35420 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 10, 1978 RECESS UNTIL 8: 30 A.M. TOMORROW Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the ject to the nominees' commitments to re United States of America to the Sultanate of spond to requests to appear and testify before Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I move, Oman. any duly constituted committee of the Senate. in accordance with the previous order, Goodwin Cooke, of Connecticut, a Foreign DIPLOMATIC AND FOREIGN SERVICE and pursuant to the provisions of Sen Service officer of class 2, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Foreign Service nominat ions beginning ate Resolution 583, as a further mark of Jesse Walter Lewis, Jr., t o be a Foreign Serv respect to the memory of the deceased United States of America to the Central African Empire. ice officer of class 3, a. Consular Officer, and a Honorable Ralph H. Metcalfe, late a Secretary in the Diplomatic Service of the Representative from the State of Illinois, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY United Stat es of America, and ending Eric A. that the Senate stand in recess until 8: 30 Thomas S. Williamson, Jr., of the District Kunsman, to be a Foreign Service officer of a .m. tomorrow. of Columbia, to be Deputy Inspector General class 7, a Consular Officer, and a Secretary in The motion was agreed to; and at 9 :35 of the Department of Energy. the Diplomatic Service of the United States p.m., the Senate recessed until tomorrow, EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY of America, which nominations were received COMMISSION by the Senat e and appeared in the CONGRES Wednesday, October 11, 1978, at 8 :30 SIONAL RECORD on September 22, 1978. a.m. Armando M. Rodriguez, of California, to be a member of the Equal Employment Op Foreign Service nominat ions beginning Anthony C. Albrecht, to be a Foreign Service portunity Commission for the term expiring CONFIRMATIONS officer of class 1, and ending Larry L. Wood July 1, 1983. ruff, to be a Foreign Service officer of class 7, Executive nominations confirmed by J. Clay Smith, Jr., of the District of Co which nominations were received by the Sen the Senate, October 10, 1978: lumbia, to be a member of the Equal Em ate and appeared in the CONGRESSIONAL REC CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD ployment Opportunity Commission for the ORD on September 22, 1978. Marvin S. Cohen, of Arizona, to be a mem term expiring July 1, 1982. THE JUDICIARY ber of the Civil Aeronatics Board for the re NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD B. Avant Edenfield, of Georgia, to be U.S. mainder of the term expiring December 31, George S. Ives, of Maryland, to be a mem district judge for t he southern district of Georgia. 1979. ber of the National Mediation Board for the UNITED NATIONS term expiring July 1, 1981. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION Richard W. Petree, of Virginia, a Foreign Samuel D. Zagoria, of Maryland, to be a Service officer of class 1, to be the Alternate NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Commissioner of the Consumer Product Representative of the United States of Amer Safety Commission for the remainder of the ica for Special Political Affairs in the United Charles William Bent on, of Illinois, to be term expiring Oct ober 26, 1978. Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. a member of the National Commission on Samuel D. Zagoria, of Maryland, to be a DEPARTMENT OF STATE Libraries and Information Science for the Commissioner of the Consumer Product Marshall W. Wiley, of Florida, a Foreign remainder of the term expiring July 19, 1980. Safety Commission for the remainder of the Service officer of class 2, to be Ambassador The above nominations were approved sub- term of 7 years from October 27, 1978.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS COAST GUARD HONORS PHILADEL traced an average of at least one signifi has been with the water department for PHIA CLEAN WATER EFFORTS cant oil or chemical spill each month for 9 years. He graduated from Manhattan that agency. As part of their work, the College with the degree of bachelor of HON . .JOSHUA EILBERG engineers check sewer outfalls from engineering and majored in chemical en boats, walk through sewers for consider gineering. He has taken graduate courses OF PENNSYLVANIA able distance3, dye test tanks at indus in his field at Villanova University.• IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tries, interview industrial sources, and, Tuesday, October 10, 1978 when necessary, place booms around A REMARKABLE BREAKTHROUGH • Mr. EILBERG. Mr. Speaker, just re stream spills until the Coast Guard can cently the Philadelphia Water Depart bring in its own cleanup equipment. ment and two of its engineers who track The Coast Guard awards honored the HON. GUY VANDER JAGT water department and the two engineers down stream polluters were honored by for: OF MICHIGAN the U.S. Coast Guard. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I would like to comment on this for Providing invaluable knowledge about the RECORD, because I know that the work local sewers and hazardous substances: Tuesday, October 10, 1978 of the department and these two employ Assisting the captain of the port in e Mr. VANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, I ees will be of interest to my colleagues preventing further pollution discharge am exceedingly proud to bring to the at from city's which share Philadelphia's and in identifying the parties culpable tention of this Congress the brilliant ac intense interest in clean water efforts. of existing spills; complishments of two dedicated profes In a ceremony in Mayor Frank Rizzo's Participating in "numerous oil spill in sors from one of this Nation's most reception room, Capt. Kenneth Wiman, vestigations," thus aiding the Coast prominent liberal arts colleges-Hope captain of the Port of Philadelphia, cited Guard in enforcing the Federal Water College in Holland, Mich. the water deoartment and the two en Pollution Control Act: Helping the Coast Guard recover ''sub Dr. Jack Schubert. professor of en gineers for "notable services" in the in vironmental health sciences, and Dr. S. vestigation of pollution spills. stantial amounts of Federal contingence funds, both from reimbursement for Krough Derr, assistant professor of He presented "Certificates of Merit" to cleanup expenditures and receipt of as biology, have produced an unparalled Thomas Kulesza, chief, and Thomas sessed fines from the guilty parties"; breakthrough in the treatment of metal Healey, assistant chief, of the Water De and poisoning. They have succeeded in com partment's industrial wastes section. At Devotion to a high environment stand pletely removing plutonium from the the same time, Water Commissioner Car ard which reflects great credit upon the bodies of animals, and greatly furthered men F. Guarino received a certificate department and its employees. the treatment of non-radioactive metal from Captain Wiman honoring the. de Kulesza, of 10159 Ferndale Street, is a poisoning. partment itself. sanitary engineer IV (civil services) and This remarkable scientific achieve The certificates cited the recipients for is a veteran of 10 years' service with the ment substantiates both the expertise "voluntary participation and exception water department. He is a graduate of and abilities of Drs. Schubert and Derr, al cooperation" with the Coast Guard in Villanova University, 1967, with the and the excellence of the educational op enforcing pollution control standards on degree of bachelor of chemical engineer portunities offered by Hope College. the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. ing, and has taken graduate courses in I submit for the informational benefit Noting that the Coast Guard is respon his field at Villanova. of my colleagues the following Hope Col sible for enforcing such standards, Guar Healey, of 10733 Albermarle Lane, is lege news release, and editorial commen ino said that Kulesza and Healey have a sanitary engineer III (civil service) and tary from the Holland Sentinel:
Statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor will be identified by the use of a "bullet" symbol, i.e., • October 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 35421 TREATMENT OF METAL POISONING B .S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry at the THE AMERICAN TAX REDUCTION HOLLAND, MICH.-An "impossible" feat University of Chicago. ACT OF 1979 the complete removal of radioactive pluto Dr. Derr, Assistant Professor of Biology, is nium, one of the most poisonous substances an authority on environmental contamina known, from the bodies of animals, has been tion, especially by PCB and PBB and their HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN achieved by scientists at Hope College. action on reproductive processes. He received OF CALIFORNIA his B.S . degree at Purdue University and the This unprecedented accomplishment in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cludes equally successful treatment of poi Ph.D. degree in toxicology at Michigan State soning from non-radioactive metals such as University. He has held positions with en Tuesday, October 10, 1978 cadmium, which pose serious environmental vironmental laboratories in Massachusetts and Michigan before assuming his present O Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, today, I and industrial hazards. had the distinct honor and privilege of As reported in the September 28 issue of appointment at Hope in 1977. Nature, the prestigious international science Hope College is a four-year undergraduate introducing legislation inspired and pro Journal, Hope professors Jack Schubert and liberal arts institut ion with a strong aca moted by Mr. Howard Jarvis, co S. Krogh Derr, with support from the United demic t radition of high quality science edu originator of California's proposition 13. States Department of Energy, applied a new cation and research in the natural sciences. The bill, entitled "The American Tax treatment for metal poisons based on con With a current enrollment of nearly 2,400 Reduction Act of 1979" represents a bi cepts developed previously by Dr. Schubert students, it is one of the few undergraduate partisan effort to lift the intolerable called mixed ligand chelate (MLC) therapy. institutions where students carry out sophis level of taxation off the backs of the Mixed ligand chelate therapy opens a new ticated research. Numerous research publica tions are produced each year by students in American people, place a limit on Fed era in the treatment of metal poisoning, ac eral spending, and restore our Republic cording to Drs. Schubert and Derr. They also collaboration with faculty. The research was stress the importance of MLC formation in carried out in the new Peale Science Center to the vision of our Founding Fathers many areas of fundamental importance--the on the Hope campus. of Government deriving its authority transport of metals from soils to food; the Among the Hope College students who from the consent of the governed. I here role of metals in health and disease; and the have or are participating in this research are with enclose my remarks to the press in mechanism of cancer induction by radioac Jack Dekker, a 1978 graduate from Grand the official RECORD: tive isotopes. ville, Mich. who is currently a graduate stu THE SPIRIT OF '76 "Serious environmental and industrial dent in toxicology at the University of Cin cinnati; Sandra D. Wiederhold, a senior from (Speech of Representative hazards associated with the release of radio ROBERT K. DORNAN) active and nonradioactive metals are becom Valhalla, N.Y.; and P. Matthais Scheer, a ing an increasing threat to mankind and up senior from Hamburg, West Germany. Ladies an:i gentleman of the press, this to now there have been no satisfactory treat is a. momentous day in the 202 year old ments for metal poisoning," said Dr. THE FRUITS OF EXCELLENCE history of our celebrated yet troubled Repub Schubert. lic. As a people, we are about to take a Thursday's announcement of the scientific memcrable and historic step, a step that in "Our research to date has resulted in breakt hrough by two Hope College profes volves a paradox: we must go back in order hitherto unparalleled achievements using sors dramatically emphasizes the value of that we may go forward. We must go back MLC treatment, namely complete removal of the small liberal arts college. to the spirit and vision that vivified our tissue deposits of plutonium and prevention The discoveries by Drs. Jack Schubert and Founding Fathers, a spirit of liberty and of mortality in animals given lethal doses of S. Krcgh Derr were the results of a moderat e the vision of a nation of freemen engaged cadtnium." cost ($88,500) 18-month grant, conducted in in the n oble experiment of self-government, One component of the revolutionary new Hope College's Peale Science Center, with of government that derives its authority treatment includes salicylic acid, the active the assistance of undergraduate students. from the consent of the governed. It is a ingredient of aspirin. Dr. Gordon Van Wylen emphasized that vision of a grand Republic, of a unity in Current treatment for plutonium and this scientific milestone was achieved by two diversity, of a delicately balanced union be other metal poisons utilizes molecules called men whose primary responsibility is the ed t -;,1 ee::i liberty and authority, between fed chel?.ting agents which seize and hold a ucation of undergraduate stu::lents in an un eral government and state governments. metal ion in a clawlike grip (Chele from the dergraduate college, not memben of a grad Without such a guiding vision, as the Book Greek meaning claw). The stronWisconsin Legisla authority from the consent of the governed! sue our own federal a::1d republican princi ture's Joint Committee for Review of Ad The American Tax Reduction Act of 1979 ples-our attachment to union and repre ministrative Rules, Sen. David Beri:5er said provides for structural, comprehensive, and sentative goverment . ... Still, one thing that he reads reports describing the effects gradually phased-in changes in current tax more, fellow citizens: A wise and frugal gov of every proposed rule. The same reports are policy. It encompasses the following provi ernment which shall restrain men from in sent to the chairmen of the standing com sions: juring one another, shall leave them other mitees with jurisdiction over the agencies TITLE I wise free to regulate their own pursuits of proposing the rules. "We're able to identity industry and improvements, and shall not red flags," said Berger. "This makes the agen Income Tax Reduction: 25 percent reduc take from the mouth of labor the bread it cies more circumspect." tion of tax rates in all categories over a 4 has earned. This is the sum of good govern year period: 1979 through 1982. Rep. William Strada, a member of the ment." The choice is clear, ladies and gen Connecticut legislature's Joint Regulations TITLE II tlemen: the road to serfdom or the restora Review Committee, rejeqted the argument Capital gains: tion of our Republic. The "Spirit of '76" leads that the legislative veto amounts to mere (1) Lower alternative rate to 15 percent the way in 1978 !e maximum; second-guessing. "Agencies adopt rules with the full force of law that nobody know:. (2) Remove capital gains as a tax prefer ence item; about. What we as legislators are talking about is accountability. We're the advocates (3) Remove limitation on deductib111ty of STATES MAKE LEGISLATIVE VETO capital losses; WORK of the people." (4) Inclusion of once in a life-time $100,- "If the rules can't be explained adequately, 000 tax break for capital gains sale of a home. they should not go into effect," said Rep. HON. ELLIOTT H. LEVITAS Kurt Kiser of the Florida Legislature's Joint TITLE III Administrative Procedures Committee. "If Indexation of individual and corporate tax OF GEORGIA we can't understand a rule, how's the public brackets and capital gains. Each year tax IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES going to understand?" Tuesday, October 10, 1978 The legislators' comments came on the 1 Facts and figures from W1lliam Simon's eve of a House vote on a hotly disputed pro "A Time For Truth," pp. 89-92 a.nd U.S. News • Mr. LEVITAS. Mr. Speaker, when the posal to give Congress a veto over Federal & World Report, June 26, 1978. House of Representatives recently de- Trade Commission rules but to permit the October 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 35423 President to veto the congressional veto. about a provision in a new law than that possible benefits, and were not warned of Congress, in turn, would have the right to "it speaks for itself," the legislative veto its possible dangers. We now know that override the President's veto. The House ultimately may prove most useful in en earlier had approved a tougher veto provi couraging Congress to clean up its own act DES is a carcinogen. However, since it sion that did not allow for a presidential by being more precise in its statutory man takes even a potent carcinogen often veto. (For an earlier report on the legislative date and redirecting agencies that it be from 5 to 20 years after exposure to show veto, see NJ, 8-6-77, p. 1228.) lieves have gone astray. The results may the development of cancer in humans, The congressional debate is likely to con prove illuminating on all sides.e the full scope of this tragedy is just be tinue next year, meanwhile, the states are ginning to be understood. providing important laboratory evidence on For the children of women who took the use of the legislative veto. The National HEW TASK FORCE ANNOUNCES DES during pregnancy, the effects are Conference of State Legislatures concluded FINDINGS ON DES in a recent report, "Restoring the Balance," even more draconian. In 1971, research that 34 states have some form of legislative ers at Boston's Massachusetts General veto, most of them adopted in the past few HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN Hospital discovered a startling upsurge years. The conference has campaigned ag OF CALIFORNIA in the occurrence of an extremely rare gressively for all legislatures to establi:;h kind of vaginal and cervical cancer procedures for reviewin.] agency rules and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES among teenage girls. These teenagers recommends that a single joint committee be Tuesday, October 10, 1978 had one thing in common in their medi designated by each legislature to conduct cal histories: their mothers had all used t:,e reviews. 8 Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would According to the report, the states have a like to take this opportunity to praise DES during pregnancy to prevent mis wide variety of procedures, but most seem HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano, Jr., carriage. More than 200 cases of this to be relatively broad in scope. All but two for his decisive administrative actions to unusual form of cancer have now oc of the 34 states give the reviewing commit trace and treat Americans adversely af curred in the United States in girls and tee authority to review all rules, usually fected by the use of DES. women between the ages of 8 to 28. More within a specified time limit. Ten states per DES, diethylstilbestrol, is a synthetic than 10 percent of these victims have mit the committee to suspend or delay died of that cancer. a rule. estrogen that was once widely prescribed In 21 of the states, the review commit in the United States for the prevention Risks are ·not confined to the female tee must be sustained by the legislature be of miscarriages. An estimated 4 to 6 mil offspring of women who took DES dur fore the veto becomes effective. In the 13 lion penon3 are believed to have been ing pregnancy. The HEW task force other states, the committee has the final exposed to DES prescribed for this pur found an excessive number of abnormali word. pose. Those suffering ill effects are the ties in the reproductive and urinary sys The report acknowledges that state offi women who took the drug while preg tems of many young men whose moth cials have launched a constitutional attack ers used DES during pregnancy. Further against the veto in many states. Just as the nant, and their daughters and sons, who White House and the Justice Department during gestation were exposed to DES in study will be needed for definitive find have pressed for judicial review of the con utero. Widespread use of DES was com ings on the increased risk of testicular gressional veto, so have several governors mon between 1945 and 1955, but in a cancer and possible abnormal sperm asked the supreme courts of their states to number of cases, it was still being pre forms in DES sons. review such issues as the separation of pow scribed to prevent miscarriage as late I close my remarks by having reprinted ers and the delegation of legislative author as 1970. in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Secretary ity to a committee. The results have been Califano's announcement of the steps he mixed, and the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal When HEW Secretary Califano was to consider several legislative veto cases has alerted to the health hazards posed by will take to inform physicians and those not helped to clarify the legal questions. DES by Dr. Sidney Wolfe of the Health exposed to DES of the health risks asso Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga., and Sen. Research Group here in Washington, ciated with its use when prescribed to Harrison (Jack) Schmitt, R-N.M., Junior D.C., Secretary Califano established an prevent miscarriage. It is my hope that Members who have become leading advo HEW Task Force in February 1978 to this will be the beginning of a long-term cates of the legislative veto, contend that determine if DES caused cancer in effort to scientifically evaluate the health the experience on the state level will win women using it during pregnancy or in effects of synthetic hormones on our over the congressional skeptics. Levitas, who population. said many of his colleagues think the idea their offspring. is "like Bolshevism," added that the state Secretary Califano announced the STATEMENT BY JOSEPH A . CALIFANO, JR., SEC experience "demonstrates the federal system findings of the HEW Task Force last RETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE works." Schmitt told the state legislators, Wednesday. The task force concluded An HEW Task Force has just completed "You are doing a lot of our homework." that while the overwhelming majority a new examination of the health effects of If they are right, extension of the legisla of those exposed in the past to DES pre DES (diethylstilbestrol), a synthetic estro tive veto will become a major component of gen that was once widely prescribed for the the growing congressional emphasis on leg scribed during pregnancy will suffer no prevention of miscarriages. An estimated 4 islative oversight of federal agencies. Along serious long-term health effects, million to 6 million persons-the women with the "sunset" proposal for compulsory some wlll have serious health problems. who took the drug while pregnant and their review of all agency programs on a regular DES turns out not to be a "wonder danghters and sons-are believed to have basis and a renewed call for more rigorous drug," and the history of its use in this been exposed to DES that was prescribed committee review of how well executive country i.3 a perfect example of why we for this purpose, chiefly between 1945 and agencies enforce the law, the legislative veto 1955 but, in a number of cases, as recently device has been cited by some Members of must keep the efficacy requirement in as 1970. Congress bombarded by voters' complaints our food and drug law. Before 1962, not The Task Force-which was established about taxes and government regulations as all drugs had to be proven effective to at my request by Dr. Julius B. Richmond, evidence that they are working to discipline be marketed. This was how it was pos the Surgeon General of the United States a sometimes unresponsive or uncontrollable sible for DES to be marketed in the in February, 1978-has submitted a report bureaucracy. Already, some Members are re 19 ~O's and 1950's without any significant indicating that, while the overwhelming ma ferring to the Congress that convenes next evidence that DES effectively prevented jority of those exposed in the past to DES January as the "oversight Congress." mi:,carriages. Indeed, nearly all the pub i:;rescribed during pregnancy will suffer no However, the state legislators raised cau serious or long-term health effects, some will tionary flags about their experience. Rep. lished studies boasting of DES ability have serious health problems. Stephen Cobb of the Tennessee legislature's t::> prevent miscarrh1es were conducted As part of my responsibility to promote House Government Operations Committee without scientific control groups. The and protect the public health, I am today said the quality of his panel's work is "not wo:n ~n in these studies were not given announcing steps to inform physicians and yet at the level it can be" and conceded placeb::>3-a standard procedure in medi t hose exposed to DES, when it was used to that there have been examples of "crude cal testing for efficacy-to see if the rate prevent miscarriages, of the health risks as politics" in which affected interest groups of miscarriage differed in the placebo sociated with that use. have sought relief from agency rules. group as contrasted to the women tak Based on what is currently known, DES Kiser. cited as a worthwhile consequence ing DES. When controlled studies were mothers, their daughters and their sons, face in Florida the fact that the review commit different health problems. tee has begun to "re-educate our legislators curied out in later years, almost all showed that DES was not effective in For daughters of mothers who used DES to clean up their act and be more specific to prevent miscarriages, the Task Force found with the statutes to get rid of the preventing miscarriages. vagueness." that there was a clear link between exposure The real tragedy of the DES episode to DES before birth and an increased risk of For lobbyists and frustrated bureaucrats is that the vast majority of women who vaginal or cervical cancer. Although previous who often receive little more explanation took DES were misinformed about its studies have demonstrated that there is such 35424 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 10, 1978 a link, the Task Force concluded that the It is prudent for all DES-exposed women have cosigned with Senator MURIEL HUM risk is not as high as originally feared. It mothers or daughters-to avoid any further PHREY and other supporters of the Full is currently estimated that no more than use o!' DES or other estrogens because the Employment and Balanced Growth Act. 1.4 DES daughters per 1,000 exposed to the carcinogenic effects may be cumulative. drug will develop cancer ( clear cell adeno In addition to undertaking the informa This legislation has been historically carcinoma) of the vagina or cervix. The rate tion efforts aimed at both health profession maligned by gross misinterpretations of may be as low as 1.4 per 10,000. Based on the als and the public. I am asking the Surgeon the bills' true substance and purpose. To currently available data, there does not seem General to develop a detailed research plan this end, I wish to share with my col to be additional risk of other types of cancer. for further scientific studies that will be leagues a clarification of these issues as For women who used DES to prevent mis needed, both in the near and long-term, to they are articulated in the editorial carriages, the Task Force concluded that a further explore the precise dimensions of the response: relationship between DES exposure during risk presented by DES use-both in the past EDITORIAL RESPONSE pregnanl,y and the risk of breast or gyneco and in the present, both from use to pre vent miscarriages and from other uses DEAR Sm: We are writing this letter as logic cancer "is not established". However, concerned Members of the Congress who the Task Force said that, based on the studies (mostly related to health problems involv ing the female reproductive system). want to clarify the true issues facing enact done so far, there is "sufficient cause for se ment of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Em rious concern over the drug's carcinogenic Although there is still much scientific work to be done, we know enough about poesible ployment Bill. We were very disappointed in potential." your editorial of October 4th because you For sons of mothers who used DES during DES health problems to warrant the actions I am announcing today. As further infor took a very simplistic and erroneous inter pregnancy the Task Force found "an access pretation of Humphrey-Hawkins and failed of abnormalties'' in the genital, and possiblv mation is developed, we will take additional, appropriate measures. to realize the many larger implications of urinary tracts, but "did not find firm evi the bill. In some instances, you completely dence of an association" with testicular can These actions are a prudent yet expedi tious response to a sensitive public health ignored or misrepresented the controlling cer. issue.e facts in the performance of the American As for possible effects on fertility or the economy over many years. next generation, the Task Force concluded The Humphrey-Hawkins bill is like an ice that "no evidence is available to suggest that PUBLIC CONCERNS OF IMMUNIZA berg with a large visible mass-the issue of children borne by DES daughters have birth unemployment-and an even larger partially defects or other abnormalities" and that TION submerged mass-the issue of how to im there is "no definite information" suggesting prove the Federal Government's economic any effect on the fertility of DES sons. policy decision-making. As a result of these findings, the Task Force HON. GEORGE M. O'BRIEN We cannot even begin to solve the prob concluded that full disclosure of information OF ILLINOIS lems of intolerably high inflation, unem concerning DES use in a past pregnancy is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ployment, and other idle resources until we essential to protect the health of the patient provide the mechanisms for the President and her children. This information is neces Tuesday, October 10, 1978 and the Congress, acting together, to define sary so that affected individuals can seek • Mr. O'BRIEN. Mr. Speaker, I am hap root causes, establish acceptable goals to be prompt medical examinations and, if appro py to announce a forthcoming sympo reached, and agree on the means of achiev priate, prompt treatment. sium, Public Concerns of Immunization, ing them. Until we do this, national eco we are today taking two major steps to to be held at the Department of Com nomic decisions will continue to be hap implement thiR recommendation. hazard, uncoordinated, and wasteful. First, we will begin a major program to merce Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Humphrey-Hawkins is as much an "anti alert physicians and other health profes on October 25 and 26, 1978. The confer inflation" bill as it is an "anti-unemploy sionals to the findings and recommendations ence will be sponsored by the Interna ment" bill. Inflation has not been effectively of the DES Task Force. tional Center for Interdisciplinary Stud dealt with by the current or any recent Ad The first step will be to send a Surgeon ies of Immunology at Georgetown Uni ministration. We do not now have a suf General's advisory to the 400,000 physicians versity. I am pleased to state this center ficiently complete and meaningful action in the United States. This advisory will in is one of four which has been recently plan nor alternative possibilities for dealing clude statements urging physicians to notify with inflation on an ongoing and coordi women for whom they prescribed DES of funded under the new Centers for Inter nated basis. It is time that we exhibit the their exposure and the need for follow-up disciplinary Research in Immunologic courage to say what the true causes of in medical care for these women and for their Diseases (CIRIDS) programs of the Na flation are, develop workable cures, and put offspring. tional Institute of Infectious Diseases, a them vigorously into effect. Humphrey The Task Force suggests that doctors program which I had the honor of spon Hawkins requires this approach in a com should check their records carefully-even if soring in the House last year. prehensive policy-setting framework. it requires searching through medical rec The symposium will fulfill one of the Since World War II, the general trend has ords which date back 20 years or more-in primary objectives of the interdisciplin been for inflation to rise during times of order to identify exposed women and notify stagnant or low economic growth accom them of the need for follow-up medical care ary concept by enhancing public aware panied by high levels of unemployment and for themselves or their offspring. ness and will help clarify and lead to a underutilized plant capacity, and to fall un The advisory urges physicians to provide better understanding of some of the cur der conditions of fuller resource use. The this service without charge. rent issues concerned with immunization. trends from the 1973-74 recession are, in gen This advisory will also be published in This is particularly timely in light of the eral, strong evidence of this. Yet, the Post edi medical journals. And we will take whatever administration's current immunization torial concludes that to reduce unemploy additional steps may be necessary to inform initiative for the country. The proceed ment from 5.9 percent in August 1978 to 4 medical professionals. percent by mid-1983 would be "wildly infla Second, we will develop a public aware ings of the symposium will be published in the journal Pediatric Research. tionary". This is tantamount to discarding ness program targeted at exposed individuals. forever the goal of even moderately low This program will emphasize the importance It gives me a great deal of pleasure to unemployment, which is as economically of early detection in improving the possibil announce this symposium today, on this, shallow as it is morally unjust. ity of successful treatment of cancer and the birthday of my cochairman of the The editorial, in effect, imports that unem other abnormalities that may result from event, Miss Helen Hayes, the first lady DES exposure. ployment should never be reduced below 5.5 We will, within 30 days, develop a detailed o.f the American stage. I would ask the percent (although in 1953 it was 3.0 percent public information campaign aimed at reach Congress to join me in wishing her a and in 1966 it was 3.8 percent with very ing exposed individuals who may not be in most joyous and blPssed birthday.• stable prices) on the ground that this would formed by their doctors either because the generate disastrous wage-induced inflation. doctors are no longer in practice or because Actual developments in the past refute this medical records have been destroyed or be FULL EMPLOYMENT AS A NATIONAL fear. Every successful effort to achieve stable cause of other reasons. ECONOMIC POLICY prices has treated the reduction of inflation In broad outline, both physicians and ex and the reduction of unemployment as posed individuals will be told the following: inseparable goals-not "traded-off" one for Daughters should begin periodic screening HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS the other. examinations at age 14 or at the onset of OF CALIFORNIA Furthermore, we are trying to reduce menses, whichever occurs earlier. unemployment because it is socially debili Mothers should advise their physicians IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tating. Unemployment destrovs families, that they were exposed and should follow a. Tuesday, October 10, 1978 promotes crime, and erodes individual self system of regular examinations. respect. In addition, continuing to let unem Sons will be urged to see a physician for e Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, I want ployment exist at high rates is financially an examination to determine if they have to direct your attention and the atten and economically absurd. Each one percent genital abnormalities associated with DES tion of my colleagues to an editorial re age point drop in unemployment (almost one exposure. sponse to the Washington Post which I million people) is equivalent to a $25 billion October 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 35425 saving to our country, through reduction of standing airman on the base. He com the world have contributed a wealth of government payments for unemployment pletes his second year as president of products for the betterment of mankind. insurance, food stamps, welfare, and other the Robert H. Goddard Chapter of the Every facet of our lives has a General programs and through the addition of new Air Force Association which is now rec Electric product in it. General Electric income taxes being paid into the Federal products have defended our country, treasury by employed people and by expand ognized as one of the strongest and most ed businesses. In economic terms, idle labor active chapters in the country. Bill is bolstered our economy, increased the means the nonproduction of goods and serv known for his loyal support of the productivity of our factories, made our ices. Every day an able man, woman, or young United Services Overseas. In addition, school and hospitals more effective, our person does not work, the potential wealth Bill is a representative of the Vanden homes more convenient, and our com they can create is lost forever. berg Big Brother program which cap munities more efficient. General Electric The editorial states t h at Humphrey tured the coveted Bruce K. Holloway products have enhanced our lives for a Hawkins is mainly the concern of black Award in 1976. Also, included among his hundred years. leadership and imports that it would bene fit primarily the black Community. This varied activities is serving as emcee of As GE prospered in the marketplace, statement is both biased and inaccurate. The the Big V Golf Tournament held at we prospered as a people. Their social absolute amount of unemployment among Vandenberg AFB. Bill has served for awareness, in conjunction with their fi whites is many times higher than among the past 10 years on the ISTRAD Com nancial success, resulted in a sense of re blacks, and more than 225 million people are manders Advisory Board. sponsibility in this company rarely seen seriousy hurt by the deficient economic per Joe Sesto, president of the Sesto & Co. today. Over the years this social aware formance of which high unemployment is insurance firm, is equally well identified ness has resulted in GE's continued ef but one index. with Air Force activities over a long pe forts to improve our standard of living, As to who is concerned with and sup riod of years. He has been presented nu and to make America a better place for ports Humphrey-Hawkins, more than 82 national organizations-white and non merous awards from the Air Force which everyone to live and work. General Elec white, labor, religious, minority, and many includes recognition for outstanding tric has utilized its resources to tackle others including some business leaders contributions to the USAF. In 1975, he tough environmental and energy prob have been working continuously and openly received the Air Force Association Ci lems and to make our domestic lives for enactment of the bill for 4 years. tation from the president of the Robert easier and more pleasant. Objection is ma:ie to the goal of a zero H. Goddard Chapter of the AFA for "the General Electric is but one of the finest rate of inflation as "absurd". But only one individual in the community who most examples of what can be accomplished Congressional Committee of the three report supportE:d the goals o.f the association within our free enterprise system. As ing the bill favorably, and that one by a vote and the USAF." Joe is completing his GE celebrates its lOOth birthday I would of 8-7, has favored the zero rate. We deem 17th year as president of the Santa Ma it absurd to excoriate a bill because one like to reflect for a moment on the bene version of it has an unworkable amendment ria Chamber of Commerce Military Af fits of the free enterprise system. General which should and can be removed. fairs Committee. He was selected to par Electric's phenomenal success is proof Very truly yours, ticipate in the 24th Annual National Se that a company, when allowed to Senator MURIEL HUMPHRSY, curity Forum held at Maxwell AFB, Ala., compete in the marketplace without the ( D-Minn.) and was nominated by Secretary of the encumbrances of Federal regulation, Congressman AUGUSTUS F . HAWKINS, Air Force John Stetson, to the Depart can provide the jobs and the resources to (D-Calif.) ment of Defense Joint Civilian Orien The following Members of Congress have make our economy prosper. Despite the state:i their agreement with this letter: tation Course held in 1978. Joe has many roadblocks the Federal Govern John Conyers, D-Mich. served on the ISTRAD Advisory Council ment has provided to try and impede the Paul Mccloskey, Jr., R-Calif. since 1962. growth of GE and other private corpo Richard L. Ottinger, D-N.Y. Each man, in addition to his military rations, General Electric has risen above Paul Simon, D-Ill. activities, has gained recognition for his and I wish them a happy birthday, and Ted Weiss, D-N.Y.e notable community endeavors and more, another hundred years of even achievements. Quite appropriately, Joe ereater success.• WILLIAM LEARY AND JOSEPH Sesto and Bill Leary have indeed earned this great honor bestowed upon them on SESTO, JR., "MEN OF THE HOUR" INCREASED AIR TRAVEL FROM VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE this special occasion. Their tireless dedi cation to the U.S. Air Force over the past LOWERING AIR FARES: AN years is justly recognized.• OTHER CASE SUPPORTING THE VALIDITY OF THE LAFFER CURVE HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO AND ENACTMENT OF KEMP-ROTH OF CALIFORNIA IN TljE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE lOOTH ANNIVERSARY OF HON. JACK F. KEMP Tuesday, October 10, 1978 GENERAL ELECTRIC OF NEW YORK e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, great honor will be awarded to William HON. RICHARD T. SCHULZE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Leary and Joseph Sesto by Vandenberg OF PENNSYLVANIA Tuesday, October 10, 1978 Air Force Base military personnel on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Saturday, October 21, 1978, at the "Men •Mr.KEMP. Mr. Speaker, John D. Lof of the Hour" banouet. Four hundred Tuesday, October 10, 1978 ton, Jr., the nationally syndicated col friends from the military and civilian • Mr. SCHULZE. Mr. Speaker, I would umnist, has brought to the attention of communities of Lompoc and Santa like to take my colleagues on a journey the country a specific and current eco Maria, Calif., will be in attendance. in time. Let us close our eyes and imag nomic phenomenon which buttresses the This auspicious occasion is appreciation ine the year is 1879. The scene is a room case for enactment of the Kemp-Roth to them for their inspiring leadership with a young man seated in front of a bill. I wish to bring it to the attention over the past ye1rs. Each man has es table. staring bleary-eyed after some 40 of my colleagues. tablished his individual record of service hours, at a brightly glowing loop of car Kemp-Roth, the Tax Rates Reduction which greatly contrjbuted to the present bonized thread. This young genius, Act, would bring about a 30-percent success of a productive relationship be Th<:'mas Alva Edison, is looking at the '1Cross-the-board reduction in individual tween the military base and civilian invention that will shortly launch one income tax rates over the next 3 years. communi ties. of the greatest experiments in free en The reason that should be done is to Bill Leary, a Lompoc resident and terprise that the world will ever know. restore greater shares of the reward re special assistant to the manager of the The electric lig-ht not onlv led the world ceived by workers, savers and investors Martin Marietta Corp., located on Van out of darkness, it was the beacon which for their incentive, a greater share be denberg Air Force Base, was a former guided the General Electric Co. down the cause the Governn1ent's share-taxes naval officer. He has served as chairman road to success. would be reduced. The reason that must of the military Affairs Committee of the Let us open our eyes and come back to be done is to restore the economy Lompoc Chamber of Commerce for 10 the present and look at this company through increased production and less years and is cochairman of the quarterly today. One hundred years later, almost ened inflation. awards ceremony selecting the out- half a million men and women around During the House debate on the Kemp- 35426 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 10, 1978 Roth legislation, it was argued by its possible" and by "academic economists who jet engine for our economy. The sooner the opponents that there was no reason to pilot theoretical models." Congress fires it up, the better.e believe that lowering the tax rates would The former head of the Civil Aeronautics Beard (CAB ) Robert Timm, feared that air result in greater economic activity. Even line de-reg would take a carefully built air CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO PAT though it makes commonsense to every transport system "down the drain; " Capt. ERSON LODGE NO. 60, BENEVO taxpayer that by taxing something less, John O'Donnell, head of the Airline Pilots LENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER there will be more of it, it didn't make Association, said that it would cause service OF ELKS, UPON THE CELEBRA sense to a majority in the House. Thus, to "deteriorate" and fares to "increase;" TION OF ITS 90TH ANNIVERSARY it was denied that lower costs-and taxes Francis O'Connell, legislative director of the are a cost--would mean greater demand, Transport Workers Union, worried about de which when all the costs and all the reg meaning "jobs will be lost" in the airline HON. ROBERT A. ROE industry; and an Eastern Airline pilot, in a OF NEW JERSEY demands taken as a whole would :nean letter-t o-the-editor to the New York Times, greater economic activity. This is the declared that de-reg would cause much public IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES point addressed by Mr. Lofton. suffering and, like Humpty Dumpty, once the Tuesday, October 10, 1978 During the consideration of the first airline system was "taken apart" it could not round on airlines fare deregulation, it be put back together again. • Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, was argued that there was no reason to Well, during the past 15 months, under the October 14, the people of my congres believe that fare deregulation would reign of CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn, the sional district and State of New Jersey mean lower prices. It was argued thg,t airline industry has experienced what might will join with the distinguished members be called de facto de-regulation, the cutcome of the Benevolent and Protective Order there was no reason to believe that even of which has been increased competition and if lower prices did result, that it would of Elks at a gala celebration commemo greatly reduced air fares. Now, if the economic rating the 90th anniversary of the found mean increased ridership, increased rev rea-s oning of the Kemp-Roth critics were cor enues, increased profits, thus more jobs rect, these reduced fares should have had no ing of our most prestigious Elks Lodge in the building, servicing and flying of positive economic feedback effects. What No. 60 in Paterson, N.J. planes, the operation of airports, and the should have happened is that the number of Mr. Speaker, at the outset let me com travel and tourist industry in general. passengers taking planes should now be the mend to you the diligence, foresight, and But removing the cost. of regulation, in same as when fares were higher with the hard work that has been extended by result being massive revenue losses to the the esteemed officers and members of direct and indirect terms, has resulted airlines, right? Not exactly. in a boom in the airlines industry. Fares Paterson Elks 60 who throughout these In a talk last week in London, before the past nine decades have extended the are down-and are going even further Financial Times Conference on International down. Ridership is up and points toward Transport, CAB Chairman Kahn told how highest standards of excellence-always ever increasing volumes. Planes taken passenger traffic on certified carriers is pres giving willingly and unselfishly of their out of service are being returned. New ently running about 20 percent above the time in helping to bring happiness and orders are being placed. already reccrd levels of 1977, with well over contentment to others through their 40 percent of these people traveling a t dis benevolence and understanding, promul There are two things to look at in C:)unt rates . From 1968 to 1975, he pointed gating a spirit of brotherhood and good this Loftor. column. The first is how out, the major airlines earned a miserable will throughout our community, State, many in Congress and most in the in 4.9 percent profit on invested capital, where and Nation. The current roster of these dustry said what has happened would as the ratio for the year ending this June 30, exemplary community leaders and highly not happen. The second is the effect was 12 .3 percent and earnings on equity what has happened has had on the after t axes was 18 percent. As a result of this reputable citizens which comprise the increased activity, the airlines are hiring executive committee of Paterson Elks 60 economics of the industry. Profits are up, is, as follows: yet fares are down, to the mutual ad more ticket clerks, putting in more phone vantage of business and consumer. lines, and cautiously adding to t heir fleets. PATERSON ELKS 60 This excellent, perspective column Kahn calls all this "a story of success be OFFICERS FOR THE Y'EAR 1978-79 follows: yond anyone's most wildly optimistic expec The Honorable : tation," observing that the services being William J . Shoemaker, Exalt ed Ruler. KEMP-ROTH DOOM-MONGERING AND A SENSE offered by the airlines, and particularly the Nicolas D'Ascheberg, Est eemed Leading OF DEJA Vu prices they are charging, have been "im Knight. (By John Lofton) measurably improved," millions of passen George Dunn, Esteemed Loyal Knight. WASHINGTON.-There is a strong sense of gers have benefited, and carriers have pros Lawrence Fisher, Esteemed Lecturing deja vu concerning the apocalyptic criticism pered. Knight. of the Kemp-Roth proposal which urges a A national survey of 5,000 families, con Anthony Gustus, Secret ary. cut in Federal taxes of 33 percent over three ducted for the Conference Board, shows Joseph J. Wallace, Treasurer. years. that in the next 6 months 13 percent plan Rober t. Rama.,.lino. Esquire. Denouncing the idea that a tax slash of to travel by air, the highest figure in the 10- John Golon, Chaplain. this size would so stimulate the economy that year history of the Board's survey. Barbara Frank Strassner. Inner Guard. revenues would come pouring in, the Balti Clark, an analyst in the CAB's Bureau of Joseph Le S9ada, Tiler. more Sun labels such a notion a "pie-in-the Pricing and Domestic Aviation, says: "When Edward Fedush, Organist. sky panacea" and "a fraud" for which there we shrted approving all these low fares, the Howard McNeil, Trustee. is no "proof." Business Week magazine, or carriers said, 'O.K. we'll out them in and Michael P. Strassner. Trustee. dinarily a beacon of reasonableness, has gone then we'll go bankruot. -We'll show you.' Albert Caoone. Trustee. ape, editorializing that Kemp-Roth would They showed us, all right. They showed us Edward Ries, Trustee. add $100 billion to the deficit and this would they can make a lot of money with more Thomas J . Ryan, Trustee. "touch off an inflationary explosion that c::impetition." William J . Rosenberg, Justice of the Forum. would wreck the country and impoverish Richard Ferris, president of United Air Robert Verhasselt, Chairman. Paterson everyone on a fixed income." lines. put it a little more colorfully. He says : Elks 60-90th Anniversary Commit tee. But, we've heard this kind of doom "If someone had told us in June of 1977 that Mr. Speaker, BPOE Paterson Lodge r.'!ongering before. And we've heard it very we would have a travel growth of 25 percent recently. Remember what the opponents o! this year, we would have put a st raitjacket No . 60 was founded in 1888 with a charter airline de-regulation were saying in 1975 and on him and locked him away. The growth membership of 33 but it is important to 1976? Remember what was predicted if there has been exolosive and no one saw it com note that its early beginnings emanated was increased competition among the air ing." United earned lJ:105 million on its air in 1887 through the organizational ef lines and air fares were drastically reduced? line operations the first half of this year forts of three outstanding citizens, Hon. "There would be chaos." Harding Lawrence, ccm:tnred to a $6.8 million loss in 1977. At Harry Stone, his good friend, Hon. David the president of Braniff told a House Aviation the end of June. for the first time in its Boyle. and Hon. James McCormick of Subcommittee confidently. Albert Casey, history, United flew over one million pas baseball fame, who conceived the idea, president of American Airlines, foresaw "grave sengers more than one billion passenger consulted with New York Elks' Lodge and possibly irreparable damage" to the air miles in a week. No. 1 and Newark Elks' Lodge No. 21, and lines as a result of de-regulation. Charles Ferris is not the only one flabbergasted b y Tillinghast, chairman of Trans World Air the current boom in air travel. Frank Bor duly instituted Paterson Elks Lodge No. lines. blasted the arguments of those favor man. the former astronaut who heads East 60 on Sunday, January 30, 1887. ing de-reg as built on "story book" a"sump ern Airlines, admits: " It has been above our For the first half century the Elks tions. He said that the promise of better air wildest exoectation. We have become mass clubhouse stood in a stately building on service at lower fares was an "illusion" en transit, an·d this may be as revolutionary as Ellison Street, off Colt Street, in down couraged by "politicians playing the old game the introduction of the jet engine itself." town Paterson. It was moved in 1958 to of currying favor by .. . promising the im- The Kemp-Roth tax cut bill would be a McLean Boulevard at East 34th Street, October 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 35427 Paterson, where it is presently head I am honored to be the speaker at the hood abandonment and the effectiveness of two hundred and twenty second Commence the City Urban Homesteading Act in pro quartered. ment of the University of Pennsylvania. moting residential stability. Today, BPOE Paterson Elks 60 .is com In 1888, the University's Provost, William Beginning in the early 1970's, the Univer prised of a membership of 700 and is Pepper, delivered an address on higher edu sity-sponsored Community Leadership Semi lauded as one of, if not, the oldest fra cation and women. He concluded: nar has improved the skills and increased ternal organization in the oldest indus It does not concern us of this generation the knowledge of leaders in indigenous trial city of America, the city of Paterson. that at some distant day the franchise may Philadelphia communities. Their charitable and benevolent activi be extended to women. This question cannot Community leaders and organizations now ties span the needs and concerns of all now be regarded as a practical one ... Nor are operating a number of projects which does it concern us that at some distant day, began under the aegis of Penn. The West of our people-young and adults alike when this continent is densely peopled, the Philadelphia Community Mental Health and we are especially proud of their gen struggle for existence may be all the more Consortium and the West Philadelphia Free erous contributions to God's special chil keen and severe because our women have School are good examples. dren who are physically handicapped been trained, as far as may prove po3sible, to The University is the largest private em and their national foundation benefits to be the intellectual peers of men. ployer in Philadelphia-providing almost local area students. They truly have But six years later, in 1894, Sara Yorke 17,000 jobs, more than half held by non brought an added quality of life and way Stevenson became the first woman to receive academic personnel. of life to the people of the city of an honorary degree at Penn. I am happy to Over recent years, President Meyerson re follow in that tradition today. inforced the already established strengths of Paterson. urban and regional studies; economic, social Mr. Speaker, with the deepest respect The first educational institution to be called a "university" is a fitting place for the and political science; policy studies; and re and admiration, I know you will want to Secretary oi the Department of Housing and lated inquiries which bear on the city. join with me in extending our warmest Urban Development and a former educator to The University's example has been fol greetings and felicitations to the mem share thoughts about the university and the lowed. In the early 1960's, there were only bers of BPOE Paterson Lodge 60 for city. about two dozen urban research centers in their many achievements and outstand At the turn of the eighteenth century, the places of higher education across the na ing good works on behalf of our people. Bishop of Cloyne set down his standards for tion. Today, there are two hundred. selecting a site on which to nourish a uni But far more can be done. The great urban They have labored in the vineyard with universities of this nation have not ap other community leaders and our vet versity in the American colonies: It should be in good air, in a place where proached their potential for enriching and erans in many, many social, civic, and provisions are cheap and plenty; where there learning from the cities which host them. charitable endeavors which have truly is no great trade, which might tempt the During the nineteen forties and fifties, it enriched our community, State, and Na Readers and Fellows of the College to be was typically the urban university which tion. We do indeed salute the officers and come merchants, to the neglect of their prop made its resources available to fulfill our na members of Paterson Lodge No. 60 of the er business; where there are neither riches tion's commitment to help rebuild the cities Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks nor luxury to divert or lessen their applica of underdeveloped countries. Now it is only tion, or to make them uneasy and dissatis appropriate for our urban universities to upon the celebration of their 90th an broaden their· commitment to people and cit niversary observance.• fied with a homely frugal subsistence; last ly, where the inhabitants, if such a place ies in distress here at home. may be found, are noted for innocence and The Carter Administration, as you know, simolicity of manners. has presented to Congress a national urban THE UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY policy. The time is right to challenge the The Bishop of Cloyne concluded that Ber urban universities to take stock-to expand muda was the ideal location. and refine their commitment to the city. HON. WILLIAM D. FORD Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia hardly I challenge the Urban universities of Amer could qualify. OF MICHIGAN ica to direct more work and study toward There already was a wealthy and proper TN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their immediate communities. class of life. Digby Baltzell's Philadelphia Urban universities particularly must take Tuesday, October 10, 1978 Gentlem3.n was not simple and not innocent. in more of the poor and minorities as stu Bv contrast, the city also held great pover • Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, dents. Despite the gnashing of teeth and ty. Edward Potts Cheney tells us that: breast beating, despite the dential of admis last year I introduced legislation to es The overseers of the poor we!"e always busy. sion to competent perso:is who happen to be tablish a Federal program of grants to We hear of widespread suffering and of spe poor, we have found that 70th and 75th per urban universities to encourage a co cial collections being made when there was centile performers can compete and benefit operative effort with the city in com an unusually hard winter. There was much from a college education, even at Penn. bating problems of the urban area in disorder . . . Crimes and misdemeanors were This in no way diminishes the special wel which they are located. The Urban Grant numer2us and punishments were harsh. come to those 99th perce:itile performers who University Act, sponsored by 59 Mem Slaves were sent to the Court House at are every teacher's dream. bers, has been the subject of several Second and Market Streets by their owners The urban university must work more hearings in this Congress. to be whipped for their misdemeanors. closely with City Hall. I assure you that City The hearing process has established Yet into such a communit" Benjamin Hall is one of the best laboratories for learn Franklin brought his belief in higher educa ing the reality of human interaction that can that there is a natural partnership be tion, energetic action, practical wisdom and be found. Mr Dooley knew more about the tween urban universities and the cities g,merous humanity. political process than did ever a V. 0 . Key. and that there is an appropriate Federal It was a good choice. Such a community There is today an appalling lack of socially role in encouraging and expanding a co remains characteristic of the city today. A relevant research and writing. It seems as operative attack on urban problems. distillation of all that is rich and all that is though most academic commentators have I was pleased, Mr. Speaker, to have mean in the spirit of American society. become naysayers and ante-poor. It seems as though they have become more strident in brought to my attention a commence Over its history, the University of Benja condemning government action than the ment address given by the Secretary of min Franklin has helped in the human and most radical activist anarchist. the Department of Housing and Urban economic development of the city. Scholars have devoted too little attention Development entitled "The University The first graduate department of city and to the roots of problems within their im and the City." Secretary Patricia Rob~rt3 regional planning was established at Penn mediate environment. Harris discu~ses the mutual obligations sylvania in 1951-as the political reform It often is easier to obtain university sup and physical renaissance of Philadelphia be port for exotic studies far removed in time, and goals of universities and the cit.ies gan to flower. The staff of the department and endorses the concept of the legisla space, and social distance than to gain the worked closely with the newly formed Phila means for serious work among people within tion which I hope to see enacted in the delphia. City Planning Commission. walking distance of urban teaching centers. next Congress. To assist in reversing the tide of neighbor A sense of reality about the inner city must Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I ask unani hood decline, the West Philadelphia Corpo be maintained--without studying it to death mous consent that the text of her address ration was established in 1959. As University by sending in cohorts of youthful colonists be printed in the RECORD at this point City was created, the Corporation worked armored in noblessee oblige. And without with the hope that my colleagues will hand-in-hand with city authorities, commu displacing the poor when the university ex consider her thoughts. nity grouos, business, and industry to re pands. vitalize the community-its housing, edu Urban universities must serve the com THE UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY cation, health and recreation. munity as they learn from the community. (By Patricia Roberts Harris) The Wharton School's Human Resources More student lawyers should be securing ex President Meyerson. Pro"ost St~llar, Chair Center has developed individual and com f:erience as helpers in legal aid for consumer man Regan, Trustees, distinguished guests, munity potential over the last fourteen groups, the poor and other underrepresented degree recipients. and friends. years. It has done major work on neighbor- people--of whom President Carter recently 35428 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 10, 1978 spoke. Student architects need to work a~ Despite these activities of the academy, ernment service. Decisions affecting thou interns to create space more defensable the fact remains that some urban research sands of human beings cannot and should against crime in public housing. ers and writers have in recent years replaced not be on the basis of a clever and enigmatic There are still day-care centers that need old myths with new ones. journal essay. st:uting and staffing, illiterates who need to The urban neglect of the early 1970's was A tough, pragmatic, insightful action be taught, addicts who can benefit from underwritten intellectually by such urban document is required that facilitates mak encounter therapy, and neglected children researchers. They told us that not much ing hard choices in a world of incomplete who need a friendly voice and hand. could be done with an unheavenly city popu information and unremittant pressure. Op The city is itself a university without walls. lated by a minority underclass obsesssed with tions must be presented for and against Indeed, the Latin root, universitas meant, immediate gratification. We were to idle be contemplated action. There must be an "all together, the whole ..." That is th-3 nignly until demographic currents played understanding of the substantive issues, but city-people together, the whole of creative themselves out. That is academic jargon for also a deep sensitivity to budget constraints, human interaction. forgetting the poor until they disappear. administrative and congressional politics, But even as the university goes to the city Of course, the government cannot solve communication, and timing. All must be for learning and service, more of the com all problems, set all goals, or define vision. woven into the fabric of analysis so that munity mu3t be let into the university. It is But let us also remember that there are rational and wise decisions can be made. reassuring to know that Penn is moving in many ills that can be only' remedied by Fed Schools of law and business schools have the right direction by providing the com eral government action. prepared students for such analyses, and the munity access to university facilities and Certainly, without the Federal govern graduate departments in other fields can by opening non-credit programs. ment, most blacks would still be slaves, profit by their example. Tte formal admission of members of dis would still ride in the back of the bus, and I would also urge more exposure to real advantaged minorities must continue to ad take their meals behind the curtain, if at all. world policy makers. Students must learn vance, large numbers of blacks, hispanics and Whatever problems with Federal Social first hand about the difficulties of imple n
FEDERAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT AND PAYROLLS, 1960 TO 1970
Percent change base Item 1960 1965 1970 1975 1976 1977 1960
2, 430 2, 539 2, 928 2, 882 2, 879 2, 841 16.9 13, 243 18, 020 28, 562 40, 699 42, 259 46, 744 252. 97
Source: Civil Service Commission, Federal civilian work force statistics. 35432 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 10, 1978 Surely, Mr. Speaker, it must be evident downtown and offered a visitor "the views recent weeks, while Sureck wound up his that if the salary of the marginally larger of a departing bureaucrat" on the subject of personal affairs and took a crash course in illegal aliens. Cantonese. Federal work force has increased by "What I think we're witnessing," he be Last week the Los Angeles City Council 250 percent, our bureaucrats are being gan, "is the strange spectacle of the world's unanimously passed a resolution, introduced handsomely rewarded for overloading most powerful nation passively accepting a by Councilman Arthur K. Snyder, commend the American economic system with this massive intrusion by foreign nationals ... ing Sureck for his "brilliant professional even more pervasive regulation. "Somehow the American public must be leadership, fairness and firmness ... during Total direct spendi::.1g at all levels of confronted with the fact that there has been a period of acute immigration problems." government rose from $79.7 billion in a real breakdown in our (immigration) sys In the interview with The Times, Sureck tem. sought to dehch himself from the resent fiscal year 1946, to $626.1 billion in fiscal "They should know that the government ment that other officials have expressed year 1976, for an increase of almost is making cnly a token effort to control a against Castillo. eightfold. Furthermore, the Department situation that is rapidly assuming tragic di Castillo, a 39-year-old Mexican-American of Commerce's Bureau of Economic mensions, both for us and the people who and former Houston city controller, was ap Analysis has supplied me with data that are flooding across our borders." pointed by President Carter to the top INS illustrates in the chart below that be He shrugged. "I don't know what can be post last year, replacing Leonard F. Chap tween 1960 and 1977 the amount of Gov said. There is a lot of discouragement when man, a hard-line advocat~ of immigration ernment spending expressed as a percent every day we practice the same exercise in law enforcement. futility ... "Actually, Mr. Castillo is a fine gentleman of the national income has increased "But let me say this: I think it's incredi and I kind of like him," Sureck said, adding from 33.1 to 41.0 percent. ble-just unbelievable-that the United after a pause. "Of course, he does have these States, through its inaction and total lack of conflicts." GOVERNMENT SPENDING AS A PERCENT OF NATIONAL a coherent national policy, would give up its He declined to elaborate on Castillo's "con INCOME sovereign right to control its own borders. flicts," but presumably referred to the com But that is what we've done." missioner's public record in Texas as a Chi !Dollar amounts ,n billions! Sureck, a soft-spoken, scholarly looking cano activist before his federal appointment man with 38 years in the U.S. Immigration and his reported difficulties in satisfying Total and Naturalization Service, often has been either side in the illegal alien controversy. government National at the center of a growing controversy over il Year "Let me say that I'm not against giving sector income Percent leg;al aliens during his four years as district the public better service," Sureck said. "We director. 1977 ______have made important strides in that direc $621. 8 $1, 515. 3 41. 0 His insistence on "balancing public service tion, but still it's an unfortunate fact that 1976. _. 575. 4 1, 348. 4 42. 65 with vigorous enforcement of our immigra people who come to us with legitimate in 1975 .. --======530. 8 1, 207. 6 43. 95 tion laws" has drawn the wrath of pro-im 1970 .. ------311 . 9 798. 4 39. 07 quiries have to wait an inordinate time. 1965 ... ------187. 8 566. 0 33. 18 migrant groups, which consider him unsym "At the same time, we must not lose sight 1960 ... ·------136. 4 412. 0 33. 11 pathetic to the problems of immigrants try of the fact that inadequate enforcement is ing to settle in this country. creating many of these problems by permit Source : Department of Commerce, Bureau of Econom c Anal Last year, he clashed with Brown Admin ting-even encouraging-more and more peo ysis. July 1978 Survey of Current Business. istration officials, accusing them of "ignor ple to come into the country ... ing and disregarding federal and state laws "Now Mr. Castillo has been fairly firm The significance of the increase in the and policies" designed to curb illegal im about stopping people at the border, but he percentage of Government spending migration. He urged the state to enforce the seems to have little concern about locating must be viewed in relation to the total Dixon Arnett Act which would penalize em and removing the undocumented immi productive capacity of our country, in ployers who hired illegal workers. grants once they get into the interior of the that Government sector spending Now Sureck has been reassigned as dis country." trict director of the INS office in Hong Kong. In the two-hour interview, Sureck returned "freezes out" growth that would other He was scheduled to leave today for the Far wise be available to the private sector. repeatedly to his theme of "respect for the East with his wife, Grace. They have sold law." What all this means is that expansionary their Highland Park home. "That's where the system i.s breaking Government spending policies can be re Sureck, 64, said he has asked for the re down," he said. "Every day I see this whole lated in some way to the decline in over assignment "after four back-breaking years sale violation of the law. I hear people say all industrial productivity in America. in this office" and planned to serve out his ing that illegal entry and residence in this That is to say that our out-of-control preretirement years in the Hong Kong post. country is merely a socio-economic violation. bureaucracy is limiting the amount of Other officials in the Lost Angeles office "But would you be willing to excuse a were reluctant to believe that "Joe is leaving stranger, however likeable and eager to please resources that at any one time can be entirely of his own volition.'' They said that put to otherwise productive uses. A more he might be, if he came uninvited into your Sureclc has been on INS Commissioner Leonel house and made himself to home-then a direct example of expansionary spending Castillo's "hit list" of senior officials who little while later, invited all his friends and and regulatory policies is that General oppose hi.s "liberal" immigration policies. relatives to join him? Motors Corp. publicly acknowledges that "If Joe says he made the decision (to take "No, you wouldn't like that and you would for the past 4 years they have had to the Hong Kong post) without pressure, we call the police or the sheriff and demand that spend approximately $1 billion a year have to believe him," said one official, who they remove these law violators. But what to cope · with Federal regulations. That asked that his name not be used. if they and everybody else said these people was $1 billion a year which could have "But you can bet that Mr. Castillo and his now have a right to live in your home because been invested in productive uses.• advisers heaved a sigh of relief, because now they are trying to imurove their lot?" they have a chance to get someone in here Sureck leafed through a manual of INS who will toe the mark." regulations and slipped it into one of the The official said Sureck's successor would cardboard boxes. be required to speak fluent Spanish-a new "What I've been saying, over and over ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION VI requirement for the Los Angeles post. again," he said, "is that Congress has given "What that means to a lot of us," the offi us immigration laws and we should enforce cial said, "is that Castillo wants to get a them. If the people want unrestricted immi HON. B. F. SISK Latino activist like himself in here to head up gration, if they feel that any person in the OF CALIFORNIA our operations. world has the right to live and work in this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Then we can forget completely about law country, then let's change the law to con form with what we're actually doing. Tuesday, October 10, 1978 enforcement and concentrate more of our efforts on serving the illegals-and I'll be "But let's not continue to cheapen the • Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, the Los An damned if I'll call them 'undocumented prize of U.S. citizenship and spread disre geles District's outgoing immigration workers'.'' spect for the law." chief. Joe Sureck, 1vas the subiect of a ( Castillo has instructed INS employes to Sureck's regard for the law fits his back recent Los Angeles Times article by Bob use "undocumented immigrants" in place of ground. A native of Oklahoma City, he re Williams. The article speaks for itself: the traditional term, "illegal aliens." Sureck ceived his law degree from the University and other INS officials, while carefully using of Oklahoma and practiced law until enter INS CHIEF CALLS ALIEN INVASION A TRAGEDY the new official term in public, have charged ing the immigration service in 1940. (By Bob Williams) that is a "euphemism designed to downplay During World War II, he commanded a Joe Sureck, Los Angeles district's outgoing the fact that these people are here in viola B-24 training squadron at what is now Ed immigration chief, paused in the midst of tion of our laws.") wards Air Force Base. He returned to the packing the cardboard boxP.c; scattered over Sureck's deputy Omer G. Sewell, has been INS in 1946 and served in a variety of legal the floor of his office in the Federal building in active charge of the Los Angeles office in positions in Detroit, Washington, D.C., Hawaii October 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 35433 and San Pedro before being promoted to HOLLYWOOD'S DIAMOND JUBILEE pictures found the climate of southern district director in Los Angeles in 1974. California very well suited to their In the last two years, Sureck stepped up needs. In 1907 the first picture was his schedule of public speaking engagements, HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN made in the area by Col. William Selig, offering to appear at any forum on and in 1910. David Horsley leased a immigration. OF CALIFORNIA "In almost all of these meetings," he said, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES corner at Gower and Sunset for his "I found myself a minority of one ... but Nestor Co. studio-the first Hollywood afterward some people did come up to me Tuesday, October 10, 1978 studio. Before the end of the year, 15 and say they agreed with my position. • Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, there is movie companies had located close by. "But they are afraid to speak out in pub scarcely a place in the world or a person The first full-length picture was lic because they feel intimidated by these in it that has not been touched by the created in 1913 when Cecil B. DeMille, very vocal spokesmen for the undocument magic of Hollywood-the birthplace of Jesse Lasky, and Samuel GoldwYn immigrants.'' produced "The Squaw Man" in a barn He sai::i "at least half of the people in the moving pictures, talking pictures, and Mexican-American community-and prob most TV programs. On November 14, just a block from Hollywood and Vine. ably many more-want immigration con 1978, Hollywood will celebrate its 75th It is impossible to recount the enor trols, because they are being hurt by this anniversary with a special on CBS-TV mous growth of Hollywood step by loss of jobs (to illegal aliens)." Pierre Cassette's "Hollywood Diamond step-its satellite industries-clothes, Sureck disputed claims that illegal aliens Jubilee." The network has scheduled this wardrobes, sets, props, film processors, take only low-paying, menial jobs that no salute in recognition of Hollywood's con camera manufacturers, lighting and one else wants. "We have dealt with employers (of illegal tributions to the entertainment industry sound equipment and technical serv aliens) who were able to fill their job open and the Hollywood community's role in ices are only a few. With the advent of ings with U.S. citizens and legal residents, rebuilding the historic hillside "Holly sound, in spite of temporary and cycli once they offered a decent, living wage," he wood" sign which symbolizes Hollywood cal setbacks the industry grew by leaps said. throughout the world. and bounds. During World War II there Chapman, the former INS commissioner, was an insatiable demand for films reported that 40 percent of illegal aliens Thanks to the CBS special, tens of mil apprehended in the Southwest were work lions of people will be enabled to witness which the industry could scarcely ing in the construction industry and that "it the formal unveiling of the famous land supply. was r.ot at all uncommon to find illegal work mark, rebuilt in exactly the same spot With the coming of commercial tele ers in skilled trades or even the professions." and with letters of exactly the same size vision, the film industry had grown soft "So were talking about hundreds of thou as before-each one being about 50 feet from the ready demand for their prod sands of Jobs that are not available to legally high and 30 feet wide. It is the largest uct, and suddenly found that people by qualified workers," Sureck said. "These peo ple must look elsewhere or go on the unem sign in the world. Each letter will require the millions preferred to stay home and ployment and welfare rolls." the service of helicopters to be raised to watch their television screens. While Sanctions against employers of illegal the top of Mt. Lee and set into place. many theaters closed down and there is aliens is the only way of drying up the jobs Costing $27,700 each, public donations no longer a market for hundreds of films that attract foreign workers, Sureck said, were sought, and a number of eminent each year, Hollywood has again adjusted. "but there is powerful opposition against citizens within and without the film in Films have changed from quantity to even that basic step." quality and old-time motion pic~ure Another meaE:ure "fiercely opposed" by pro dustry underwrote the cost of the indi immigration groups, he said, is a change in vidual letters. Rock star Alice Cooper studios now specialize in TV production. federal laws which would empower local law contributed the cost of a letter in mem The sound stages are all booked and enforcement officials to arrest illegal aliens. ory of Groucho Marx. Warner Brothers busy. "If a person is violating any law of our Records, Andy Williams, Gene Autry in To the various guilds, to all the busi country," Sureck said, "then any law officer conjunction with KTLA, Terrence Don nesses and studios and production com should be able to arrest him for that viola nelly, publisher, and Dennis Lidtke of panies, to the chamber of commerce tion." Until national leaders agree on an immi Gribbitt Graphics all contributed letters. and to all the citizens of Hollywood, my gration policy, Sureck said, the INS "must Hugh Hefner and Playboy Enterprises warm congratulations upon your 75th struggle to keep its head above a rising flood hosted a star-studded party at the birthday. I am proud and hono~ed ~o of paperwork," much of which is generated Playboy Mansion West, and Hollywood present the Hollywood community. m by pro-immigrant groups "which harass us Chamber of Commerce Jack Forema:1 Congress. I look forward to celebrating constantly and try to delay (the deportation) was able to announce that $45,000 col your lOOth anniversary.• of people who have no recourse under the lected at the party would be used to re law-and they know it." build the "Y," and only two letters re He said .some militant groups are moti vated- by "humanitarian concerns that we mained to be sponsored. Italian movie THE ANTI-INTELLIGENCE LOBBY all share. Or they have a feeling of kinship producer Giovanni Mazza, who is moving AND MORTON HALPERIN'S "CAM with people in their own native lands, and his production company to the United PAIGN TO STOP GOVERNMENT many of these sympathizers admit that they States donated the cost of a letter, and SPYING" or their parents once entered the country when Les Kelley, originator of the Kelley illegally. Blue Book contributed $27,700 for the "We also know activists who have a polit ninth letter, the cost of the sign was fully HON. LARRY McDONALD ical motivation. They see the presence of a OF GEORGIA large population of . undocumented immi pledged. Public contributions will be used grants as a base for a great and important to establish a permanent maintenance IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES political force in the future. And I can tell fund. Tuesday, October 10, 1978 you that their influence has already become No one would have guessed from very great." Hollywood's early days that the area e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speak.er, Con Sureck gazed reflectively out the window was destined to have a prominent place gress continues to be the target of a well of his eighth-floor office, looking for what funded special interest lobby t~at has he called "the bottom line." in the history of entertainment. On November 14, 1903, 165 registered resi spent the past 4 year~ workmg . to "SO.IN' employers will continue to reap cripple America's domestic a~~ foreign the short-term benefits from having a large dents in Hollywood voted 88 to 77 to pool of cheap labor at their disposal," he incorporate Hollywood as a separate intelligence-gathering capability. The said. city. Like all places located in semi leadership of the anti-intelligenc~ lobby "Many average Americans would prefer to desert areas, Holywood was perplexed is a small group. Its members mcl~de stand aloof from this problem because they with the need of supplying its growing associates of the Institute for Polley have not yet felt the impact in their own pooulation with water. The local supply studies UPS) , a Marxist think tank, who pocketbooks. . . being grossly inadequate, the only alter have ties to communist governments "And there are many who congratulate native seemed to be to join with the and their intelligence services; a group themselves on their generous sympathies . . . booming city of Los Angeles, and this of lawYers, many of wh~m have worked "But this country cannot absorb an un was done in 1910. In a fairly short time for and within Communist gove_r~en~ limited number of the world's poor people, and international front organizations, and in the long run we will all pay a pioneers of a new industry looking for a suitable place for their work began to some old-time Communist Party, U.S.A. price-a very terrible price-tor abandoning (CPUSA) members; and a handful of our sovereign rights and failing to uphold build the Hollywood known around the our own laws."e world. The forerunners of the motion disgruntled former public officials who 35434 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 10, 1978 supported the Communist aggressors in ern Eurone have resulted in his expulsion true things in public about the respon Indochina. from England, France, the Netherlands, sibility of the Counter-Spy magazine/ The anti-intelligence lobby leaders and Belgium continues. For example in OC-5 group for the murder of Richard work through a number of interlocking January 1977 Halperin flew to London Welch in Athens. organizations including the American to assist Agee in his activities and told the THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP GOVERNMENT SPYING Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and press that he was trying to arrange a The Center for National Security Center for National Security Studies campus speaking tour for Agee should Studies had announced at its first public (CNSS) . The ACLU proclaimed its hos he return to the United States. conference in September 1974, that its tilit·1 to intelligence gathering in its Following his expulsion from the Neth priorities included the organization and 1970-71 annual report which said: erlands, Agee moved to Italy where he coordination of a "Citizens' Project on The ACLU has made the dissolution of the worked on his latest "hit list"-a new National Security" to develop the illusion Nation's vast surveillance network a top book, "Dirty Work: The CIA in Europe" of a widespread anti-intelligence agency priority. * * * The ACLU's attack ori the po (Lyle Stuart: New York, $24.95 ) , with movement against both local and Fed litical surveillance is being pressed simul Louis Wolf now a Washington, D.C., resi eral agencies. Nevertheless, matters of taneously through a research project, liti dent. This publication contains some gation, and legislative act ion. funding and staff delayed formation of 300 pages of dreary reprints of anti the grassroots anti-intelligence front The goals of the CNSS are equally ex CIA articles, and some 400 pages claim until early last year when the leaders of treme, and belie Morton Halperin's ef ing to be a compilation of the identities the anti-intelligence lobby held a "Na forts to appear as reasonable as possible of U.S. CIA officers working overseas tional Conference on Government Spy during his frequent Capitol Hill appear under diplomatic cover. ing," January 20-23, 1977, at Northwest ances to urge still greater congressional The articles in the Agee "nonbook" ern University in Chicago. (For a restrictions on the FBI and CIA. In an include diatribes authored by such per detailed report on the meeting see "Con swer to its own rhetorical question, sons as CNSS anti-CIA project director, ference Against Intelligence-Gathering, "Should the U.S. Government continue John Marks; by CIA defector, Victor parts I and II, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD , to engage in clandestine operations," Marchetti, who tried to follow in Agee's January 31 and February 1, 1977. ) CNSS responds: footsteps last year by attempting to de Although many of the ordinary street We at the Center for National Security stabilize the Government of Norway and activists opposed formation of a central Studies believe that the answer is "No." influence the September 1977 parliamen ized, Washington-based organization to Therefore, it is to be expected that tary elections with an Agee-style CIA direct what was supposed to be a "grass Morton Halperin's "grassroots" lobby, expose; Paul Jacobs, a long-time Com roots" movement, the anti-intelligence the Campaign to Stop Government Spy munist Party, U.S.A. member and fellow elite went forward with the Campaign ing (CSGS), has as its goal "to insure of the Institute for Policy Studies/ To Stop Government Spying under Mor an end to all domestic political surveil 'Transnational Institute, now deceased; ton Halperin's directorship. (A report on lance and covert operations abroad." Mark Hosenball, one of Agee's "leg men" the debut of the Campaign To Stop in London and son of the general coun Halperin is typical of the disgruntled Government Spying appeared in the former Government officials who have sel to the National Aeronautics and CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, April 27 , 1977, attached themselves to the anti-intel Space Administration (NASA ) ; and by under the title, "Campaign To Outlaw ligence lobby. He was a senior member NACLA associates, Steve Weissman and U.S. Foreign and Domestic Intelli of the National Security Council from l\!icole Szulc. gence.") 1969 to 1972, and from 1967 to 1969 was It will be recalled that both Steve According to the Campaign To Stop a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Weissman and Nicole Szulc have had Government Spying (CSGS) , its goal is Halperin recently won a damages award, long associations with Agee; Weissman, "to insure an end to all domestic political because he was the subject of a warrent a veteran of the Free Speech Movement surveillance and covert operations less national security wiretap. Halperin in Berkeley, Calif., and of Ramparts mag abroad." The CSGS goal is no more ex has released only carefully selected ex azine, as an assistant in the production treme than that of its parent, the Center cerpts of the files and transcripts main of the Agee book, and Nicole "Nickie" for National Security Studies, which in tained by the Federal investigatory agen Szulc, as a contributor by way of a "New answer to its own rhetorical question, cies during the investigation, and he has Left" Spanish magazine "Cambia 16." "Should the U,S. Government continue tried to present himself in the most inno Miss Szulc, who received complements to engage in clandestine operation," cent light. Actually the wiretap and in from Agee for her assistance in his ear responded: vestigation of Halperin were precipitated, lier book, "Inside the Company," is the We at the Center for National Security because he was one of those in part re daughter of journalist Tad Szulc and Studies believe that the answer is "No." sponsible for setting up the conditions worked for the North American Con CSGS staff include Peggy Shaker, co under which Daniel Ellsberg was able gress on Latin America (NACLA ) , a Cas ordinator; Hal Candee, coordinator for to steal the Pentagon papers and leak our troite group that collects information the speakers bureau and campus anti codes and secrets to our enemies. both overtly and by its covert sources on intelligence organizing; Linda Lotz, In the more recent past, Halperin has the U.S. Government and on the major editor of the monthly CSGS newsletter, associated himself with the notorious corporations. It will be recalled that Organizing Notes, and in charge of pub Counter-Spy magazine, formerly pub among the papers of the late Chilean lic information; Damu Smith, CSGS lished by the Organizing Committee for KGB agent of influence, Orlando Lete field organizer and representative at the a Fifth Estate which revealed the CIA lier, was a letter from NACLA staffer, 11th World Youth Festival, sponsored by identity of Athens station chief, Richard Elizabeth Farnsworth, identifying a two Soviet fronts, the World Federation Welch, as1:;assinated shortly after a Treasury Department economist, Rich of Democratic Youth (WFDY) and the Greek newspaper reprinted the news. ard Feinberg, as a NACLA covert con International Union of Students (!US). Halperin's CSGS has taken over the old tact. Feinberg is currently working for The 11th World Youth Festival featured Counter-Spy magazine speakers bureau; the policy planning staff of the State a "Youth Accuses Imperalism" tribunal members of the Counter-Spy advisory Department headed by Anthony Lake, in which Cuban intelligence officers and board and its contributors staff the who doubtless coincidentally partici representatives of a number of Marxist CNSS. and former members of the Orga pated in a panel discussion with Morton terrorist organizations joined with CIA nizing Committee for a Fifth Estate Halperin and Richard Holbrooke at the defectors including Philip Agee in de (OC-5) work for the CSGS and the re first Center for National Security Stud nouncing the CIA. lated Project on Government Surveil ies conference on Capitol Hill in Sep Halperin's Campaign to Stop Govern lance of the American Friends Service tember 1974, a conference organized by ment Spying remains closely linked to Committee
ANNUAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINANCING AND It is equally upsetting to note the in Surplus of Percent Total Federal INFLATION deficit change debt crease in the indexes of spot primary Surplus of Percent Total Federal Year (billions) in CPI outstanding deficit change debt market prices as computed by the U.S. Year (bill ions) in CPI outstanding 1976_ . ------66. 5 +5. 8 631. 9 1977 _ -45. 0 +6.5 716. 7 Bureau of Labor Statistics. The follow 1970_ ------2. 8 +5.5 382. 6 1978 (est~m-at-ef -61.8 +7.2 785. 0 1971 _------23. 0 +3. 4 409. 5 1979 (estimate)_ -60. 6 ing table illustrates that everything but 1972 ______-23. 2 +3.4 437. 3 metals has approximately doubled in the 1973_ ------14. 3 + 8. 8 468. 4 Current estimate. -4. 7 +12. 2 486. 2 1974 _------Source : Library of Congress, Department of Treasury. past 8 years: 1975_ ------+ 45. 1 +9.14 544. 4 INDEXES OF SPOT PRIMARY MARKEl PRICES, 1970 TO 1978 !Base 1967 = 100)
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 Item and number of commod ities (€-16) (6-15) (6-13) (6-12) (6-11) (6-24) (6-29) (6-28) (6-13)
All commod1t1es (22) ______113. 6 108. 2 119. 5 171. 3 221. 5 189. 9 210. 9 206. 7 229. 2 Food stuffs (9) ______112. 2 111. 2 113. 3 172. 7 211. 5 215. 3 213. 7 210. 6 240. 5 Raw industrials (13) ______114. 4 106.1 124. 0 170. 2 228. 5 174. 1 208. 9 204. 0 221. 5 Livestock and products (5) ______123. 6 116.6 143. 9 222. 6 190. 1 240. 8 224. 4 234. 6 277. 6 Metals (5) ______-· -· ------125. 2 103. 1 114. 9 145. 6 261. 4 166. 8 215. 4 203. 0 219. 9
Source : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The significance of these measure cantly diminished when used for the in Washington, all done in the name of ments of Federal Government financing, purposes of an international reserve cur bigger and better Government. iuflation, and spot primary market prices rency. The end result of this pervasive America today needs less Government. is that when foreign governments observe irresponsibility in Government spending Congress desires to provide more serv these internal inflationary trends in the and fiscal management is that the ices. But the average American wants American economy, they perceive the American consumer ends up biting the less services with less taxes and less strength of our dollar as being signifi- bullet for the ivory-tower decisions made Government.• SENATE-Wednesday, October 11, 1978 Statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor will be identified by the use of a "bullet" symbol, i.e., •