate in the silver jubilee banquet dained to the Priesthood. pounds of marijuana in 2,994 seizures; 172 held in his honor on Sunday, June 24, On 1 February 1952 Father Feodor assumed pounds of hashish ill 154 seizures and 11.3 1973, at the Tippecanoe Country Club his duties as Pastor of Nativity of Christ million pills in 680 seizures. Church in Youngstown. Father Feodor led U.S. narcotics officials consider use of in Youngstown, Ohio. I am fortunate to be considered a per­ the parishioners in the development of a heroin the major American drug problem. building program which in 1955/ 56 saw the Cocaine ranks second. sonal friend of Father Kovalchuk. He is completion of one of the most beautiful tem­ a man who has enriched the lives of the ples in the area and a new rectory accord­ countless number of people who have ing to his plans. After the mortgage was paid known him over the years. the Holy Altar was consecrated by His Ex­ MINNESOTA VET DISCUSSES Mr. Speaker, I insert into the RECORD cellency, Bishop Dositheus (lvanchenko) on AMNESTY an account of the testimonial held in 16 May 1965. The blessing of the temple and honor of Rt. Rev. Archpriest Feodor the "Rite of Placing the Antimension" was conducted by Archimandrite Dositheus Ivan­ HON. ANCHER NELS~N Kovalchuk: chenko in April 1956. Several years ago Father OF MINNESOTA TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY IN HOLY PRIEST­ was instrumental in purchasing the adjacent HOOD OF ARCHPRIEST FEODOR KOVALCHUK, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES property for future expansion. YouNGSTOWN, OHIO, JuNE 24, 1973 In additional to his parochial duties, Father Wednesday, June 27, 1973 Father Feodor was born 5 March 1924 to Feodor enrolled at Loyola of the East College Mr. NELSEN. Mr. Speaker, I recently the family of Priest Sawa and Matushka in Baltimore and did post-graduate work in Rose in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Soon Education. His studies were interrupted by received a very good letter from one of his parents were assigned to a small country the transfer to Youngstown. However, in my constituents, Mr. Ronald J. Svihel of parish in Holdingford, Minnesota, where he 1967 he won his M.A. degree from Western Madelia, Minn., regarding the subject of received his elementary education and grad­ Reserve University in Slavic and East Euro­ amnesty. Mr. Svihel, a veteran of the uated as valedictorian from the Upsala High pean studies and, by 1970 completed 12 hours Vietnam conflict and a survivor of the School, Upsala, Minnesota. Father Feodor of the Doctoral Program at Case-Western bloody Tet offensive of 1968, expresses a studied at Concord State College in Athens, Reserve in Cleveland. viewpoint which I believe is shared by a West Virginia before transferring to Colum­ In 1963, the Chairman of the History De­ very large number of our fellow bia University and St. Vladimir's Orthodox partment of Youngstown University Dr. Theological Seminary in New York City. In David Behen invited Fr. Feodor to fill in for Americans. 1945 he graduated with the A.B. degree from the Russian history instructor who was on In view of the bills on this subject Columbia and the following year, since both a sabbatical. However, Father remained for pending in Congress, I request unani­ disciplines were carried simultaneously after several more years in the History Department mous consent to introduce Mr. Svihel's successfully completing 90 semester hours teaching courses in Russian history, Soviet letter in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at of work, he was graduated from the semi­ history, Medieval history, and was asked to this point for the benefit of my col­ nary. He was ordinated Deacon by the Most join the Language Department of the Uni­ leagues. Reverend Macari us (Illinsky), Metropolitan versity where he taught Russian, Russian of the Aleutian Islands and North America, literature and Russian Culture until spring DEAR CoNGRESSMAN NELSEN: It has come Patriarchal Exarch for North and South of 1970. During the 1970-71 Academic Year, to my attention through the V.F.W. orga­ America, on 13 June 1948 at St. Nicholas he has taught courses in Russian history, nization that there have been Congressional Cathedral in New York City; and, Priest on Soviet history, Medieval history and Con­ hearings on the matter of amnesty. I wish 20 June 1948 by His Eminence, Metropolitan temporary Civilization at Mount Union Col­ to. make my feelings known to you as I am a Macarius. lege in Alliance, Ohio. Since 1970 he has veteran of the Vietnam confilct and served the Dean, Archpriest Joseph Dzvonchik, at taught Russian language at Woodrow Wilson during the 1968 Tet Offensive. It is my opin­ Pastor" of the Cathedral while the Metro­ High School in Youngstown, and currently ion and that of the V.F.W. that amnesty is politan and the Dean were at the Church teaches there. He also has taught Russian at not a matter for the Congress to decide. Father Feodor was assigned assistant to Chaney High School in Youngstown during Laws govern cases of draft-dodging, deser­ St. Nicholas Cathedral, and was the "acting the 1971-72 school year. In January of this tion and leaving the country illegally. These celebrations in Moscow. He was placed in year he was visiting instructor at Westmin­ men must face the courts. I am opposed to the granting of any general amnesty. No charge of the "English speaking parish" of ster College in New Wilmington, Pennsyl­ American should expect more than justice­ the Cathedral and the Paraecclesia of the vania where he taught a four week intensified no American need settle for anything less. Nativity of the Holy Theotokos. A large group course entitled "Orthodox Catholic Chris­ Amnesty n'leans forgiveness. We cannot pro­ of young people were organized into a so­ tianity." He has also participated in academ­ vide forgiveness for them. Close friends of ciety known as "Club Druzya" which be­ ic symposiums on Russia, the Orthodox mine and I served and paid the price, some came the nucleus of the "youth" parish. As Church, and related topics. He has lectured with their very lives. Those who deserted a young priest -and assistant to the dean, to various groups, institutions and schools. must now pay their price. he was to appear on New York City radio Pather Feodor has been involved for about 22178 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 28, 1973 twelve years in the Church Catechetical Pro­ and was elevated to the rank of Mitred Arch­ "It was apparent, even while he was yet a gram as instructor. He has served as Presi­ priest by His Holiness, Patriarch Alexis. The boy, that he had a 'calling' to Holy Orders and dent of the Eastern Orthodox Catechetical solemn investiture took place in the Holy I remember that he sometimes 'played Association and Conference Chairman. This Theophany Patriarchal Cathedral in Moscow Church' outside the sanctuary while he also conference is held annually each summer at by his Excellency, Bishop Nikodim (now Me­ was deeply interested in assisting me in the Michigan State University as part of its Con­ tropolitan), where Father had the distinct liturgical services. I recall that he always had tinuing Education Program. honor and privilege to wear the precious sil­ a dream of building an 'Orthodox-style' tem­ Father Feodor is a member of the National ver mitre of the late Patriarch Sergius, of ple one day, and despite many problems and Slavic Honor Society "Dobra Slovo," and the blessed memory, at the liturgy. In 1963 he was obstacles, this dream became a reality here American Association of Teachers of Slavic invited to participate in the Golden Jubilee in Youngstown. His firm determination, his and East European Languages. He also holds celebrations marking 50 years of the episco­ vocational goals, formed in childhood were membership in the Ohio Academy of His­ pal consecration of His Holiness, Patriarch held by him with an unrelenting determina­ tory, and in the Alumni Association of St. Alexis, and the Annual St. Sergius Day cele­ tion and though some may have tried to di­ Vladimir Orthodox Theological Seminary. brations of the Russian Church. He was also vert him from his goals, no one was able to He actively participates in the local Com­ invited to visit the Church institutions, her do so. Motivated by what was certainly a di­ mittee of Community Concern of which he clergy and temples in Russia by the Patriarch vinely-given vocation, my son persisted and is amember. He was the first Orthodox priest and spent over two weeks there. In February today I have the joy of seeing his dreams a to be invited to give the benediction at 1964 he was the secretary and translator to reality." the Youngstown University graduation ex­ Metropolitan John (Wendland) while parti­ IN GIVING HONOR TO OUR FATHER FEODOR, WE ercises in August 1967; he also gave the in­ cipating in the Central Committee meetings DEDICATE THIS POEM TO MOTHER MARY COS­ vocation and benediction at the Woodrow of the World Council of Churches at Odessa. SACK Wilson High School commencement in June The previous year he took part in similar (By Leda and John Hartwell Taras) meetings of the WCC in Rochester, New York 1968. They are not gone who pass beyond the clasp Among other honors and distinctions con­ as a simultaneous translator. In May 1968 Father was an official delegate of hand-out from the strong embrace; ferred upon him was the election as Vice­ They are but come so close, we need not President of the Eastern Orthodox Cateche­ to the solemnities marking the 50th Anni­ versary of the Restoration of the Moscow grope with hands, nor look to see, nor tical Association; he has served as Executive try to catch the sound of feet- Secretary for the Patriarchal Parishes of the Patriarchate and was able to visit Yaroslavl' and other Russian cities for about two weeks. They have put off their shoes softly to walk Russian Orthodox Church in the United by day, within our thoughts, to tread States for the past three years and was During the month of July, 1968, he was an official delegate of the Church to the Fourth at night-our dream led paths of sleep. appointed to this post by Metropolitan They are not lost who find the sunset gate­ Nikodim; and he is a member of the Bish­ Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden. Upon returning from the goal of all their faithful years. op's Council. He has written for Diocesan Not lost are they who reach the summit of publications and has served as circulation Sweden, he visited Moscow for the week-end. On still another occasion, in 1969, he was their climb-the peak above the manager and translator of most of the ma­ clouds and storms. terial from Russian into English for the last part of a three-man delegation from the American Exarchate to a Church meeting in They are not lost who find the light of sun five years of the Church's journal; he serves and stars and God. presently as the Publishing Editor for One Tokyo, Japan and via Moscow spent two days there. He was an official delegate from the They are not dead who live in hearts they Church, although he has been associated leave behind. with the journal in various capacities, in­ ~lergy to the Local (Regional) Council of the Russian Orthodox Church which elected His In those whom they have blessed, 'they live cluding that of Editor, since the early fif­ Holiness Peomen, Patriarch of Moscow and a life again and shall live through the ties. He was appointed Liturgist of the Cen­ All Rus, in 1971 at the ancient monastery of years eternal life, and grow each day tral States Deanery. He has translated most the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius at Zagorsk, more beautiful as time declares their of the material and compiled the "Abridged U.S.S.R. where the Council met. Finally, good forgets the rest and proves their Typican," now being enlarged by addi­ Father led a Pilgrimage to the holy shrines of immortality. tional translations; in addition, he has com­ the Church in Russia during the summer of piled and prepared the Fiftieth Anniversary THE PROGRAM, SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1973 1971. 10:00 A.M.: Pontifical Divine Liturgy of Parish book, subsequently published as Father Feodor married Anna Ivanovna "The Holy Liturgy and Other Prayers;" he Thanksgiving Nativity of Christ Church. Korewik in May 1948 and they are the par­ Chief celebrant: His Excellency, The Pa­ has recently compiled and had printed "The ents of three children: Sergius, a graduate Prosthesis" and "The Vesting" as part of the triarchal Vicar, Bishop Makary. His Excel­ of Youngstown State University, and present­ lency Theodosius, Bishop of Pittsburgh and activity of the Central States Deanery. ly doing graduate work in art; Basilissa, a For "zealous Church work" in 1952 Father West Virginia; Mitred Archpriest Photius sophomore language major at Youngstown Donahue, Dean of Central States; Mitred Feodor was awarded the Hypogonation and State; and, Natalia who is in the seventh the Skouphos. On 5 August 1952, by special Archpriest Sawa Kovalchuk, father of the grade. Jubilarian; Archpriest Dennis Havrlliak, Dean Ukaz of His Holiness, Patriarch Alexis, he was Fr. Vladimir Demshuk: "This brief bio­ appointed a member of the Exarchal Coun­ of Eastern States; Priest John Psinka, Pastor graphical sketch cannot hope to portray the St. John's, Campbell, Ohio; Priest Vladimir cil, subsequently elected at each Convocation years of study and scholarship which have of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1954 Demshuk, Pastor St. Nicholas, Reading, Penn­ marked Archpriest Feodor's life, nor the long sylvania; and Jubllarian Archpriest Feodor Father Feodor was awarded the Kamilavkion hard years of service which he has given to and the right to wear the gold pectoral Christ's Church. These few pages have failed Kovalchuk. Cross. As member of the Exarchal Council he to mention the faithful and unfaltering na­ The Choir under the direction of Reader worked day and night with Metropolitan ture of his pastoral ministrations to the Vladimir Maksimoff. Hermogenes and his secretary Professor Alex­ orthodox faithful who have been delivered The ushers: John Holowach, Jr., Stephen ander F. Shishkin in preparing all the ma­ into his care by our Lord. We-your parish­ Holowach, Theodore Liszka, John Krzanow­ terials for the Convocation and adopting the ioners-lift our hearts in prayer to Almighty sky. Constitution which set a new course for the God that on this day, your silver jubilee, He Special guest: His Excellency, James W. Church in America. In November and De­ wm send down upon you His grace and His Malone, Bishop of Youngstown. cember 1955 he made his firs,t visit to Russia blessings granting you His great mercies. We 2:00P.M.: The Silver Jubilee Banquet and as part of a six priest delegation from the pray that He wm grant you many, many Ball, Tippicanoe Country Club on Tippicanoe United States. After this trip, in cooperation years." Road. with Fathers Joseph Dzvonchik and David A PARENT'S REMINISCENCES Prayer by the Assembly and the blessings Abramtsev, he published a lengthy account by His Excellency Bishop Makary. of the trip. He was elevated to the rank of Mitred Archpriest Sawa and Matushka Introduction of the Toastmaster, Father Archpriest at the hands of the late Metropo­ Kovalchuk: "While in a parish in Minnesota, Vladimir Demshuk, Chairman. litan Boris (Vyk) on 27 February 1955. In I traveled occasionally to North Dakota and The Toastmaster, Dr. Matthew Siman. December of that year he was awarded the Wisconsin in caring for a number of smaller Presentation of Guests and Remarks. "Patriarchal Grammata" by Patriarch Alexis. Orthodox communities. Back home, however, Address, Rt. Rev. Archpriest Photius Dona- and another one last year (1972) by Patri­ in the Holdingford, Minnesota parish I often hue, Ph. D., Dean, Pastor St. Andrew's of E. arch Poemen. Father Feodor was received in left behind my nine-year old son Feodor and Lansing, Mich. Prof., Dept. of Religion, Mich. audience by His Holiness Patriarch Alexis provided him with an outline for a "liturgi­ State University. several times, and by Patriarch Poemen. cal worship" and later on with a short sermon Hierarchical Address, His Excellency, The In 1958 he was awarded the jeweled pec­ which he was to deliver to the congregation that gathered to pray and to listen to the Most Reverend Bishop Makary. toral Cross and the right to wear the Palitza. Response, Rt. Rev. Archpriest Feodor Ko­ By Ukaz of the Holy Father Patriarch Alexis sermon. he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir "1: recall Feodor becoming involved in try­ valchuk. First Class, conferred upon him by Metro­ ing his skills at being publisher and printer Closing Prayer by the Assembly and Bless­ politan Boris on 1 May 1960 at the Nativity for he would print a small newspaper entitled ings by the Bishop. Church. The Arrow. Even to this day this interest and Music: The Versatones. In August-September 1960 Father Feodor the sk1lls he had begun to learn as a boy have Honorary Chairmen: Judge John Leskov­ spent about six weeks in the Soviet Union not deserted him. yansky, Dr. Alex Rosenblum, Dr. Alvin W. June 28, -1973 EXTENSIONS OF ·REMARKS 22179 Skardon, Dr. James W. Kiriazis, Dr. David for a proposed constitutional amendment America National Trust and Savings As­ M. Behen, Dr. Matthew Siman, Mr. Sergei to end the forced busing of America's sociation. By 1948 this had become the (George) Markovsky. schoolchildren for the purpose of achiev­ largest bank in the United States with Co-Chairman: Fr. and Matushka Vladimir ing racial balance in our public schools. 517 branches and assets of more than Demshuk, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Karuschak, Mr. & Mrs. John Holowach, Sr., Mr. & Mrs. Michael In so doing, I hold no brief for the . $6,000,000,000. Evankovich, Mrs. Helen Krzanowsky, Mr. & particular wording of this proposed It is only fitting that the stamp bear- Mrs. John Budrevich, Mrs. Anna Calesh, Mrs. amendment-House Joint Resolution . ing a portrait of Amedeo Giannini will Alexandria Faust, Mrs. Mary Furin, Mr. & 286-because there are other similar ones be printed in banknote green. It will cre­ Mrs. John Holowach, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Walter in the hopper. But my purpose in sign­ ate a living memorial to a man who made Demshuk, Miss Martha Demshuk. ing the petition is to stimulate action on such an important contribution to our THE AUTHORITY AND DIGNITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD this matter. It is my understanding that American economic system. For great is the dignity of the priesthood. no hearings on this subject are being Whose sins you shall forgive Christ says, held by the House Judiciary Committee, they are forgiven; and because of this the that none are contemplated, and that as Apostle Paul says: Obey your superiors and TRADE TALKS IN QUESTION be subject to them (Heb. 13:17), and hold a consequence, all congressional action them in great respect and reverence.... concerning busing has come to a stand­ But the priest, even should he order his still. I would hope this information is HON. CHARLES A. VANIK own life in a fitting manner, yet does not erroneous and that some action will be scrupulously have due care for both your life, forthcoming soon. If the effort to secure OF OHIO and the lives of those about him, shall go 218 signatures on the discharge petition IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with the wicked in everlasting fire; and so helps achieve this end, then so much Wednesday, June 27, 1973 he oftentimes while not failing in his own the better. Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, conduct will perish because of yours, if he The American people have a right to has not done all that belonged to him to do. foreign ministers of the European Com­ Knowing then the greatness of their dan­ hear this issue debated. With all due re­ mon Market agreed on a tough and ger, treat them with much consideration. For spect to House procedures, I do not think rigid European bargaining position for as the Apostle Paul goes on to · say: '!'hey they should ever be used to stifle discus­ the Nixon round of world trade talks. watch for your souls; and not simply this, but sion of important issues, or block legisla­ Under present circumstances, there as having to render an account of them. Be­ tion that reflects the will of the people. cause of this you must treat them with may be no Nixon round of trade talks. Our democracy is neither open nor free A heavily vetoed Congress is hardly in honor .... if that is the case. This issue of forced The priest. If he is held in honor of you, a mood for unilateral concessions to the he will be able to take care of what relates to busing is one of the most vexing, con­ President. The Congress has adjusted to yourselves.... Because of this, Paul the troversial and crucial issues facing the vetoes related to the budget, impound­ Apostle says: On behalf of Christ, therefore, American people today. Many citizens ments, and expenditure limitations. How­ we are ambassadors, God, as it were, appeal­ feel very strongly that it is wrong, others ever, the Congress was moved into angry ing through us. ( 2 Cor. 5: 20) that it is desirable. We believe in major­ controversy over the veto of legislative For the gifts of the Spirit are many. And ity rule. So let us debate-and decide. so Christ goes on: Whose sins you shall for­ restraints to the U.S. bombing of Cam­ give they are forgiven them; and whose sins bodia and other portions of Southeast you shall retain, they are retained, indicating Asia. what kind of power He was giving. Later how­ AMEDEO PETER GIANNINI A heavily vetoed Congress is very ever after fifty days, they received the power likely to torpedo the trade bill for a com­ of miracles. And accordingly He says: You bination of any number of reasons: shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit HON. JOHN H. DENT First. Excessive and uncontrolled coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses grants of arbitrary authority to the unto Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea. OF PENNSYLVANIA President, whose exercise of discretion is But why do I say priests? For neither an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES angel, nor an archangel can do anything in currently under congressional scrutiny; regard to what is given us by God. It is the Wednesday, June 27, 1973 Second. Objections to the extension of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit Who Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, as a proud taxpayer subsidized credits to the Soviet disposes of all things; the priest lends his member of the Italo-American delegation Union and other developed nations; tongue and puts forth his hand.... Keeping in the House, I would like to call the at­ Third. Fear of concessions and job all these things before our mind, let us both losses through industrial imports as a fear God and hold His priests in reverence; tention of my colleagues to another gen­ showing them every respect, that through our tleman who shares this fine heritage and tradeoff with the Europeans for in­ own worthy manner of living, and because of ·who is being honored today by the U.S. creased American agricultural exports; obedience to them, we may receive from God Postal Service in San Mateo, Calif. A Fourth. Rising domestic food prices a great reward, by the grace and love of our 21-cent postage stamp is being issued to­ because of excessive, agricultural exports. Lord Jesus Christ to Whom there is honor, day in honor of Amedeo Peter Giannini The President is seeking a trade bill glory and praise, now and ever, unto ages of who was the founder of regional branch which will give him excessive, uncon­ ages. Amen.-St. John Chrysostom. banking in America. trolled grants of authority. He is asking Mr. Giannini, like myself, was the for the power to arbitrarily raise import American born son of Italian immigrant quotas and tariffs--or lower or even parents. He retired from active partici­ eliminate remaining tariffs and quotas. THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL pation in his family produce business to He is asking for a trade bill which is the AMENDMENT TO END FORCED establish a branch of the Bank of Italy equivalent of a Gulf of Tonkin :resolu­ BUSING OF CHILDREN TO in San Francisco, Calif., in 1904. He ac­ tion in international trade and monetary ACHIEVE . RACIAL BALANCE IN tively solicited the business of small de­ management. He is asking for a bill OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS positors and offered liberal terms for which would permit him to reward his loans to farmers and small businessmen. friends and harm his enemies through HON. WILLIAM H. HUDNUT III He was able to salvage sufficient gold and arbitrary and discretionary adjustments OF INDIANA securities after the earthquake in 1906 in tariff and trade policy. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to make a significant contribution to­ The Congress and the American tax­ ward the rebuilding of the city. payer are becoming increasingly angered Wednesday, June 21, 1973 In 1909 he established his first re­ over the grant of taxpayer-subsidized Mr. HUDNUT. Mr. Speaker, on June gional branch bank in San Jose, Calif., loans, credits, and guarantees to finance 25, I signed "discharge petition No. 1" and within 1 year, he had doubled the purchases and investments of foreign na­ that had been filed with the Clerk of the size of his bank through mergers and tions. The Soviet Union has been ex­ House by my freshman Republican col­ purchases. tended hundreds of millions in credits league, the distinguished gentleman In 1928, he organized the Transamer­ at subsidized interest rates. Japan, whose from Tennessee

Bank. On June 21, Scandinavian Airlines point an article on the Luxembourg talks has displayed understanding and con~ System-SAS-bought 12 McDonnell­ which appeared in the Washington Post geniality. His work was perfection in Douglas DC-9-40 jetliners for $72.7 mil­ on June 27, 1973: itself. lion. The U.S. taxpayer-backed Export­ EEC SETS TOUGH TRADE TALK STANCE He has said that he will miss the House Import Bank approved $29 million in di­ LuxEMBOURG, June 26.-Foreign ministers and I know we will miss him. rect loans to SAS, a State-owned air­ of the European Common Market, after a I wish him peace and happiness in his line, to finance 40 percent of the pur­ 20-hour meeting stretching through the retirement and many years to enjoy it. chases. These airPlanes will undoubted­ night, agreed at dawn today on a tough and ly be used on routes on which American rigid European bargaining position for the carriers compete. Yet the loan to SAS was "Nixon Round" of world trade talks. Barely seven hours later, the ministers made at a 6-percent annual rate of in­ were back at work-this time on proposals SPACE RESEARCH AND SEA teres~while domestic airlines compet­ for a free trade area with the Mediterranean EXPLORATION ing on the same routes will probably have nations. The United States has charged such to pay interest rates of 8 to 12 percent for an area could undercut America's markets in the purchase of similar equipment. How the Mediterranean region. HON. PAUL G. ROGERS can we complain of foreign competition, Both the free trade area and the bargain­ OF FLORIDA increasing foreign productivity, and lost ing position made it clear that the nine­ ' IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American jobs at home, when we sub­ nation Common Market is in a mood to chal­ lenge U.S. interests and wishes in world Thursday, May 24, 1973 sidize the modernization of foreign trade. companies. Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, we were American diplomats said they feared this all relieved Friday by the safe return At the European Common Market For­ would only make it tougher for President eign Ministers meeting in Luxembourg Nixon to get his controversial trade bill­ of our Skylab astronauts from their this Tuesday, it was reported that the his own mandate for the "Nixon Round"­ orbiting space station. It seemed that Europeans want a "substantial reduc­ through a suspicious Congress. hardly a day went by without some prob­ tion" in industrial tariffs. In other words, The "Nixon Round" will open at the minis­ lems occurring which were disposed of they want to ship more of their industrial terial level in Tokyo in September. The ac­ by our resourceful spacemen as though goods into the United States-more tual work will begin when experts meet in they were routine assignments. Their 28- Geneva in the new year, and the ministers day mission's successful completion in shoes more textiles, more steel, more did little more today than set the atmos­ auto~obiles, more capital machinery­ phere for Tokyo. More detailed bargaining the face of such adversity is a tribute thus driving more American companies points wm be produced during the two years to the entire space program. out of business and creating more unem­ of the "Nixon Round." However, I was saddened to learn ployment in the industrial sector. The mandate, taken point by point, pre­ of the death of two ocean explorers Throughout the trade hearings con­ sented an unyielding picture: last week despite the massive efforts ducted by the Ways and Means Commit­ At French insistence, progress in the trade made to rescue them from their subma­ talks will be "Assessed ... in the light of rine only 350 feet below the surface. tee during the past 7 weeks, the admin­ progress" in the reform of the world mone­ istration has stressed, time and time tary system. This linkage reflected European Clayton Link and AI Stover died dur­ again, that it believes that increased fears that Washington is losing interest in ing an exploration of an area which in agricultural exports are America's best monetary reform and the belief that another many respects we know less about than chance of increasing sales abroad and monetary crisis could destroy any work done the environment in which our Skylab improving the country's balance-of-pay-_ in the trade talks. astronauts spent the last 28 days. ments position. Yet week after week it The Common Market is not w1lling to lower Because of my longstanding interest has become clearer and clearer that we the high levies that keep most American in ocean research and particularly safe­ farm exports--especially wheat--out of Eu­ ty, I recently joined with a number of have exported ourselves into high food rope. Instead, it wants to negotiate "com­ prices and food shortages. It appears that modity agreements" or "voluntary restraints" my colleagues in introducing the Sub­ the adminsitration wants to give the that would help U.S. farm exports on the mersible Vessel Safety Act. I certainly Europeans trade concessions in the in­ world market outside Europe. hope that we will continue to undertake dustrial goods categories so that the The Nixon administration has said that bolder explorations of the oceans and Europeans will buy more of our food increased exports to Europe constitute a main the seabed, but without repeating the goods. Last year, agriculture accounted aim of the "Nixon Round," and European tragedy of last week. intransigence on this point was a bad omen. Because of the great interest of my for approximately $11 billion of our ex­ Europe wants a "substantial reduction" ports-and gained us $11 billion in our in industrial tariffs, but not "zero tariffs." colleagues in this area, I would like to balance-of-payments accounts. But then, The mandate was vague on the more impor­ include in the RECORD at this point an with the aid of the big Soviet wheat deal, tant issue of non-traffic barriers, such as article which appeared in the June 22, these exports-particularly the big surge quotas or exports rebates, and said that pres­ 1973, edition of the Fort Lauderdale News in wheat and feed grain exports-will ent arrangements for "safeguards" for above the signature of news editor Jack cost the American consumer at least an threatened industries need reforming. Gore: extra $20 billion in higher food costs­ IT Is OUR OPINION: SPACE ACHIEVEMENT more than double the gain to our GREAT BUT SEA EXPLORATION Is AS IMPOR­ TANT AS SKYLAB "balance of payments." GOODBY TO FRANK E. BATTAGLIA This is a policy of trade madness-we Today this Nation's first three Skylab astro­ nauts returned to earth after spending 28 lose jobs in our cities while our people days in the weightless atmosphere of space will have to pay unprecedented, record HON. WILLIAM A. BARRETT and conquering all kinds of problems in con­ high prices for the foods they buy. OF PENNSYLVANIA verting what appeared at the start to be a Mr. Speaker, perhaps there is another IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES doomed mission into an outstanding suc­ reason to delay trade negotiations. It cess. appears that the meeting of the Common Tuesday, June 26, 1973 Some four weeks hence three more astro­ Market officials has resolved on more Mr. BARRETT. Mr. Speaker, it is al­ nauts will rocket from earth to join up with than a "tough and rigid" position. It has the Skylab to spend a full eight weeks in ways with mixed emotions that one says the house-sized space laboratory to further resolved on a high-handed and dicta­ goodbye to a friend, and it is for this confirm the theory that man can live in space torial line. If this is the position of our purpose that I rise: To say goodbye and for extended periods without suffering any trading "partners and friends." Then many, many thanks for a job well-done material after-effects. perhaps we should wait until the situa­ to Mr. Frank Battaglia, dean of the From all reports, Charles "Pete" Conrad, tion cools off. We must not negotiate in Officials Reporters of the House. Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz went the hysteria of weakness-we must wait Frank has a record of 30 years of dedi- . through their 28 days in the Skylab in excel­ for better times. lent shape and had little trouble adjusting cated service to the House, having been to the kind of existence they had to contend Because of the importance of the Com­ appointed in 1943 by the Honorable Sam with aboard the largest vehicle ever launched mon Market ministerial meeting and the Rayburn, one of the greatest speakers into a space orbit. "tone" being conveyed by that meeting, I of the House. He is a man of dedication, More importantly, perhaps, they demon­ would like to enter in the RECORD at this knowledgeable and attentive. One who strated a rather fantastic ability to perform June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22181 · repair operations on their home in space · future generations from an equal amount of per cent margin, the public said there simply that a few years ago would have appeared effort expended on the discovery and devel· were not enough places available for enter­ absolutely impossible. opment of our ocean bed assets. tainment and cultural activities in their Thanks to their unparalleled performance, home communities, with the strongest dis­ the $2 billion Skylab experiment was saved satisfaction expressed by nonwhite inter­ from becoming a crucial failure, and they viewees, a full 72 per cent of whom criticized apparently left the orbiting laboratory in SUPPORT FOR THE ARTS this deficiency. More than two thirds-68 such good shape that officials of the space per cent--thought it either very or some· program feel that the rest of the extended what important there be more activities of Skylab program can now go off as scheduled a cultural nature in their community to par­ and with far greater prospects of complete HON. OGDEN R. REID ticipate in-activities like local art shows or success than they had any cause to hope OF NEW YORK music, drama, and arts and crafts groups. for a few weeks ago when structural ::md IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES According to the survey, more people pre­ power problems made it appear that the ori­ ferred a first-rate theatre (26 per cent) and ginal plans for the Skylab experiment would Wednesday, June 27, 1973 arts and crafts workshops (21 per cent) to a have to be drastically curtailed. . good sports stadium ( 17 percent) . In fact, as But carrying out their pledge that they Mr. REID. Mr. Speaker, just recently many wanted ·a good concert hall ( 17 per could fix anything, Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz the House voted to authorize full fund­ cent) as wanted as a good stadium in their became the first astronauts in history to ing for Federal programs for the arts . community. take a walk in space and make critical re­ and humanities, despite opposition from The public respects the artistic profes­ pairs to their damaged vehicle. some of our colleagues. Today the House sions, with musicians ranking fourth in pub­ Using hastily-contrived tools they were is to debate appropriations for these pro­ lic esteem, running expectedly behind the not only able to erect a sunshade over the grams. During debate or.. the authoriza­ three most highly regarded professions of Skylab to protect the interior from the blaz­ scientist, doctor, and lawyer, but running ing heat of the sun, but a bit later on they tion bill, I made reference to a recent ahead of such good grey callings as banker were able to free. a frozen power-generating study which was conducted by the Na­ and businessman, which came out fifth and panel and swing it' into position to restore a tional Research Center of the Arts, Inc., sixth on the list. Interestingly, the poet and full complement of electricity to their space­ an affiliate of Louis Harris and Associ­ the businessman both enjoyed "a great deal craft. ates, a nationally recognized polling of respect" from 43 per cent of the public, The astronauts then took another space group. while painters received the same estimate walk near the end of their journey to recover I am inserting in the RECORD a sum­ from 42 per cent. packets of film that contained over 30,000 mary, in the form of a press release, of The public strongly· favors children de­ pictures they had shot during the flight, in­ veloping skills and participating in the arts cluding some dramatic and heretofore un­ this report, which indicates among other on all levels. The survey states: "One notable available photographs of a huge solar flare. things that appreciation of and support theme ... is the great importance most This was an unexpected bonus as from for the arts is shared by virtually all people place on making culture readily acces­ these particular pictures scientists will be income groups, including the ''blue col­ sible to children." Asked whether they certain to gain new and very valuable in­ lar," by people of all levels of education would like to :ree their children pursue careers formation as to the origin of these mysterious and by residents of all areas of New in the arts, a majority of 52 per cent said solar flares which on certain occasions have York State, from the most rural to the "yes," although a combined total of 21 per a tendency to virtually black out communi­ most urban. I commend this summary to cent shrewdly cited their reservations about cation facilities here on earth. success and stability in the arts. Nonwhites In reviewing all that these Skylab astro­ · the· attention of my colleagues, and were even more positive than whites-57 per nauts accomplished while soaring 250 miles especially to those who supported the cent compared to 51 per cent--in wanting above the earth where any significant failure Kemp amendment to slash Federal funds arts careers for their youngsters. in their spacecraft or their equipment-could · for the arts. The study follows: The public wants more arts courses offered expose them to instant death, one has to NEW LOUIS HARRIS STUDY SHOWS NEW YORK as part of the core curriculum and taught fQr realize the extent of the fantastic progress STATE PUBLIC VALUES ARTS AND WANTS MORE credit "just like math or science or English," yre have made in conquering space compared OF THEM not merely given on an after-school basis. to the very little progress we seem to have The myth that the general public has little Majorities ranging from 54 to 78 per cent made in overcoming the problems of explor­ called for giving credit to such courses as use or respect for the arts has been statis­ creative writing, painting and sculpture, ing the sea. tically shattered by a · new survey, the first of This facf was driven home rather sharply playing a musical instrument, voice and its kind in the nation, exploring the cultural singing, ·and photography and filmmaking. this week when all the resources the U.S. attitudes of the man and woman on the Navy and others could muster failed to save Eric Larrabee, executive director of the street in New York ·state. New York State Council on the Arts, com- the lives of two men trapped in a submarine The pioneering in-depth survey, was con­ just 350 feet below the surface of the ocean. mented: · ducted by the National Research Center of "This survey should at least destroy any This doesn't seem to be an extreme depth the Arts, Inc., an affiliate of Louis Harris and considering it in comparison to the length lingering belief that public money should Associates, Inc. It was commissioned by the not be spent on the arts because the public of a football field, yet the difficulties of con­ American Council for the Arts in Education, ducting rescue operations in this depth of doesn't need or want them. It should also Inc., with funds from the New York State bring about long-needed changes in the water appear to be far more complicated and Council on the Arts. dangerous than skyrocketing astronauts 250 strategy of the arts community for building "Not only the rich or the highly educated and tapping greater support from the public, miles up into space and keeping them there value and esteem the arts," noted Joseph Far­ safely and soundly for a full four weeks. as obviously a large potential audience is rell, president of the National Research Cen­ waiting and wanting to be reached." Obviously, the comparisons may be unjust ter of the Arts. "The survey shows that these as we are dealing with two very different ele­ Because of its broad base and sweep of feelings are shared by many among the questioning beyond the formal arts, the ments, and particularly with the vast pres­ butchers and bakers, the plumbers and sure problem that has to be surmounted survey uncovered a culturally inclined bloc policemen, by many people up and down the which might ordinarily be overlooked. Non­ when man seeks to explore the sea bottoms. economic -scale and in every region of the We are prone to wonder, however, if we whites. lower middle class and middle class state. What this means is the existence of a urban groups, blue collar workers, those chose to devote the same amount of time, 'culturally inclined coalition' far broader and money and energy we have devoted to our within the $5,000 to $15,000 income bracket, different than the traditionally conceived women, teenagers, high school graduates, all space exploration program to the exploration audience for the arts." o~ the ocean depths, there wouldn't have these segments of the population tended to been just as many fantastic developments as Contrary to widely held beliefs, particu­ be most concerned at the lack of "cultural there have been in our space program. larly within the arts community itself, the dimension" in their lives and feel the greatest We happen to think that exploration an'd · projectable sample of 1,531 New Yorkers over "cultural frustration." It was these less­ development of our sea bottom resources 16 years of age from all walks of life who noticed groups-beyond the wealthy and pose just as much benefit to future genera­ · were interviewed showed a "real thirst for highly schooled-which the survey found tions as our space program. more access to a wide variety of cultural ac­ would be more responsive to cultural/ artistic There are untold resources that can be tivities." activities if they felt they were more accessi­ of vast benefit to all of mankind -lying According to the preferences expressed in ble in their terms, rather than "so near and beneath the depths of our oceans and seas, the survey: yet so far." and while we would be the last to decry the The public wants more cultural faciiities Ironically, feelings of inaccessibility were great progress we have made in recent years in their neighborhoods and find their lack keener among New York City residents than in regard to unraveling the mysteries of a major problem, outranking such highly among upstaters, despite the seeming abund­ space, we still believe that there are far publicized issues as inadequate housing, poor . ance of cultural activtities in the metropolis. greater benefits to be derived for present and schools, and insufficient parks. By a 52 to 42 What the survey learned was that people 22182 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 28, 1973 defined access in terms of their own neigh­ Looking briefly at government support of percentage of total consumer spending that borhood or convenien<:e which was deter­ the arts, the survey found the majority be­ goes for food. But those statistics hold a. story mined by their socio-economic conditions. lieved museums, libraries, zoos, and botani­ that no fair-minded person can ignore. F'or example, a resident of a relatively poor cal gardens should receive their funding Currently about 17.6 percent of consumer ethnic section of Queens might feel culturally from some branch of government. In con­ dollars in the U.S. are spent for food. This deprived even though he or she were only trast, a. plurality believed the performing compares with 20 percent in Canada., 22 to 30 a short subway ride away from all kinds of arts--theatres, opera. compani~s. dance percent in Western Europe, 40 to 54 percent cultural facilities. Concepts of what con­ troupes--should be mostly self-supporting. in Eastern Europe, including Russia, and stitutes a person's "neighborhood" became These findings indicate the public backs up to 60 percent "In emerging nations." broader in going up the socio-economic government funding where the tr~dition is The expression "emerging nations" is an ladder. firmly established, as for museums, but backs euphemism for nations that have yet to 11ft Comlnenting on the need for diversifica­ away from areas where the tradition is still themselves above the age-old struggle to tion and decentralization to allay this "cul­ in the making, as in the performing arts. produce the bare necessities of life-shelter, tural frustration," the report states: " ... the The survey is officially entitled Arts and food and clothing. Mone~ that in most other great opportunity for extending cultural op­ the People-a. Survey of Public Attitudes and lands goes for basic necessities the Aineri­ portunities to New Yorkers exists at the Participation in the Arts and Culture in can family spends on the accessories of a. neighborhood level, and • . • a widespread New York State. Using the survey techniques good life-the boats, the cars, the televi­ desire to participate in such activities exists developed by the Harris firm, the study em­ sion sets and household appliances by the throughout the state. . ." ployed the same size sample which is con­ millions that do menial chores for the family Put another way, the survey said the cul-· sidered a. statistically sound base for a. na­ at the press of a. button. turally inclined coalition can be thought of tional survey, not merely a. single state, and Naturally, w~ resent any threat to this as a pyramid with an apex of 22 per cent which provides a. margin of error that comes state of affairs. The fact that inflation has of the New York public-nearly 2.9 million to plus or minus three or four percentage put a. higher price tag on necessities means, individuals-who attend arts activities fairly points, 95 times out of 100. at worst, the trimming of a. few luxuries. We regularly. Just below the apex lies another In contrast to previous studies, the new are so far above the level of the less for­ group of 25 per cent of the population-or 3.2 report is the first to probe viewpoints of the tunate nations that there is no question of million New Yorkers-who either participate public at large, not merely the traditional getting enough to eat. The only concern in one art or another (e.g. play an instru­ non-profit professional art organizations is the price. And, measured by any reasonable ment) or attend some cultural facilities, purveying "high culture" (museums, orches­ standard. that price still remains amazingly such as galleries, college-university functior.s, tras, etc.) or the traditional audience for low. civic-social organization offerings, special the arts--the collega educated, highly skilled, events and community commemorations, his­ professional, more affluent population. Its toric villages and sites, etc. Toget her these representative cross section of the public at CONGRESS VERSUS THE two groups equal 47 per cent of the New large covers people of all levels of education EXECUTIVE York population--or 6.1 million people-who and incom<', from all parts of New York State, have some form of direct involvement with the most rural to the most urbanized. the arts. The survey defines artistic/cultural activi­ HON. MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS "What must be considered by ~he cultural ties broadly-as people experience them, not community is the ways and means to reach by preconceived notions. Not merely "high OF MICHIGAN that larger potential constitutency, for the culture" options such as attending a concert IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES advancement of the field and to the benefit or an exhibit were surveyed, but also what Wednesday, June 27, 1973 of the citizens themselves," the report said. "you enjoy doing most in leisure time • • • "What seems to be present is a strong demand [from which] you get the most artistic sat­ Mrs. GRIFFITHS. Mr. Speaker, each from a very substantial body of New Yorkers isfaction••. " This open-ended approach day the administration figures out new for the artistic and cultural fields to provide showed people derived aesthetic satisfactions ways to thwart the will of Congress. I them more and more diversified services." from a wide range of activities, including The public's keen appetite for the arts, gardening, home decorating, appreciation of would like to place in the RECORD an ex­ both as participants and spectators, came out nature, dining out, and needlework. change of letters between HEW Secre­ in various ways: The current study is the second one under­ tary Weinberger and myself, which il­ One-quarter--or 3.25 million New York­ taken by the National Research Center of lustrates this. point. The letters follow: era--expressed a frustrated desire to play a. the Arts exploring the arts in New YQrk JUNE 6,· 1973, musical instrument, another 18 per cent State. The first study, released last fall, ex­ Hon. CASPAR W. WEINBERGER, wished they could paint, draw, or sculpt, and amined the state's non-profit arts organiza­ Secretary, Department of Health, Education, another 11 per cent wanted to be in a thea­ tions as a. major industry with significant and. Welfare, Washington, D.C. trical group or take photographs or make economic repercussions. Among its major DEAR SECRETARY WEINBERGER: It Wa.8 ShOCk· films. findings for the period 1970-71: while the ing to me to hear that you have ordered the A majority-56 per cent-said they pre­ non-profit arts employed more than 31,000 cancellation of the Social Security Admin­ fer live music to records, radio, or television. people and generated a. payroll of $103 mil­ istration's plan to provide information about Even more emphatic preferences for live mu­ lion as well as operating costs of $177 mil­ the Supplemental Security Income program sic were voiced by nonwhites. lion, they suffered an industry wide gross to potentially eligible aged, blind and dis­ The public showed a. strong liking for live income gap of $86.5 million. abled persons. Your reasons and those of Mr. theatre, with 56 per cent willing to pay $3 Copies of Arts and the People can be ob­ Ca.rleson, as stated on a. TV news program for a. theatrical presentation, while another tained for $5 from Cranford-Wood, Inc., 310 Saturday, June 2, appear to me to be inade­ one-quarter would pay $3 to see an exhibit East 75th Street, New York, New York 10021. quate justification for putting a. stop to an of famous paintings and 23 per cent to see information dissemination plan that is badly ballet or modern dance performances. needed if this program is to reach the persons Far from being anti-arts, the public gave for whom it is intended. resoundingly positive answers to all kinds of PERSPECTIVE ON LIVING COSTS Surely someone in your well-staffed de­ questions: NEEDED partment can compose an announcement 72 per cent disagreed with the statement: that is understandable and will not unduly "symphony concerts are just for highbrows." confuse present assistance recipients. Mr. 68 per cent agreed with the statement, "to HON. ANCHER NELSEN Carleson's statement that the normal con­ see something acted on stage is much more OF MINNESOTA tacts of welfare agencies will suffice to in­ exciting and meaningful than watching it on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES form potential recipients leaves the un­ TV or in the movies." fortunate impression of either a. lack of 63 per cent disagreed with the statement, Wednesday, June 27, 1973 understanding of this program or a. desire to "I wouldn't mind going to hear a. concert in Mr. NELSEN. Mr. Speaker, the News­ keep the number of new applicants as low as the park, but going to a. concert hall makes Herald in LeSueur, Minn., recently took possible. The administration's own projection me feel uncomfortable." editorial note of consumer dismay about is that at least two m1llion persons not now Among the myths that are laid to rest by receiving public assistance will be eligible the survey is the notion that people who food prices. and then went on to place under the new program. Many of these peo­ like the arts are not "well rounded" indi­ U.S. living costs in some perspective in ple have no contact with welfare agencies viduals. In the words of the report: "Far relation to the rest of the world. Such a now. perspective is certainly needed, and I re­ Spokesmen for your department have as­ from being stoop shouldered aesthetes, the sured Congress that a program. of public in­ active culture buff appears to be more active quest unanimous consent to insert the full text of the editorial at this _·point 1n formation will be used to assure that people generally and something of a Renaissance WhO might be eligible know about the SSI man, engaging in outdoor activities, attend­ my remarks. program and have an opportunity to apply. ing or participating in sports and social LIVING COSTS IN PERSPECTIVE This was thought to be one of the advantages events somewhat more frequently than the Hard-pressed consumers resent statistics of administration by the Social Security Ad­ average man." that remind them of the comparatively small ministration which .has an excellent public June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22183 information program to advise people to State program because they have income or I strongly urge my fellow colleagues to their 'rights under Social Security. resources which preclude their eligibility vote to override this veto: a gross ex­ It certainly was not the intent of Con­ under present programs. Questions about gress to perpetuate the philosophy of some their eligibility will depend on whetner an ample of the Executive voiding the will welfare administrators and government offi­ individual . State decides to enact payment of the very people that make this coun­ cials that too much public knowledge about programs to complement 1;he Federal basic try function. a program encourages too many applica­ benefit. In many instances, such a State tions. My committee's studies of the dis­ payment will be the only assistance amount tribution of welfare benefits have found ex­ for which these people will be eligible. Thus, LIGHT IN THE SHADOW: THE treme inequities in the receipt of benefits. we believe that conducting a public informa­ AUTISTIC CHILD One of the reasons for this is that many tion effort aimed at these people is prema­ people who are eligible do not know enough ture and would be a disservice as it would about the programs which are intended to tend to raise questions for which there are, help them. as yet, no answers. HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON Your action seems to be contrary to the I hope that you will not construe my re­ OF MASSACHUSETTS intent of Congress that this new program marks to mean that we intend to do noth­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be equitably administered, and also contrary ing; this is certainly not the case. There are to expressions of administrative intent by some States which will not be offering addi­ Wednesday, June 27, 1973 representatives of your department. tional assistance payment programs. The While I realize that the TV news gave Social Security Administration will begin Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, most only a brief review of this action, I would ap­ very soon to take applications in these of the Americans who know about autism preciate a more detailed explanation of rea­ States and will progress to others as soon are either parents or relatives of autistic sons for curtailing the Social Security Ad­ as State program decisions are made. As children or are engaged in the teaching ministration's information program and a more information becomes available and of autistic children or research into the description of the type of information plan where it appears that some public infor­ causes and possible treatments of autism. you propose to use. mation program would be helpful, we will The story of autism is not only the story Sincerely yours, certainly be ready to act to assure that the MARTH/. W. GRIFFITHS, people who are in need receive word of this of a child, but that of the parents as well. Chairman, Subcommittee program. Parents of autistic children have been on Fiscal Policy. Thank you again for letting me know your told that they are responsible for their thoughts on this matter. I appreciate having child's problem-even if the condition THE SECRETARY OF this opportunity to explain our decision to h'as existed from birth. What many peo­ HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, you. ple do not realize-physicians included­ Washington, D.O., June 2, 1973. With best regards, is that autism is most probably a bio­ Hon. MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS, Sincerely, chemical disorder. I have to say "most Chairman, Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy, CASPAR W. WEINBERGER, Joint Economic Committee, Washing­ Secretm·y. probably" because the cause or causes of ton, D.O. autism are not known. However, most re­ DEAR MRS. GRIFFITHS: I very much appre­ cent research indicates that autism is a ciate having your letter of June 6 about the physical defect, not an emotional disor­ scope of the public information effort for the THE VETO OF THE PRESIDENT OF der based on parental relations. Still, the supplemental security income program. THE SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL AP­ myths and cruel statements persist. We share your concern and are deeply in­ PROPRIATIONS BILL FOR FISCAL An example of the treatment that par- . terested in seeing that aged, blind, and dis­ ents of autistic children receive was re­ abled people i_n financial need receive ·an pos­ YEAR 1973 sible assistance from the new program. ·The .cently published in the alumnae Journal . size of the information effort was hot 'in­ -of Trinity Col}ege, spring, 1973. The au­ . tended to hurt the effectiveness of the new : · HON. CARDISS COLLINS thor of the article is Mrs. Mary Sweeny program, but rather to assure that the trans- OF ILLINOIS Akerley who is presently the first vice fer from State to the Federal program for IN THE HO:USE OF REPRESENTATIVES president of the National Society for the aged, blind, and disabled people now re- . Autistic Children and who is a parent of ._ceiving assistance is as smooth as possible. Wednesday, Ju"!-e 27, 19?3 an autistic child, Eddie. Mrs. Akercley has We want to be sure that their checks arrive been most helpful to me and is doing an on time· in January 1974 without having Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, caused them any worry or distress whatso­ the action that the President has taken in excellent job educating others about ever. vetoing the second supplemental appro­ autism. We believe that a h.eavy, intensive public priations bill is nothing short of pure au­ _Her story regarding the dearth of information program, no matter how well dacity. The theory by which this Govern­ knowledge about the symptoms of au­ conducted, would tend to confuse and worry ·ment is supposed to operate is a tripartite tism, even among professional therapists, people receiving assistance, now. It should government. 'The Executive, however, is demonstrates quite well the need for the be pointed out that supplemental security proceeding under the gross, totally gross, public to be educated on autism. As part income is not an entirely new program, as of my daily inserts in the RECORD during was Medicare. The SSI program is, basically, _assumption that it is far and away the a replacement of existing State-run programs controlling force in this society. National Autistic Children's Week, Mrs. for the aged, blind and disabled. Most of the This body has been called the People's Akerley's article follows: people about whom we are both concerned Branch, as well it should. Only this past LIGHT IN THE SHADOW: THE AUTISTIC are already receiving State payments. These ·Monday we spent many hours here argu­ CHILD people will be automatically considered for ing whether or not the amendments that (By Mary Sweeny Akerley) benefits under the new program. As a matter the President based his veto on should of fact, this conversion process is already Several years ago, we received a Christmas .under way. be included. We, the representatives of card from one of my Trinity classmates Putting explanations about complex Gov­ ·the citizenry, after full and complete de­ which was, for us, especially meaningful. In­ ernment programs into layman's language bate, ratified our earlier position that the side was the lovely 16th Century greeting of often results in oversimplification which can President should discontinue the bomb­ Fra. Giovanni which says, in part: "The gloom of the world is but a shadow. be easily misinterpreted by the reader and -ing of Cambodia and remove all types of Behind it, yet within reach, is Joy. end in his disappointment and disillusion­ _U.S. military activity from "in, over, or "There is a radiance and a glory in the . ment because of unfulfilled expectations. off the shores of Indochina." · Our experience has taught us, morever, that darkness, could we but see, and to see we . the elderly occasionally have difficulty un­ Now, in one quick motion, the Presi­ have only to look. I beseech you to look. · derstanding matters which affect their fi­ _ de~t has voided the will of the people. We "Life is so generous a giver, but· we, judg­ nancial status. We know, for instance, that were all under the impression some ing its gifts by their covering, cast them they are easily confused and deeply upset months back that our intrusion in South­ away as ugly, or heavy or hard. by official notices about their social security east Asia was at an end. It seems · ap­ "Remove the covering, and you will find or assistance checks. Since, as I have said, parent, though, that the President wants beneath it a loving splendor, woven of love, most of these people are already on State to continue our past folly in South Viet­ by wisdom, with power. rolls and need do nothing to become eligible "Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the for supplemental security income payments, nam with additional foolishness in coun­ angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we do not want to give them any cause for tries that we have not yet quite devas­ we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me anxiety. tated. Attila the Hun was never so ruth­ that angel's hand is there; the gift is there, We recognize that there are needy people less. and the wonder of an overshadowing pres­ who are not now receiving assistance under a The will of the people must be supreme. ence.'' 22184 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 28, 1973 These words touched us deeply because our Yet it is real progress and we accept it similar in tempo and pitch to a non-stop fog youngest child is autistic. Autism seems an gratefully. He no longer merely exists; he horn. Feeling that things could not be any especially cruel handicap because it leaves lives because he has developed the will to worse, half angry, half defeated, I assumed so much intact, yet apparently useless. Bright grow. It is becoming harder and harder to the same position and began to rock and eyes focus intently on a speck of dust in the remember his early years when, frightened chant along with him. He stopped, looked sunlight but look away from a parent's face; and bewildered, we began our search for right at me with genuine surprise, then burst sensitive ears hear every note of a symphony help. Those years have a nightmarish qual­ into healthy, normal-sounding laughter. We but not a word of human speech; the per­ ity: the nature of our terror was amorphous had communicated! And he had shown he fectly coordinated body spins and rocks but but all the more threatening because it had had at least enough intelligence to perceive never throws or catches a ball. Speech, if it no shape or name; no one could--or would­ incongruity and thus enough humanity to exists, is used solely for self-stimulation, the help us; and through it all, I, at least, had enjoy humor. same words or phrases endlessly repeated the feeling tha.t we would soon "wake-up"; After that, he seemed to respond more in a fiat monotone or in a lifeles imitation our fears were exaggerated-there was noth­ positively to my other efforts, so that by the of the original speaker-sort of an oral rock­ ing really wrong with our child. time he encountered his first specialist, he ing. Intelligence, normal or even superior, is Rationally, of course, I knew and so did my and I had developed a real, if limited, rela­ certainly there; occasionally it fiashes out husband that something is terribly wrong tionship-real enough to rule out classic with startling brightness, but eventually it with a child who doesn't even try to speak, autism as a possible diagnosis and limited dulls into retardation from lack of stimula­ who won't play with toys, who doesn't want enough to suggest that therapy was indi­ tion. to be held. Yet he didn't seem retarded; pos­ cated. In short, these beautiful gifted children sibly "emotionally disturbed", but we And thus began what has been one of the cannot communicate. Without communica­ couldn't imagine what we had done to cause most difficult aspects of Eddie's handicap. tion, there can be no interpersonal relation­ such massive damage. You see, we had read Not immediately--our first therapist was a ships; without stimulation, no growth. They just enough to "know" that a behaviorally wise, practical woman who had seen children exist but lack the motivation to live. Nothing disordered child is "always" the result of like Eddie before. She taught us how to deal in their sharply defined worlds must change; poor parental handling. with his difficult behavior, and within a few even the simple, homey act of moving a By the time Eddie was three we felt we months we saw definite improvement. She piece of furniture from its familiar place can could no longer accept our pediatrician's re­ also helped us get him enrolled in a special produce terror, expressed in agonized scream­ assurances that "he's your baby and just pre-school. I kept waiting for some advice ing or even greater withdrawal. Because they spoiled." When Eddie had this check-up Ire­ on how to make more basic changes, how to cannot bear to be touched, they cannot be fused to leave the doctor's office until he remove the cause of his handicap. I wanted reached by even the most primi~ive expres­ recommended a specialist. He referred us to her to point out our errors so that we would sions of love. a pediatric neurologist, the first of a long not repeat them, and so we could begin to What causes this aberration? Is it some line of specialist!;; who would be needed to make up to this child for what we had done particularly malignant psychosis, brought on save our son. The results of the first profes­ to him. I was afraid to hear those things, by early trauma? Brain damage? Neurological sional evaluation (by the neurologist and a and yet I wanted to hear them because I dysfunction? Biochemical imbalance? No one psychologist): "We can't give you a diag­ wanted my child well. knows. Early Infantile Autism is a "new" nosis; his symptoms don't fit any known Instead we received absolution: "I can disease in the sense that it was isolated as a syndrome." The parent doesn't know whether find nothing wrong in Eddie's environment. distinct syndrome by Dr. Leo Kanner of to weep or take a macabre priqe in what he His situation proves what I've been taught: John Hopkins only thirty years ago. Because has produced. What was more discouraging that is, to look for something in the child of the withdrawn, ritualistic behavior it pro­ was that our bubble of hope had been burst; which has made him vulnerable to damage duces, it was thought to be a mental illness, we had thought that the professionals would from the ordinary stresses of life." To date, perhaps a form of chlldhood schizophrenia, know what to do for Eddie to make him that "something" has not been found, but and was treated accordingly. But intensive whole. They didn't even know what was her words restored us and we began to read, psychotherapy did Uttle or nothing to wrong! to learn all we could about psychosis in alleviate the symptoms; some children im­ What had actually made diagnosis so dif­ children. proved, others did not, irrespective of treat­ ficult was that our own blind efforts with We learned as well that there were other ment. Eddie had, in some small measure, paid off. sources of help, even an organization dedi­ Early efforts to find a constitutional basis Because we had some experience as parents, cated to the welfare of children like Eddie. for autism were equally fruitless. All the tra­ we knew what Eddie ought to be doing at We joined it and met other parents, many ditional tests (EEG's, skull X-rays, blood and various developmental stages and did all we far more heavily burdened than we. We have urine analyses) were negative. Testing pro­ could to lure him into normal behavior. learned more from them than from any other cedures have become considerably more so­ We did not let him shut us out entirely. If source. phisticated since those early days and some he would not tolerate close physical contact, And what we have learned has helped us very promising clues have been discovered, we would find other ways to reach him. I because we have had to do battle-with but there is stlll no medical test for autism carried him from room to room with me as school systems, with professionals, and with and certainly no cure. I did my housework, keeping up a steady an uncaring society. Most departments of The one great hope for these children has (and very boring) commentary on what I education refuse to accept any responsibility been and still is special education. Ironically, was doing. I sat near him and tried to in­ for our "impossible" children. Many profes­ few schools will accept autistic children­ terest him in toys, even using his hands to sionals blame the parents for causing the dis­ they are still thought to be "ineducable" pile blocks or manipulate his stuffed dog. order: "But he was different right from when the ability to learn is their greatest He liked music, so I often sang instead of birth!" "Of course. He sensed in the womb strength. Once the barrier is breached and speaking to him. He loved motion, so I com­ that he was an unwanted child!" Yet Eddie's communication is established, real learning bined his joys: holding him (loosely) on my father held my hand and saw him born; I begins and behavior improves dramatically. lap, I sat in our garden swing and sang as nursed him when he was less than an hour Of course, the earlier the intervention, the we glided back and forth. He endured au this old; our joy in our much-desired second son greater the progress. A few autistic children for months without any sign of real enjoy­ was boundless. have even earned graduate degrees. ment. Oddly enough, he loved to be tickled; Eddie's school requires the parents to see we have been among the fortunate fami­ that, eating, sleeping, and rocking seemed to a staff psychiatrist for "parent counseling" lies; Eddie has been in 'school since he was be his only real pleasures. which in our case soon turned into psycho­ three-and-a.-half. He is now eight and nearly So I switched tactics and took the moun­ therapy. Again we heard about Eddie's non­ at grade level academically. Socially his tain to Mohammed. If he would not imitate damaging environment, but the tone was dff­ progress has been much slower but still v~ry the sounds I made, I would imitate his; not ferent: "There doesn't seem to be anything encouraging. He has become a very outgomg so easy as it may sound, as even the usual child in many ways, yet he is still very fear­ to work on with Eddie, so I'm going to work pre-talking lallation was completely ab:. on you. If you would only admit you hate and ful of anything not completely under his sent-Eddie's noises were grunts, whines and resent him, we could get to the root of the control (dogs and cats, for example) . His moans. And all the time I wondered if I problem. You need to deal with your anger." ability to communicate is almost normal, yet were making any headway at all. Sometimes ("I am dealing with it, friend; it's you I'm he has clung to his "autistic" speech as well. desperation is what's needed. He plays in a very limited way with his three angry at!") And so it goes for an hour a week. Without ever studying behavior modifica­ We tried to use these sessions productively, siblings and his classmates at his special tion, I had sense enough not to reinforce his even after our "enlightenment." We saw prob­ school but has no real spontaneously-gener­ undesirable behavior by imitating it, even to lems developing in our other children from ated friendships with neighborhood, children. communicate. But one day, utterly frus­ time to time which we felt were related to He can reason in syllogisms, but the rules of trated, I broke the rule. I had been trying having a handicapped brother. Each time we a simple game are beyond him. to get him to do something with his blocks asked our therapist for help, never once did This sort of progress has built-in pain. As besides hold one and stare at it. He was hav­ we get so much as a single concrete sugges­ our hopes are raised by Eddie's growth ing much more success in his efforts to shut tion. toward normalcy, our hearts are broken by me out; he had assumed his favorite rocking We h.ave, I suppose, become defensive and the greater disparity between his apparent position (hands and knees) and was rhyth­ bitter; not entirely fairly, as so many profes­ potential and his deficiencies in those areas mically going back and forth, accompanying sional people have been really helpful: sever­ so important to a fully human life. himself with a sing-song grunting chant, al teachers, a really gifted speech therapist 1 June 2.8, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22185

who turned Eddie's echolalia into meaningful legislation that would substantiall~ re­ 3. It requires bail on appeal of contempt speech, and the original ne"Lrrologist who has form the Federal grand jury system. orders, unless the Court finds that the ap­ stayed with the case. After patient study and This legislation, which is by far the peal is frivolous or is taken for delay. For testing, she found a metabolic error which persons not admitted to bail, it requires ap­ she wanted to treat experimentally. This pos­ most comprehensive effort made towards peals to be disposed of as soon as practicable, sible help was delayed for a year since the grand jury reform to date, is desperately pursuant to an expedited court schedule, in psychiatrist threatened expulsion from school needed. The grand jury no longer pro­ order to alleviate the burden imposed on ap­ if we consented. What a cruel way to help a tects innocent citizens from unwarranted pellate courts by present law, which requires child-to force his parents to choose between prosecution, as was its original purpose, such appeals to be decided in 30 days. two necessary sources of help when both but rather, it has become an abusive tool 4. It provides a right to quash a grand should be utilized! (It became necessary to for overzealous prosecutors. jury subpoena or vacate a contempt order if change schools·for other reasons; this gave us the court finds that the choice of venue of the opportunity to begin the neurological The grand jury is not new-it origi­ the grand jury would impose a substantial treatment. While it is too soon to be defini­ nated in England during the 12th cen­ and unnecessary hardship on the witness or tive, it does seem to have made a considerable tury. A group of citizens would be called his family. In making this determination, improvement in Eddie's social and intellec­ together to decide if the King was justi­ the court may consider the distance in­ tual development.) fied in bringing a certain person to trial. volved, the significance of the overt acts What saved our sanity, I'm sure, was the If a majority of the jurors felt that taking place in the jurisdiction, the exist­ National Society for Autistic Children. sufficient evidence had not been pre­ ence of related investigations in more con­ Through it we found concrete ways to help sented to prove probable cause, the per­ venient jurisdictions, and changed circum­ not just our own child but all the other stances since the witness was originally sub­ Eddies as well. This has given me, especialiy, son under suspicion could not be tried. poenaed. The witness may move to quash tremendous personal satisfaction (I'm the The Founding Fathers incorporated the subpoena in any of three districts--the family activist, possible only because I have the grand jury into the fifth amendment district where he resides, the district where a very supportive spouse) . I've edited a local of our Constitution in the hopes that he is served, or the district where he is or­ newsletter, been president of a county chap­ this protective device would always be a dered to appear. ter, started a state chapter, am currently on part of our criminal justice system. 5. It provides a right to quash a grand the national Board of Directors, and will as­ Over the years, however, the grand jury subpoena or vacate a contempt order sume the 1st Vice-presidency in June. I've jury has lost its original function. Al­ if the court finds that a primary purpose of helped form both state and national coali­ the appearance is to obtain evidence regard­ tions of organizations serving the handicap­ though it still may at times protect the ing the activities of a person who is already ped, done T.V. and radio shows and news­ innocent, recent practices have demon­ under the indictment for such activities. paper articles, and spoken to university and strated that it can be a powerful vehicle 6. It provides a right to quash a grand jury community groups. I have learned that no for the harassment of political dissi­ subpoena or vacate a contempt order if com­ category of handicapped persons is getting dents. pliance would be unreasonable or oppressive the help and support needed and have been Under present law, a witness who is in other respects, such as cases involving re­ appointed by my state's Department of Health subpenaed to appear before a grand petitive appearances before a grand jury or tb co-chair a Task Force to change that. The where merely cumulative testimony is sought. handicapped cannot be cured, so society jury is not even accorded the basic rights 7. It provides a right to quash a grand must be made to care-once again the moun­ that any individual receives at trial. Wit­ jury subpoena or vacate a contempt order tain must go to Mohammed. nesses may receive a subpena to appear if a primary purpose in imposing or continu­ So it has not been all bad. I've probably before a grand jury thousands of miles ing incarceration is to punish a Witness for learned more and accomplished more in the away from their homes and families, and his refusal to testify. last five years than in the previous thirty­ have no other recourse than to make the 8. It provides for a stay of the appearance two. I seem to have found "my cause," albeit trip or face going to jail for up to 18 of the Witness before a grand jury until a rather late and not altogether altruistically months. motion to quash his subpoena is decided. motivated. And Eddie himself is f.ar more 9. It provides a right to appointed counsel blessing than burden. Through him we have Even with just these two basic objec­ in contempt proceedings if the Witness is had the unique and exciting experience of tions to the present grand jury structure unable to afford his own counsel. seeing human growth and development in in mind, it is not too difficult to see how 10. It provides a ~ right for a Witness to have slow motion. He has taught us who love him Federal prosecutors can use the grand counsel present in the grand jury room dur­ a lot about tolerance. Much of the behavior jury as a device to suppress differing ing his testimony, but for legal advice only. we too quickly label "abnormal" is not in political views. Counsel may not disclose grand jury proceed­ itself deviant; it is just that, in Eddie, it is The purpose of the Rangel-Eckhardt ings except when acting in his capacity a& on the surface, where in a normal person it grand jury reform bill is to remove the counsel for the Witness, who is permitted to would be buried beneath social conventions. disclose grand jury proceedings under present We all talk to ourselves; Eddie just does it possibility of abuse from the grand jury law. out loud. system, without damaging the ability of 11. It provides a right for a Witness to in­ Much of our embarrassment and pain was the grand jury to effectively investigate spect and copy a transcript of his grand jury and still is selfish. Eddie now seems a happy crimes and return indictments. testimony. Free transcripts are made avail­ child, but we do not wish to appear imper­ It is my firm belief that enactment of able to indigent witnesses. fect, so we worry that in public his differ­ this legislation would return the "peo­ 12. It requires the attorney for the gov­ ences may reflect discredit on us, his parents. ple's panel" to the role that was in­ ernment, when he starts seeking the indict­ We, too, still have some growing to do. We ment of a certain individual, to inform the don't know what Eddie's future is, but then tended for it by the framers of our grand jury of his intentions, and also inform neither do we know what life holds for our Constitution. the grand jury of its rights to subpoena such other three children or, for that matter, for A summary of the bill follows: individual to appear if it so desires. ourselves. SUMMARY OF RANGEL-ECKHARDT GRAND JURY 13. It requires seven days notice after the Fra Giovanni ends "with the prayer that REFORM BILL service of a subpoena before a witness must :for you now and forever, the day breaks, .and 1. It reduces the maximum permissible appear before the grand jury, except upon a the shadows flee away." Beautiful as is that period of imprisonment from 18 months to showing of special need by the prosecutor. wish, it is unrealistic. The brightest sun­ six months for civil contempt for refusal to 14. It requires a subpoena to notify a wit­ shine makes the darkest shadows. Eddie has testify before a grand jury after immunity ness of his right against self-incrimination taught us that to live is to experience both. has been granted. It prevents so-called ••reit• and his right to counsel, including- his right erated contempt.. proceedings by making to appointed counsel, if he is indigent. the six month limit cumulative, applying it 15. It prohibits the introduction before a to successive periods of incarceration for re­ grand jury of evidence obtained in violation GRAND JURY REFORM IS NEEDED fusing to testify before prior, subsequent or of an individual's constitutional rights. Cur­ NOW other grand Juries engaged in related in­ rent Federal law prohibits the introduction vestigations. of evidence obtained by illegal electronic sur­ 2. It requires a ten-day interval between veillance before a grand jury. This provision the notice of a contempt hearing given to a of the bill extends the prohibition to other HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL witness for refusing to testify and the date illegally obtained evidence. OF NEW YORK of the hearing, In order to give the witnesses 16. It restricts "use" immunity by prohibit­ adequate opportunity to prepare for a hear­ Ing compelled testimony from being used IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing that may result in his confinement for against a Witness in all cases except perjury Wednesday, June 27, 1973 contempt, and thereby end the current grand before the grand jury or giving false state­ Jury railroad by which witnesses may find ments to the grand jury. Present law being Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, today I themselves subpoenaed in the morning, im­ read to allow such testimony to be used in have introduced, with my distinguished munized by noon, and jailed !or contempt other unrelated perjury or false statement colleague from Texas (Mr. EcKHARDT) by evening. prosecutions. CXIX--1399-Part 17 22186 EXTENSIONS OF. REMARKS.. June 28, 1973 17. It provides a right to counsel or ap­ its avenues of free speech remain un­ It .is neither realistic nor constitutionally pointed counsel in immunity hearings. fettered, and that it must rely on the sound to· read the First Amendment as re­ 18. It prohibits immunity from being taste of the marketplace to determine quiring 'that the people of Maine or Missis­ granted unless adequate safeguards are taken sippi accept public depiction of conduct to minimize the danger that a foreign pros­ what material is disseminated; but found tolerable in Las Vegas or New York ecution may be brought against a witness, nonetheless, there comes a point beyond City. based on compelled testimony under an which the protection and advocacy of immunity order. this freedom becomes an invitation to Furthermore, the Chief Justice noted 19. It requires the court to find, before an blatant immorality-and in the name of that the questions of offensiveness and immunity order is granted, that the testi­ decency w.e must cry, "Stop." There is a appeal to prurient interest are "essen­ mony sought is relevant to a legitimate law point beyond which most reasonable men tially questions of fact" which judges and enforcement investigation. jurors can decide. 20. To insure that the compelled testimony would assert that hard-core pornography of a witness granted "use" immunity is not becomes dangerous to the Nation's While the Court has not managed to later used against him, the bill requires the health-a point beyond which the free give the Nation any final answer in these government to submit a summary of evidence and unfettered circulation of hard-core decisions to the great dilemma of fight­ relating to criminal activity by the witness. pornography does offer a clear and ing pornography, it will give some pause 21. It limits "use" immunity to the investi­ present danger to the emotional matu­ to the pornographers. For too long, the gation of serious offenses (those for which rity of consenting adults and the moral Constitution has been used to protect the electronic surveillance under court order is welfare of the public. Judging by some rights of the few at the expense of the currently available) . The bill requires the majority. Hopefully, the pendulum is "transactional" form of immunity to be of the movies currently being shown, and granted if immunity is desired in the investi­ some of the books and magazines on any now swinging back in the right direction gation of other offenses. . newsstand, we have reached that point with this decision to protect the public 22. If a witness who is compelled to testify in America and should turn back. dignity against the assaults of bad taste. under an immunity order is later charged Now, with the Supreme Court new rul­ Well over a century ago, the astute with an offense, the bill requires his indict­ ing, that corner may have been turned. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, came ment to be handed down by a grand jury Now, the people of this Nation will be to our shores and when he returned to other than the one before which he testified. his home country, wrote a book on 23. It requires detailed annual grand jury afforded some legal protections against reports by the Attorney General for each the barrage of filth produced for exploit­ American democracy. To him has been Federal judicial district, describing grand ative purposes. The States and com­ attributed a statement that, whether he jury investigations and immunity grants, in­ munities have been given the go-ahead authored it or not, is both timeless and cluding the number of requests for immu­ to crack down on pornographers without timely: "America is great because Amer­ nity, the number approved, the number of fear that their efforts will be overturned ica is good, and if America ever ceases contempt orders, the duration of confine­ by a higher court on the basis of free to be good, America will cease to be ments for contempt, and the number of con- speech. great." Without issuing a call for a re­ . victions obtained through immunity orders. turn to the days of Puritanism or Vic­ The bill also requires the reports to describe In my judgment, the writers of our data banks and other procedures by which Constitution never meant the protection torianism, and without insisting that grand jury information is processed, stored, . of free speech to go to this extent, morality can be legislated, let it be said and used by the Department of Justice. but under the old standard of judg­ loud and clear that there is a connection ment--whether pornographic material between the greatness of our country and was "utterly without redeeming social the goodness of our people, and that value"-we have seen our communities . those who hope for the reality of the . SUPREME COURT DECISION-A faced with an influx of these materials, former must do all they can to establish STEP TOWARD CURTAILING POR­ . and local prosecutors and -judges have the reality ~f the latter. · · NOGRAPHY AND OBSCENITY been helpless to act because of court de­ . cisions based on vague first amendment HON. WILLIAM H. HUDNUT ·111 interpretations. In the decisions handed down on "SILENCE" AT WEST.POINT OF INDIANA June 21, 1973, Chief Justice Burger has CONDEMNED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES observed that prior interpretations de­ Wednesday, June 27, 1973 meaned the first amendment by equating "the free and robust exchange of ideas HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON Mr. HUDNUT. Mr. Speaker, those of and political debate" with commercial OF MASSACHUSETTS us who have spoken out against the dec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ade-long trend toward the permissive­ exploitations of obscene material. It cer­ ness that pervades our society today can tainly does seem inappropriate for this Wednesday, June 27, 1973 take heart at · the decisions handed noble concept to serve as a screen for Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, all down by the Supreme Court on June 21, the basest kind of commercialism. of us are by now familiar with the case In place of the old broad guideline, 1973. The smut peddlers have at last of West Point Cadet James Pelosi, the reached a point at which it becomes almost impossible for a prosecutor to student who was forced to endure more hazardous for them to pursue their ag­ prove, the Court has established new than a year of "silence," a form of social gressive exploitation of the Government's standards. First, if a pornographic work ostracism that is one of the most cruel reluctance to repress free speech. It is "taken as a whole, does not have serious and unusual forms of punishment that encow·aging to contemplate their fall literary, artistic, political, or scientific we have seen in some time; · from the secure shelter of the Constitu­ value," and "taken as a whole, appeals The silence is not only excessively tion as well as the risks and complica­ to the prurient interest in sex" and is harsh, but it is also extra-legal, and is a tions which may now arise to hobble their "patently offensive" in its content, it can punishment invoked only after a .cadet skill at transformi:lg pornography and be banned and purveyors prosecuted. had been cleared through the legal pro­ obscenity into dollars. Second, and even more important, the cedure appropriate to his case. The si­ I am terribly concerned about the ero­ point is made that local judgments lence violates two of the Military Acad­ sion of our "'Tation's spiritual and moral should be determining factors as to the emy's own regulations against hazing and fiber-an evidence of which is the profit nature of pornographic materials. The against conspiracy. But more than that, . that can be turned by those who trade Court has held that "community stanq­ the silence runs completely counter to ards" of decency may be those of a local the ethic which we would llke to believe on human weakness in the merchandis­ area, rather than a nationwide stand­ ing of material that explicitly depicts still prevails in this ~3ciety-that a per­ sexual activity. People argue that if por­ ard. The imposition of a national stand­ son is entitled to the protection of the nographic literatw·e were net purchased ard of obscenity-and morality-on every laws, and that he is innocent until proven by the consumer, it would n'>t be pro­ local community is not the true purpose guilty. duced-which may be true. But it is also or value of the first amendment; rather I would like to call your attention to true that if it were not produced, it could it is the protection of our basic freedom an editorial in the Washington Star­ not be purchased. In the kind of open of speech, and the diversity of viewpoint News which articulates the feelings many society in which we live, we must recog­ assw·ed thereby. To quote Chief Justice of us have regarding the silence. "Such a nize that a democracy thrives best when Burger again: tradition is expendable," the editorial ~ T June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22187 states, "and it does not serv~ the Nation supposed to instill a high sense of duty in priving him of his property rights to a degree to train an officer corps to pursue puni­ future officers. Or is it a Draconian punish­ after four years of satisfactory performance ment that has no more place in a modern and that his treatment in the 24 hours before tive remedies outside the law." military establishment than flogging? his resignation violated his constitutional The silence is not the only example Most disturbing is the extra-legal nature rights to due process of law. of the military academies' disregard for ot the penalty, invoked OnlJ a.fter the ac­ Furthermore, they say that Mr. Farley the law. The academies seem to have at cused has survived the due process applica­ is being penalized by the Navy for asserting their disposal a variety of highly ques­ ble in his case. There is an echo here of a right that is protected by law, the right tionable, often extra-legal methods lynch law, and it is chilling to know that to seek conscientious objector status. which are used to punish students who "the Silence" was imposed for four years The lawyers are Marvin M. Karpatkin, gen­ do not conform to the military cude. on Benjamin Davis, later an Air Force gen­ eral counsel of the American Civil Liber­ eral, because he is black. Such a tradition ties Union, and John E. LeMoult. A recent article in the New York Times is expendable. And it does not serve the na­ Federal Judge Frank A. Kaufman has set has revealed that the Naval Academy has tion to train an officer corps to pursue puni­ tomorrow for a hearing in United States Dis­ refused to grant an academic degree to a tive remedies outside the law. trict Court in Baltimore on the Navy's at­ midshipman who completed his academ­ tempt to dismiss-the case. The Naval Acad­ ic requirements. The Navy claims the [From the New York Times, June 26, 1973] emy maintains that Mr. Farley did not ex­ midshipman, William J. Farley, Jr., was OUSTED MIDSHIPMAN SUES FOR B.S. DEGREE haust all his remedies within the Navy be­ not entitled to graduaJte because he re­ (By Linda Greenhouse) fore going into court. ceived a failing grade in aptitude, de­ Mr. Farley, who lives with his parents in A New Jersey man who was asked to re­ Brielle, N.J., is worried that unless he re­ fined in part as "a positive state of mind sign from the United States Naval Academy ceives his degree by September he will not be toward the naval service." But Farley a week before graduation when he applied to able to enter New York University Law claims he was denied the degree because be a conscientious objector may be unable School as a Root-Tilden Scholar. he had applied for conscientious objec­ to accept a fellowship at New York Univer­ He won the prestigious full-tuition schol­ tor status. sity Law School because the Navy has re­ arship-two are awarded from each of the The right to seek conscientious objec­ fused for two years to grant him his under- · 10 federal judicial circuits each year-this graduate degree. spring, but a letter from William T. Hutton, tor status is protected by law. The Naval William J. Farley Jr., whose grades put Academy clearly should not use coercive director of the Root-Tilden program, in­ him on the dean's list his senior year at the formed him that "the final determination and punitive techniques-such as with­ Naval Academy and who completed all the of the scholarship is conditioned upon your holding an earned academic degree­ academic requirements for graduation, has receipt of a degree from the Naval Academy when a student attempts to gain his brought a lawsuit in Federal court to force prior to your matriculation." ri·ghts under the law. Annapolis to award him his Bachelor of The law school has a faculty rule that all The military academies, which are Science degree. entering students must have an undergrad­ The Navy contends that the 23-year-old uate degree. supposed to set a standard of integrity Farley was not entitled to graduate because and honor, should be particularly con­ he received a failing grade in aptitude, de­ NO DEGREE POLICY scious of protecting their students' con­ fined in part as "a positive state of mind to­ A ruling in Mr. Farley's favor could force stitutional rights. ward the naval service manifested by in­ the service academies, for the first time, to I insert the editorial from the Wash­ terest, motivation and cooperation." observe a clear distinction between their ington Star-News and the article from A cadet or midshipman entering any of the functions as degree-granting academic in­ the New York Times into the RECORD: nation's service academies signs an oath stitutions and commission-granting military [From the Washington Star-News, agreeing to serve on active duty for five years institutions. June 27, 1973] after graduation. In return, he receives a In the past, the academies have not main­ four-year Government-paid education with tained a consistent policy on whether cadets SILENCE REBUKED an estimated value of $53,000. who fail for some reason to receive commis­ By persevering through 19 months of "the. Mr. Farley signed such an agreement, but sions are nonetheless entitled to their de­ Silence" imposed by his fellow cadets ·to the court terminated it in granting him a grees. graduate as a second lieutenant from West conscientious objector discharge, and the After his resignation from the Naval Acad­ Point, James Pelosi showed himself to be an Navy made no attempt to collect the $53,000. emy. Mr. Farley was activated as an enlisted unusual young man. He also may have In other recent cases, the military has tried man. He served in enlisted status at the jogged the Army into an examination of and failed to recover money spent in train­ Naval Station in the Anacostia section of conscience about permitting such unusual Ing officers who leave the service. washington, with occasional special assign­ and unofficial punishment. Last year, the Air . Force Academy at­ ments at the White House and the House of Pelosi ran afoul of the Cadets' Honor tempted to sue a graduate, John P. McCul­ Representatives. Committee when he was. accused of cheating lough, for $53,575 when he resigned from the Meanwhile, the Navy continued to deny by completing a quiz answer after the order Air Force without completing his obligation. his request for discharge as a conscientious to stop had been given. He protested in­ But a Federal court in Sacramento, Calif., objector, but he won his status as an ob­ nocence, but the committee ruled against threw out the case, as did the United States jector in Federal court nearly a year after him. The case then was dismissed by the Court of Appeals in San Francisco, when · his resignation from the Academy. superintendent on the ground of "command the Navy attempted to recover the cost of Mr. Farley, a graduate of Essex Catholic influence" over the committee. officer-candidate-school training from an en­ High School in Newark, has worked most of That was the end of it, as far as the Mili­ sign who received a conscientious objector the last year as an investigator in Newark tary Academy's official process was concern­ discharge. public defender's office. He has wanted to go ed. But the Honor Committee, supported by TREASURER OF CLASS to law school for several years. The Root­ a referendum of the cadet corps, persisted Mr. Farley, a member of the honor com­ Tilden scholarships are awarded on the basis to impose the traditional punishment that mittee and treasurer of his class for four of a student's potential for public service. almost any cadet would resign rather than years, had always received passing grades in "It's a unique opportunity I'm afraid I face. This meant nearly complete social os­ aptitude until he announced a week before won't be able to take advantage of," Mr. tracism for Pelosi-no one to talk to, or graduation in June, 1971, that he could not Farley said in a telephone interview the other room with, and a lO-man mess-hall table accept his commission in the Navy and in­ day. "I'm sorry about the whole thing. I to himself. Even less officially, some of tended to file for discharge as a conscientious wish the Navy and I could have coincided, Pelosi's tormentors embellished tradition by objector. but I had no choice. What were we fighting ripping up his mail, raiding his locker and Within 24 hours after he announced his for in Vietnam but the freedom to be your­ threatening to cut o1I his finger if he wore intention, Mr. Farley appeared before three self? That's exactly what I'm fighting for." his class ring. All this plus "the Silence." officer boards-the Battalion Aptitude Board, Pelosi bore it all through most of his jun­ the Brigade Aptitude Board, and the Aca­ ior and all of his senior years, as a way of demic Board-which found him unsatisfac­ proving his plea of innocence. It is an im­ tory in aptitude. He was not allowed to FRANK E. BATTAGLIA pressive proof, made more convincing by consult a lawyer and eventually, under what Pelosi's desire that publicity about his ex­ he charges in. his legal papers as "circum­ perience not be used to "wreck" the stances of coercion and duress," signed a academy. . voluntary resignation from the Academy. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE The questions raised by the case involve OF n.LINOIS .more than. West Point's inadequate atten­ . HEARIN.G SET tion to the rights and welfare of one young Mr. Farley 'and his lawyers maintain that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES man, or the taxpayers' stake in his educa­ he is being denied his degree as a penalty Tuesday, June 26, 1973 tion and future usefulness to the country. for having asked to be recognized as a con­ The Army should . consider whether "the scientious objector and having refused his :Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, I want to Silence" enhances the Honor Code that is commission. They say that the Navy ls de- join today with my many colleagues 22188 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 28, 1973 here in the House in saluting Frank E. "§ 3406. Mailing of letter mail to the Presi­ other Federal, State, local, and private Battaglia, the dean of the corps of Of­ dent, the Vice President, Federal sources of funding; and third, charge ficial Reporters of Debates of the House, executive agencies, and Members of Congress beneficiaries according to their ability to who is retiring at the end of this month. pay for services provided. The type of in­ " (a) Letter mail not exceeding one and Frank will be missed by all of us who stitutions enumerated by the HEW ba­ depend on him and his· fine staff. He one-half ounces in weight shall be carried at no cost to the sender when mailed, under sically serve the poor, and for them self has my most sincere wishes for many, a cover bearing the name and address of the sufficiency would prove impossible in many years of prosperity and happiness. sender on the upper left hand corner of the many cases. side bearing the addressee's address, by an For the HEW to take such drastic steps individual, acting solely in his own behalf toward the curtailment of medical pro­ and not in behalf of a profit-making enter­ grams amounts to little less than an im­ FREE MAIL FOR CITIZENS TO PETI­ prise, for redress of his grievances or to ex­ press his own opinion in a lawful manner, poundment of congressionally allocated TION THEIR ELECTED FEDERAL and- funds by this agency. I join with Repre­ OFFICIALS " (1) mailed to the President or the Vice sentative PAUL ROGERS in calling for a President, in his official capacity, if addressed 120-day moratorium before the enact­ to the White House, Washington, District of ment of the regulation&, during which HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL Columbia; or time the Congress will review the meas­ OF NEW YORK "(2) mailed to a Member of Congress, in ures. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES his legislative or representative capacity, if I would like to share with you the text addressed to the Member of Congress at the Wednesday, June 27, 1973 United States Congress, Washington, District of the letter I have sent to Secretary of of Columbia; or Health, Education and Welfare, Caspar Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the "(3) mailed to a department, agency, or Weinberger: average citizen's constitutional right of establishment Of the executive branch of the CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, petition is one of the most fundamental Federal Government, including any regional HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES, rights he has. To facilitate the exercise or field office thereof, if addressed to the Washington, D.C., June 25, 1973. of this right, a person should be able to headquarters of such department, agency, or DEAR MR. SECRETARY: I am deeply disturbed send letter mail to the President, Vice establishment or to any regional or field office by the proposed regulations, published May President, Federal executive agencies and thereof, but only 1f such ma111ng concerns . 21, 1973 in the Federal Register, which would matters within the jurisdiction of such de- withdraw federal funds from medical services Members of Congress postage free. For partment, agency, or establlshment. supported by the Health Services and Mental many people in our country an 8 cents As used in this subsection, 'Member of Con- Health Administration. postage stamp--soon to be higher-is a gress' means a United States Senator, Repre- The regulations call for health delivery somewhat burdensome cost, hindering sentative in Congress, and Delegate to or programs previously supported by the Fed­ their right to petition. Resident Commissioner in Congress. eral government to become self sufficient. The Though several bills were introduced "(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall types of programs enumerated in these regu­ during the 92d Congress and one during transfer to the Postal Service as postal reve- lations-Migrant Health, Health Services De­ the 93d accomplish this purpose, I nue, out of any appropriations made to the . velopment, Family Planning, Health Mainte­ to Department of the Treasury for that purpose, nance Organization, Community Mental feel compelled to introduce yet another. the equivalent amount of postage due, as de- Health Centers, Alcoholism and Alcohol My bill differs from the others in sev­ termined by the Postal Service, for letter mail Abuse Treatment, Narcotic Addiction, Drug eral key ways: sent in the mails under subsection (a) of Abuse and Drug Treatment, and Sickle Cell First. It authorizes postage-free mail this section.". Anemia programs-basically serve the indi- to the President and Vice President in (b) The table of sections of chapter 34 gent. The regulations would have the effect addition to Members of Congress; of. title 39, United States Code, immediate1y . of harming the services least able to sustain Second. It does not require that the preceding section 3401 of such chapter, is · themselves. person mailing a letter be a citizen; amended by adding at the end thereof the The administrators of each individual following new item: clinic will have to assume the role of fund Third. It requires that this privilege "3406. Mailing of letter mail to the President, collectors and be forced. to divert resources will be extended only to individuals act­ the Vice President Federal execu- away from their first pr10rity of healing the ing on their own behalf and not as instru­ tive agencies, and Members of con- sick. Forcing these agencies to become sel!­ ments of a profitmaking enterprise or gress.". sufficient would inevitably result in the cur- supportive organization such as trade as­ SEC. 2. The amendments made by this Act tailment of many clinical operations. sociations; and shall become effective at the beginning of Therefore, I agree with my colleague, Rep­ Fourth. It limits the subject matter the first fiscal year which commences later resentative Paul Rogers •. that, before going with which a free postage lettter can deal than the ninetieth day after the date of en- into effect, the regulat10ns should be re­ actment of this Act. viewed and approved by Congress. Any regu- to official Government related purposes. lations which would have as drastic an effect I view this bill as an important mech­ as those proposed by H.E.W. should, in my anism for encouraging individuals to em­ view, have the approval of the legislative ploy their right of petition. branch of government. I join with Rep. We are all painfully aware that the HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WEL- Rogers in asking for a 120-day moratorium integrity of elected and appointed of­ FARE CUT-OFF OF MEDICAL on the adoption of these regulations. The FUNDS initiation of H.E.W. regulations forcing medi- ficials is on trial throughout the country cal services to become self-sufficient is tanta­ as never before in our history. Making mount to the impoundment by an agency of it easier for constituents to communicate Congressionally approved funds and a re­ with their Government will ease, some­ HON. BELLA S. ABZUG versal of legislative intent. what, the estrangement that now exists OF NEW YORK Sincerely yours, BELLA S. ABZUG, between the people and the Government IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that serves them. Most important, it will Member of Congress. make it easier for Government officials Wednesday, June 27, 1973 to understand the needs of the people. Ms. ABZUG. Mr. Speaker, I would like Mr. Speaker, at this point I wish to to make my colleagues a ware of my dis­ WAR POWERS DEBATE include a text of the bill: tress over the proposed HEW regulations H.R. 9009 that would force many health care cen­ A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, ters to become self-sufficient. To con­ HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN to authorize the transmission, without cost tinue receiving any support from the OF FLORIDA to the sender, of letter mail to the Presi­ HEW health facilities must prove that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent or Vice President of the United States, they are working to achieve self-suffi­ to Federal executive departments and ciency with regard to financial matters. Wednesday, June 27, 1973 agencies, and to Members of Congress, and for other purposes As outlined in the Federal Register of Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, the CoN­ May 21, 1973, the requirement will be GRESSIONAL RECORD Of Monday, June 25, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of carried out by the individual facilities 1973, lists me as absent for rollcall No. America in Congress assembled, That (a) by more intensive efforts to, first max­ ·280 which was held during the debate chapter 34 of title 39, United States Code, is imize the amount of project services paid on the War Powers Act. amended by adding at the end thereof the for through third party reimbursement I would like to state for the record following new section: mechanisms; second, garner fully all that I was present for this rollcall.

L.. 'June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22189 TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE be incorporated into the Trade Reform duced by Congressman CULVER and some ACT OF 1973: COMPARISON WITH Act of 1973, presently being considered 45 other Members of the House. There 1962 ACT AND PRESENT ADMINIS­ by the Ways and Means Committee. are other bills which also deal with work­ TRATION PROPOSAL In light of numerous inquiries which er assistance: H.R. 62 and S. 442-the have been received about this legislation Burke~Hartke bill-include such provi­ HON. CHARLES A. VANIK and the ways in which it differs from sions, and S. 1156, introduced by Sena­ previous proposals, I would like to enter tors PERCY and TAFT, contain extensive OF OHIO in the RECORD at this point a comparison assistance provisions. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the existing law, as provided by the It is my hope, Mr. Speaker, that the Tuesday, June 26, 1973 Trade Expansion Act of 1962; the pro­ posals in the administration's trade bill legislation being considered by the Ways Mr. V ANIK. Mr. Speaker, on June 15, H.R. 6767; and the provisions of H.R. and Means Committee will include the the gentleman from Minnesota

COMPARISON OF SELECTED FEATURES OF H.R. 8723, TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1973, THE TRADE REFORM ACT OF 1973, AND THE TRADE EXPANSION ACT OF 1962

Trade Adjustment Assistance Act of 1973 H.R. 8723 The Trade Reform Act to 1973, H.R. 6767 (Fraser and Vasik) Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (administration bill)

Coverage _:-::-:·_-.; ___ .;::; Firms, workers, and communities ____ :-::-:=-~------· ------Firms and workers ______:-_~--' ------=-~-: ------Workers. Injury test______A "trade-impacted industry" is a group of firms producing com- Firms-Increased quantities of imports of like or Workers: petitive articles for which (1) production in the United States directly competitive articles (as a result in major (1) Increased imports of articles like or directly has declined; (2) a significant number or proportion of workers part of trade agreement concessions) the major competitive to those produced at the work- employed in the industry or firms have or are threatened to be- factor causing or threatening serious injury to ers' firm or subdivision of a firm have or come unemployed or underemployed due in substantial part to the firm. threaten to contribute substantially to the increased imports or decreased exports of competitive articles. Workers-Increased imports-in major part- actual or threatened total or partial separa- (1) Firms: Eligible for trade adjustment assistance if a member of the major factor causing or threatening un- tion of a significant number or proportion a trade-impacted industry or supplies a substantial part of its employment or underemployment of a signifi- of the workers of such firm or subdivision; production to trade-impacted industries. cant number or proportion of the workers of a and (2) Workers: Eligible if in a trade-impacted industry or a signifi- firm or subdivision of a firm. (2) Sales or production, or both, of such firm or , cant number of workers of the firm have become unemployed or subdivision have decreased absolutely. underemployed (or are so threatened) and that this condition has been caused in substantial part by the relocation (or pro- posed relocation) of the firm outside of the United States. (3) Communities: Eligible if firm is located in the community and its economic situation has been a substantial cause or threat of serious injury to the community's economic base or the firm's relocation will cause serious injury to the economic base of the community. · Administrative offices_.; Establishes within the Department of Labor a new trade adjustment Offices of Adjustment Assistance in Departments Same as Trade Expansion Act. assistance administration assisted by an Interagency Committee of Commerce and Labor. on Trade Adjustment. . Petition to--=------== Secretary of Labor (with judicial review permitted) ______. ____ U.S. Tariff Commission ______:-:-:.: ______Secretary of Labor. Determining body _____ Secretary shall make determinations within 60 days after receipt of The Tariff Commission, not later than 60 days after The Secretary of Labor, not later than 60 days after a petition. May seek advice of Tariff Commission and may notify a petition is filed. Under the Tariff Act of 1930, petition is filed. The Secretary may request Tariff some severely impacted firms that they would be eligible even the President may break a tie vote and has Commission assistance in investigations. before they file a petition. All pertinent data will be made public. discretionary authority to reject affirmative findings. Rules and procedures.: Generally established by Secretary of Labor_:;;: _____ ::.: ______Established by Tariff Commission and Secretaries of Commerce and Labor. Types of adjustment Workers: assistance, (1) Readjustment allowances to workers who, in 52 weeks 1. Cash readjustment allowances equal to 65 per­ 1. Supplemental unemployment insurance cash pay­ prior to total or partial separation, had 26 weeks of cent of the worker's average weekly wage ments equal to the difference, if any, of a worker's work at $15 per week or more. Weekly benefit amount with a ceiling of 65 percent of the average unemployment insurance if less than the unem­ shall equal but not exceed his average weekly wage up weekly manufacturing wage. Total weekly ployment insurance payment he would have to a set annual maximum payment. If more favorable benefits not to exceed 75 percent of worker's received if the paying State weekly benefit to the worker, he may elect to receive allowances avail­ average weekly wage. amount was at least M the worker's average able under job training programs. Readjustment assist­ weekly wage up to a maximum of % of the ance transition payments available as worker moves statewide average weekly wage. into new employment. Benefits limited to period equal to period of employment with eligible firm. All benefits contingent on acceptance of and progress in suitable job training program, (2) Training assistance is made available and is a require­ 2. Testing, counseling, training and job placement. 2. Testing, counseling, training, and job placement. ment, with travel allowances and subsistence allow­ 3. Relocation allowances to totally separated heads Training allowances provided on a priority basis ances provided. Opportunities provided in technical, of family. (Moving expenses plus 2M; times under existing programs. professional, vocational and academic areas. average weekly manufacturing wage.) 3. Relocation allowances to totally separated heads (3) Relocation allowances to adversely affected workers are of family. (80 percent of moving expenses plus provided for moves to new job locations. 3 times worker's average weekly wage, up to (4) Health insurance: Average type of standard industrial $500). worker's health coverage provided during period of 4. Job search grant (80 percent of job search costs adjustment assistance. up to $500). · (5) Early retirement: Adversely affected workers who have Duration of readjustment allowances-Maximum Duration of payments: As provided in applicable accrued social security credits or private pension rights of 52 weeks except: State law. may elect early retirement benefits. A worker who is (1) Workers in training may receive payments 55 or over may elect retirement benefits equal to the up to 26 additional weeks to complete benefits he would begin receiving at age 62. A worker , retraining. 60 or over may elect to receive benefits equal to the (2) Workers 60 years or older at separation benefits he would begin receiving at age 65. may receive paymeQts up to 13 addi· tional weeks. Eligibility requirements for individual workers: Eligibility requirements for individual workers: (1) Employed 78 of 156 weeks immediately Employed 26 of 52 weeks immediately preceding preceding separation at wages tof $15 separation at wages of $30 or more in adversely or more. affected employment with a single firm or sub­ (2) Employed 26 of 52 weeks immediately division of a firm, preceding separation at wages of $15 or more in a firm or firms with respect to which a finding of injury has been made. • Firms •• :-:======Technical, financial (through loan guarantees, etc.), and tax Technical: financial and tax assistance.:-:- :-::-::-:~ credit (for worker retraining) assistance, using, to the greatest extent possible, established programs. Firms must give priority to placement and retraining of its displaced workers. Prime administrative responsibility for assistance to 'firms lies with Secretary of Commerce. Communities •••••:-:;;; Must develop plan for readjustment and economic development. None •• =;;;;-:;;:;•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• None.. - Secretary of Commerce shall provide technical assistance through use of existing programs. 22190 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 28, 1979

Trade Adjustment Assistance Act of 1973, H.R. 8723 The Trade Reform Act of 1973, H.R. 6767 (Fraser and Vanik) Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (administration gill)

Relocation of firms _____ Firms shall apply for all eligible economic adjustment assistance _ .;~-: _do_ :-______-:. None. for its workers prior to relocating outside United States. Dis- placed workers must be offered first choice of employment with remaining domestic operations of relocating industry. Failure to comply shall make firm liable to United States for ~ of worker adjustment assistance. -- - Earl y warning system __ Advance notice of decisions to relocate outside United States is _____ do ______; ______.; do. required- within 1 week of decision and not less than 90 days · before any action is implemented.

DEDICATED SALVATION _t\RMY there's a fire. If they call me, tell them I'm on END RUN HIS LAST WORKER DIES ON WAY TO AC­ my way'." Winter and summer, he drove with the CIDENT SCENE Lou was short, with a long face that belied van door open. Once as he backed over a fire his good nature. His brother Fred was a card hose, the spray from the nozzle coated him dealer in Las Vegas for several years and on and instantly turned to ice. Last Tuesday, trips back to Pittsburgh he stayed at Lou's on his way to the crash of an airport bus HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD house. Fred told of a night when Lou had OF PENNSYLVANIA on the Parkway West, he went up the ramp answered two alarms. "He was just back from of the Duquesne Bridge, heading for Nobles­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the second one, with a foot in the tub, when town Road to make an end run arc1:nd the a call came in on the squawk box. Another Wednesday, June 27, 1973 Parkway traffic. His heart was bad. He col­ fire. Smiling at the way things happen, Lou lapsed at the wheel of the van. He fell Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. jumped into his clothes. t~1 rough the open door. Speaker, the Salvation Army has a long MADE IT HERE, THERE The Salvation Army has lost a good soldier. proud tradition of helping the needy and At noon the next day he had not been to The firemen and policemen have lost a responding to emergencies, great and bed. Sitting on a couch, he fell asleep with a devoted friend. small, with equal benevolence. bottle of pop in his hand. The strength of the Army has been its Until the Salvation Army hired him eight years ago, Lou DeAngelis could never hang NUN ROBBED corps of dedicated workers, both paid onto a job for very long. He had been a dish­ and unpaid. These are the men and washer, a short-order cook, a steelworker and women in Salvation Army blue who work a truck driver's helper, and that is an incom­ HON. LAWRENCE J. HOGAN in the kitchens, work with children, col­ plete list. Lou made a living for his wife OF MARYLAND and eight children, but he made it here and lect used clothing, and seek your dona­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions at Christmas time. there. One of these people was a constituent As kids, Lou and Fred had a business of Wednesday, June 27, 1973 their own. "We sold those little fried pies," of mine, Louis DeAngelis, a resident of Fred was saying. "The first day we took them Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, in the Pittsburgh's north side. down to the steel mill and we done real good, June 23 edition of the Washington Post, Mr. DeAngelis drove the Salvation we sold out. The second day, Lou says, 'I I read an article that gave me a deep Army's mobile canteen which answered wonder what they taste like.' We ate the sense of disappointment. A Catholic nun emergency calls right along with the whole basket, two dozen pies." was assaulted and robbed in broad day­ police and firemen. Somehow on the third day the partners light in Baltimore as many bystanders Lou DeAngelis and his cauldron of had no stomach for selling pies. stood idly by. At 39, Lou DeAngelis found his vocation. coffee, donuts, and sandwiches would be At 47, he was the best-know Salvation Army The American people are demanding right on the scene of fires and other worker in town. "Fred," he would say to his more police protection and I certainly emergencies. brother, "at last I've got a job where I feel share their concern. However, it is a Recently, a bus accident on a major like I'm needed.'• He drove the red van, with disgrace when some people exhibit such highway outside of Pittsburgh brought a hotplate in back and a four-burner gas selfishness and apathy as to allow Lou on the double. He knew there were range, to fires and to floods and to mine another person to be assaulted and disasters. people who needed his help. He brought sandwiches and soup, hot and robbed without rendering any assistance. Lou DeAngelis died of a heart attack cold drinks. His assistant, Helen Smith, made In addition to spending more money while answering that call. the coffee, in five-gallon urns. Whatever the to fight crime and toughening our laws, Roy McHugh, writing in a recent issue hour, he would call George the Baker in each of us must live up to our responsi­ of the Pittsburgh Press, interviewed Manchester and pick up George the Baker's bilities as a citizen. I can see no excuse those who knew him best and has writ­ doughnuts. for these people who witnessed this crime ten a moving story on Louis DeAngelis. A newspaper photographer said, "The only and did not offer their assistance or come I would like to include that article in thing Lou never had in that van was booze:• forward as a witness when the police the RECORD at this time for the informa­ CHRISTMAS AT AIRPORT arrived. This type of reassurance would tion of my colleagues: Lou's brother remembered a year when the aid dramatically in reducing crime to a two of them spent Christmas day at the Al­ DEsmE To HELP DROVE "ARMY" SOLDIER legheny County airport. A small plane was minimal level. (By Roy McHugh) missing with a husba-· d and wife and their I include the article: Its components kept changing, but there daughter aboard and the Civil Air Patrol NuN ROBBED; BYSTANDERS SAID To PROVIDE was always a line, firemen in white shirts had started searching for them early in the No HELP and policemen ln · blue shirts. They were morning. There were pilots and state police A Catholic nun was knocked down and waiting to stand for a moment at the coffin of and friends of the lost family at the airport robbed of $72 yesterday as numerous by­ Lou DeAngelis, who drove the Salvation with no restaurants open for miles. It was standers failed to help her, police said. Army's mobile canteen. long after dark that night when Lou and Sister Cyrille Powell, 67, told police a "Let me tell you just one little thing Fred ate their Christmas turkey. teen-age youth grabbed her purse about 1 about Lou," said Russell Wright, a fire chief's Another year, on his first day back from a P.M. as she was walking north in the 500 aide from District 4 in the South Hills. vacation, Lou drove to a fire and discovered block Gay street. there were no cups in the van. He borrowed INVENTORY WIDENS The nun struggled until she lost her bal­ cups, going from house to house and knock­ ance, fell down and struck her face and right "I chew tobacco, and one night at a fire I ing on doors. In below-zero weather, he knee, Southeastern district police reported. ran out. When I came up empty, Lou was noticed some firemen wiping ice off their Onlookers at a nearby bus stop watched right next to me. Kidding, I said to him, faces with paper towels. At the next fire Lou without attempting to aid the nun, clad in 'Look you've got coffee and hot dogs, why not came with thick Turkish towels. There was a a traditional blue dress and veil, police said. tobacco?' Well, last week at a fire in Brook­ hunt for a kidnaper in the Allegheny Moun­ Sister Cyrille, a secretary at the Institute line-two big buildings on Brookline Boule­ tains and for three days and three nights Lou of Notre Dame, 901 Aisquith street, got up, vard- Lou walked up and handed me a pack. not only fed the police, he fed their K-9 and called police. "It was Beechnut, the kind I chew." dogs as well. She was treated at Mercy Hospital for cuts Lou DeAngelis lived on the North Side and He never stopped working. Often 1n his and bruises on her face, forehead and right he slept with a police radio at his bedside. sleep, said his brother, Lou would be offering knee according to police. "Lots of times in the middle of the night," coffee to somebody. "With or without cream?" Police were not able to find witnesses. said his wife, "he'd wake me up to say, 'Betty, Fred would her him say. Sister Cyrille said yesterday she is June 28, 1973 EXTENSI,ONS OF REMARKS 22191 "amazed" no one assisted her despite her a request to the supreme court and the gov­ overall detente is long overdue. Properly screams. ernment of the Soviet Union: I ask you grant handled it could strengthen peaceful ties "I was hollering 'Oh, my God,' several my homeland, Lithuania, independence." between our two countries. We must not, times," she said. "They must have seen that Congressional Resolution 416, unanimously however, pursue such a policy if it means little boy take it." adopted by the House and Senate, calls for turning our backs on the repression of the "No one said a word," she continued. "Peo­ freedom of the Baltic States. Soviet Jews. We have learned long ago that ple and cars going up and down and nobody We would like Nixon to implement this economic policy is not morally neutral. If said a thing. No one wants to be involved. resolution during his visits with Brezhnev. we give special trade concessions to a coun­ They're afraid they will get robbed too." try that is violating fundamental human Police are looking for a youth 14 to 16 rights, we condone those violations. years of age about 5 feet tall and weighing Soviet repression of the Jews cannot be 80 to 90 pounds. dismissed as a mere internal matter. The JEWS SEEKING TO EMIGRATE DE­ world has learned through the bitter exper­ SERVE OUR FULLEST ATTENTION ience of Nazi Germany the cost of ignoring such persecution. We cannot, as a nation founded on the principle of religious liberty, MR. BREZHNEV, FREE THE HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN fuel naked anti-semitism by a broad scale BALTICS OF NEW YORK trade policy. The assault on Jews in the Soviet Union is widespread. It includes the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES closing of synagogues, the desecration of Hon. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Wednesday, June 27, 1973 cemeteries, the prohibition of religious study OF CALIFORNIA and the imposition of religious quotas at Miss HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, the educational institutions. While all of this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oppression of Jews seeking to emigrate has been going on this Administration has Wednesday, June 27, 1973 from the Soviet Union is a situation done little to protest. The Congress must be which deserves our fullest attention. I determined to do all that it can to aid the Mrs. BURKE of California. Mr. Speak­ submit for the RECORD the following Soviet Jews in their efforts to seek freedom er, on June 15 I entered into the RECORD statement which I presented to the Com­ to practice their religious traditions and a statement remembering the takeover of adhere to their cultural heritage. It is my mittee on Ways and Means: hope that the passage of the Mills-Vanik bill Lithuania by the Red Army 33 years to STATEMENT OF CONGRESSWOMAN ELIZABETH that day. will make this abundantly clear to the Soviet HOLTZMAN TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND leaders. Since the time of the Soviet takeover, MEANS CONCERNING H.R. 3910 The Lithuanian-American Commu­ I wholeheartedly support the Mills-Vanik the Lithuanians have tried to maintain bill (H.R. 3910) as part of a basic American DNR DOES ABOUT FACE ON POINTE their own identity and cultural heritage. commitment to the cause of fundamental nity of the United States, Inc., West Los human rights, and in particular to the cause MOUILLEE MARSH Angeles Division, and in particular Mr. of religious freedom for the Soviet Jews. I support this legislation which is designed to B. Gra1~zins, president of the Los An­ prohibit most-favored-nation status to any HON. MARVIN L. ESCH geles chapter has asked that an edito­ non-market-economy nation which denies IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rial printed in the Los Angeles Herald to its citizens the right to emigrate or which Examiner last week be included in the imposes more than nominal exist fees upon Tuesday, June 26, 1973 RECORD. The editorial expresses the po­ its citizens. Mr. ESCH. Mr. Speaker, for the past 3 sition of the Lithuanians and all free­ The plight of Je·ws seeking to emigrate years, I have joined with several mem­ dom-loving peoples: from the Soviet Union is one which has dis­ bers of the Michigan delegation in work­ MR. BREZHNEV, FREE THE BALTICS turbed me enormously and caused concern throughout the world. In 1959 during a trip ing hard to save the Pointe Mouillee Leonid I. Brezhnev, top boss of the Soviet to the Soviet Union and last year during a Game Refuge, in Monroe, Mich., from be­ Union, has arrived in the United States for stay in Israel, I had an opportunity to learn ing destroyed by a polluted dredge project a summit conference which reportedly will of this religious persecution and discrimina­ proposed by the Army Oorps of En­ cover the breadth of Soviet-American rela­ tion first-hand. Increasing numbers of Jews, gineers. tions from trade to disarmament. at great personal risk to themselves and with As early as March 1972 I wrote my This meeting with President Nixon coin­ heroic persistance, have sought to settle in cides with the 33rd anniversary of the Rus­ Israel. What was once a small stream of emi­ first of a long series of letters to various sian armed forces invasion and occupa_tion grants has grown rapidly in recent years. concerned governmental agencies, in­ of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Aided by the compelling pressure of world cluding the Army Corps, the Bureau of Only indistinct dotted lines denote the opinion, the number of Soviet Jews reaching Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, and the En­ borders of these three Baltic countries on Israel has risen from just over 1,000 in 1970 vironmental Protection Agency in our the red map of Communist Russia. to 14,000 in 1971, to over 31,000 in 1972. It is effort to put a halt to the corps' plans. Americans of Lithuanian descent are oQ­ vigorously expressed outside opinion which I was joined in this fight by a wide serving the 55th anniversary of the Republic has led to this dramatic change, and it is of Lithuania and the 721st year of the forma­ clear that it must continue lest anti-semitic .variety of deeply mterested groups, such tion of their homeland. policies by pursued with impunity. as the Pointe Mouillee Waterfowlers As­ The sweet dream of freedom lives on in the The difficulties faced by those seeking to sociation, the Huron River Watershed minds of these sons and daughters of the emigrate have been formidable. In August, Council, and other State and local Baltic nations. Here in the United States, 1972 the Soviet Union began to impose high officials. they know what freedom is, and they want exit fees on educated Soviet citizens. This The fight has been long and hard and it more than ever for the friends and rela­ "diploma tax" meant that a prospective indeed, it is not yet over. But this last tives left behind. emigrant Illight be forced to pay as much as All but the youngest remember the brief $30,000 before he would be allowed to leave. month, the Department of Natural Re­ siX weeks of independence wrested !rom the It is true that this education tax has been sources, which had agreed to the project Russians in 1941-liberty that was smashed waived or suspended for some, but it is still along with the corps, had a change of by Nazi Germany, and further suppressed on. the books. Despite pronouncements to heart, and have agreed to take a close by Russia after World War II. the contrary, curbs on emigration remain, look at their plans with a good intention Lithuanian Americans this week are hon­ and exit visas are still being granted only on of scrapping them. Although we cannot oring the brave but futile attempt by a a highly selective basis. A Soviet Jew applies be sure whether in fact, Pointe Mouillee Lithuanian seaman, Simas Kurdirka, to seek for an exit visa knowing that he faces the will be saved, the chances look better asylum aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel in loss of his job and the intimidation of his 1970. family, and not knowing if or when his visa than ever. As Brezhnev and Nixon meet, Americans will be forthcoming. Harrassment can take a Mr. Speaker, Tom Opro of the Detroit of all ethnic origins would do well to reflect variety of forms including military induc­ Free Press has written an article describ­ upon their own freedom at this time, and to tion, trumped up criminal charges and im­ ing this change of heart. Because it is hope with their Lithuanian, Estonian and prisonment in concentration camps. Even as good news, so little of which we have Latvian neighbors that one day their fore­ Mr. Brezhnev tries to reassure the Congress heard in recent weeks, I wish to take this fathers' countries will again be independent. that emigration restrictiohs have been aban­ opportunity to insert this article in the The last words of Kurdirka, spoken after doned, Jews seeking to leave for Israel are he was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor being . picked up in dragnets. If Mr. Brez­ RECORD. for his leap to freedom, expresses that hnev's claims that emigration is not being DNR DOES ABOUT FACE ON POINTE MOUILLEE desire: stifled are true, then he can have no legiti­ MARSH "I have nothing to add to what I have mate objection to this legislation. ST. CLAm.-In a surprise move this week, already said, only one wish, more specifically, Increased East-West trade as part of an the Department of Natural Resources an- 22192 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 28, 1973 nounced it was, in effect, scrapping plans to America. Its programing and content much has been made with regard to allow coverage of parts of Pte. Mouillee marsh have sparked controversy, to be sure, and for a large park. Instead, it wants to use the charges of drug abuse in professional material dredged from shipping channels in I am among those who have raised an football, I want to include this excerpt the Detroit and Rouge Rivers to rehabilitate eyebrow or two at times over this con­ from an article in the Evening Star. It the famous marsh. tent and programing. That hardly puts outlines the antidrug plan annom~ced An added announcement related that the me in a minority status, however. In spite yesterday by Commissioner Pete Rozelle DNR is promoting funding for a $500,000 of controversy and a few bones of con­ .and endorsed by the Players' Association. "wlldfowling museum and interpretive cen­ tention, I support public broadcasting It certainly reflects the mutual concern ter" at the Pointe. Complete with storage and more than in principle only. of players, owners, and the commissioner special wet land areas, the museum would also feature a 125-seat auditorium. It is important, however, to keep pub­ to protect the integrity of both profes­ Detroit's Tom Schroeder, 88, long the areas lic or educational television and broad­ sional football and the individual play­ most famous decoy collector, carver and wild­ casting in its proper role. Keeping CPB ers ·of the National Football League: fowl artist, appeared at the Natural Re­ and the public stations and their facili­ ROZELLE'S ANTIDRUG PLAN sources Commission here to confirm that it ties apart and distinct from commercial (By Steve Guback) was his intent to donate his extensive col­ stations serves to do more than defend lection, should the museum become a. reality. Rozelle announced basically a four-point free enterprise and prevent unfair com­ plan that will go into effect immediately. Pete Petoskey, chief of the DNR's wildlife petition in a highly competitive indus­ division, said he hoped to inventory the col­ The program, which received the blessing lection whenever it was presented to the state try; it keeps noncommmercial broadcast­ of Players Association director Ed Garvey last and place the pieces in fireproof storage until ing free to do just what it originally night, sets up: the museum itself was finished. sought to do-to be innovative and, per­ 1. A medical consultant for the league to DNR director A. Gene Gazlay named a haps, somewhat controversial without offer advice on drug matters. He will be museum committee of DNR specialists and having to depend for dollars on those who named shortly. citizen waterfowlers to head the project. 2. Provisions for disciplina-ry action, in might want to buy the use of their time eluding suspension. Up to now, Rozelle ad­ "Michigan has been the center for a unique and facilities. art form expressed in the carving of water­ Initted, no penalties other than probation fowl hunting decoys," he said, "as well a.s The report accompanying H.R. 8538 hP.ve been levied by the NFL in drug matters. many unique types of hunting equipment (House Report 93-324), at page 12, 3. A drive to strengthen the old program, and techniques." states: which was mainly educational. Area carvers and collectors have warned in Your committee has noted with some dis­ 4. A procedure wt.ereby clubs will make pe­ recent years that eastern buyers were re­ may the allegation that public television riodical reports to the league office on drug moving many of the better collections from stations are competing with privately fi­ inventory, prescription bills, and other drug­ the state. A central museum might stop that nanced commercial broadcasters for com­ related matters. Players also will be urged to flow. mercial business. Certainly, public broadcast­ notify the team physician of any prescription ing facilities grants should not be permitted medicine taken away from the team. to foster this practice. "If there were an easy answer to the drug problem we wouldn't have i'; in our society CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROAD­ There have been two cases in 1973 of today," Rozelle said after announcing his CASTING AUTHORIZATION a production facility owned by a com­ plan. "We had a program. We acknowledged mercial broadcaster in my district being it wasn't strong enough. We're now taking underbid for work by educational broad­ these additional steps. . "Whether we can be successful as we'c'. like HON. JAMES G. MARTIN casters. Both incidents involved small to be, I don't know," Rozelle added, with a OF NORTH CAROLINA contracts, small dollar amounts, small sigh. "We're going to keep adding things IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nibbles into the competitive arena. Nib~ until hopefully we can be successful." Wednesday, June 27, 1973 bles can, however, mount up and become One thing Rozelle has going for him is the a major difficulty. backing now of the Players Association, the Mr. MARTIN of North Carolina. Mr. There comes to mind a quotation at­ coaches and the owners, all of whom okay the Speaker, on the occasion of the consid­ tributed to the late Judge John J. Parker plan. eration by the House of the bill, H.R. "I think it's a responsible program," Gar­ who abhorred delving into some partie~ vey said. "He pretty much has adopted our 8538, the Corporation for Public Broad­ ular field of the law. Rather than get into resolution. We "VOUld encourage players to casting authorization, it is my intention the details of, I believe, the Internal Rev­ turn over prescriptions as long as their con­ to offer an amendment barring CPB and enue Code, he said he "would prefer to fidence is protected. P..s for the other steps, he the publicly funded educational stations be nibbled to death by ducks." The non­ pretty much has admitted that it's a club from entering into competition with pri­ commercial stations are neither web­ problem. I'll endorse the program a.s pre­ vate broadcast stations and their produc­ footed nor likely to devour their com­ sented." tion facilities. The text of the amend­ mercial colleagues. But, they are nibbling However, Garvey was disappointed that ment I will propose is as follows: Rozelle didn't set up a joint owners-players at the edge of their neighbors' lawns. committee to study the entire area and de­ No licensee of a broadcast station which re­ It is neither appropriate nor fair for termine if drug usage is a problem. ceives assistance under this part shall con­ these nonprofit, educational-only facili­ "I think it was a series of coincidents-the tract for the creation or production of any ties supported in part or wholly by tax Staggers' committee report and the story in advertising material whenever the purpose of dollars to bid against taxpaying com­ the New York Times--that's. blown this such creation or production includes the mercial entities for essentially com­ whole thing out of proportion," Garvey said. broadcast of such material by any commer­ "We don't really know if it's a problem.'' cial broadcast station. mercial, noneducational business. My amendment should put an end to this For the time being, Rozelle has decided not No licensee of a broadcast station which to put in a plan for urinalysis, as suggested receives assistance under this part shall bid nibbling practice and make it plain that by the House Commerce Investigation Sub­ to contract in competition with any com­ the noncommercial stations and facili­ committee. The Players Association bitterly mercial broadcast station for the broadcast­ ties should be completely out of the busi­ opposed this measure as an invasion of ing of any program or event. ness of competing with commercial privacy. The legislation establishing our sys­ broadcasters. "Urinalysis and several other things we've been thinking about are still under consid­ tem of educational television dates from eration," Rozelle said, "but we're going to 1962. The original legislation specifically wait until the appointment of our medical limited public stations to the broadcast­ consultant because we'd like to hear from PETE ROZELLE AND THE NFL PLAY~ ing of educational programing. The him on this matter." language is found in title 47 United ERS' ASSOCIATION FIGHT THE The major flaw in the new program, of States Code at section 392(b) (4): DRUG PROBLEM course, is that the NFL has no way of pre­ For each project for the construction of venting the players from obtaining drugs noncommercial educational ... broadcasting HON. JACK F. KEMP outside the team. Most players say this is facilities there shall be submitted • . • an the most widespread violation. application •.• providing assurance ••. OF NEW YORK "I don't think we can effectively police the that such broadcasting facilities will be used IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES use of drugs 24 hours a day," Rozelle con­ ceded. '"We're going to attempt to do all we only for educational purposes.••• We~nesday, June 27, 1973 can to curb this problem." Let me take pains to note that public Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, for the bene­ The threat of disciplinary action seems to television constitutes a vital force in fit of my colleagues, at a time when so be the major league weapon, but Rozelle June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22193 hedged when asked if he would take a hard­ York, authorized by the Flood Control Act of Since States are in the process of adopting line on violations. 1965, (79 Stat. 1073) is hereby modified to their budgets-some for one year, others for "There is no way you can say," Rozelle authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting two--an appropriate amount of time must be said. "Each case would have to be handled through the Chief of Engineers, to com­ available to the States in order to plan for individually. It would depend on the viola­ mence work on the beach erosion control a transition from categorical grants-in-aid tion." aspect of the project independently of the to a Special Revenue Sharing approach. The Players Association takes the stand hurricane-flood protection aspect of the Be it further resolved that the Congress of that disciplinary action should be handled project. Construction of the beach erosion the United States and the National Adminis­ with caution. In most cases, players con­ control aspect of the project may commence tration also be urged: victed of illegal drug usages would receive following the completion of environmental 1. to provide for reasonable procedures such criminal penalties beforehand. studies regarding that aspect, conducted pur­ as hold-harmless clauses and flexible time­ "I don't endorse the idea of suspension ex­ suant to the National Environmental Policy tables, cept under the most dramatic circum­ Act of 1969. Nothing herein shall increase or 2. to insure a greater degree of certainty stances," Garvey said. "After a player has reduce the percentage of total costs of the in the amount of Federal funding which can been subjected to criminal penalties it would entire project to be contributed by the af­ be expect ed by the States by providing that be unjust in most cases to take his liveli­ fected non-Federal interests. appropriations be consonant with authoriza­ hood away, too." tions, and Much of the recent drug-related furor has H .R. 9017 3. to insure adequate and meaningful stemmed from the New York Times' story Be it enacted by the Senate and House planning at the State level by making annual which said four NFL players are under sur­ of Representatives of the United States of appropriations prior to the beginning of the veilance for trafficking in lllegal drugs. America in Congress assembled, That the fiscal year. Rozelle said he wouldn t refute the story, but project for hurricane-flood protection and Be it further resolved that the Congress of that he found no substance in it. beach erosion control at East Rockaway Inlet the United States and the National Adminis­ "We've checked that out very thoroughly," to Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay, New tration enter into a meaningful dialogue with Rozelle said, "and I'm quite confident there York, authorized by the Flood Control Act of the States so that Special Revenue Sharing is no such investigation currently under­ 1965, (79 Stat. 1073) is hereby modified to legislation will be drawn in a fashion that way." authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting will enable each State to benefit equitably through the Chief of Engineers, to com­ under such laws. mence work on the beach erosion control Be it further resolved that copies of this ROCKAWAY BEACH EROSION aspect of the project, independently fJf the resolution be sent to the President of the CONTROL PROJECT hurricane-flood protection aspect of the United States and to each member of Del­ project. Construction of the beach erosion aware's Congressional Delegation, and that control aspect of the project may commence they be hereby requested to jointly arrange HON. BELLA S. ABZUG following the completion of environmental for its insertion in the Congressional Record. OF NEW YORK stud~es regarding that aspect, conducted pur­ suant to the National Environmental Policy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Act of 1969. Nothing herein shall increase or Wednesday, June 27, 1973 reduce the percentage of total costs of the OPINION POLL entire project to be contributed by the af­ Ms. ABZUG. Mr. Speaker, today Mr. fected non-Federal interests. GROVER, I, and 31 of our colleagues from New York State have introduced legisla­ HON. JOSHUA EILBERG tion, H.R. 9016 and H.R. 9017, which OF PENNSYLVANIA would allow a beach erosion control proj­ DELAWARE RESOLUTION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ect to commence at the Rockaway Thursday, June 28, 1973 beaches in New York City. The need for. beach nourishment at HON. PIERRE S. (PETE) duPONT Mr. EILBERG. Mr. Speaker, yesterday OF DELAWARE the President vetoed legislation which the Rockaway beaches is immediate. contained a complete ban on all U.S. During low tide, at some locations, there IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES military activity in Cambodia. is a drop of 10 feet from the last step of Thursday, June 28, 1973 the boardwalk to the beach. At high tide, In doing so he did exactly the opposite sewers, power lines, the boardwalk, and Mr. DU PONT. Mr. Speaker, on May of what the people of my district in roadbeds are threatened. The city of New 15, 1973, the 126th General Assembly of Philadelphia wanted him to do. York has had to close to the public 25 Delaware passed S.C.R. 20 concerning in­ I recently sent a questionnaire to every blocks of beach at two locations. creased cooperation between the States home in my district. The first 1,000 re­ The bills we have submitted would and the Federal Government on fiscal sponses have been tabulated 'and on the permit the Corps of Engineers to com­ matters. It particularly calls for in­ question of bombing in Southeast Asia, mence work on the beach erosion control creased dialogue upon the consideration 74 percent said they do not want it to project while awaiting further studies of of anticipated Special Revenue Sharing continue, 14 percent were in favor of the the hurricane-flood protection aspect of Acts. Mr. Speaker, in accordance with the bombing and 12 percent were undecided. the authorized East Rockaway Inlet to body of the resolution, I ask that this Additionally, in response to a second Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay very fine resolution be incorporated into question, 73 percent said they would be project. the RECORD: opposed to sending ground troops back The cosponsors of this legislation are: SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 20-IN into Southeast Asia to rescue flyers cap­ Mr. GROVER, Mr. ADDABBO, Mr. BADILLO, REFERENCE TO FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING tured while taking part in the bombing, Mr. BIAGGI, Mr. BINGHAM, Mr. BRASCO, In harmony with the policy adopted by the 14 percent would support that action, Mr. CAREY of New York, Ms CHISHOLM, Intergovernmental Relations Committee of and 13 percent were undecided. Mr. DELANEY, Mr. DULSKI, Mr. FISH, Mr. the National Legislative Conference following Although these figures come from only GILMAN, Mr. HANLEY, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. its meeting with the President on March 30, 1,000 responses, Mr. Speaker, I believe HoLTZMAN, Mr. HoRTON, Mr. KocH, Mr. 1973, the Senate of the State of Delaware, the the results are so overwhelming that the House of Representatives concurring therein, White House should reverse its stand on LENT. hereby adopts the following resolution: Mr. McEWEN, Mr. MITCHELL of New Whereas, each and every one of the fifty this matter and immediately end the York, Mr. MURPHY of New York, Mr. sovereign States has, through the years, by bombing. PEYSER, Mr. PoDELL, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. design and by tradition, adopted certain There are also other responses which I RONCALLO of New York, Mr. ROSENTHAL, methods of funding programs; and feel should be noted at this time: Mr. SMITH of New York, Mr. WALSH, Mr. Whereas, the Congress of the United States Seventy-three percent of the people WOLFF, and Mr. WYDLER. and the National Administration should rec­ believe that the defense budget should be ognize and make allowance for the unique cut and the savings applied to solving the The text of the bills follows: variations in funding programs existing with­ H.R. 9016 problems of cities; in the States. Eighty percent of those responding Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Con­ Representatives of the United States of gress of the United States and the National want part of the Highway Trust Fund America in Congress assembled, That the Administration be urged to continue ad­ used to improve public transportation; project for hurricane-flood protection and ministering grants-in-aid programs in their Seventy-seven percent want massive beach erosion control at East Rockaway In­ present form until such time as Special Reve­ Federal aid for public school systems. let to Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay, New nue Sharing programs have been enacted. Finally, in response to a request to list 22194 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 28, 1973 the three most pressing problems facing Yes ------­ 80 16. What is the one local problem whicli the Nation, the people responded that in­ No ------12 troubles you the most? Crime, School flation is overwhelmingly their number Undecided------8 Finances, Drugs. one concern. This was followed by crime 6. I am also sponsoring a proposal to pro­ and, despite White House claims that no­ vide tax benefits for the parents of students body outside of Washington is concerned, in private schools. Do you support this plan? Watergate was third. RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE Yes ------52 IN ·WELFARE At this time, Mr. Speaker, I enter into No ------41 the RECORD the tabulated results of the Undecided------7 first 1,000 questionnaires I have receiveci · 7. Legislation has been proposed which CONGRESSMAN JOSHUA EILBERG WANTS YOUR would prevent the cancellation of Federal HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON OPINION grants and other payments to hospitals which OF MASSACHUSETTS (NoTE.-All answers in percent) refuse to allow abortions to be performed. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Do you approve of this proposal? 1. a.. Do you believe the President's Phase Thursday, June 28, 1973 III "voluntary control" economic policy is Yes ------~------45 working? Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, the No ------~------42 Undecided ------13 media have been accused in the past of 1tes ------1 confusing facts and misrepresenting is­ No ------93 8 . Do you believe that possession of mari­ Undecided ------6 juana for personal use should be .a criminal sues, but I think that a series of editor­ ials broadcast over television station b. Would you favor a return to compre­ offense? hensive wage and price controls? WCVB in Boston has greatly contributed Yes ------48 to the public knowledge of welfare. The No ------37 Yes ------84 Undecided ------15 broadcasts to which I refer are entitled, No ------8 "Restoring Public Confidence in Wel­ Undecided ------8 9. Should pushers of hard drugs who are fare," and were seen over WCVB at the c. If price controls are put into effect again, convicted a second time receive mandatory end of May. should they include food prices? life sentences? As the first editorial in the series states, Yes ------­ 90 few governmental policies are so mis­ Yes ------~------96 5 No ------3 UndecidedNo ------______------______trusted or so scorned as welfare. ¥tCVB­ Undecided ------1 5 TV realized that this attitude stemmed to d. Have the increases in food prices caused 10. a. Are you satisfied with the progress a great extent from misinformation re­ a change in the kind or amounts of food you being made to clean up the environment? garding the purpose and effect of welfare buy? Yes ------20 expenditures. The goal of the editorial Yes ------88 No ------68 series-to restore public confidence in a No ------11 . Undecided ------12 complex but vital social program-is one Undecided ------1 b. Are you prepared to bear some of the which we should encourage· in these days e. Are you buying more or less: cost, in form of higher prices and increased of a failing public trust in government. taxes, of cleaning up the environment? I am inserting the text of these edi­ Meat. torials :in the RECORD, with the hope that Yes ------55 More ------1 other broadcasters will follow the exam­ No --~------34 SameLess ------Amount ______8514 Undecided ______: ______:______11 ple of WCVB-TV in addressing current 11. Should U.S. funds be used to rebuild social issues: Poultry. North Vietnam? RESTORING - PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN More ------38 WELFARE-PART 1 LessSame ------Amount ______2438 Yes ------10 (Presented by Richard S. Burdick, WCVB No ------82 vice president and general manager, crea­ Undecided------8 Fresh fruits and vegetables. tive services) 12. a. Do you agree with the Administra­ Welfare! The word alone has becom~ con­ More ------14 tion's policy of continued bombing in South­ troversial. After the actual or assumed wrong­ Less------Same Amount ______------3254 east Asia? doings of politicians, nothing in state govern­ ment is so mistrusted or so scorned as wel­ Canned and frozen foods. Yes ------14 fare. No ------75 Undecided ------11 But we believe this is unfair and unjusti· LessMore ______------: ______2725 fie d. Same Amount ______48 b. If this bombing results in the capture First of all, welfare dollars go primarily to of Americans, should ground troops be sent four major groups; the medically needy, the 2. Should grain sales to Russia and other back into Southeast Asia as a means of forc­ elderly, the disabled and children. Welfare countries be continued if these sales con­ ing their release? is a one billion dollar-plus operation in Mas­ tinue to cause sharp increases in meat prices? sachusetts, but nearly half of this sum comes Yes ------15 from federal not state funds. Yes ------9 No ------73 There is welfare fraud. But it is not per­ No ------84 Undecided ------12 vasive-probably affecting less than one per­ Undecided ------7 13. Should the United States reduce the cent of total cases. We do hear about some 3. Do you !favor a cutback in the Defense number of troops stationed in Europe? shocking abuses. But the Welfare Depart- budget with the savings applied to solving 69 ment and other state agencies have stepped the problems of the cities? Yes ------­ up fraud investigations, as they should. 17 No ------­ . Welfare doesn't permit lavish lifestyles. 14 Yes ------73 Undecided------. Life on welfare is generally one of privation.· No ------20 14. Now that we have formal diplomatic 1tet thanks to payments more generol,ls here Undecided ------7 relations with the Chinese Peoples Republic, than in most other states, those on welfare 4. Should a portion of the gasoline tax do you believe we should normalize relations in Massachusetts can live decently. money collected and pledged for the Highway with Cuba? We have seen a. great deal wrong with wel- Trust Fund be directed to improve public fare in this state. But we also see a great transportation? 1tes ------61 deal right with it. Overall, we feel a resur­ No ------21 gence of public confidence in welfare is both Yes ------­ 77 Undecided------18 justified and overdue. This editorial is the No ------18 first in a. series exploring our welfare pro­ 5 15. What do you think are the three most Undecided ------pressing problems facing America today? grams. We intend to criticize where criticism 5. I have introduced legislation to provide Please list in order of urgency. is warranted and recommend when new ap- Federal funds for up to 35 percent of a. public 1. Inflation. proaches should be tried. But first we want to school district's annual budget. Do you sup­ 2. Crime. introduce you to the human reality behind port this idea? 3. Watergate? welfare statistics. We hope you'll be watching. . 'June 28, 1.973 -EXTENSIONS ,OF REMARKS 22195 RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN WELFARE- Welfare mothers and children as well as . freeze base period pr-ices. As a result, his . PART 2 those on disability assistance haven't got­ company . which produces brass and Welfare is not the gigantic porkbarrel of ten a cost of living increase since 1970. And bronze ingots which are made from such those on general relief haven't seen an in­ popular myth. It is vast and ~omplex and scrap is approaching a crisis stage and expensive. And it is far from bemg a perfect crease since 1969-four years ago. This is cruel and inexcusable. some or all of the 40 employees working system. But it serves the needs of poor, sick there may face unemployment when and aged people. We want to restore public Senate Bill 1647 would correct this in­ confidence in welfare as a vital social pro­ equity by providing other welfare recipients their raw materials are completely un­ gram. with the automatic three percent cost of liv­ available. Take Old Age Assistance, one of the major ing increase the elderly now enjoy. Governor This constituent explained his problem welfare programs. It helps more than 60,000 Sargent has budgeted for the $9 million this very aptly: Massachusetts elderly-people like 68-year­ will cost the state. Decency and justice de­ mand the passage of this legislation. We urge The price freeze creates an artificial price old Margaret Sullivan of Roxbury. an of you to support Senate Bill 1647. structure in the U.S. when you are dealing with a commodity which is a world com­ RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN WELFARE­ MASSACHUSETTS WELFARE: A BETTER LIFE FOR modity, one which can be exported. The PART 3 THE ELDERLY artificial price structure cannot continue Eighty-five percent of the patients in Mas­ unless a wall is constructed around the U.S. sachusetts nursing homes like this one re­ Thousands of elderly persons in Massachu­ by way of complete export control and trade setts live on incomes at or below the poverty limitations. ceive Medicaid. This staggering figure gives line. we know, for example, that 60,000 el­ you a strong hint of why Medicaid is far and derly receive Old Age Assistance from the I would add that interna..tional markets away the giant of state welfare programs. Welfare Department. And many others sub­ From its inception in 1967, Medicaid has that have been cultivated over many sist on tiny incomes from pensions, savings, years will be destroyed by export prohibi­ grown to become a $400 million operation and Social Security. serving a quarter of a million people. The Some believe the elderly constitute the tions and greatly damaged by price ex­ explosion in the cost of Medicaid, however, largest poverty group in the nation. Local port limitations. is intimately linked to the tremendous in­ figures bear this out. In the city of Lawrence, In summary, I repeat my firm belief flation in the cost of medical care. Welfare for e:llample, one quarter of the 10,000 elderly that the current price freeze is unwork­ recipients and the wor.king poor-:-the t\YO residents must survive on poverty-level in.. able and should be terminated imme­ groups eligible for Medicaid-never see the comes. diately. money spent in their behalf. It goes directly The social cost of raising these aged peo­ to hospitals, druggists, doctors and nursing The article follows: ple out of poverty is as staggering as it is BARE CUPBOARDS: FOOD SHORTAGES LOOM AS homes like this one in Brighton. desirable. We can afford to take only one We wanted to give you a ·glimpse of this step at a time. One first step we can endorse FmMS, FARMS CUT OUTPUT UNDER PHASE facility and some of its patients because all is incorporated in Senate Bill 1644. This bill, 3¥2-SOME PLANTS CLOSE AS COSTS EXCEED too often we forget the reality behind welfare now before the state legislature, would make THE CEILING PRICES; RUSHING PLANS FOR statistics. Of the total Medicaid budget, 31 all elderly persons eligible for welfare as­ PHASE 4-"YES, WE HAVE No TOMATOES" percent goes for nursing home care of the sistance if their income was less than the (By John A. Prestbo) elderly, while another third goes for inpatient low standard budget of the federal Bureau CHICAGO.-The nation's food-production hospital care~ again mostly for the elderly, of Labor Statistics. Monthly welfare benefits All in all, about 70 percent of Medicaid dol­ machinery is starting to grind to a halt under would rise from the present $199 to $213 for Phase 3¥2. lars are spent on treatment of the aged, blind a single person, and from $296 to $304 for a and disabled. Across the country, :flour millers, feed man­ couple. ufacturers, corn processors, salad-oil refin_ers Admittedly there are many abuses of Medi­ The cost of this program is estimated at caid. A number of the reforms we'll be rec­ and other food companies are either slowmg $8¥2 million a year. We believe the state can down or closing their plants because their ommending later in this editorial series cen­ absorb this expense. But we emphatically do ter on the Medicaid program. Yet when all prices are frozen below the cost of their raw not support a further provision of the bill materials. is said and done, it should be obvious that which would greatly increase assistance pay­ the services provided by Medicaid are im­ For the same reason, broiler-chicken and ments over a five-year period. Without doubt, egg farmers have been cutting production mensely valuable to hundreds of ·thousands such increases would go a long way toward of people-especially elderly people like these sharply, even to the extent of killing baby eliminating elderly poverty in this state. But chicks rather than going to the expense of for whom there is often no other recourse. the $35 million annual pricetag is beyond our current ability to pay. feeding them. Hog farmers are barely keeping RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN WELFARE­ So let us take our first, modest step for pace with last year's output and are market­ PART 4 the elderly today, hoping that we can do ing pregnant sows rather than allowing them much more in the years to come. to farrow. More dairy farmers are selling their Our study of welfare indicates the loss of cows for beef to cut feed expenses, and some public confidence in this mammoth state dairymen predict that milk supplies could be program is unjustified. People can be proud scarce when school resumes in the fall. of what state government is doing to support Yesterday, the government took one step in the poor sick and aged. PRICE FREEZE CONTINUES easing high production costs by embargoing Take Aid to Families with Dependent Chil­ DISASTER ROUTE all exports of soybeans and cottonseed and dren, one of the biggest and most controver­ the products made from them. Strong for­ sial welfare programs. It helps nearly 300,000 eign demand for these products has been persons-like Somerville's Jeanne Hudson HON. WILLIAM J. KEATING instrumental in ballooning domestic prices and her three children. OF OHIO for many foods, including meat, milk and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES eggs. But the freeze itself remains in effect. MASSACHUSETTS WELFARE: INCREASING THE "If these price-freeze rules continue for BENEFITS Thursday, June 28, 1973 the full60 days, the nation's supplies of meat, Imagine that you've been working for the Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, the cur­ milk and eggs are going to be scarce for a long same company for the last three years; yet time to come,'' warns Oakley Ray, president in all that time you've never gotten a raise. rent price freeze is continuing to cause of the American Feed Manufacturers Associa­ Your paycheck today is the same as it was major disruptions in the U.S. economy. tion. 36 months ago. I am enclosing with my remarks today a BAD NOW, WORSE LATER Now think of what's happened to the cost copy of an article entitled "Bare Cup­ "Things are bad enough now, but it's the of living. Since 1970 prices have gone up for boards" appearing in today's Wall Street long-range ripple effects that worry us most,'' just about everything-rent, clothing, gaso­ Journal. says a spokesman for the National Associa­ line, and food, especially food. The cost of This article gives further evidence of tion of Food Chains. "We can put up With meat alone has made a frontal assault on the the deterioration of the food industry short supplies of lettuce and other produce family budget. for a while, but what happens if the can­ So without that raise your paycheck has and the potential long-term harm the current price freeze will have on our ners don't can and freeze as much as they bought less and less-probably 20 percent might-what will we do for food six months less than it did three years ago. economy. The food industry is not alone from now?" Now what are we trying to prove? We're in crying, "foul,'' at the price freeze Indeed, Nixon administration officials have stating the obvious to make a very important effects. indicated that food rationing is a possibility. point about how 1nfiation affects not you, A constituent of mine contacted my "For the first time in our history, there might the majority who have jobs and do, in fact, office to inform me of the dilemma his be great, gaping blank spaces on our super­ get regular raises, but the minority who must company faces because of its inability to xnarket shelves," says C. J. Tempas, president live on welfare. purchase brass and copper scrap at of Green Giant Co. 22196 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 2.8, 1973 Adds Dale D. Wolf, sales manager of Joan food items, but it is distoring the marketing stringent conditions-such as short supplies of Arc Food Co. in Peoria, Ill., which last of them. Retail prices of some seasonal fruits resulting from bad weather. week stopped selling its canned pork and and vegetables, for instance, are still pegged "If Phase 4 doesn't come soon, I don't see beans; "If consumers were complaining be· at last year's levels because no sales were how we can avoid rationing and black­ fore about high food prices, they're going to made during the base period; wholesale marketeering," says one food executive; complain even more now because they won't prices, however, had climbed sharply higher whose company makes sausage, among other be able to get things. Price becomes secondary to reflect smaller crops caused by bad things. "Any day now I expect a meat sup­ when you can't get the product." weather. plier to tell me that at the ceiling price he Not everyone is crying gloom and doom, of Plums, for example, may not be stocked can give me only 500 pounds when I need course, and the Cost of Living Council appar· in many markets this summer because of the 10,000. Then he'll let me know that maybe ently plans to grant relief to a few especially freeze. Last year's retail price, which is this he could provide the other 9,500 pounds at hard-pressed companies. Because the distri­ year's ceiling, was $9 a box, but the whole­ an additional charge. If I don't take it, my bution pipelines are filled, shortages of food sale price ceiling under Phase 3 ¥z is $20 a competitors will. If we come to that, God help items haven't yet been reported-though even box, the National Association of Food Chains us all." the government acknowledges that the U.S. says. Another example: Florida tomatoes were may run out of soybeans before t he season selling for 18 cents a pound in New York ends Aug. 31. during the base period, but now those sup­ THE ANTIFILTH FIGHT IS NOT A PANDORA'S BOX plies are gone, and California tomatoes are coming into season-costing about 30 cent s OVER Nonetheless, Phase 3 ¥2 is turning out to a pound. Stores that had been selling the be a Pandora's box for the food industry. Florida tomatoes may have to stop carrying One rule is particularly nettlesome because any, while those in the West normally de­ HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS many food products are sold at an agreed­ pendent on California supplies could be so upon price for delivery several weeks or glutted with them that they would fea­ OF PENNSYLVANIA months later. The freeze rules say that prices ture them on special. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of goods delivered in the June 1- 8 base pe­ The anomalies aren't limited to fresh pro­ Thursday, June 28, 1973 riod can •t go any higher, even though those duce. General Foods Corp. says that it has prices may be months old and raw-material stopped selling frozen red raspberries and Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, the forces costs may have skyrocketed in the meantime. that when present supplies of frozen straw­ of decency which have waged a long, and As a result, some food-processing and berries are exhausted, it will stop selling at times discouraging, fight against the manufacturing companies say they find those, too. Some canning-industry sources themselves forced to price their products at worry that smaller canners faced with the flood of pornographic filth in this coun­ levels below the current cost of production. prospect of paying higher raw-material prices try can take heart from the new and Evans Milling Co. in Indianapolis, for in­ but not being able 'to sell the finished prod­ tough U.S. Supreme Court decision. But stance, closed its doors last Saturday because uct at a profit will simply choose not to their work is not over by any means. of freeze-imposed losses of 20 cents a bushel can. The packing season for many items is The court, in its historic 5 to 4 ruling, on the corn it milled. Flour millers, soybean just getting under way, and inventories of has opened the way for State and local processors and others are similarly affected. canned fruits and vegetables are sharply authorities to smash "the crass com­ "At least three soybean plants have closed, lower than normal because of increased de­ and more than a dozen others have cut back mand. No canner has announced such a move, mercial exploitation of sex" in movies because they were locked into unprofitable however. and publications. However, the crack­ prices," says a spokesman for the National Earlier this week, the government said it down still must take place and on the Soybean Processors Association. "Some of our may ease the ceiling on certain food prod­ resolve of these State and local officials. members have base prices of less than 16 ucts if it appears that shortages are devel­ Fortunately my State of Pennsylvania cents a pound for oil and little more than oping. It was obvious that the publicity is in the process of acting. Antiobscenity $200 a ton for meal," he says, "and it's sim­ about farmers' killing . baby chicks caused legislation already is before the legis­ ply impossible to sell at those prices when some consternation among price controllers, soybeans bring nearly $12 a bushel." Based and hints began circulating that the freeze lature in Harrisburg and favorable ac­ on current soybean prices, oil cost s more may be lifted on broiler chickens and select­ tion upon it is expected soon. Also, than 19 cents a pound-when it can be ed other food items sooner than on other Pennsylvania district attorneys have bought at all-and meal brings $390 a ton. products. been waging legal battles on specific in­ "GREATEST CRISIS" EVER Yesterday, for instance, a Paris, Ill., corn­ stances of alleged pornographic commer­ processing plant, Illinois Cereal Mills Co., "Ceiling prices for ma_ny feeds are $20 to cialism and I am sure they will continue said it plans to reopen today after pleading this with new vigor now that they have $50 a ton below the cost of production," says its case to the government. The company Mr. Ray of the Feed Manufacturers Associa­ said in a statement: "We have reviewed our the highest court's backing. tion. Ralston Purina, one of the biggest com­ situation with the Price Commission (and) Public support-active and demand­ panies in the industry, has withdrawn more we are optimistic that an early favorable re­ ing-nevertheless is needed and it is this than 300 feed products from the market. ply will be forthcoming. So we are starting which concerns me toda~ . I appeal to all "Others are simply closing," Mr. Ray adds. up our plant and will attempt to operate on State legislators and municipal officials "It's the greatest crisis our industry has ever a day-to-day basis until it is resolved." faced." to take full advantage of the authoriza­ The Cost of Living Council apparently is tions given them by the Supreme Court On Tuesday, the Cost of Living Council reviewing other pleas for exemptions to the announced that it had decided not to revise freeze case by case. Illinois Cereal is an im­ to arrest the fifth peddlers and to rid our its rule concerning the price freeze on trans­ portant supplier to major brealdast-cereal society once and for all of the smut and actions as of the delivery dat e. Changing the makers, including Kellogg Co., which said it rot which, in the quibbling permissive­ transaction rule, the council decided, would would lay off workers if the processing plant ness prior to the Court's decisioin, threat­ only move the price squeeze further up the had remained closed. ened to engulf it. And I urge church and production ladder. Technically, the price freeze doesn't apply But the squeeze is already climbing that civic groups to join in a great public to farmers but becomes effective after the command that this be done. latlder. Earlier this month, Anderson, Clay­ farmer sells to a wholesaler or processor. But ton & Co., Houston, cut production of salad commercial firms, of course, resist paying any The Supreme Court, in its wisdom, oil, shortening and margarine that it sells in more for the raw product than they can re­ has sustained a most completely the stand bulk to other food companies. Supermarket coup in the selling price, so the farmers have of those who tried to counter the porno­ executives say they are being cut off by their de facto ceilings, too. That's why poultry, graphic menace through the years. The suppliers of private-label salad oil and expect dairy and livestock farmers are cutting pro­ majority Justices agreed, as Chief Jus­ to be soon for margarine. The fiow of prod­ duction until either ceilings are removed or tice Burger noted, for the "first time" ucts containing fiour also is slowing down, feed costs go down enough to make their in 16 years that "hard-core" pornography supermarket-industry sources say. operations profitable. Meat processors, which were saddled with The Nixon administration is working to­ has no rights under the first amendment. price ceilings in April, also are slowing pro­ ward both ends. The embargo on soybean and They also supplied the much needed duction. Missouri Beef Packers, for instance, cottonseed exports will remove some of the guidelines by which authorities and lower has cut back by 20 %, and Green Giant has upward price pressure on these commodities, courts can define this type of filth and stopped its slaughtering operations in Ala­ though it isn't certain yet whether it will ordered that "community standards," bama and reduced operations at its Florida be enough to bring costs below Phase 3 ¥2 and not some valL'"lted notion of sophis­ plant to two days a week from six. Iowa Beef ceilings. ticated national "tolerance," prevail. Processors says it hasn't had to cut produc­ Meanwhile, the Cost of Living Council ap­ t ion yet, but a spokesman says that "it's parently is speeding its efforts to formulate These are the clarifications which have getting more and more difficult to get enough Phase 4 and end the freeze. Presumably, been required for the cleanup and I hope cattlE'." Phase 4 would resemble Phase 2 in that some that they will result in action being taken The freeze isn't slowing production of some price increases would be permitted under with all proper speed. My mail, and I June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22197 am certain the mail of the vast majority John Vandiver, special agent in San Diego The San Francisco and Los Angeles areas of my colleagues, has shown an immense in charge of Customs Agency Service for Dis­ are also supplied by middle level drug dis­ trict II, said heroin seizures by federal agents tributors in Reno, Nev., one BNDD official public concern over this matter-a con­ in the United States have almost tripled in noted. cern of parents for the protection of their 1973. San Luis has long been famous as a "stash children, and a general concern over the NIXON ESTABLISHES PROGRAM area,", a CustoinS agent explained. fate of what always has been an Ameri­ The Mexican government has been thor­ The community is isolated yet convenient­ can society of high moral principles. oughly briefed on the new U.S. agency, Drug ly located near a rich American drug mar­ The American people want the dirty Enforcement Administration, which will go ket. The Colorado River is shallow and easily movies banned and the bookstores and into effect on July 1. waded. The area is also close to Tijuana. magazine counters changed back into The program, established by President When the U.S.-Mexican strike force moved Nixon, will coordinate the U.S. anti-drug into San Luis smuggling operations in the places of interest and not of shock and campaign by combining all the combat forces area, 20 miles south of Yuma, Ariz., were an shame. The Supreme Court now makes into a single agency, the DEA, under the amazing revelation. this possible with a decision which brands Justice Department. Marijuana and hard drug processing oper­ as patent nonsense the long discredited The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous ations were found hidden in the middle of arguments that freedom carries with it Drugs, U.S. Customs investigations and the haystacks. the right of destructive license. I hail the DALE program will all operate under the FLEET OF STOLEN PLANES FOUND Court's findings and look forward to their DEA with a unified command. A fleet of stolen airplanes were found quick application as, I am convinced, do "The DEA program will include the co­ around San Luis along with a parts depot at millions and millions of our citizens. operative program with Mexican enforcement an isolated landing strip to service the smug­ campaigns and agencies," said Feldkamp. gle·rs air force. The agency will direct the total anti-drug In a raid on a smugglers summit meeting, program from search and seizures on the in­ police arrested an underworld representative ternational smuggling and drug running of a drug combine in Hawaii setting up a MEXICO GAINS IN WAR ON DOPE front to the street trafficking by pushers in direct supply route to the Pacific Islands from TRAFFIC (PARTID American communities. Mexico. American narcotics agents point out that Along with other contraband, Federal Dis­ heroin use is on the upswing and is reaching trict Attorney Pedro Mirelas Malpica found HON. BOB WILSON alarming proportions throughout the coun­ himself with a herd of cattle on hand that try, OF CALIFORNIA was used at a nearby ranch as camouflage RENTAL AmPLANES ARE CHEAP for a largescale processing operation. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Methods of running drugs shift steadily, livestock were finally sold at auction. Thursday, June 28, 1973 depending on current law enforcement tac­ Other confiscations in the San Luis area tics. raids included ·101 automobiles and other Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, yes­ At first, drugs were smuggled in cars and ground vehicles, five airplanes and a large terday, I presented part I of a special trucks, then concealed in campers and trail­ supply of processing equipment. report outlining the major effort being ers. Now boats and airplanes are popular Arrests included 287 persons, 85 of whom und~rtaken by the Mexican Government modes of transportation. were foreigners, mostly U.S. citizens. to halt the production and distribution In some areas along the Texas, California Several prominent political officials involv­ and Arizona borders, the smugglers wade ed in the San Luis smuggling operation were of illegal narcotics within that nation. across the shallow flow of the Rio Grande arrested and prosecuted. In addition to stiff penalties, Mexican and Colorado Rivers. The major drug supply routes in Mexico authorities confiscate the means of trans­ But the most prevalent transportation for go through Monterrey, the rich industrial portation used to smuggle drugs. I have smugglers is the rented light airplane. city in eastern Mexico; Torreson and Chi­ sponsored legislation to give U.S. drug Vandiver explained that rental airplanes huahua in the central part of the country; officials this same authority and was are cheap transportation, around $16 a flying Hermosillo to the northern deserts of Sonora disappointed when the House recently hour, are easy to obtain, can easily negotiate and into Baja California on the west. isolated dirt landing strips and country roads Tijuana is considered the wholesale and struck out a confiscation provision from and be changed constantly. retail drug capital of both Mexico and the ·the illegal alien employment bill. I urge "A smuggler can fly a blue airplane one United States. congressional reconsideration of this time, a red one of a different make the next A BNDD agent estimated that more than 70 confiscatory authority. Part II is as fol­ and yet another color and make the next," per cent of all major U.S. drug-smuggling lows: Vandiver said. deals are consumated in Tijuana. (From the San Diego Union, June 17, 1973] "This way, Mexicans living in the vicinity Customs agents report the border city is of remote landing areas have difficulty in supplied by smuggling routes operating MEXICO MAKES GAINS IN BITTER WAR ON spotting a repeat visitor." through San Felipe, a fishing resort on the DRUGS Federal officials in Mexico City r.eported east gulf coast of Baja; through the En­ Robert Feldkamp, federal director of DALE that many of the confiscated aircraft have senada area which abounds with isolated dirt (Drug Abuse Law Enforcement) in Wash­ been rented airplanes. airstrips, and by the San Luis stash. ington, said there are indications on the U.S. Under Mexican policy, the confiscated air­ A BNDD agent in Washington, D.C. said East Coast that the international battle is craft and ground vehicles are sold at periodic underworld drug agents from all over the producing telling results. auctions to the highest bidder. United States travel to Tijuana to make con­ The East Coast is considered the American Federal District Attorney Carlos Roncaglia nections and set up deals. drug abuse barometer because of the concen­ noted recently in Ensenada, "Rental services ·Drug merchants operate in the border city tration of users there. that do not want to lose their planes had behind business fronts, through bars, a maze Of 560,000 known heroin addicts in the better be sure of the use of the plane when of individual contacts and within seemingly United States, about half are in the New Yor~ they rent it out." respectable professional offices, the official area, Feldkamp said. Airborne smugglers usually make their reported. The white heroin produced in the Orient pick-ups in Mexico just before sunrise or just The February campaign at San Luis with and Europe is most prevalent in the eastern after sundown at isolated dirt airstrips, fed­ the code name of Operation Cactus demon­ U.S. Mexico's known ~eroin goes mainly west eral agents explained. strated the effectiveness of a combined U.S. of the Mississippi River and throughout the and Mexican task force. RETURN TO UNITED STATES UNDER RADAR BEAM Southwest. The combined force seized $19.2 million in "We rarely find Mexican heroin east of the Then they skim back into the United States illegal drugs, including 24 and one half tons Mississippi," said Feldkamp. at low altitude under the radar screen and at of marijuana worth $16,737,000 and $2.5 mil­ a time of day when it is difficult to spot them PRICE OF HEROIN DOUBLES lion in heroin. visually from the ground. The force included Mexican Federal Judi­ Feldkamp reported the price of heroin has Three men were killed in Searchlight, Nev. ciary Police, army troops, local police units doubled from $5 for what addicts can "a when their plane, carrying 1,600 pounds of in Sonora and special Mexican undercover nickel bag" to $10. marijuana, crashed into a 140-foot high pow­ agents. "Also, heroin sold on the street in the East er pole as they tried to evade radar. The American complement included agents used to be from 10 per cent pure on up," he Each Mexican border crossing point feeds from U.S. Customs, the BNDD, a special drug said. "Now it is two to. one per cent pure." a different area of the United States. task force from Yuma, Ariz. and other Ari­ He added that more addicts are coming in Most drugs entering across the Texas bor­ zona law enforcement units. voluntarily to treatment centers and more der spread through the central United States are relying on methadone maintenance. into the Denver, Chicago, Detroit and St. PROTOTYPE FOR OTHER EFFORTS "This is an indication the addict can't find Louis midwestern market. Operation Cactus is a prototype for other a ready supply of heroin or cocaine," he said. Those coming in at San Luis, east of Mexi­ strike force efforts along the border. "When they can't feed their habit with the cali, and Baja California feed the southwest The force used undercover investigators real thing they turn to methadone." and California markets. from both countries, aircraft surveillance, 22198 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 2B, 1973. spot checks at border points other than con­ of Living Council ·urging a moratorium more than· tripled in the last 12 .months­ ventional crossing gates, specially trained on exports of essential feed grains and much of it because of unprecedented for­ marijuana and drug detector dogs and sen­ the imposition of strict controls on the eign demand-sending other food prices sors along riverbanks to detect traffickerf! spinning upward. Cottonseeds, a second-best wading across the shallow waterways. price of soybeans and other protein sub­ alternative to soybeans, are also in short sup­ Phillip Jordan, BNND director in Phoenix, stitutes. ply. Ariz., said federal agents are finding a close On June 8, faced with a domestic Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent told personal association between runners on the grain shortage that was nearing crisis reporters at a hastily called press confer­ Mexican side of the border and those in the proportions, I sent another letter to ence that the embargo was effective as of 5 United States. Secretary of Agriculture Butz again p.m. yesterday, but that ships in the process Also, the Mexican drug organization "fami­ urging the imposition of a moratorium of loading could continue. lies'' reach into similar organizations in the on grain exports for a period of 120 days, H~ said his department would announce United States, Jordan said. no later than -next Monday what amounts Recently, the organized drug traffic has in­ until the new crop could be harvested. of the two commodities would still be avail­ tensified use of young Americans, either ad­ This letter was cosigned by 52 of my able for export this crop year and how these venturers or users, in smuggling heroin, co­ colleagues. would then be allocated among countries. caine and opium in small amounts that are On June 14, I introduced legislation These actions affect commitments made harder to detect, he said. that would require potential exporters with the Soviet Union and other countries, Arpaio said an increasing number of young of agricultural commodities to obtain a as well as contracts signed before June 13. American girls are being arrested in Mexico license from the Secretary of Commerce, That fact makes a change from when Presi­ City as they return from South American dent Nixon invoked the present price freeze countries on the way back to the United with recommendations from the Secre­ two weeks ago and raised the possibility of States. tary of Agriculture. This legislation export controls. He said then that com­ Jordan said, "With increased international would provide needed authority and a mitments made "as a nation" by that date cooperation, heroin seizures are going UJ.' and workable mechanism to curtail agricul­ would be met. we are nailing down the direct routes." tural exports when such action is deemed The embargo and export controls are ex­ Arpaio said the Mexican drug traffic in­ to be in the national interest. pected to dampen food production plans cludes not only its own domestic products I am, therefore, very pleased that the abroad, depending on how substantially but also cocaine from South America hashish administration has now recognized the shipments are eventually cut back. Japan from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. and Western Europe are the biggest import­ severity of the problem and has ordered CRACKDOWN MAKING SIZABLE DENT ers of soybeans. an immediate embargo on the exporta­ Dent, flanked by Agriculture Secretary Charles Karadimos, BNND agent in Dallas, tion of soybeans and other feed grains. Earl L. Butz and Cost of Living director Tex., reported the Mexican crackdown "is By taking this course of action, the ad­ John T. Dunlop, said information his de­ making a sizable dent and from what we see ministration has offered protection for partment recently received "showed higher from up here it is tremendously effective." than expected levels of exports were planned He reported, "If things are going better in our farmers against the skyrocketing costs of feed grains. By protecting our in the months ahead in soybean commodi­ the fight against drug smuggling along the ties." border, much of it is because of the Mexican farmers, we will also help protect the The figures showed soybean exports run­ effort." American family from skyrocketing food ning 6 per cent above previous estimates and The U.S. government gave Mexico two hell­ prices. This action promises to have a soybean meal 27 per cent higher than ex­ copters in March for aerial surveillance and direct impact on the availability and pected. assigned American advisers to help develop price of poultry, beef, eggs, and dairy pro­ The Agriculture Department last week undercover and detection strategy. predicted a precariously tight supply of soy­ "We are giving the smuggling fight the best ducts. It is high time that our government beans in September before the next harvest-- we have in time, equipment and the most 40 million bushels, or enough for two week's highly trained and effective law enforcement recognized that a balanced diet at an supply. The department has predicted a rec­ officers in Mexico," said Federal Judicial Po­ affordable price is as important as our ord 1.5 billion bushel harvest beginning in lice Commander Alberto Francisco Peral balance of trade. This embargo is a crit­ October, but a late harvest could lead to ac­ Orea. ical first step in assuring that major tual and potentially severe shortages of ani­ He said, "Each time one of our men is mur­ purchases by foreign governments do not mal feed. dered it strikes at the heart of the law en­ disrupt our food supply again. The new export figures presumably made forcement corps. the situation even more serious. "But each death is also an inspiration to We must realize, however, that this is a temporary embargo. It will not neces­ "This is dra.stic action, .. Butz said. "It was carry the battle that much further so that not taken lightly. The domestic meat sup­ we can turn even those bitter defeats into sarily prevent this situation from hap­ ply is imperiled." victory." pening again. We need a mechanism that He explained that farmers were slaughter­ keeps a watchful eye on the domestic ing livestock that would normally be used supply of essential agricultural commo­ for breeding, and killing baby chicks be­ FINALLY AN EXPORT EMBARGO dities, as well as a system of control to cause soaring f.eed prices had made it un­ implement when necessary. My legisla­ profitable to keep feeding animals with re­ tion, H.R. 8696, provides both. tail price ceilings in effect. He said this would imperil the 1974 meat supply if it HON. ROBERT H. STEELE Mr. Speaker, at this time I would kept up. OF CONNECTICUT like to insert in the RECORD an article Asked if this emergency action to control IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from this morning's Washington Post exports would reverse the liquidation of announcing the administration's action: breeding stocks, he said, "I hope it will," and Thursday, June 28, 1973 UNITED STATES HALTS EXPORTS OF TWO FEED added that it was "partly a matter of psy­ Mr. STEELE. Mr. Speaker, I wish to CRoPs chology." Butz said farmers "look down the road, see take this opportunity to commend the (By Jack Egan) prices getting higher and higher · and say administration for placing an embargo The Nixon administration yesterday 'to heck with it,'" and that the present action on soybeans, cottonseeds, and their by- slapped an immediate emergency embargo on and the prospect of lower feed prices might products. exports of soybeans, cottonseeds and their now dissuade them from lowering production. In recent weeks, we have been threat- by-products in what it called "drastic" action Butz noted that there was a substantial ened with the possibility of major food to control domestic food prices and maintain drop in July, August and September soybean adequate supplies. futures prices on the Chicago Board of shortages in the United States. The The action was taken under provisions of Trade in the last two days in anticipation cause has been the scarcity of essential the Export Administration Act of 1969, which of some move to control exports. feed grains used in livestock and poul- allows controls to be invoked in the case of He also said that any allocation formula try production. Our increasing exports "abnormal" foreign demand and scarce do­ for limited soybean exports would "be fair of these feed grains-a major cause of · mestic supplies. to all parties" and was being done "as much the grain shortage-has greatly contri- The soybean, with its 44 percent protein or more to protect our regular customers." buted to the soaring prices of food. content, is at the ~ase of the world's high Dent said that if the present embargo and t t t . · d quality food pyramtd. Crushed into soybean controls were to increase the demand for In an effor. o aver a CriSIS, an ~e- meal it is the main component of animal corn exports, this commodity would also be duce food prices, I have been seeking feed used to produce red meat poultry eggs considered for controls. administration action to limit exports and dairy products. Lack of ~vailable' feed The Commerce Secretary also pressed for of essential feed grains. On May 4, I sent alternatives such as fish meal has put a broader presidential authority to control ex­ letters to President Nixon, Secretary of special premium on soybeans this last year. ports to curtail general price inflation. There Agriculture Earl L. Butz, and the Cost Prices of soybeans and soybean meal have is a bill containing such authority presently June 28, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22199 pending before the Senate Banking Com­ transfer them to another by republishing The prime purpose of the textbook com­ mittee. The House Banking Committee last history books that conform to the design mission is to eliminate such maps, rewrite week passed a. more restrictive version of they wish to promote. questionable material and suppress super­ such a measure. patriot exaggerations of exploits or griev­ Cost of Living Council director Dunlop But unless their efforts are backed up ances of past centuries between Poland and said yesterday's action was taken as "a neces­ in the classroom by teachers of the same Germany. sary step to put first the dinner table of the persuasion, their work will fail-and "We have reached agreement on interpre­ American consumer." schoolchildren will get accurate historical tations of Polish and German history up to In another action, the Cost of Living Coun­ accounts. Individual classroom teachers the year 1945," Mr. Sabillo said. "But agree­ cil yesterday announced new rules for deter­ and independent school systems stand ment is one thing and implementation of mining the delivery price of future commodi­ in the way of cultural ·~hievery by de­ the agreement is another. In West Germany ties affected by the freeze. there is no central ministry of education. The delivery price before July 4 of a proc­ manding that the children they instruct So each state can implement the interpre­ essed commodity like soybean meal or pork be told the truth. tations as it sees fit, and some see the in­ bellies cannot be higher than the freeze Perhaps it was during the joint com­ terpretations as less fit than others." price. After July 4, the Council said, the price mission's rewriting of the period of his­ "Also," Mr. Sabillo continued, "there are ceiling will be determined as the highest tory around 1473 that the great German many publishing houses in West Germany price at which at least 10 per cent of that astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus sud­ They are profit-making private companies commodity was traded in the nearest month dently became a Polish national and the and dislike the expense of amending texts. future. fact of Copernicus' Germanic heritage The schoolbook program will last for many, The highly technical rules are meant to get many years." around "market dislocations, windfall profits expurgated from the pages of history. to speculators and substantial losses to those A similar fate befell the great Polish­ HITLER PERIOD NO PROBLEM who use the futures market in a. conservative American national hero Tadeusz Kos­ In the view of another Pole who is an manner to hedge against price risks," the ciuszko a few years ago when the Red expert on German affairs, West Germany's council said. history teachers are a hurdle to presenting regime outlawed him as a "nonperson" new views on Poland. and removed his accomplishments from "All the decisions in the world are no good the history books. if the history teachers lecture contrary to the I insert the related newsclipping as spirit of the textbooks," he said. "And the CULTURAL PURGE OF GERMAN­ an example of "cultural genocide" in German history teachers are the country's POLISH HISTORY operation: most conservative element." TEXTBOOKS A START IN CAMPAIGN TO END Although it is the most bitter and most POLISH-GERMAN HATRED recent memory, the Hitler period presents no problems for common Polish-German in­ HON. JOHN R. RARICK (By Raymond H. Anderson) OF LOUISIANA terpretation, the Pole stressed. WARSAW, June 11.-"For a thousand years, "The crimes of the Nazis were so enor­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ever since King ::Mieszko, we have liv~ in mous that few historians try to present them Thursday, June 28, 1973 conflict with the Germans to our west. But in a manner favorable to Germany. A more we must think now of the next thousand difficult time for textbook writers is that Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, an ethnic years." of the Teutonic Knights 600 years ago. The and cultural purge is continuing in East The remark, by a middle-aged Pole, re­ Germans see the Teutonic incursions east­ and West Germany and Poland in an flected a campaign under way among Ger­ ward as a civilizing mission. The poles con­ effort to bring about social change by re­ mans and Poles to purge a legacy of ethnocen­ sider them aggression under the guise of writing history and geography to con­ tric strife and hostility from textbooks. missionary work." form to currently fashionable ideas. The comment was made on a. train rolling Surveys in Poland on man-in-the-street A joint West German-Polish commis­ through the town of Kutno, after conversa­ reactions to words like "Germany" show tion was prompted by sight of a large sign that these reactions are still strong and sion for the past several years has col­ proclaiming from the side of a building, "The mostly negative. laborated toward expunging "objection­ Oder-Neisse border is a. border for peace." able textbook material in both coun­ 8.5 MILLION GERMANS IN AREA tries." By laundering textbook informa­ Since 1945, the Oder and Neisse Rivers have tion presented to students, the commis­ formed Poland's western border as a result THE 1973 MILTON WALK FOR sion hopes to redraw the maps of Central of accord among the wartime Allies, the So­ DEVELOPMENT Europe, "rewrite objectionable material viet Union, Britain and the United States. and suppress superpatriot exaggeration" East of the Oder and Neisse are 39,597 square so future generations of schoolchildren miles of former German territory where 8.5 HON. JAMES A. BURKE million Germans lived at the end of World will be given historical data based on OF MASSACHUSETTS War II. committee decisions rather than facts. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The two governments are reported to Both the East German and, more recently, West German Governments have acknowl­ Thursday, June 28, 1973 be in accord in their rewriting of the edged the new border, but Poles feel uneasy history that took place before the Second about the situation. They will continue to Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. Mr. World War, but the independent West feel uneasy, many believe, until genera.tions Speaker, I wish to bring to the atten­ German school systems pose a stumbling have passed and a new consciousness emerges tion of my colleagues the commendable block to the historical-rewrite scheme. among the Germans. efforts of many of my young constit­ West Germany has no central ministry The place to start, the Poles and Ger­ uents from Milton. Mass., who joined mans have concluded, is in the schools, par­ of education, and the individual German ticularly in history and geography text­ in the recent Milton Walk for Develop­ states exercise strong authority over the books. Polish and .German experts agree that ment. teaching of the children under their books tend to reflect old· concepts, distor­ The goal of the Milton Walk for De­ jurisdiction. Their system is similar to tions and bitterness that have passed on velopment, which is a part of the Mas­ that of the United States before educa­ from generation to generation. sachusetts Young World Development of tion in this country was taken over by COMMISSION SET UP the American Freedom from Hunger the Federal bureaucracy supervised by For the last few years, a. West German­ Foundation is: Federal judges. Polish co~ssion has been meeting to re­ To create an awareness and find meaning­ The historical purgers bemoan the fact view, debate and amend objectionable text­ ful ways to involve the American people in that history teachers in Germany are book material in both countries. the private sector in the cause of human "the country's most conservative ele­ One Polish official involved in th·e project hunger at home and abroad. ment." As one Pole put it: is Zbigniew Sabillo, head of the Ministry of This goal was translated into action All the decisions in the world are no good Education's school curriculum section. In an interview, he recalled an incident dur­ by the dedication and determination of if history teachers lecture contrary to the all those involved, as they enthusias­ spirit of the textbooks. ing a. recent visit to West Germany that to him underlined the scope of the problem. tically hiked for 21 miles to draw support He is, of course, correct. Bureaucrats "I was traveling by train and came across for the hungry throughout the world. can fictionalize history, elevate or play a. map displayed in a. coach showing Ger­ Sponsors of the participants, including down the importance of minority groups, many with the 1937 borders,'' he said with teachers, parents, businessmen and or generally steal the cultural accom­ emotion. "There wasn't even a. dotted line church groups, agreed to pledge a certain plishments of one ethnic group and to show the new Oder-Neisse border." amount of money for every mile walked 22200 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE June 29, 1973 to support the programs of the American those involved in the 1973 Milton Walk a spending limitation as has been pro­ Freedom from Hunger Foundation. for Development. posed by many Members of this House, The Walk for Development has become including myself and the majority leader. an annual event in the 11th District of In all honesty, Mr. Speaker, the effort Massachusetts over the past few years. placed behind this proposal on the part Many young people who cannot accept ADOPTION OF A SPENDING CEILING of the leadership of the House has been the complacency and unawareness of the less than I had hoped for. When my dear hunger in the world have joined together friend Mr. O'NEILL issued his call for in their efforts to combat this grave prob­ HON. DAWSON MATHIS action on a spending limitation, I had lem of hunger facing our world today. OF GEORGIA visions of fiscal responsibility on the part The participants of the Walk for De­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the House. Yet we continue to pass velopment are united in their belief that Thursday, June 28, 1973 bill after bill with no end in sight. a bright new future can be achieved for Mr. Speaker, for the benefit of those mankind when we all work together to Mr. MATHIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, whom I am privileged to serve in the feed the world's population, when we re­ I rise to again briefly address myself to Congress, I want the RECORD to show duce military expenditures, and when one of the most critical issues facing this that I have no plans to vote for another we can come to live at ease with one House and the Nation today, in my judg­ another, and become enriched by our ment, and that is the need for an imme­ appropriations bill until such time as we own and the world's diversity of people diate adoption of a spending ceiling. bite the bullet and set for ourselves a and culture. These young people are A few days ago my dear friend and ceiling on our spending. I am sure that committed to working toward deeper in­ colleague, the distinguished majority my one vote against the bills will not volvement and more public recognition leader, Mr. O'NEILL, issued a call for alter the outcome, nor will my _actions of these issues, as well as raising funds to action on this proposal. Yet, we continue bring adoption of a spending ceiling any support development programs in this in this House to adopt appropriations earlier, but I feel that my constituents country and around the world. bill after appropriations bill and will ap­ and the American people are entitled to Congratulations are certainly in order parently continue to do so with total a small dose of fiscal responsibility on for the exceptional contributions of all disregard for the drastic need for such the part of this Congress. SENATE-Friday, June 29, 1973