IS CASTRO AN OBSESSION WITH US?

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -SENATE
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aims include economic expansion, rising
standards oP living, financial stability, and
expanded trade Por member nations of the
Organization and the world as a whole.
Youth Employment Opportunities Act:
Authorizes 8241 million over 3 years to
provide useful employment opportunitii?s to
young people (18-21) through a Youth Con-
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Medical school construction: Authorizes
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Federal matching grants for construction
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loan program for medical students (stuck
in Rules Committee).
Higher education: Grants oP $180 million
annually for 5 years, and loans of $120 million
annually for 5 years for construction of higher
education academic Facilities, (Conferees
deadlocked.) Senate bill contains .provision
for 212,600 4-year scholarships.
Accelerated Public Works: Authorizing
President to allocate 8900 million for job
creating public -works projects in areas with
heavy unemployment. In conference with
Sena a bill authorizing $760 million to be
immediately committed and 8760 million in
standby program.
Trade bill: President given unprecedented
tariff-cutting authority-general authority
to reduce tariffs by 60 percent, special au-
thority to reduce .tariffs by as much as 100
percent on goods on which United Staten
and European Common Market together ac-
counted-for 80 percent oP free world trade,
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modities and on goods on which existing
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cedures Por raising tariffs on goods where
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dustry; also authorized alternative oP Gov-
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U.N. bond issue: As reported Prom House
Committee-authorizes President to lend the
United Nations up to 8100 million on s
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nations to assist the UN in a financial crisis
brought about. by its special peacekeeping
operations in the Congo and the Middle
East. (Passed Senate, awaiting House ac-
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Drug controls: Tighten controls over the
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Mass transportation: Authorizes Federal
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Elderly housing: Raised to 8225 million
the revolving loan Funds 'Por construction oP
rental housing Por the elderly in urban areas,
and established new housing aide far the
elderly in rural areas. (Passed House, awaits
Senate action.)
1962 tax' revision: An important step in
overhauling our Federal tax structure, pro-
viding investment credit up to 7 percent oP
price of newly purchased business equip-
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penses as well as tax treatment of earnings
oP oversea personal income and foreign
corporation earnixigs, among many needed
reforms.
Pqual pay for women: Provides that in
certain industries ecRial pay must be given
for equal work, without regard to the work-
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BUREAUCRACY IN ROME
Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent to have printed
fn the RECORD an article entitled "Bu-
reaucracy-Hating `Phantom' Strikes
Third Time at Rome."
Perhaps the article may give some con-
solation to those who are conc0rned
about the extension of bureaucracy. I
hope that many bureaucrats may read
the article, since what happened in Rome
could happen here.
There being no abjection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as fallaws:
BUREAUCRACY-HATING "PHANTOM" STRIKEa
THIRD TIME AT ROME
ROME, April 13.-Rome's phantom "enemy
of bureaucracy," struck again last night.
He struck first a month ago in .the night-
darkened offices of Rome's city registry.-. Ile
stole nothing and broke nothing, but ho
pulled thousands of vital statistics records
from out oP the files and strewed them
through the building. Clerks still are trying
to get them back in order.
Three weeks ago he made a similar raid
at the offices of the Rome Automobile Club.
After he scattered the records there he tele-
phoned police and told them about it.
"I just don't like bureaucracy," he said.
Last night he hit a municipal branch office
in the Garbatella section of the city. This
time he worked with patient care.
Varied-colored paper files were laid out
on the floors in geometric and abstract de-
signs. Some documents were folded into
paper airplanes and sailed into inaccessible
nooks. Other records lwere strewn through
the halls.
He took a bundle of papers with him and
laid a trail d wn the ~treet to show police
the wayghe h~d .gone. ;Then tl;e trail faded
IS C~STR,O AN O~ SESSION WIT
Mr. HUMPHREY. Mr President, I
-wish to call attention to a perceptive ar-
ticle by my good friend, the distin-
guished junior Senator from South Da-
kota CMr. McGovElirrl, which was pub-
lished in yesterday's New York Sunday
Times-magazine. In an article entitled
"Is Castro an Obsession With Us," Sen-
ator McGovERx has poined out that
while the problem of Castro's tyranny in
Cuba continues to be an important and
urgent one, it should not prevent us from
recognizing that there are other major
world problems which also require our
urgent attention-in Latin America, in
Berlin, in India, to mention but a-few.
Because the problem of Cuba has
plagued two administrations, it remains
a subject inviting partisan controversy.
This controversy has often led to a dis-
torted view in the American mind about
the importance o1 the Cuban problem,
iriagnifying it all out of proportion.
Our colleague has demonstrated with
admirable clarity that the need for fun-
damental reforms required for the suc-
cess of the .Alliance for Progress existed
long before Castro came to power and
will remain as a challenge to the United
States long after Castro has left -the
scene. In the long rein, the success or
failure of the Alliance for Progress in
such "a vast, wealthy country as Brazil
will be far more important in shaping
the course of events in the Western
Hemisphere than the current actions of
a Fidel Castro in Cuba. Our determina-
tion to restore freedom in Cuba should
riot deflect us from the equally urgent
>task of pressing. ahead with the political,
economic, aizd social reforms required
far th.e success of the Alliance for Prog-
ress in all of Latin America.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent to have the article printed at this
point In the RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
IS l/ASTRO AN OBSESSION WTTH USP -
(By George S. McGovern)
Writing to his friend Henry White on
September 13, 19D8, President Theodore
Roosevelt confided: "Just at the moment,
I am so angry with that infernal little
'Cuban Republic that I would like to wipe
its people oS the teas of the earth. All
that we wanted from them-was that they
would behave themselves and be proaper-
~ous and happy so that we would not have
to interfere. And now, to and behold,
'they have started an utterly unjustifiable
and pointless revolution and may get things
into such a snarl that we have no alterna-.
tive save to intervene-which will at once
convince the suspicious idiots in South
America that we do wish to interfere after
all: '
The stormy hero of San Juan Hill may
?have expressed his Irritation over Cuba
more forcefully than other. White House
occupants, but he was not the first, or the
last, to become preoccupied with "that in-
Pernal little Cuban Republic."
Thomas JeSerson and John Quincy Adams
were among those convinced that Cuba was
sp essential to the security of the United
States that we would someday annex it.
When, in 1823, President Monroe warned
the European powers that "we should con-
sider any attempt on .their part to extend
their system to any portion oP this hemi-
sphere as dangerous to our peace and
safety," he was spelling out U.S. determina-
tion that. Cuba should never be .acquired
by a major foreign power.
President Kennedy thus was drawing on
an accepted principle of American diplomacy
during the Cuban missile crisis of last Octo-
ber when he said that the "build-up of Com-
munist missiles in an area well known to
have a special and historical relationship to
the United States * * +' is a deliberately
provocative -and unjustified change in the
status quo which cannot be accepted by this
country." Yet, historical precedents not-
withstanding, one wonders iP historians of
the fui;ure. will not be amazed at the ap-
parent obsession of-the United States in the
1980's with Fidel Castro- and his Cuban
regime.
Few Americans now question President
Kennedy's decisive action in forcing Mr.
Khrushchev to withdraw hfa missiles from
Cuba. But how can one account for the fact
that, bong before tha installation oP offensive
missiles and-long after their removal, Castro
has appeared to be at the center of American
political and diplomatic efforts2 Ho not only
occupies the time and energy of many of our
top State Department, White House, and the
CIA officials, but absorbs the attention of
Congress and threatens to be a central issue
in the 1984 presidential election. Those of
us who were congressional candidates last
tall can testily to the explosive nature of the
Castro issue in that campaign. One need
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only leaf through the flies of the CaNCass-
sxaxver, Rsooaa or any American newspaper or
any Congressman`s mail to realize that II6
other issue in recent years has provoked such.
an immense outcry.
This animated national debate, conslder-
ing the comparative weakness of Cuba,
scarcely daea }uatice to the dignity of the
United States a,s a great world pcarer
charged with global leadership. It was one
thing for a struggling infant republic In the
daps of John Quincy Adams to assert boldly
s central lntetest !n Cuba. It is gulfs an-
other thing for the mightiest nation of the
20th century to permit an tnilsrrxmatory
Cuban revolutionist to dominate Its politics
and heavily influence tta posture in the La-
ternetionai community. One wondexB it w8
have forgotten the Biblical warning agafast
straining at a gnat sad awallowtrxg a camel.
Cuba-an !eland of natural beauty, fertile
valleys, mountainous ridges, snd sandy
beaches--has a population about the size of
New Jersey and an area equal to Ohio. The
economy has been 'based on the growing and
processing of sugar. Bq so slaetcb of the
Imagination can Cuba be considered a atg-
niflcant world power. It has barely enough
food, even with its Imports, to keep its tiag
population sieve. It has neither the natural
resources nor the organization to msintein a
strong industrial or agricultural economy.
AB for the contention that Cuba to s special
danger because it Le only 90 miles aft our
shore, one wonders whether people serioueIp
expect a Cuban Invasion of Florida. Ira mllt-
tary force, even with the help of 17.000 Rus-
sian soldiers, cannot be considered & serious
threat. Indeed, soma observers believe that
the presence of seasoned Russian officers and
technlclans map serve as a reatrslning influ-
ence on the more emotional Cuban revolu-
tionieta. Tt Castro should completely lose
his mind, however, sad launch an attack
against Miami, the United States has enough
$repower floating off Cuba to pulverize the
island in minvtea.
It remains true, a1 course, that while
Castro may not be s direct military threat
to the United States, he is a subversive dan-
ger to the hemisphere and to the Alliance
for Progress. His agents sad propagandists
era spreading communism and opposing
democratic reform !n other Latin-American
countries.
Even so, while the ezlstence of the Castro
regime 1n Cuba clearly reinforces the efforts
of the Communist apparatus, it fa obvious
that the Communists vtpuld ht iasnfng the
flames of revolution to Latin America with
or without Dr. Castro. Does anyone seri-
ously believe that Castro introduced commu-
nism to the hemisphere or that it would die
out ii he were to disappear? There have
been revoluttans and Marxists in Latin Amer-
ica for generations, and neither Moscow nor
Peking depends upaa Castro to supple the
revolutionary forces which serve their pur-
poses to the south of us.
Why, then, our obsession with Castro?
One reason is that we are an impatient pea-
pie who react strongly to anyone who defies
us. It is especially galling to be revited and
Insulted by an impetuous nulsanc8 from a
little island we could destroy any time we
wanted to flex the muscle of our Strategic
Air Command. We are made the more resent-
ful when we remember that Castro has shown
no gratitude for ouz ending military old tcx
Batista in 1958, for our prompt recognition
of his government in 195 and for his gen-
erally friendly reception in the United States.
The American grass once treated. Castro as
a conquering hero, and hla triumph over
Batista was widely acclaimed. Not until July
6, 1980, after repeated conflacationa of Ameri-
can property, alter bitter propaganda attacks
against Castro-a sharp reduction In the Bu't regardless of its origins, does the
sugar quota. Castro obsession serve our Interests, ar does
Ona can only apecuiate as tv the motive- it better serve the interests of Mr. Khrush-
tione of Americas mesa psychology in a situ- chev?
anon like this. Why hsa the importance of I have often wondered why the wily Soviet
Castro-asd I do not aiPan to deny that he Premier has invested so heavily in the kind
sari his Moscow-dominated regime do have of risky- enterprise which Fidel Castro is
some Importance-been blown up so unwar- irantlcaily trying to establish. If his pur-
ranted1y? Perhaps, ono might suggest, he !a pose was to enhance the influence of Castro-
a sort of substitute target for our national ism to the hemisphere, he must be bitterly
lrustratlon and annoyance with Moscow and disappointed with the results, for the Costro-
the whole Communist consgiraey. ghruahchev embrace has had the opposite
Castro is close to home. He la visible. He effect. Bp tying his revolution to Moscow,
has taunted ue and our moat fundamental Castro has eacriflced much of his appeal to
beliefs with his drumhead trials, his srro- other nattoaalisttc Latin-American states.
gent seizures of private property, hie double- No thoughtful o'baerver of Latin-American
cross in opeaty espousing Marxism after re- affairs has failed to note the decline of the
cetving American support and. enthusiastic Cuban dictator's influence since his marriage
approval at the beginning of hla democratic ~ the gremlin.
revolution. But it Mr. Khruahchev's purpose was to
The American reaction, It seems to me, is create in Castro a gadfly designed to divert
something like the reflex reaction of respect- the attention of the United States from the
able citizens to the neighborhood bully. He real dangers and challenges of Latin Amer-
map be a areak person, striking out at others ice-to say nothing of Asia, Africa, or the
from !xis own sense of frustration and rose- Middle East-then he moat, Indeed, feel that
curity, but it to lnsttnctive to want to get hyy investment has paid off handaameIy.
back at him. But isn't a bully better handled. gor while we are gripped by the Castro
by isolation thaa by reacting vtoientlp2 fixation, the basic daagera to security in the
This la Basler said than done, however. hemisphere-the economic, political and
First, there to the American habit of seeing social ills of Latin America-continue to
issues In black and -white farms, to be fester,
handled by alt-or-nothing methods. But, We have s smoldering blockbuster in our
as any poittieian knows, this is often the backyard which dwarfs Castro. I refer to
worst way to win an objective. And see- the 200 million people of Latin America who
oadly, there Se the clear fact that the whole occupy a vast land that is potentially rich
Castro problem has become a domestic po- and fruitful but actually beset by misery,
Ictical tsauo-ot the kind wlxers it is easier sickness, injustice, illlteracp, malnutrition
Co release emotions than propose solutions. and misrule. Theao millions Itve under a
Just as the gorean conflict was exploited social system that tends to concentrate
for political purposes in the early nineteen- enormous wealth in the hands of. the few
fifties, ao has Cuba been s tempting issue and to consign the many to lives of desperate
In the nineteen-sixties, The presence in poverty. Make no mistake about lt-power-
Miami of thausanda of Cuban refugees and ful social forces are stirring to the south.
the sizable number of Americans across the Latin America is, as one observer put it,
country 'with relstlves to Cuba !e sn added "dynami'te on our doorstep:'
emotional dfineasioa. Neither Fidel Castro nor Nikita ghru-
. Although the gennedy adminlatration ehchev nor international communism is at
has been on the receiving end of most of the base of this explosive actuation, They are
the political charges, it 'has .not itself bcon the would-be beneficiaries of the tensions
guiltless of "politicking," and illness which threaten the security of
As a presldentfai candidate, Mr. gennedp the hemisphere, but they are not the fund~-
injected the Issue into the campaign to mental factors. They ass effects rather than
such s manner as to draw the most indignant eausE's.
rebukes from candidate Nixon. "Mr. Nizan Castro climbed to mower over the carcass
hasn't mentioned Cuba very prominentip of a decadent political and social system
to this campaign," sold 113r. gennedy on Octo- which he shrewdly exploited, but which he
her t5, 1980. "Ho talks about ? ' ? stand- did not create. IIniortunately, the IInited
ing ug to ghrushchev, but he never mention- Btatea image in Cuba prior to Castro rested
ed standing tlrm in Cuba-and tf you can't on the American-financed night clubs,
stand up to Castro, how Can you be ez- gambling casinos, racketeering and prostitu-
pected to stand up to Rhrusfichev4 While ilia ai Havana, combined with the lnvest-
we cannot violate taternatioaal law, we meats of our o11 and sugar corporations.
must recognize that these exiles and rebels IIntil 3968, American arms and money bo1-
represent the real voice o[ Cuba and should. etered the Batista regime. Castroism else-
not be constantly handicapped by our Im- where now feeds on the same kind of cor-
mlgratioa and Juatlce Department ruptlon and social injustice that made the
authoalties." revolt against Batista inevitable.
As if to make good on the implications The real bombshells of Latin Axxxerica are
of his campaign utterances, the President, fused from the tolloaring conditions:
early [n his Administration, gave his sane- 1. Two percent oT the people of the con-
tfon to rho unfortunate Bay of Pige lineal own more than half its wealth and
invasion. Thla clumsy failure, the em- land, while most of the rest live 1n hopeless
barrssament, the humiliation, the sense of poverty.
guilt-elf these combined W produce a 2. Eighty percent of the people dwell in
traumatic national ezpertence for the miserable shacks or huts.
United States. Sumo were ashamed that 3. Illiteracy grips well over half the popu-
wc should have part[cipated in such ahigh- lotion.
ly questionable piece of international 1s- 4. More than. 60 percent of the people
trlgue and violence. Others burned with suffer from hunger and disease, and most of
rage that we had. permitted stag-tag Cuban them -will never- fn their lifetimes see a
militia kA thwart the United 8tatea. doctor, nurse, dentist, or pharmacist.
This le the source of much of the political 6. Most of the peasants Iive under prlmi-
flre Feveled at our subsequent Cuba policy. rive feudal condltlona with no hope for land-
At a time when the administration urges ownership, reasonable credit or escape to a
caution and restraint, tt is perhaps not sur- better Iife.
prising that political opponents equate such 8. Several key countries depend on one-
s policy with weakness, timidity, coarardice crop economies afRlcted by depressed com-
or appeasement. While such vocal innuen- m~tY Prices.
nizatton of Cuban politics and labor did olxr dos oiler no plan for removing Gastra, they 7. Moat governments are weakened by un-
Government take its first punitive action fled our obsession with him. }ust tae etsucturea, exeesaive military ex-
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penditure, designed to keep the people under
control, bad landownership and utilization,
and indifference to social injustice.
8. A population growth rate several times
higher than the production rate of goods
and. services exists in several Latin American
countries.
in the long view of history, it may very
well be that .Castro, for all his mischief and
violence, will have indirectly performed
same service in prompting us to give closer
attention to our neighbors to the -south. In
the same way, he has confronted the ruling
classes of Latin. America with a stern choice
between .accepting long overdue reforms or
seeing themselves swept aside in a series of
violent Castro-type revolutions. Sometimes
the. hand of providence moves in strange
ways. There 'can be no mistaking the fact
that much of Castro's appeal to the oppressed
rests on the knowledge .that his presence
has forced every government in: the- hemis-
phere to take a new and more searching look
at crying human needs:
The real issue turns on whether the people
can reconstruct an unjust social .order
through peaceful democratic revolution or
whether they will do it by a violent Commu-
nist upheaval, How, then, can we encourage
the. proper response?
We can first of all break loose from our
fixation on Castro and assign him the lower
priority of attention he merits. Khruahchev
has deflated Castro by revealing 'him as a
puppet not even worthy of consultation dur-
ing the missile withdrawal last October.
Moscow's recent splashy reception of the
~ Cuban leader was a thinly disguised Soviet
recognition of its need to bolster the fading
Castro image. We can best diminish Cas-
tro's prestige, therefore, li we will cease
acting as though he were the chief object
of our concern and the major source of
our fear. Quiet economic and diplomatic
pressures have already substantially isolated
Cuba in the hemisphere and weakened Cae-
tra's hold on his people.
At the same time, we must help ffil up the
swamplands in which Castroism breeds.
This is the hope of the Alliance for Prog-
living through the painstaking, often irua-
trating method of self-help, democratic re-
form and -economic development.
single misteP might have led to disaster.
By proflucing positive proof of the Soviet-
Cuban offensive missile threat before invok-
` ing a easefully limited naval sanction, the
President won unanimous support for his
action from our Western Allies and. the
countries of Latin America. He forced
Khrushchev to back down, and he did so
without war. He has since resisted those
who have shouted for the kind of .action
that could lead to world war III.
As the President said recently: "I think
the big dangers to Latin America * * * are
the very,difilcult, and in some cases, desper-
ate conditions in the countries themselves-
unrelated to Cuba :' These are problems
which must be faced and solved in the main
by the people of Latin America; but we have
proclaimed our willingness to help.
Hence, the hopeful and inspiring promise
of the Alliance far Progress.
Hence, the Peace Corps units which,
through the dedication and idealism of
American youth, are bringing new hope and
pride to the villages of Latin America.
Hence, an expanded Pood-for-peace pro-
gram which, among other accomplishments,
is noW providing a nutritious meal daily to
8,500,000 Latin-American schoolchildren and
to 6,b00,000 babies and gregnant mothers.
Hence, the U.S. medical teams that are
combating disease in Central America.
Hence, the growing exchange of students
and teachers between the universities of
North and South America.
These are the tools of hope and life and
strength with which America is fighting the
truly significant battles oY the hemisphere.
This is our best longrun answer to Castro.
it is not yet clear that the ruling groups
of Latin America are aroused suiiiciently to
their .responsibilities to make- the Alliance
succeed on abroad scale. Nor is it clear
that we have grasped sully the nature and
scope of the leadership demands that are
upon us as a great and powerful nation.
I earnestly hope that we will not dissipate
our energies in a senseless obsession with
Castro. Our mission is to point the way to
} a better life for the hemisphere, and indeed
for all mankind. r^,
Emphasis on financial help for Negro
students, for seminars on international
affairs, peaceful uses of nuclear energy,
conferences on world peace, internation-
al student exchange, and other programs
deserve special commendation and are
a testimony to the altruism of the
foundation. The voluntary acceptance
by the United States Steel Foundation
of responsibility for helping with the
major financial problems of .education
is most deserving of our thanks and our
recognition.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent that an ailnatzncement of this pro-
gram be printed at this point in the .
RECOSD.
There being no objection, the an-
noucement was ordered to be printed in
the RECORD, as follows:
A $2,480,000 program of aid to education,
with grants to 768 liberal arts?colleges, uni-
wersitiea, and Snstitutea; and to 26 organiza-
tions dedicated to raising the quality of
teaching and learning in America, was an-
nounced today by Roger M. Slough, Chair-
man of the Board of Trustees of United
States Steel Foundation, Inc.
"The Foundation's 10th anniversary pro-
gram of aid to education," said Mr. Blough,
"marks a decade of effort by the trustees to
enhance the quality and service potential
of . a broad segment of educational institu-
tions, organizations, and special programs
and projects:'
The Foundation's grants fall into four
major categories: (1) about 33 percent of
the total, $620,000, la for unrestricted oper-
ating grants to colleges, universities and
institutes; (2) about 48 percent, $1,160,000,
1a far major-purpose or capital grants; (3)
-about 9 percent, $24b,000, is for aid to organi-
zationa and projects for improvement of edu-
cational methods and administration; and
(4) the balance of about 10 percent, $2bb,000,
is for graduate-study fellowship grants for
university-chosen doctoral candidates.
Operating grants-$820,000: Operating aid
in the amount' of $488,000 is afforded to all
46$ accredited 4-year institutional members.
of all the 41 State and regional liberal arts
college .associations, which -have benefited
since 1954 to the extent of about .83.4 mil-
lion. Additionally, 841,000 of operating aid
goes to predominantly Negro colleges, in-
eluding all members of the United Negro
College Fund, bringing support to such insti-
tutfona since 19b4. to almost $490,000. Aid
channeled through the National Fund for
Medical Education for the general operating
needs of all 86 member institutions is at the
level of X86,000 for the year, and Foundation
grants to .the Fund have .totaled s~720,000
since 1954.
In addition to support of group-affiliated
Snstltutions, the 1963 program provides
f~112,000 of operating assistance to nongroup
institutions, as well as $88,000 for the cur-
rent operating needs of selected universities,
science and engineering institutes not other-
wise assisted.
The trustees anticipate that the recipient
institutions will apply mast ai the unre-
stricted operating funds to faculty and staff
salary needs and to improved educational
offerings.
' During the 10-year period paralleling the
existence. of the United States Steel Founda-
tion;' commented Mr. Blough, "more than
$70 million have been obtained through the
State and regional fundraising movement
Prom about 12,000 corporate and foundation
donors directly. It is estimated that these
efforts have generated an even larger sum in-
directly far these valued institutions. All
such sums provide for significant advance-
ment of their separate efforts and demon-
The Alliance will test the patience and
toughness of all who believe in its prom-
lae. It envisions nothing less than a con-
tinent-wide social revolution, including land
and tax reform, .improved agriculture, and
better housing, health and education: These
are lofty goals, enormously difficult of at-
tainment, that will take a generation to
achieve at best. They do not appeal, there-
fore, to those who want a quick headline
and a Past answer. It is far easier to make
loud speeches against, an irritable, bearded
dictator than to face the tough task of frisk-
- ing the Alliance for Progress work.
We have too many who call for decisive
but unjustified measures to overthrow
Castro, and not enough who give attention
to the .real prablema confronting the Al-
liance. We have 'too many self-appointed
experts telling the President the inside dope
from their private intelligence sources, and
not enough expert analysis of depressed com-
modity prices, rural" credit problems, land
reform, and population pressures.
We have had too many postmortems over
the ill-fated Bap of Pigs. invasion.. Originally
conceived in the previous administration, it
ivas a tragic mistake both in conception and
execution Par which President Kennedg
bravely took the blame. why now compound
the error by probing the ruins and calling
for a repeat performance?
President Kennedy's policy since the Bap
of Pigs fiasco has been steady and sound,
both morally and politically. In the October
crisis, he measured his actions with precision
to meet the needs of a situation where a
.COMMENDATION OF UNITED
STATES STEEL FOUNDATION'S
PROGRAM FOR AID TO EDU-
CATION
Mr. HUMPHREY. Mr. President, I
wish to commend the United States Steel
Foundation for its continued support of
higher education. Mr. Roger Blough,
chairman of the board, recently an-
nounced grants to 788 institutions of
higher education and 26 organizations
totaling $2,480,000, to mark the 10th an-
niversary of the foundation's program of
aid to education.
Approximately one-third of this
amount is for unrestricted operating
grants; nearly half is for major-purpose
capital grants; with the remainder for
graduate study fellowships .and aid to
organizations and projects for the im-
provement of educational methods and
administration. Particularly noteworthy
is the freedom of -the institutions to
exercise freedom of choice' and control
over particular recipients and specifics
within the broad categories provided for
by this program. It is easy for large
contributors to inhibit the freedom of
educational institutions which are the
recipients of such aid and the founda-
tion is to be particularly commended for
avoiding this.
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strata the validity of their unifying move-
ment for sell-help and academic growth."
Major-purpose or capital grants--lI,180:
000: After designating $430,000 of the esstat-
ance program for installments on prior com-
mitments, the foundation is mak[ng new
major-purpose or capital grants amounting
to $730,000. Of this total, the sum of $446:
000 far 28 one-time grants-ranging tram
$5,000 to $40,000-goes to the tollowtng
liberal arts and science colleges, women's
colleges, regional colleges, and univer~i-
ties; Aurora College, IIltaois; Austin
College, Texas; Boston College, Massachu-
setts; Boston IIniveraltp, Maaeachusetts;
Brandeis University, Massachusetts; Cazie-
ton College, Minnesota; Converse Col-
lege, South Carolina; Formes University,
South Carolina; Haveriord Coitege, Pennsyt-
vania; Hiram College, Ohio; Hofstra Gbilege,
New York; Hope College, Michigan; Indiana
Central University, Indiana; Johnstown Coi-
legs, Pennsylvania; Mary Baldwin College,
Virginia; Mlllsaps College, Misslsslppi; St.
John's College, Maryland; College of St.
Thomas, Minnesota; St. Xavier College, Illi-
nois; Slous Falls College, South Dakota;
Stetson University, Florida; Susquehanna
University of Pennespivanta; Texas Christian
University, Texas; Union College, Sentucky;
Uniontown Campus of Waynesburg College,
Pennsylvania; Wells College, New York.
With the inctuaion of these greats, 211
liberal arts and acleace institutions have
been aided since 1954 for a total of $4.8 mil-
lion. Included in this total are 28 women`s
colleges, which have received an aggregate of
$800,000 in capital grants.
Of the $285,000 balance, +{.100,000 covers
grants of $20,000 each to flue private institu-
tions-Caltech, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hop-
kins, and MIT-as continued participants
under rho leadership institution aid plan,
although no poet-1883 commitments are
made to them as to support In later pears..
Heretofore the plan has provided fora 5-pear
forward commitment, payable La equal an-
nual installments, subject to periodic review
by the trustees. The other current univer-
sity garttcipanta in the plan, to whom typical
commitments were earlier made, will. receive
payments of $20,000 in 1983. These univer-
sities are Brawn, Cathalte, Chicago, Colum-
bia, Duke, New York, Northwestern, Pennayi-
vania, Princeton, Rachestsr, 6tanford, Tu-
lare, Vanderbllt, Washington (Mo.), and
Yale. The leadersh[p institution. aid glsrt re-
places, with respect to-tha parttcipating In-
stitutions, consideration of rho separate re-
quirements of school, department, division,
and institute needs far particular capital or
other major-purpose outlays, by providing,
Sn lieu thereof, unrestricted sums for recip-
ient use determination and hest allocation..
Such s plan of assistance is consonant with
the approach urged by the national Commit-
tee for Corporate Support of American
Univeralties.
The remaining b186,00D relates to major
institutional development grants. They
include initial installments far rem com-
mitments aggregating $750,000, payable aver
a 2- to 6-year period to selected univerelttee
inciuding Denver, Duquesne, Southern Cali-
iornis, sad Stanlord. Such. major one-time
grants, ss with earlier commitments in prior
years to Lehigh, MIT, Notre Dame, PrineeWn,
and Yale, s.(ford special help to once-la-a-
generation development programs of selected
institutions,
In commenting on alI the foundation's
major-purpose or capital grants, Mr. Biaugh
said, "Our times require that many donors
come forward with reasonably sustained ua-
restricted aid fa dollar volume sufficient to
insure that ever higher standards of eacel-
lence may be pursued, that creativity be
encouraged, and that academic freedom bs
strengthened."
Organization support and educational re-
search-$123,000. Recognizing the mount-
ing need to broaden further Use base of
educational finance, grants era made to
selected educational. associations importantly
concerned with extend[ng acceptance of the
financing responsibility. Based upon the
useful utllizatlan of prior grants, renewed
support is given to the American. t,lumn[
Council for !ts general program and the
foundat[on-ialtlated alumni gluing incen-
tive award plan. This plan le open to par-
ticlpatloa by hundreds of privets and public
educational 1natltuUona and recognizes euc-
cesstul operation of alumni supported pro-
grams. Thus far neariq $270,000 hsa been
made available for such sttmulatian of
alumni giving, chiefly through awards to
about 160 lnstttutianal winners. The In-
dependent College Fund of America-the na-
ttoaal body for the itberad arts soilage State
associations-ie seats aided, ae is the Council
for Fiaenciai Aid to Education. Bayport la
also provided to the American College PubHo
Reiatians Assoclatlan for its development
work in hehalf of all the Nation's eollegea.
Ciranta also are continued to the Asao-
ciation of American. Colleges, the American
Council. on Education, the Asaocistlaa of
Btato Untveraities snd. Iaad-t3rant Colleges,
the American Association of Junior Colleges,
the American Association of University
Women, the Board for Fundamental Eciuca-
tfan, and the Council. for independent
School Aid-such grants In support of their
national educetlonai research or general pro-
grams. A grant to the American Fersonnel
and Guidance Association recognizes the lm-
portance of student guidance development,
snd old to the National Science Teachers
Association of the National Education Asao-
eiatlan asslet8 that organization's work of
encouraging youth to pursue sejentltic
careers. Asalstance 1e elan provided for the
current program.. of the National Home Study
Counc/l snd to the Amocisted Colleges of
IIlino-e for its Con3erv plan.
Academic snd educational quality ald-
$i24,000: Support is seals provided toward
impraced library service and bettered facii9-
ties through. a further grant to the Associa.
Uoa of College and Research Libiari?s fa
sestet many collego libraries.. Since the start
of the foundation's program, about $298,OOD
has been provided for such needs. Support
la renewed to the Cvuncit for the Advance-
ment of Small Colleges--a astlonwtde group
oY several score tnetitutloas seeking to im-
prove their community services. The Na-
tional Cammisalan on Accrediting receives a
grant to forward its acttvitiea In support of
academia standards.
Grants also arc made 'to the American
Couaclt of Learned 8ociettea toward the cast
of publishing schotariy works. Special proj-
eet aid to the Commieaioa an Faculty and
Stag Benefits of the Association of American
Colleges toward a toil-scale study of the
utility of scores of diverse types of special
financial and nonflnanclal beneflte to collego
and university faculties, other than salaries
and pensions, la completed with s current
grant. Grants also are mad to the Ameri-
esn Council of EmigrSs in ~e Prafeasloas,
Eisenhower Exchangs Fellowships, Foreign
Poticp Research Institute at the University
ai Pennsylvania, sad International Associa-
tion of Economies and Business Students.
Additional grants go toward estabtisiuneat
of the new (Sen. Douglas MacArthur chair
in American history at Columbia IInlveraity
snd to support of the IInited States Churchill
Foundation.
Fellawshlpa-$265,000: The foundation's
doctoral-level graduate-study fetlowshlp plan
ie maintained. st the established level of 80,
with the currant renewal of 36 each fellow-
ships. Dispersed among 37 States, the fel-
iowahiga ors about evenly divided between
.private and public lnatituUona. Each csr-
rtes 8 maximum benefit of $7,200, inclusive
of marital supplemental allotment and in-
stltutionai cost-gap grant, over the 2-year
etude period. The fellowships are admin-
istered snd awarded. by the respective in-
atltutions with 42 percent placed in the
physical and-natural sciences and englneer-
[ng, 42 percent in the social sciences, and
18 percent irx the humanities. Thus far, the
foundation has provided about $1.7 million
for graduate-study fellowships, aiding over
250 gifted persona.
Other educational grants: Beyond, the
foregoing program, the inundation annuailp
assists education directly and indirectly
through grants in its other programs. For
example, lands are provided for oceano-
graphic, polar, and other resource investiga-
tions, irontler work in varied dlaciplines
comprehending mathematics, biology, psy-
chology, and. other natural, phyaioal, and
social sciences. Research scholars, com-
monly identlfled with unlveraities, benefit 1n
other foundation programs through such
grants as those made to the New England
Institute for Medical Research, the Institute
for Med[cal Communication, the Sloan-
gettering Institute, the Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Foun-
dation for Research on Human Behavior, the
History of Science Society, and the American
Geographical Societe.
Academ[c centers also benefit from foun-
datlon grants for seminars oa International
aIIairs, peaceful uses of nuclear energy, con-
fercncea on world peace and diplomacy, in-
ternational student exchange and similar
undertakinga~ Channeled through a selected
organization, a special grant has been di-
rected toward helping Negro students of un-
usually high intellectual promise to reach
advanced graduate training through an ex-
perimental program of interim supplemental
education. Other examples of aid have been
assistance for development of teaching ma-
terisls, including the applleation of television
to education, the training of social welfare
career personnel, and national and inter-
national conferences on social work eddca-
tian and health education. Substantial one-
time aid also has been provided from time
to time for university-related hospitals for
medical teaching, training, and research.
No additional 1983 grants by the founda-
tion in the field of institutional aid to edu-
cation ate contemplated, and formal natiflca-
tion will. be given shortly to all participants.
MINNEAPOLIS BEYOND BROADWAY
Mr, JA'-JTTS. Mr. President, the open-
ing of a new modern theater for the
legitimate drama more than a thousand
tulles west of Broadway marks an im-
portant pioneering effort in the cultural
history of the United States. Especially
where it is hailed as such first rate
theater "as that of Minneapolis. The $2
million theater which Miilneapalis has
built tinder the creative inspiration of
producer "Drone Guthrie offers a guide
and a pattern. which I hope will be emu-
lated in cities throughout the country.
Much oP the problem of cultural develop-
ment which the Nation faces exists in
the feet that only a relatively small per-
centage of the rich cultural activity cen-
tered Ili New Yark and other big cities
manages to get out into the other areas
of the country. 'Thee United States Arts
Foundat[on which I haveproposed would
make it possible for the vLsual and per-
forming arts to make their impact on
the rest of the country. Tyrone Guth-
rte's new Minneapolis theater is a first
stew in the direction of providing first-
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writers no doubt are honest, hard-work-
fng Americans who have Been obviously
misled and are sincere ifi their protesta-
tions and who Have been literally scared
out of their wits by such allegations as
that the United States is bankrupt; that
the President and -the Department of
State are planning to turn the country
over to the Communists; or that the
Communists have a target date only a
few years away for a complete takeover
of the United States, toward which they
are making steady progress.
The names of citizens who should know
better frequently appear in these baseless
attacks on everything from the United
Nations to the Department of Agricul-
ture. Our retired military personnel and
other prominent citizens should step
back and take a second look to See the
kind of scurrilous literature to which
they have lent their honored names.
Mr. Speaker, there appears to be a
need for a concerted educational effort
on our part to straighten out some of our
citizens who believe the sort of propa-
ganda we have been receiving by mail,
ridiculous as it is: We ought to call upon
our enlightened citizens to become as
militant as these extremists and obtain
the assistance of the presently misused
millionaires and other wealthy citizens
to spend their money in more useful
ways. We should help our people- to
recognize the false fearmonger, for these
activities of the rightwing extremists
are a waste of money and human effort.
[Mr. VAN DEERLIN, addressed the
House. His remarks will appear here-
after in the Appendix.]
Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, we
should all be extremely grateful to the
gentleman from California [Mr. Cn1vc-
ExoN] for his courageous speech entitled
"Who's Doing the Devil's Work," which
furnishes us with such carefully docu-
mented information regarding the roots
of the organization which cans itself
Americans for Constitutional Action.
I would like to point out at this time
that another tie between Americans Por
Constitutional Action and the John Birch
Society is through Reed Benson, who re-
cently went to work for the John Birch
Society as its coordinator in several
Mountain States.- As some of you know,
Reed Benson ran for Congress from the .
Salt Lake City district in the 1962 Re-
publican primary and was defeated, but
I doubt that many knew that his cam-
paign literature boasted that he had been
a researcher for the Americans for Con-
stitutional Action. ?
The Washington Post, May 2Q, 1963,
contains an article describing the cur-
rent activities of Reed Benson, which
(allows
BENSON'S SON CLAIMS HE HA9 TRIPLED UTAH-
- BIRCH MEMBERSHIP
(By Julius Duscha) ,
SALT LAxE CITY.-Reed Benson had an au-
tomatic smile _and a quick handshake for
each of the well-dressed men and women as
they arrived at the Sohn Birch Society
meeting.
Young and old, middle-aged couples and
college students filed pant tables covered
with copies of the blue book, the politician,
and other. Birch Society literature for sale
at reasonable prices.
The literature was lust inside the door bo
the ornate mahogany and gold Empire Room
in the Hotel Utah, where Slobodan M. Dras-
kovich, billed as ''one of the wtirld's greatest
authorities on communism" and a member
of the Bireh Society council, was to speak.
Among the late arrivals was Reed's father,
former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft
Benson, who has called the Sirch Society the
most effective nonchurch organization in
our fight against c1'eeping socialism and god-
less communism.
ACTIVITIES CRITICIZED
Young Benson's appointment last October
as Utah coordinator far the Birch Society
and his activities since then have been wide-
. ly criticized in Utah, where right-wing radi-
cals are extremely active.
The elder Benson is an apostle and a mem-
ber of the ruling council of 12 of the Marmon
'Church. When young Reed ran unsuccess-
fully last year far the Ropublican congres-
sional nomination in Salt Lake, he spoke in
many Mormon churches.
Reed Benson's efforts to place around his
activities the aura of the powerful Mormon
Church, to which 70 percent of the people of
Utah belong, caused the principal church
ofHcera to issue a statement last January
saying:
"We deplore the presumption of some poli-
ticians, especially officers, coordinators, and
members of the Jahn Birch Society, who un-
dertake to aline the church or its leader-
ship with their partisan views."
POLITICAL PIILPPSS ENDED
But the church's statement, which was
plainly aimed at Reed Benson's activities,
has not resulted in any relaxation in his ei-
farta to recruit Birch Society members. He
does, however, no longer use Mormon
churches as a political pulpit.
Young Benson claims that John Birch So-
ciety membership in Utah ha$ tripled since
he became State coordinator, but the figures
are secret..
In addition to recruiting members Benson
speaks frequently at secret Birch Society
meetings in Utah. The meetings are usually
held in comfortable homes in fashionable
areas of Salt Lake and other cities. Twenty
_ to 2b well-to-do persona attend typical Birch
.Society chapter meetings, which are gener-
ally convened twice a month.
At a recent meeting of a Salt Lake chapter
Benson was reported to~have talked for nearly
2 hours. He devoted practically all of his
talk to explaining why Chief Justice Earl
Warren should be impeached, a major goal of
the society.
Tho Hotel Utah meeting where Reed Ben-
son presided -and Draskovich, a Yugoslav
refugee who has become an American citizen,
spoke, was typical of the public meetings
being. sponsored by the Birch Society with
increasing frequexicy throughout the Moun-
tain States.
The meeting opened with the pledge ai
allegiance tQ a huge American flag on the
stage, the singing oP the Star Spangled Ban-
ner and an invocation which was followed by
"amens" from the audience.
Then Draskovich spoke in a thick accent
for more than an hour as women with big
notebooks eagerly recorded his remarks:
He derided a statement by Walt W. Rostow,
chief of the State Department planning staff
that the choices before the United Staten are
.total war or total peace..
"Ii you wage total peace," Draskovich de-
clared, "this means you must surrender."
He also sai$ that "the United Nations and
the United States cannot coexist. It's either
or. The United Nations has only one aim-
to promote communlsm."
"Unless you wake up," he warned his audi-
ence, which enthusiastically applauded him,
"you will end up in a slave-labor camp 1n
Siberia."
communism. Indeed, the -ugly Sabors they
perform are a service to the Kremlin itself."
To which we say, "Amen."
The Senator said this slander and abuse
reveals an essential disloyalty oa the part of
those who deal in it. They have no confi-
dence either in their fellow Americana. or
even in the democratic life or Its strong ap-
peal to others.
Do they really believe all they say, he
asked.
"Ii they do, the only reasonable reply I
can give to them which they will understand
is the honorable, 100 percent, red, white, and
blue expression: Nuts."
And to that we say"Amen" also.
EXTREMIST RIGHTWIN6 ACTIVITIES-A WASTE OF
MONEY AND HIIMAN EFFORT
Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker, as a
freshman Member tlf Congress I have
became seriously concerned about the
need for militant action to counter a
seemingly growing movement to propa-
gandize our citizenry with extreme su-
per-patriot views. My daily mailbag is
just full of letters from people who ap-
pear to be expressing the same views as
if by rote. The volume in number of
these letters has grown spectacularly
within recent- weeks.
It takes a member of my staff a full
hour just to open them.
There is a recurring theme of hatred
running through these letters and litera-
ture frequently enclosed. The Supreme
Court, the President of the United States,
the Department of Agriculture, the De-
partment of State, the Department of
the Treasury, Jews, the colored people,
foreigners in general, labor unions, the
National Council of Churches, and the
United Nations seem to be the favorite
objects of attack.
In attacking the United Nations, these
letterwriters accuse Americans in gov-
ernment service of being Communists,
perhaps not realizing-that they are voic-
ing the familiar refrain oP the Commu-
nists themselves-"get the United Na-
tions out of the United States." In this
cause the extreme rightwing has an ally
in Nikita Khrushchev, for he too has ad-
vocated getting the United Nations out
of the United States.
A great part of this extremist right-
wing mail comes from cynical persons
who obviously have a very low regard
for the congressional mentality. For
example, in the so-called .Operation
Water Moccasin letters to Congress, it
was asserted that thousands of African
soldiers were being trained in Georgia
by the U.S. Army to take over the Gov-
ernment of the United States in behalf
of the United Nations. Other letters
solemnly warn the Congressmen of "The
Destroying Angels," a subversive organi-
zation whfch is engaged in the wholesale
murder of Americans through use of im-
ported drugs. The grand conclusion oP
these letters is:
There is only -one answer' to this opera-
tion-all liquids-regardless of what they
appear to be, must be confiscated. The loyal
American, the law-a'biding citizen, will have
no objection.
Some of the contents of the extreme
rightwing letters and publications which
I have received are plainly subversive.
Most of it is too ridiculous to be digni-
fied by any congressional attention. The
tragedy of ft all is that some of the letter-
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In answer to a question Draskovich said
"the brainwashing of America Ss going on
through education" but, he added, "the
youth of America are flght[ng back.'"
He to]d of an Incident where a high school
student challenged a teacher who had dis-
cussed peace by asking the teacher: "What-
is the difference between pour concept o1
peace and appeasement9"
The Birches and other right-wing radicals
encourage students to "spy" on theft teach-
ers and report any "auspicious? activity to
their parents.
When Draskovich finished speaking, Reed
Benson urged the more than 300 persona in
the audience to loin the Birch Society and
buy its literature.
He noted that a person can become "a
home society member" who receives 79tera-
ture but does not attend chapter meetings
so that "no one will know."
In discussing the 1ltesture young Ben-
son called particular attention to '"the im-
peachment package" which he Bald contains
a report from the Senate Internal Security
subcommittee ae well ea details on "the
Supreme Court plan for global conquest."
Reed Benson also mentioned "the con-
spiracy," afavorite Birch Society phraso to
describe everyone and everything with which
the society disagrees.
After young Benson finlehed appealing for
membership applications and the purchase
of literature, many in the audience lingered
at the tables in the back of the room and
bought hooka and pamphIeta before theg
out into the brisk night to return in
new care to their comfortable homes.
OVERFLIGHTS OF THE UNITED
STATES BY CUBAN AIRLINES RE-
VEALED AND APPROVID BY' NEW
FRONTIER FAA REGULATIONS
(Mr. CRAMER asked and was given
permission to address the House for b
minutes, and to revise and extend his
remarks)
Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I wish
to inform. the House that Cuban air-
lines, nonscheduled and scheduled, have
been overflying the United States, ap-
parently with no protest and no ac-
tion to prevent this. It was called
to my attention that on 'Saturday, May
18 of his year, there was printed in the
Federal Register a regulation imm the
Federal Aviation Agency, part 80, and
it appears on page 5018:
Air Traffic Rules-Special Civil Air Regu-
lation; Civil Aircraft of Cuban Registry en-
gaged in Overflight Across II.B. Territory.
This regulation follows:
PART 80-Ara. TRAFBIC RIII.Fs
SPECIAL CIVn. Ani REGIILATION; clvn. dIRCRATr
OY CIIRAN REGISTRY ENGAGID nd OVERFLIGHT
ACROSS II.S. TE[iRTTORY
Civil aircraft of Cuban registry operate in
overflights across II.f3. territory, subject, how-
ever, to the right of the United States to
designate the routes to ha followed and to
require landing in the case of nonscheduled
Sights.
In accordance with section 1208 0l the
Federal Aviation Act of 1968 (4B II.i3.C, 1622),
I have determined that civil aircraft of Cu-
ban registry engaged In overflights across
U.S. territory shall be operated in cantralled
airspace and in accordance with clearances
and instructions issued by Federal Aviation
Agency air traffic control facilltles. The ln-
structiona issued try the Ageacp wlli provide
for the coordinated routing of the alrerait
cud, In the rasa of nonscheduled flights, will
include lnetructions to lead at sn interna-
tional airport so that a search of the aircraft
may be conducted by U.B. authorities. The
Agency aeronautical publications will in-
clude Sn[ormat[on on the international air-
ports at which landings will be required. end
the airway routings to be employed for these
operations.
This action to taken coneietent with. ap-
plicable International Conventlona and
Agreements. In accordance with section 4
of the Administrative Procedure Aet, 6 U.B.C.
1003, T find that notice and public procedure
hereon -are impracticable, and that good
cause exists for making this regulation ef-
teettve upon its issuance.
In consideration of the foregoing, the tol-
towing Special Civil Alr Ilegulatian is adopt-
ed:
No person may operate a civil aircraft of
Cuban registry-within the United States ex-
cept in controlled eirapace and In accordance
with air traffic ciearaneea or air traffic con-
trol lllatructians which may require use of
epecifle alrwape or routes and landings at
specific airports..
This regulation becomes eB'ectlve immedi-
ately.
(Secs. 368, 307, I808, 49 U.S.C. 1347, 1349,
1522: 81 Stet. 1190: 69 8tat. 1893.1
Issued in Washington, D.C., on May I7,
1963.
H. E. HALASY,
ddminfatrator.
{F.A. Doc. 83 -b454; Filed, May 17, 1983;
8:14 p.m.p
finis regulation without any advance
notice, without any opportunity for SI>,p-
one to be heard became immediately ef-
fective as of the date of its printing, and
permits Cuban overflights fn the United.
States, without any restriction as it re-
lates to scheduled Cuban airlines. I
a:rn talking about Cuban-oR'ned and Cu-
ban-registered airlines, and with only
certain restrictions as it rotates to non-
acheduled airlines,
On inquiring of the FAA about this
published. regulation dealing with non-
scheduled Cuban registered plane flights,
I was told by an FAA official that three
overflights of nonscheduled Cuban reg-
istered planes took place in the last
couple of months, and that others were
known to have taken. place recently.
These flights take place from Toronto,
Montreal, and Ottawa, and include pas-
senger as? well as freight cargo planes.
Numerous times the scheduled Cubans
Alriin~es-this is the schcdul~d airline-
overflles the eastern part of the United
States on Its return trig from Commu-
nist Prague to Havana by way of
Newfoundland when, because of bad
weather, it is diverted to Montreal.
This happened Z weeks ago, but it has
happened a numhnz? of other times in
the recent past. The notice of the regu-
lation sent tKi the airmen, that is, file
people involved in air industries, per-
mits continued overflights of scheduled
Cohan airlines without any restriction or
objection whatsoever. It also provides
that nonscheduled Cuban air flights will
be required to follow a designated cor-
ridor and stay for search at either Idle-
wfld or, as the first alternative, Logan
Airport in Boston,. or, as a second aIter-
native, Dulles Airport outside Washing-
ton, D.C. Thus the edministratfon is
net even protesting or restricting iri ally
to Havana, which is behind the Cactus
Curtain, but is inviting their continu-
ance. Overflights of nonscheduled
planes of Cuban. registry are being con-
doned st1 Long as a specific corridor is
followed and search is permitted..
This is typical of the pussyfooting of
the New Frontier in dealing effectively
with Castro's Communist Cuba. Eco-
nomic and political quarantining of Cuba
is our announced policy which we are
supposedly trying to get other Latin na-
tions to enforce, but in contravention of
that basic policy we now announce to the
world that we are willing to let Cuba con-
tinue trading with Canada and even
overfly the United States to do it, We
are announcing to the world that we da
not mind Cuban registered Communist
planes carving from behind the Iran Cur-
tain to overfly the United States, thus
facilitating trade between Communist
Cuba and the Communist satellites.
All air routes over the United States
should be closed to anyone trading with
Cuba, let alone a)I such routes to planes
owned and operated by Castro's Com-
munist government that are trading with
ether countries, and particularly when
they are trading and transporting pas-
sengers from behind the Iron Curtain.
How can we justify issuing regulations
favoring the Communist government of
Fidel Castro by permitting its own planes
to overfly the United States when we are
supposedly not recognizing Castro's
Communist government?
How silly do we look to our Latin
neighbors whom we are trying to en-
courage to stop doing business with
Castro, when we issue regulations per-
mitting Castro's Communist planes to
overfly the United States?
Is this another step toward coexist-
ence with Castro? Is this part of the
"softening up of the American people"
process that will eventually lead to nego-
tiating other grievances with Castro thus
giving him indirect if not direct recogni-
Eion?
Where did the demand for such trade
corridors favoring Castro's communism
come from and who is responsible for
negotiating them? Are net the Ameri-
can. people entitled to know who is doing
this negotiating? IS this another of the
deals negotiated by Mr. James Donovan
on behalf of Castro?
Who in the State Department and the
Defense Department agreed to this over-
flight permission? The FAA advised me
that both Departments were consulted.
Who is responsible for permitting the
airspace over the United States to be
violated by Castro's planes? By what
possible philosophy can the New Frontier
justify permitting continued over-
flights-let alone not stopping previous
aneS?
How can the security of the United
States be adequately protected when
Communist planes to and from Cuba are
permitted to overfly the United States?
These are all questions that must be
answered by the administration. This
"sneak" regulation which was effective
when published on Saturday is further
Sighis from behind the Zron Curtain }Cuba.
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