33534 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 2'6, 19 79 Frederick A. Rody, Jr., of Florida, to be ORDER FOR RECESS UNTIL 10:15 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Deputy Administrator of Drug Enforcement. A.M. TOMORROW Richard Cavins Matheron, of California, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. Presi­ a Foreign Service officer of class 1, to be Sidney A. Diamond, of Arizona, to be Com­ Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten­ missioner of Patents and Trademarks. dent, I ask unanimous consent that tiary of the United States of America to the when the Senate completes its business DEPARTMENT OF STATE Kingdom of Swaziland. today, it stand in recess until the hour Patricia M. Byrne, of Ohio, a Foreign Serv­ Richard Cavins Matheron, of California, to of 10:15 a.m. tomorrow. ice officer of class 1, to be Ambassador Ex­ be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo­ traordinary and Plenipotentiary of the tentiary of the United States of America to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. United States of America to the Socialist Re­ the Kingdom of Swaziland. public of the Union of Burma. Patricia M. Byrne, of Ohio, to be Ambassa­ Angler Biddle Duke, of New York, to be dor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten­ United States of America to the Socialist tiary of the United States of America to the Republic of the Union of Burma. ORDER FOR RECOGNITION OF MR. LUGAR AND MR. TSONGAS ON TO­ Kingdom of Morocco. Angler Biddle Duke, of New York, to be MORROW Donald R. Toussaint, of Virginia, a For­ Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten­ eign Service officer of class 1, to be Am­ tiary of the United States of America to the Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. . Mr. Presi­ bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Kingdom of Morocco. dent, I ask unanimous consent that after of the United States of America to the Dem­ Donald R. Toussaint, of Virginia, to be the recognition of Mr. ScHMITT under ocratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten­ UNITED NATIONS tiary of the United States of America to the the order previously entered, Mr. LuGAR Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. be recognized for not to exceed 15 min­ Richard Wilson Petree, of Virginia, a For­ eign Service officer of class 1, to be Deputy UNITED NATIONS utes, and that he be followed by Mr. TsoNGAS for not to exceed 10 minutes. Representative of the United States of Richard Wilson Petree, of Virginia, to be The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without America in the Security Council of the United Deputy Representative of the United States objection, it is so ordered. Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. of America in the Security Council of the The above nominations were approved United Nations, with the rank of Ambassa­ subject to the nominees' commitments to dor. respond to requests to appear and testify NOMINATIONS PLACED ON THE SECRETARY'S RECESS TO 10:15 A.M. TOMORROW before any duly constituted committee of DESK IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND FOREIGN the Senate. SERVICE Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, THE JUDICIARY Diplomatic and Foreign Service nomina­ if there be no further business to come Warren John Ferguson, of California, to tions beginning James H. Kirk, to be a For­ before the Senate, I move, in accordance be U.S. circuit judge for the ninth circuit. eign Service information officer of class 2, a with the order previously entered, that Cecil F. Poole, of California, to be U.S. consular officer and a secretary in the Diplo­ the Senate stand in recess until the hour circuit judge for the ninth circuit. matic Service of the United States of Ameri­ of 10: 15 a.m .. tomorrow morning. Dudley H. Bowen, Jr., of Georgia, to be ca, and ending Ingrid Pfanzelt, to be a con­ The motion was agreed to; and at 7:04 U.S. district judge for the southern district sular officer of the United States of America, p.m., the Senate recessed until tomorrow, of Georgia. which nominations were received by the Sen­ Milton Lewis Schwartz, of California, to be ate on October 26, 1979, and appeared in the Tuesday, November 27, 1979, at 10:15 U.S. district judge for the eastern district CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Of October 29, 1979. a.m. of California. Wllllam 0. Bertelsman, of Kentucky, to be Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. Presi­ U.S. district judge for the eastern district dent, I move to reconsider the vote by NOMINATION of Kentucky. which the nominations were considered Executive nomination received by the Peter Hlll Beer, of Louisiana, to be U.S. dis­ and confirmed en bloc. Senate November 26, 1979: trict judge for the eastern district of Lou­ Mr. STEVENS. I move to lay that islam~·. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE James T. Giles, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. motion on the table. Charles B. Reill:frew, of California, to be district judge for the eastern district of The motion to lay on the table was Deputy Attorney General, vice Benjamin R. Pennsylvania. agreed to. Civile ttL Lucius Desha Bunton m, of Texas, to be Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. Presi­ U.S. district judge for the western district dent, I ask unanimous consent that the of Texas. CONFffiMATIONS Harry Lee Hudspeth, of Texas, to be U.S. President be immediately notified of the district judge for the western district of confirmation en bloc of the nominations. Executive nominations confirmed by Texas. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Senate November 26, 1979: DEPARTMENT OF STATE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE objection, it is so ordered. Diplomatic and Foreign Service nomina­ Allee Daniel, of the District of Columbia, tions beginning James H. Kirk, to be a For­ to be an Assistant Attorney General. eign Service information officer of class 2, George Washington Proctor, of Arkansas, a consular officer and a secretary in the Dip­ LEGISLATIVE SESSION to be U.S. attorney for the eastern district of lomatic Service of the United States of Arkansas for the term of 4 years. America, and ending Ingrid Pfanzelt, to be Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. Presi­ Frederick A. Rody, Jr., of Florida, to be dent, I ask unanimous consent that the a consular officer of the United States of Deputy Administrator of Drug Enforcement. America, which nominations were received Senate return to legislative session. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE by the Senate on October 26, 1979, and ap­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Sidney A. Diamond, of Arizona, to be Com­ peared in the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD of Oc­ objection, it is so ordered. missioner of Patents and Trademarks. tober 29, 1979. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE DANGER OF ATROCITIES IN That memorable sentence, which casts The text of Mr. Ball's noteworthy ar­ mAN the current situation in Iran in a vivid ticle follows: and frightening light, comes from an ar­ A VIOLATION OF PRINCIPLE HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM ticle by George Ball in the Washington ·(By George W. Ball) Post for November 21. In holding Americans hostages in our Teh­ OF NEW YORK Another memorable passage from the ran Emlbassy Ayatollah Khomeinl's follOIWers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES article is the following: are violating a principle of diplomatic lnvlo­ lab111ty respected by clvlllzed nations for Monday, November 26, 1979 'Fanaticism is the dark face of religion and, in the words of the French encyclopedist, 4000 years. e Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, "when Dlderot: "There is only a step between fa­ The ancestors of the present Iran1&ns, the doctrine is expressed in violence, atroci­ naticism and barbarism." In Iran today, ancient Persia,ns, showed a decent respect ror ties become sacramental." Khomelnl has taken that step. that rule. Herodotus relates how the Persian

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November 26, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33535 King Darius sent emissaries to Athens and that fanatical Shi'ites have once again be borne by those people who utilize this Sparta to demand Persian control over land · stirred up a mob to assault a foreign em­ information. a.nd se.a-<>r, symbolioa.lly, "earth and water." bassy, as they did a century and a half ago, Furthermore, and most importantly, The Athenians responded by throwing the suggests the inevitable excesses of a theo­ an across-the-board procedure for de­ one group of emissaries into a pit and the cratic state-and the dangers of ever en­ trusting political power to religious zealots. veloping standards imposed by the FTC Spartans threw the other into a well, telling will stifle future developments and up­ · them scornfully to carry earth a.n.d water to Since religious passions perverted into hatred · their king from those two places. acquire inhuman ferocity, it is not surpris­ dating of standards, and will lead to the Herodotus speculates that Athens' subse­ ing that religious wars have been among the inclusion of standards and products that quent destruction by the Persians may well bloodiest in history; for when doctrine is may not only be inferior, but also dan­ have been in punishment i!or that insolent expressed in violence, atrocities become sac­ gerous to the public health. Needless to action. The Spartans suffered also, conclud­ ramental. say, the established standards developed ing, with the post hoc, propter hoc logic of Nations maintain peaceful relations with under current procedures have been one another by constant compromises that classical mythology, that their mistreatment formulated by knowledgeable and ex­ of the Persian envoys was the reason that reconcile one people's interests with an­ favor.a.ble omens no longer resulted from other's. But dogmatic religions are based on pert people. These people would be locked their sacrifices. With remorse born of panic, too many absolutes-and all too often their into procedures that may be totally con­ they enlisted two young noblemen volun­ prophets are too intolerant to acknowledge trary to the level of development they teers to offer their lives in penance to the the interests of others. Moreover, religion have established regarding water Persia.n. king. But Xerxes, who had by then armed with the powers of the state is a force standards. succeeded his father, Darius, rejected the of­ without accountab111ty since it recognizes no Finally, I would like to say that the fer with the disdainful comment, "Persians man-made constraints. FTC proposed rule is too encompassing would not behave like the Spartans, who, by At many times and in many places, rbigots murdering the ambassadors of foreign power, from Savonarola to the archbishop of Salz-• and restrictive. Due to a few isolated had broken the law which all of the world burg to Oliver Cromwell have destroyed free­ instances, we now face regulation over holds sacred." dom and placed stifling shackles on the thousands of standards and certifica­ All that, of course, was centuries before boldest and noblest minds. Men of like tend­ tions, many of which like the water Persi·a !ell under the period!c swa.y of fanati­ ency can also-as in Iran today-debauch a industry, have developed a responsible cal Shi'ites, who just 150 years ago displayed people by infilcting on a whole nation the and effective approach to the unique their conteiil{Pt for the laJW "all the world wild lunacy of mob action. Fanaticism is the elements within the industry. For over holds sacred" by an action that, up to a dark face of religion and, in the words of 100 years, these standards have been point, remarkably parallels the current la­ the French encyclopedist, Diderot: "There is mentable developments. only a step between fanaticism and barbar­ developed that work to supply our Na­ In 1828, a famous Russian satirical writer ism." In Iran today, Khomeini has taken that tion with over 30 billion gallons of water and diplomat, Alexander Sergeyevtch Grl­ step. a day, at no cost to the Government and boyedov, negotiated the Treaty of Turkman­ For Americans the lesson should be clear: little cost to consumers. cha.i. by which Persia ceded Georgia to the our founding fathers were inspired to insert I fear that the only benefits accrued Russian Empire. Soon therea.fter, the . Rus­ into the First Amendment of the Constitu­ by FTC intervention will be increased siAn government sent Griboyedov to Tehran tion a clause forbidding the making any laws costs accompanied with the likelihood as ambassador and "acting head of the Rus­ "affecting the establishment of reltgion." that the quality of our Nation's water sian Embassy" to oversee the execution of That clause required the separation of the treaty. church and state. Those few words are a will be severely compromised in the in the course of his duties in Tehran, the heritage we must jealously guard.e process. I for one see no reason to take new ambassador gave sa.nctuary in the em­ this chance and would request that the bassy to several Georgian women w'ho by the FTC be prohibited from regulating and treaty had become Russian suibjects. The voluntary standards and certification fact that they ha.d escaped !rom Persian AGAINST FTC REGULATION OF process, and request my colleagues to harems and that he was thus challenging an WATER STANDARDS support the one-House veto as a means honored institution incensed !anatica.l -,- Shi'ite leaders. The chief mujahid (rough­ to accomplish this.e ly equiva.Ient to an ayatollah) denounced BON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE Griboyedov and demanded his death, an­ OF SOUTH DAKOTA nouncing that Persians could legally rescue HARRIS ANTITRUST PROCEDURAL the refugee women frotn the infidel Russians. TN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IMPROVEMENT ACT GAINS SUB­ Inflamed by these exhortations and acting Monday, November 26, 1979 COMMITTEE APPROVAL with the apparent support of the shah (whose cousin was one of the most violent of • Mr. DASCin..E. Mr. Speaker, I would the agitators), a mob of perhaps 100,000 like to follow up on what has been said .HON. HERBERT E. HARRIS II stormed the Russian Embassy where Gri­ in hope that the FTC be prohibited from OF VIRGINIA boyedov was living. Though Griboyedov a proposed trade regulation covering IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bravely mounted a defense, the mob kllled the voluntary standards and certifica­ not only his guards but the whole diplomatic Monday, November 26, 1979 mission and staff-s. total of 37. The mob tion process. then mutilated Griboyedov's body to the There are presently 20,000 existing • Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, today I am point where other Russian representatives standards applied throughout the coun­ introducing a bill to authorize the De­ could later identify it only by an old dueling try that would be affected by this rul­ partment of Justice to use nongovern­ scar. ing. I am especially concerned about the mental experts and facilities in anti­ Fearing the wrath of the Russian Empire, effects of this ruling on water standards. trust investigations. the shah· did not respond in the manner of Currently, procedures regarding water Enforcement of our antitrust laws is the Spartans by offering as penance the lives usually a laborious and complex task. of two noblemen-<>r even two noblewomen; utility management and standards are instead, he gave the ,Russians a huge di­ handled voluntarily with a minimum of The CID 1s a tool that is used very amond from the famous Peacock Throne. difficulty that benefit our citizens often by Justice to determine whether That throne-the ultimate in conspicuous through improved water supplies at low they should pursue allegations of anti­ consumption-had been built for Tamerlane costs. At this time, around 120 standards trust violations. In effect, it is a pre­ and was among the spoils taken by the fierce projects ar~ established through the complaint civil discovery tool. Present Persian conqueror Nadir Shah when he cap­ American Water Works Association. law, however, states that materials ob­ tured Delhi !rom the last of the great Mogul These standards cover everything from tained pursuant to a CID may be pre­ emperors-a voluptuous monarch who was reputed never to have been "without a mis­ the treatment of water, to what kind of pared for official use by any duly author­ tress in his arms and a glass in his hand." pipes, valves, and hydrants should be ized "official or employee" of Justice. Use The stone turned over to the Russians-­ used. of the phrase "official or employee" has which had become known as the "Shah Di­ The association has estimated that 1f been argued to limit the organization, a.mond"-is now part of the collection in the the FTC rule is imposed it will cost ap­ processing, analysis and evaluation of Kremlin. proximately $750,000 to $1 mlllion to CID materials to those with full-time Since optimism is the only useful working comply with. The association is a non­ employee status. The fact of the matter hypothesis, one must assume that the world profit organization that supplies infor­ is, however, that Justice does not have has made at least marginal progress since the manpower, and very often, the ex­ 1828 and that the hysterical rabble sur­ mation on standards for a nominal cost rounding our embassy (it insults education to city water officials, contractors, and pertise, to decipher and organize the to call them "students") wlll not physically others. It is thus reasonable to assume complex and voluminous material pre­ injure the hostages. Nevertheless, the fact that these additional costs will have to sented 1n response to a em. 33536 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 26, 1979 My bill would allow Justice to use inviolable. The agents of the receiving state or arguments, the World Court should stlll "agents'' (as well as "omcials or em­ may not enter them, except with the con­ !eel under an obligation to rule on the ployees") in their investigations. An sent of the mission. question since both countries have agreed "agent" would be defined as "any person 2. The receiving state is under a specia.l to the Court's complusory jurisdiction. retained by the DOJ in connection with duty to take all appropriate steps to protect Moreover, you would assume the highest the premises of 'the mission a.ga.inst intru­ moral plain should it become necessary !or the enforcement of the antitrust laws." sion of damage and to prevent any disturb­ you to take some action to "enforce" a In eft'ect, this will permit DOJ to contract ance of the peace of the mission or impair­ World Court de~ision against Iran. ment of its dignity. with outside experts and consultant firms Finally, I urge you to make it abundantly to effectively and emciently process, ana­ 3. The premises of the mission, their fur­ clear that the United States is prepared to nishings and other property thereon and lyze, evaluate and utilize materials pro­ act with strong military measures 1! Iran the means of transport of the mission shall carries through with its threats to put on duced pursuant to a CID. Use of these be immune from search, requisition, attach­ contractor services would most fre­ ment or execution. trial the forty-nine American hostages re­ quently occur where a civil antitrust in­ maining in our Embassy. vestigation required the production and ARTICLE 29 To show that we mean business, you analysis of great nuinbers of documents, The person of a diploma tic agent shall be should notify all other Americans stlll in inviolable. He shall not be liable to any Iran, and all foreign diplomatic personnel or involved complex issues. form of arrest or detention. The receiving stationed 1n Iran, that the United States My bill would also impose the same state shall treat him with due respect and wlll not be responsible !or their safety at criminal sanctions for the unauthorized shall take all appropriate steps to prevent such point as any trial of Americans begins. disclosure of trade secrets and informa­ any attack on his person, freedom or dignity. In the coming days and weeks, we should tion discovered during the examination Both Tran and the United States are signa­ make the sllence of foreign tongues in Iran of the em upon the "agents" that are tories to the Vienna Convention and there­ deafening to all Iranians. already imposed upon Justice employees. fore bound by its terms. Since apparently Sincerely yours, there is a dispute between our two countries PAUL FINDLEY, My Speaker, to help expedite the en­ over the application of that Convention to Representative in Congress.e forcement of our antitrust laws I urge this current situation, I recommend that the my colleagues to support this important United States move in the International bill .• NO MORE MILWAUKEE ROAD Court of Justice at the Hague to secure a BAILOUTS binding opinion on the applicab111ty of the UNITED STATES COULD TAKE IRAN Vienna Convention to the current status of our diplomatic personnel in Iran. TO WORLD COURT There are several !actors which favor this HON. F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER course of action. OF WISCONSIN HON. PAUL FINDLEY 1. First and foremost, of course, 1s the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES virtually unanimous opinion among all in­ OF ll.LINOIS ternational lawyers in the world that the Monday, November 26, 1979 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American Embassy omcials-regardless of e Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. Speaker, Monday, November 26, 1979 their assignment-must have their dip­ the time has come to reorganize the Mil­ lomatic immunity restored. In short, on this waukee Railroad into a line which will e Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, debate in issue, all agree that the United States would prevail on the merits. exist without the necessity of providing the Security Council over the crisis in millions of dollars of additional operat­ Iran is now scheduled to get underway. 2. There is no way Iran or any other nation Perhaps this will lead to the release of can prevent the United States !rom taking ing subsidies. Implementation of the the dispute to the World Court. In !act, a bankruptcy court trustee's reorganiza­ the American hostages held in our tion plan will do just that. Embassy, although at this point -it 1s separate protocol to the Vienna Convention­ dimcult to foresee just how that might a protocol to which both Iran and the United The Milwaukee Railroad Reorganiza­ occur. States are signatory--states: tion Act enacted earlier this month "Disputes arising out of the interpretation establishes specific deadlines for ship­ Another avenue which the adminis­ for application of the Convention shall lie pers and employees of those routes to be tration would do well to consider is tak­ within the compulsory jurisdiction of the abandoned under the trustee's plan t.o ing the issue to the International Court International Court of Justice and may ac­ come up with an employee-shipper own­ of Justice at The Hague. As I explain in cordingly be brought before the Court by an the following letter to President Carter, application made by any party to the dispute ership plan. Should they fail to do so, Iran's detention of our Embassy person­ being a party to the present protocol." or should the Interstate Commerce Com­ nel flagrantly violates an international Thus, the United States does not need the mission reject that plan, the reorganiza­ treaty to which both the United States support of the United Nations nor the agree­ tion should proceed forthwith without and Iran are parties. The World Court ment of Iran to take the controversy to the any more taxpayer subsidies. is uniquely capable of giving a ruling World Court and get an opinion declaring Two Wisconsin newspapers have edi­ upon the legality of the Iranian seizure Iran's conduct lllegal. The initiative is real­ torialized along these lines. I include istic. It can be accomplished, and Iran prob­ them herewith: of our citizens and property, and it may ably cannot stop it. [From the Milwaukee Journal, Nov. 8, 1979) be that the Iranians would welcome this 3. It is even possible that Iran might sup­ international forum as fulfilling their port putting this aspect of the controversy PROLONGING A RAILROAD'S AGONY own domestic needs, and thereby permit before the International Court of Justice. President Carter poured money down a the Americans to come home. In any Iran has long sought a forum at the United rathole when he signed legislation to keep case, a World Court decision in our favor Nations to discuss the broader issues involv­ the Milwaukee Road operating on all 9,000 would provide President Carter with ing the Shah and his property. A trial at the miles of its rail lines. The $15 million a ample justification (if he does not have World Court would provide the government month in federal loans that will be available it already) for taking the strongest pos­ of Iran with a world forum to raise whatever until Dec. 15 is an economic waste. The sible steps to secure release of the 49 issues it chooses. operations it will finance aren't viable. men and women who are still held Undoubtedly the Court would !eel it had Politics plainly influenced Carter's deci­ no jurisdiction to rule on these extraneous sion. The western states that supported the captive. issues. Nevertheless, the Iranian govern­ CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, ment would have a forum to discuss what­ measure, restoring Milwaukee Road service November 21, 1979. ever it deems important or relevant. For on 4 800 mlles of track from Montana to the HON. JIMMY CARTER, our part, the United States could agree Paciftc Northwest, are irnportant to Carter's The White House, to be bound by any decision o! the Inter­ re-election bid. These states understandably Washtngton, D.O. national Court of Justice on the status of are concerned over the loss of Milwaukee DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: In this critical and our diplomatic staff, and in return the Road rail service sanctioned by a federal complicated crisis I suggest a further initia­ Iranian government should immediately re­ judge in an effort to save the bankrupt line. tive the United States could take at this store control of the American Embassy to But the unpleasant fact is that the 4,800 time. the United States pending the decision of miles of track that the judge allowed the The detention of the American Diplomatic the World Court. Milwaukee Road to abandon are economic officials in the Embassy seems to be in clear Regardless of whether Iran agrees to losers. The only hope of maintaining the accept the arbitration of the World Court violation of international law. The Vienna Milwaukee Road as a solvent transportation Convention on diplomatic relations states: on the status of our Embassy personnel, I belleve that the United States should under­ enterprise ts to pare it to the core. That is ARTICLE 22 take this initiative. Even if Iran rejects it what the judge ordered, and what Carter's 1. The premises of the mission shall be totally and falls to present any evidence own Transportation Department supported. November 26, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33537 The new legislation embodies the drea.my States and will understand our friendly bring to the attention of this body the notion that somehow between now a.nd the policies toward them. work of one of his country's greatest middle o! December shippers and rail em­ I feel proud of these elements of the artists. ployes on the railroad's western routes wlll Puerto Rico National Guard and want Edna Hibel, a resident of Massachu­ be able to formulate a financia.lly workable to make a public recognition of their plan to maintain operations on the aban­ setts, has been drawing, painting and doned track. In actually, the new law simply accomplishments. preparing lithographs for many years. prolongs the railway's economic agony while The text of the letter is enclosed: Her moving and sensitive renderings, re­ diverting the communities and shippers OFFICE OF THE GovERNOR, nowned throughout the world, are housed along the railroad's western tracks from the LA FORTALEZA, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, in many museums and galleries. I be­ search for realistic transportation alterna­ October 24,1979. lieve that it is indicative of the esteem in tives. Meanwhile, more debt is piled on the THE HONORABLE HAROLD BROWN, Ms. U.S. Department of Defense, which the artistic community holds Milwaukee Road and the taxpayer is a.sked Hibel to note that she is the only living to shell out. The Pentagon, Wa3hingtcm, D.C. American woman artist to whom a mu­ seum has been dedicated. (From the West Bend (Wis.) News, DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Nov. 17, 1979] Elements of the Puerto Rico National Ms. Hibel has had the opportunity to Guard recently completed a four-week period travel and study throughout the world. RESCUING THE MILWAUKEE RoAD of duty in the Dominican Republic, in sup­ Her work reflects this universal perspec­ The emergency legislation rushed through port of United States aid efforts in that Congress and signed the same day la.st week neighboring, hurricane-stricken nation. This tive. Her work transcends races, inter­ by President Ca.rter will allow resumption o! utilization of our Guardsmen marked a first national boundaries and time. In the freight service on the Milwaukee ROad's in National Guard history, in that they were faces of her subjects one can see the western lines, but it is not a long-range solu­ federalized and deployed as part of an inter­ entire spectrum of human emotion and tion !or the rallroa.d's problems. national support effort by the United States experience. The !edeml government is going to guar­ Government. Known especially for her paintings of antee loe.ns o! up to $15 million a month At the close of operations on 7 October mothers and children, Ms. Hibel ex­ while awaiting a.ction by employees and/or 1979, the National Guardsmen had logged presses a message of tenderness, peace­ shippers to come up with a plan to buy and over 766 fiying hours in more than 162 mercy operate the railrOa.d. The deadline on such a missions, including· transportation of over fulness and the youthfulness of the hu­ plan, however, is Dec. 15. 600,000 pounds of cargo (including food and man spirit. She has completed a Mothers I! that plan !ails, the railroad's court-ap­ medical supplies) and more than 1,000 per­ Day series of collectors plates , and has pre­ able trackage or cutting off service. The rail­ tors. nurses, liaison officers and personnel pared several lithographs in honor of road ha.s 2,500 miles o! freight lines !rom attached to the U.S. Evaluation Team, the International Year of the Child. I Miles City, Mont. to Tacoma, Wa.sh., a.nd among others). Our equipment was main­ have found Ms. Hibel's work particular­ another 2,200 miles o! lines in SOuth Dakota, tained in a high state of readiness despite the intensive use to which it was put. ly moving at a time such as this when Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and mothers and their children are suffering Michigan which are losers. The trustee wants Through the efforts o! our Guardsmen, many to cut service ba.ck to an inner core o! track­ individuals and families in isolated rural across the world. age in the Midwest. areas received timely assistance. The friends of Edna Hibel, with my Railroad men often refer to the Milwaukee Everywhere they went, our troops were enthusiastic support, have nominated Road a.s "a railroad which never should have warmly received and their assistance ac­ her work to be used on a commemorative been built." It ha.s been going bankrupt !or knowledged by a grateful population. The ppstage stamp. It is our feeling that her several deca.des now. good will generated by the actions o! the In the meantime, the federal government Puerto Rico National Guard will no doubt paintings would beautifully symbolize in general, and the Interstate Commerce be remembered for many years to come. At Mothers Day or a number of other, Commission, in particular. have not ad­ the same time, o! course, the image o! the humanistic themes. dressed the basic problem. Action should U.S. Government and its Armed Forces was I would be happy to share her work have been taken long ago to merge the rail­ unquestionably enhanced throughout the with you and urge you to drop by my of­ road's unprofitable trackage with competi­ Dominican Republic. fice to view it. After seeing these beau­ tors, or authorize a suspension of service. I would submit that there are lessons The important factor is that shippers along to be learned from this experience. Clearly tiful paintings, I'm sure that you wlll the Milwaukee Road's trackage should be the ethnic heritage and bilingual capability share my enthusiasm for this project.• served by a railroad with financial stability. o! our Puerto Rico Guardsmen renders them And a railroad needs more than government ideally suited for service in the Caribbean subsidies or loan guarantees to a.chieve such and Latin American area. Their ab111ty to BIOMASS AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY stability.e communicate in Spanish was a major con­ tributor to the establishment of an excellent rapport and working relationship with th& HON. FLOYD J. FITHIAN PUERTO RICO NATIONAL GUARD Dominican authorities. OF INDIANA I have no doubt that the deployment of elements o! the Puerto Rico National Guard IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. BALTASAR CORRADA in similar circumstances in the future is Monday, November 26, 1979 OF PUERTO RICO not only desirable but also advisable. The possibility o! implementing other types o! • Mr. FITHIAN. Mr. Speaker, in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES activities and interchanges involving the past few weeks, much has been said Monday, November 26, 1979 use of the Puerto Rico National Guard in about the need for our Nation to renew the region should also be considered. its commitment to free itself from de­ e Mr. CORRADA. Mr. Speaker, I want In conclusion we feel very proud of the pendence on foreign sources of energy. to include in the REcoRD a letter dated constructive role which has been played by I am inserting, for the benefit of my October 24, 1979, by the Governor of the Puerto Rico National Guard in the re­ cent Dominican emergency. Should the colleagues, a copy of my remarks before Puerto Rico, the Honorable Carlos the First Intern-American Conference Romero-Barcelo, to the Honorable Har­ President wish to make similar use o! our personnel on a future occasion we shall stand on Renewable Sources of Energy. I hope old Brown, Secretary of the Department ready as patriotic American citizens, to re­ that my comments on the promise of bi­ of Defense, regarding the recent 4-week spond to his call with vigor. omass as a source of energy for our period of duty of the Puerto Rico Na­ Sincerely. country and for other nations in the tio~al Guard in the Dominican Republic CARLOS ROMERO-BARCEL6.e Western Hemisphere will be of some help dunng the emergency created by Hurri­ in this regard. · cane David. Some elements of the Puerto Rico National Guard were mobilized by TRffiUTE TO MS. HffiEL The remarks follow: orders of President Carter. THE REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE FLOYD J. This is an excellent example of how FITHIAN HON. NICHOLAS MAVROULES We are gathered here with a common prob­ well Puerto Ricans can serve to close the OF MASSACHUSETTS lem. Every nation represented here--nearly gap created by the cultural differences IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES every nation of the Western Hemisphere-­ between the United States and our Latin pays an economic price for our reliance on American neighbors. The hurricane­ Monday, November 26, 1979 OPEC oil. For some the price ls the bleeding stricken people of the Dominican Re­ e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, I away o! capital desperately needed !or their public will now feel closer to the United would like to take this opportunity to nations' economic development. For others- 33538 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 26, 1979 more fortunate-who have their own energy year at least 2 or about 8 percent of the total that strength to reduce the adverse impact resources, the price they pay is passed U.S. energy consumption. of spiraling world energy prices spurred on through to them when they buy goods from Beyond what the United States can de­ by OPEC decisions? Would it not be in our OPEC dependent nations. For all of us the velop, take a moment to scan the panorama collective best interests to form a Hemis­ final price is brutal lnfiation which robs our of biomass resources across the face of our pheric Organization to Maximize Energy Re­ people individually and weakens the lnfiu­ hemisphere. We see the great stretches of sources (HOMER) to work under the um­ ence of our hemisphere on the international farmland across the North American plains brella of the OAS? The purpose would be scene. and Argentina, the sugar cane residues of to exchange information, to work on co­ Since 1973, OPEC has learned that manip­ Brazil, the dense forests of Central America operative research, and to speed the day ulation of international oil supplies-aimed and the Amazon basin, the city wastes of when the renewable resources of this hemis­ at keeping the world market tight-is its every metropolis in North and South Amer­ phere play their rightful role in our energy most effective long-term price-setting tool. ica. These are wastes which we have com­ future. The objective of such an organiza­ In the past 11 months alone we have seen monly burned, or burled, compressed or tion would be not only to promote expensive OPEC prices rise a staggering 65 percent as otherwise paid handsomely to dispose of. te~hnology afforda,.ble only 1n nations ca­ a result of Iranian oil interruptions and Now is the time for us to recognize these pable of large capital formation but to de­ Saudi cutbacks. The production cuts used wastes as something other than a blight and velop and disseminate technical information to justify these price hikes were not large a burden. We should drop the word waste about small, inexpensive rural technology­ by volume-a decline of four to five million altogether. Now these are resources. a necessity for countries with extraordinary barrels a day at most. But they demonstrate The average ton of city garbage contains foreign exchange problems and an inablllty the importance to OPEC of maintaining a 57 gallons of ethyl alcohol--obtainable to afford capital-intensive energy produc­ tight world oil market. Indeed, the first busi­ through a cellulosic conversion process de­ tion fac111ties. ness of the cartel now seems to be avoiding veloped at Purdue University. Bagass, the oil surpluses by seeing that the excess pro­ residue left from processing sugar cane, will Efforts of this type are already underway ductive capacity of some OPEC members is convert into ethyl alcohol at the refinery in several developing countdes in other not translated into excess production. equal to two cents per pound of sugar parts of the world. China currently has close to a mUlion small blogas plants in opera­ Any action we can cooperate ~n to relieve refined. the stress of OPEC's tight market and es­ To those critics who believe that biomass tion, and India, which has pioneered this calating prices is worth the most serious in­ can only be used by denuding the land, technology more than thirty years ago, has vestigation. The classical way by which the raping the forests, and robbing a hungry 80,000. Scientists feel that biogas would monopolistic pricing of cartels has been world of protein, I say look at the waste eventually fulfill half of rural India's fuel broken is to create new producers. This is material that lies at our feet and that needs. where biomass energy comes ln. should be a resource. Excitment about mak­ We stand today on the threshold of a new Experts estimate that four to five million ing useful what has been useless is sweep­ era. Like all eras before it, it can be either barrels of oil would be enough to infiuence ing the farm belt not only of my own the closing of an age or the beginning of a OPEC's price-setting mechanism. The source state of Indiana and the North American new one. I challenge you to make it a begin­ of that extra four or five million barrels is corn belt, but also is ,reaching into the forest ning. I challenge you as pacesetters and not particularly important, nor is its desti­ country and to the gates of the cities leaders of the Western Hemisphere to be un­ nation for consumption. Whether it comes as well. afraid to look backward in order to move from one new oil field or fl'O'Ill a thousand Biomass energy can have impact on forward, to be unfraid to mingle the best of small alcohol plants scattered across our OPEC's market, but biomass plants wm the past with the brightest or the future, and hemisphere, it still affects the energy market not be built for that reason alone. Private to fear not to apply the most recent dis­ and lessens OPEC's stranglehold on energy businessmen and governments-the people coveries to the oldest energy sources in order prices. who w111 decide whether plants are con­ to deliver renewable biomass energy to a I argue that biomass energy offers a com­ structed-w1ll not ask "w111 it break OPEC," needy hemisphere, a hemisphere trying to mon answer we can work together to achieve. but rather "will it pay?" solve its newest major problem--energy cost. We will also pursue individual avenues such Fortunately, the answer is yes, it wm For one day we shall do it-and then look as oil shale and tarsands, but biomass de­ pay. back and ask ourselves why we didn't do it velopment offers something to every one of Brazll, now a world leader in bioenergy. earlier.e us. The equivalent of four or five million bar­ proves the point. Long dependent on im­ rels of on per day is a reasonable, reachable ported oil for industrial development, goal for biomass development in the Western Brazil spent $3.8 billion in 1977 to pay for W ALK.ER TANNER Hemisphere. Although such fuels cannot end oil imports--eleven times what it spent in all dependence on imported oil, through bio­ 1972. Seeing the disastrous economic con­ mass development we can collectively work to sequences of a growing dependence on im­ HON. ED JONES ward off future OPEC price increases. ported oil, the Brazman government OF TENNESSEE launched a massive National Alcohol Pro­ As the authors of the Harvard Business gram aimed at achieving 20 percent of its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES School's report Energy Future observed, an motor fuel requirements from alcohol by ideal solar collector has already been de­ Monday, November 26, 1979 1980. This goal will allow Brazil to reduce signed. Requiring virtually no maintenance, its oil impo,rts by 10 percent, generating • Mr. JONES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, it is economical and nonpolluting; it uses an the equivalent of half a billion dollars of I rise today to express my deepest sym­ established technology and it stores energy. foreign exchange savings yearly. pathy to the family of a dear friend of It is called a plant. Tha.t plant is biomass. Congressman Bedell will be describing mine, Mr. Walker Tanner of Union City, When we talk of biomass conversion tech­ other examples· of people and companies Tenn., who died recently. Mr. Tanner was nology, we are really talking about ways of who have found a positive answer to the tapping the stored energy of plants. We can question, "will it pay." a successful businessman and a citizen burn them directly for energy; we can let It is not without irony that we meet active in the civic a1fairs of his commu­ them decompose under controlled conditions here today in New Orleans, the Queen city nity. to prOduce methane; we can hea.t them under of the soutbern United States. From her He served in various capacities in the pressure to produce oil and natural gas sub­ port over the years, hundreds of mlllions of civic organizations in Union City, and stitutes. Or we can ferment their sugars to tons of sugar have departed. Yet today the contributed greatly to its growth and de­ prOduce a premium liquid fuel, alcohol. Louisiana sugar industry is on the verge velopment. In addition, Mr. Tanner was The U.S. Department of Agriculture esti­ of economic disaster bordering on total mates that approximately 485 million dry collapse. At the same time through this my very dear friend. He was a man whose tons of unused wood are left to rot in U.S. and other port cities in the U.S. we import word could be counted upon, whose in­ Forests every year. Assuming that half of over sixty b1111on dollars worth of on. The tegrity was beyond question, and whose this could be recovered anct economically net result is a not so subtle debasing of loyalty was unswerving. I know his pass­ converted to energy tn an environmentally the dollar and with it the erosion of the ing is a great loss to his family and to sound way, it could prOduce up to 4.1 quads U.S. economy. his community. It is also a great loss to of energy per year,t or about 5.2 percent of We are just now becoming a.wa.re not those of us who knew him well. the annual energy consumption in the only of this irony but that there ts a. I want to take this opportunity to in­ United States. To this we could add crop common sense solution to it. I commend the residues not needed for soil enrichment and organizers of this conference for their efforts sert into the RECORD the article that ap­ municipal solid waste. Using conservative to promote a.n awareness of this common peared in the Union City Daily Messen­ figures, the total energy contribution biomass sense approach. For one day we shall do it-­ ger on the occasion of his death: resources could make in the United States is and then look back and ask ourselves why WALKER TANNER DIES, SERVICES SET SUNDAY staggering. The combined result of wood, crop we didn't do it earlter Walker Tyree Tanner, 86, founder and residues, and urban waste could contribute How might we maximize both our hemis­ chairman of the board of the First Federal between 6.2 and 6.8 quads of energy every pheric strength an our determination to use Savings and Loan Association of Union City and longtime civic and business leader, died 1 4.1 quads/year equals roughly 2 mlllion ~ 6.2-6.8 quads/ year equals roughly 3-3.3 about 5 p .m. Friday a.t the Union City Health barrels of oil/day for a yea.r. mill1on barrels of oil per day for a year. Care Center. November 26, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33539 Tanner, a resident of the Old Troy Road, "Yea" on rollcall No. 670, motion to His views on desegregation, equal rights, free­ was seriously injured in an automobile acci­ recede from disagreement and concur dom of speech and a host of other issues dent on July 3, 1977 and had been in ill had become, by and large, our views. His in­ with Senate amendments to H.R. 4440. sistence on standing up for the constitu­ health for a number of months. On Friday, November 16, I would have Services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at tional rights of every American, no matter the White-Ranson Funeral Home Memorial voted: how difficult that might be, had become our Chapel. "Nay" on rollcall No. 671, instructing insistence. His imprint on editorial policies The Rev. Kenneth Adcock, pastor of the conferees on H.R. 2440, Airport and Air­ in those matters is so deep it can never First Christian Church, and Dr. Bob Lloyd, way Development Act; be erased. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will "Nay" on rollcall No. 672, agreeing to We like to think-and you can judge for conduct the services. the conference report on H.R. 4391, mili­ yourself whether it is true-that these views Burial will be in East View Cemetery. tary construction appropriations, 1980; made a difference not only to this newspaper Active pallbearers will be James Will1ams, but to this city and the country. Alan's voice "Nay" on rollcall No. 673, passage of was the voice of reason, arguing-before it Elwyn Oliver, John Howard, Campbell Garth, H.R. 2335, Solar Power Satellite Re­ J. T . Vaughn, Ray Terrell, E. L . Jessup and was popular-for peaceful desegregation of search, Development, and Evaluation the schools, for equal rights for everyone, for Bob Terrell. Program Act of 1979; protection of the rights of criminal defend'­ Honorary pallbearers will be Tom Elam, ants and witnesses before congressional com­ Dave Shatz, Barry White, Jim Rippy Jr., Rob­ ''Nay" on rollcall No. 674, conference mittees, for the widest possible interpreta­ bert Adkinson, Carl Timm, Garland Bennett, report on S. 1319, Military Construction tion of that great guarantee of "free speech," John Pruett, James Rippy Sr., Ed Stone, Jeff Authorization Act, 1980; and against guilt by association. He stated Stone, Robert Cultra, Bert Cox, Jim White, "Yea" on rollcall No. 675, agreeing to the case for these positions passionately in Hayden Kirkland, Dr. W. B. Dunlap, J. M. House Resolution 473, providing for the hundreds of unsigned editorials and in a Andrews, R. H. Armstrong, Charles Miles III, stream of books and bylined: articles that Dick Schaedle, Dr. Robert Latimer, Dr. J. consideration of H.R. 3994. made his name better known to a generation Kelley Avery, Robert McAdoo, Gene McAdoo, "Yea" on rollcall No. 676, agreeing to of college students than it was to our read­ James McAdoo, Dixon W1111ams and Johnny House Resolution 416, providing for the ers. In time, many of the things he argued Semones. consideration of H.R. 3546; for came to pass, although some are still a Tanner was born in Obion County March "Yea" on rollcall No. 677, agreeing matter of strenuous debate. His professional 17, 1893, son of the late I. W. Tanner and to career, we think, was a remarkable example Mrs. Mamie Walker Tanner. House Resolution 438, providing for the of the ability of one man to influence the He completed the Union City Training consideraJtion of H.R. 3580.e way all men think. School and attended the University of Ten­ It was not always easy, either for Alan or nessee before returning to Obion County to for this newspaper, to be at the cutting edge travel as a representative of the old Union ALAN BARTH of such controversies. The accusations made City Child Specialty House (an outlet for against us and him, personally, were often children and ladles ready-to-wear). quite bitter. Words like "pinko," "pro-com­ In 1917, he was married to the former HON. DON EDWARDS munist" and "nigger-lover"-ln the d'a.ys Dorothy Beck. Mrs. Tanner, who was also OF CALIFORNIA when those were stlll part of the debased seriously injured in the automobile accident IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES currency-.were thrown at him during the in the summer of 1977, died in January of McCarthy da.ys and the original school deseg­ 1978. Monday, November 26, 1979 regation fights. Alan never flinched and his support for the causes in which he believed Tanner was both a civic and business e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. leader in his community. He became vice never wavered. We concede that others on president of t.he Reelfoot Packing Co. of Speaker, with deep sadness, I must advise this newspaper were sometimes deeply con­ Union City and later organized the Union my colleagues of the death in Washing­ cerned about the road down which he was City Insurance Co. and founded the First ton last week of Alan Barth. taking us. But when it was suggested he had Federal Savings and Loan Association of With Alan Barth's passing, those of gone too far, that he had defended the rights Union City. (as distinct from the deeds) of one too many us who knew him personally lost a gen­ criminals or political pariahs, he would He was also a past president of the Obion tie and loving friend. All others lost County Farm Bureau, past president of the merely smile that wry smile and start all over an eloquent voice for decency and fair again the process of persuading others that Obion County Fair Association, past presi­ the rights of no American a.re safe unless the dent of the Union City Rotary Club and was play in our society. Mr. Speaker, the material I am insert­ rights of all Americans are safe. a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary. Alan never controlled the editorial poUcies He was a member of the First Christian ing in the RECORD tells of Alan's massive of this newspaper even on those subjects; Church of Union City. contributions to civil rights, due process, control rested elsewhere. But he dominated Survivors include two sons, Emerson B. constitutional rights, and all of the key them by persuading his colleagues, through "Buz" Tanner and W. W. "Bill" Tanner, both safeguards that make our country unique. scholarship and force of intellect, that he of Union City; five grandchildren, Mrs. Lynn was right. He was helped, and directed, by his BowUn, Tommy Tanner, John Tanner, Roger On my part, I will remember Alan Barth with gratitude for the friendship ab111ty to find just the right phrase or just Tanner and Ty Tanner, all of Union City, the right quip to bring laughter to a heated and five great-grandchildren. and counsel he gave me in the 17 years internal argument. But it was hard to main­ Friends may call at the funeral home after of our relationship. And for all of us in tain a disagreement with a man who had dis­ 7 tonight.e the Congress I send sympathy to his wid­ tilled so much of the learning of the coun­ ow, Adrienne, his son, Andrew, his try's great scholars and judges. There were, daughter, Flora Wolf, and his three however, subjects on which his views did not PERSONAL EXPLANATION grandchildren. dominate our policies. When such subjects came up in our dally conferences, he seemed Mr. Speaker, I insert in the RECORD to love the exposure of our differences almost HON'. JAMES L. OBERST AR from the November 21 edition of the as much as he loved their resolution in his OF MINNESOTA Washington Post the lead editorial and favor. His joy, in other words, was almost as great in intellectual combat as in.. victory. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the moving obituary by Jean R. Hailey: ALAN BARTH That is part of what made Alan so special Monday, November 26, 1979 Alan Barth, who died yesterday at the age to us. The rest is strictly personal. He was e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, during of 73, was more than just our colleague on a man who loved life and people. Those whose the sessions of November 15 and 16, 1979, this editorial page for over a quarter-century. personal lives crossed his, as ours did, were He was also our friend. That personal en­ enriched by the encounter. He was gentle I was absent from the House on offi.cial and kindly, full of wit and humor, always in tanglement with him, a mixture of admira­ business my district. tion and love, makes impossible the cool, ob­ ready to otfer help and whatever you might For the RECORD, I would like to indicate jective appraisal we normally try to present need. He surrounded himself with friends of that had I been present on November 15, here of the lives of people who have been all kinds. You could find them at his home 1979, I would have voted: important in the region or the country. In­ in the evenings and on weekends-eating, "Nay" on rollcall No. 668, agreeing to stead, we want to try to tell you why Alan playing softball and, above all, gabbing. You the substitute to provide voluntary efforts Barth was a very special person to us and never knew when you went just what to to why we think the world in which we all live expect or whom you might see, but you did to control hospital costs, rather than know that when you left you would be glad mandatory controls as provided in the is better because of him. When Alan joined the staff of the editorial you had been there. legislation reported by the House Com­ page in 1943, he had a reputation as a Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of those merce Committee; staunch supporter of civil rights a.nd civil whose writings greatly in:tluenced Alan, once "Yea" on rollcall No. 669, passage of liberties. This newspaper did not. When he wrote· of wha't he regarded to be the best H.R. 2626, Hospital Cost Containment retired in 1972, his reputation had grown service one could do for his country or for Act of 1979; enormously and this newspaper had changed. himself: 33540 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 26, 1979 "To see so far as one may, and to feel the A mild-mannered, soft-spoken man, In 1957, he was visiting professor of jour­ great forces that are behind every detail­ courtly in his ways, Mr. Barth did not often na.lism at Montana. State University, and in for that makes all the diflerence between write under his byline in The Post. Editorials 1958-59, visiting professor of political science philosophy and gossip--to hammer out as were then, as now, unsigned. But his personal a.t the University 9,.f California. at Berkeley. compact and solid a. piece of work as one views were expressed fully in a. series of He received awards from the Sidney Hlll­ can, to try to make it first rate, and to leave books, articles and speeches. ma.n Founda.tion and Sigma. Delta Chi, the it unadvertised." His first book, "The Loyalty of Free Men/' professiona.l journalism society, which ca.lled We cannot think of a. more fitting epitaph was written at the height of the McCarthy his editorials "informative, persuasive and for our colleague and friend. era.. It spread his reputation nationwide as written In clean, clear English." it quickly became part of the common cul­ He was cited by the Washington Area. ALAN BARTH, RETIRED POST WRITER, DIES ture of college students. It set forth his Council of the American Veterans Commit­ (By Jean R. Hailey) philosophy. tee, the District branch of the NAACP, the "Congressional abuse and the distortion American Newspaper Guild, the Education Alan Barth, 73, an eloquent advocate of the investig~ting power is threatening to Writers Association and Americans for of civil Uberties and an editorial writer for establish in this country a legislative tyr­ Democratic Action. The Washington Post for more than a. quar­ anny. Such abuse is threatening to over­ In 1964, Mr. Barth wa.s presented the first ter of a. century, died of cancer yesterday at throw the American form of government by Oliver Wendell Holmes B111 of Rights Award the Veterans Administration Hospital in upsetting its tripartite balance of power and of the National Capital Area. Civil Liberties Washington. usurping the powers reserved to the people," Union. From the time he joined The Post in 1943 he wrote. until his retirement in 1972, Mr. Barth His a.wa.rds came for his work In civil "Certainly there are real dangers to be rights. But Mr. Barth wrote on other matters wrote powerfully in support of the wider faced. Espionage and sabotage are not imag­ definitions of constitutional rights toward too. In 1961, he gave a. first-hand account inary threats to national security.... But of what it was like when he and 105 other which the country wa.s slowly moving. the antidote is not repression: it is free and Sometimes his editorials were sharp and persons aboard a. jet airliner had to circle unlimited discussion.'' Omaha. airport for a. lengthy period, prepar­ stinging as were those that challenged the Mr. Barth also was deeply concerned about investigations conducted by the late senator ing to make a. crash landing because of a. the abuse of academic freedom and of pollee defective landing gear. The plane finally Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.). At other investigative powers. He dealt with these times, they were full of the humor and made it to the ground safely. matters in later books, "Government by In­ On another occasion, while walking his sense of the absurd that marked his own vestigation" in 1955, "The Price of Liberty" view of the world. dog near his home in Washington, Mr. Barth in 1961, and "Heritage of Liberty" in 1965. witnessed a. gun slaying. That too produced Although Mr. Barth did not set the policy In the "Price of Liberty," he wa.s sternly of The Post's editorial page, he was often its a. first-hand account from him. critical of the often common police practice Mr. Barth had his light side, which ap­ spokesman on critical issues. He was instru­ of detaining crime suspects without immedi­ peared in a. number of his signed columns mental, soon after he joined the newspaper, ate arraignment and of unauthorized wire­ that appeared on the page opposite The in changing its views on racial issues. It was tapping. He wrote: Post's editorial page. in his words that The Post, in 1945, de­ "Every society is obliged to see a rational "Something comes over the male animal nounced the threat of Washington's white balance between public safety and private on the day after Christmas," he wrote in bus drivers to strike if the transit company rights-to choose between the exigencies of 1967. "The spirit of giving gives way sud­ hired black drivers. "To bar men from serving law and order on the one hand and the denly to the spirit of getting. He turns in these jobs because of their race or color is imperatives of freedom on the other." shopper, as every retail merchant, especially at once to hamper the war program and to Mr. Barth also was an advocate of gun con­ the haberdashers, know full well, and he be­ subvert the principles for which the war is trols. After the assassination of President comes a. bargain hunter with the relentless being waged." John F. Kennedy, he waged a fruitless battle ferocity of a. stag who has just harkened And it was in hls words that the paper on The Post editorial pages against the Na­ to a. mating call." vigorously defended freedom of speech and tional Rlfte Association, which opposes con­ One of his greatest pleasures was the soft­ trols. He wrote more than 1,000 editorials ball team that he and lawyer Joseph Ra.uh, freedom of association during the McCarthy calling for gun controls, 77 of them on con­ era.. Mr. Barth's unwavering support for the secutive days. another civil Uberties advocate and close friend, put together for the benefit of their constitutional rights of everyone, including But more often he saw his uncompromis­ some wrong-headed and even odious charac­ sons. It soon attracted their own friends, ing positions on civil rights and civil liberties and the Ba.rth-Ra.uh game went on every ters and causes, occasionally brought him upheld. He favored school desegregation, and into conftict with others on the newspaper's Sunday afternoon for more than 29 years at It came about with the Supreme Court deci­ the ballfield across the street from Mr. sta.fl'. sion In 1954. He wanted home rule for the Ph111p L. Graham, the late publisher of The Barth's home in Washington. It was Mr. District of Columbia, where he had lived Barth's game. Washington Post, was furious with a. Barth since the 1930s, and saw the nation's capital editorial in 1950 that defended the perform­ win the vote. He is survived by his wife, Adrienne, of ance of Earl Browder, head of the American In 1974, Mr. Barth published his fifth washington; a. son, Andrew, of Columbia., Communist Party, before the McCarthy In­ book, "Prophets with Honor," in which he Md.; a. daughter, Flora. Wolf of Philadelphia, vestigating committee. wrote about 10 major dissenting opinions and three grandchildren. Mr. Browder had refused to Identify his handed down in Supreme Court cases Involv­ The family suggests that expressions of associates, and Mr. Barth had written: "In ing individual rights or Uberties guaranteed sympathy be in the form of contributions to refusing to Identify and stigmatize certain by the Constitution. the American Civil Liberties Union.e persons whose names were presented to Just a.s many of his own early and con­ him ... Mr. Browder was patently in con­ troversial positions on civil rights later were tempt of the committee's authority. But this vindicated, so were those court dissents, TIM LEE CARTER contempt wa.s pretty well earned by the drift which he noted "in time came to be recog­ and character of the questions ... Not every­ nized as right and to be adopted by the court one in America. tests a man's loyalty to his majorities." HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI country by his w1111ngness to betray his Mr. Barth was born in New York City, OF KENTUCKY former friends." where his family was in merchandising. He IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The editorial became the centerpiece of a. attended Phlllips Academy in Andover, Mass., campaign against The Post, which already spent a. year traveling around the world, and Monday, November 26, 1979 had been labeled pro-Communist, and Mr. then earned a. degree from Yale University. e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, Turkey Graham thought Mr. Barth had gone too far. He was In merchandising for several years, Neck Bend on the CWnberla.nd River in He was intent upon firing Mr. Barth until and then went to Beaumont, Tex., where he Monroe County, Ky., will regain the Justice Felix Frankfurter persuaded him not worked as a reporter for the Enterprise in services of an American and a distin­ to. 1936 and an editorial writer for the Journal guished Kentuckian when my friend and Through it all, Mr. Barth never wavered. during 1937-38. He had been hired by Eugene Meyer, Mr. From there, Mr. Barth came to Washing­ colleague, TIM LEE CARTER leaves the Graham's father-in-law and the newspaper's ton as a. correspondent for the McClure House of Representatives after a long publisher then, who knew of his reputation Newspaper Syndicate. He was an editorial and productive career as Congressman as a. strong liberal. Mr. Meyer said he wanted assistant to secretary o! the Treasury Henry from the Fifth District. his editorial writers to "write with an assur­ Morgenthau Jr. from February 1941 to Ja.nu­ Although we sit on opposite sides of ance of freedom within their area of com­ a.ry 1942, when he joined the Otnce of War the aisle, TIM LEE has been my good petence." Information. He was with OWI when he was friend since my arrival in this House in When he retired, Mr. Barth said, "I was hired by Meyer. 1971. I shall miss his insight, his dili­ never asked to grind anybody's ax or stufl' Mr. Barth received many honors. In 1948, gence and his friendship when he goes a.nybody's shirt or pander to a.nybody's prej­ he was awarded a. Nieman fellowship and udice or pull any punches or consider the studied American history and constitutional back home to Kentucky. interests of any advertisers or politicians." law at Harvard University. But, on a. broader scale, all members November 26, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33541 of the Kentucky delegation and every Any changes in committee scheduling nomic outlook for 1980 relative to the Member of the House will miss "Doc" will be indicated by placement of an housing industry. CARTER. asterisk to the left of the name of the 1318 Dirksen Building He is a special man and a decent man unit conducting such meetings. NOVEMBER29 and a constant gentleman. There are Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, No­ 8:00a.m. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry few to match him in the Congress. vember 27, 1979, may be found in the Rural Development Subcommittee When he :announced his retirement, Daily Digest of today's RECORD. To hold oversight hearings on the im­ TIM LEE asked God to bless this House MEETINGS ScHEDULED plementatio.n of rural housing pro­ in which he has served so long ·and so NOVEMBER 28 grams relative to loan guarantees effectively. Today, I ask God to bless 9:00a.m. administered by the Farmers Home TIM LEE and his lovely wife, Kathleen, Special on Aging Administration and the Department so that they may enjoy many, many To hold hearings on adapting social se­ o! Housing and Urba.n Development. years of health and happiness sur­ curity to a changing work force, focus­ 324 Russell Building rounded by the green fields, the beauti­ ing on current earnings limitation 9:00a.m. ful mountains and the rushing rivers of and the treatment of women under Appropriations social security. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee our beloved Kentucky.e 1224 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on NASA's 9:30a.m. proposed reprograming of funds for Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Jupiter orbit mission (project Gall­ JUANITA M. KREPS Agriculture Production, Marketing, and leo). Stabilization o! Prices and Foreign 1224 Dirksen Building HON·. BALTASAR CORRADA Agricultural Polley Subcommittees 9:30a.m. To hold joint hearings to examines the OF PUERTO RICO Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry implications of grain sales to the So­ Agricultural Production, Marketing, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATrvES viet Union on the U.S. transportation Stabilization of Price and Foreign Monday, November 26, 1979 system. Agricultural Polley Subcommittees. 457 Russell Building To continue joint hearings to examine • Mr. CORRADA. Mr. Speaker, recently Governmental Affairs the implications o! grain sales to the President Carter accepted with regret To hold oversight hearings on the activ­ Soviet Union on the U.S. transporta­ the resignation of Juanita M. Kreps as ities of the Energy Information Ad­ tion system. Secretary of Commerce. Mrs. Kreps re­ ministration, Department o! Energy. 457 Russell Building signed for personal reasons. 6226 Dirksen Building *Governmental Affairs As Mrs. Kreps returns to rejoin the Governmental Affairs Oversight o! Government Managexnent world of academia at Duke University, Permanent Investigations Subcommittee Subcommittee To continue hearings on- professional To hold hearings on Federal a~ncies she can, however, look back on a long motor vehicle theft and the potential spending practices that occur just string of accomplishments during her in it by organized crime. prior to the end of the fiscal year, tenure as head of the Department of 3302 Dirksen Building the "hurry-up spending problem." Commerce. *Judiciary 3118 Dirksen Building As the first woman Secretary of this Business meeting, to continue markup Governmental Affairs complex agency, she performed her work of S. 1722 and 1723, bills to reform the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee with high distinction, with a true sense Federal criminal laws and streamline To continue hearings on professional of professional competen :e in bringing the administration of criminal justice. motor vehicle theft and the potential 2228 Dirksen Building in it by organized crime. a strong degree of mission to an agency 10:00 a .m. 3302 Dirksen Building which, in some manner, touches the lives *Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Judiciary of all of us through the wide variety of International Finance Subcommittee Constitution Subcommittee programs. To hold hearings to examine U.S. and To hold hearings on s. 3 and 1710, bills Her record in identifying and employ­ East-West trade and technological to provide procedures for Federal con­ ing Hisuanics was a sound one and she competitiveness, focusing on S. 339, to stitutional conventions !or the pur­ successfully identified many problems of provide identical requirements for pose of proposing amendments. concern to minorities in this Nation and determining the eligibility o! any 318 Russell Building focused the resources of her department Communist state !or "most favored 10:00 a.m. nation" status and Export-Import Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to bear in solving them. Bank credits, and for reviewing and Business meeting, to mark up S. 1937 and As a manager, as a visionary who saw limiting such credits; S. Con. Res. 47, 1965, bllls authorizing Federal loan the long-reaching effects of trade agree­ to approve the extension o! nondis­ guarantees to the Chrysler Corpora­ ments with the growing market in China, criminatory treatment with respect to tion. Mrs. Kreps mark will long be felt in the the products of China; and to review 5302 Dirksen Building agency she headed for 3 years. a report prepared by the 01Hce of Tech-· Environment and Public Works We wish her well as she departs Wasb­ nology and Assessment entitled "Tech­ Water Resources Subcommittee ington.e nology and East-West Trade". Business meeting, to resume considera­ 5302 Dirksen Building tion o! S. 703, to provide for the study, Commerce, Science, and Transportation advanced engineering and design and/ SENATE COMMI'ITEE MEETINGS Merchant Marine and Tourism Sub­ or construction of certain public works committee projects !or navigation and flood con­ Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed To resume hearings on S. 1460, 1462, and trol on rivers and harbors in the U.S. to by the Senate on February 4, 1977, 1463, bills to facilitate and streamline and trust territories. calls for establishment of a system for a the implementation of the regulatory 4200 Dirksen Building computerized schedule of all meetings part of the U.S. maritime policy. Foreign Relations and hearings of Senate committees, sub­ 235 Russell Building To hold closed hearings on U.S. military Enviro.nment and Public Works assistance to Egypt. committees, joint committees, and com­ Water Resources Subcommittee 8-116, Capitol mittees of conference. This title requires ·Business meeting, to consider S. 1241, Labor and Human Resources all such committees to notify the om.ce proposing certain changes in water Education, Arts, and Humanities Sub­ of the Senate Daily Digest-designated resource policy. committee by the Rules Committee--of the time, 4200 Dirksen Building Business meetings, to mark up S. 1386, place, and purpose of all meetings, when Rules and Administration authorizing funds through fiscal year scheduled, and any cancellations or Business meeting, to mark up S. 2018 1985 for the National Endowment for changes in the meetings as they ~ur. and S. Res. 281, measures to sim­ the Arts, National Endowment for the As an interim procedure until the com­ plify and clarify the system by which Humanities; and Institute of Museum puterization of this information becomes Senate committees are provided funds Services; and S. 1429, authorizing operational, the omce of the Senate !or their operating expenses, includ­ funds througb fiscal year 1982 !or ing staff salaries; and to consider programs under the Museum Services Daily Digest will prepare this infonna­ other legislative and administrative Act. tion for printing in the Extensions of business. 4232 Dirksen Building Remarks section Of the CONGRESSIONAL 301 Russell Building 2:00p.m. REcoRD on Monday and Wednesday of Joint Economic Conferees each week. To hold hearings to examine the eco- Closed on S. 673, authorlzing funds for 33542 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 26, 1979 fiscal years 1980 and 1981 for na­ motor vehicle theft and the potential 10:00 a.m. tional security programs of the De­ in it by organized crime. Energy and Natural Resources partment of Energy. 3302 Dirksen Building Energy Regulation Subcommittee 8-407, Capitol 10:00 a.m. To receive testimony on the current price Foreign Relations • Select on Indian Affairs and supply situation for petroleum Closed business meeting, to consider S. To hold hearings on S. 341, 1795, and fuels. Con. Res. 51 and 52, resolutions re­ 1796, bllls authorizing certain Indian 3110 Dirksen Building jecting the determination of the tribes to file claims for damages for delay in payment for lands claimed to DECEMBER 12 President, set forth in the report of 9:00a.m. the President transmitted to the be taken in violation of U.S. laws. 5110 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Congress on November 14, 1979, that Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ it is in the national interest of the DECEMBER 5 mittee U.S. to continue sanctions against 9:00a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings on the scope of laser Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. research and technology, focusing on 8-116, Capitol To hold joint oversight hearings with the Subcommittee on Energy Resources the principal applications of lasers and 2:45p.m. future expectations from lasers. Governmental Affairs and Materials Production of the Com­ mittee on Energy and Natural Re­ 235 Russell Building Oversight of Government Management 9:30a.m. Subcommittee sources to review implications for future Outer Continental Shelf leasing, Select on Small Business To continue hearings on Federal agen­ To continue hearings on the structure of cies spending practices that occur just relative to the oil spill at Campeche, Mexico. the solar energy industry. prior to the end of the fiscal year, 424 Russell Building the "hurry-up spending problem." 3106 Dirksen Building 8-126, Capitol Energy and Natural Resources 10:00 a.m. Energy Resources and Materials Produc­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 3:00p.m. tion Subcommittee International Finance Subcommittee • Judiciary To hold hearings on the nominations of To hold joint oversight hearings with To hold oversight hearings to review in­ the Committee on Commerce." Science, ternational monetary policy relative to Jose A. Cabranes, to be U.S. District and Transportation to review impli­ Judge for the District of Connecticut; the Eurodollar currency. cations for future Outer Continental 5302 Dirksen Building Robert J. McNichols, to be U.S. District Shelf leasing, relative to the oil spill Judge for the Eastern District of DECEMBER 13 at Campeche, Mexico. 10:00 a .m . Washington; Horace T. Ward, to be 3106 Dirksen Building U.S. District Judge for the Northern Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Rules and Administration International Finance Subcommittee District of Georgia; David K. Winder, Business meeting, to resume markup of to be U.S. District Judge for the Dis­ S. 2018 and S. Res. 281, measures to · To continue oversight hearings to re­ trict of Utah; Juan M. Perez-Gim­ simplify and clarify the system by view international monetary policy enez, to be U.S . District Judge for the which Senate committees are provided relative to the Eurodollar currency. District of Puerto Rico; and L. T. funds for their operating expenses, in­ 5302 Dirksen Building Senter, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge cluding staff salaries; and to consider DECEMBER 14 for the Northern District of Missis­ other legislative and administrative 9:00a.m. sippi. business. Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2228 Dirksen Bullding 301 Russell Building Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ NOVEMBER 30 Select on Indian Affairs mittee 8:00 a .m. Business meeting, to mark up S.J. Res. To resume hearings on the scope of laser Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 108, to validate the effectiveness of research and technology, focusing on Rural Development Subcommittee certain plans for the use or distribu­ the principal applications of laser and To continue oversight hearings on the tion of funds to pay judf!Jllents awarded to Indian tribes; S. 1730, de­ future expectations from lasers. implementation of rural housing pro­ 235 Russell Building grams, relative to home weatheriza­ claring that title to certain lands in tion serving rural areas. New Mexico are held in trust by the 10:00 a.m. 324 Russell Building United States for the Ramah Band of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 9 :30a.m. the Nava1o Tribe; S. 1832, authorizing International Finance Subcommittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation the Secretary of the Interior to de­ To continue oversight hearings to review Consumer Subcommittee clare certain land to be Indian reser­ international monetary policy relative To hold oversight hearings on the Fed­ vation land; and S. 1273, to restore to the Eurodollar currency. Federal recognition to certain bands eral Trade Commission's authority to 5302 Dirksen Building order divestiture in certain antitrust of Paiute Indians in the State of proceedings. Utah. JANUARY 15, 1980 235 Russell Building 6228 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Governmental Affairs DECEMBER 6 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Permanent Investigations Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. International Finance Subcommittee To continue hearings on professional Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings to examine U.S. trade motor vehicle theft and the potential ·To hold oversight hearings to insure and technological competitiveness in it by organized crime. equitable mortgage lending practices. with other industrialized countries, 3302 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building focusing on a report by the Interna­ Judiciary DECEMBER 7 tional Trade Commission on inter­ To hold hearings on S. 1679, to reduce 10:00 a.m. national trade in integrated circuits delays and legal expenses in the is­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs suance of patents. relating to the electronics industry. To continue oversight hearings to insure 5302 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building equitable mortgage lending practices. 10:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building CANCELLATIONS Armed Services Joint Economic NOVEMBER 29 Procurement Policy and Reprograming To resume hearings on the employment­ Subcommittee unemployment situation and price 10:00 a.m. To receive testimony on optional finan­ data information for November. · Judiciary cial spending programs for the civil Room to be announced To hold hearings on pending nomina- reserve airfleet of the Department of tions. Defense. DECEMBER 10 2228 Dirksen Building 224 Russell Building 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Select on Indian Affairs NOVEMBER 30 Agriculture and Related Agencies Sub­ To hold hearings on S. 1464, to acquire 10 :00 a.m. committee certain lands for the benefit of the Judiciary To hold oversight hearings on the activ­ MUle Lacs Band of the Minnesota To hold hearings on pending nomina- ities of the Farmers Home Adminis­ Chippewa Indians. tions. tration. 5110 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building DECEMBER 11 2:00p.m. DECEMBER 4 9:30a.m. Judiciary 9 :30a.m. Select on Small Business To hold hearings on pending nomina- To hold hearings on the structure of the Governmental Affairs tions. Permanent Investigations Subcommittee solar energy industry. 2228 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on professional 424 Russell Building