TRAINING OF ARAB NATION MILITARY PERSONNEL

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• Publication Date: July 19, 1967
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July 19, 1967
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Robison
Smith, Iowa
Vigorito
Rodin .
Smith, N.Y.
Waggonner
Rogers, Colo.
Smith, Okla.
Waldie
Rogers, Fla.
Snyder
Walker
Rooney, Pa.
Springer
Wampler
Rostenkowski
Stafford-,.-
Watkins
Roth
Staggers
Watson
Roudebush
Stanton
Watts
Roush
Steed
Whalen
Rumsfeld
Steiger, Ariz.
Whalley
Ruppe
Steiger, Wis.
White
St Germain
Stephens
Whitten
Sandman
Stratton
Widnall
Satterfield
Stubblefield
Wiggins
Saylor
Stuckey
Williams, Miss.
Schadeberg
Sullivan
Williams, Pa.
Scherle
Taft
Willis
Schneebell
Talcott
Winn
Schweiker
Taylor
Wolff
Schwengel
Teague, Calif.
Wright
Scott
Teague, Tex.
Wyatt
Belden
Thompson, Ga. Wydler
Shipley
Thomson, Wis. Wylie
Shriver
Tiernan
Wyman
Sikes
Tuck
Young
Sisk
Ullman
Zablocki
Skubitz
Utt
Zion
Slack
Van Deerlin
Zwach
Smith, Calif.
Vander Jagt
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Annunzio
Ford,
Nix
Ashley
William D.
O'Hara, Ill.
Barrett
Fraser
O'Hara, Mich.
Bingham
Friedel
O'Neill, Mass.
Blatnik
Gallagher
Patten
Boland
Gilbert
Philbin
Bolling
Gonzales
Rees
Brown, Calif.
Green, Pa.
Reid, N.Y.
Burke, Mass.
Hanna
Resnick
Button
Hawkins
Reuss
Byrne, Pa.
Helstoski
Ronan
Ceiler
Hicks
Rooney, N.Y.
Cohelan
Holifield
Rosenthal
Conte
Holland
Roybal
Conyers
Irwin
Ryan
Culver
Karsten
St. Onge
Daddario
Kastenmeier
Tenzer
Diggs
Leggett
Thompson, N.J.
Donohue
Matsunaga
Tunney
Dow
Mink
Udall
Eckhardt
Moorhead
Vanik
Edwards, Calif.
Morse, Mass.
Wilson,
Farbstein
Moss
Charles H.
Feighan
Nedzi
Yates
NOT VOTING-15
Burton, Calif. King, Calif. Passman
Hagan Kluczynski Rarick
Hays McMillan Scheuer
Hungate Mathias, Md. Whitener
Karth Miller, Calif. Wilson, Bob
So the bill was passed.
The Clerk announced the following
pairs:
On this vote:
Mr. Kluczynski for, with Mr. Scheuer
against.
Mr. Hagan for, with Mr. Burton of Califor-
nia against.
Until further notice:
Mr. Whitener with Mr. Mathias of Mary-
land.
Mr. Miller of California with Mr. Bob
Wilson.
Mr. Rarick with Mr. King of California.
Mr. Passman with Mr. Hays.
Mr. Karth with Mr. Hungate.
The result of the vote was announced
as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
GENERAL LEAVE TO EXTEND
Mr. WILLIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani-
mous consent that, all Members have 5
legislative days in which to extend their
remarks on the bill H.R. 421, just passed,
and to include extraneous matter.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. AL-
BERT). Is there objection to the request of
the gentleman from Louisiana?
There was no objection.
CONGRESSMAN FEIGHAN URGES
FULL USE OF $450,000,000 FOR WA-
TER POLLUTION
(Mr. FEIGHAN asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, I strongly
urge members of the Appropriations
Committee to reject the drastic reduc-
tion in waste water treatment plant con-
struction grants requested in the admin-
istration's fiscal year 1968 budget. The
Bureau of the Budget has requested that
the $450,000,000 authorized by the Clean
Water Restoration Act of 1966 be re-
duced to $200,000,000. The proponents of
this reduction attribute it to our very
costly involvement in Southeast Asia.
Their position would be much more tena-
ble if other seemingly less important
programs were not going forward. For
instance, the administration is still ask-
ing for a substantial increase of $80
million for fiscal year 1968 for the high-
way beautification program. Unquestion-
ably, the latter is a most worthwhile pro-
gram. However, the crucial question is
one of priority based upon importance to
our Nation. Few problems confront our
modern society that are as tremendous-
ly critical as water pollution.
Presently, the Ohio Legislature is con-
sidering the issuance of bonds that would
provide several hundred million dollars
for construction of waste water treat-
ment plants. The Ohio Legislature is
counting on Federal aid to help them
clean up the terrible pollution infecting
the once clear Lake Erie as well as the
many rivers flowing into it. Moreover,
Ohio has submitted comprehensive water
quality standards to the Federal Water
Control Administration. Public sentiment
toward the abatement of water pollution
is high. Many industries in the Lake Erie
Basin have submitted time schedules for
the treatment of industrial effluents.
With the combined concern and coordi-
nated effort of the State, the municipal-
ities, private industry, and the citizenry,
Ohio is engaged in an all-out attempt to
save its waterways.
Cutting the authorization will have
grave effects on the efforts of Ohio as
well as the efforts of many other States.
Under the Federal act, the Secretary is
authorized to make grants for the con-
struction of necessary treatment works
to prevent the discharge of untreated or
inadequately treated waste into any
waters. The percentage of Federal con-
tribution increases with the degree of
State participation. When a State issues
clean water bonds, it anticipates satisfy-
ing the Federal requirements for each
project and thus receiving the Federal
grant. However, with the reduction in
appropriations, the Federal Government
will not have sufficient funds to meet its
percentage contribution, as set forth in
the act. Thus, the percentages of avail-
able Federal money reflected by the
Clean Water Restoration Act will be
totally misleading, because sufficient
money will not actually exist. Unless the
$250,000,000 is restored, the States will
be placed in the awkward position of
issuing bonds in reliance on the Federal
Government paying a certain percentage
share, and then not having the money
to erect all the planned facilities be-
cause the Federal Government could not
pay its share. Such action on the part of
the Federal Government will clearly
thwart the efforts of State and local offi-
cials.
Furthermore, as a result of inadequate
funding, the applicant will have virtually
no idea of how much money it will re-
ceive from the Federal agency. The
essential question, namely to what de-
gree the Federal Government will fulfill
its financial obligation, will stifle initia-
tive and momentum. The applicant must
have some idea of what it will receive
as a Federal grant before it can afford
to embark on an expensive program. De-
lay will occur as the cost of building rises
approximately 4 percent annually and
the war against pollution slows down.
The harmful effects of reducing the
appropriations can be prevented only
through a restoration of the appropria-
tions to the original $450,000,000 figure.
It is senseless to frustrate the progress
made over the past few years and the
plans for the future. The interest and
the desire to fight pollution has finally
been activated on all levels. This is the
time to push forward with renewed vigor,
not the time to slacken our efforts. Pollu-
tion must be stopped now, or the task will
be insurmountable in the future.
Therefore, I implore each of my col-
leagues on the Appropriations Commit-
tee to do his utmost to restore these
funds. Pi
TRAINING OF ARAB NATION MILI-
TARY PERSONNEL
(Mr. WOLFF asked and was given per-
mission to address the House for 1 min-
ute and to revise and extend his remarks
and include extraneous matter.)
Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, Monday I
came before the House to alert the Mem-
bers to the fact that the United States is
continuing to recklessly provide military
training to pilots and ground personnel
from nine Arab nations.
I am shocked and appalled to discover
that four of the Arab nations receiving
U.S. military assistance have servered
diplomatic relations with the United
States. These nations have ordered our
diplomats home and we give their mili-
tary a home.
I should add that my investigation was
made difficult by an inability to get ac-
curate answers from the Department of
Defense.
I am amazed by the Defense Depart-
ment's statement that the training of
those in the program will not be sus-
pended.
The facts are easy to understand-the
policy of the Department of Defense is
not. Military assistance to the Arab na-
tions involved must be halted im-
mediately. They have allied themselves
with the Soviet Union; they have made
clear their antagonism to the United
States.
That we are continuing to provide
military aid to these countries is a breach
of security and it is so incredulous as to
be almost ludicrous.
Because of my deep concern regarding
the phase of our military assistance pro-
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gram that provides aid to Arab nations,
I have continued to investigate this mat-
ter to gather specific information.
Although disappointed by the diffi-
culty I had in getting this information,
which should be part of the public rec-
ord, from the Department of Defense, I
sought, and was eventually able to
gather, details on the size of existing
military training programs for Arab
pilots and technical personnel. Ready
access to correct information be avail-
able to Members of Congress at all times.
The Arab countries that are continu-
ing to receive U.S. military assistance,
the number of pilots and total number
of ground personnel, and technicians, in-
volved is as follows: Iraq, no pilots, eight
men; Jordan, 24 pilots, 57 men; Lebanon,
no pilots, six men; Libya, no pilots, 45
men; Morocco, 10 pilots, 154 men; Saudi
Arabia, seven pilots, 65 men; the Sudan,
three pilots, 12 men; Syria, no pilots, one
man; and Tunisia, no pilots, seven men.
That is a total of 355 military men from
nine Arab countries; 44 of the men are
pilots receiving training identical to that
received by American pilots.
What is most striking and depressing
is that Iraq, Libya, and Sudan and Syria
have broken off diplomatic relations with
the United States. Does our Defense De-
partment not realize what it means to
break diplomatic relations? Are we in the
habit of aiding our enemies to fight our
kllies?
Also relevant here is that Lebanon has
declared the U.S. Ambassador to that
country persona non grata and asked
him to leave Lebanon.
I am stunned by a statement by a De-
fense Department spokesman that there
are no plans to discontinue the present
programs. The only recognition by the
Defense Department of this absurd sit-
uation is a plan not to accept additional
trainees from the countries that have
broken diplomatic relations. This is an
insufficient token gesture after the dam-
age is done. And the Defense Department
spokesman conspicuously avoided men-
tioning future plans for the training of
airmen from antagonistic countries that
have not severed diplomatic ties. Train-
ing programs involving men from these
countries must also be halted and not
renewed.
The unhappy situation is all too clear.
We are militarily aiding our adversaries,
making available vital security informa-
tion, and thus I have asked the House
Armed Services Committee to investigate
this phase of our military assistance pro-
gram since it is a flagrant violation of
our national security.
The Arab nations involved have made
clear in word and deed their hostility to
the United States. That we are continu-
ing to give that aid is most unfortunate
and unwise.
FACTS AND FIGURES REFUTE CRIT-
ICS OF RECLAMATION
(Mr. EDMONDSON asked and was
given permission to extend his remarks
at this point in the RECORD and to include
a report prepared by Congressman
KIRWAN. )
Mr. EDMONDSON. Mr. Speaker, the
history of water resource development in
the United States is punctuated by criti-
cism and doubts expressed loudly and
frequently-sometimes by powerful in-
terests.
The history of the success of our wa-
ter resource development programs pro-
vides its own answer to the critics and
doubters. This story of success is a trib-
ute to men like our colleague, the gentle-
man from Ohio, the Honorable MICHAEL
J. KIRWAN, who believe in water develop-
ment and have the courage to push de-
velopment programs in the face of doubt
and criticism.
Congressman KIRWAN, drawing on his
experience of more than 20 years as a
member of the Public Works Subcom-
mittee of the House Appropriations Com-
mittee-13 of those years as chairman-
has prepared a report which outlines in
detail the success of some of our great-
est projects under the Federal reclama-
tion program. The facts and figures in
this report leave little room for mean-
ingful criticism. They remove all reason-
able doubt as to the wisdom of Congress
in making these investments, which are
being repaid to the American people-
and to the U.S. Treasury-manifold.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to have
Chairman KIRWAN's report appear in the
RECORD. It is a tribute to a great program,
and it is a valuable historical document
based upon the experience of a great
conservationist and a great American. I
therefore include it at this point:
RECLAMATION-A GILT-EDGED NATIONAL
INVESTMENT
As a Congressman and as an individual, I
am interested in any proven proposition
which yields many dollars worth of national
wealth for every dollar invested. That is why
I, though representing an industrial district
in Ohio, am a believer in and a supporter of
the Federal Reclamation program. For new
wealth creates new purchasing power and a
market for goods and services that is felt
clear across the country. It is on such produc-
tivity that our economic stability and growth
depend.
In the first place, nearly every dollar spent
for Reclamation irrigation, power and mu-
nicipal water purposes is being repaid in cold
hard cash-on-the-barrelhead. Of the total
Reclamation investment of $8,173 million up
to June 30, 1966, 89 percent is repayable, a
good share of it with interest. No other Fed-
eral investment In our natural resources that
I know of can show such a return. Only the
investment charged to purposes which by na-
tional policy are non-reimbursable, is not
repaid and that Is a small portion of the total
Reclamation picture.
But this is only part of the story. In addi-
tion to the repayment of construction costs,
estimates indicate that cumulative Federal
tax collections attributable to Reclamation
projects in operation throughout the 17 West-
ern States since 1940 total nearly $7 billion.
This is nearly 1.6 times the total federal in-
vestment in completed and operating proj-
ects from which this added revenue comes.
State and local governments have collected
further great amounts. The ratio of benefits
to expenditures, of course, will continue to
grow because the expenditures on these proj-
ects have been made but the wealth produc-
tivity will continue to increase over the
years.
But again this is only part of the story.
Wealth productivity which makes possible
such increased tax payments is the real story.
Probably nowhere is the increased wealth
productivity of the Reclamation investment
more clearly illustrated than in an economic
study recently completed by Washington
State University of the Columbia Basin
project.
This study compared major economic indi-
cators per 10,000 acres of irrigated cropland
on this project which received its first water
in 1948 with an adjoining dry farm area.
The study showed that the Irrigated area
had a population 17 times greater thany, the
dryland area, the number of business estab-
lishments also was 17 times greater and the
number of workers exceeded the dryland area
by a ratio of 22 to 1.
Wages paid in the project area in 1963
totaled $2,170,000 per 10,000 acres of crop-
land as against $110,000 for the comparison
area. The assessed property valuation of the
irrigated area was $2.57 million per 10,000
acres of cropland as against $400,000 for the
comparison area, even though the property
values in the irrigated area were below those
in the comparison area before water reached
the land.
I say also that I am proud of the role I
have played in the development of Reclama-
tion. When the Reclamation Act was passed
back in 1902 and signed into law by a great
Conservation President, Theodore Roosevelt,
there was a flurry of authorizations which re-
sulted in construction of such great projects
as the Salt River in Arizona, the North
Platte in Nebraska and Wyoming, the Boise
and Minidoka in Idaho, the Yakima in
Washington State, the Klamath in Oregon
and California, the Newlands in Nevada, and
others.
But then Reclamation went into the
doldrums during World War I and in the
decade and a half thereafter with little more
being accomplished than these few early
projects. It took the vision and drive of an-
other great Conservationist President, Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt, to get Reclamation really
underway again. By a stroke of the pen he
authorized the start of Grand Coulee dam
and that dam, today, Is the keystone of the
Columbia Basin project, the benefits of which
I have recited briefly to you. The Central
Valley project of California is another in-
stance of his positive action which was paid
off many, many times over for the invest-
ment.
Up until 1933, when FDR took over, only
$286 million had been appropriated to
Reclamation. Since then appropriations to-
taling $5 billion have been made for con-
struction purposes and I reiterate that these
represent the best investment in the eco-
nomic future of our whole nation that we
could possibly have made.
Most of that time I have been on the
Appropriations Committee and I have a great
sense of personal satisfaction in the accom-
plishments of the Bureau. I have made it my
business to keep in touch personally with
the progress of Reclamation and I can tell
you that it pays to invest in the conserva-
tion and development of our resources.
To go back to the Columbia Basin project,
there were nearly 120,000 carloads of out-
bound freight generated from this project
between 1950 and 1962. During this same
period, 59,989 carloads of incoming goods,
were shipped back into the project area from
every geographic area of the nation, includ-
ing many from my own state and district and
those of most of you. They were paid for by
the increased purchasing power generated
by the wealth productivity of this new Rec-
lamation project.
Irrigation, of course, is only one of the
multi-benefits of the national investment in
Reclamation. Hydropower from Reclamation
dams has been a prime factor in the indus-
trial development of the West, thereby creat-
ing new markets, new areas of expansion in
our national economy. In a single recent year,
the Bureau of Reclamation marketed nearly
38 billion kilowatt hours of electricity under
449 contracts with public and private utili-
ties and government agencies of all kinds.
This power brought in $115 million dollars of
revenue in a single year and I remind you
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