May 2, 1977 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13185 Senate of the State of Hawaii, relative to 122. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of Mr. STANGELAND introduced a bill (H.R. Federal insurance of mortgages on leasehold the State of Hawali, relative to retention of 6832) for the relief of Dr. Salvador S. Sam­ property; to the Committee on Banking, the cost-of-living allowance for Federal em­ Finance and Urban Affairs. bitan, which was referred to the Committee ployees with milltary commissary and post on the Judiciary. 116. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the exchange privileges in Hawali; to the Com­ State of Hawaii, relative to maintaining the mittee on Post Office and Civil Service. current level of aid to federally impacted 123. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the areas for educational programs in the State State of Hawali, relative to extending na­ of Hawaii; to the Committee on Education tional pollution discharge elimination sys­ PETITIONS, ETC. and Labor. tem permits in Hawaii; to the Committee on 117. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of Public Works and Transportation. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions the State of Hawaii, relative to amending 124. Also, a memorial of the House of and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of Representatives of the State of Hawaii, rela­ and referred as follows: 1972; to the Committee on Government Op­ tive to extending the dead line relating to erations. the elimination of shipboard animal waste 98. By the SPEAKER: A petition of the 118. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the discharges; to the Committee on Public City Council, Westminster, Calif., relative to State of Hawaii, relative to crown land Works and Transportation. low-cost spaying and neutering climes; to claims; to the Committee on Interior and 125. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Insular Affairs. the Territory of the Virgin Islands, relative Commerce. 119. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of to establishment of a veterans hospital in 99. Also, a petition of the City Council, the Territory of Guam, relative to Fed~ral the Virgin Islands; to the Committee on Wilkes-Barre, Pa., relative to low-cost spay­ land takings in Guam; to the Committee Veterans' Affairs. ing and neutering clinics; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. 120. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of 126. Also, a memorial of the House of Rep­ on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. the Territory of the Virgin Islands, relative resentatives of the State of Hawaii, relative 100. Also, a petition of the American Le­ to allowing the Legislature of the Virgin Is­ to the distribution of Federal funds in Ha­ gion Post No. 3, Lincoln, Nebr., relative to lands the power to override line-item vetoes waii; jointly, to the Committees on Educa­ changes in the method of payment of vet­ of the Governor; to the Committee on Inte­ tion and Labor, Government Operations, and erans' benefits; to the Committee on Vet­ rior and Insular Affairs. Public Works and Transportation. erans' Affairs. 121. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the 101. Also, a petition of the City Council, State of Indiana, relative to extending the Philadelphia, Pa., relative to renewal of the deadline for automobile emission controls· PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS to the Committee on Interstate and Forei~ multifiber textile agreement; to the Com­ Commerce. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, mittee on Ways and Means. E·XTENSIONS OF REMARKS WHY VIETNAM PUT OUT THE RED demands for some of the $3.25 billion of wants to normalize relations with Vietnam. CARPET reconstruction aid it claimed Richard Nixon, Answering a question on his phone-in radio when President, promised it if it would sign program March 5, he said Vietnam needed the 1973 peace agreement. trade with the outside world so that it would HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. One clause of the treaty provided for U.S. not be completely dependent on the other post-war aid to North Vietnam. Another pro­ Communist countries. He neglected to add OF VIRGINIA vided for Hanoi's help in accounting for dead they cannot give it what it needs. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES and missing Lmericans estimated to number In his apparent eagerness to recognize and help the Vietnamese Communist regime, the Monday, May 2, 1977 about 2500. On March 3 a Vietnamese Foreign Min­ President seemed to be applying the appar­ Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi­ istry spokesman said the United States must ent double standard that has marked the dent. Kingsbury Smith, the able national "disassociate itself from this erroneous pol­ selective morality of his foreign policy. icy.. of wanting information on missing While he and the State Dep~rtment have editor of the Hearst newspapers, began a risked impairment of relations with Russia, recent news analysis with this sentence: Americans but not wanting to provide the promised aid. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Ethiopia by "Vietnam's Communist rulers want In his first meeting with Woodcock this taking a strong stand on the violation of American taxpayers' money badly." week, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van human rights in those countries, his secre­ I ask unanimous consent that the text Dong made it clear Hanoi considers America tary of state, Cyrus Vance, told the Seilll.te of this article be printed in the RECORD. still committed to the Nixon promise of $3.25 that South Korea's strategic importance to the United States out-weighed concern over There being no objection, the article billion. As~ert1ng that the question "does not was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, relate to Mr. Nixon but to the United States," human rights. he said: "This is not just a question of money So, apparently, does Vietnam's undefined as follows: importance to America outweigh concern [From the Boston Herald American, Mar. 20, but of national responsibility and honor." Either the man has colossal nerve or he over the inhuman treatment of those South 1977] thinks Americans are dopes. Henry Kissinger, Vietnamese who were loyal allies of the WHY VIETNAM PuT OUT THE RED CARPET as secretary of state, made it clear on June United States. (By Kingsbury Smith) 18, 1975, that the North Vietnamese military From almost every non-Oommunist foreigner who has left Saigon in recent WASHINGTON.-Vietnam's Ccmmunist rul­ conquest of South Vietnam in flagrant viola­ tion of the peace treaty invalidated that months comes reports of the ruthless re­ ers want American taxpayers' money badly. pression of the South Vietnamese popula­ That was clearly evident in the smiling re­ agreement and that all American undertak­ ings in the peace accords thereby became tion, and especially of those who collabo­ ception the first U.S. official mission to Viet­ rated with the American forces. nam received on its arrival in Hanoi. null and void. One former American ambassador to South One of the latest reports comes from The red carpet welcome included liVliig Father Andre Gelinas, a French Canadian quart.ers that United Auto Workers President Vietnam told me U.S. has no moral obliga­ tion whatsoever to help the Vietnamese Com­ Catholic priest who lived in Vietnam from Leonard Woodcock, chief of the American 1948 until he was expelled last year-15 delegation, said were so comfortable "I would munist regime. Nor does he understand why the Carter administration considers it in months after the fall of Saigon. feel well even if I were tired." In an article published in the Washington Quite a difference from the brutal treat­ American national interests to help stren~<th­ en that regime's tyrannical control of Viet­ Post, Father Gelinas estimated that between ment accorded American war prisoners dur­ 400,000 and 500,000 South Vietnamese have ing the Vietnam conflict. nam, especially when the ultimate objective of Hanoi's rulers is generally acknowledged been sent to so-called "re-indoctrination" Then the Hanoi dictatorship was relying centers which means concentration camps. on Russia and Compmnist China for war sup­ to be domination of all Indochina. Some American oil comoaniec; would like Many other thousands of men, women and plies to kill American soldiers and conquer children have been forcibly transplanted South Vietnam. the administration to lift the trade embargo Now it cannot get from the two Communist on Vietnam so they can bid for a share of from the cities to remote areas. giants the economic and technical aid it the offshore drilling concessions Hanoi has The cruel treatment of people in Saigon needs to reconstruct the devastated back- been negotiating with French, Japanese and following the Communist take-over, led, ac­ ward country. ' West German oil companies. Oil deposits off cording to Father Gelinas, to an "epidemic So Hanoi has, in effect, been blackmailing North Vietnam's coast are thought to be of suicides. Entire fain111es killed themselves the American government by linking infor­ substantial. with revolvers:· mation about missing American soldiers with President Carter has made it clear he "The bureaucratic mind," he added, "is 13186 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1977 capable of a kind of sadism that is unbear­ parochaid" and applies at any institu­ structions to the Ad Hoc Committee on able." tion charging tuition, for example, State Energy; and yes on roll No. 174, final This is the kind of treatment the North universities, city colleges, and so forth. passage of H.R. 2. Vietnamese Communist leaders have meted out to the people they used to claim they Public school teachers would obviously wanted to liberate from American imperial­ stand to gain by taking advantage of the ism.