CELEBRATION IN SALZBURG

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Celebration in Salzburg
Into the great banquet hall of the
Schloss Leopoldskron trooped a stately
procession of dark-suited guests. On the
balcony, a string quartet interrupted its
concert of Mozart chamber music, and
Thomas II. Eliot, the white-haired for-
mer chancellor of St. Louis's Washing-
ton University, stepped before the enor-
mous marble-and-tile fireplace. "This
seminar," he told an audience that looked
like a miniature Who's Who of the Amer-
ican and European intellectual establish-
ment, "is an act of faith, which we hope,
but cannot prove, helps make the world
better." After the U.S. ambassador to
Austria read congratulatory telegrams
from President Nixon and Secretary of
State. William P. Rogers, a covey of
blond girls in green 'dirndls gaily broke
out champagne and the 200 guests
strolled through the landscaped gardens
beside the mountain lake.
With that, the silver-anniversary cere-
mony of the Salzburg Seminar in Ameri-
can Studies came to its dignified conclu-
sion. There are hundreds of seminars in
the prestige-conscious firmament of aca-
deme, but few can rival the eminence of
the Salzburg program. Six times each
year, a group of distinguished Americans
?people such as Chief Justice 'Warren
E. Burger, poet Robert Lowell, anthro-
pologist Margaret Mead and Yale presi-
dent Kingman Brewster?journey to Salz-
burg to lecture for three to four weeks
about the United States. Their students
are a scrupulously screened collection of
the most promising young minds in Eu-
rope: the 50 to 60 students in each sem-
inar, most of them in their early 30s,
must be well-educated, conversant with
English and accomplished professionals.
The topics of the seminars are defined
with bedeviling vagueness ("Problems
of Cities," for example, and the current
session, "American Law and Legal Insti-
tutions"). But the lectures and discus-
sions are so stimulating, recalls one Aus-
trian politician and former student, "that
night after night we sat in the library de-
vouring thick books. The seminar has
brought no business to Salzburg's bars."
Twenty-five years ago, there was rea-
son to doubt whether the seminar would
survive long enough to accomplish even
that. The windows of the war-battered,
236-year-old castle were blown out and
only a few of the bathrooms were in
working order:. the first contingent of
110 students and teachers bedded down
in sleeping bags and, in'occupted Austria,
even finding food was a daily problem.
But just as the Marshall Plan helped fa-
cilitate a postwar economic recovery in
Europe, the Salzburg Seminar helped
spark an intellectual revival. Today, says
a U.S. diplomat, it remains "a sort of
tuning station where our intellectuals try
to establish a common wavelength with
the up-and-coming European elite."
Critical Eye: In its early years, the
seminar occasionally was marred by war-
fanned chauvinism; once an enraged Yu-
goslav pulled a knife on an Italian col-
league. Even now, the school's deter-
mined policy of recruiting nonconformists
leads to shouting matches between right-
ists and leftists and pupils and professors.
But one factor that holds the partici-
pants together is the relentlessly critical
eye that the U.S. faculty members turn
on themselves and their country. "There
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is never the least suggestion that Ameri-
cans know all the answers," says Austrian
editor Hubert Feichtlbauer, a former
Salzburg student.
This tough-minded ambiance has
largely dispelled a lingering European
suspicion that the seminar, which is sub-
sidized by the U.S. State Department
and private foundation money, is a hand-
maiden of the CIA. In fact, Communists
from all ? of the Soviet-bloc countries
except East Germany and Russia are
joining the roster of Salzburg Fellows in
growing numbers. And with some 7,000
alumni?including members of parlia-
ments, editors and lawyers from around
the Continent--the seminar has inevita-
bly had a salutary effect on the' U.S.
image abroad. Among these former stu-
dents, says Thomas Eliot, who has been
the seminar's president for nine months,
there is "a far greater readiness to un-
derstand American attitudes." If. nothing
else, notes one U.S. diplomat, "the sem-
inar shows that not everything my gen-
eration did after the war is outdated."
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Washington, Bureau of The Son
Washington?The Senate voted
yesterday to require the Presi-
dent to give Congress a full ac-
eountincib of the currently secret
war in Laos and to limit expend-
itures in that country to $350
million?the amount the admin-
istration says it needs for this
year.
'While the measure Ni;ould not
have any effect on current Unit-
ed States expenditures in Laos,
it would establish for the first
time a congressional ceiling on
? the war in Laos, which hereto-
fore has been carried on mostly
,
ton said, the air war over rforth-
ern Laos?which does not in-
clude the bombing of the Ho Chi.
Minh trail?will cost $113.4 mil-
lion, for a total of $490.2 million.
As originally drafted, the
Symington amendment would
have cut the $190.2 million to
$200 million.
But Mr. Symington modified
Lis amendment to exclude the
air war from the spending coil-
Mc; and also to raise the limit
to 050 million, a move that ena-
bled him t) get the..[ppart. of
Senator John . Steimis
with secret funds funneled [Miss.), chairman of the Armed
through the Central Intelligence Services Committee, and most
Agency. of the members of the commit-
The amendment to the mill- tee.
lacy procurement authorization Mr. Symington said on the
bill, offered by Senator Stuart .floor the reason he modified his
Symington (D., Mo.), passed 67 amendment was that it did not
to 11. have a chance of passage in its
The Senate also approved by a: original form. Ile further noted
65-to-4 vote an amendment to; that? by the time his amend-
provide a pay increase to mem:: ment becomes law, fiscal 1072--
-.bops of the armed, forces total-1 which began on July 1?would
:ing, $381 million a year, in addi-! be half over and at least half ot
lion to the $2 4 billion alread tl current] authorized
?
On the other hand, Senator'
Stennis asserted that passage of:
the 'Symington amendment
would amount to ."legislative
recognition that these funds
are needed:"
It was this point that caused
some critics of the war in Laos
to back off from the amend-
ment. Senator J. Ful-
bright (D., Ark.), chairman of
the Foreign Relations Commit-
tee, supported the original'
amendment but voted againstttie modified version.
ulbright said he was
fearful that the Syniington.
amendment would not be viewed
as a restrictive amendment, but
rather as congressional authori-
zation for conducting the war in
Laos.
[ Senator Harold "I[..]. Hughes
(D., Iowa) said that, while he
sutpported cutback in funds for.
Laos, "the principle of establish-
ing some ceiling is even more
urgent that the precise figure."
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--enacted as part of the draft ex, amounts already will have beep
Itension act.- I spent.
The pay-raise amendmenl,i , '
[.which could be compromised in, Interlfretations mixed
a House-Senate conference coin- ' The interpretation of what the
mittee, also would reshape the :modified Symington amendment
approved pay raises. so that - would accomplish was mixed.
more of the money would go the Mr. Symington defended it as -a
lowest grade enlisted ranks. step toward placing congression-
The amendment pertaining to . al controls over the war in Loas,
the war in Laos originally was which isstill being financed
drafted to cut expenditures in
Laos to $200 million for fiscal
1972. According to both adminis-
tration ? and congressional esti-.
mates, the amount that the Unit- been any public accounting of
ed States -expects to ;spend in how the 30,000-man irregular:
Laos in fiscal 1972 lot' economic, ? forces in Laos or the large con;
aid for CIA-directed military op- [ tingent . of Thai "volunteers"--
erations and other programs!
estimated now at' 5,000 to 6,000
will total $310.9 million.
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. In addition,. Se.nater. Sy-ming-1
largely outside the usual author-
ization and appropriation proc-
esses of Congress.
Por example, there never has
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4---The
Senate today voted, 67 to 11, to
impose a ceiling of $350 million
on . United States spending in
the war in LaQS in the current.
fiscal year: s
The cation also requires That
in the future the administra-
tion report regularly to 'Con-
gress on how much it spends
in Laos and. what the pootey is
used for. .
(./ The vote came after Sen.
Stuart Symington ID., .M0.1,
sponsor of the amendment to
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but not those against the Ho
Chi Minh Trail;
The cost of strikes against
the trail are considered by the
Pentagon to be part of the
over-all Cost of the Viet Nam
War.
Fulhright Opposes Plan
'Symington said that the
present administration, as well
as previous ones, have hidden
much of what has been spent
in Laos by funneling the mon-
ey thru the Central Intelli
gence Agency or using money
from other funds. He, said (hat
the reporting provisions of his
amendment were designed: to
prevent this diversion.
. Sen. J. William Fulbright
[D., Ark.), who voted against
the amendment, said . that
while- he was in favor of it in
principle, he ..1t,ias not *con-
vinced that the administration
would abide by either the ceil-
ing or the spirit of the report-
ing provisions. ?
The Foreign Relations Com-
nittee Chairman noted that
last year Congress passed tile
Co op er -Church amendment
which banned the use of Amer-
ican money to -introduce troops
the -
military procure ment au- ?
thorization bill, altered his
amendment to raise the ceiling
from $200 million and exempt
the cost, of air s' trikes in north-
ern Laos front the ceiling in
addition to air strikes against
;the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Matches Planned Spending
The change brought the ceil-
ing in line with :what the ad-
ministratioii. had asked for in
military spending in Laos. for
this fiscal year and won foe
the hmendment the support of
Sell. John C. Stennis [D.,
Miss.], chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Comnaittee
and floor manager of the $21
military procurement
bill. ?
In agreeing to the ? change,
Symington said: "I believe the
prineiple in the long run is
more important than the
amount of the ceiling."
He was referring to. the prin-
ciple . of congreSsional control.
over the Amount of American
military spending in Laos-,
control which he barged was
herotofore been lacking with-
out Congress or the public be-
ing aware ? of exactly how
Much this country has been
:spending there. -
Costs Disputed
lie charged that altho the
Nixon administration has said
it only planned to spend $221
million for military assistance
to If,aos in this fiscal year, the
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from another country into Laos
or Cambodia, but Fulbright
contended that the. administra-
Hon got around this by paying
Tahi mercenaries to fight in 1.
Laos .and describing them as j
"native Laotians.", -
The Senate is in its third ;
week of debate cni the military
procurement bill and a final
.vote is eXpectod Wednesday.
Following the vote, the bill will
go to a House-Senate confer-
ence. ? committee to ? give the
House. the opportunity to ex-
press itself on the Symington
amendment.
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Th Senate, disturbed by CIA meat, if enacted, would preveni
involvement in a guerrilla war, a major U.S. escalation of the
has voted to clamp a 11c1 on the wax. And it represents the first
steadily increasing cost of de-
fending Laos.
.attempt by Congress to control
?
In a corn promise worked out. the CIA's role in the eonfliet?a
between the Nixon ?admini.stra- role that nc-,v has boon .acknowl-
flop ' and Son. Stuart Symington, edged by the administration.
3)-Mo., members voted, 67 to 13, The CIA-directed guerrilla
yesterday to impose a :MO .
almv in L m
aos cqudes Lao ir-
lion coiling on U.S. support foil .--
allied forces fightingn L?aos ? regulars and "volunteers" from
including paramilitary troops ,neighboring Thailand.
who are trained, paid, fed. ? Symington said enring the de-
clothed, a.dvisedaand supported bate that many of the `I'hai vol-
by the Central intelligence.
An .
unteers are professional soldiers
ency.
The admepdment, a ri ( m K
der t') fic U'. Thai army. Re said the
of supporting them is 25
the .:21 military procure.. cost
meat bill, does not affect U.S. percent higher than the entire
air support for Lacs, which costs] U.S. outlay for the Royal Lao
.abol.it $140 million aural ally. Ner I
? army, the regular ferce that is
does it restrict the bombing of I
the Ho Chi Minh Tvail Viat leads
suopertet:1 under the official U.S,
through Laos into Scaith Viet- military assistance program hut
nam. that has not proved effective in
resisting the North Vietnamese
Would :Ban Escalation
and Pallet Lao rebels.
The administration decided American ground troops have,
not to figlit the restriction since been barred from fighting in
$3ii0 mi1lic i apparently was all it Laos sine e 191A by act. of Con
planned to spend anyway.
gross. But there has been con-
But
the Symington amend- cern that the growing :U.S. aid
prograinand CIA
? involvement?which has in-
creased American costs 20-fold
in the last nine years--could es-
calate into a Victruim-hke war.
? CIA Role Unveiled
The CIA expanses, like most of
the other 'appropriations for the
agency, normally are disguised
by hiding the outlays in padded
appropriations for other agen-
cies. The Symington amendment
recognizes the CIA's involve-
ment in Laos for the first time.
,Sen. J. William Fulbright,
3)-Ark., warned however, that
the amendment may be used by
the achninistration in the future:
as evidence: that Congress was
authorizing the CIA to continue.
its work. -? .
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Mr. ALLOTT. Now, Mr. President, ?I
am ready, if the distinguished Senator
from Mississippi, the chairman of. the
Committee, is ready, and I am perfectly
willing to ask for a quorum call to be
taken out of both sides. I want to be
sure that .we have a recorded vote on
this matter, and when we have enough
Senators in the Chamber, we can ask
for yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas
and nays have previously been ordered.
?? Mr. ALLOTT. If they have been or-
dered, Mr. President,. I think we should
have a short quorum call. I suggest the
a.bsenceof a quorum. .
The PRESIDIN Cr OFFICER. The clerk
will call the roll. ?
The legislative 'clerk proceeded 'to call
.? the roll. ?
Mr. ALLOTT. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that the ..order for
the quorum call be rescinded. -
'The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is. so ordered., -
Mr. ALLOTT. If it is agreeable to the
chairman of the committee, the man-
ager of the bill, I am willing to yield
back the remainder of my time, if he is
Willing to yield back his, end we can
then proceed, the -yeas and nays having
been ordered, to vote on amendment
No. 430. -:.
Mr. STENNIS. Mr. President, if there
no one who wishes time, I am ready
to yield back the remainder of my time.
Mr. ALLOTT. I yield back the re-
mainder of my time.
The PRESIDING OF.PICER (Mr. DITNT-
sEN ) All remaining time having been
yielded back, the question is on agreez
lug to the amendment No. 430 of the
Senator from: Colorado, as modified. On
this question, the yeas and nays have
been ordered, and the clerk will call
- the roll. ?
The legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. MANSFIELD. I announce that the
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hu-a-
pical); the Senator from West Virginia
(Mr. Elyria), the Senator from Idaho (Mr.
Cn?ue.en), the Senator from Missouri
(Mr. EAoLin:orz); the Senator from Mis-
sissippi, (Mr. EASTLAND) , the Senator
from Alaska (Mr. GRAvni.), the Senator
from Michigan (Mr. HART), the Senator
from Indiana (Mr. HARTHE), the Sen-
ator from South Carolina (Mr. Hoe-
LINOS), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr.
HummiREy), the Senator from Louisiana
(Mr. Lorca), the' Senator from n Washing-
ton (Mr. MAGNUSON) , the Senator from
Minnesota (Mr. lk..lioneALE), the Senator
from Connecticut (Mr. RrincopT), the
Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Mc-
INTYRE) , the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. SrAludimAN), and the Senator from
Nevada (Mr. CANS-on) are necessarily ab-
sent. ?
I also announce that the Senator from
Wyoming (Mr. Meau), the Senator'
from New Mexico (Mr. MONTOYA) , and
the Senator from Georgia (Mr. TAT.-
milecie) are absent on official business.
I further announce that, if present
and voting, the Senator from North
'Dakota (Mr. )iiui-1mm), the Senator from
Alaska (Mr. GRAVEL), the Senator from
Washington (Mr. MAGyoson), the Sen-
ator from Wyoming (Mr, MeGEE), the
Senator, from Connecticut (Mr. MEI-
.
coer), the Senator from New Hampshire
(Mr. McINTyash the Senator from In-
diana (Mr. HARTKE), the Senator from
Minnesota (Mr. Iiim,ranny), and the
Senator from .New Mexico (Mr. MON-
TOYA) would each. vote "yea." ?
Mr. SCOTT. I announce that the Sen-
ator from Utah (Mr. ThameTT) is absent
on official business.
The Senator from Oklahoma (Mr.
Ilemino:,7), the Senator from New Hamp-
shire (Mr. COTTON) , the Senator from
Kansas (Mr. DoLE), the Senator 'from
Michigan (Mr. GRIFFIN), the Senator
from New York (Mr. JAvrrs), the Sen-
ator from Illinois (Mr. Fancy), and the
Senator from Texas (Mr. TOwER) are.
ricceszarily absent. ?
The Senator from South Dakota (Mr.
Murrar) is absent became of illness.
The .Senator from Tennessee (Mr.
BRom), and the Senator from Con-
necticut (Mr. WEroxua) are detained on
official business.
If present. and voting, the Senator
from Tennessee (Mr. )iriocE), the Sen-
ator from Kansas (.Mr. DoLE), the Sen-
ator from New York (Mr. JAvrTs), the
Senator from Illinois (Mr. Piamy), and
the Senator from Texas (Mr. TowER)
would each vote "yea."
The result was announced?yeas 65,
nays 4, as follows: . .
[No. 247 Leg.
YEAS---05
Fannin , Nelson
Fong Pac:twood
Gambrel! Pastore
Goldwater Pearson
Gurney Pell
Hansen Proxmire
Harris Randolph .
Roth
Saxbc
Schwoiker .
Seott
Spong,
Stafford .
Stennis
Stevens
Symington '
Taft
Thurmond
'Burnley -
Williams
Young
Aiken
Allen
Allott ?
Anderson
Palter
Beall
Bentsen
Bible
Boeirs
Brooke
Ducl:lc.y -
Byrd, Va.
Case
Chiles
Cook
Cooper
Cranston
Curtis
Dominick
Ellender
Ervin
Fulbright
Kennedy
Bell mon
Bennett
Brock.
Burdick
Byrd, W. Va.
Cannon
Church
Cotton
Dole
Eagleton
Eastland
Hatfield -
Hruska
Hughes
Inouye
Jackson
Jordan, N.C.
Jordan, Idaho
Mansfield
Mathias
McClellan
McGovern
Metcalf
Miller
Moss
Muskie
NAYS--4
Smith Steven .5011
NOT VOTING-31
Gravel
Griffin
Hart
Hartke
Hoilirmgs
Humphrey
JavIts-
Long -
Magnuson
McGee
McIntyre
Mondale
Montoya
Mundt
Percy
Rib icoff
Sparkman
Talmadge
Tower
\Volcker
SO MB. ALLOTT'S amendment (NO. 430)
was agreed to.
Mr. DOLE subsequently said: Mr.
President, thiS morning I was unavoid-
ably detained in returning to Washington
from Kansas end narrowly missed the
rollcall on the amendment sponsored by
the distinguished senior Senator from
Colorado (Mr. ALLOTT) Had I been
present it would have been my privilege to
join with the overwhelming majority of
my colleagues in approving the Senator
from Colorado's proposal to provide sub-
stantial pay increases to members of the
armed services. Having voted in favor of
the ? earlier, Senai E.B.S1011
pay increase, 1 was gratified that Senate
approval of this measure was achieved
today.
It is important to keep in mind that
raising military pay scales is a matter of
high national priority for two very crude
reasons. First, by inn-easing the pay of
our men and women in uniform we fulfill
an obligation to recognize and reward the
contributions they are making to the
maintenance of onr national defense. In
many eases their pay is woefully inade-
quate and totally unjustified in terms of
the responsibilities they bear and the
obligations they one to themselves and
their families. And second, by putting
Military pay in closer competition with STATINTL
civilian wages we take a significant step
toward ending the draft and creating an
all-volunteer military force. For, only
by making a military career attractive
and secure monetarily, can we hope to
draw to it the type of individuals needled
to fulfill the requirements; of modern na-
tional defense,
I commend the Senator from Colorado
for his leadership in seeking to upgrade
the pay scales of the Arinecl Forces and
for Ins longstanding concern and devo-
tion to .the men and women who v.,e.ar
'the 'uniform of the- United States so
proudly and with such great distinction
to themselves and their Nation.
ORDER. FOR STAR PRINT OF S. 2020
Mr. MOSS. Mr. Pr esident, I ask unani-
mous consent that a star print be ordered
for S. 2620, the East-West Trade Ex-
change Act of 1971, introduced by the
Senator from Washington (Mr. MAordru-
sox) on Thursday, September 30, 1971.
Due to an inadvertence, an incorrect text
was attached when the bill was intro-.
dueed for referral.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr.
BriNTsEN). Without objection, it is so
h...ohcleur od.
MILITARY PROCUREMENT AU-
- -THORIZATIONS, 1972.
The Senate continued with the con-
sideration of the bill (H.R.. 66E:7) to au-
thorize appropriations during the fiscal
year 1972 for procurement of . aircraft,
missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat
vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons,
' and research, development, test, - and
evaluation for the Armed Forces, and to
prescribe the authorized personnel
strength of the Selected Reserve of each
..Reserve component of- the Armed Forces,
'and for other purposes.
AMF1NDMENT NO. 434
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr.
STEVENSON) . Pursuant to . the previous
order, the Senate will now proceed to the
consideration of amendment No. 434 by.
.the Senator from Missouri (Mr. SYILING-
' TON) , Which the clerk will report.
The assistant legislative clerk read as
follows:
The Senator from Misouri (Mr.. SY:?.YING-
TON) proposes amendment No. 4:34 as fol-
lows:
At the end of the hill add a new section as
follows:
"Slvc. 505. (a) Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, no funds authorized to be
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