9702 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 30, 1977

INTERNATIONAL BANKS Inter-American Development Bank for a term Jerry Joseph Jasinowski, of the District of of five years; and United States Governor of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of W. Michael Blumenthal, of Michigan, to be the Asian Development Bank and United Commerce. United States Governor of the International States Governor of the African Development The above nominations were approved sub­ Monetary Fund for a term of five years and Fund. ject to the nominees' commitments to re­ United States Governor of the International DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE spond to requests to appear and testify be­ Bank for Reconstruction and Development Sidney Harman, of New York, to be Under fore any duly constituted committee of the for a term of five years; a Governor of the Secretary of Commerce. Senate. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARA­ and the arts. Their folklore is considered mitment to majority rule and human rights TION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE one of the richest and most colorful of in Africa. BYELORUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC RE­ Eastern Europe. They are wrong. What the United States PUBLIC will demonstrate, rather, is that it is trag­ It is appropriate, therefore, on the an­ ically shortsighted and dismayingly hypo­ niversary of the Byelorussian Declara­ critical. For the most likely effects of the tion of Independence to commemorate American decision to reinstate the ban HON. CHARLES W. WHALEN, JR. the spirit of this freedom loving people against Rhodesian chrome will be to OF OHIO and to reaffirm our belief in the prin­ strengthen the leftist movement in Africa IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ciples of self-determination so that peo·· and to show that Congress and the Carter ples everywhere should have the right administration are brazenly selective in sup­ Wednesday, March 30, 1977 to decide their futures. porting the cause of human rights. Mr. WHALEN. Mr. Speaker, in this The purpose of the U.N. embargo against year when much consideration is given Rhodesia is to hasten the collapse of the to human, national and religious rights white government in Salisbury and to pro­ RHODESIA TEST CASE TO HUMAN mote black control. Since whites constitute in our foreign policy, I would like to note only a tiny minority of that country's popu­ that March 25 marked the anniversary RIGHTS lation, a white-dominated government is of the Declaration of Independence of perceived by its critics to be inherently the Byelorussian Democratic Republic, evil, while a black government supposedly proclaimed 59 years ago in Minsk. Un­ HON. HARRY F. BYRD. JR. would mean democratic "majority rule" and fortunately, for that small nation and OF VIRGINIA a greater respect for "human rights." By helping to destroy the existing Rhodesian the world, the independence of Byelorus­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STAT:ES sia lasted only 10 months before it was regime, the United States will prove, we are Wednesday, March 30, 1977 led to believe, that it is on the side of the overwhelmed by the Soviet Army. Let us angels. take this occasion to remember that we Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi­ Such grotesque thinking totally ignores Americans enjoy the principles of free­ dent, for many years United States for­ reality. And it makes a mockery of morality, dom and democracy that so many others eign policy neglected the continent of in the name of which the United States gov­ have been long denied. Africa. Now, the press of events has ernment adopts its new policy. A land of brave and determined peo­ forced renewed attention to that im­ It is absurd to equate black rule in pre­ ple, Byelorussia has long been a pawn portant region. dominantly black nations with majority rule, both in many internal and external pow­ for few of the black governments in black The Carter administration has chosen African countries are even faintly demo­ er games. Integrated within the Russian Rhodesia as the test case to demon­ cratic. Some, as the whole wo