DEVELOPMENT LOANS

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• Publication Date: February 16, 1967
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o. laboratory testings and t11us improve
the meciicai Dare dY rho Nation's citizens.
PETE RRANDT, A GREAT REPORTER
RETIRES
... ?. MANSFIELD. Mr. President,
It;rymond P, "Pete" Brandt has retired
afier serving nearly half a century as a
nniiticnl reporter on the Washington
scca~>:~. Pero Brandt is known to all of
.;-t-:. only as an outstanding news-
..-.aa-a reporter and editor of un-
matched ability-but as one of the most
ren,rcted membars of the press corps.
1: have always cherished and shall con-
tinue to ohm?ish his friendslrip and coun-
fiCl.
Tlxottgh I deeply regret iris announced
.. t;rrn:ant. I was most happy to note
~.. i"e'~rruary # editorial in the St.
. :'t;.at-', ?lrnatah that Pote wlil con-
-. ~~~. i;o offer air Iucid, oUjective, and hr-
-:dent judgment to the reading pub-
.in'u;' way of occasional articles on snob
rmtters as politics and economics-areas
where his expertise and broad under-
n.auding have been valued so highly.
5o well does he understand and artieu-
latc the most transcendent issues of the
day that his counsel was often sought by
.'residents, And just as he has been a
x?espected adviser to Presidents, so has
a been a trusted and valuable adviser
.o most of us here hz the Sonate. His
i udgment has been consistently sound,
?s thovghtfumess azld courtesy greatly
r.1 --:: -a:aet?1. One oP the-great journal-
, :~.--, tvls :Pete well in his retirement.
L'rt y Know Pete Erandt will continue
60 oont. ;bate his vahied thoughts and
judgmcat and for this we. may all bo
^ra~tefu~
Azr_ President, I ask unanimous con-
..cut that the Post-Dispatch editorial of
1'cbr+. ;,ry 8, concerning Pete Hrandt, be
-,:ntz.d at this point hr the RECORD.
';are being no objection, the editorial
.,.; ordered to be printed in the Rgcoao,
..; ioliowa: ~~
MR. HnArrnT nErmEa
l~nytnond P. Drnndt's long and dtstin-
.-hrd career as a member 0Y the Poat-
%1i.yrstnH. atntF comes to a virtual olos0 wltli
;,::: rrtirement ns conLriUUttng editor. For-
-,-~,dely, he will continue to write occa-
Snunl articles on pollttes and eoonomtca, tho
:.aids in which he has specialized {or most
nt nis warring lifotima.
Sun=~ tA23 "Pete" nrandt has represented
ibis nr~..~~pnpcr 1u Washington, where hie
ir:mn '.~;ht, honesty and sound judgment
w:ule him perhaps t110 moat respected ISgrn'C
In oapitnl journalism. Ovox the yoara, many
a sia.tesm nn sought ivu?. Brandt's ndvloe; he
knew more nUaut the Federal Government
thmi most of. Gho pol4tlcfans and Uureaucrata
.~~~~'. Judges-nnd Prcoldents-on wllose aa-
~-nles he relxtrted.
;. iarnndc Uronght b his work the quait-
:4.6 young reporters nro tnught to admire-
curacy, scholarship, objectivity, integrity,
^anlicc teal curiosity, Snduetry, and nn
'rros;ive d,*LCCmlctatlon to get to the hoart
' ~`~^ mn41c.-1:he cjualltiCa, Sn short, bhnt
-~ ~ :rnletca ~.nnn Uy Taaclth Pnlltzar.
t~1s hirrs nhy In Who's Who Mr. Srnndt
~:hnactf ai ., "ncvmpapaxman," a dcslg-
~~ ~r Fvnin? nc rvna proud and Which
~, t,~
'??.a his tLrynLIOR to the prOYa9910n Oxl
Nlitmx Ma onrecr shat ea xnuah rrredlt.
MEDICAL DEVICES AND CLINICAL
LABORATORIES
Mr, KENNEDY of Massachusetts.
Mr. Presfdent, we are in an age of medi-
cal miracles, an age oY technology which
has ushered in a wide variety of new
medical devices. Surgical implants, con-
tact lenses, and artiilcial kidneys are but
a few examples.
We are in an age that requires tho
hjghost competence and skill on the part
of those who admh~istcr to the health
of our citizens. Yet, today, we have no
assurance that medical devices, vital to
the health of those who are ill, meet even
minimum standards.
For these reasons, Mr. President, I wel-
come the President's health proposal
contained in his message, "to protect the
American consumer:'
The President has called for the Med1-
cal Device Safety Act of 1007. This act
will require the premarket clearance of
certain modical devices, particularly
those used in or on the body. The bill
will also establish standards for such
items as diathermy machines, bone pins,
and X-ray machhres.
The President also has suggested a
program oY improvement for clinical
laboratories: Licensing requirements
would upgrade the performance of clinf-
cal laboratories, and the status oP tcchnf-
cians, technologists, and senior-level
professional ata8, The Surgeon General
would assert leadership by licensing
laboratories that deal in interstate com-
merce, thereby furnishing the States
with standards that they, in turn, can
use with Federal support to improve
laboratory services Sn their own jurisdic-
tions.
These proposals represent a sound and
reasonable approach to lmproving the
medical care offered the citizens of our
Nation. The hopes of so many pcople-
and, indeed, very often the lives-de-
pend upon reliable medical devices and
accurate clinical information. Any steps
to improve the quality of these devices
and of the information which are open
to us, we must, fn conscience, take..
t DEVELOPMENT I,oANS t
l Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I desirC
to draw attention to the Press reports
of a letter which the chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee has sent
to the President regarding the. Presi-
dent's determination that the number of
nations receiving development loans
should be increased from 10 to 20,
I have seen that ]otter. I Participated
in the meeting with AID Administrator
Gaud when he attempted to justify ig-
noring acongressional mandate that de-
velopment loans be limited to 30 nations,
plus loans to Latin America.
We have here a classic case of the
way in which the administration bleats
the Congress and the laws we pass, Let
me review this record briefly.
Last year during consideration of the
farelgn aid bill the administration told
the Committee on Foreign Relations that
10 oountries would be ellglble for de-
velopment loans during this fiscal year.
Tn the Presentation to the committee, the
administration witnesses said that an ad-
ditimial ~tlrree countries might become
eligible during the year.
After careful consideration, the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations included in
the bill a numerical lnnitation stating the
development loans should not be ex-
tended to more than 10 countries. The
committee considered whether or not to
put the limit at 13 countries, thus in-
cluding those countries which the a.d-
mhristration thought might become eli-
gible. Wo decided to keen the figure
at 10, hoping tlms to discourage the ad-
ministration from spreading our re-
sources far and wide on the theory that
everyone should get something, We
wanted the adminfstration to concen-
trate its efforts on development and not
to use development loans fox political ,
purposes in s large number of Countries. -
We believed that the thin spreading oY
largesse does not serve the interests oY
the United States.
Naturally the administratim~ did not
like this 10-country limitation. It
fought the committee restriction in the
conference. Finally, as a gesture to help
get the bill adopted, the Senate confer-
ees accepted,a compromise. We agreed
to keep the 10-country limitation in the
act but to provide that ff the Presi-
dent found It in the national interest
he could increase the number of develop-
ment loan recipients above the figure 30;
provided only that he give the appro-
priate committeces 30 days' notice of his
intention to do so.
The purpose of the 30-day notice was
to give the committees an opportunity to
explore the feasibility of any proposed
increases in the number of development
loan recipients.
Within ? months after the passageai
the Foreign Assistance Act. AID pro-
posed to the President that the nmmber
of development loan recipients be in-
creased not by one or two, not doubled,
but nearly tripled. AID proposed to the
President. that the number of recipients
be increased from 10 to 29.
If the AID administration thought the
Committee on Foreign Relations would
stand quietly while the development
loan program was saddled with 20 coun-
tries instead of 10, St knows very little
about horses.
When Mr. Gaud reported that this m-
crease in the number of AID recipients
was already in the works, he ran into
trouble with the Committee on Foreign
Relatfons. MCmhers from both sides ob-
jected most vigorously. '
Tt is an understatement to suggest
that most of us thought we had been
duped. We have here a clear casC 1n
which congressional intent was not only
ignored, it was kicked in the teeth. I
have lo>g since become convinced that
any time we provide oue~of these Presi-
dential escape clauses, we are going to be
treated in bad faith, and that is exactly
how vve were treated. The administra-
tion never had ar>_v' intention of observ-
ing arestriction. Even while we were
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talking about it, AID was negotiating Tho Committee has heard Mr. William pus;' be printed at thfs Point 111 t.r
Gaud's ]ustlficatlon of the action. Unlortu" RECORD.
more loan commitments, unknown to us. nateiy, because of the press of other business There being no objection, the editor,:d -
It is becoming accepted practice for there has not been an opportunity for the was ordered to be printed fn the Recoa~,
AID, State. Defense, and CIA to tell tiS Committee to meet to tako Yorntnl action as follows:
not what they al's doing, but only what since his presentation. With the Lincom
tfley Wallt ll5 t0 know. Day YCCCSa nOW npen na, the thirty day Walt- INFILTRATSNa THE CAMPUS
The 155UC hCIC is bfoadeT than a 11tt1C can consf.derl the matter furthem In view of The impropriety and folly of pcrnllltlsg
r i5agicement between the Foreign Re- tilts Central Intelligence Agency to subsidL?~
nations Committee slid the admirliStl'a- this, I Yeel that I nm obligated to advise you the National Student Aesoclntlon cannot t<
that I personally deplore this action and I mitigated by post-mortem rationalizing. t:
Lioil. This is the same iSSUe almost CVC1y believe that many members on both sides oY fa absurd to suggest that, because the suo-
committee of the Congress encounters at tho aisle are also seriously concenled? dent organization was too impoverished W
one timC or anethCr. It 15 part OY the sincerely yours, take part 1n Internntlonal mcotinge, tihe C.LA
J. W. I'vsnnrcnT, p~.
trouble this administl'ation is haVmg slid merely assumed the role of a benevolent
wiil have with t11is Congress, ?g C72airinna2, trop of youth. -
3 It is not the buslnaes or the habit o[ :n-
I lacy say that as far a5 I am Con-
the comtnittce &hould not hav NEW YORK TIMES ENDORSL~'S"t'temgenco services to underwrite tndigrn;
ood causes unless the Ueneflclary can be ex.
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relied upon a polite letter from the chair- pRINCIP.LE OF S. 981, TO PRO- Ynectea to pay off the debt, directly or b,.
-man to the President protesting this VIDE FUNDS THROUGH THE DE- Yairectiy. It was more reprehensible tar
lnatteP. We should have 1'eported forth- pARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCA- Washington to let Its Sntclltgence sea ire
wit;-. a resolution amending the baste TION, AND WELFARE FOR TRAVEL ]eopardizo a representative voice of the na~
]c;_:ation. TO INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CON- tton'e cotlege youth than tt was for n tea
)s:nployees Of the executive branch FERENCES student lenders, 1n secret agreement, to sac-
seci;l too often to forget that they are - comb to the temptation,
not elected representatives of the peo- Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President, At teast as serfotra has been the brencit a
' plc. They act as if theh? judgment were among other consequences of the revels- pubic faith by private foundations ncuuy
a substitute for democratic government. bons Of CIA involvement 1n domestic as go-betweens. The very oxlstence o1 [oun-
? Under these circumstances it is abso- Youth groups, it Ss imperative that there aatione is a privilege granted._by the tax?
lutcly essential that elected Members oY be a thorough hodsecleailing of the ac- ybe tnz cremation fa to provfaeanongovcn>
Congress be ready tc take off their gloves tivlties of the Federal Government con- mental supnort for worthy causes, not [o
to fight for the policy decisions which earning travel subsidies for those attend- serve as a cover for clanaestlne Governmem
tklcy have embodied in law. Failure to ing international conferences in fields operations.
react to usurpations of legislative power such as science and educatiou, activities The sordid episode has dealt another seri-
will gradually destroy our system. I am in which the search for truth is Para- etuaenite and scholars abroadY Fntth in the r
not going to become a party to that pros- mount and fn which CIA lnvalvement detachment already had been camases by
oss makes a sickening perversion of the edu- earner aismosures of secret liars between
'Pilcre is a saying which holds: "Fool cational or scicntiflc aims. These con- the C.LA. and some American unfvnrshms.
me once, your fault. Fool me twice, my ferences contribute to international un- A totat ban on att o.LA, unaerwritmg of
fault:" Congress has been fooled not derstanding and to the advancement of colteglate actlvlty is plainly long overdue.
once or twice but over and over again science and education, and it would be It Wlll be tragic 1f the present effect is mr
in what has become an annual shell a tragedy if Federal support for such ac- unaennming of the National student Asso?
game over the AID program. We tl'y t0 ~ tivftles were to be permanently clouded the fright eltlhnsot sualGiyt repreaentcdec mrv
guess which shell the pea 1s under and because of the events of the past few ageous 1lberalfsn. To discredit the orgnnl-
?la matter which One we pick, the pea days. zatlon Uecnuae of the secret indiscretion of
fs always somewhere else. That 1s why Two things are C1Ca1': F1TSt, Federal' a few oY its leaders would sap the strength
so many of us remain unimpressed by the support for travel to these conferences fs of elected student govertunents across the
adVCrtislrig for the nCW aid mCSSage. imp01'tant. ,SCCend, the Ci'Cdlbility Of country and endow New Left extremists wi[h
That is why so many of us are beginning Federal support must be established be- unwarranted power ]net when their hold on
_ to couciude that there are no reasonable Yond the shadow oY a doubt. Credibility stuaeuta fs crumbnng.
guidelines that can be written into the hl this case means that when a man goes More',ts neeaea now than a halt at c.i.A.
progl?ain_. Objectives are not enough. ~ an Snternational education conference subsidies to the N.B.A. or other academic or-
The I:tW must bC il'O11Clad Ol WO al'C better on a Goveilunent travel grant, he geCS gnttfzations. All 6uch groups should open
ofF with no law at all. That is my con- for the purpose of education and not as their hooka artfl source8 of Yvnda do their own
a Spy. membership and to Public scrutiny. To pcr-
elusion from this latest episode in which yesterday I 4ntroduced S. 981, a bill to mit a few student leasers to make tar-
the C1Car objective of COng1'ess Was reaching policy aectaiona without consent
totally ignored. amend the International Education Act oY the membership exposes them to presaurce
The chahman of the Commfttee on of 1966 to authorize the Secretary of and temptations far beyond the scope of
Health, Education and Welfare t0 make their political experience.
T'breign Relations has sent to the Presl- giants to finance travel to international AB for founaatton activities, the penmtlcs
dart a letter expressing the concern of youth conferences by individuals broadly for engaging in undercover activities shows
the Committee on Foreign Relations at representative Of the Nation's students. be clearly estnbllahed. The PRCmm~ lnvestl-
the decision to increase the number of I am glad to see that today's New York gations long ago mace dear the need for
countries receiving development loans. Times has endorsed the principle of my retonne, and the President has promises to
The letter is unclassified. Copies_ were bill in an editorial which states: - sans to Congress tats year proposats far
sent to each member of the committee. ~ etamping out abuses fn founaatton prncticcs.
I ask unanimous consent that the letter It Se nonsense to evggeat that, because thoy Most important, expilclt gviacifnes should
be printed in the RECORb. arouse eveplclon abroad, public subsidies bo laid down to regulate alt policies oY Gov-
. should not be offered. Virtually all nations ernment support oP lnternntlonai actlvltles
ThCrC being n0 Objection, the letter agar such subsidy. The point at issue 1s oP students and scholars, It 1s nonsense to
was ordored to be printed fn the Racoon, how to provide the funds, without perverting suggest that, because they arouse auspleion
as fO110WS: the purpose. abroad, public subsidies should not be oP-
U.B. sExnTE, A Rret step should be to speed the divorce, fared. Virtually all nntlone offer such eub-
ConannrrsE ox FoanmN RE[dTIONa, already suggested under the International efdy. The point at issue is how to provide.
February 8, 1967. Education Act of 1988, of interact/oval edu- the iunde, wlthont perverting the puxpasc.
Ttte Pncs2ncxT, cational affairs Trom the foreign policy A Rrat step should be to speed the divorce,
The Wh4te house. branches of tine Government. Tho Depart- already auggeeted under tho Internnttonnl
D-nn IDYn. PnnsmENr: This latter conesrna meat oY Health, Education and Welfare fe Education Act of 1986 of Snternntlonal. edu-
your dctcrminationa of January 6, 1987, re. far better suited to eponaor educatlonnl ex- cational nunire from the Yoretgn policy
ccived by tho t'omntittee on FocMgn Rela- changes than the state Department, let alone branches of tho Government. T1te Dopnrt-
ttoua on January 17, incrcasing tho number the C.LA' meat of Health, Education axtd Welfare le
oY countries eligible Yor development loans I ask unanimous COI1SCnt that the ed1- tar better Butted to eponaor educational ex-
frnm tcv to twenty-nine and Tor technical
aaalstance and cooporatlon grants from forty T1n18 fen itl?d Infiltrating thew Camk alone thatch I A the state Department, e
to forty-eight. ~.
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